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Football recruiting success vs. on-field results.

Nate Silver’s website has an article by Stephen Pettigrew about how college football teams fared as compared to the quality of their recruits. Graphs cover 64 teams for 2014 and 2005-14 are presented.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/after-signing-day-wisconsin-makes-the-best-of-its-recruits/

Michigan State and Wisconsin are the best B1G teams in 2014, 5th and 6th respectively. Over the last 10 years, Wisconsin is #!, and the only other B1G team in the top 10 is Northwester at #9.

Purdue? In 2014 we’re at #61 and over 10 years we’re at #57.

The last paragraph: "If your team is a perennial overachiever and has an unusually strong recruiting class this year, perhaps expect big things in the next few years. If you’re a fan of an underachieving team, don’t get too excited just yet about a strong recruiting class. It hasn’t done much good in the recent past."

Is this the result of good coaching for the above-average teams? Is this study just bogus?



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