Here we are again with TechSideline.com's eighth annual "Inside the
Numbers: Ranking the Recruits," in which we mash together recruiting
rankings from various recruiting services into one complex ranking system that
gives each VT recruit a composite ranking. We first did this in 2001, and as we
add more and more recruits to our rankings, it's interesting to see where
today's recruits rank when compared to yesterday's recruits. We now have eight
years of data, and we can see how the 2008 recruits compare to schoolboy
superstars like Kevin Jones, DeAngelo Hall, Victor Harris, and Tyrod Taylor.
The concept behind ITN:RTR is simple: we take the recruiting rankings from
SuperPrep, Rivals.com, and Scout.com and mash them into one formula that assigns
each recruit a composite ranking. Other longstanding recruiting analysts (Max
Emfinger, Tom Lemming, etc.) are excluded because they don't have a player
ranking system that has the required depth or consistency.