Re: Revisiting Big East Recruiting
Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2015 5:22 pm
GumbyDamnit! wrote:marquette wrote:I just did a quick run-down on 24/7 with their composite. The BE has 6 teams with composite top 100 kids for 2016.
ACC-10 teams
B1G-8
BE-6
SEC-6
PAC12-5
B12-3
AAC-2
A10-2
WCC-2
MWC-1
There's still plenty of recruiting to come in the class of 2016, but we are solidly holding our own in the middle of the power conference pack.
You have to take the #'s one step further.
ACC - 10 recruits for 15 schools = .67 per school
B1G - .57
BE - .60
SEC - .43
PAC - .42
B12 - .30
AAC - .18
A10 - .14
You can't expect the BE to bring in more Top 100 recruits than leagues who have 50% more teams.
The other issue that skews these #'s a bit are the one and dones. UK, KU, Duke, maybe even AZ now, seem to land most of the kids who bolt for the NBA after 1 year. So over 4 years it may look like the SEC is recruiting very well but at any given time the collective # of Top 100's still in that league will not be as high as conferences like the BE, AAC A10, etc. There are exceptions (Ellenson, Otto Porter), but we mostly are recruiting 4 year players. UK cycles in 5-6 high level recruits every year and 4 of them bolt for the NBA right away. Of course when you are a one and done you're also a stud so their ability to impact the game as a Frosh is much greater than a kid in the 80's or 90's.
I should clarify, we have 6 teams with top 100 recruits, not 6 recruits. I thought this was positive for the BE as that puts us well within the range of the other power conferences. Middle of the pack in that group is not an insult.