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Big Televen losing recruiting battles to P5 conferences
I thought this was an interesting read:

Quote:There's a pretty good reason Jim Harbaugh will take Michigan to Florida for spring practice next week. Big Ten schools sorely need help with their recruiting demographics.

The Big Ten's struggles with declining populations in the Midwest have been well known and discussed for years. But new statistics show just how bad it got for the Big Ten. Between 2007 and 2014, the Big Ten fared the worst against other Power Five conferences in recruiting battles when one of the two leagues won a player.

Those results came from a study filed in an ongoing lawsuit against the NCAA related to an old rule banning multi-year scholarships. The purpose of economist Daniel Rascher's study, filed as part of a larger document in the John Rock case, is to discredit NCAA expert Lauren Stiroh's argument that different regions of the country are distinct recruiting markets.

The reality is football recruiting is national. Otherwise, why would Harbaugh take Michigan to IMG Academy (home of many elite recruits) for a week in Bradenton, Florida? Harbaugh likes to say, “In my America, you're allowed to cross state borders.” The Big Ten has been in need of doing something to improve recruiting.

During the eight-year period Rascher studied, the Big Ten and SEC made offers to more than 1,500 of the same players. When a recruit picked one league over the other, the SEC won 62 percent and the Big Ten won 38 percent. (Mutual losses for both conferences were excluded from the data.)

The Big Ten won 45 percent of those competitions vs. the ACC, 48 percent vs. the Pac-12, and 50 percent vs. the Big 12. In other words, for eight years, the Big Ten never had a winning recruiting record against another major conference -- the only Power Five league with that distinction. Other findings the study showed with recruiting battles:

•The SEC, not surprisingly, swept every conference head-to-head. The SEC easily won more recruits over the Big 12 (57 percent), ACC (58 percent) and Pac-12 (60 percent).

•The ACC split with the other Power Five conferences. It defeated the Big Ten (55 percent) and Big 12 (55 percent), and lost to the SEC (42 percent) and Pac-12 (49 percent). The ACC had the second-most active NFL players this season behind the SEC.

•Given its geography, the Pac-12 had by far the least recorded competitions with other Power Five conferences (3,960 instances). Every other Power Five conference had at least 4,700. The Pac-12 edged the ACC (51 percent) and Big Ten (52 percent), and lost to the Big 12 (48 percent) and SEC (40 percent).

•The Big 12's talent drain was evident in Rascher's study. The Big 12 lost to the ACC (45 percent) and SEC (43 percent), split with the Big Ten (50 percent) and edged the Pac-12 (52 percent).

In an expert report for the NCAA, Stiroh wrote that from 2007-14, SEC schools made 15 percent of their offers to in-state recruits and 81 percent of their offers to in-region recruits. Meanwhile, the Big Ten had offers of 9 percent for in-state players and 37 percent to in-region players. The South, of course, produces a larger number of football players with offers.

Schools in the Big Ten are having trouble recruiting against other top conferences. (USATSI)

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball...onferences
 
03-01-2016 01:05 PM
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