| 02 February 2012
CBS recruiting analyst Tom Lemming told a Connecticut newspaper that they should take the
University of Connecticut's poor class ranking "with a grain of salt." Lemming went on to say what most fans, especially those who follow recruiting, you have long suspected is - that recruiting rankings are slanted and in favor of prospects recruited by the major schools.
“What I notice is that Internet sites have to make money and they make that money with the big programs, the Notre Dames, Florida States, Texases. So if a guy goes there, you never see those schools sign a two-star player do you? Well, you do because they see a lot of guys transfer that actually can’t play at all.
“I’m just speculating because I’m not an Internet guy. But sometimes I’ll see a guy is a one-star and all of a sudden the day before signing day he signs with a big school that makes a lot of money for the Internet site and all of a sudden he’s a four-star player. Without doing anything in one day he changes stars. But if the same players signs with a UConn or a Temple or some of the Eastern schools he stays a one-star. That’s where the politics come in.”
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