kevin newsome #147 on ESPN 150

Submitted by baleedat on

Kevin Newsome barely made the espn 150 (#147), and they have him listed as an athlete. why is it that rivals and scout rankings are almost identicle and espn is so far off?

other notable QB's:

Tajh Boyd #121

Eugene Smith #132

Tate Forcier #141

Morgan Newton #145

ATX Wolverine

August 5th, 2008 at 5:27 PM ^

I'll go out on a limb and guess that they're trying to get more buzz around the Under Armour game and therefore rank the players in that game higher than the ones in the Army All-American game. Oh, that and they have no idea how to evaluate players.

baleedat

August 5th, 2008 at 7:25 PM ^

just checked rivals ane their rankings are not as close to scout as i thought. i noticed newsome slipped off the rivals 100 (was in the high 30's at one point IIRC, currently #53 on scout) and he is now lised as the 4th best dual-threat (i thought they had him as pro-style a few months ago). this is probably due to his poor combine performaces.

 also, will campbell is not on the espn 150

here is the espn 150 link: http://insider.espn.go.com/ncf/recruiting/tracker/espn150?season=2009&display=all&set=0&action=login&appRedirect=http%3a%2f%2finsider.espn.go.com%2fncf%2frecruiting%2ftracker%2fespn150%3fseason%3d2009%26display%3dall%26set%3d0

WolvinLA

August 5th, 2008 at 5:39 PM ^

After reading the ESPN evaluation of Michigan 09 class, it is clear that either ESPN or everyone else who knows anything about recruiting, is wrong. I don't understand classifying Newsome as an athlete when it is both clear and very public that he is being recruited as a QB. They have mega-badass Will Campbell listed as an OT (fine) but then give him a very mediocre 79, well out of the top 100. WTF. Everyone on that list with the exceptions of McNeal and Bell are anywhere from slightly to wildly underrated. Not that it's that important, since no one really give ESPN any recruiting credibility.

Brian

August 5th, 2008 at 7:59 PM ^

yeah, that was weird because the other sites (and college coaches) thought Barksdale was an OT recruit... but, like, an awesome OT recruit. And he's starting as a true sophomore, so they were right. Rate him as an OT if you want, but killing his ranking because of it is stupid.

mgolund

August 5th, 2008 at 5:45 PM ^

As long as Coach Rod believes in the guys he's recruiting, we should be fine. Who cares about the recruiting rankings? Last time I checked, they aren't what win championships.

Tacopants

August 5th, 2008 at 6:22 PM ^

Wait until the College/High school seasons are done. If Newsome doesn't get hurt, gains 4000 yards of offense, throw 20 TDs/ninja stars into DEs, he'll shoot up the recruiting rankings. Besides, ESPN's recruiting rankings make absolutely no sense. The top 3 guys are rated 93. Then you have 1 guy each at 91,90, and 88. Then 2 at 87, 3 at 86 and so on down the list. #150 is a high 80. So they're saying that the difference between Jelani Jenkins at #9/86 points and Newsome #147/80 points is equal to the difference between Jenkins and #1/2/3 (Barkley, Shepard, Murray) As asinine as Rivals/Scout are, at least they give out a 6.1/6.1 for 5 stars, 6.0/6.1 for high 4's, etc. They don't come up with a 100 point scale and then have nobody score 100, have gigantic standard deviations within the top 150, then slot everybody else between 71 and 79.