meanwhile, with the addition of Phillips, Scout.com has moved LSU's class ranking up to #7 Scout.com - College and High School Football, Basketball, Recruiting, NFL, and MLB Front Page
Fair enough I stand corrected. But for the record many of us have never hung our hat on "how our class was ranked" for the sole reason it is so bias and basically a shot in the dark. Again fun to argue about. Texas is a text book example of being ranked #1 or #2 producing below average teams is a very weak conference.
I take a good cross section of rankings and try to get a feel for the caliber of athletes coming in. Scout, MaxPreps, ESPN, rivals, they all do well with measurables. Coach Saban and Miles are pretty good at finding and producing the player underneath all those stats. No one should freak out on any one ranking system and by and large not much to choose between them. So even when Luginbill's wife is force feeding stats and generally messing with his good sense, there is always 20 more decent rankings, just as accurate, to bring home that consensus number one ranking.
Thanks for posting this link since it made me feel a bit better. I am far from an expert on recruiting rankings but understand all the points made about how arbitrary they are. But still it is pretty depressing to scan the ESPN or SI Top Recruits list and not see an LSU committment in the top 50 on either list.
