right before they're finalized — is going to have a hard time being fairly judged. There's politics involved at that point, so it's not surprising to me that his ranking from his own class dropped significantly — to conveniently just outside the Top 100.

You telling me there wasn't politics involved in that?

But regardless, in his own, original class, Marcus was a very high 4* recruit. You don't get bluebloods going after an LA kid otherwise.