This is an interesting study from ESPN. In the period they studied, Miami actually had the highest percentage of Top 300 recruits who made the NFL. Miami also had the lowest amount of transfers. Where they struggled was All-Americans (which can be partly attributed to bad coaching) and first round, impact-type talent.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/insider/story/_/id/30101888/which-college-football-teams-do-least-most-recruiting i won't copy and paste the whole thing, but here's some of the more interesting data: NFL draft selections ESPN 300 commitments from the 2015 to 2017 classes who were...
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I saw this thread and something didn’t make sense. The pct% of ESPN 300 players recruited vs. drafted didn’t make sense. That’s not true, unless we’re counting attrition. If we’re counting attrition, then this pct is not impressive, D.
2015 class:
6 ESPN 300 (St Louis, Walton, Norton, Milo, Jaquan, Charles Perry)
-Walton, Norton, JJ were drafted. St Louis was a UDFA
2016 class:
10 ESPN 300 (Allison, Mullins, Bruce, Quarterman, MCCLOUD, Bethel, Homer, Finley, Richards, Joe Jackson)
-Shaq, Homer, and Jackson were drafted.
2017 class:
8 ESPN 300 (J. Thomas, N. Perry, Donaldson, Herbert, Burns, Dallas, Bandy, Garvin)
-Deejay & Garvin were drafted
So it’s actually 8 guys who were drafted out of a possible 24 ESPN 300 players we’ve recruited during this time (33.3%). If we remove Perry, Donaldson, Herbert, & Burns (b/c they are still on roster), and remove Perry, Allison, Mullins, Bruce (due to attrition), that would put us at only 16 draft-able ESPN 300 players w/in that time frame.
So our “pool” is much smaller; therefore, the pct is deceivingly high, IF we take attrition into consideration. Also, when we look at it from a draft standpoint, none of our guys were drafted before the 4th round. That’s alarming!
Now, if we compare that to Bama who had 58 ESPN 300 during this span, UGA (47), LSU (44), USC (43), OSU (41), FSU (40), Auburn (27), UTK (26), & OU (20), not only have these teams not had the attrition as us, but they’ve had a bigger quantity of ESPN 300 players, & more 1st - 2nd round picks than us during time.
These pct will also increase for majority of these programs b/c there are many members from the class of ‘17 that will be drafted. There is not any remaining from our class of ‘17 that have a shot of being drafted.
So I’m not sure we should necessarily use that graphic as a means or guideline regarding player development here.