I also came across this Rivals site for the ranking of MN Recruits.....
http://rivals.yahoo.com/minnesotapr...s/rank-3156;_ylt=AgRj4lAfQedJ0NatX4oIWGYCSZB4
The thing about Scout is they rate prospects for immediate impact and down grade players that need to be developed. At the current state of our program we are signing a lot of development players. Scouts will always penalize us with their grading philosophy.
I am not sure about this but it wouldn't surprise me if the information vames compiles is used to create the rankings of MN Recruits. Maybe Vames could comment on this.
I have never been asked by Rivals to rank recruits for the state. I have been told it is reserved by "national" rivals analysts. As I have never seen a Rivals ranking of Minnesota recruits greater than 10 individuals, I don't there a whole lot of analysis that goes into the ranking process for Minnesota players.