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The profile pages look tremendous. Very comprehensive and clean. 247 is going a great job.

No problem.

Some things I would like to eventually see...

Camp Highlights: Josh Smith is a guy we all know very little about. I'd like to see highlights of him particularly how he burned Brandon Langley at Tennessee's camp twice. I think Tennessee's camps are closed to the public, so we won't ever get that video, but a lot of players are ranked higher because of there performances at these camps.

Staff Analysis: It'd be cool if there was a 30 second video of somebody from the 247 staff explaining the players strengths and weaknesses.

Location: This is something that would give the reader a better feel for why a player chose a certain school. For example, Reuben Foster. He is from Georgia, played his HS football there (up until this year). Not all of us know his HS is 30 minutes from Auburn. I think if you guys could fit like distance from their HS to the school interested would be helpful

Recruits HS schedule: If we live in the area and want to see where so and so is playing it would be cool to click on their profile and see where they are playing that Friday Night. Game result and stats would be cool to but that may be harder to get.

I will come up w/ other ideas but I think these in some way or form would be beneficial.

question OT... people get on here and say things like "why did I get downvoted there?"... Well despite being on here as long as I have... I can read my score overall and see the 5 stars or whatever.. but I don't know how to look at how many downvotes or upvotes I get and I cannot tell when someone downvotes me or whatever... where do I look for that?

You can see the overall ratings for your posts (0, +1, -1, etc.) in the bottom right corner of your posts where the upvote and downvote buttons are. In terms of your overall rating and total number of downvotes, I don't believe you can find that number — at least not to my knowledge — but your overall rating, depending on your total number of "votes" (which you can see by dragging your mouse across your star rating), can take a hit from one downvote sometimes. If you have a lot of votes, though, one downvote (and one upvote) is not likely to make a big difference in your overall rating.

Maybe have when you expect the prospect to be reevaluated (best guess/ forecast) . Does it date when the prospect was rated too?

Ex: specific game or camp date etc. It can always be updated etc. as things change like seeing him early or if a player does not make a camp etc.

Thats right..........maybe a future eval. forecast like a game or camp that is expected. Just a thought.

40 times and an academics meter, ie what's their chance of being eligible.

Maybe when you click on the coaches name in the player profile (who is recruiting the player) a list of the players the coach is recruiting for 2013 is displayed/listed plus former years could be searched to see who he landed/ recruited.

to the board! Happy to have you here. Please post often!

As a matter of fact, we already have pretty much the exact function you described. I'm sure there are still some features we'll add to the page, but right now, if you click on a coach's name, you can see his coach profile, which includes a list of his top current top targets.