24/7 Recruit Ranking shenanigans (found on Reddit)
Feb 8, 2019, 4:45 PM
"Lance Legendre 4* QB's 247 rating dropped 200 points the day after committing to Maryland. Upon further investigation, all but 1 Maryland recruit dropped from their initial rating. The lone recruit? Mike Tomlin's son, Dino."
Re: 24/7 Recruit Ranking shenanigans (found on Reddit)
Feb 8, 2019, 5:13 PM
I can tell you from firsthand experience that recruiting is a game of follow-the-leader.
The perception of legitimacy is every bit as important as actual legitimacy, and promotion matters at least as much as any other attribute a player might have.
And a whole lot of the "recruiting analysts" are homers with an axe to grind or water to carry on someone's behest, trying to create the illusion of progress to influence other recruits' decision-making. Phil Kornblut certainly was and even the services like Rivals.com and especially 247 are not immune...I surely am not the only one who remembers JC Shurburtt getting Chris Culliver (a 4-star DB) re-rated a 5-star WR on the basis of two long-bomb catches he made at a second-tier All-Star game.
Why? Because South Carolina was trying to recruit Culliver as a WR, which he really wanted to play. We tried to tell him he was a DB...mostly because he was. And of course, after he signed at Carolina, they bait-and-switched him right back to DB.
Dirty as sin. Unfortunately a whole lot of those so-called analysts are utterly willing to trade objectivity - and oh, yeah, their own credibility - for access, and they aren't known for adhering to journalistic standards or ethics.