[NU Sports] Experience

[Sportsbiz]

I was reviewing a wagering publication packed with information from Phil
Steele's bible of pre-season football and came across a chart of the
experience levels of all 120 Division I-A schools (yea, I know there's a new
PC term for it but I refuse to use it). NU is number 2 on the chart behind
only SMU.  We were given 86.3 "experience points" on a 100 point scale, but
there was no explanation on how the points were calculated. SMU got 90.5.

The other numbers listed, and we have discussed some of these:  16 senior
starters returning; 80% of lettermen returning; 89% of yards (gained, I
assume)returning; 72% of tackles returning; 137 Oline career starts
returning.

By comparison and since y'all know I follow Louisville - it ranked 119,one
below Iowa,  with an experience point score of 36.7, 8 senior starters,
60.7% of lettermen, 29% of yards; 63% of tackles and 15 tackles.  Auburn
ranked 120.  Boston College was 59.

Our conference brethren ranked as follows:Pur. 14; Mich. 19; Penn St. 46;
MSU 60; OSU 66; Ill. 75; Minn 79; UNL 81; Ind. 103; Iowa 118.

Not sure how meaningful this is in the overall scheme of things but I would
rather be where we are then where everybody else in the conference is
experience wise.
Mark

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