Re: Well, 3.5 hours after Henry signed we

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Re: You obviously didn't understand my original post. It is the

Dec 20, 2017, 9:45 PM

The bias is only there if you are wanting to see it IMO. I've seen Clemson get a ton of love the past few years, FSU was one of the most hyped teams in the preseason, the real USC was as well, and Ohio State always gets a ton also. It's just that people shout SEC bias whenever an SEC team gets the same sort of attention.

I can't speak for whether all 14 SEC teams were updated right away today as you say, or the reason for why Henry wasn't added right away. But as I said in another post, let's say you're right. What does ESPN have to gain out of holding off on adding Henry right away? Is there a potential future recruit considering Clemson sitting around thinking "man I was going to pick Clemson if they had a top 5 class, but I saw they were only 9th so forget that."

Also as I said above, if they were biased to the SEC only, then why include the headline of Georgia and Clemson being big winners today? Couldn't they have easily used Georgia and Alabama instead?

Why come to gameday at Clemson so many times recently? Why spend all the money and resources in showing the complete Clemson entrance before the Georgia and FSU games a few years ago? Why show any of the Clemson commit announcements today if they were wanting to hide them or whatever? Surely ESPN could have figured out Henry was pretty much a Clemson lock just like everyone else and not bothered to show him announce if they were wanting to delay letting the rest of the country know about it.

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> drops just all of a sudden?

That's not a conspiracy, it's called sensationalizing. "#1 recruit in the country" creates drama, and everybody knew Lawrence wasn't playing the game...Clemson guys tend to go "All-In" and stay firm, and while that's great for us, it's not interesting to anybody else.

But it's drama attracts clicks, and clicks are the name of the recruiting-reporting game. Anybody with eyes can tell you that unless it's a 7-on-7 the stats and relative abilities of Trevor Lawrence and Justin Fields aren't even close. But it attracts a lot more clicks to keep the undecided player - in this case, Fields - rated at #1 so they seized on those 7-on-7's at The Opening (where Lawrence did OK, but Fields dominated) and used that as a pretext to elevate Fields above Lawrence.

I doubt even the worst recruitnik shill really believes that, though. Game tape doesn't lie. Lawrence isn't just the best QB prospect in 2018, he might be the best in the last 20 years. If he turns out like he looks...well. Won't go there. Not yet.

So...opportunistic journalism? Sure. A conspiracy? Not really, except in the sense they're trying to keep interest drummed up.

Here is an example of the kind of things ESPN does that

Well, while I was typing they corrected the list to 15, but

But if we had added two 4 stars and three 3 stars we would have moved up.

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Re: Well, while I was typing they corrected the list to 15, but

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Re: Here is an example of the kind of things ESPN does that

Re: Here is an example of the kind of things ESPN does that

Well, 3.5 hours after Henry signed we