They tell different stories.
I've never said it's all about class rankings. They give a good overview but can skew favorably toward larger classes. You also have to look at individual player ratings, and as I pointed out those classes had numerous 4-star recruits.
You don't see watered-down classes like this without a single highly sought-after player:
https://247sports.com/college/missouri/Season/2021-Basketball/Commits/
7 recruits, all of them 3-stars!
That might be unprecedented at the P5 level.
Edited by zounami at 09:43:03 on 05/26/21