re: 15 of the Top-100 just signed with 1 school.

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ESPN doesn't control College football. Seriously.

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That's not really the question. The question is whether or not a media outlet such as ESPN simply declaring a player to be the 150th best player in the country as opposed to the 250th best changes that player's ability to play football for the better. And the answer is absolutely not. The same applies in reverse. 247 dropping a kid 75 spots in their rankings doesn't make him a worse football player than he was before.

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How's if different than the NFL subjectively devising the monetary value of their players? And the NFL does that already. It's called the NFL draft. It's why the winning super bowl team doesn't get the 1st pick in the draft every year. If we use the current NCAA model, that's exactly what would happen. Alabama and the top CFB teams would get all the top draft picks. It's why we've had 15 different teams in the last 10 super bowls and 6 in the College Football Championship game.

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The NFL draft is an exercise in figuring out which team will sign which players' paychecks. Miami's money spends just as well as Denver's money and while players have preferences on what franchise they are drafted by, at the end of the day it's all the same. Because it's a business, and they're in it to make money. College players get paid, but a few years worth of hundred dollar handshakes isn't their goal. It's certainly not a long term career. Their goals are invariably going to include getting to the NFL, getting a degree, or both. The NCAA limiting where they are allowed to pursue those goals because they're too good at football is absolutely ridiculous. You have also continued to fail to address the fact that talent evaluations change all the time throughout the recruiting cycle. What then do you do if a program like Alabama or Clemson have a few 3* kids committed as juniors who then play so well as seniors that they get bumped up into the top 100 by the time the final recruiting rankings come out. Do they now have to sign elsewhere because they got too good to go to the school they had been planning on attending for a year? The draft happens all at once. Players commit to colleges months, if not years, before they actually sign scholarship papers.