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Originally Posted by Archaea
At BYU, this is a consistent refrain, heard every year in football and basketball.
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Next year maybe it will be different in basketball at least. We'll get to find out if those recruiting stars mean something. To put in perspective, in football we maybe sign one 4-star kid per year in a recruiting class of 15-20 players. At any one time on a roster with 85 scholarships we might have 4-5 four-star players. That's about 5-6%. A decently good P5 program is going to have maybe 25-30%. An Alabama type program is going to have close to 100% 4-star or higher.
Our basketball team has very rarely ever gotten any of these types of players. This year we have 1 -- Nick Emery, with maybe Seljaas counting as #2 as he was a 4-star recruit on one service anyway. Next year even with Seljaas leaving on a mission we will have FIVE of those guys -- almost 40% of the roster: Emery, Mika, Dastrup, TJ Haws, and Yoeli Childs. Imagine if 40% of the football team were 4-star players! We've never seen this at BYU before in any sport.
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