If you want basketball writers to rank players not by the writers' observations but the ranking service's numbers, why in the world would you waste your time reading their rankings or our time by posting them?
Seriously, I don't get this. You want players who have played one to three years to be ranked based on what someone thought of them entering college, as opposed to what people think of them as college basketball players? That's just not rational.
You jumped too far into data-only to extrapolate from my post. My point is more subjective; if UConn guys are ranked in top-25, are definitional at a competitive school and as we all hope are benefiting from good coaching & competition, THEN they should on a qualitative basis be amongst top-100.
I don't know if the writers of this article have a say in high school rankings nor do I think anyone needs to hold the line on their ranking. Yes sometimes rankings are a self-fulfilling prophecy (i.e. go to Dook, get in McD's game, be overexposed throughout college, NBA draft or league ultimately shows if you were really that good or not), but the point is that if UConn guys are highly ranked coming in we should be developing them such that their quality goes up whilst playing for the Huskies. I don't really care about the rankings, I care about the players actually developing into some of the best college players & that UConn has ZERO top-100 is something I feel strongly will be proven inaccurate.
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