2009 Rivals/Scout/etc. National & Regional Rankings

[smitty03]

He wasnt high on Barton either I believe, and he turned out to be ok ...

Originally Posted by OH10

Wow, Duane has low of an opinion of Mewhart?

[wadc45]

Merged the Duane Long thread here (with a 1 hour expiring redirect)...let's keep all the rankings lists together...if someone wants to find Duane's list they can simply search this individual thread.

[Muck]

The Sunday Morning Quarterback blog has an article on recruiting rankings vs on field results...

Sign Me Up, Tear Me Down: Recruiting Rankings and On-Field Success

By SMQ
Posted on Mon Jan 21, 2008 at 04:01:04 PM EDT

The relationship of recruiting and success may be self-evident enough to fall under the heading of “duh studies,” but we are approaching the peak not only of heavy breathing over collections of teenage talent, but also relentless mocking of said breathing, and of the big-business attempts to sate ever-growing recruiting lust with very official, inscrutably-reasoned rankings of that talent. Newspapers will anecdotally trash the system in one-sentence (and occasionally one-word) paragraphs on Signing Day, more or less mirroring the Wizard of Odds’ rhetorical smack before last year’s rankings were released: “snake oil salesmen have more credibility.”

contd...

Rivals Rankings:




Winning % against BCS schools:




Underachievers - Records vs equal or higher ranked opponents:




Overachievers - Records vs equal or higher ranked opponents:




Over/Underachievers by conference:

Not many teams were ranked appreciably higher than Ohio State, and the Buckeyes have played almost none of them. Behind OSU and Michigan, the rest of the Big Ten was ranked in the middle of the pack: Iowa, Illinois, Michigan State, Purdue and Wisconsin occupied spots 39, 40, 42, 43 and 45 in the aggregate rankings. The winners of that group (Wisconsin and Iowa) are therefore “overachievers” in the long haul while facing very few teams that were thought to have superior talent.

[sandgk]

Muck - I wonder what that ranking would look like if it used the average "star" rating of the classes as they actually made it onto campus?

I'd bet that would rationalize the success vs. projection rankings, while still giving plaudits to the overachievers for finding players that fit a program neatly.

[Muck]

I dunno. It would be interesting data to see...but I'm far too lazy to cross check for 20 teams or so over six years. lol

[wadc45]

BN $

1/27

BK's top 20 in Ohio for 2009.

[HotMic]

Rivals Updtate 2009 Top 100

Of Note:

#14 Dorian Bell
#21 Justin Turner
#26 Marcus Hall
#29 Dion Sims
#34 Je'Ron Stokes
#38 John Simon
#47 Corey Adams
#48 Darrell Mason
#49 Jordan Whiting
#55 Jack Lippert
#64 Larry Caper
#71 Morgan Newton
#75 Devontae Payne
#88 Chris Fields

[XBUCKEYEX]

Looks like Johnny Simon is going to have to pull a Mike Adams and once again prove those boys at Rival wrong.....

And I think he can do just that!

[OSUBuckeye4Life]

#11 on that list (a Michigan verbal) was virtually unstoppable at the junior combine. The only person I heard that made it competetive was #26 (Hall).

Seems Michigan got themselves a good one there.

[crazybuckfan40]

I would think that Fellows, Barnett, and Klein would be ones that could end up in the top 100 at some point during the recruiting season...

[mross34]

http://insider.espn.go.com/ncf/recru...0?&season=2009

2009 ESPN 150 Watch List

Names of interest include:

Corey Adams
Kraig Appleton
E.J. Banks
C.J. Barnett
Zakee Bashir
Dorian Bell
Bryce Brown
Corey Brown
Marlon Brown
Larry Caper
Craig Drummond
Melvin Fellows
Julius Ferrell
Willie Ferrell
Chris Fields
Quan Fletcher
Darrell Givens
Bud Golden
Marcus Hall
Ricky Harris
Adam Homan
Nate Klatt
Storm Klein
Kyle Koehne
Jack Lippert
Mike Marrow
Darrell Mason
Jack Mewhort
Darius Moffett
Kevin Newsome
Morgan Newton
DeVontae Payne
Russeell Shepard
Eric Shrive
John Simon
Petey Smith
Je'Ron Stokes
Will Studlien
Levine Toilolo
Chris Watt
Jordan Whiting

Got about half-way through the list before I realized it was pretty much everyone. Had to finish what I started.

[GrizzlyBuck]

We seem to have cornered the market on the Well's name, how about adding Brown to the list

Good work guys thanks.

[osubuckeyes2731]

Looks like another incredible class will be coming our way this year.

[SNIPER26]

Originally Posted by GrizzlyBuck

We seem to have cornered the market on the Well's name, how about adding Brown to the list

Good work guys thanks.

No need for an apostrophe in Wells

Anyways, I'm really excited about William Campbell. He's a monster and surprisingly quick for a man his size. I think he's ranked accordingly, what do you guys think?

[stowfan]

Sniper

Is UM going hard after Capers?