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Schools Best and Worst at Developing 4 and 5 Star Talent

Knight Shift

Legend
May 19, 2011
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Behind a paywall, but available for $1/year.

Caveat- sample size is small, and spread is close for a lot of teams. Useful stats for spin.
Interesting stats-data from 2009-19 (RU probably would have done better if rankings did not include Flood/Ash years):

Clemson best at 5 star talent to NFL (85%)
Aggies next, but the Aggies underperform
Miami is up three- but the U underperforms
Alabama, Florida, Penn State, Ohio State next.

Worst at 5 star talent to NFL (percentages are low 27-38%):
Texas, Oklahoma, Auburn, Tennessee and Notre Dame


Four star talent best to NFL:
Baylor, Miami (again), LSU, Ohio State, Alabama, Notre Dame

Worst with Four Star Talent to NFL:

Nebraska (4.5%!!!)
Tennessee, Michigan State, Texas, Rutgers, A&M and Maryland on the list.
Rutgers sends 12.5% to NFL (3 of 24 players).
Georgia Tech

"Three-star prospects are more a test of a program’s ability to evaluate the huge amounts of players with that designation to find the ones who best fit their program."

Best Three Star to NFL (rankings are close):
Ohio State, LSU, Alabama, Florida . . .Penn State, . . . Wisconsin

Worst Three Star to NFL:
Kansas, Iowa State, Colorado, Duke, ... Syracuse, Northwester, ... Purdue

"Wisconsin signed 51 more three-star prospects than any other team on this list yet still had a 14.5 percent conversion rate. Perhaps that’s why the Badgers had been a main fixture in the Big Ten Championship Game for much of the past decade."

By Conference, Best Draft prospects for All Groups:
ACC, B1G, SEC, PAC12, Big 12 (last by far)

Boston College ranked best "Developmental U"

 
Wow, there's a lot interesting stuff there, in your excerpts alone...
Maryland and Rutgers in similar places with 4 stars. Rutgers has had better luck developing lower rated 2 and 3 star players than with 4 or 5 star players. OTOH, from afar, it seems Maryland has done fairly well recently with 4 star talent?

But wondering what the heck went into the rating of Roman Hemby, who was rated a 2 star.
 
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