ESPN rankings out
Well sort of. If you click the link http://espn.go.com/college-football/team/_/id/130/michigan-wolverines and go to the bottom right it shows our top 5 recruits with a grade. But if you click "view all recruits" and see the list they don't show up.
Well anyways it looks like both Richardson and RJS are 81's and Bolden, Funchess, Ross are all 80's. All five will be at least four stars (79 is the cutoff for 4 star.)
Discuss.
Should I be happy and elated or disappointed and thoughtful?
Seems to be you are just Score: 2 Normal.
Leave it to ESPN to do something that stupid. Pretty sure their rankings aren't going to be released for another couple weeks and yet anyone willing to do a bit of research could learn an awful lot.
Anyway, last year 81's occupied spots 43-118 and the rest of the 150 was 80's so all 5 could be in the ESPN150. All five were also in the Watch List. Worth noting that if our silent commit is who most seem to think, he was also on the Watch list so that could 6 in the 150.
that's the CW.
He shares a name with 2 major Investment Banks.
Wachovia Barclays? Love that guy!
I thought it was Chase Sachs...?
EDIT: Which FYI, completely not intended when I wrote that, would be an awesome name for a LB or a rush end...
Man, I wish we had +1s right now.
or a promiscuous gay dude
or a gay porn star
Or an old-timey bank robber.
I think Chase Sachs sounds like an upper middle class elementary school student--except it would be spelled Chaise so he could be special.
That means "chair" in French. Some idiots would name their kid that.
That seems to be the prevailing opinion.
All I know is that his name is NOT Shane Corgan.
ESPN rated Devin Gardner an 81 and Denard Robinson as well.
And looking back at that class of '09 list. It's painful to see how so many of them are either gone or irrelevant. (Tate, LaLota, Turner, Emilien, Isaiah Bell, QWashington, Stokes) (!)
Washington is only a sophmore this year and will contribute quite a bit I believe.
The silent commit is in the espn 150 too? Nice! That gives us only 5 more than last year and were just over half way finished lol.
to give up on Washington and Stokes, no? Washington is a redshirt sophomore.
Not to mention that Washington changed positions in the midst of the two (of potentially/probably five) he'll be here. Tough crowd...
Lets be realistic. Thats all I'm going to say.
TRich's film looks really incredible. I didn't realize how good he was until I watched it. Much better than Dior Mathis. I would say the same about Delonte, but I won't because he went blue.
Regardless of what those rankings say I don't think they are accurate at this poin. Luginbell just tweeted yesterday that the ESPN staff is meeting June 8th to rank the kids.
Yes, they may tweak a few things but I think they have the groundwork down and I'd put money that those five stay where they are...Just because they aren't out yet doesn't mean they don't have 90plus percent of them locked in...
Yeah, this flaw by ESPN was noted in one of the comments in a previous post. This has more player ratings if you are interested.
http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/espn-2012-rankings-mistakenly-out
WRT possible commit #13, I noticed that Armani Reeves didn't have his rating
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<br>He's a 77 (again I don't know if that's how they'll all end up), vs. the 79 Wayne Morgan receives.
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<br>So for those keeping score:
<br>Scout likes Reeves better
<br>Rivals, 247, and apparently ESPN like Morgan
<br>I like 'em both, but what the hell do I know
Alabama and LSU like Morgan better too. That's about the best endorsement he can get.
At least it doesn't appear so, not yet. Alabama, Miami FL, Penn State are his biggest, along with ours. Having been a Rutgers lean for a long time may have affected that. Beyond the biggies he's got Maryland, BC, UCONN, Syracuse, Virginia.
<br>He's a top kid in any event, and so is Reeves
If you look at Alabama's page, they have kicker who is scored a 99...
http://espn.go.com/college-football/team/_/id/333/alabama-crimson-tide
Must be a mistake.
Orin Incandenza.
Best. Comment. Ever.
just started reading infinte jest last week. leave it to the mgoblog crowd to make DFW jokes!
The only kicker I know who is worth a 99 plays for Barca and is named Lionel Messi. just sayin'
Ray Finkle is ready. Laces out, Dan.
according to ESPN:
That kid is the top artillery genral in the Space Emperor's space navy. Known for this pinpoint aim from galaxies away.
Adam Griffith's jersey number was #99
Not a big fan of score rating players unless it's in a video game. I'm getting Michigan to the national championship in NCAA football 2012 even if their overall ranking is a 72.
I just don't feel you get much use out of it doing it that way and much prefer the 150 watchlist.
Man espn rankings are all over the place, Ferguson is one of the lowest rated commits on all the other services and espn has him as ND's highest commit. Odd
It's actually been like that on ESPN for about a month now
These have been up there for quite some time. Pretty much since we started getting recruits.
Why is 79 the cutoff for four stars? You'd think they'd make it 80.
Why did they create a bizarre number system instead of just using the star rating everyone is familiar with?