[Husker] A case for recruiting rankings

[jon johnston]

So... in order to make it work, you'd stagger the recruiting years and  
the winning percentages, include more overachievers, and that'd be okay?

Jon Johnston
http://www.cornnation.com

On Jan 23, 2008, at 8:16 AM, Mike Jaixen wrote:

> It's so flawed it makes the whole article a
> meaningless exercise.  2007 recruits made minimal
> impact on those numbers, and 2002 results on the field
> had very little to do with these recruits.
>
> In addition, there's a certain chicken vs. the egg
> argument to be made here.  If you were to throw out a
> list of teams that were good in 2002, chances are that
> you would have included teams like Oklahoma, LSU,
> Florida, Michigan, and USC.  I think if I matched the
> 2002 ratings up against the 2007 ratings, I'd see
> nearly the same results of this survey.
>
> Especially when the author decides to exclude all of
> the examples that break his hypothesis.  (UConn,
> Hawai'i, and Boise State.)
>
> --- Theodore Heise <theo at heise.nu> wrote:
>
>
>> On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, jon johnston wrote:
>>
>>>
>>
> http://www.sundaymorningqb.com/story/2008/1/21/1614/43228
>>>
>>> The guy that writes this site, Matt Hinton, is
>> very very good.
>>> Here he makes a case for the recruiters' rankings
>> and does a
>>> pretty decent job of it.
>>
>> Not bad, but using recruiting rankings and BCS
>> winning percentage
>> from the same time period seems like a major flaw in
>> the method.
>>
>> -- 
>> Theodore (Ted) Heise     <theo at heise.nu>
>> Bloomington, IN, USA
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