JeepinBen

November 6th, 2015 at 4:51 PM ^

And when you realize where average intellegence is you realize that 50% of people are dumber than that.

Also, twitter commentators probably are not average. They're likely at least educated through 8th grade and at least decently well off to be on the internet. If we're talking global, probably in the top 30% of education and income, easily.

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mgobaran

November 6th, 2015 at 3:38 PM ^

A little over a quarter of those guys played for the Niners. I would expect that inflates the numbers a tad, but not by much. 

Awesome infographic!

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LJ

November 6th, 2015 at 3:43 PM ^

He's not counting guys that he coached in SF but did not sign.  This is basically a list of all of the players he signed at Stanford who eventually made the league, against the total number of guys he signed at Stanford.  

It also throws in the few San Diego players who made the league, though I don't think that school offered any athletic scholarships.

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Whole Milk

November 6th, 2015 at 3:41 PM ^

I'm struggling to figure out the numbers here. Even though FCS only allows 62 scholarship players, Harbaugh must have had much more than 106 shcolarship players in his 7 years of college coaching right? Where is the cutoff in that number?

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Whole Milk

November 6th, 2015 at 4:00 PM ^

Thanks for the clarification. Not that turning 4 walk-on FCS level players into NFL caliber players isn't impressive (it's actually more so), wouldn't that make the statistic 54 out of 108 scholorship players made the NFL? Still very impressive regardless.

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joeyb

November 6th, 2015 at 6:03 PM ^

I don't think that's true.  For example, from what I can tell, Richard Sherman joined the team in 2006 while Harbaugh didn't join until 2007. There's not a great way to define this because you can't just look at those he coached or else it skews it out of his favor. It's also unfair to count the guys that he recruited but never coached.

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noahtahl

November 6th, 2015 at 3:42 PM ^

Trying to make sense of the numbers. In 6 years as head coach he only recruited 106 players? Maybe small classes in first and last class? Please enlighten me.

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UMProud

November 6th, 2015 at 4:14 PM ^

I keep saying this ... Michigan is the new NFLU.  It's only year 1 but it'll ramp up really freaking fast.  Top recruits who want to make millions will stand in line to play for a chance to play for Michigan's Jim Harbaugh.  Welcome to the hoover vacuum cleaner of talent years.

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PopeLando

November 6th, 2015 at 4:06 PM ^

Statistics, man. Whenever somebody wants to know some stats, my first question is, "what do you want them to show?" He's playing with the denominator here. But regardless, this is impressive.

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FidelioHorelick

November 6th, 2015 at 4:10 PM ^

committing to coaches and not the school philosphy, one that I agree with. I have read a lot of posters say it is all about committing to the school and no one should commit to a coach. Harbaugh disagrees!

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Wolverine fan …

November 6th, 2015 at 4:58 PM ^

This is the type of thing you can show a hater/doubter, and all they can do is shrug and shake their head. Many more wins yet to come for JH. Many more players to mold and send to the NFL. This year is just a preview, and it's been a pretty good one.  

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HailChicago

November 6th, 2015 at 5:46 PM ^

Have the same question. Confident the overwhelming majority did not touch a NFL field (esp bc I don't recognize many names past the first 10).

It's impressive regardless (truly), but if we are talking about training camp invites and practice, then even Hoke and RR's lists will be pretty long too (obviously lacking the top end NFL success though).



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Gr1mlock

November 6th, 2015 at 5:39 PM ^

Well.   That seems like the kind of statistic that could be tactically used in recruiting.  I'd be curious to see what the "gets drafted in the NFL" rate is for other elite coaches.

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Finance-PhD

November 7th, 2015 at 8:20 AM ^

Not sure the rate but one can do the work. I looked and Alabama made one in 2013 and Saban had 111 players drafted but they included guys like Sherman that were at the school before he got there. So he coached or recruited 111 draftees but then you figure about 25 guys a year for eight years and we are already at 200 at Bama.

He naturally gave scholarships at MSU and LSU but that is dangerously like work which is a topic I avoid.

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