Are recruiting rankings SEC biased?

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Ranking recruiting classes is for the fans. It makes as much sense as rankings college teams before the season starts.
 
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droski said:
despite the NFL figures mentioned?
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It's not like the SEC has a shortage of NFL players... It may be bias, but I don't really care. There is no reason to be overly concerned about it, anyways..
 
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droski said:
despite the NFL figures mentioned?
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Well, the way I view it is that the discussion at hand is about recruiting rankings being biased, not rankings and their coorelation with the NFL draft.

College recruiting rankings basically rank kids in order on their ability to play the game at the collegiate level. If you look at the numbers, then outside of TX and Cal, the southeast obviously dominates that criteria.

NFL draft evaluators/talent scouts base their decisions upon the performance of the kids during their college careers. They could care less if a RB was a 5 star from Florida or a 2 star from Idaho. If the kid produces, then he goes to the NFL. With the sheer number of kids playing college ball and being drafted, the proportion of kids playing in the NFL that are in the southeast will be diminished by that fact, IMO.

If that makes sense.
 
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Why would anybody argue that there is at least some correlation between recruiting rankings and NFL draft grades?

Makes total sense to me, and I've had this feeling for a while now. I've more or less given up on reading rivals and scout for football recruiting.
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Hardwood_fanatic said:
Well, the way I view it is that the discussion at hand is about recruiting rankings being biased, not rankings and their coorelation with the NFL draft.

College recruiting rankings basically rank kids in order on their ability to play the game at the collegiate level. If you look at the numbers, then outside of TX and Cal, the southeast obviously dominates that criteria.

NFL draft evaluators/talent scouts base their decisions upon the performance of the kids during their college careers. They could care less if a RB was a 5 star from Florida or a 2 star from Idaho. If the kid produces, then he goes to the NFL. With the sheer number of kids playing college ball and being drafted, the proportion of kids playing in the NFL that are in the southeast will be diminished by that fact, IMO.

If that makes sense.
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i dont' see any evidence that SEC players are more ready to play early than west coast players. SC for instance relied on many freshman and sophmores from 2003-2004.
 
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droski said:
i dont' see any evidence that SEC players are more ready to play early than west coast players. SC for instance relied on many freshman and sophmores from 2003-2004.
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I don't either. I'm just saying that there are more of them, or at least there seem to be. Which in the end, is what creates the bias. Its kind of turned in to common place thinking. You go to Idaho to get potatoes, Lousiana to get gumbo and the Southeast to get football players.
 
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Hardwood_fanatic said:
I don't either. I'm just saying that there are more of them, or at least there seem to be. Which in the end, is what creates the bias. Its kind of turned in to common place thinking. You go to Idaho to get potatoes, Lousiana to get gumbo and the Southeast to get football players.
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I get what your saying and I agree with it.

It's one of those "Someone said it so it must be true" facts.
 
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Miamicane, what you think of your chances in the Shoe this year? I'll be there. Should be fun.
 
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tvolsfan said:
Miamicane, what you think of your chances in the Shoe this year? I'll be there. Should be fun.
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oh i feel good about the team chances of winning...the key is wether the o-line could protect jacory,so that he wont go all brett farve and throw 3 picks...should be an awesome game...its a shame it isnt a night game..and it isnt even national..the fsu vs oklahoma game got the national..
 
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miamicane said:
oh i feel good about the team chances of winning...the key is wether the o-line could protect jacory,so that he wont go all brett farve and throw 3 picks...should be an awesome game...its a shame it isnt a night game..and it isnt even national..the fsu vs oklahoma game got the national..
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I actually didn't know that. That's upsetting..
 
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Looking at who's winning national titles i'd say that biased is earned. As far as NFL ready players that's a crap shoot anyway. Guys come from nowhere and make good NFL players, entirely different level there. I pay more attention to who is recruiting a player than where they're ranked. Yeah Rivals is biased, they're based in Brentwood Tennessee. Scout just plain sucks.
 
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