247 Football Rankings

Yeah. I suppose it’s slightly annoying but it has very little meaning in the grand scheme of things though. And if you look at Alabama, their recruits always go up a lot. I mean, a couple of years ago some random said he had a bama offer and they made him a 247 and he was then in the top 300 off of a Facebook post.

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It’s almost laughable that when LSU gets a highly rated recruit, 247 sports update their rankings and our recruits plummet down the charts. May be a coincidence but it’s highly frustrating.

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Do people do *any* research whatsoever when they lodge this complaint? First of all, we had tons of guys make huge jumps *up* the list with this most recent update--far more big jumps than almost any other team at the top. Second, the supposed "demotions" are almost never actually demotions--they're players who retain the same rating and get jumped by someone whose rating improves. If there's a prospect who jumps 100 spots, there will be 1 guy who moves up and 99 guys who "move down".


Also, literally every single fanbase says this exact same shite. If you've ever listened to Barton actually talk about the rankings or the evaluation process, you would know how silly it is to cry bias. Yeah, the Yale grad sure has it out for LSU. In particular, the complaint that "they havent even played any more games so how can they be moved down?!" is especially idiotic. It makes zero sense unless you assume that the 247 staff has literally consumed every bit of available information about ~1000 kids across the country.