If you watched the movie Moneyball, do you think there is a way to apply this to college football recruiting? Nearly everybody in Major League Baseball thought General Manager of the Oakland A's, Billy Beane was crazy. He realized the A's could not compete against most teams if they did things the same way the other teams did. This is the same situation South Carolina faces in the SEC. Beane ignored the long time tried, and trusted methods of player evaluation. He took a different road in building the A's 2001 roster. This low budget team won 103 games, and set a baseball record with 21 consecutive wins.
In college football there is a gold mine of overlooked talent for any P5 school if the coach could identify them. These are the players that are ignored by all P5 teams. These players received two stars from Rivals recruit rankings. They mostly are on the rosters of G5 teams. If a P5 coaching staff could accurately evaluate these overlooked players they could build a team capable of winning it all. If you doubt this, go look at the 2021 NFL draft. Every round of the draft has some of these players. Three of these players were taken in the first round. Trey Lance was the number 3 player picked. He played quarterback at North Dakota State. Think about that a moment. A player that did not get a P5 offer was drafted ahead of all the 5 and 4 star quarterbacks in his high school graduation class. The two players picked ahead of him were quarterbacks, but they were not in his high school class. There are players like this at nearly every position. They never received a P5 offer, but the NFL said we will take them.
In college football there is a gold mine of overlooked talent for any P5 school if the coach could identify them. These are the players that are ignored by all P5 teams. These players received two stars from Rivals recruit rankings. They mostly are on the rosters of G5 teams. If a P5 coaching staff could accurately evaluate these overlooked players they could build a team capable of winning it all. If you doubt this, go look at the 2021 NFL draft. Every round of the draft has some of these players. Three of these players were taken in the first round. Trey Lance was the number 3 player picked. He played quarterback at North Dakota State. Think about that a moment. A player that did not get a P5 offer was drafted ahead of all the 5 and 4 star quarterbacks in his high school graduation class. The two players picked ahead of him were quarterbacks, but they were not in his high school class. There are players like this at nearly every position. They never received a P5 offer, but the NFL said we will take them.
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