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Miami already has 18 commits for 2016

The NCAA botched the last investigation so badly it has emboldened the boosters to double their efforts. Verbal commit before spring practice and receive your choice, free boat, free car, or a year supply of hookers and blow.
 
Miami has does this since I've been following them (1991). As soon as the 'Canes get their scholarships back, they start out-recruiting FSU and UF. Then it usually takes 5 - 7 years before they get in trouble again, ride out the restrictions. Repeat. Boats and 'hos are powerful recruiting tools.
 
Miami can't afford another lackluster season from Golden, already quite a few recruits this past class flipped on them.
 
Florida State will flip several. Seminoles have absolutely owned Miami in their backyard.
 
Yeah that is a tough position for Miami in state right now with FSU being good. Florida almost always recruits well and FSU has been on fire (number on class this year on star rating I think).
 
CU's scandal probably exposed ideologies as much as it shifted them. Some disdain for athletics among faculty isn't unique to Boulder, how leadership balances academic and athletic priorities is what's important - that's where the Buffs got screwed.

The move to the Pac12 doesn't only benefit athletes. Hopefully the administration's apparent change of heart is real and lasting, and the entire university sees progress.

Rainbows and butterflies.

Miami, schmiami.
 
I remember going to the kickoff luncheon in Embree's second year. One of the faculty advisors was sitting at our table. He was talking about how the most important thing to him was to avoid a Penn State type situation. I'm like "Stanford doesn't worry about Penn State type situations, why are you"? He wouldn't budge.

There's still an "us vs. them" mentality among a lot of the faculty at CU, I'm afraid. I hope that has gotten better recently, but I kind of doubt it.
 
Unfortunately, this happens at all Schools. Isn't unique to just CU. Every School will have a vocal group of staff who oppose anything they don't like. I just hope it isn't worse at CU than other places.
 
I remember going to the kickoff luncheon in Embree's second year. One of the faculty advisors was sitting at our table. He was talking about how the most important thing to him was to avoid a Penn State type situation. I'm like "Stanford doesn't worry about Penn State type situations, why are you"? He wouldn't budge.

There's still an "us vs. them" mentality among a lot of the faculty at CU, I'm afraid. I hope that has gotten better recently, but I kind of doubt it.

Here's what they don't get:

1. Penn State had a 2-year dip in applications. This past year they set a record.

2. Penn State's record during their scandal: 9-4 (scandal year), 8-4, 7-5, 7-6.

3. Penn State was among the top drawing stadiums in the nation and saw an increase in 2014 after a renovation in 2011 that cut a couple thousand off capacity to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

4. Penn State's recruiting class ranks during the scandal and aftermath years: 2012 = #51 / 2013 = #43 / 2014 = #24 / 2015 = #15. The 2011 pre-scandal class was #35 and 2010 was #12, to give an idea of PSU's normal range.

5. Penn State, in the current USN&WR ranking is at #48 while CU is at #88 (and this is the only one hs kids and their parents look at). PSU is also an AAU member. This is not a football factory and does not suffer in comparison to CU when high school or graduate level prospects are choosing where to apply. The academic prestige of the university has not suffered at all.

In short, despite the worst scandal I can recall with the program and university becoming a national punch line (but with so much anger toward PSU it was hard to even laugh at dark humor), NCAA sanctions that included a bowl ban, scholarship reductions and a transfer waiver so any player could leave and play elsewhere immediately, and a coaching situation that looked like it wouldn't be able to attract anyone who had other options... Penn State never turned into a losing football program, hired great coaches, and rebounded on recruiting and university applications within 2 years.

This was a worst-case scenario type scandal and the impact on them was far less than what CU crumbled under for a much lesser incident. Those around CU who have an adversarial relationship with the athletics programs (particularly football) need to get educated on the issues and realize that they are dead wrong about what is good for a university and what really hurts a university. More damage was done to CU by its handling of its football scandal than by the scandal itself and that could have been minimized to almost nothing if CU would have run a professional PR campaign, protected its assets, and run things like a business.
 
