Want to avoid dooging but there might be something to the overvaluing of 4 stars in the Pac-12 region. I don't think there's any debating five stars and if you can stack them the way Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State or a team like USC in the 2000s was, you're going to kick the shit out of everyone. Out West, I think one thing we do is get overly excited about low-four star guys. I think the older system which gave out less four, and gave out threes, twos, and ones was more reliable.
Outside of possibly Oregon's class this year, and a couple recent USC classes, no one in the Pac-12 has signed classes in any recent time that are talented enough to do dominate the conference or compete at a high-level nationally without a ton of great development.