[washingtonismoney]

Ditto 247.

247's an interesting case. With respect to prediction, 247's Vandy writer Barton Simmons did quite well with Stanford recruits: http://247sports.com/User/Barton%20S/Pre...t=Football

And I thought Simmons had interesting write-ups of our camps -- though you're more expert than I; perhaps you have different opinions:
http://247sports.com/Board/30/Stanford-c...#a19408050
http://247sports.com/Article/Stanford-Ca...-up-136806

But most have no special expertise, which is as you expect. Drukarev should be better than a random recruiting reporter -- that's his beat. Fortunately he's even better than a simple "replacement writer" metric.

[washingtonismoney]

Ditto 247.

247's an interesting case. With respect to prediction, 247's Vandy writer Barton Simmons did quite well with Stanford recruits: http://247sports.com/User/Barton%20S/Pre...t=Football

And I thought Simmons had interesting write-ups of our camps -- though you're more expert than I; perhaps you have different opinions:
http://247sports.com/Board/30/Stanford-c...#a19408050
http://247sports.com/Article/Stanford-Ca...-up-136806

But most have no special expertise, which is as you expect. Drukarev should be better than a random recruiting reporter -- that's his beat. Fortunately he's even better than a simple "replacement writer" metric.