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re: Jags would be 17.5 pt favorites over Alabama
Posted on 10/3/13 at 9:50 am to arwicklu
Posted on 10/3/13 at 9:50 am to arwicklu
Your 50 year old example is bad because of a few things. It completely falls to mention the growth in talent pool and talent evaluation since that time.
A good (albeit extreme) modern analogy is women's college basketball and the WNBA. Every year in college and in the pros, a freshman or rookie comes in and does very well. This is because the talent available for that sport is very narrow and not very deep. This allows skilled players to play against less skilled players that are just filling out rosters who aren't even in the same stratosphere as some of their peers.
This has been exacerbated in the well developed football machine, which now taps talent in every portion of the country. If the NFL is still missing players today, how many do you think they missed in 1976?
This well oiled machine goes down all the way to the high school level. I can guarantee my high school in south Mississippi didn't have the type of weight training equipment it does now. You may think, this helps the college team argument, as a rising tide raises all ships, but it just isn't how it works. Instead, that rising tide raises potentially one ship who had the talent to make it in the first place.
A good (albeit extreme) modern analogy is women's college basketball and the WNBA. Every year in college and in the pros, a freshman or rookie comes in and does very well. This is because the talent available for that sport is very narrow and not very deep. This allows skilled players to play against less skilled players that are just filling out rosters who aren't even in the same stratosphere as some of their peers.
This has been exacerbated in the well developed football machine, which now taps talent in every portion of the country. If the NFL is still missing players today, how many do you think they missed in 1976?
This well oiled machine goes down all the way to the high school level. I can guarantee my high school in south Mississippi didn't have the type of weight training equipment it does now. You may think, this helps the college team argument, as a rising tide raises all ships, but it just isn't how it works. Instead, that rising tide raises potentially one ship who had the talent to make it in the first place.
This post was edited on 10/3/13 at 9:56 am
Posted on 10/3/13 at 9:57 am to Teddy Ruxpin
It also cuts both ways. College players are a lot better and more deep too.
I mean, where do you guys think NFL players came from? They all played in college.
An all-star college team is made up of NFL players who just haven't played in the NFL yet.
I mean, where do you guys think NFL players came from? They all played in college.
An all-star college team is made up of NFL players who just haven't played in the NFL yet.
Posted on 10/3/13 at 9:58 am to Teddy Ruxpin
I'm surprised this debate is still going on. Obviously Jacksonville would destroy any individual college team, without a doubt.
The ONLY debate is about a college all-star team, but once again I'd take the Jags by at least 21. It be one thing if you let me cherry pick a team after I had seen them pan out in the NFL, you know, like every NFL team does. It is quite another to take talent that is unproven at the NFL level and make a competitive team. It simply wouldn't happen.
Like someone said, if you went down the draft board from 2013 and filled your team with the first players drafted at each position, you still wouldn't stand a chance against the Jaguars.
The ONLY debate is about a college all-star team, but once again I'd take the Jags by at least 21. It be one thing if you let me cherry pick a team after I had seen them pan out in the NFL, you know, like every NFL team does. It is quite another to take talent that is unproven at the NFL level and make a competitive team. It simply wouldn't happen.
Like someone said, if you went down the draft board from 2013 and filled your team with the first players drafted at each position, you still wouldn't stand a chance against the Jaguars.
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