(06-08-2021 01:35 PM)7 Wrote: I realize this flies directly in the face of my last post, but is there a long list of guys who transfer up a level that go onto great success? Vernon Adams didn’t exactly pan out. We’ll see how King bounces back from his injury. I just don’t think these worries are based in any sort of fact.
I'm unable to figure out (quickly) how many P5 players were eligible for this past draft. I'm sure it changes yearly but is fairly steady.
I do know there are just over 5,600 P5 scholarships but obviously those players are not all draft eligible.
If went with a straight 25%, that would leave you with 1,402.5 players. Knowing not all 259 drafted players come from P5 but assuming everyone one did, that's still just 18.4% of P5 players.
No matter how you want to cut it up (its probably about 15% but maybe slightly lower), it's a terrible ratio.
As for a track record of guys moving up to P5 and then going on to NFL success. I'd say the list is really short, but that was also hampered by the more restrictive rules on transferring.
Also, I think someone here noted a few months ago that many players who transfer "up" don't get scholarships. They're just going because it's a P5 schools/experience.
How do you compete with that?
They're going somewhere where they don't have a scholarship and probably aren't making the NFL. But yet more and more of them go each year and now its easier than ever to make that move.
But why? Well, they're being persuaded by someone.
And that someone is doing it for their own benefit and it often doesn't work out well for the student.
Although, maybe they just want to play in a P5 stadium on a regular basis and that's it. I guess who am I to say you shouldn't even though you made a commitment?
