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Message: [QUOTE="packwrap, post: 5191094, member: 13341"] Just on your point 2. Sure coaches do their own evaluations, but it's important to note the top 10-20 schools are all picking from the same top 100 list. None of these teams bring in any unknown kids. Also that means that the recruiting services generally do a very good job identifying talent. One would think if the rankings were poor, some top coach would bring someone in who was not on the list. Also most of these top kids are getting 20-50 scholarship offers, so a coach may offer 20 scholarships in a year hoping to get 4 players to accept. They then have to work with who they get, not necessarily exactly who they really wanted. Similarly, the WNBA draft won't get every pick right, but they are all coming direct from the all American lists. No surprises. It's only in the bottom half of Division 1 at schools ranked in the NET at 150-300, and Div 2 and 3, where coaches are searching through the back country to find the great player that somehow slipped through the cracks in the recruiting process. These coaches all wish they could have Top 100 kids, but those players are already gobbled up by the better college programs. Note on current UConn roster, with exception of Kaitlyn #66, Q #41 and Jana (International) every player was rated in top 15 in their class! Geno is not having to search very far to evaluate and find his players, so it has 'everything to do with some web site's ratings'. [/QUOTE]