lowiq wrote: glancing at the differant rankings from differant sites it struck me how on the FOX-scout site top 20 teams that play in conferences with tv contracts with fox were mainly higher than rivals or espn.

on espn the top sec schools got the edge over what fox rated them.

im sure it was just a clerical error---

fox rankings for fox teams-

1-ohio st  espn had them 3
2-michigan  espn had them 6
4-ucla  espn had them 12--fairly big gap
11-nebraska espn had them 23---pretty big gap
14-washington  espn had them 18
15-oklahoma espn had them 16
17-oregon  espn had them 26--pretty big gap
18-usc  espn had them 14--the only one they had higher

the top 3 from the sec on espn--
1-bama fox had them 3
2-florida fox had them 8
5-ole miss fox had them 9

not a major conspiracy but just interesting each group put their headliners higher.

lowiq wrote: glancing at the differant rankings from differant sites it struck me how on the FOX-scout site top 20 teams that play in conferences with tv contracts with fox were mainly higher than rivals or espn.

on espn the top sec schools got the edge over what fox rated them.

im sure it was just a clerical error---

fox rankings for fox teams-

1-ohio st  espn had them 3
2-michigan  espn had them 6
4-ucla  espn had them 12--fairly big gap
11-nebraska espn had them 23---pretty big gap
14-washington  espn had them 18
15-oklahoma espn had them 16
17-oregon  espn had them 26--pretty big gap
18-usc  espn had them 14--the only one they had higher

the top 3 from the sec on espn--
1-bama fox had them 3
2-florida fox had them 8
5-ole miss fox had them 9

not a major conspiracy but just interesting each group put their headliners higher.

lowiq wrote: glancing at the differant rankings from differant sites it struck me how on the FOX-scout site top 20 teams that play in conferences with tv contracts with fox were mainly higher than rivals or espn.

on espn the top sec schools got the edge over what fox rated them.

im sure it was just a clerical error---

fox rankings for fox teams-

1-ohio st  espn had them 3
2-michigan  espn had them 6
4-ucla  espn had them 12--fairly big gap
11-nebraska espn had them 23---pretty big gap
14-washington  espn had them 18
15-oklahoma espn had them 16
17-oregon  espn had them 26--pretty big gap
18-usc  espn had them 14--the only one they had higher

the top 3 from the sec on espn--
1-bama fox had them 3
2-florida fox had them 8
5-ole miss fox had them 9

not a major conspiracy but just interesting each group put their headliners higher.

I picked up on what lowiq is saying a few years back, well maybe two. That’s why I try to average them out. I never thought Scout was as biased because; they seem to handle most of the good fan web sites, but for some dumb fen’ reason, I never associated them with Fox. I quess I'm as dumb as some of those southern fence posts; I some times refer some of the sec fans to.

I’ve been doing or keeping track of recruiting since way fen’ back;

When I could only get info from the local newspapers and we didn’t have all these so called gurus picking 4 & 5 stars. They were just called “Blue Chippers” if I recall and Tom Lemmings out of Chicago was probably my only good source from the late 80’s until the 90’s. Over the years I lost all my info, besides he only showed the top 10.

But once I got a computer, I was able to save some of this crap!!, But Lemmings was still the #1 man in my book as far as recruiting. I have his top 10 from 1993 thru 2002 there was another guy Bill Hodges, can’t remember where he was from but when I could get his I would average it out with Lemmings. Now since 2002, I only use Scout and Rivals and average them out as they post all the teams.

Here is what I liked about Lemming; besides his rank, he would always give his “Best Catch”. See if you remember some of these names!! I’m picking some random teams. Georgia only showed up twice in his top ten

1993:

#2: Scum Scott Loeffler?

#4: Notre Dame, Ron Powlus

1994:

#1: Tennessee , Peyton Manning

#2 Ohio State , Orlando Pace

#7:  Penn State , Curtis Enis

1995:

#3: Florida State , Peter Warrick

#10: Scum: Charles Woodson

1996

#1: Ohio State , Andy Katzenmoyer

#3: LSU, Cecil Collins (did he ever get out of prison?)

1997:

#10: Ohio State , Ken-Yon Rambo (what a fen’ dandy he was!! All show and no go!!)

1998:

#1: Scum, Drew Henson

#6: Georgia, Nate Hybi (don’t know, how was he lowiq?)

1999:

#1: Texas , Chris Simms (I can’t remember just where he finally ended up at?)

#2: Georgia, Reggie Brown (another one for ya, lowiq)

#4: Ohio State , Curtis Crosby

2000:

#1: Florida , Brock Berlin

#6: Ohio State , Sam Maldanado (Like Simms, where did he end up at)

2001: no body stuck out

2002: My last Tom Lemmings

#1: Texas , Vince Young

#2: Ohio State , Maurice Clarett (Wow!! we know about him, his good and bad!!)

buhkeiz wrote: Not understanding the Simms reference.

He played 4 seasons at Texas, and has some pretty good career numbers.  If his last name wasnt Simms people would probably be impressed with his resume.  

who the heck is curtis crosby?

NewOrleansBuckeye wrote:

 

 

1996

#1: Ohio State , Andy Katzenmoyer

#3: LSU, Cecil Collins (did he ever get out of prison?)

 

 

SuwaneeDawg20 wrote: Good post. Definitely think there is bias.

Interesting indeed!  Just who in the hell can we trust anymore when it comes to college football.

Probably one way someone could check is: To keep track on how a kid started before he was recruited and where he ended after he was recruited!!