Here we are again with TechSideline.com’s ninth annual “Inside the
Numbers: Ranking the Recruits,” in which we mash together recruiting
rankings from various recruiting services into one complex ranking system that
gives each VT recruit a composite ranking. We first did this in 2001, and as we
add more and more recruits to our rankings, it’s interesting to see where
today’s recruits rank when compared to yesterday’s recruits. We now have nine
years of data, and we can see how the 2009 recruits compare to the big names
from Tech’s past classes

The concept behind ITN:RTR is simple: we take the recruiting rankings from
SuperPrep, Rivals.com, and Scout.com and mash them into one formula that assigns
each recruit a composite ranking.

The first time we did this was for the 2001 recruiting class, and over the
years, we have accumulated data for every class since then. Articles for the
2001 through 2008 classes are linked at the bottom of this article, in case
you’re interested in looking back.

The top score you can get in this system is a 45, and here are past winners
of top recruits:

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