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Annual 'Recruiting Rankings Matter' Poast
Dennis_DeYoung
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First Round:
5-Stars: 8 (Highest: Kyler Murray No.1)
4-Stars: 9 (Highest: Quinnen Williams No.3)
3-Stars: 11 (Highest: T.J. Hockenson No.8)
2-Stars: 1 (Highest: Josh Allen No.7)
Unranked: 3 (Highest: Daniel Jones No.6)
Roughly 30 5-stars per year, 300 4-stars, 1500 3-stars, 1500 2-stars
So, approximately...
5-stars: 25% likely to be a first rounder
4-stars: 3%
3-stars etc: less than 1%
For pete... our top 4 draft picks:
McGary - 4*
Murphy - 4*
Sample - 3*
Rapp - 4*
So, yeah.
5-Stars: 8 (Highest: Kyler Murray No.1)
4-Stars: 9 (Highest: Quinnen Williams No.3)
3-Stars: 11 (Highest: T.J. Hockenson No.8)
2-Stars: 1 (Highest: Josh Allen No.7)
Unranked: 3 (Highest: Daniel Jones No.6)
Roughly 30 5-stars per year, 300 4-stars, 1500 3-stars, 1500 2-stars
So, approximately...
5-stars: 25% likely to be a first rounder
4-stars: 3%
3-stars etc: less than 1%
For pete... our top 4 draft picks:
McGary - 4*
Murphy - 4*
Sample - 3*
Rapp - 4*
So, yeah.
Comments
This means, despite currently and historically being a mediocre CFB program, Oregon will be generating interest from all the kids who play this game, whereas UW, despite currently being a top CFB program and historically being pretty damn good, will not. Oregon will continue to be the cool program with this shit. Look at the other programs and brands there (aside from Texas Tech), then look at fucking Oregon.
And you wonder why branding matters.
People may shrug this off, but to all the 15 year old kids playing Madden who see Oregon as a national program with cooler uniform combinations than the others, Oregon becomes an appealing place to play college football. And that shit matters.
* They are aggressive with their licensing and marketing. Have been for a long time. There was a period of time in the early 2000s that the Yankee channel in NYC would show Oregon football games. It confused the shit out of New Yorkers who were wondering why the fuck Oregon football was being shown all the time.
* Oregon had a deal with EA that was started three years ago, before the program began melting down. Oregon and Texas were included in a game mode you can play in Madden 18.
* Back when the NCAA games hadn't been fucked away from us by greedy Irishman Ed O'Bannon it was said Oregon was the most selected team in the game. Granted, that was almost six years ago.
* Some schools are tighter with their licensing. See any Big Ten teams? Alabama? I'd guess the Big Ten didn't allow their schools, and Alabama wanted too much money. In the NCAA games payments were different based on the school. There might also be prior licensing that restricts the school's sale of rights for video games.
* How old is the average Madden player? How many of them know or care that Oregon didn't get decent until the 90s?
* Texas Tech is in there because of Pat Mahomes being on the cover and this game mode is you playing as a QB starting from the playoff and through the draft. Washington doesn't have the brand recognition of the nine other programs, and the only thing that can change that is winning on the biggest stage repeatedly. Petersman's style isn't flash, if Washington improves their branding it will be because of on field success
Herbert will no doubt be good and that's really all it takes to win in Madden but still, hopefully lots of kids playing as Clemson kicking the shit out of Oregon.