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So who should I draft? Neifi. Good point, how many positions is he eligible for? :-)

So who should I draft?

1st round Thursday night, 2nd and 3rd rounds Friday night, the rest Saturday morning. Thanks. Thats what I was thinking, except Friday-Sunday.

It would be funny if the Jags drafted him. Is he still projected to be drafted in the 1st day? Is the draft this year going to be a 3 day draft? Thought I remembered something about the 1st round being by itself then two more days.

Yeah that seems to be more of an SEC trait. Really? There were a number of players not committing to SEC schools who declared today, I thought. Yeah - UCLA landed 5 4- and 5- star recruits to announce today. Seantrel Henderson to USC. Wow. USC always does great on signing day. Figure that's because it usually takes 3 days for checks to clear anyways. Glad to see UCLA have a great day too the potential Kiffen-Nueheisel rivalry could be fun to watch.

Demar Dorsey signed with Michigan. Huge get for them.

They missed out on EVERYONE. Crappy day for OSU today. He missed out on the best player in Ohio, and looking at the top players this class is very very heavy in the South. Very few players coming from northern high schools.

unbelievable. Now seems like the perfect time to switch the captaincy to Rooney.

Shouldn't be a real surprise with Dyer already going to Auburn.

except the new ones cost $200. I was wondering what the hell Rooney and Nani were wearing over the weekend. I remember when the 1st predators came out thinking how crazy those were, but of course I bought them anyways. http://www.nike.com/nikefootball/bootroom/boots/t90?locale=en_US

Much of what you say is well-founded. Individual rankings are far more accurate, in general, than the team rankings, but there is something to the team rankings. As with many things, however, it's important to look at more than just which teams are ranked 1-5 or whatever. It's important to look deeper at why the team is ranked where it is. Like you point out with the quantity vs quality discussion, purely where a team is ranked can be misleading. If you look at why a team is ranked there, you can make more sense of the team rankings and decide whether they're useful or not. In all honesty, looking at ranges is better. There's little difference in the top 10 teams in recruiting, but there is a pretty clear deliniation between the 10th team and the 50th team. That's where team rankings are more useful - grouping together the "top" recruiting classes vs the mediocre ones and on and on. Thats why I would rather look at the avg. star ranking. If looking at Rivals A&M is ranked 10th where USC is ranked 12th. However A&M has 25 commits to UCS 13. UCS has 3 5-Star Players and 7 4-Star players. Where A&M has 11 4-Star players and the rest are 3-Star or less. Personally I would take the smaller class with a greater ceiling. Obviously the star ratings are no where close to perfect, and it still comes down to coaching and developing. I like ESPN's 150 the best and Rivals would be 2nd. I would not even bother with Scout.

I'm curious to try on those new nike total laser90 shoes. Someday Fifa is going to start banning illegal shoes like the pga does with clubs.

Josy gets the start against Chelsea today. Only watching gamecast, but it looks like he is winning a bunch of fouls for Hull.

Thanks! Justin and Matt both informed me that they really don't keep up enough to be competitive either. I really hope you can find 3 new teams. My apologies. Please do keep me on this board though. I'd love to be able to check in with everyone from time to time. Just make sure your wife has to give up something of equal value too ;-).

Are we sure its Kris and not Anna they are watching. She would help clubhouse moral!

I would rather sign Hudson to play 2nd, and let Castro play SS.

Anyone out of South Texas this year? Figured there might be someone out of Moody, Calallen, or Ray.

Exactly. They have to sign him too moving into a new stadium.

Arsenal simply can't beat United or Chelsea, they don't have the defense to do it. They were having their way with the United midfield in the first 25 minutes, Wes Brown looked like he scared of Arshavin's speed. They need van Persie back, as they have no size. They've had plenty of chances, just couldn't find the net. Poor finishing all day.

Ready for Arsenal/Manu!

Togo have been banned from the next two African Nations Cup due to "governmental interference", in there decision to pull there team out after been attacked in Angola. I'm not sure what to think of this. Either way after this WC, Africa probably will not be hosting another one for the next 50 years.

#20 on espn (only 1 in the espn top 150), and #19 on rivals. But mostly they are lacking in any big name play maker recruits. They have a lot of room to improve in recruiting as they are more at Michigan State's level rather than Ohio State's. I am a little worried about recruiting. They need to make a hard play at Demar Dorsey even though they probably won't land him.

Good, tired of seeing the FSC HD logo during games and wondering why I don't have it yet.

Does anyone have FSC in HD yet?

As Tim mentioned the sheer netgain of losing Gregg and Heilman will be great. Marmol was bad last season too, and with the young arms in the minors the bullpen has a lot of potential. With that said the bullpen is the easiest area to improve in or decline from 1 season to the next.