OT: 2011 UA-LSU game had 28 NFL defensive players (10 in1st rd)
Michigan has had thirteen defensive players drafted since 2006, and two in the first round.
Alabama does half that in a single draft...incredible.
Only 12. Mouton was redshirted in 2006.
And for our numbers with OSU. It was 5 defensive players in the first round with 25 total.
If you want to look at the entire draft together we accounted for 10 players in the first and 43 all rounds if my math is correct.
I wasn't counting how many had played in the game. We have thirteen defensive players drafted total since 2006.
but when I think about how that game turned out, I guess I'm not too surprised. No doubt, those two teams were loaded.
From time to time our fans state that the SEC is noit really the top conference, and unfortunately, they are wrong.
Right, blame the media. You don't see fans talking about conference superiority all the time in forums. Ya know, like your 2 posts in this thread...
There's no denying the SEC is better than the B1G, but I don't really care. I'm more concerned about Michigan. I believe Stewart Mandel correctly pointed out that people didn't really talk about which conference is the best until the BCS started.
Exactly, ESPN owns SEC and Longhorns Network so they tend to hype up all of that just for money purposes.
Just like Fox Sports is a lot more B1G friendly just becuase they own BTN.
How many bagmen between those two teams?
I was working on these figures for an upcoming diary, but in the last three drafts, 154 SEC players have been drafted regardless of position, but it is definitely interesting to note that nearly 20% of them played at some juncture in a single game in 2011. That's something I would definitely say does not happen very often.
Talent can only get you so far by itself. If you don't have superb coaching, good luck getting anywhere.
All the more reason to hope for NCAA rule changes to allow players to be paid.
It is hard enough to compete with the southern teams in recruiting because of the weather. The fact that they have a culture of acceptance about paying players under the table makes it even harder.
Some NCAA rule changes and a little Global Warming could level the playing field a little bit.
This reenforces recruiting rankings. LSU, Alabama, and FSU have been killing it on the recruiting trail. We need to get back to where our 2012 and 2013 classes were if we want to catch up.
All those teams also have those great recruiting classes combined with experience and great coaching. While the aging part of those great classes will happen as long as RR like attrition doesn't come along again, the coaching part...well, we'll see.
That's what I'd like to know. LSU had back-to-back top 5 picks with JaMarcus Russell and Glenn Dorsey, but I seriously doubt they're bragging about those
And half that team was still playing a decade later. '97 was legit.
Both coaching and recruiting count. You can't win a natty without recruiting a top 10 class (nobody's done it yet), but you also need a good coach. Notre Dame has had great classes and hasn't done anything. Same with Texas.
Texas did something, right? Or did they do it with a weaker class. I honestly don't know.
They did it with one special guy in Vince Young, the same way Auburn did it with Cam Newton.
Problem is, that's not a replicatable strategy. Those guys are so damn hard to find.
The SEC has elite talent to waste, and they do.
If I'm an FCS school like Deleware, I'd make a living by just hanging around SEC schools like Alabama and LSU and sweet talking all those elite recruits they oversigned into signing up with me and playing right away as soon as it becomes clear that they've been abandoned.
There's dozens of these guys every year that need a home, and they're still NFL caliber.
They pretty much live off of depth-chart buried athletes from elite schools.