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Message: [QUOTE="rrlbees, post: 875319, member: 96"] I'll answer both this and the question you asked me about elaborating here. First your post above. Yes they do call or text recruits and interview them or ask a couple questions. But those are the site writers. Many if not most of them have nothing to do with the state rankings, then regional rankings and finally national rankings which ultimately lead to the "stars". They may pass along their thoughts if they had seen the kid live or gotten tape on them, but they are not the decision makers. They are the writers. As to elaboration you asked, in addition the the above, I will repeat some of what I already said in a prior post. It is not just a shot in the dark or only based on who offered. Many kids are ranked before they even hVe a lot of offers. They do go see kids play in games. Whether that is just a game in their area or an all star game or a combine (which they themselves run several) or a camp or special games like the one in MD or Texas. Of course there is no way they are going to see every kid in the country. Impossible for any organization. But they see a lot of the better kids at things I mentioned above. The lesser kids who don't participate in those things they rely on tape. I know very well one of them who spent a good 30-40 hours a week doing nothing but watching tape and evaluating. Whether anyone agrees with their evals, whether it be live or via tape, is another thing. But the process is not close to as simple as you want to make it. And of course if they have a kid ranked low who then gets 2 stars, and Alabama and FSU come along and offer, they are going to relook at that and most likely change the ranking and thus the stars. I think the rankings get updated about 3-4 times a year. Mew have had kids that weren't rated at all because nobody had seen him and they didn't have tape on him. I'd push them to try to get tape from the kid or sometimes I would find tape someplace online or another ouster had and I would send them a link. Then the kid would get rated and get stars. Your way means nobody but the top 20 teams would ever get a 4-5 star kid and that's just not true. Even we have had a handful of 4 stars. [/QUOTE]

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