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What have you read or heard?

At the risk of being flogged, I must admit to having my perceptions colored by the 247 predictions  ;)

It seemed to me St. Brown was a legit possibility, but seeing nobody on 247 picking Stanford out of 20 predictions makes me skeptical.  The fact mom likes Stanford is likely not reflected in the predictions for St. Brown.  The first nine Irwin predictions were Stanford.  Now the last 10 are all ASU.  I didn't check this , but it very well could be the Irwin "shift" is all after Brady White committed to ASU, which to me is silly, but when these guys are making predictions on so many recruits, they aren't going to study every case very hard, and groupthink will likely materialize.  My gut tells me it's like PLF suggests, that Irwin will sign with Stanford if admitted.  I've never considered Kirk a legit potential Stanford get.

Frequent readers of my posts might think this is a broken record, but I don't understand why the recruiting reporters out there never report on who is taking two AP classes their Senior year and planning on filling out a Stanford application.  If they included such data points, things would be a lot more clear on the Stanford recruiting assessment front.
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247 pundits were unanimous on Chaffin going to NC State before he chose Stanford; last year there was a LB who they all predicted, 100 percent for Stanford who chose Texas (I think). I think two things happen with 247 predictions (in addition to group think): first, if a guy expresses an interest in a program but doesn't commit the pundits all start to gravitate toward the last school he visited, assuming that he wants to give them the last shot because he favors them; also, they will assume that friendships will pull a player one place or another.  Maybe that would be true when two departments are similar in other ways (i.e., academics, location)...but there is really no comparison between ASU and Stanford in academics, and if Irwin really values academics and gets accepted at Stanford, he will be here. 

I'm always encouraged when players are offered by other schools but hold off on committing.  Why hold off on Notre Dame, or ASU unless you are at least considering other places? (especially ND which still has cache among prospects).  I'm not predicting anything, but Jashon Cornell is another similar situation...he has been linked to Alabama, now Ohio State, I think Michigan State earlier...but he keeps holding out and said at one point he would take a west coast trip that would include Stanford.  Likely he is at least thinking of other places, otherwise why not just commit to a major power if that is what you want? 

[socalstanfan1]

[quote author=PrinceLightfoot link=topic=7902.msg91525#msg91525 date=1403614584]
What have you read or heard?

At the risk of being flogged, I must admit to having my perceptions colored by the 247 predictions  ;)

It seemed to me St. Brown was a legit possibility, but seeing nobody on 247 picking Stanford out of 20 predictions makes me skeptical.  The fact mom likes Stanford is likely not reflected in the predictions for St. Brown.  The first nine Irwin predictions were Stanford.  Now the last 10 are all ASU.  I didn't check this , but it very well could be the Irwin "shift" is all after Brady White committed to ASU, which to me is silly, but when these guys are making predictions on so many recruits, they aren't going to study every case very hard, and groupthink will likely materialize.  My gut tells me it's like PLF suggests, that Irwin will sign with Stanford if admitted.  I've never considered Kirk a legit potential Stanford get.

Frequent readers of my posts might think this is a broken record, but I don't understand why the recruiting reporters out there never report on who is taking two AP classes their Senior year and planning on filling out a Stanford application.  If they included such data points, things would be a lot more clear on the Stanford recruiting assessment front.
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247 pundits were unanimous on Chaffin going to NC State before he chose Stanford; last year there was a LB who they all predicted, 100 percent for Stanford who chose Texas (I think). I think two things happen with 247 predictions (in addition to group think): first, if a guy expresses an interest in a program but doesn't commit the pundits all start to gravitate toward the last school he visited, assuming that he wants to give them the last shot because he favors them; also, they will assume that friendships will pull a player one place or another.  Maybe that would be true when two departments are similar in other ways (i.e., academics, location)...but there is really no comparison between ASU and Stanford in academics, and if Irwin really values academics and gets accepted at Stanford, he will be here. 

I'm always encouraged when players are offered by other schools but hold off on committing.  Why hold off on Notre Dame, or ASU unless you are at least considering other places? (especially ND which still has cache among prospects).  I'm not predicting anything, but Jashon Cornell is another similar situation...he has been linked to Alabama, now Ohio State, I think Michigan State earlier...but he keeps holding out and said at one point he would take a west coast trip that would include Stanford.  Likely he is at least thinking of other places, otherwise why not just commit to a major power if that is what you want?