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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 274199, member: 289"] I did this post back before the 2009 draft. I'll get around to updating it someday but it covers the period we are talking about: The subject came up of how many future pros were on certain SU teams. The SU media guide lists the Orangemen who were drafted by the NFL or signed as free agents in each year. Some of these guys were probably junior college transfers and a few may have jumped to the pros early but, to take a quick look at the situation, I decided to simply add up the total players where drafted or free agent signees over a four year period to see how many future pros were on each team’s roster. As a further disclaimer, being on the roster doesn’t mean you played a lot and being a draftee or free agent signee doesn’t mean you became an NFL starter. But I suspect this provides a pretty good map of the year by year level of talent at SU, for whatever arguments anyone wishes to make relating to the talent level at SU in any particular year or era. I decided to start with 1972, the first year freshmen could play varsity ball. For those who have the media guide, the players listed under 1973 were the ones drafted or signed after the 1973 season. The talent level is this the total of the players listed under 1973, 1974, 1975 and 1976. The last team listed in 2004, not because that was Coach P’s last year but simply because the section ends with 2008, the last year that would have had player listed who would have been on the roster in 2004. We would need the 2009 list to complete the record for 2005. 1972: 11 players were drafted or signed by the pros in 1973,74, 75 or 1976 1973: 10 players in 1974-77 1974: 10 players in 1975-78 1975: 9 players in 1976-79 1976: 8 players in 1977-80 1977: 6 players in 1978-81 1978: 9 players in 1979-82 1979: 10 players in 1980-83 1980: 9 players in 1981-84 1981: 10 players in 1982-85 1982: 12 players in 1983-86 1983: 13 players in 1984-87 1984: 17 players in 1985-88 1985: 23 players in 1986-89 1986: 26 players in 1987-90 1987: 32 players in 1988-91 1988: 28 players in 1989-92 1989: 31 players in 1990-93 1990: 33 players in 1991-94 1991: 31 players in 1992-95 1992: 35 players in 1993-96 1993: 32 players in 1994-97 1994: 30 players in 1995-98 1995: 33 players in 1996-99 1996: 35 players in 1997-00 1997: 33 players in 1998-01 1998: 36 players in 1999-02 1999: 31 players in 2000-03 2000: 32 players in 2001-04 2001: 31 players in 2002-05 2002: 29 players in 2003-06 2003: 31 players in 2004-07 2004: 27 players in 2005-07 You can see the build-up to '87 but also that subsequent teams were comparable in terms of eventual NFL players. [/QUOTE]

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