Laying the Foundation: USC Football Recruiting in 2009 (Scout 4 Stars)

Posted by Rick McMahan on December-10-2009 Add Comments

As an interested observer of high school recruiting, I have learned that talent evaluation is a highly subjective discipline.

For example, the two premier high school recruiting services, Scout.com and Rivals.com often evaluate and rank prep talent very differently.

A good example of this would be Kyle Prater , the 6'5" wide receiver stud from Illinois who recently confirmed that he was a "100% Trojan" come signing day.

Rivals has Prater listed as their #2 player overall, in the "Rivals 250" list of top high school players in the nation.

Meanwhile, Scout has Prater listed as their #13 player overall (Prater has recently jumped higher in their list of evaluated players).

While this is no...

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