I think stars...

matter a little in terms of impact players. I consider your secondary and DE's to be impact players or at least a talented DE is an impact player. Same thing on offense, I think it matters at RB, QB and to a lesser extent WR. Not often you are going to see a 2 or 3 star RB do that great in the SEC. For a QB it just really depends what type of offense. Power running sure, spread offense? Not so much IMO, especially in the SEC. I say SEC because of defense of course, if we are speaking offense and the spread I would look to the Big 12.