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Non-BCS players give more bang for your NFL draft buck

by Mars · 4/20/2010

Mars

4/20/2010, 6:51:00 AM

http://news.byu.edu/archive10-apr-nonbcs.aspx

A small blurb:

"Wideouts from non-BCS schools are 15 percent more likely to play in the NFL more than three years than their BCS equivalents. The non-BCS receivers also average 200 more yards per season at the professional level."

BerliNY

4/20/2010, 2:04:31 PM

Interesting. I wonder if the results would have supported a different conclusion if the research had been done by a student at a BCS school.

Mars

4/23/2010, 5:20:44 AM

You can read the complete dissertation here, if this whetted your whistle:

http://news.byu.edu/releases/archive10/Apr/Paper.pdf

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