PatsCowboy
Active Member
I’ve found there to be a 23.7% chance of accuracy on those sites. Either extremely little information or the parents or players input info themselves. (Or none at all)
Some years ago there was a large OL in West Houston. I saw 5-6 games the kid played over two years. He was not rated, was the largest, yet weakest of the OL on his team, not to mention you could time his explosion off the ball with an hourglass. I told our coaches I had known the kid and his family for a decade, and no way in hell should we offer him. His only offers were from the likes of Tarleton, ETSU, maybe SFA and Abilene Christian.
Enter Nebraska, kings of steroids. They offer, and suddenly the kid is 3* or 4* depending on which service your read. (He actually went from being unranked to the #32 player in Texas.) That was his only offer. I called the OL coach at Oklahoma and told him to set up lunch for the two of us with the Nebraska OL coach. During lunch, I told the coach that I was there for educational purposes, not to steal his recruit. Why the hell did Nebraska want him. His reply was that the kid was a project, but they had 100 of those on the infamous Nebraska Community Scholarship Programs. They would groom him for 3 years, hoping to get 2 years of playing time or backup out of the kid. Then he said, "I can coach technique, I can't coach size". That's just one of a multitude of unnoticed, unranked kids who suddenly are HS bluechips because of one offer.
Don't get me started on parents buying their kid's way to internet stardom.