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Message: [QUOTE="billsin01, post: 3044478, member: 837"] Do you have any idea who these recruiting analysts are? It's a job I was offered when I was covering high school sports but it paid nothing. It's not like it's a network of former college coaches who were lured in with lucrative offers who are now lending their expertise to a recruiting network of some sort. I mean, if a retired coach like P or someone was offering insight after breaking down some film, I'm all in. That's not what this is. These sites/publications make money by people paying for content. The people that pay for the most content are the massive fan bases of the football factories and, as one can reasonably deduce, those football factories are pulling in lots of talent. But the bottom line is you're never going to see Notre Dame ranked 50th and get a short blurb on one of these sites despite the fact that at times Notre Dame has really struggled in recruiting at times (the ty willy era in particular). It just doesn't make financial sense to do that. And no one -- at least absolutely not me -- is arguing that the fans know better than the analysts. I'm saying no one knows unless they have some connection to the staff and even then it's hard to say for sure. But my point is really is not so much that these places aren't identifying which dominant programs are landing elite talent, it's simply that we aren't now and likely will never be in that mix. But that doesn't mean we can't get difference-making kids that can compete with those schools if we run the right system and develop those kids. That's where these sites struggle, IMO. Consider: We have had two 8-win teams and a 10-win team this decade, yet our recruiting rankings have never changed. We have had 15 4/5--star kids this century and the best player of that group was ... take your pick Diamond Ferri? Johnny Morant? Damien Rhodes? Marcus Sales? (I'll even give you Doug Hogue, which r***ls didn't list as a 4-star but I seem to remember he was at least somewhere). Of the non-4/5-star kids we've brought in in that time (so kids exhausting eligibility beginning in 2004) we've had Tony Fiametta, Art Jones, Mike Williams, Adam Terry, Tanard Jackson, Shamarko, Nassib, Chandler Jones, Pugh, Bromley and Dixon. And that's only listing the players who either put together pretty solid NFL careers or were at least drafted pretty highly (like Nassib). [/QUOTE]

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