which one of the 3 is best in your opinion ?
Some say that one or the other favors particular schools.
Here are all three lists, Scout released theirs yesterday, the other 2 were last week.

scout

rivals

ESPNU

I prefer Rivals, not really sure why, just always been my go to. Espn is always behind.

I prefer Scout. I don't know why I prefer it over Rivals. . .

ESPN is horrible in my opinion. I personally think it will only get worse with the $ Billion SEC deal.

-- Doesn't ESPN derive their info from Scout?

Rivals is like a Blu Ray disc, Scout is like a DVD

Rival's bases their rankings WAY to heavily on combine performance and not enough towards actual play on the field.

Tinkertrain wrote: Rival's bases their rankings WAY to heavily on combine performance and not enough towards actual play on the field.

just like the nfl

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rydawg5 wrote: -- Doesn't ESPN derive their info from Scout?

Rivals is like a Blu Ray disc, Scout is like a DVD

I'm pretty sure they don't. . . if they do they are doing it wrong! haha

2010 Scout Top 10
1. Seantrel Henderson - Undecided
2. Ronald Powell - Florida
3. Robert Woods - USC
4. Kyle Prater - USC
5. Keenan Allen - Alabama
6. Sharrif Floyd - Florida
7. Jackson Jeffcoat - Undecided
8. Andrew Norwell - OSU
9. Marcus Lattimore - Undecided
10. Chris Martin - California

2010 ESPN Top 10
1. Ronald Powell - Florida
2. Jackson Jeffcoat - Undecided
3. Dominique Easley - Florida
4. Jordan Hicks - Undecided
5. Michael Dyer - Auburn
6. Lamarcus Joyner - Florida State
7. Robert Woods - USC
8. Seantrel Henderson - Undecided
9. Matt Elam - Florida
10. Jonathan Dowling - Florida

Granted. . . Florida has one of the best classes I've ever seen, and looking at the top 10 only seems like it is splitting hairs. But, it just seems that ESPN has been extremely SEC oriented in their recruiting rankings for at least the past two years.

2009 Team Recruiting Rankings

Scout Top 10
1. OSU
2. Alabama
3. LSU
4. Georgia
5. UCLA
6. UNC
7. Texas
8. Tennessee
9. USC
10. Oklahoma

ESPN Top 10
1. LSU
2. Alabama
3. Texas
4. USC
5. Florida
6. Georgia
7. Miami (Fla.)
8. FSU
9. OSU
10. Michigan

I like rivals way better, but i try to avoid anything ESPN if possible

I also noticed ESPN has more kids up there who are going to the SEC. I've been told that Scout is influenced/owned by the FSU Warchant chief Gene 'Dot' Williams. Anyone know ? I've also heard Rivals seems to have the best overall info on recruiting news, but not for Florida. Scout & ESPN have better insiders at Florida.
All 3 this year have 5 SEC teams in the top 10 team rankings.

I look @ Rivals.

Rivals.

I look at Scout

I look at all of them.

Rivals

Rivals.

Scout and ESPN are both crap.

Rivals..got a membership/subscription.

Even in years where both Rivals and Scout have the same player ranked #1, ESPN almost always goes with someone different. It's as if they are going out of their ay to be different so that people will pay attention to what they are saying. Rivals and Scout also both have a much larger network of local people who follow recruiting. Recruiting is basically all they do. While ESPN may have some good insights and may be a good quick reference, I'll take the sites that specialize for more detailed and accurate analysis any day.

^^^^ This

krambman wrote: Even in years where both Rivals and Scout have the same player ranked #1, ESPN almost always goes with someone different. It's as if they are going out of their ay to be different so that people will pay attention to what they are saying. Rivals and Scout also both have a much larger network of local people who follow recruiting. Recruiting is basically all they do. While ESPN may have some good insights and may be a good quick reference, I'll take the sites that specialize for more detailed and accurate analysis any day.

Great post. I really don't see a difference in the information disseminated from both Rivals and Scout. The rankings are usually pretty similar without splitting hairs.

I like Scout's rankings better because they don't put as much stock into combines as rivals but Rivals website is much better to check a recruits info and to check out recruiting stuff in general.

I prefer scout but no real reason why. I like at rivals from time to time but never use espn.

I watched ESPN "Recruitng Insider" with Tom Luginbill today, I was not impressed. Should be a good show Feb 3rd, I hear Henderson will be with him to announce.

Tom Luginbill is not good imo.

Did he really state that OSU has no chance with Hicks? That's what my friend said, Luginbill said it was between UT/UF with not even mentioning OSU.

Scout--->then Rivals...and ESPN isn't on the map. haha