re: Don't have to "cancel" ESPN and Rivals, but you can't intelligently support their ratings.

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The differences in evaluations at each of the 4 sites is an indication of how subjective they are. An industry average does not fix this variance because these are not real statistics, just different evaluator’s opinions. None of them are better than coaches, which is why offers provide better expectations of how recruits will pan out. The fact that some players on one service are ranked in the top 100 and not even in the top 300 on other sites just proves how unreliable these evaluations are.

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THIS!!!! I have pointed out the other several follies of the recruiting services but this is near the top. IF as you stated that evaluations vary widely as they do BTW, then how in the HELL can someone quote them as gospel. And just filtering/smoothing out the widely varying scores basically fits into the old scientific term..."garbage in...garbage out"! The only change I would make to your statement is that services are NOT better than coaches as you stated but NOT as good as competent coaches who bring players into camps! {mic drop}