Some Recruiting week odds & Ends

The Springfield Republican had this article Tuesday about UMass Football recruiting.

UMass' 2008 BCS game Texas Tech will be playing two FCS/I-A opponents this year. Tulsa bought out a game with the Red Raiders. So Texas Tech has added Eastern Washington as their opening opponent.
Stories here and here .

This article states that the recruit ranking services (Rivals, Scout.com) are wrong as often as they are right.

Meanwhile, economists at the prestigious Stetson school of business have created a software model that is able to pick a recruit's school choice with a 75% accuracy.

BTW, the nation's top recruit, Terrelle Pryor is still available-----can we text him?

The next time you see UMass AD John McCutcheon, ask him why Coach Brown does not have a helicopter...