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Are the services ever going to be able to issue even decently reliable transfer rankings?
Posted on 1/7/26 at 2:08 pm
Posted on 1/7/26 at 2:08 pm
I am skeptical. In high school, the number is manageable. Multiply that number times 5, then redo all of those, every year. Seems impossible.
As colleges become more professional with more personal dedicated to scouting, colleges will no longer be as dependent on outsourcing their scouting to the recruiting services. A big part of a good coach will be just the organization of identifying talent, which seems harder at the college level than the high school level. Any idiot can notice that a man amongst boys stands out in high school. But it takes real knowledge and skill to know whether, for example, player A or player B was the problem (or the reason for excellence) on a P4 college offensive line, where everyone is 6-4 315.
I don't trust the recruiting services to have either the manpower or the knowledge to sort the wheat from the chaff on a field full of big and fast dudes, with dudes constantly needing to be re-ranked.
As colleges become more professional with more personal dedicated to scouting, colleges will no longer be as dependent on outsourcing their scouting to the recruiting services. A big part of a good coach will be just the organization of identifying talent, which seems harder at the college level than the high school level. Any idiot can notice that a man amongst boys stands out in high school. But it takes real knowledge and skill to know whether, for example, player A or player B was the problem (or the reason for excellence) on a P4 college offensive line, where everyone is 6-4 315.
I don't trust the recruiting services to have either the manpower or the knowledge to sort the wheat from the chaff on a field full of big and fast dudes, with dudes constantly needing to be re-ranked.
This post was edited on 1/7/26 at 2:09 pm
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Posted on 1/7/26 at 7:52 pm to Hugh McElroy
I think it's easier to identifying talent at the college level. if they are playing every down..they have already risen to the next level and succeeded. there's no guessing if they can make that transition....they are plug and play.
The guessing game is with those 5 star guys that didn't get playing time and want to leave...like Calen Odum....5 star tweener OM signed in this past years portal class. If we paid him like a 5 star we over paid...he only played 20% of the snaps and maybe caught 20 balls this year. He could develop into the next Evan Ingram...but whatever we paid this year it was too much.
The guessing game is with those 5 star guys that didn't get playing time and want to leave...like Calen Odum....5 star tweener OM signed in this past years portal class. If we paid him like a 5 star we over paid...he only played 20% of the snaps and maybe caught 20 balls this year. He could develop into the next Evan Ingram...but whatever we paid this year it was too much.
Posted on 1/8/26 at 4:58 am to Hugh McElroy
247 going with HS rankings for guys that haven't seen the field much inflates their value usually. Also with some players they won't drop them much despite poor play. Lagway is still given a high rating despite playing worse than most all of the 3 star listed transfer QBs.
Posted on 1/8/26 at 11:43 am to Hugh McElroy
No way, it’s impossible. Think of a good solid program and what their player evaluation team looks like now. It’s dozens of people at this point. An individual school basically rivals the amount of evaluators these services have and frankly if these guys were any good at their job, they would be working for a school getting paid a lot more to do it.
They don’t have the manpower or the know how to evaluate transfer players at all. Transfer rankings are worse than useless.
They don’t have the manpower or the know how to evaluate transfer players at all. Transfer rankings are worse than useless.
Posted on 1/8/26 at 11:58 am to Hugh McElroy
Like I said before, if Ian Geffrard is considered a top portal addition they need to work on portal rankings, one of the worst DTs you’ll ever see
Posted on 1/8/26 at 12:16 pm to Hugh McElroy
It's ludicrous to expect a handful of people to accurately rank 5k players in a matter of 3 weeks. Outside of the very obvious guys, it's a waste of time.
If you like your team's rankings and want to brag about them, that's great. If you aren't highly ranked but think your team got it's needs and you want to ignore the rankings, also great.
If you like your team's rankings and want to brag about them, that's great. If you aren't highly ranked but think your team got it's needs and you want to ignore the rankings, also great.
Posted on 1/8/26 at 12:45 pm to Hugh McElroy
I would argue that transfer rankings should be heavily influenced by who is being most heavily recruited by top programs. There is bias there but the rankings would be better than a few random reporters guessing at 5,000 rankings over a few days.
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