Whether you follow recruiting casually or religiously, NSD is always an exciting part of the year. However, there are those naysayers who think too much is made of recruiting and especially the star rankings. In fact, I recently heard an interview with Dave Resine on Mark Packer's show and they both mocked NSD as if it was completely meaningless. Well, as Lee Corso would say, not so fast my friend.

I found this article useful in challenging common recruiting myths.

Power 5 teams (of which there are 65) that consistently recruit Top 20 classes have a 60 percent chance of becoming a Top 20 program and a 35 percent chance of regularly inhabiting the Top 10.

By contrast, Power 5 teams that finish outside the Top 20 in recruiting have a lower than 18 percent chance of fielding Top 20 teams and just a 6.7 percent chance of reaching the Top 10.

Still think those recruiting rankings are meaningless?