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Post by fantom on Apr 27, 2011 16:33:42 GMT -6
Here's a link to an article about recruiting rankings collegefootballmatrix.wordpress.com/articles-2/the-bestworst-of-recruiting-developing-nfl-draft-picks/It compares the average recruiting rankings of schools to the number of players who were drafted. The danger here is that fans will see it as an indictment of the coaches at the "underperforming" schools. That could be an explanation in some cases but not the most important. NFL teams don't care about a college team's W/L record. They only care about talent. To me that means that it's an indictment of recruiting rankings.
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Post by coachd5085 on Apr 27, 2011 16:44:55 GMT -6
I was just posting that as well.
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Post by fantom on Apr 27, 2011 16:56:59 GMT -6
I was just posting that as well. This is also a problem for HS coaches. Parents and fans see these rankings and hold them as gospel. They wonder why their "3 star" player isn't getting tons of offers and assume it's because we're not doing our jobs.
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Post by coachd5085 on Apr 27, 2011 23:51:50 GMT -6
I feel bad for Mark Richt at UGA. According to that data, He is the one 'not getting it done". The rest of the top 8 or so recruiting schools are either bring home some hardware OR have just cleaned house recently anyway.
I agree with you fantom, because of the way the numbers fall out on top (with USC, miami, alabama, OSU, FLA etc. all showing closely related Recruiting rankings and Draft Rankings) people will justify the recruiting rankings and therefore I believe this info will be used to judge "coaching" rather than recruiting rankings. I doubt the avg crapstiring message board fan will really dig deep into the data, or realize its flaws (ex. Jamarcus Russell.. probably high on recruiting list and helped bolster LSU's national ranking..underachieved at LSU, then he became the #1 pick, and underachieved --polite term-- in the NFL)
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