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What do the NFL draft numbers tell you about evaluations?

How about recruiting rankings? You refuse to accept those, either. If your only measure of talent is W/L record, it’s a skin-deep analysis with no insight as to whether a team is underachieving or overachieving. My position is that we’ve underachieved beyond belief. I post a new stat every...

How does that 2008-2015 group compare to the rest of the nation? And why is your cutoff 2008? The teams from 2005-2007 were mediocre to terrible. The only stats that matter are the stats that measure us relative to the rest of the nation. And those stats all come out the same, whether it's...

Just posting stats, my man. They tend to be more effective than GIFs. Every month there is a new stat with the same result: the top NFL producing teams are the most successful programs, plus Miami. Then the usual suspects come here and try to explain it away. Rinse, repeat. Agreed. So when...

They use every year from 2002 to 2017. It is a 15-year-study. Miami only finished Top 10 on the field in three of those 15 years (20%). Also, while those early 00s players help, they don’t disproportionately impact the “overperformance” metric because they were already high picks.

Here is a long-term study (15 years) finding that Miami players overproduce their draft position more than any other school in the country by an enormous margin. It begins in 2002, so it catches the tail end of our run. But we've been bad on the field for the majority of the study...

It's not development. It's deployment. We don't put our talent in position to succeed. As a result, our teams perform below their talent and our players get drafted below their talent. That's why they stick around and get paid in the pros. Everything becomes relatively equal, so their ability...

Yep. The most important positions in football are the passer and the pass-rusher. We have the latter in spades. Need the triggerman.

I don’t focus on All-Pro teams because All-Pros are rare. That’s why they are All-Pros. Toledo and Cincinnati randomly had two this year. Only three teams had more. It’s a small sample and a poor measure of overall talent. NFL players drafted over the past five years is a much larger sample...

Yes, if we want to win a national championship. In the interim, we should avoid getting shut out by Louisiana Tech with talent like this:

ESPNU replayed the CFP title game with Mike Gundy, Gary Patterson, Derek Mason and Jeff Hadley (BC coach and former OSU DC) on commentary. They were watching the game live and the conversation had a ton of insight into how big-time coaches see the game. As a Canes fan, one aspect jumped out to...