The lads who cavort about the various stadia across the USA each autumn for our entertainment and the greater glory of Fillintheblank U. have short careers. That is one of the attractions of the college game, the always evolving cast of athletes. Those who have been physically blessed, worked hard and been fortunate enough to avoid injury may get the opportunity to display their talents as professional football players. Their passage is an annual event and it's coming up: the NFL draft.
I went to CBS sports online and took a peek at their projections for the top 50 selections in the upcoming draft. There's some very recognizable names and some not-so-recognizable names. Here's some of the nuggets that I uncovered after massaging the list a bit.
By school, the projected first 50 come from:
2 Alabama Crimson Tide, hail to the champions
0 No boys from Boise
2 California Golden Bears
5 Florida Gators
1 Florida State Seminole
1 Fresno State Something or other (it's Bulldogs, had to look it up)
3 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
1 Idaho Potato (they are the Vandals)
1 Iowa Hawkeye (this is the massive OT, Bryan Bulaga)
2 LSU Tigers
1 Maryland Terrapin
1 Michigan Wolverine
1 Nebraska Cornhusker (everybody's #1, DT Ndamukong Suh)
1 Northwestern Wildcat (DE Corey Wooten)
2 Notre Dame Domers (Jimmy Claussen and Golden Tate)
0 Yes, zero from Ohio State
4 Oklahoma Sooners
2 Oklahoma State Cowboys
2 Penn State Lions, Nittany type
2 Rutgers Wise Guys ( ok, Scarlet Knights)
2 South Florida Bulls (a DE and a CB)
4 USC Trojans
1 Tennessee Volunteer, not currently under indictment
3 Texas Longhorn runners-up (Colt McCoy & Jordan Shipley, plus LB Sergio Kindle)
1 UCLA Bruin
1 Arizona Wildcat
2 Clemson Tigers
By position, the first 50 are made up of:
1 center (Maurkice Pouncey of Florida, good name for a center)
1 strong safety
1 offensive guard (Idaho's Mike Iupati)
2 free safeties
2 tight ends
2 inside linebackers
4 outside linebackers
4 quarterbacks (in reverse order of selection: Tebow, McCoy, Bradford & Claussen)
4 running backs (the first one: CJ Spiller of Clemson)
5 defensive ends
6 cornerbacks
6 defensive tackles (including 2 of the first three overall selections)
6 offensive tackles (OT's get more $$$ than anybody but QB's)
6 wide receivers (OK State's Dez Bryant being the first)
0 kickers of any variety
1 Bryan, 1 Brian.
2 Brandons.
1 Ndamukong, going off at #1, but we said that already.
26 on defense, 24 on offense.
3 comments:
I have an unrelated comment.. please note this NYT article http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/sports/tennis/26gambling.html?hp
As far as I know, two gun and you have not gone here. Plausible profitable venture?
Focus. It's all about focus. For those who did not check out the link, it discusses wagering on tennis. When we bet on football, it's always "who have they played" and "how are they playing lately".
If we were to take this and apply it to tennis, it would be "who the hell is this" and "who's the other guy (or woman)" and that is the tip of the iceberg that is representative of how much we don't know.
As a miscreant ute (ok, make it "youth"), the two paddle sports in which I participated involved
(1) a rubber band with a little bitty rubber ball stapled to a paddle and you whap-whap-whapped it up and down as many times as you could before the rubber band stretched out too far or came out of the little rubber ball and
(2) a nun making us bend over so she could whap-whap-whap our miscreant ute-ful bottoms.
While TwoGun is generally amenable to new ventures, I am a slave to focus.
TwoGun phoned me one time to ask if I wanted to place a wager on Croatian Cliff diving. My response was "who is Croatian Cliff and why is he taking a dive?"
Our next substantial wager will be the over and under on the Super Bowl National Anthem.
By the way: Have you been PhD'd yet?
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PFOS
No PhD yet. But my advisor and you share similar thoughts of wisdom. Her credo is "Focus on the task at hand".
I defend April 12. Crunch time!
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