Published September 1, 2010 - 6:30am
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Yesterday, I made a post regarding the ESPNU150 football recruits and how the SEC is gobbling up the best young talent in the country for their respective programs. With the ESPNU150 being only one major recruiting agency, I thought it would be interesting to breakdown the Rivals100, Scout100, and ESPNU150 committed recruits by conference as of August 28th, 2010.
There is much debate about which is the best recruiting agency in America for rating high school football players individually as well as ranking teams after the recruiting season has ended in February. There is no debate, however, that on the week of the opening kickoff of the 2010 season, SEC football programs are snatching up the best players in the country for the 2011 recruiting cycle. The SEC is getting the best players earlier than other major conferences.
Rivals100 – The SEC is leading the Rivals100 commitments with 17. The rest are as follows: Big Twelve has 14, ACC has 9, Big Ten has 4, PAC-10 has 8, and the Big East has 1.
Scout100 – The SEC is tied for the lead in Scout100 with 15 commitments. The rest are as follows: Big Twelve has 15, ACC has 8, Big Ten has 8, PAC-10 has 6 and Big East has 1.
ESPNU150 – The SEC is leading the ESPNU150 commitments with 28. The rest are as follows:
ACC has 18, Big Twelve has 17, PAC-10 has 10, Big Ten has 7, and Big East has 0.
As you can see by the numbers above, the rankings are debatable depending on which site you pledge your allegiance to, but there is no debate about the SEC snatching up the best players in the country earlier than other major conferences. The debate will continue about which is the best recruiting agency and which one got it right last year or this year, but one thing is true – the SEC recruits the best players in the country and the best players are committing earlier to the best conference.
That is how you study recruiting, precisely.
You do as you did here. You add them all up and you see that you are or you are not getting the recruits.
Better than adding up 4-stars and 5-stars.
On an individual basis, you do the same. If Rivals has the player # 5 at his position nationally and Scout.com has him # 9, then he has # 6. ESPN has NEVER competed with Rivals and Scout.com . To begin with, they want to give out 6-star recruits. How can you compare that with Scout.com or Rivals ? Secondly, you cannot go to ESPN WebPages easily and search and see where they have a player ranked at their position nationally, nor easily see the rankings of each team. Further, they do not provide the same information as provided by Scout.com and Rivals at ESPN either. I don’t even waste my time over there; never have; never will. Their WebPages are too intensive on pop-ups and heavy graphics. Click their WebPages and WAIT.
I know we all know that we need wide receivers, offensive linemen, quarterbacks, fulbacks, and running backs – everything on offense except the over supply of TE, whom we kept recruiting anyway.
Tom Lemming does have a Top 100, like Rivals and Scout.com :
http://www.maxpreps.com/news/-PAssWRSEd-lugAcxJTdpg/lemming-unveils-class-of-2011-top-100-football-players.htm
If you look at the list at this URL Link, what you find is that NOT THE SEC, but Alabama, Florida and LSU specifically dominate the list and the LONE UGA is Christian LeMay who may well find getting in quite a challenge.
Great information. Thanks for posting. ESPNU150 is hard to break down like you are saying above. The user has an easier time getting the right information they need on Rivals and Scout. You are also correct about Bama, Florida and LSU getting the most big time players. I believe that is a trend that we will continue to see.