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Date Posted: 10/13/15 8:30:08am Tue
Author: gatefan
Subject: Re: Football Coaching Complaints
In reply to: Kinney 's message, "Re: Football Coaching Complaints" on 10/13/15 8:21:08am Tue

There are a few hundred football
>players each year who are recruited by D1 programs and
>have the academic credentials to attend Patriot League
>schools

there are aprox 1.1 million hs players if we say 25% are seniors that leaves 275,000. from that there are only a few hundred available to recruit?????? where did you get that from??

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[> [> [> [> Re: Football Coaching Complaints -- Kinney, 10/13/15 11:12:24am Tue

>there are aprox 1.1 million hs players if we say 25%
>are seniors that leaves 275,000. from that there are
>only a few hundred available to recruit?????? where
>did you get that from??

There are 125 FCS programs. Figure 30 players each incoming each year. 30*125 = 3,750 football players a year going to FCS schools.

At best, and this is an exaggeration, 20% of those 3,750 are academically suited to most Patriot League schools, the Ivys, etc. That leaves 750 student-athletes land-able by FCS schools and academically qualified to attend Colgate.

Of course we don't just need a random 30 of these 750, as within any given year, we need certain positions and skill types. You might expect that of the 750 to choose from, there is not an even distribution by position / skill type.

And, of course, these guys can go to many other FCS schools, and UNH isn't going to turn down a great player just because they are smart enough to go to Colgate.

It really is hundreds of players we are discussing.

You can, all you want, argue Colgate should change its admission criteria to run a more competitive FCS football program. But until we do, the conjunction of great student as measured by the AI and great FCS football athlete limits one to a small subset of men.


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[> [> [> [> [> Re: Football Coaching Complaints -- gatefan, 10/13/15 2:41:08pm Tue

>>there are aprox 1.1 million hs players if we say 25%
>>are seniors that leaves 275,000. from that there are
>>only a few hundred available to recruit?????? where
>>did you get that from??
>
>There are 125 FCS programs. Figure 30 players each
>incoming each year. 30*125 = 3,750 football players a
>year going to FCS schools.
>
>At best, and this is an exaggeration, 20% of those
>3,750 are academically suited to most Patriot League
>schools, the Ivys, etc. That leaves 750
>student-athletes land-able by FCS schools and
>academically qualified to attend Colgate.
>
>Of course we don't just need a random 30 of these 750,
>as within any given year, we need certain positions
>and skill types. You might expect that of the 750 to
>choose from, there is not an even distribution by
>position / skill type.
>
>And, of course, these guys can go to many other FCS
>schools, and UNH isn't going to turn down a great
>player just because they are smart enough to go to
>Colgate.
>
>It really is hundreds of players we are discussing.
>
>You can, all you want, argue Colgate should change its
>admission criteria to run a more competitive FCS
>football program. But until we do, the conjunction of
>great student as measured by the AI and great FCS
>football athlete limits one to a small subset of men.

so that math works 750 is "a lot more" than a few hundred though! and I would not advocate for lowering the AI !!


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