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<blockquote data-quote="CountryFrog" data-source="post: 2768110" data-attributes="member: 70667"><p>The issue with recruiting rankings is the process of the "evaluations." The overwhelming majority of the people creating these rankings aren't actual football talent evaluators. If they were then they'd have actual meaningful jobs evaluating football talent. So what it seems like you get is a conglomerate of offer lists, standouts at camps, and word of mouth that play a bigger factor than anything else. And even if you did have the best football talent evaluators in the world looking at this, it's pretty much impossible to accurately evaluate and project EVERY high school prospect in the country. If nothing else, there simply aren't enough hours in the day to do it properly with that volume of work.</p><p></p><p>In the macro, these recruiting services get a lot of things right. But it also doesn't take an expert to know that Alabama, Clemson, Georgia, and Ohio St are getting crazy amounts of talent. So when in doubt, if those schools want a player just assume the player is really good and you'll come out on the right side most of the time. The issues with recruiting rankings are in the micro where they get a lot of these kids' individual rankings very wrong because of everything I said in the first paragraph.</p><p></p><p>That being said, they do a reasonably good job for what they have to work with and the challenges of the job. I think it's incumbent on fans to view the rankings for what they are - entertainment. That doesn't mean they can't be a decent gauge, but the fact is there's no actual market for doing this stuff outside of entertaining fans. So while they're right about a lot, you can't look at any one player and make a determination about that player based on a recruiting ranking.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CountryFrog, post: 2768110, member: 70667"] The issue with recruiting rankings is the process of the "evaluations." The overwhelming majority of the people creating these rankings aren't actual football talent evaluators. If they were then they'd have actual meaningful jobs evaluating football talent. So what it seems like you get is a conglomerate of offer lists, standouts at camps, and word of mouth that play a bigger factor than anything else. And even if you did have the best football talent evaluators in the world looking at this, it's pretty much impossible to accurately evaluate and project EVERY high school prospect in the country. If nothing else, there simply aren't enough hours in the day to do it properly with that volume of work. In the macro, these recruiting services get a lot of things right. But it also doesn't take an expert to know that Alabama, Clemson, Georgia, and Ohio St are getting crazy amounts of talent. So when in doubt, if those schools want a player just assume the player is really good and you'll come out on the right side most of the time. The issues with recruiting rankings are in the micro where they get a lot of these kids' individual rankings very wrong because of everything I said in the first paragraph. That being said, they do a reasonably good job for what they have to work with and the challenges of the job. I think it's incumbent on fans to view the rankings for what they are - entertainment. That doesn't mean they can't be a decent gauge, but the fact is there's no actual market for doing this stuff outside of entertaining fans. So while they're right about a lot, you can't look at any one player and make a determination about that player based on a recruiting ranking. [/QUOTE]
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