HS students create fake recruit, 247 and Rivals rank him as a 3-star (Via Reddit)
Via Reddit (CFB*) comes this:
"Blake Carrienger, 6'6, 315 lb offensive tackle out of Grace Christian Academy is created out of thin air by some HS students. He tweets out that he has an offer from Alabama, and both 247 and Rivals put him in their database and rank him as a 3-star. Basically, both sites were catfished.
https://twitter.com/RudeDawgRules/status/1095853675233325056
Rivals ranked him as a 5.5 3-star based on the Bama offer alone. No video available, no film, nothing to evaluate on, just numbers and an alleged offer.
Now consider that some recruits are ranked lower than that...."
*Thanks crazy Risk game that pulled me into the CFB subreddit
February 14th, 2019 at 12:11 PM ^
By the way, when does Sid Finch make his official visit?
February 14th, 2019 at 1:36 PM ^
I am shocked to learn that an industry created quantify the value of young men to older men is so easily hoodwinked by some easily-fabricated bits of information on social media. Certainly nothing in life would have previously led me to believe that was possible.
February 14th, 2019 at 3:34 PM ^
As fake as Urban Meyer's health problems.
February 14th, 2019 at 4:16 PM ^
Today may be Valentine’s Day, but a lot of the comments on stars make me feel more like it is Groundhog’s Day.
February 14th, 2019 at 4:25 PM ^
His name should have been Dingle McCringleberry
February 14th, 2019 at 7:02 PM ^
Because the claim that the coaches and staff don’t know about the money changing hands is a load of you know what. The bagmen would just ask the staff if they should pay the fake player and they’d say they never offered.
February 14th, 2019 at 7:23 PM ^
I’ve seen him play. He’s pretty good. Needs to work on pad level.
February 15th, 2019 at 8:31 AM ^
I’m in the “rankings are useful” camp, but I would like to see some other metrics besides the NFL Draft. College games played, college games started, all conference, all American, NFL games, NFL starts, pro bowls, AV for college & NFL etc.
Maybe some of these have been discussed if not analyzed in detail, but if so, I missed ‘em.
While rankings are useful, there are (retrospectively) obvious inaccuracies in every class. It would be interesting to have those inaccuracies quantified a bit more.