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Kentucky sending more of its blue chips to NFL than Alabama

levander

This is a paper from a few years ago. But it's entirely why I don't understand why so many kids sign up to play football at Alabama.

A lot lately, you'll hear in the media about how great Alabama is, because look at Reuben Foster! He only started one year in college at Alabama, and he went into the NFL. That story is just anedotal though. Why aren't more people looking at trends?

Has Bama gotten a higher percentage of its blue chips to go NFL in the last couple of years? Or is what this paper from a few years ago still accurate?

https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/esma/2013/04/24/want-to-get-drafted-in-the-nfl-go-to-kentucky-not-alabama/

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levander

Was reading about this a little more today. From a USA Today article:

"Plenty of Tide players have been swept from Tuscaloosa to the NFL lately. Since 2009, 41 Alabama players have been drafted, a figure equaled only by LSU during that span. "

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/draft/2015/02/25/alabama-players-nick-saban-transition-trent-richardson-julio-jones-eddie-lacy/23769345/

If I'm a college football recruit thinking about the NFL (which most of the better ones probably should be), that stat is going to make LSU look much more impressive than Alabama to me. Because Alabama is turning in much higher ranked recruiting classes than LSU. But LSU is getting just as many drafted.