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[QUOTE="007, post: 1145072, member: 393"]
Is it possible that finding "no relationship" between recruiting ranking/talent and wins in your data was confounded by how poor GRob was as a HC?

This issue has been evaluated many times using a much larger sample size and the correlation is undeniable between talent (recruiting rankings) and number of wins.

[IMG]http://www.cbssports.com/images/collegefootball/2008-12_Recruiting-Head-to-Head_Chart.jpg[/IMG]

"On the final count, the higher-ranked team according to the recruiting rankings won almost exactly two-thirds of the time (66.4 percent of the time, to be exact), and every "class" as a whole had a winning record against every class ranked below it [I]every single year[/I]. (The only exception, if it even qualifies, came last year, when "two-star" teams finished one game below .500 in head-to-head collisions with "one-star" teams. Elsewhere, the hierarchy held across every line.) The gap on the field also widened with the gap in the recruiting scores: At the extremes, "one-star" recruiting teams managed a grand total of six wins over "four-star" and "five-star" recruiters in 59 tries. Where a small handful of teams defied their rankings, none managed to do so as part of a larger group.

Which is, again, about as accurate as we can realistically expect from a system designed to predict an uncertain future."

[url]http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/eye-on-college-football/21641769[/url]
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