Half of top 100 SEC?

[LikeMike]

Last I looked 56% of Rivals top National 100 hale from SEC prime recruiting territory ( if you include Virginia and N.C. with the states where SEC schools are located). Only 12% come from Texas.

Are the recruiting services now owned by the SEC as well? OR, is this an exceptional year?

 

[22 HORN]

.....I scanned and note 20 are from Fla, 13 from Tx and another 27 from other SEC states.....key to this appears to be Florida and to a lesser degree GA.....take Fla away and the % in other SeC territorial states is 27%, now take away GA and it drops to 19%. SEC covers a large portion of the USA....

 

[mcbrett]

This factoid would be really scary if recruiting rankings translated to actual performance on the field.

 

[charloscarlies]

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[mcbrett]

Charlos-

I appreciate your post and the time you put into it- but I think it also proves my point. Look at these BCS champs with recruiting classes ranked 8, 10, 12 etc- that implies around 10 teams with higher ranked classes that didn't win the championship 4 years later, nor finish higher despite the higher recruit rankings.

There are just too many variables in an athlete, some having nothing to do with football abilities (grades, crimes, family issues, injuries) that make these rankings- not that relevant.

Every so often you get a guy like Adrian Peterson, Ced Benson who appear to be leagues above everyone else during high school- but, the fact that they are both playing well in the NFL is in part due to luck and circumstance. One bad injury, or say 4 bad classes- and they were irrelevant in college.

And lastly, we could get into the coaching vs. talent debate- and what good coaching can do for you in the college game. A well coached 4 star team beats a poorly coached 5 star team- most of the time.

So, I take this with a humongous grain of salt, and call it the Perriloux factor.

 

[JohnnyYuma]

Don't forget about all the JUCO's the SEC teams bring in that aren't really considered in the rankings.

 

[charloscarlies]

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