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2011 Rivals/Scout/etc. National & Regional Rankings

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A little shocked Scout doesn't think quite so highly of Jeremy Cash. They have Ron Tanner ranked just outside of the top 100, and in my opinion, both Cash and Tanner are very similar players in terms of skill set, God-given talent, and athletic abiliity.

Just another reason to take star rankings with a huge grain of salt.
 
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With the ESPN 150 released tomorrow, it's going to be interesting to see how many Ohio State recruits completely drop off the map (in their rankings).

Six Watch List commits right now. Probably four make the 150. Fun that Kenny Hayes is No. 45 on Rivals and probably won't be in the ESPN 150.

But recruiting rankings mean nothing and ESPN is usually the outlier.
 
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KingLeon;1710467; said:
The difference in rankings from Scout and Rivals just shows how much they really don't have a clue.

I wish that someone would do a study on which one is more accurate.
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I like it when there's enough rankings out that someone ends up doing an average of all the rankings to get something of a consensus top 100 or 300. a bit of a better judge overall then. not that the rankings matter a ton...I do enjoy seeing how the state by state breakdowns vary by recruiting service (Florida with 20 of the rivals top 100 is pretty funny...22 combined for California and Texas)
 
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KingLeon;1710467; said:
The difference in rankings from Scout and Rivals just shows how much they really don't have a clue.

I wish that someone would do a study on which one is more accurate.
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You need a study to tell you that only ranking the south is less accurate?

Rivals is notorious for snubbing northern recruits. There is one 5 star from north of the Mason Dixon line and he is the lowest ranked one.
 
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Just heard on the local sport talk here 104.9 The Horn, an interview with Barton Simmons (?) the gist of the interview was they'd seen the 5 star guys in person, and they are conservative in their rankings because they want the players to earn it. At the end of the day it doesn't matter, OSU would still win 10~11 games fielding 22 "2 star" guys. Interesting to hear because they usually give love to the UT commits.

just found the link to the interview on their audio vault.

http://www.espnaustin.com/audiovault/
 
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I think Rivals did a very good job with Ohio in this early list.

My only argument would be that Depriest should be about 20 spots higher.

Overall I think they did a good job though.

Scout has too many five star players IMO, I like that Rivals limits their five star selections.

Bottomline though is we all know who can play if youve followed recruiting long enough. Doesn't take a "recruiting expert" to see which kids are explosive on tape and have a good chance of success at the next level. Not to mention, a kid's offer list will usually give you a fair idea of how good the prospect is/can be. Bradley Roby wasn't a highly ranked recruit last yr by the services, but when you see that Tressel, Saban, and Richt offered him after getting tape of him playing DB, you know you got a pretty darn good player.

I expect Cash will be a similar case this year. I don't expect he'll be on these 250 or 150 lists, but teams that know defense were all over him (us, LSU, UNC, Nebraska, Miami, etc).. That and watching a little bit of his tape is all I need to see to know he's a top talent.
 
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DontHateOState;1710602; said:
Number of players who are drafted into NFL, I suppose. Although you can't factor in development at the specific school and other, personal issues.
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Only problem is that alot of top picks are projects and not all of them are major college producers, which is what the rankings try to do: Predict success at the college level. I'm sure there is a way to measure it based on statistical production, big plays in big games, years of production, etc. It may be harder to measure the BIGS, other than sacks given up, film evaluation and perhaps draft status there. It would just be a matter of achieving concensus on what constitutes "success" and to what degree...I don't think it would be too hard though.
 
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