I'm sure (and hope) there are different scouting structures for real programs vs the retail sites, my only qualm is why the asst player personnel guy had to come out and fib about knowing about this kid's ranking on the retail sites. It's disingenuous to act like they didn't know the kid was rated where he is on the retail sites. With that said, you're right it really doesn't matter - I guess I just find it interesting that the player personnel staff must feel a little bit nervous about fan reaction for taking a guy rated low on the retail sites (enough so that he would come out publicly on twitter with a fib about not knowing about the guy's rating). If it were me in his shoes, and I felt the need to come out publicly about this situation, I would have said "The player personnel staff feels like we got a real steal with Means based on where the retail sites have him graded, as our scouting evaluation put him very very high on our board and we're thrilled we landed him." That's a much better narrative than pretending like you never look at the retail sites -- I think that makes them look lazy. JMO.
In any event, I'm real excited about this kid.
