Full Development & Finishing School - Combine Invites

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There have been some really great posts on the number of invites to the NFL Combine.  Considering there are only 22 starting positions combining offense and defense, having 11 is really amazing, Perhaps this is a metric we should watch for many years.  I am expecting this to grow considering we will have more time with these players in development and almost all will be Sark / Sark-coaching team players going forward.  It is a great objective measure of development, and also Texas may become a "finishing school" metric with players coming to UT at the end of their eligibility to increase their draft-ability especially if the latest transfers do well next year. 

Has anyone compiled a "tracker" of invitees that includes not only how many players are invited, but also relative to their coach / initial recruitment?  It would be interesting to see which Longhorn coaches and coaches from other schools have made an impact on the development.   For example, in this year of the UT invitees, several began under a different Longhorn coach (Herman) which would means they had their "full development" at UT (e.g. Ford) while others began elsewhere but "finished" at UT  (e.g. Mitchell).   Given we are entering year 4 with Sark, this could be a good metric to start tracking - and perhaps also track against a few of the teams we most heavily recruit against and compete for transfers (Bulldogs, Tide, Rebels, Aggies, and Sooners).  If UT excels at both high school recruiting AND transfers not just in rating service numbers (subjective metrics) but actual combine invites (hard number) regardless of their football history, they should dominate.  Another category or column in our tracker could be their classification (senior, junior ...) .  If our coaches took this type of data to a top recruit in the future, they could show, UT ranks Xth vs rivals in getting players considered for the draft AND this is growing at XX%  and also could show exceptional opportunity to do it in 3 years versus 4.  

If I had this data, I would share it here, but I am thinking one of our members may already have it, and if so, perhaps Bobby would consider as one of our "static webpage" references he has mentioned.  Thus, we could all refer to it and easily update it every year at incitation time.  Might be a unique metric from the OTF community!

However we track things, actual NFL Combine invites might be a better measure than actual draft numbers since the draft is about filling needs and man y make teams without being drafted.   

 

Thank you all who have contributed to so many good posts on this amazing accomplishment.

[Bobby Burton]

There are sites out there that have the info. But I don’t know if any have that in a database that would be easy to mine for all of the data.