Thanks for the comments everyone. I guess for me I always try to play these games realistically, moreso as I get older(I'm much less of a metagamer than I used to be). In that vein, chance that a top school offers a scholarship to a player without a scouting trip playing a significant role in the evaluation: basically near zero. Therefore it's near zero for me.
I hope that rankings and stats aren't that determinative in the game, but if they are, that's my loss in the competitive sense I guess
. One of the reasons I love this league is that I feel minimal pressure to be supercompetitive.