I'm now at the conclusion that 247's rankings should be written off entirely. My god, Andrew Ivins not only can't overcome his bias against ND, but he just flat out sucks at his job.
I don't have much issue with the top of the class. Guys like Carr, Bryce Young, KVA, Cam, Lambert, Kedren Young. Those are mostly fine.
But Ivins has 12 of ND's 23 commits rated as a 3-star. That is beyond incompetent.
Bodie Kahoun had an absolutely fantastic season with absolutely insane numbers. His ranking didn't move up AT ALL.
Sean Sevillano, had a huge senior year. Ranking doesn't move. Larson? Didn't change. Peter Jones? Didn't change. Prescod? Didn't change.
In fact, of the 12 players rated 3-stars by 247, do you want to know how many had their score re-evaluated during or after their senior season? ZERO.
That shows me that either Ivins is too lazy or incompetent to do the grunt work and evaluate players that aren't in his initial 247 ranking, or he actively avoids bumping up ND players unless they're just at the very top and it would be difficult to justify keeping them low. Probably both.
It's just amateurism at its finest. I can understand a couple players falling through the cracks, but how do you not update the rankings of more than HALF of a class!?
247 made an absolutely idiotic decision by replacing Simmons with this clod. They are honestly worse than On3, and that is saying quite a bit, given how much flak On3 gets (and justifiably so).
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