re: Spoke with an NFL scout regarding early departures today.

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It is the failure to recruit within their own team.

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He pretty much said the same thing, he understands the difficulty and the lure of money and the seediness of agents that will literally do and say anything to get these kids to leave early. But what struck me from his comments is that the NFL teams have statistics where they project players to be round after round in the draft and where they would be the following year if they are underclassmen. He said there are obviously a lot of variables in the equations and each player is player specific. But he flat out stated it is scary how accurate it is with projecting where the players will be drafted the following year when they end up staying through the following year. Again he said there are exceptions to everything but for the most part the differences in dollars for the mid-round to un-drafted free agent signed to where they go the following year is very significant and ends up literally being millions of dollars over the life of their contract.

He doesn't understand why college coaches don't use those studies because he knows they have to have access to them. Teams don't give them away but their are ways to get them he said that is for sure.