Agree, but if you take a team full of "4 stars" and have a coaching staff that has no idea of how to develop talent vs a team of "3 stars" that has a staff that are great at developing talent I'll take the 3 star team.Teams with better players win a preponderance of the time. Teams recruiting at the top of the class generally get the better players. Better players are generally identified by the evaluators with 'star' system being the identifying tool.
All 3,4,5 stars are not yhe same. All 4 stars are not the same.
Now, take that same "3 star" team and put them up against a team of "4 &5 stars" with a staff that can develop talent I'll that the "4 & 5 star" team.
My point is one without the other is useless. You can't win at an elite level no matter how good of a coach you are if you don't have talent. On the flip side you can't win at an elite level with 5 star athletes if you cannot develop those athletes.
Guys like Saban and Meyer are the best because he can do both extremely will on offense and defense. Guys Kelly, Miles, Dantonio, etc are very good coaches because they are excellent at one or the other but fall a bit short in some area.