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Message: [QUOTE="Sudano, post: 878950, member: 822"] You’re right I probably did overstate that they do no evaluation particularly since there has been a lot of consolidation in the industry along with the proliferation and easy access to online player videos over the past few years. Really my point is that their evaluations are ALMOST irrelevant to the true talent evaluation process. That part of recruiting occurs even if they didn't exist. This particularly holds true since we already are getting insight into their true market value with evaluations from the coaches themselves. This insight is revealed by what the recruiting sites find out from the recruits about who’s recruiting them and who comparatively have offered them college football scholarships. This is much more relevant information to their true talent and where they stack up amongst their peers. They themselves are not the relevant talent evaluators that we need to worry about. It’s the professional coaches’ opinions that are more pertinent and carry much more value and they ain’t talkin’ but their information is indirectly revealed. The only way to access what college coaches think of players is to ask the players themselves. They can’t ask the coaches. They try to establish themselves as truly important talent evaluators but their more important role is to interview players to inform the public about who is recruiting them and offering them scholarships. Information gatherers or aggregators if you will. A very important role for those many of us that want an unclouded view into the veiled world of college recruiting between players and coaches. We just need a clearer understanding into what they are and what they aren’t so we don’t build them up just to then tear them down. They have an important role for us fans by providing the information they do but just not the role they have tried to establish for themselves as scouts whose evaluations the recruiting coaches rely on. [/QUOTE]

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