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re: The fight for #1 ranked recruiting class
Posted on 2/1/16 at 4:04 pm to bamasgot13
Posted on 2/1/16 at 4:04 pm to bamasgot13
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This exists and we all know it. Not just with Bama, but maybe more dramatically with Bama.
This exists too. We all know it. Drama drives the business, and some fan bases thrive on the drama. All these things are well known in the recruiting world. Regional bias, school bias, alumni readership, subscriptions, etc. Like anything else, it is going to evaluate the market and make an appeal to that market.
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Even Nick Saban thinks there could be a "Bama bump" in recruiting rankings."Sometimes I don't know what comes first in recruiting rankings, the cart or the horse," Saban told reporters in December. "When a guy gets recruited by what I'm going to call high profile programs, he gets ranked higher. That's where I question the validity of how accurate some of those things may be."
This exists and we all know it. Not just with Bama, but maybe more dramatically with Bama.
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Tom Luginbill, the national recruiting director for ESPN, believes in the "Bama bump." But he thinks it's predicated more on recruiting networks trying to appease subscribers than a nod to Nick Saban's track record.
"Keep in mind that a lot of these recruiting websites and resources are reliant upon revenue of a fan signing up for a team site," Luginbill says. "When that's the case and you have to drive up (subscription) sales, what do you think those sites are going to do? They are going to start pumping and priming players that are committed to their school or considering their school and place them above other players because they are trying to drive subscription sales. "Anyone who says that isn't true is full of baloney."
This exists too. We all know it. Drama drives the business, and some fan bases thrive on the drama. All these things are well known in the recruiting world. Regional bias, school bias, alumni readership, subscriptions, etc. Like anything else, it is going to evaluate the market and make an appeal to that market.
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Posted on 2/1/16 at 4:13 pm to Lsupimp
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Again, where have the rankings been wrong with Bama's classes tho? You act like the only reason they are ranked high is b/c of subscribers. That's simply not true. MOST of the guys Bama signs are highly ranked way before they ever commit to Bama.
Posted on 2/1/16 at 4:26 pm to Lsupimp
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"Keep in mind that a lot of these recruiting websites and resources are reliant upon revenue of a fan signing up for a team site," Luginbill says. "When that's the case and you have to drive up (subscription) sales, what do you think those sites are going to do? They are going to start pumping and priming players that are committed to their school or considering their school and place them above other players because they are trying to drive subscription sales. "Anyone who says that isn't true is full of baloney."
This shite would make sense if BamaOnline LSU247, AuburnUndercover etc. made up the rankings. But they don't. I don't need to be sold anything to go on and check the top 247, 250, 300 players in the country and how they stack up amongst their peers.
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