Rivals.com Football Recruiting - Ask Jamie: Is Big Ten recruiting falling behind?)
Interesting article by Rivals Jamie Newberg. He discusses the decline of the Big 10 (and the Big 10 recruiting area) in recruiting and compares them with other conferences (and areas) and ND. Considering that ND is midwest team the article strikes home. For those ND fans protesting that ND spends too much effort in CA, FL, TX, etc here are the numbers showing why they do. This doesn't get into academics, ResLife, weather, nightlife and other factors. It just looks at the numbers that get Drafted by the NFL by College/Conference and by Region.
In the NFL Drafts '06 - '09 ND 16 players drafted. USC had 37. ND had 1 First Rounder. USC had 9.
Interesting article by Rivals Jamie Newberg. He discusses the decline of the Big 10 (and the Big 10 recruiting area) in recruiting and compares them with other conferences (and areas) and ND. Considering that ND is midwest team the article strikes home. For those ND fans protesting that ND spends too much effort in CA, FL, TX, etc here are the numbers showing why they do. This doesn't get into academics, ResLife, weather, nightlife and other factors. It just looks at the numbers that get Drafted by the NFL by College/Conference and by Region.
In the NFL Drafts '06 - '09 ND 16 players drafted. USC had 37. ND had 1 First Rounder. USC had 9.