This is also because Pennsylvania, unlike Colorado, is all about football. I mean, nursery to the grave football, not just buying up Broncos tickets. While it certainly lags the biggest states in overall numbers, and this is just a guess but I would bet that Pennsylvania produces per capita as well or better then any state. I have no doubt that JoePa is still beloved within the state, because of both his success and longevity. We'd have a similar (not the same) situation at CU had McCartney stayed from the glory days until now.
 
This is also because Pennsylvania, unlike Colorado, is all about football. I mean, nursery to the grave football, not just buying up Broncos tickets. While it certainly lags the biggest states in overall numbers, and this is just a guess but I would bet that Pennsylvania produces per capita as well or better then any state. I have no doubt that JoePa is still beloved within the state, because of both his success and longevity. We'd have a similar (not the same) situation at CU had McCartney stayed from the glory days until now.

Pennsylvania is above average in the players it produces per capita, but not in the top 10.

https://footballrecruiting.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1470883
 
Pennsylvania is above average in the players it produces per capita, but not in the top 10.

https://footballrecruiting.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1470883

Actually, that table only tangentially impacts my point. It ranks the quality of players based on a ratio of FBS scholarships to the available pool of HS players (I assume graduating seniors, although the article just says HS players). My point was more generally that football was more popular in Pennsylvania than in most other states, per capita. So although I had wanted to leave it at that by "guessing," you made me try to prove it.

I used that table and compared both the FBS signees and all HS football-playing seniors to state populations (based on 2014 estimates in Wikipedia). The latter rank is in the last column below, and pretty effectively disproves my statement, which I found pretty surprising. That author found Florida beating Texas impressive, but I find Texas' consistency in these ranking pretty impressive. It was also mildly surprising to me that football is arguably more popular in Mississippi than any other state, going by the number of guys actually playing the game.

StateSigneesPlayersPop estimate 7/1/2014Signees to PlayersRankSignees to PopulationRankPlayers to PopulationRank
Mississippi3422,3062,994,0796572188,06191341
Iowa819,5193,107,126244040388,391361592
Texas346167,47726,956,9584851677,91061613
Nebraska510,0411,881,503200937376,301351874
Wisconsin2428,4265,757,564118533239,899282035
Kansas914,2462,904,021158335322,669332046
Alabama8322,7154,849,377274658,42632137
Wyoming12,680584,153268041584,153372188
Montana04,6911,023,5790470452189
Idaho77,2171,634,464103131233,4952722610
Louisiana8120,2934,649,676251557,403222911
Minnesota723,8165,457,173340343779,5964222912
North Dakota03,201739,48204904923113
Michigan6242,7439,909,87769024159,8371623214
South Dakota13,606853,175360644853,1754323715
Ohio14546,46311,594,163321879,960725016
South Carolina2418,8544,832,48278626201,3532325617
Arkansas1511,4402,966,36976325197,7582225918
Missouri3523,1786,063,58966322173,2451926219
Illinois7747,44512,880,58061720167,2801827120
North Carolina7335,3389,943,96448515136,2191328121
Tennessee4022,9946,549,35257518163,7341728522
Hawaii204,8751,419,561244470,978529123
Indiana3822,0506,596,85558119173,6012029924
Oregon1313,2433,970,239101930305,4033130025
West Virginia36,0891,850,326203038616,7753830426
New Mexico36,7642,085,572225539695,1914030827
Georgia18432,72610,097,343178254,877130928
Delaware33,028935,614101029311,8713230929
Kentucky1714,0424,413,45782627259,6152931430
Washington2622,0907,061,53085028271,5973032031
Virginia7925,4568,326,28932310105,3961032732
Connecticut1010,6023,596,677106132359,6683433933
Massachusetts1019,8656,745,408198736674,5413934034
Oklahoma3511,2983,878,0513239110,8011134335
Colorado2315,5955,355,86667923232,8642634336
New Jersey5625,5928,938,17545714159,6101534937
Alaska02,063736,73204504735738
Rhode Island12,9531,055,1732953421,055,1734435739
Maine03,7211,330,08904604835740
Utah368,2122,942,902229381,747835841
California251104,33438,802,50041612154,5921437242
New Hampshire03,5301,326,8130484637643
Maryland/D.C.4915,6395,976,4073207121,9671238244
Nevada147,0592,839,09950517202,7932440245
Florida33241,12719,893,297124159,920448446
Pennsylvania6326,37012,787,20941913202,9722548547
Vermont01,172626,56205005053548
Arizona3612,2376,731,48434011186,9862155049
New York2735,55219,746,227131734731,3424155550
 
