mredle wrote:I understand some people relying upon scouting services for determining a players value. For fans that is one of the only ways of comparing talent. And if a kid is local a fan may see the local kid playing against local talent and familiarity may be biasing. I would submit that coaches are far more likely to use the eyeball test and come up with their own rankings rather than rely heavily on rivals 247 or ESPN. Their assessment and that of trusted scouts and other information go into their personal ranking of individual players.
Exactly. Coaches have to evaluate talent. It's not a game of seeing how many top 150 guys we can land.
- With Hepburn, it's clear we liked him, but didn't think as much of him as some other teams and the recruiting services.
- We wanted Mors a lot, but based on his comments, WI was his dream school
- Murrell was a later blooming player and we did everything we could to sign him. He just wanted to go to Stanford and it's hard to argue against their academics
As to whether or not we'll get improvements over Murrell and Mors:
Instead of Murrell, we got Kalkbrenner (upgrade)
Mors will depend, but remember we already landed Antwann Jones whose role for us may be similar to what Mors would have been, and he was a top guy (106 composite versus 115 for Mors) also and he'll have 3 years to play after sitting out this year.
With Hepburn, we'll see, but it's clear we liked Mitchell more than Hepburn (although in different classes) and it looks to me like we like Tamar Bates more than him as well (FWIW, Bates is at 117 composite and Hepburn at 141) -- note that Mitchell was 205 on 247 (221 composite), but I doubt the coaches were looking at that when they came up with their own ideas about his value to our team
