Fat Stanley without Doyle
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Akrum Wadley’s college numbers were better than David Montgomery’s, so I guess that means Wadley was better.
Wadley played in the Big Ten West with a way better OL
Stanley played in the Big Ten West with a way better OL AND had two top 20 draft picks to throw to and he was still less productive than Kempt
Kempt played in the defensively challenged Big XII with four first team all conference skill players. Stanley played in an elite defensive conference and only had one first team all conference skill player. It would be embarrassing if Kempt wasn’t more productive than Stanley.
OK so your opinion is Purdy is better than Stanley and Stanley was better than Kempt?
Weird, I remember Banks being pretty good. Oh well, when the only way to evaluate a college player is by their draft position, I guess you have to go with that.
Hard to know what criteria to go by here. Head to head match ups mean nothing, overall records mean nothing, rankings mean nothing, recruiting means nothing, stats mean something (sometimes), getting drafted means something (in basketball only).
When the games are consistently close, who gets the W and who gets the L is more indicative of randomness than quality. When you flip a coin, you'll get runs of heads and tails even though each flip is 50/50.
Historic records? When we conveniently didn't play during a long stretch of terrible Iowa teams? Or 2019 records, where we played exactly 0 common opponents?
You won't argue that Iowa is better than some team ranked higher than them? How do you feel about Notre Dame? Finished the season with a better record than Iowa, ranked ahead of Iowa, and beat both common opponents (ISU, Michigan) by more than Iowa did. You think Baylor is better than Iowa? Ended the season ranked higher and beat ISU by more than Iowa did.
Yeah well those are solid gold data... Just because there are 4 decimals doesn't mean it's worth anything.
Stats are actually good, if you can normalize them so its apples-to-apples. But most people bring up things like total yards which are useless out of context.
Getting drafted in any pro league has as much to do with a player's potential as anything. If it were based strictly on game-tested experience, you'd only need game film. You could cancel the combine and pro days.
Now that I've said all that, I'll also say that in my opinion, head-to-head results are the best indicator. Not the final score or who won/lost, but things like yards/play, points/play or drive, % of yards gained, etc.
