Jaelen Strong to ASU

[Larry]

LOL @ someone attempting to show South Florida doesn't produce the best NFL talent or the top college talent.

 

[Cans4life]

LOL @ someone attempting to show South Florida doesn't produce the best NFL talent or the top college talent.

Seriously. That was a DBC level post.

 

[NorthFlaCane]

How big of a sample size do we need for "95 times out of 100?"

*************************** There have been 8 WR's from South Florida selected in the last 4 NFL drafts. 2 WR's on average are picked who are from these 3 counties each year. Think any other area in the country comes this close? I imagine maybe the Houston area, but that's it. And my post didn't specifically mention WR's, but overall, so nice job completely missing the point.

Yeah, so if you're wondering why people have a "bias" for South Florida players, it's because they've proven time and time again to be really ******* good. And Stacey Coley is a monster. FWIW I think Strong is a beast and would love to have him here, but wondering why is there is a "South Florida bias" is because South Florida consistently produces great players who thrive at UM, and not just at WR, even though it clearly puts quite a few WR's into the NFL pipeline each year.

 

[NorthFlaCane]

LOL @ someone attempting to show South Florida doesn't produce the best NFL talent or the top college talent.

Seriously. That was a DBC level post.

You both missed the point. I'm not saying south Florida doesn't produce the best NFL talent, I'm saying that it's not as some insane proportion to other regions that coaches wouldn't even consider taking a kid from there. It's certainly not "95 times out of 100."

 

[Larry]

This map is a little dated...but it about sums it up...

 

[jerzeycane]

LOL @ someone attempting to show South Florida doesn't produce the best NFL talent or the top college talent.

Seriously. That was a DBC level post.

You both missed the point. I'm not saying south Florida doesn't produce the best NFL talent, I'm saying that it's not as some insane proportion to other regions that coaches wouldn't even consider taking a kid from there. It's certainly not "95 times out of 100."

Exactly...Don't try to move the goal posts when you already threw out some arbitrary number that you probably knew sounded ridiculous, but you thought was also somewhat passable. "95 out of 100" means that the NFL and NCAA would be littered with South Florida WR's only, but me and you both know that isn't true now don't we?

And who the **** concerns themselves with where a guy is from when evaluating him? Look at the tape, see if the competition is decent, and project his measurables. It's really that simple. Y'all act like being from South Florida makes you a better football player or something smh

 

[weownfsu]

LOL @ someone attempting to show South Florida doesn't produce the best NFL talent or the top college talent.

Seriously. That was a DBC level post.

You both missed the point. I'm not saying south Florida doesn't produce the best NFL talent, I'm saying that it's not as some insane proportion to other regions that coaches wouldn't even consider taking a kid from there. It's certainly not "95 times out of 100."

Exactly...Don't try to move the goal posts when you already threw out some arbitrary number that you probably knew sounded ridiculous, but you thought was also somewhat passable. "95 out of 100" means that the NFL and NCAA would be littered with South Florida WR's only, but me and you both know that isn't true now don't we?

And who the **** concerns themselves with where a guy is from when evaluating him? Look at the tape, see if the competition is decent, and project his measurables. It's really that simple. Y'all like being from South Florida makes you a better football player or something smh

:eekeyes:

And no, the 95 times out of a 100 thing means that South Florida players would be over-represented in the NFL for such a small geographical area compared against the rest of the entire friggin' country. Which it is.

 

[Spidercane]

Pete,

Can you give us a little updated info on where you believe Coley is leaning to at the moment.

I have read on other sites that he is a pretty strong lean to FSU and that he is considered a long shot.

This is the reason I was hoping for Strong. WR is a luxury this season anyway.

Also read that Cunningham will/may be the only WR in this class.

Don't want to see our boys have to try and cover Coley for the next 3 to 4 years.

Still a long way from signing day but this is what I have been reading.

 

[Larry]

This video focuses mostly on the South...but wait until they start talking about Faton Bauta.

http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_...outh-shift-more-even-distribution-decades-ago

 

[NorthFlaCane]

LOL @ someone attempting to show South Florida doesn't produce the best NFL talent or the top college talent.

Seriously. That was a DBC level post.

You both missed the point. I'm not saying south Florida doesn't produce the best NFL talent, I'm saying that it's not as some insane proportion to other regions that coaches wouldn't even consider taking a kid from there. It's certainly not "95 times out of 100."

Exactly...Don't try to move the goal posts when you already threw out some arbitrary number that you probably knew sounded ridiculous, but you thought was also somewhat passable. "95 out of 100" means that the NFL and NCAA would be littered with South Florida WR's only, but me and you both know that isn't true now don't we?

And who the **** concerns themselves with where a guy is from when evaluating him? Look at the tape, see if the competition is decent, and project his measurables. It's really that simple. Y'all like being from South Florida makes you a better football player or something smh

:eekeyes:

And no, the 95 times out of a 100 thing means that South Florida players would be over-represented in the NFL for such a small geographical area compared against the rest of the entire friggin' country. Which it is.

It's not over represented at anything close to a 95 times out of 100 clip. Looking at that chart, south Florida has the biggest bubble, then Houston and Dallas aren't insanely far behind. If south Florida players were better 95 times out of 100, the bubble would be enormous.

Anyway, the reason to pick Coley over Strong is because Coley is a freshman. If we were in the market for a JUCO wide receiver, I'd have no problem taking Strong.

 

[HurricaneinLA]

LOL @ someone attempting to show South Florida doesn't produce the best NFL talent or the top college talent.

