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2008 Rivals/Scout/etc. National & Regional Rankings

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those initial Top 10 PA rankings from Chris Dokish are slanted toward Pitt in not only rankings but in his little bio on each player. You'd think they all are dying to play for Pitt by the way he describes it. He's pretty well known as being out there and as a Pitt homer according to the Penn State people. I think his initial class of 2008 Top 10 list, Class of 2007 Top 25 list, and his final class of 2007 Top 50 list definetly show a pattern of slanting towards Pitt and some excessive Pitt homerism.

His class of 2007 Top 25 list (dated April 2006): link

Final Class of 2007 Top 50 list (dated Jan 2007): link


Pat Bostick the #1 player in Pennsylvania throughout the entire year? Give me a break.
 
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I really don't understand how you can rank a prospect the best in Ohio when he doesn't even have an offer yet from Ohio state. To me, that would be the ultimate barometer for ranking Ohio prospects(not the final one, but definitely the most important).

I don't think Beachum's recruitment will be anything like this, but the same thing happened with Lee Tilley(I think that was his name). Good prospect, but wasn't recruited by Ohio State yet the national sites drooled over him.

If a recruit ranker wants to make himself look smart, then they should rank Ohio kids by Ohio State offers.

Am I wrong on thinking this?
 
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tsteele316;790602; said:
http://insider.espn.go.com/ncf/recr...er.espn.go.com/ncf/recruiting/tracker/espn150

espn's top 150 for '08. To call it laughable is being kind.

Ohio players of note:

50. Brandon Moore
55. Mike Adams
65. Kyle Rudolph
81. Nick Dilullo
88. Brandon Beachum
108. Zebrie Sanders

No Stoneburner or Torrence.
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It's not even worth posting. You could take a person who's never seen a football game in their life, give them a little summary on each player, and they would do better than ESPN.
 
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Napoleonbuck said:
I really don't understand how you can rank a prospect the best in Ohio when he doesn't even have an offer yet from Ohio state. To me, that would be the ultimate barometer for ranking Ohio prospects(not the final one, but definitely the most important).

I don't think Beachum's recruitment will be anything like this, but the same thing happened with Lee Tilley(I think that was his name). Good prospect, but wasn't recruited by Ohio State yet the national sites drooled over him.

If a recruit ranker wants to make himself look smart, then they should rank Ohio kids by Ohio State offers.

Am I wrong on thinking this?
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Not just OSU, but Big Four offers (OSU, um, ND, PSU) are a good barometer for any Big Ten-region recruit. Beachum, for instance, doesn't have offers from any of them.
 
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Scout and Rivals have pretty much established their shares of the market while ESPN is a newcomer. It could be that they just want to differentiate their product in order to carve out their niche in this market. Having said that, it doesn't make too much sense to carve out a niche by offering an inferior product. Perhaps ESPN is targeting the marginal recruiting fans, those that don't really know what's going on but wants to check up on their team from time to time. I notice that ESPN does not have daily indepth updates like other services do.
 
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flybuckeye;790721; said:
A lot of guys haven't been evaluated yet including Stoneburner, Torrence, Posey and Scott. They also have Beachum listed as a RB. I think it's safe to say that in 9 months that list will look significantly different.
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To be honest it is not safe to say that Espin's recruiting services are just really, really bad.
 
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