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Recruiting in college football is the foundation of every championship contender and a barrier for entrance for everyone else. Need proof? Every national title game participant since 2002 had at least one five-star on its roster.
Development, the process of turning talent into production, is what can close or extend the gap between those with and without recruiting riches.
As we exit the 2020 NFL Draft, this is an ideal time to examine development. 247Sports' annual list of 32 five-star recruits mirrors the first round of the NFL Draft, which makes the Top247 a great place to start. Top247 players are consider the best prospects in their class. Under the right circumstances health, a good work ethic, character and high-level coaching talents of that level generally thrive.

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This is far from all-encompassing data set. Many schools have undergone coaching turnover since even the final class in this data pool, 2015, was inked. A guy like Jimbo Fisher at Texas A&M isn't culpable for how a player the Aggies signed in 2011 turned out, but this window is necessary because it gives us complete data; redshirting members of the 2016 class still have another year in college. And it's interesting context. In the case of many a coaching transition a Hoke to a Harbaugh, a Strong to a Herman the predecessor's sins become the new man's burden.

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