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Jesus, do Bama grads own every recruiting site? I've heard for a while that Rivals is run by Bama grads, now 247 too? And when did they buy all of them, cause Bama's recruiting rankings weren't too high before 2007-08. We didn't have a recruiting board back in 03 and 04, but I'm guessing LSU fans were fine with LSU being ranked 1 and 2 back then (and in 2009). Probably felt the sites were "fair"

I agree with your point. Nick Saban is a dynamite recruiter.

The reason people say Bama grads own 247 is because they do. The same Bama grads that own 247 owned Rivals. They sold the rights of Rivals to Yahoo. These same Bama grads then started 247 once the non-compete clause expired. There; you're all caught up.

In addition to the fact that both 247 and Rivals left 3 LSU players off their team rankings last year, it just seems odd that the 2 sites these guys have thier footprints on rate Bama 1 every year and no one knows how to calculate thier Team Rankings. Let me know when you figure out how 247 ranks. It makes no sense. The only site that has Team Rankings that make sense is Scout. That is why I use Scout for Team Rankings, although they have LSU ranked the lowest currently.

To illustrate a comparison, look at Scout since Saban's arrival. Bama is ranked 1, 2, 4, 7, 2. Not exactly chump classes, but also not 1 every year, which is the norm for Rivals and now 247.

In the scheme of things; none of this matters. It's basically a necessity to have at least top 10 classes annually to maintain competitiveness.

LSU has 9 players this year being discussed at 1st rounders potentially:
Mett - 4 star
Hurst - 3 star
Faulk - 4 star
Mingo - 4 star
Logan - 3 star
Montgomery - 4 star
Mathieu - 3 star
Simon - 4 star
Reid - 4 star

No 5 stars.

This post was edited on 6/14/12 at 3:21 pm