The University of Miami's football program has set multiple records in producing players who go on to the National Football League. The Hurricanes hold the record for most players selected in the first round in a single draft (6, in 2004), most first-round draft picks in a two-year period (11, from 2003 to 2004), most first-round draft picks in a three-year period (15, from 2002 through 2004), and most first-round picks in a four-year period (19, from 2001 through 2004). For a 14-year period, from 1994 through 2008, Miami had at least one player selected in the first round of the NFL Draft. The Hurricanes once had a streak of 149 consecutive regular season weeks where a former Hurricane scored a touchdown in an NFL game; the streak started in Week 15 of the 2002 NFL regular season and ended in Week 11 of the 2011 season. During the streak, 33 different former Hurricanes scored touchdowns and a total of 661 touchdowns were scored. The Miami Hurricanes are also 10th overall on the NFL's all-time number of draft picks with 307.

As of the 2011 NFL season, UM had the most players active in the NFL of any university in the nation, with 42. From the 2001 Miami Hurricanes football team alone, 17 players went on to compete in the NFL.

 

[ThePorge]

As good as S Fla is, it is no where remotely close to 95 out of 100. It should be a good lesson for the poster who threw this insane number out there to slow down and do a little fact checking before constructing his/her argument. You just look silly if you don't. And hey, I'm not trying to be over critical here as I've done this myself. You just gotta bring yourself out and eat a lil humble pie on this one.

 

[jerzeycane]

Ain't no reason for stick measuring to see who is right or wrong on this. The number was outlandish and I think we should leave it at that.

Hopefully we do pull Coley. Really want a big time threat in this class.

 

[Cans4life]

Seriously. That was a DBC level post.

You both missed the point. I'm not saying south Florida doesn't produce the best NFL talent, I'm saying that it's not as some insane proportion to other regions that coaches wouldn't even consider taking a kid from there. It's certainly not "95 times out of 100."

Exactly...Don't try to move the goal posts when you already threw out some arbitrary number that you probably knew sounded ridiculous, but you thought was also somewhat passable. "95 out of 100" means that the NFL and NCAA would be littered with South Florida WR's only, but me and you both know that isn't true now don't we?

And who the **** concerns themselves with where a guy is from when evaluating him? Look at the tape, see if the competition is decent, and project his measurables. It's really that simple. Y'all like being from South Florida makes you a better football player or something smh

:eekeyes:

And no, the 95 times out of a 100 thing means that South Florida players would be over-represented in the NFL for such a small geographical area compared against the rest of the entire friggin' country. Which it is.

It's not over represented at anything close to a 95 times out of 100 clip. Looking at that chart, south Florida has the biggest bubble, then Houston and Dallas aren't insanely far behind. If south Florida players were better 95 times out of 100, the bubble would be enormous.

Anyway, the reason to pick Coley over Strong is because Coley is a freshman. If we were in the market for a JUCO wide receiver, I'd have no problem taking Strong.

I think the point is, all things being equal you take the So Fla kid over a recruit from another part of the country because you have more room for error.

 

[jerzeycane]

You both missed the point. I'm not saying south Florida doesn't produce the best NFL talent, I'm saying that it's not as some insane proportion to other regions that coaches wouldn't even consider taking a kid from there. It's certainly not "95 times out of 100."

Exactly...Don't try to move the goal posts when you already threw out some arbitrary number that you probably knew sounded ridiculous, but you thought was also somewhat passable. "95 out of 100" means that the NFL and NCAA would be littered with South Florida WR's only, but me and you both know that isn't true now don't we?

And who the **** concerns themselves with where a guy is from when evaluating him? Look at the tape, see if the competition is decent, and project his measurables. It's really that simple. Y'all like being from South Florida makes you a better football player or something smh

:eekeyes:

And no, the 95 times out of a 100 thing means that South Florida players would be over-represented in the NFL for such a small geographical area compared against the rest of the entire friggin' country. Which it is.

It's not over represented at anything close to a 95 times out of 100 clip. Looking at that chart, south Florida has the biggest bubble, then Houston and Dallas aren't insanely far behind. If south Florida players were better 95 times out of 100, the bubble would be enormous.

Anyway, the reason to pick Coley over Strong is because Coley is a freshman. If we were in the market for a JUCO wide receiver, I'd have no problem taking Strong.

I think the point is, all things being equal you take the So Fla kid over a recruit from another part of the country because you have more room for error.

And that's the other thing in this. "Either or" was never the question here, because they were recruiting both and getting both was a distinct possibility

 

[-Blazed-]

Florida players are overrated only when retards say this "A Florida 3* is a 5* anyone where else".

 

[OldhamA]

That's a shame. Good luck to him.

 

[eleganttomcat]

this is just such a questionable decision on his part.the dude would get so much SO MUCH more exposure down here in coral gables. lets see if big al wants him badly enough, cause if he does al has the ability to flip ****** like this.

 

[Larry]

Florida players are overrated only when retards say this "A Florida 3* is a 5* anyone where else".

If you knew why players were rated on the star scale on the sites, you'd know that could be incredibly true.

Couple that with the pure fact that SoFla speed and talent as a high schooler when translating to other parts of the country, you'd be silly to think a 3* wide out at say...Miramar...wouldn't be a ridiculously dominant wide out in say...Las Vegas showcasing the ability to be a 5* in an area of the country where he'd be able to dominate.

 

[DeadPoets]

We're upset about a JUCO WR from the west coast?

lol

We were happy about a JUCO TE from the West coast. why not be disappointed about losing a WR

Because WR isn't a need like TE. And because skill position athletes, like WRs, in South Florida are a dime a dozen. Would much rather a 4 year kid than a JUCO who may or may not beat out our top 3 returning Wide outs.