He seems to be a pretty good prospect but he have some guys right now that could project to center, or are centers. I would assume we will wait with him unless he blows it up in camps or our offensive line prospects arent turning out like what we thought.

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Trying to think logically here...........yes, I know that's a stretch for a dip blonde from Cali and a Trojan no less, but. Star rankings for the most part start to come out about now and into June after many of the camps and the coaches have gotten an actual look at players. The already known superstars are an exception of course and those kids would likely neither need more stars or be downgraded because of grades. Schools will do just about anything to assist that player in qualifying.

So, any issues RIGHT NOW regarding academic qualifying is based off of junior grades which leaves the entire senior year to turn things around. It seems unlikely that any schools would back off at this point simply because there is a whole year to fix it. Academic issues start to play a role when the season starts and a bulk of the players begin to make their choices. Players have to submit their grades and schools who have done their homework already know who their problem children are. If the talent is there, the grades are NOT going to impact the pursuit, only the secondary pursuit of other lesser players who may be needed to fill the spot.

While there is some logic to suggest that a non qualifier might lose the attention of big schools and thereby be unable to gain more stars, I would have to think that it's only the "average" player, many probably even unknown, and a very small group at that.

Look at the schools who have reputations for high level academia. Notre Dame, Stanford, ucla (ugh) to name a few. They go after talent too and with the "golden ticket" special admit policy available to university president's, grade issues are rarely the norm and more the exception.

Rivals rankings are very subjective - sometimes they chose to take it into consideration, sometimes they don't. My impression is that they determine it by how hard the prospects continue to be recruited by big schools. Some guys will be recruited hard no matter what, while many guys aren't quite worth it so their recruitment drops off.

DeAndre Brown, for instance, was still very very heavily recruited despite not having a chance at qualifying, which is why Rivals didn't let it affect his rating.

No way to know, but with the proper information you can make a good guess.

Because it looks bad if 3 years from now we want to see how good of a job Rivals did, so we look at the Rivals 100 from that year & half the guys never made it to D1 ball.

I can't think of anyone off the top of my head, but there are examples of it.

Happens all the time. Alonzo Lawrence was a three star even though people had watched him and knew he was incredible. The college teams and All-Star games realized his grades werent as bad as they thought and he then eventually moved up to the #CB in the country.