Lets talk big block con rods..

"There are many many brands, but most are coming from the same place"

This is my point. They are all offshore castings. Some are finished offshore, some are finished offshore and inspected here, some are finished and inspected here.
The Eagle issues I know of are the small block SIR I beams. Which, after a couple years, they seemed to have worked the bugs out of. Pretty much everything else H-beam imported is the same stuff, possibly finished differently. It's the final machining/finish quality that suffers (and varies even peice to peice) the most with them. If you want I beams, spend the money on something good. Otherwise the average H beam would be fine, so long as the ends are sized properly.