College football recruiting is a funny game. The number of stars a player has is subjective, and usually the star ranking has more to do with what happens off the football field than on.
The reaction of fans to how many stars a player has drives an industry of subscription recruiting sites worth millions. Everyone doesn’t have the ability to watch player film or a player in person to conduct a proper evaluation and projection of a high school recruit. Most college fans and football writers would fall into that category, which made what happened in the recruitment of Cam Brooks.