OU v Troy

[MichaelWeston]

From ESPN

Ohio
ALL PLAYERS POS HT WT GRADE POS RANK OVR RANK
Dak Notestine DE 6'2" 248 30 41
Noah Keller ILB 6'0½" 222 30 42
Terrence McCrae WR 6'2½" 195 30 49
Ernest Hodge DT 6'0" 286 30 52
Lavon Brazill WR 5'10⅝" 186 30 56
Marcellis Williamson DT 5'11½" 331 30 59
Andrew Oxley DT 6'3½" 303 30 66
Stafford Gatling DE 6'2½" 234 30 68
Steven Jackson S 6'0" 190 30 69

Troy
ALL PLAYERS POS HT WT GRADE POS RANK OVR RANK
Jerrel Jernigan WR 5'9" 183 81 6 60
Dujuan Harris RB 5'7" 197 30 34
Mario Addison OLB 6'2" 237 30 36
Eugene Kinlaw DT 6'1" 288 30 82
Christopher Clark OG 6'1" 276 20 77

[AmishBengalFan]

So, essentially, OU has more guys to watch who won't get drafted (10) than Troy (4), even though Troy seems to have the only notable draft-worthy player (Jernigan, late 2nd/early 3rd)?

I know a bunch of folks love themselves some college football, but with 100+ programs with 70-80 players, 1/5th of whom are in their final season, you're looking at roughly 1500 draft-eligible kids. 256 get drafted, half of them don't make it out of camp, and half that do never see a pro game except as a spectator.

That's comes to approximately 0.6 players per college team that are good enough to actually get paid for it.

But in spite of the lack of skilled play, at least there's an honest, open, well-defined championship system in place, so at least the games are meaningful. (ha)

[MichaelWeston]

[quote name='AmishBengalFan' timestamp='1292735019' post='951768']
So, essentially, OU has more guys to watch who won't get drafted (10) than Troy (4), even though Troy seems to have the only notable draft-worthy player (Jernigan, late 2nd/early 3rd)?

I know a bunch of folks love themselves some college football, but with 100+ programs with 70-80 players, 1/5th of whom are in their final season, you're looking at roughly 1500 draft-eligible kids. 256 get drafted, half of them don't make it out of camp, and half that do never see a pro game except as a spectator.

That's comes to approximately 0.6 players per college team that are good enough to actually get paid for it.

But in spite of the lack of skilled play, at least there's an honest, open, well-defined championship system in place, so at least the games are meaningful. (ha)
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Way more than half of the draft make it out of camp. I would bet 75-80%

[Bengals1181]

At least Troy has a history of sending DE's to the NFL. They have 3 current, demarcus ware, osi umenyiora, and brandon lang (who broke most of the formers records).

They also tend to have speed at the WR position.