Marquette's Buzz Williams on judging recruiting classes

"You can't judge [how good a class is] until four years from now." People forget that. Stars by a recruit's name never won a single ballgame. A player may ride the bench for two years (or even three if he redshirts), then be a significant contributor his junior year and a starter his senior year. By then, however, most fans will have forgotten what recruiting class he came from. With the dazzle of the one-and-done bunch, if a player does not lead the team in scoring from the get-go, a lot of fans are all too ready to hang him as a failure.