New Rivals 250 update

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Rivals released its updated top 250 this morning. Michigan has the most of any school with 13 of its 18 commits in the top 250.

Michigan highlights:

Butt- 118 (down from 96)

Lewis- 147 (up from 167)

Dawson- 171 (up from 199)

Charlton- 175 (up from 183)

Shallman- 182 (down from 160)

LTT- 235 (down from 109)

Gedeon- 237 (down from 224)

 

Other notables:

Scott Pagano- 104 (up from unranked)

Jordan Wilkins- 128 (up from 209)

Devon Allen- 129 (down from 110)

Cole Luke- 202 (up from unranked)

Paul Harris- 214 (up from unranked)

Tashawn Bower- unranked (down from 250)

 

Themes:

1. If you didn't go to camp, you got a slight decrease to make room for new evaluated players or risers from camps (20 new players in the Rivals 250).

2. If you performed well at camp, you got a slight bump (Dawson, Lewis, Charlton). If you had a bad camp, you took a nosedive (LTT).

 

 

 

 

 

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WolvinLA2

May 30th, 2012 at 3:19 PM ^

Ah, yes, the old "I'm using offer list alone to prove who's better" argument. In that case, LTT is WAAAY better than Steve Elmer, which might be true anyway, since Elmer only has offers from M, ND and Stanford and LTT has offers from Bama, USC, OSU and FSU. We could do this with a bunch of different players. Shane Morris doesn't have many elite offers either, does that mean he's not that good? In addition to the reasons above about Butt's commitment date, keep in mind that Heuerman might have a lot of those Southern offers by being from Florida and having an older brother playing D1 football. There aren't a lot of good TEs in the South this year, whereas Big Ten country is filled with them.

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Genzilla

May 30th, 2012 at 4:45 PM ^

I've heard a couple of complaints about how Dawson didn't rise enough after dominating at the camps and how he should've risen more using the example of how much LTT fell.  The truth is, it is infinitely harder to move up 1 spot than it is to be passed by 1 other player in the rankings.  The odds make it far more likely to move down than move up as you are closer to the top (regression to the mean).  It's like a high school class ranking (by GPA).  One great semester can move you from 75th out of 100 to 50th out of 100, a big jump (25 spots).  Getting the same great GPA the next semester will only move you up 15 spots, then 5, then 3.  As you get closer to the top and the competition gets stiffer it gets harder and harder to move up.

Dawson's jump was huge and reflected a lot of hard work, be content with that.

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