ESPN and their 150 are out of their minds!!!

[WabashFalcon]

College Football Recruiting - ESPNU 150 - ESPN

Guess where the first ND recruit comes in?

 

[fitz_bu47]

That is just ignorant, Chris Martin 144 when he is 5 star and top 15 on the other two recruiting sites....it appears to not just be an ND thing though b/c Ego is like 142...Espn can suck it.

 

[BGIF]

That is just ignorant, Chris Martin 144 when he is 5 star and top 15 on the other two recruiting sites....it appears to not just be an ND thing though b/c Ego is like 142...Espn can suck it.

And Justin McCay is between Martin and Ferguson at #143.

 

[The Polish Irishman]

Could it be ESPN is ballrubbing the SEC and their billion dollar contract?

 

[GOLDENISTHYTATE]

ESPN and their 150 are out of their minds!!!

Now I always advocate that Rivals is the best source for recruiting information, and I try to be nice to ESPN since they are new to this whole world. However, I won't even look at the fact that they have named Jackson Jeffcoat as the top player in the country over guys like Henderson or Seastrunk.

Instead, I plan to publicly ridicule their recruiting staff every day until NSD for deciding that Chris Martin was the 144th best player in the country. You read right boys, Chris Martin apparently has a lot of work to do.

Bristol better watch their backs!!!

 

[Ultimate Penn St. Hater]

I lose more respect for ESPN each day.

 

[jason_h537]

ESPN tends to hype up recruits that play in their Under Armour game, but yeah 144 is ridiculous considering most sites have Chris Martin in the same conversation with Jeffcoat and Powell.

 

[jason_h537]

15 DE's ranked ahead of C-Mart. First all those damn 3 star commits now i realize our best recruit is severly overrated on the other sites

 

[NDinL.A.]

All you have to say is that Chris Martin has committed to play in the Army AA game, while ESPN is DESPERATELY trying to promote their own Under Armor AA game. It's f-ing pathetic, but that's what they're about. And they are also in bed with the SEC. Look at FL. They have 5 guys ranked before U$C has one. 6 of their 9 guys on the list amazingly play in UA game. Hmmmm. I hate U$C as much as the next guy, but when they can't even sniff FL in recruiting, you know something is up. Shit, Georgia and FL are going to have the top 2 team rankings when they come out on Fri, with maybe TX sneaking in there..

Don't even sweat it guys...this is what ESPN does. If more ND guys committed to play in the UA game, they'd be higher ranked. I really don't believe it's an anti ND bias as much as it is a promotion for their UA game and the SEC in general. Get used to it...

 

[NDinL.A.]

Here is what Tom Luginbitch wrote in a chat about Martin:

Why is Chris Martin ranked so low, is it because he never played at DE or do you just think he is overrated on other rankings? Thanks.
Charles (Québec City, Canada)

A lot of feedback on Martin. We do feel he will be a defensive end in college and that's a big adjustment in our eyes. We do not see the speed, hips or flexibility to play OLB.

He is still in our 150 so we think he's a good player and like his physical measureables but felt he lacked the reactive burst, bend and potential pass rushing skills that the defensive ends ahead of him currently have.

Remember, everyone disagreed with where we ranked lineman like William Campbell and Jamarkus McFarland initially over the last few years and that it seemed like the rest of the recruiting networks agreed with our assessment in the end.
Tom Luginbill

I wrote this in the other ESPN thread, and I'll repeat it here:

All you have to say is that Chris Martin has committed to play in the Army AA game, while ESPN is DESPERATELY trying to promote their own Under Armor AA game. It's f-ing pathetic, but that's what they're about. And they are also in bed with the SEC. Look at FL. They have 5 guys ranked before U$C has one. 6 of their 9 guys on the list amazingly play in UA game. Hmmmm. I hate U$C as much as the next guy, but when they can't even sniff FL in recruiting, you know something is up. Shit, Georgia and FL are going to have the top 2 team rankings when they come out on Fri, with maybe TX sneaking in there..

Don't even sweat it guys...this is what ESPN does. If more ND guys committed to play in the UA game, they'd be higher ranked. I really don't believe it's an anti ND bias as much as it is a promotion for their UA game and the SEC in general. Get used to it...

 

[jason_h537]

Jackson Jeffcoat
Ronald Powell
Sentreal Henderson
Marcus Lattimore
Lache Seastrunk

are the only guys in the top 20 that are not in the UA game

 

[WabashFalcon]

Below is my post on the ESPN conversation about their 150:

This is, honestly, the worst excuse for a list I have ever seen. It was as if a brain dead monkey was given darts to throw at a board with all the names listed. Instead of doing as he was told, he stabbed himself with the darts, threw up into a bag, flung poo around the room, and then busted a window and ran for freedom. Then, your experts went about the damage and said "Well... we will start with the crap... then the glass... then the blood...". Terrible. Any credibility you gained last year is now gone after your steaming horse #### you call a 150 was published. TERRIBLE!!!

 

[IrishInFl]

Fun fact: Manti Te'o was ranked #2 overall in the 2009 recruiting class by espn.

Another fun fact: Manti Te'o played in the Under Armor All-Amenican game.

 

[WabashFalcon]

Manti was also ranked in the top 10 by both scout and rivals.

 

[jason_h537]

did my post get deleted or did i just forget?

anyway...

15 of the top 20 on ESPN are playing in the UA game.

 

[jason_h537]

i believe their topb 5 last year were in the UA game.

we should combine these 2 threads

 

[BGIF]

... we should combine these 2 threads

We did.

 

[Irishlew]

WTF??? after reading this thread I've decided to go to sleep. Either I'm having deja vu or some one's fucking with me. This thread makes no sense.