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[QUOTE="OttoinGrotto, post: 1425577, member: 297"]
I wonder sometimes too about how fans interpret the recruiting rankings. We probably take them as a lot more set in stone than they are. I remember bnoro I think being frustrated last year because one of our linemen commits, can't remember which, didn't lose his 3 star ranking, but did get dropped a bunch of places by his rankings within his state. Did he suddenly get worse? That's one way to interpret it, but another way would be that recruiting rankings are a snapshot of what is "known" at the time. For example, early on a guy proves he's good and a high level prospect and he is ranked tenth best on his state. Later on, a lot more players prove to be worthy of evaluation. Some of them are deemed to be ranked higher within the state than our original player. Did he get worse? No. The universe of evaluated players around him grew. We now "know" more. The way to interpret his ranking would be that he is the X best player in the state, among those players that have been evaluated. Not that he's definitively the X best player in the state.
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