Only time will tell. Oh, Koas, the percentage value was for reference only. As far as the guy from this particular website, I'll take him over any of the pay sites. I have followed his recruiting updates since this past summer and will say he hasn't got them all right but pretty damn close.
He's a little prowlerish in that he's got an out for everything.
"If he signs with Auburn it will be because he likes that there's a Chick Fil A in Haley Center. If he doesn't, it's because his girlfriend prefers Popeyes and there's not one within seven miles of campus."
That kind of stuff is usually just made up bullshit and used as a crutch so that no matter WHAT happens, he can say he was right.
Look, I know how this works. It's been a while -- well, about 13 years -- but I used to work for a recruiting service. I was the one that talked to all these guys and wrote the profiles and made the predictions and did the ratings. I know that they'll say one thing today and another tomorrow and will have a different story depending on who is asking. I also know that the way questions are asked can drive the response. And I also know that there are some who can be buffaloed. You put it out there in writing that they said they are leaning and all of a sudden they actually are, even when that "lean" may have been your own interpretation of an innocuous statement.
That's one reason I find Prowler's bogus, gleaned from the internet "skreets" so utterly ridiculous. When I was doing it, i talked to these kids a couple of times a week. I talked to all of them within two days of signing day. And there were STILL some that surprised me. Fact is? Nobody
knows shit. It's all complete speculation.
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