I was reading the comments of an AJC article (yeah, I know) on Tyren Jones' commitment, and there was one that was hilarious.
ONLY NINE of the 32 recruits got invites to the NFL Combine. How in the world could anyone "sell the odds" of ONLY >28% of ONE RECRUITING CLASS getting invites to the Combine? I mean the GOOD recruiters have at least 50% of their recruiting classes get invites right? And that guy clearly thought that was such a good insult. Sometimes I wonder about people :rofl:
I took the comment as to mean the 2008 class, so I did a little breakdown of that class. Here we go:
Still on Campus
- Undra Billingsley
- Barrett Jones – Will get a combine invite
- Robert Lester – Will get a combine invite
- Tyler Love
- Damion Square – Possibly an invite
- Michael Williams – Possibly an invite
Transfers/Didn’t Get to Campus
- Jermaine Preyear
- Melvin Ray
- BJ Scott
- Chris Jackson
- Star Jackson
- Alonzo Lawrence
- Corey Smith
- Robby Green
- Glenn Harbin
- Devonta Bolton
- Destin Hood
- Ivan Matchett
- Brandon Lewis
Graduated/Declared for NFL
- Mark Barron – Combine invite
- Terrence Cody – Combine invite
- Marcel Dareus – Combine invite
- Jerrell Harris
- Don’t’a Hightower – Combine invite
- Mark Ingram – Combine invite
- Julio Jones – Combine invite
- Kerry Murphy
- Brad Smelley
- Courtney Upshaw – Combine invite
- Jon Michael Boswell
- Chris Jordan
Unsure about
- Wesley Neighbors
So the percentages of the 32 signees in 2008:
18.75% are still on campus
40.625% transferred or never got to campus
37.5% graduated or declared early for the draft
3.125% is Wesley Neighbors because I'm not sure what happened to him. (Earle, do you know?)
28.125% have or will surely get a combine invite; this doesn't include possible invites for Billingsley, Love, Square, or Williams, which would up the percentage of course.
If opposing fans won't to use those percentages against us, let them. When was the last time Mark Richt had 28% of a recruiting class get combine invites?