No coaches look at these "rankings" at all. They only mention them if they are named in them but no one takes it seriously. Many of the kids who get scholarships are projects and aren't on any of these scouting service's radars. That's why they redshirt so many freshmen. -- FORDHAM RAMS FOOTBALL FORUM

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Subject: No coaches look at these "rankings" at all. They only mention them if they are named in them but no one takes it seriously. Many of the kids who get scholarships are projects and aren't on any of these scouting service's radars. That's why they redshirt so many freshmen.

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Date Posted: 08:20:02 12/05/04 Sun
In reply to: Fordham Rams #25 's message, "ND has been in top 20 of recruitng classes the past 5 years on every major recruiting ranking service. Hence Prince has no idea what he is talking about when he says that top athletes do not want to go to ND, that's just factually wrong. Stop defending that big mouth and look at some of the garbage he posts which is usually flat wrong." on 14:42:54 12/04/04 Sat

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Of course rankings are subjective but are the only barometers for what is used to determine whether the elite high school players are choosing certain schools. Clearly, over the past 5 years Notre Dame has been right smack in the mix with all of the other football powers. Again, we are singling out one preposterous argument, that being that the high school eleites no longer want to go to a "small Catholic scoohl" that is the argument here and as usual Prince is 180 degrees from the truth. Stop trying to defend these idiotic comments from Prince, stick with the issue at hand. (NT) FU Rams #25 10:36:03 12/05/04 Sun

Has Prince been informed that there are only 2 Catholic schools playing D-1A football? Boston College has done very very well the past 5 years. I guess Prince as usual is misinformed. His posts are factually inaccurate, opinionated loads of garbage. (NT) -- BC Eagles, 11:06:19 12/05/04 Sun

And you saying that Boston College is doing great is a opinionated piece of crap. They suck. They would probably beat the crap out of Forfham, but they suck in 1-A. Didn;t they almost lose to Temple or Duke? (NT) -- Prince, 22:55:20 12/14/04 Tue

Rams 25, how can I be 180 degrees away from the truth when all I was stating is an opinion. When I look at recruiting websites I never see the top players list ND. Tell me when is the last time a player in the top 10 went to ND. You show me some facts. (NT) -- Prince, 22:50:28 12/14/04 Tue