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But its proof of the anti-Michigan conspiracy

According to Tremendous's blog on tos, we may lead for Massington!

Levenberry's dropoff (and even Isaac's IMO) is so big it makes me at least wonder about the methodology. It seems as if 247 simply didn't have the time and resources to reasonably evaluate most of the top players before they put out their initial rankings. If that is true, they should have waited until they had more confidence in the rankings before making them public. To have players jumping or dropping by massive amounts in a very short period of time with no camps or games upon which to base the changes makes it look like the rankings are built on very little in terms of an analytical foundation.

I can agree with that.

But they are built on a strong financial foundation - never underestimate that reasoning.
The fact that 247 released 2013 rankings first is what first led me to this site and now I'm a VIP member. If they were just going for stability and accuracy, no rankings would be released for another 11 months. And then what would we do

IMO the business decision was to kick out something by a certain date even though they knew it wasn't very good. The primary goal was to be first rather than best.

Well, at least Massington denied that LSU leads right now. That could obviously change if they offer but we could still beat them out if we can get him on campus to experience Michigan firsthand. If LSU jumps ahead of Michigan after this weekend, I won't be surprised. I don't think we'll have a clear picture until he's seen both Michigan and LSU.

Definitely was, the amount of traffic that came flocking here for the full ranking must have been high. I thought of that when the rankings came out so early. The initial rankings could have been done haphazardly (speed being the primary focus) with the intention of updating them later upon further analysis.

I also noticed that the position the recruit will play in college has affected the rankings. Shallman and Butt have dropped two points each when it was made known that neither were committed primarily as DEs.

I remember reading on here that Levenberry would eventually drop but I didn't expect him to drop over 200 spots. That's very surprising especially since (as MrWoodson pointed out) there isn't new material to judge for the analyts.

Still, I'm not concerned. I use the rankings to supplement my own judgement.

Here's a different topic to discuss.

We now have 16 commits. I don't know how many spots we'll have open by NSD in 2013 but I figured that it might be time to come up with a new list of recruits our coaches are pursuing given the limited number of spots.

DT/DE
Eddie Vanderdoes (from California)
Tracy Sprinkle (from Ohio)
Greg Webb (from New Jersey)
Darius Latham (from Indiana)
Tashawn Bower (from New Jersey)
Henry Poggi (from Maryland)
Joe Mathis (from California) - potential package deal with Cravens
Alquadin Muhammad (from New Jersey)
Wyatt Teller (from Virginia)

LB
Ben Gedeon (from Ohio)
EJ Levenberry (from Virginia)

CB
Cameron Walker (from California)
Cole Luke (from Colorado)
Devin Butler (from Maryland) - headed to PSU?
Tre Bell (from New Jersey)

S
Su'a Cravens (from California) - package deal with Mathis?
Shane Cockerille (from Maryland)

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RB
Ty Isaac (from Illinois)

WR
Laquon Treadwell (from Illinois)
Devon Allen (from Arizona) track star
Eldridge Massington (from Texas) - waiting on LSU offer? Michigan leads as of now
Marcell Ateman (from Texas)
Darrell Daniels (from California)
Marquez North (from North Carolina)
James Quick (from Kentucky)
Zach Bradshaw (from Maryland)
Sebastian Larue (from California)
Uriah Lemay (from North Carolina) - SEC-bound?

OL (Will we take a 6th?)
Ethan Pocic
Laremy Tunsil (UF or FSU?)

Am I missing anyone else?

Willis will not happen, not sure we are even heavily recruiting him at this point. Laremy will most likely not end up taking an official, even if he did the chances are extremely slim.

Forgot one major guy:

WR Sebastian Larue!