I just felt like Mike didn't care and was doing us a favor by running the site - despite the fact that he makes a fairly nice living from it. And during the slow time of the year for recruiting, I was seeing Scout come out with all these stories & it felt like Rivals rarely had ones worth reading. Rivals has the better national network, but I don't follow national recruiting so that wasn't a big deal to me. Rivals seems to get the commitment news sooner, but I find out not long after anyway either here or wherever. Sunny over at Scout gives more informative inside-info on our recruits, where I didn't feel like I learned near as much in Rivals' War Room. And their basketball recruiting is better. For me, it just came down to not liking Mike S & the way he was running the site. I try not to judge too much by star rankings, plus I can always look & see what Rivals ranks prospects. Rivals seems to over-inflate their big market school recruits, but Scout seems to not be as accurate. For instance with Thompson - who should not be a 5 star, or even that high of a 4 star.
Speaking of "grades", I read somewhere that Charlie Deas--who didn't qualify last year--is taking some classes and the word is that he will sign with LSU this class. Anyone else hear differently?? ...or can confirm? Thanks.
He is working on his grades at Desire Street Academy in Baton Rouge their new temporary location and also heard he will sign with LSU.
Deas seems to be avoiding us, we cannot make contact with him so it looks like he isn't going to be signing with us. He is NOT at Desire Street Academy, he's up in the north east somewhere - the staff just 'found' him a few weeks ago and he isn't returning phone calls. Maybe we cooled on him, maybe he cooled on us, maybe both, but it won't matter because of the massive amount of DL in the state this year. Gabriel Bryant however is at Desire Street and if he gets it together he could be a member of the class again. All of this info is coming from tigerbait and tigerrag, gleaned over several weeks.
In the new Rivals 100, Tolliver dropped several spots & is now the #3 ranked WR in the nation (was #1).
