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re: CMR is definitely at a crossroads

Posted on 10/21/15 at 1:49 pm to
Posted by WhopperDawg
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Posted on 10/21/15 at 1:49 pm to
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I believe at the start of THIS nfl season we had one of the 3 highest amounts of players on NFL squads. It's not waning at all, if anything it's increasing.


My comment was not directed at UGA but college programs in general. The days of having to play at a "high profile" program to get noticed by the NFL are waning.

My example of the no 1 overall playing at Central Michigan has nothing to do with UGA. Mack played at Buffalo for goodness sake and went 5 overall a year later.

The point being you don't have to play for a UGA, a Bama, Fla, Penn St, western USC, Ohio St, etc to get noticed and drafted anymore. The pros will find you believe me.

Just watch what happens to the QB at lowly Memphis if he stays healthy.

In regard to the number of players from UGA in the NFL. I would attribute that to the talent level rather than coming from UGA. Many of those players blossom when they get to the NFL vs what they did at UGA. Davis at Denver being the prime example but there are many others. Additionally, you can argue that even makes the results of our program even worse - how can you have the 3rd most NFL talent in the nation and are middle tier SEC and worse on a national level - how can that be?
Posted by WG_Dawg
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Posted on 10/21/15 at 1:53 pm to
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My comment was not directed at UGA but college programs in general. The days of having to play at a "high profile" program to get noticed by the NFL are waning.


Oh, well yeah I agree with you there 100%.

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The point being you don't have to play for a UGA, a Bama, Fla, Penn St, western USC, Ohio St, etc to get noticed and drafted anymore.


And again I agree.

But at the same time, you're talking about 1 in 1000 players at those small schools that go first round. There are exponentially more players from P5 schools going in the first round than small schools. So if the #1 priority on a kid's list is making it to the league...he's still absolutely going to look at a big time school first.
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