Ya, you guys are right. He probably just got them confused. You can't really expect a guy who spends his career memorizing superficial factoids about a massive volume of players to really know the meaningful details that well...he's got a business to run, afterall.
But hey, it's AWESOME when he remembers the name of the high school and top 5 schools for some random fracking Mizzou recruit when a dipcrap from St. Joe calls into 810 when he's on with Kietz. "This guy knows EVERYTHING!"
My favorite was the reminder that rivals.com didn't exist before 1999. LOL @ anyone saying snyder was recruiting a bunch of 2 and 3 star scrubs back then.
Rivals didn't exist back then. However, there were a ton of pay services and numerous fan sites (heck, Rivals contacted me when they were initially forming to do a K-State site due to my traffic levels - I thought they were on crack, what the f did I know).
Also, many of those services did star or some other variation of a ranking system. Rivals just opted to create a larger network and link it all together. However, initially, their methodology wasn't that much different from the older pay companies/sites - they just had more people doing the evaluating (it used to be most pay companies focused regionally, or even just on JCs, only a few were national in scope).
That said, according to the "experts" (who did their rankings based upon who offered kids more than what they really knew about the kids) Snyder was living off of the equivalent of the 2 and 3 star kids. Few services even considered JCs (even Rivals early on pretty much ignored JCs - Snyder forced the system to consider them), and few considered where a kid would play in college (they acted like their HS spots would be their college spots - Snyder loved to convert RBs into DEs, FBs, and LBs and so forth). Thus, those early KSU years under Snyder were skewed very low in the rankings and what the "experts" thought of KSU kids.
Sam s.
