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Message: [QUOTE="BobbyJ, post: 5153609, member: 4250"] This was the point of my post. A lot of people can identify the most talented kids, that's fairly simple. The difficult part for coaches is projecting which of them has the instincts, mental discipline, etc. to handle pressure and produce in the clutch. Obviously a lot of them never have it. There's only so many of them and even the best coaches are guessing sometimes. But many fans use the individual HS ranking number to start predicting NCs, AA, and POY stuff before the kid ever faces older, more experienced, and physically tougher competition than they can handle. Those fans get all excited and believe it when a website tells them that their favorite school has the top ranked recruiting class and it just sets them up for disappointment when it doesn't pan out. Then they come on their fan forum and rip kids for not being stars and winning NCs when they never had what it takes to do it in the first place. I prefer to be shown by results over time who the best recruits and recruiting classes are. [/QUOTE]