How to find football talent?

[smallcollegefbfan]

http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20090412/OPINION01/904119937/1103/SPORTS?Title=How-to-find-football-talent

[JohnStOnge]

What's interesting is that that formula does not work as well when you're talking about FCS. For instance: Maine has 8 players in the NFL and Hampton has 7 while Appalachian State has 5 and Richmond has 3.

You can browse that sort of thing at http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/college?letter=r .

[smallcollegefbfan]

What's interesting is that that formula does not work as well when you're talking about FCS. For instance: Maine has 8 players in the NFL and Hampton has 7 while Appalachian State has 5 and Richmond has 3.

You can browse that sort of thing at http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/college?letter=r .

Yeah you could clearly see his research was mostly looking at FBS schools. In FCS I think there is really no correlation as some teams simply win because they out coach others and some teams like Hampton and Maine have had a lot of NFL talent but possibly didn't have the coaching that ASU, Richmond, etc. have had. Then there is a team like Montana with 7 players in the NFL, which is among the highest, and they are a perennial powerhouse.