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Talent difference between Oregon and Auburn
NOT THAT BIG...8 spots (the media makes it sound like Boise State versus USC)

Year Service Oregon Auburn
2007 Scout 9 6
2008 Scout 23 18
2009 Scout 26 16
2010 Scout 13 6
2007 Rivals 11 7
2008 Rivals 19 20
2009 Rivals 32 19
2010 Rivals 13 4
2007 ESPN 23 7
2008 ESPN 26 19
2009 ESPN 29 25
2010 ESPN 22 4

Average 21 13

It's a pretty big discrepancy if you ask me. Run the standard deviation on those rankings. Auburn has 6 top 10 rankings, Oregon has 1. Auburn has 2 top 5 rankings, Oregon has 0. 11/12 of Auburn's rankings are top 20, Oregon has only 4.

soduck wrote:Talent difference between Oregon and Auburn
NOT THAT BIG...8 spots (the media makes it sound like Boise State versus USC)

Year Service Oregon Auburn
2007 Scout 9 6
2008 Scout 23 18
2009 Scout 26 16
2010 Scout 13 6
2007 Rivals 11 7
2008 Rivals 19 20
2009 Rivals 32 19
2010 Rivals 13 4
2007 ESPN 23 7
2008 ESPN 26 19
2009 ESPN 29 25
2010 ESPN 22 4

Average 21 13

because of people leaving programs and what not what might be more informative is a listing of the rankings of each player still on each roster and playing this year (no redshirts) and their average rankings....if ya get a lot of extra time of your hands id love to see that...of course adding BSU or TCU may also be useful but even more effort...

bigfootlebowski wrote:

soduck wrote:Talent difference between Oregon and Auburn
NOT THAT BIG...8 spots (the media makes it sound like Boise State versus USC)

Year Service Oregon Auburn
2007 Scout 9 6
2008 Scout 23 18
2009 Scout 26 16
2010 Scout 13 6
2007 Rivals 11 7
2008 Rivals 19 20
2009 Rivals 32 19
2010 Rivals 13 4
2007 ESPN 23 7
2008 ESPN 26 19
2009 ESPN 29 25
2010 ESPN 22 4

Average 21 13

because of people leaving programs and what not what might be more informative is a listing of the rankings of each player still on each roster and playing this year (no redshirts) and their average rankings....if ya get a lot of extra time of your hands id love to see that...of course adding BSU or TCU may also be useful but even more effort...

Chip already did that with SC, I'm sure he's got the two deep numbers for Auburn already or someone is filling it out. Really, I could care less about these things. SEC teams are always going to have more "talented" players, but that hasn't helped the SEC head to head against the PAC

Since the recruiting services don't rank recruits based on how they play in the systems of either team, this is somewhat irrelevant.

Somehow, they would need to show that Auburn does a better job than Oregon at getting people to fit their system for this to really mean anything. That's not ever going to happen.

ncduck wrote:Since the recruiting services don't rank recruits based on how they play in the systems of either team, this is somewhat irrelevant.

Somehow, they would need to show that Auburn does a better job than Oregon at getting people to fit their system for this to really mean anything. That's not ever going to happen.

This and it assumes that these people know what they're doing in the rankings.

recruiting rankings might be correct that first year, but even those guys can't project a guy who grows 2 inches and 35 pounds one year and his body just matures. a lot of times the difference between the high ranking guys to the low ones is simply a developmental issue where one guy is more physically mature at 17 than another.

We have Cliff Harris. Game!