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Message: [QUOTE="billsin01, post: 1998689, member: 837"] Thought [URL='http://www.nunesmagician.com/2016/12/15/13964924/syracuse-recruiting-one-third-of-2015-football-class-already-off-campus-orange-roster-turnover']this article[/URL] was really interesting regarding retention rates in the SEC vs. what we've seen here the past several years (well, the article looks at the past few years, our retention issues go back to the end of the P era). To summarize the article for folks who don't care to read it, the SEC as a conference has an average retention rate of 91% -- the worst school is at 79%. Cuse has already lost 1/3 of it's 2015 class has a retention rate of around 67%. TNIAAM's John Casillo (who I feel I should mention for a good original article outside the norm) notes that a bunch of these transfers are specific to coaching changes and says the number is more like 81% outside of that. But, at the end of the day, the fact remains, 67% is atrocious. I point this and the inherent flaws of the star system out a lot regarding recruiting -- so much so that I'm sure people tune me out and consider me an idiot. But, nonetheless, to me this is issue of losing 1/3 of our players leads, among other things, to fewer redshirts and therefore fewer upperclassmen on the roster. I don't know exactly what the answer is particularly b/c I think this is simply a world where kids move schools far more often. But while we focus on stars and 40 times and all that, I really believe we've got to find a way to get more of these kids to stay on campus for four years and, ideally, 5 if we can get them to redshirt (if they are so good they go to the NFL after three or four, obviously I have no problem with that). [/QUOTE]

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