'20 TN OT Blake Carrienger

[Volfansince1980]

Catfish recruit from Grace Christian Academy. Apparently rivals ranked a kid a 5.5 3 star that didn’t exist as soon as the kid claimed a Bama offer on a fake Twitter account. Woody was on the VQ defending their position claiming this can happen from time to time but could never reconcile why some recruits are rated lower than a recruit that doesn’t exist. Just wanted to share with the masses the recruiting process at Rivals.

 

[Bassmaster_Vol]

Catfish recruit from Grace Christian Academy. Apparently rivals ranked a kid a 5.5 3 star that didn’t exist as soon as the kid claimed a Bama offer on a fake Twitter account. Woody was on the VQ defending their position claiming this can happen from time to time but could never reconcile why some recruits are rated lower than a recruit that doesn’t exist. Just wanted to share with the masses the recruiting process at Rivals.

Sounds right. What was Woody saying?

 

[Cosmo Kramer]

Catfish recruit from Grace Christian Academy. Apparently rivals ranked a kid a 5.5 3 star that didn’t exist as soon as the kid claimed a Bama offer on a fake Twitter account. Woody was on the VQ defending their position claiming this can happen from time to time but could never reconcile why some recruits are rated lower than a recruit that doesn’t exist. Just wanted to share with the masses the recruiting process at Rivals.

Thats awesome whoever did that

 

[T Dog]

Rivals sucks donkey

 

[PoweredByTheT]

Catfish recruit from Grace Christian Academy. Apparently rivals ranked a kid a 5.5 3 star that didn’t exist as soon as the kid claimed a Bama offer on a fake Twitter account. Woody was on the VQ defending their position claiming this can happen from time to time but could never reconcile why some recruits are rated lower than a recruit that doesn’t exist. Just wanted to share with the masses the recruiting process at Rivals.

"These things happen from time to time"
- Rivals

 

[Volfansince1980]

Per Woody

Hey guys, I haven’t read all the responses here but this is obviously and unusual situation. The “kid” was on twitter claiming offers that didn’t exist and was given a 5.5 rating based on those early offers as a placeholder until we could see him in person or his film (which turned out to be non-existent) was updated.

Several non-Rivals sites even wrote articles on him receiving the offers and he was in the News-Sentinel as a Top 10 recruit in the area. We also had info in the database on him including a cell phone number and an email.

It’s not the first time a kid has made up offers and it won’t be the last.

 

[BigorangeBoy]

Per Woody

He's covering his a$$, he's probably the one that created the 3 star "placeholder" on this kid.

 

[gorockytop98]

Placeholder rankings have been a thing.

I still love that someone did this.

 

[crashnburn]

I'm really good friends with his family. Best player I've ever had the pleasure of watching. As long as Pruitt and Co. don't slow play him this kid is all Vol.

 

[T Dog]

I'm really good friends with his family. Best player I've ever had the pleasure of watching. As long as Pruitt and Co. don't slow play him this kid is all Vol.

I dont know what you just typed out ,cause I could not quit Staring at your avi.

 

[Devo182]

Strong offer list. Clearly underrated!

Just curious, how was this discovered?

 

[Type Orange+]

I coached him when he was younger. I know his family. He text me all the time. I have not seen him at the bball game, nor others.
ForkedDeer knows nothing, only I have inside info. I will update.

 

[the_great_pumpkin]

street cred

 

[butchna]

For all those that scoff when Rivals gets blowback from dropping 5 stars down to 4 AFTER the season? Rivals Woody blatantly tries to justify giving a NONEXISTENT kid 3 stars as a “placeholder” based on fake tweets!

 

[bicenTENNial]

Per Woody

Trying to be mr popular

 

[SmokeyDaBear]

This is so good. I hope they don’t let up on Rivals with this and it gets more national media attention. I want a Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel special on recruiting rankings and how they are made, effect they have and the disparity between services.

 

[jakez4ut]

Lol

 

[Bring_Back_Dooley]

Catfish recruit from Grace Christian Academy. Apparently rivals ranked a kid a 5.5 3 star that didn’t exist as soon as the kid claimed a Bama offer on a fake Twitter account. Woody was on the VQ defending their position claiming this can happen from time to time but could never reconcile why some recruits are rated lower than a recruit that doesn’t exist. Just wanted to share with the masses the recruiting process at Rivals.

Man, Orange Defense has been busy.

 

[W.TN.Orange Blood]

I dont know what you just typed out ,cause I could not quit Staring at your avi.

Lol.....it's an old picture used for avatars around here.....but still very effective non-the-less.

 

[Bring_Back_Dooley]

For all those that scoff when Rivals gets blowback from dropping 5 stars down to 4 AFTER the season? Rivals Woody blatantly tries to justify giving a NONEXISTENT kid 3 stars as a “placeholder” based on fake tweets!

And yet some posters on here take recruiting services’ rankings as gospel. P.T. Barnum is once again proven correct.

 

[SigNu_VolFan]

Just another lesson that recruiting services follow the lead of coaches that do this for a living, not the other way around.

Realize that when Jeremy Pruitt offers a 3-star recruit, there's a basis for that offer, and that basis isn't Rivals or 247sports. These guys truly don't know.

 

[butchna]

Just another lesson that recruiting services follow the lead of coaches that do this for a living, not the other way around.

Realize that when Jeremy Pruitt offers a 3-star recruit, there's a basis for that offer, and that basis isn't Rivals or 247sports. These guys truly don't know.

Preach! Have maintained that this coach knows what his kind of players LOOK LIKE and uses his own film. He does swing big at players who qualify and have a high number of stars FIRST...and then works his way down.

 

[Volsdeep4]

This is pure gold

 

[kamoshika]

FWIW, Blake Carringer really does exist and was listed as a 5-9, 220-lb offensive lineman on GCA's roster last fall:
TSSAAsports.com :: Home of the TSSAA Championships

247Sports also fell for it but they've pulled his profile; this is a cached copy:

 

[Nashvegas31]

Lol woody is such a joke. 2 star is a placeholder not 3. He saw a chance to try to get in with a Nashville kid that he thought had a Bama offer. Now he is caught in his games of overrating midstate kids