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More fuel for the fire

I didn't make these, just sharing what is in that article which is definitely not scientific. It also has the issue that it is comparing recruiting results to win results for the same years where in reality the correlation would likely be delayed (ex: the wins in 2015 probably have little to...

Kind of crazy that Clemson won 2 more games than we even played over that time period. Also surprised to see that over the time period we had the 20th most wins of any team and that included the year we lost 58-0 to Clemson (2015), a year we went 7-6 (2018) and we lost at least 3 games every...

Updated the chart for what I am pretty sure is Miami (17th in recruiting with 34 wins) and although we appear to have slightly overachieved in the ACC, we seem to have underachieved overall which seems more in line with our expectations (still better than FSU though!).

This article has some good research on it and the graphs below show there are definitely outliers, but the overall trend is the better you do in recruiting the more wins you get. Of course when you have good recruiters who are terrible coaches (and vice versa), things can get skewed...

Agreed - this is cherry picking busts which of course happen frequently, but if you are consistently landing top ranked players you have a better chance of having better talent overall than teams that don't consistently get top rated players.