Recruiting Forum: Football Talk XV

[JCP201]

Hate to bring this up but in light of the Heisman trophy award tonight, is there a bigger joke in college football than Charles Woodson winning the trophy over Manning?

No.

 

[turambar85]

Cooper got snubbed. IMO

No, no he really didn't. You can say that there is some case to be made for Cooper, but you absolutely cannot say that him losing to Mariota is a "snub".

 

[buffaloblue]

Stidham decommitted from Texas Tech

 

[BigVol80]

Stidham decommitted from Texas Tech

Is he also calling CBJ?

 

[buffaloblue]

Is he also calling CBJ?

No clue on that. Thats a big fish though back on the open market.

 

[volatil]

I am homesick

 

[unioncityvol]

I am homesick

Just had to have the fancy new job

 

[volatil]

Just had to have the fancy new job

Miss Knoxville

 

[DD4ME]

Scott
Hendrix
Helm

smdh

 

[turambar85]

Scott
Hendrix
Helm

smdh

Is there some extra bit of news, or are you just making sure that we don't go a full page without another repeat of negative rumors?

 

[SergeantVol]

Scott
Hendrix
Helm
Volatil

smdh

Fyp

 

[Vol knight]

Is there some extra bit of news, or are you just making sure that we don't go a full page without another repeat of negative rumors?

He's gotta make sure the negative agenda is up to date.

 

[Vols4us]

Hate to bring this up but in light of the Heisman trophy award tonight, is there a bigger joke in college football than Charles Woodson winning the trophy over Manning?

Made that award totally worthless in my mind.

 

[Dooby15]

Made that award totally worthless in my mind.

I was thinking the same watching it tonight. Just doesn't seem authentic.

 

[OldVol49vfl]

Made that award totally worthless in my mind.

They should change the name of it to the "ESPN Chris Fowler Sweetheart Player Award".
I almost threw up every time that moran started gushing over Woodson.

 

[SpringBokVol]

Peterman to Florida???

 

[butchna]

Cooper got snubbed. IMO

Best players don't always win.

 

[Vols4us]

I was thinking the same watching it tonight. Just doesn't seem authentic.

I agree. The award and some of the winners have been tainted so many times, not the least of which is the made for TV aspect of it with ESPN pulling the strings (as usual). That in no way disparages the three great players up for the award. It's all the rest of it.

 

[Wickman]

Peterman to Florida???

Please God be named starter

 

[Dooby15]

Peterman to Florida???

Think we could still find a way to lose that game with Peterman starting for Fla?

 

[RiotVol]

Now that the semester is over, I had some fun with running some regressions based on recruiting and actual wins/loss.

https://dshanemiller.wordpress.com/2014/12/14/yes-virginia-recruiting-stars-do-matter-2014-edition/

For those of you who don't want (or have time) to read, I used an average of the last four classes recruit rankings and ran that against Sagarin's rankings (which factors in strength of schedule).

Two-thirds of the variation in wins/losses can be predicted by recruiting success.

I then used the residuals to pick out the under- and over-achievers for this year.

Also, Tennessee's Sagarin Rank was 29, and recruiting average was 14.

 

[Glitch]

Miss Knoxville

2015 Miss Knoxville

 

[Tennessee Golfer]

Now that the semester is over, I had some fun with running some regressions based on recruiting and actual wins/loss.

https://dshanemiller.wordpress.com/2014/12/14/yes-virginia-recruiting-stars-do-matter-2014-edition/

For those of you who don't want (or have time) to read, I used an average of the last four classes recruit rankings and ran that against Sagarin's rankings (which factors in strength of schedule).

Two-thirds of the variation in wins/losses can be predicted by recruiting success.

I then used the residuals to pick out the under- and over-achievers for this year.

Very interesting. I can't believe your results though because Georgia is not on the underachievers list.

 

[RiotVol]

Very interesting. I can't believe your results though because Georgia is not on the underachievers list.

Georgia's Sagarin Rank is 7, their recruiting rank is 9.

 

[LittleCat]

Now that the semester is over, I had some fun with running some regressions based on recruiting and actual wins/loss.

https://dshanemiller.wordpress.com/2014/12/14/yes-virginia-recruiting-stars-do-matter-2014-edition/

For those of you who don't want (or have time) to read, I used an average of the last four classes recruit rankings and ran that against Sagarin's rankings (which factors in strength of schedule).

Two-thirds of the variation in wins/losses can be predicted by recruiting success.

I then used the residuals to pick out the under- and over-achievers for this year.

Also, Tennessee's Sagarin Rank was 29, and recruiting average was 14.

That's hella interesting bro. +1