Easy seems like something it isn’t.
Easy is relative. Like it's easier to be rich when your parents are rich or easier to get laid as the first guy at an all girls school. You still have to work. It's just when you're a blue blood, in a good recruiting area, with warmer temps, you get a free loss every year , you've got relatively low academic standards AND you get to sign 30 guys per year instead of 25 your job isn't as tough as others
I understand the having an advantage part. Compared to say, Iowa.
Those same “advantages” were there in 06 when people were calling Alabama a “terrible job that nobody wanted”.
The Alabama 2021 class has players from 11 states, including our traditional recruiting areas of Washington, Ohio, Michigan, and Maryland.
The “academic standards” part is laughable as well. He acts as though CFB players in other conferences routinely have 98th percentile SAT scores. Outside of a handful of elite schools, Alabama’s FB academic performance is comparable to or better than most.
He could just go to the 24/7 recruiting board and check which schools offered those same players, and he’d see that all those top recruits had offers from supposedly elite schools too. If Alabama is a second rate school that can only get these players because they couldn’t make it at the “good” schools, why are those schools giving them offers?
Maybe they sign at Alabama because they fear the rigor of Pitt, Michigan State, Kansas, and Oregon State
I don't like responding to my own post nor do I like "hijacking" a thread but since I'm new here with limited access and limited knowledge of board protocols I'm going to go for it and post anyway......
Sterling was great, but we weren't in the SEC when he was here. But Julio Jones or AJ Green would be good there.
It would be interesting to see how that played out on a longer timeline.
UF is 7-6 in SECCGs. All 6 losses have been against Bama.
Thx, though I was thinking more in the Saban era. Gators did beat Tide in the 2008 CG. But since then, they've lost 4 in a row. UGA is also 1-4 since '08. Those are the only two wins by the SECE in the last 13 tries.
Yeah, I don't think the recruiting area thing holds as much sway these days for the elite programs. Like I had always been under the impression that OSU pulled most of their recruits from in-state. But if you look at the last 4-5 years, it's run like 1/3rd-1/5th. In 2018, they had as many players from FL as OH. It's even more dramatic with Clemson, they don't even offer some 4 stars here in SC. It might even be that geographical spread among your 4/5 stars is an indicator of success.
Nice data scraping there, wherever you obtained it.
I'm a little hesitant to open my mouth and tell people where I got it. Everyone will realize that I need to get a life! I downloaded the game results from James Howell's website for every P5 team going back to 2000 (~15,000 games). Then sorted them to make sure I had both "halves" of every game. Then I down loaded the end of year rankings for each year from the Massey Composite Rankings, sorted them by conference and re-numbered them from 1 to 14 as described above. Then I had to match each yearly ranking with the games for that year and combine them so both teams had their corresponding conference ranking. Then, sorted out the out-of-conference P5 vs P5 games (2004 1/2 games). To check the data set I totaled up the conference ranking of opponent and the teams (they matched). I also checked the scores to make sure they matched as well.
Please post the scores of every game so we can fact check
