New EspnU 150
January 19th, 2012 at 12:26 PM ^
Because Michigan is not in the SEC.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:19 AM ^
Some sites have Richardson rated as our lowest recruit in their 300-250-247-150, ESPN has him rated as our highest recruit. Thats a pretty big discrepency. Seems like we casual bloggers do a better job following recruiting than these services do for a living at times. I liked the average ranking spreadsheet across all services someone posted on here during the summer. Very informative, and plenty of lolz.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:25 AM ^
Terry Richardson was pretty high on 247's list at one point (now he's #142 overall), so it's not like he's being pooh-poohed by every recruiting site out there. He's #68 on ESPN, #142 on 247, and #224 on Rivals. Somebody's bound to be wrong, but we won't know whether it's ESPN or Rivals or whoever for another three or four years.
January 19th, 2012 at 12:53 PM ^
For ESPN to not look at the results of all-star games as being all that important? Is there a lot of history to suggest that that the stars of those games deserve an outsized bump for their performance?
January 19th, 2012 at 1:03 PM ^
The stars of those all-star games have generally turned out to be good to very good on the college level. I'm not saying we should only look at these all-star games, but they are pretty significant.