Originally Posted by
Dukeface88
This is my take on it as well. It's certainly possible that the rankers have made an enormous mistake - it's happened before and will no doubt happen again (the Brothers Curry, Burtler's entire team). Realistically though, even guys in the top 20-30 of the class usually take a year or two to make the starting line-up, and players outside that have generally been career backups (McClure, Melchionni, Horvath) or eventual transfers (Boateng, Boykin, Olek, Marty sorta). Miles is the only real exception in the last decade that I'm aware of; Seth might be another, depending on how things shake out. That's not to say their contributions haven't been important, just that they haven't typically been starter material (well, not here anyway).