05_never_again
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That's such a weenie thing to do though, because at that point you aren't doing your own analysis/evaluation. You're just assuming that since a good program offered a kid, then he must be a great player, and you'll shoot him up the ranking even though you might have had him lower. Someone with no connections and doing no evaluations sitting in their mom's basement can do that.I should be clear: the services should not rank up a player based on where he signs, but they absolutely should based on his offer list.
Using your example, if Alabama didn't offer Recruit A then even if the services scouts viewed Recruit A as a better prospect, the fact that Alabama didn't offer should given them pause. And you can replace "Alabama" with any one of Georgia, LSU, Clemson, Ohio State, or Oklahoma.
It seems like both an offer list and where the player signs should be irrelevant, assuming that the point is to rank the best players. If the point of the rankings is to rank players based on the college careers they are projected to have, then that's totally a different thing and offer lists/where they sign should be an obvious factor.