Football's a much bigger deal in PA than in most other places. Lots of D2 & D3 colleges loaded with in-state talent. HS football games are prime time television & not just for the playoffs (so is wrestling, fwiw). And home HS stadiums often seat over 10k people even in small cities the size of boulder -- and they are packed for games.
 
Football's a much bigger deal in PA than in most other places. Lots of D2 & D3 colleges loaded with in-state talent. HS football games are prime time television & not just for the playoffs (so is wrestling, fwiw). And home HS stadiums often seat over 10k people even in small cities the size of boulder -- and they are packed for games.

That's what I've always thought from articles I've read, having neverlived east of Colorado. Really thought I'd see a higher ratio of players to population, not necessarily FBS signees. Maybe the quoted article had bad input data.
 
Football's a much bigger deal in PA than in most other places. Lots of D2 & D3 colleges loaded with in-state talent. HS football games are prime time television & not just for the playoffs (so is wrestling, fwiw). And home HS stadiums often seat over 10k people even in small cities the size of boulder -- and they are packed for games.

Yeah I was under the impression that Penn was the biggest wrestling state in the country.
 
Football's a much bigger deal in PA than in most other places. Lots of D2 & D3 colleges loaded with in-state talent. HS football games are prime time television & not just for the playoffs (so is wrestling, fwiw). And home HS stadiums often seat over 10k people even in small cities the size of boulder -- and they are packed for games.

Yikes. Not much to do on a Friday night.
 
Actually, that table only tangentially impacts my point. It ranks the quality of players based on a ratio of FBS scholarships to the available pool of HS players (I assume graduating seniors, although the article just says HS players). My point was more generally that football was more popular in Pennsylvania than in most other states, per capita. So although I had wanted to leave it at that by "guessing," you made me try to prove it.

I used that table and compared both the FBS signees and all HS football-playing seniors to state populations (based on 2014 estimates in Wikipedia). The latter rank is in the last column below, and pretty effectively disproves my statement, which I found pretty surprising. That author found Florida beating Texas impressive, but I find Texas' consistency in these ranking pretty impressive. It was also mildly surprising to me that football is arguably more popular in Mississippi than any other state, going by the number of guys actually playing the game.
I think what surprised me the most in the table was how decidedly average Colorado is in those various rankings. Pretty much middle of the pack.

Just for the hell of it, I averaged the three rankings from zbuff's table, to create an "overall ranking" that is probably a pretty meaningless measure of participation, enthusiasm for and resources dedicated to HS (and lower) football. (Repeated ranks are when the average tied.)

Definite regional groupings emerge; the south and rust-belt are clearly first and second, and the northeast is clearly last. Outliers from their region are also interesting: Utah in the top 10; Pennsylania far below Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and even New Jersey; West Virginia hanging out with New England; Hawaii and Alaska insisting on being near the top and/or bottom just like they always seem to do on any state rankings of anything ever - they're pretty much never average in anything.
StateRanked by average rank
Alabama1
Louisiana2
Texas3
Mississippi4
Ohio4
Georgia4
Hawaii7
North Carolina8
Florida9
Virginia10
Utah10
Michigan12
Oklahoma13
Tennessee14
Illinois15
Missouri16
Indiana17
Maryland/D.C.17
Arkansas19
Wisconsin20
South Carolina20
New Jersey20
Idaho23
California23
Kansas25
Nebraska26
Iowa27
Arizona28
Colorado29
Pennsylvania29
Wyoming30
Oregon30
Kentucky30
Nevada30
Washington30
Delaware36
Minnesota37
Connecticut38
Montana39
South Dakota40
West Virginia40
New Mexico42
Massachusetts43
North Dakota44
Rhode Island45
New York45
Alaska47
Maine48
New Hampshire48
Vermont50
 
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