Good reading for recruiting nuts like me.http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/recruiting/football/columns/story?columnist=luginbill_tom&id=3667035
Good read, but ESPN is surprisingly well behind the curve on this stuff. Wouldn't necessarily disagree with rankings, but they're methodology leaves a lot to be desired in comparison to other sites.
ESPN's people are known to not do much research when they compile their list. One of their people is a Rivals reject, so their mission is basically try to put up some relevant info without looking like a rivals clone. Whereas Rivals actually has a crew of scouts that they send out to football games across the country, ESPN basically looks up a statline and makes their determination from there. In the same article that proclaimed Shep was #1, they dropped Rueben Randle to #11, when no other site in creation has him below #4 at this point. Even their player analyses are often contradictory...for instance, on Rueben's it said he's agile with game-breaking ability in space; then it turned around in the same analysis and said he's not particularly shifty in space... ESPN does some good things, and will probably get better as time goes along, especially since they have so much exclusive coverage of the two main high school all-star games.
