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The occasional 5 star?? He signed up to 3 in a season at Texas. From 2000 to his final class he signed 14 5 stars and 20 4 stars and that was out of 52 total players signed and 3 of them were jucos that there wasn't a ranking for. He rarely fielded a team at Texas that didn't have multiple 5 stars with most of the roster being 4/5 star guys.
That was the biggest hope with him coming in and the biggest beef people had his first few years. What happened to the Rick Barnes that was a elite top 5 in CBB recruiter.
What happened was he changed how he recruited because it wasn’t working at Texas and went for high upside guys with huge work ethics. And it’s worked. We can argue about the stars but the 15/16 classes were two of the best in school history.