OT: Can you have too many 5 stars?

No. This is akin to can you have too much money.

And many 5 stars are 5 stars because they have strong work ethics.

Nope.

Never. I don't think coaches have a certain quota of 5* players they would except, and then start turning other 5* players away because they reached said quota.

I don't think I've ever seen a future backup QB talk as much as AJ has

It begs the question - why is too much good bad?

I don't actually believe that. I just thought someone should say it.

There are only 85 scholarship spots. Since 5 stars would all be on scholarship, if you have 86 you have too many.

You guys aren't really understanding this post at all

Yes, if you take so many that you go over the scholarship limits... oh wait, nevermind.

you would certainly rather have the recruit be a diamand in the rough three star if he's still the same talent. probably alot of truth in aj's words, though i doubt any team creates a star cap anytime soon.

i heard beliema on the radio today talking recruiting and stars. as you can imagine if you know recruiting, he's not too preoccupied with them. and though its always fun to get the "it" recruite, i try to appreciate the less heralded recruites. the coaching staff should be better talent evaluaters than the services. 

You can't ever have enough.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhe58xORWG0&t=0m15s

Well, theoretically, if you landed like 5 5* CBs or something and didn't have enough scholarships left over to sign guys at a different position of need, that'd be a way to have too many 5*s

 

But, yeah, the answer to this question is no.

The more the better! Recruiting champs!

And that's assuming that your roster is 90% five-stars.

I don't think it would be a problem in reality.

I think 5* talent should never be shunned; you just can't have too many 5* a-holes around.  At some point, no matter how strong a leader you have as a coach, you'll run into problems if half the guys on the team think they should be starting but don't want to work to get there.

No

Uh, noooo... It's a problem with the culture of recruiting and high school hero syndrome more than the numbers crunch. 5 stars may be a bit more prone to it, but it doesn't really change the reason(s) why they are five stars and isn't the sole reason why some of them flame out.

Sounds like a question for a group of kids in an AT&T commerical.

While AJ makes a good point about players having an entitlement mentality, I imagine there can also be an entitlement problem with the coaching staff.  Being human themselves, there will doubtless be coaches who tend to replace coaching with stars.

But the answer remains no, you can not have too much of a good thing.  It always boils down to what you do with what you have.

if the stars are all your offer is based on. I like the profile Beilein looks for. It includes things like desire to unpack their bags in Ann Arbor, basketball IQ and how coachable a kid is.

The only problem you would run into is when the ones on the bench get pissed off and transfer; one injury to a starter leaves no one to play because there's no depth.  This is the sort of thing I worry about with our OL and the haul we had in 2013; in a scenario where Bosch beats out Dawson and Kalis stays the starter, does Dawson sit on the bench for 3 years?  It's not beyond the realm of possibility that he doesn't.  Then you're one Bosch/Kalis injury from some lower-rated guy having to play.  This isn't an issue if you oversign; you've already signed another OL for 2014 expecting the transfer to happen, and if it doesn't, oh well, give somebody a medical hardship to get down to 85.

That said, both FSU and Alabama had 3-stars fill out about 1/3rd of their starting lineups.

But we are an awful long way from testing this proposition. What the kids today call a "first world problem."

I was just reading an article on detnews about Malik McDowell and how he really likes msu and it's party atmosphere...I was a little nervous reading that. I think this kid is goin to msu, sadly.

Guys with an entitled attitude will poison a team culture, which is incredibly important for success. I'm convinced that culture was 60% of our problem last season.

But, I do think you can have too many 5-star QBs.  If you already have one, you really don't want another in the same year or maybe even the next year.  It may be better to seperate them by a few years IMO.  Quaterbacking is so mental, I don't think QB controversies are good for anyone.

If they have no ego and know they are fighting dirty playing time with other 5ers, no. Yet, as we noticed at USC even with Carroll before bolting, it can eventually have an odd backfire. I think all title teams need to be about 40% kids that were heavily recruited (high 3-5 star types), 10% scrappy kids with a chip on their shoulder (not heavily recruited or at all, lacking the crazy athleticism of the others but the types that go on to be coaches) and 50% great coach/staff. Coaching in CFB, more than any sport, determines winning. A great coach can win with less, a bad couch can be given a team of blue chips and flunk.

We could use all the five stars we can get. Show me a team with too many 5 stars and I'll show you a team with no leadership.

NEVERRRR!!!

I'll take the same problem that Alabama has every year.

Jerry Rice, Barry Sanders...not highly recruited, maybe the best ever at their positions.