Saw this SEC football data and found it very interesting.

[trumaroon]

It looks like this depth we speak of may be based on hard facts.<div>
</div><div><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8.5pt; padding: 6px; "><font size="2">SEC Roster Management & Team Talent Rankings</font></td><td align="right" valign="bottom" nowrap="" class="" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8.5pt; padding: 6px; "><font size="1" face="verdana"><font size="2" face="verdana">Reply</font></font></td></tr></tbody></table>_________________________________________________<font size="2"><span style="font-family: Verdana; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "></span><div class="message-body" style="width: 1206px; overflow: hidden; font-family: Verdana; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="margin: 0px; ">Number of Recruited Scholarship Players on Rosters (reflects quality depth--think special teams & 4th quarter conditioning)</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; ">1. Alabama and Miss St (87) - must eliminate 2 players by August</p><p style="margin: 0px; ">3. LSU & South Carolina (85)</p><p style="margin: 0px; ">5. Kentucky & Missouri (81)</p><p style="margin: 0px; ">7. Arkansas (80)</p><p style="margin: 0px; ">8. Florida, Texas A&M, & Vanderbilt (79)</p><p style="margin: 0px; ">11. Ole Miss & Tennessee (78)</p><p style="margin: 0px; ">13. Auburn (75)</p><p style="margin: 0px; ">14. Georgia (73) - does not include 5 non-rated walk-ons currently on scholarship (last season UGA had 11 walk-ons on scholarship)</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; ">Average Stars per Recruited Scholarship Player (Rivals.com scale of 0-5)</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; ">1. Alabama (3.76)</p><p style="margin: 0px; ">2. Florida (3.75)</p><p style="margin: 0px; ">3. Georgia (3.63)</p><p style="margin: 0px; ">4. LSU (3.58)</p><p style="margin: 0px; ">5. Auburn (3.51)</p><p style="margin: 0px; ">6. Tennessee (3.31)</p><p style="margin: 0px; ">7. South Carolina (3.25)</p><p style="margin: 0px; ">8. Texas A&M (3.20)</p><p style="margin: 0px; ">9. Arkansas & Missouri (3.01)</p><p style="margin: 0px; ">11. Miss St (3.00)</p><p style="margin: 0px; ">12. Ole Miss (2.95)</p><p style="margin: 0px; ">13. Vanderbilt (2.75)</p><p style="margin: 0px; ">14. Kentucky (2.72)</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; ">Normalized Data - Average Stars per Player (i.e., accounts for walk-ons impact on an FBS-team's maximum 85 scholarship players)</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; ">1. Alabama (3.78)</p><p style="margin: 0px; ">2. LSU (3.58)</p><p style="margin: 0px; ">3. Florida (3.48)</p><p style="margin: 0px; ">4. South Carolina (3.25)</p><p style="margin: 0px; ">5. Georgia (3.12)</p><p style="margin: 0px; ">6. Auburn (3.09)</p><p style="margin: 0px; ">7. Tennessee (3.04)</p><p style="margin: 0px; ">8. Miss St & Texas A&M (3.01)</p><p style="margin: 0px; ">10. Missouri (2.91)</p><p style="margin: 0px; ">11. Arkansas (2.87)</p><p style="margin: 0px; ">12. Ole Miss (2.71)</p><p style="margin: 0px; ">13. Kentucky (2.59)</p><p style="margin: 0px; ">14. Vanderbilt (2.55)</p></div><span class="message-date" style="font-size: 10px; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: Verdana; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></font></div>

 

[thunderclap]

pretty obvious playing with redshirt players is different than not being able to redshirt large portions of a class. So glad Mullen has been able to do this. Think if Bumphis, Boyd, Smith, Banks, and some of those others were redshirt juniors this year. Hopefully that's where we are going.

 

[patdog]

I have no idea if Dan Mullen is planning to leave MSU after this season or stay another 20 years. But whatever he does, he's built a very solid foundation for our football program.

 

[Entertainment720]

Even in Jackie's day we didn't see mass redshirting like we have the last two years. Kinda gets me all giddy inside when I think about the depth we are building which allows for player development which is a necessity to win at Mississippi State.