Undrafted Free Agents? GT alone in ACC

TechinItEasy said:
So is this good, bad, or neither?
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It's a darn good indication that GT lacked NFL prospects. Teams with several NFL prospects usually win more games. If GT can raise their talent pool they should win more games with good coaching.

It's elementary, my dear :biggrin:
 
Nashville Jacket said:
It's a darn good indication that GT lacked NFL prospects. Teams with several NFL prospects usually win more games. If GT can raise their talent pool they should win more games with good coaching.

It's elementary, my dear :biggrin:
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Ah, so you assert that if Tech has more talent than they will win more games. Do you have a link or some data to support that?

Does this hold true for other schools as well?
 
TechinItEasy said:
Ah, so you assert that if Tech has more talent than they will win more games. Do you have a link or some data to support that?

Does this hold true for other schools as well?
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I believe your comment was sarcastic but I'll respond anyway:

Refer to UGA's record compared to GT's over the last 10 years and you'll see that UGA won more games (and in the SEC). They've won more games than Tech because they had considerably more talent (the draft numbers prove it). And UGA has managed to win with crappy coaching. If Saban were coaching UGA we're talking about a whole different level of success.

There are some (very few) exceptions, but generally teams with lots of talent have a better than average chance of winning more games than teams with average talent.
 
Diseqc said:
It is what it is.
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Pretty much this.

I love how what some people are taking from this is that it's an indictment of the whole teams talent, rather than that of just the seniors (I don't see the point of bitching over juniors not leaving early).
 
When we have 3 juniors leave early next year for the draft, I'm sure we'll be whining about how we can't keep guys for 4 years.
 
i wonder why the SEC speed never seems to materialize at draft time... shouldnt they have like the 20 most fastest players in every draft?
 
Who were the seniors that graduated? Were any expected to go into the NFL?

EDIT: I stopped being Lazy

People I have heard of:
Marcus Wright
Roddy Jones
Embry Peeples
Preston Lyons
Rashaad Reid
Steven Sylvester
Tyler Melton
Chandler Anderson
Jason Peters
Logan Walls

Others:
Ty Rawlings
Scott Shroer
Deonte Fletcher
Michael Peterson
Adrian Gardner

Looking at this list I'm not really surprised. The only one that kind of stands out is Jason Peters.
 
Usually guys that are three or four year starters at big time programs can get a deal somehwere. We had 6 that didn't.

Heck two guys that went to my high school signed UFA deals this week
 
So much for Chan Gailey's last class and CPJ's first class. The rest is still in the can.
 
GTLiebs said:
Roddy, Peeples, Lyons, Peters, Walls, Reid, Sylvester, and Melton
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None of those guys has the size/speed combination to make it in the pros. The pro day numbers and the perceived problem of adjusting to a pro scheme just didn't add up. Besides, have you seen our defense the last few years? Not much good tape on that side of the ball.
 
BuzzCzar said:
i wonder why the SEC speed never seems to materialize at draft time... shouldnt they have like the 20 most fastest players in every draft?
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Not if their relative speed advantage is mainly in the lower half of the first string and the second string players. Like with U[sic]GA, they don't necessarily have better top talent than us, but they definitely beat us in the depth department.
 
BuzzCzar said:
i wonder why the SEC speed never seems to materialize at draft time... shouldnt they have like the 20 most fastest players in every draft?
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Don't know if it is true or not, but I've read that a lot of the speed has to do with the speed of the linemen. The SEC skill players may not necessarily be any faster than any other conference's skill playes, but the linemen are faster and, therefore, the offenses and defenses are much faster overall. So the references to SEC speed don't mean that the SEC is full of players running a 4.3 40, but rather that the overall team speed is much faster.
 
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