[NU Sports] signing day

[Hakirsch at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/5/2009 2:30:33 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
tkmaycock at yahoo.com writes:

> I don't know if Rivals ratings are worth the paper they were written on, 
> but it was a discouraging bit of information. 
> 
> Tom
> 

I think they are worth the paper they are printed on--However, having said 
that, I believe that the rankings are not that key for a school like NU--We are 
rarely going to get top prospects, and it's the middle and lower  guys (which 
are very hard to rank) that make or break it for us--Tryell was a prime 
example--Most of our stars of recent years were not top 50 guys--

BTW SI did a nice job a few weeks ago chronicalling the conferences and the 
high school location of all of their players--As you would expect most of the 
SEC talent came from the South--though the BT was a bit more spread out than  
jsut the Mid-west-- I think one guy was dotted from New England for the whole 
BT--of course that was our own DB Brendan Smith  from Massachusetts

Harry


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