My question is who knows how good any 1-and-done players for any team are until games are played? None of them have a track record playing at the level of the B12.

It's very much ok to have some opinions or evaluation of incoming recruits. If you say it's impossible to know how good they are until they play in a Big 12 game, why are you more excited for Demin or Crawford or Kozlowski than Utah bringing in David Katoa? Or when we brought in freshman Braden Moore a few years back?

Of course you're going to estimate the value of different incoming players