Same as before. Rankings from Rivals, Parade, Lemming, Emfinger, Scout, PrepStar, etc. aggregated to form a set of consensus rankings. Kids that signed w/ Arkansas or are from Arkansas were included, going back to 1993.
These are always interesting to me. I think the local rankings from experts like Otis are most accurate. It's simply too hard to cover the entire country, and know everything there is to know about every kid. It's impossible, actually. I like nat'l guys like Emfinger when it comes to kids in their neck of the woods (Texas and Louisiana for Max, who was the lone nat'l guy I know of who gave Clint Stoerner enough credit, for example).
Rivals has probably done the best job of covering the country accurately, from coast to coast, with their collection of local guys giving input to national guys. And their accuracy level is getting better each year, as their network improves, as camps are standardized (laser times, similar surfaces, kids measured by camp folks versus self reported, etc.).
Still, I like to look at the consensus opinions. They're interesting to me, and it also makes me feel a bit better when guys we're after are highly thought of by *everyone*, versus a random service here or there. (Though, interestingly enough, the only scientific study I'm aware of that examined whether there was correlation b/w recruiting rankings and future player performance determined that the only really important factor was that at least *one* major service thought you were good; not that all of them, or even most, did. Still, I like it when they all do.)
RB National Position Rankings
Year
Rank
Name
1999
5
Cedric Cobbs
1998
6
Jonathan Adams
2001
7
DeArrius Howard
2004
9
Peyton Hillis
2005
9
Darren McFadden
2001
11
Cedric Houston
1994
13
Tyrone Henry
1994
17
Madre Hill
2002
29
Dedric Poole
2004
41
Korey Sutton
2001
47
Mark Pierce
2005
48
Felix Jones
1998
48
Andre Ackee
1998
51
Charles Stackhouse
1998
57
Harold Harris
2002
66
DeAngelo Williams
1999
90
Fred Talley
2005
93
Brandon Barnett
2005
150
Michael Smith
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These are always interesting to me. I think the local rankings from experts like Otis are most accurate. It's simply too hard to cover the entire country, and know everything there is to know about every kid. It's impossible, actually. I like nat'l guys like Emfinger when it comes to kids in their neck of the woods (Texas and Louisiana for Max, who was the lone nat'l guy I know of who gave Clint Stoerner enough credit, for example).
Rivals has probably done the best job of covering the country accurately, from coast to coast, with their collection of local guys giving input to national guys. And their accuracy level is getting better each year, as their network improves, as camps are standardized (laser times, similar surfaces, kids measured by camp folks versus self reported, etc.).
Still, I like to look at the consensus opinions. They're interesting to me, and it also makes me feel a bit better when guys we're after are highly thought of by *everyone*, versus a random service here or there. (Though, interestingly enough, the only scientific study I'm aware of that examined whether there was correlation b/w recruiting rankings and future player performance determined that the only really important factor was that at least *one* major service thought you were good; not that all of them, or even most, did. Still, I like it when they all do.)
RB National Position Rankings
Year
Rank
Name
1999
5
Cedric Cobbs
1998
6
Jonathan Adams
2001
7
DeArrius Howard
2004
9
Peyton Hillis
2005
9
Darren McFadden
2001
11
Cedric Houston
1994
13
Tyrone Henry
1994
17
Madre Hill
2002
29
Dedric Poole
2004
41
Korey Sutton
2001
47
Mark Pierce
2005
48
Felix Jones
1998
48
Andre Ackee
1998
51
Charles Stackhouse
1998
57
Harold Harris
2002
66
DeAngelo Williams
1999
90
Fred Talley
2005
93
Brandon Barnett
2005
150
Michael Smith
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