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rockne19

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i'am from south florida,and about 3 weeks ago the sun sentinel news paper had a article on recruiting.they had odoms ranked #2 overall in broward and palm beach counties.
 
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rockne19 said:
i'am from south florida,and about 3 weeks ago the sun sentinel news paper had a article on recruiting.they had odoms ranked #2 overall in broward and palm beach counties.
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Good point, rockne. Thomas was also ranked as the #1 RB in the entire state by the Orlando Sentinel. That is why everyone needs to take all of these rankings with a grain of salt. Cumulatively, they can paint a pretty decent picture because then a group of opinions is involved, but individually, especially the Scouts/Rivals/ESPN 150's of the world all have their own biases and individual agendas.

There is no doubt in my mind that Rivals has assigned only *** to Thomas & Odoms because of the lack of offers from the Big 3, yet those guys are just like most of us at this point, they have probably seen nothing of Thomas & Odoms except the same grainy films that we have all seen. Yet when I look at those films, especially that of Thomas, I see a great future CFB RB. If I was on the Rivals staff based on that film alone, Thomas would be a 5 star, which is exactly why at this point in time the assigned stars are nothing but a guidepost to an eventual consensus opinion on these recruits. An opinion that BTW means nothing once they suit up for a CFB game.

FWIW, Odoms is a 4 star on Scout, and Thomas is listed as a 1 star, which most likely means they have not fully evaluated him yet. On ESPN, Thomas is ranked #57 nationally, and Odoms is on the ESPN 150 watch list, so they are both essentially 4 stars over there.

The bottom line is Rivals probably just screwed up on their rankings of these 2 guys. I would favor the opinion of the local media over Rivals, especially at this point in time, on guys like Thomas and Odoms, and most importantly, and until it is shown otherwise, I would always favor the opinion of CW and his staff on the guys they have offered, and they obviously think both of these guys, and especially Thomas, are very valuable possible additions to the Irish football team.
 
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With New Jersey last year Anthony Davis was ranked #1 in the state forever and top 2 O-lineman in the country overall and later and later in the process once he commited to RU his stock dropped and went from a 5* to a 4* and Duval Kamara (Who is great) slipped ahead of him on Rivals #1 in the state. I love Kamara and I think he'll be a beast on our team for many years, but Davis was definently #1 in my state (In the paper in Jersey he never dropped because in people states there is no bias because they want to see their guys get their due and proud they are from their state.) So, I don't think anybody takes these rankings TO HEART but you do want to see certain guys get their due. All in all it doesn't really matter and we know we'll be taking a dip in the rankings because of our 3-4 defense like Fleming as an OLB and Omar and Newman as true NT and not DT's. We know what we have and isn't that all that matters?
 
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Well said 1023! Reps to you (I'd rep u too IUB, but I can't :()

Ha, I tried to rep you 1023, but it said I couldn't for u either :p
 
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Yes, I know this isn't important, but if you look under the Rivals250, look at what they say about Jamoris Slaughter.
"Strong, athletic defensive end that had 73 tackles, 12 tackles for a loss and six sacks in 2006."
I emailed them last night, but they haven't responded. Or changed it.
 
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