Yesterday we saw how the Big East 1st and 2nd All-Conference teams shook out as far as star ratings for the players. We did this to see what recruit rankings were like in our conference peer group. The results for the Big East were; 1st team Offense 3.0 stars; 1st team Defense 2.5 stars; 2nd team defense 2.5 stars and 2nd team Defense 2.6 stars.
Today let’s look at what those same All-Conference teams for the ACC, our future conference, have as far as star values. Again, I used Scout.com for the number of stars assigned to these players as HS seniors. If Scout had the player unranked (UR) then I checked Rivals.com. To make it as fair as possible I used any numerical quantity between Scout & Rivals for the averages. 0/0 scores are walk-ons who weren’t rated at all; these are very rare and in compiling about 164 players only five had that score.
Something to keep in mind here are that the recruiting services give out between two stars and five stars, they do not have a one star designation and as I said the 0* score is extremely rare.
FIRST TEAM
Offense
QB-Tajh Boyd, Clemson (5)
RB-David Wilson, Virginia Tech (4)*
RB-Giovani Bernard, North Carolina (4)
WR-Sammy Watkins, Clemson (5)
WR-Chris Givens, Wake Forest (3)
OT-Blake DeChristopher, Virginia Tech (3)
OT-Zebrie Sanders, Florida State (4)
OG-Austin Pasztor, Virginia (2)
OG-Omoregie Uzzi, Georgia Tech (4)
C-Dalton Freeman, Clemson (4)
TE-Dwayne Allen, Clemson (4)
K-Dustin Hopkins, Florida State (3)
Spec.- T.J. Graham, NC State (3)
3.6 average stars
