With The NFL Draft Approaching Let's Not Forget Who's #1
by ccmachine on Apr 26, 2011 2:10 PM CDT
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PrintNo, I'm not talking about the 2011 Oklahoma Sooners who are surely to be picked as the pre-season favorites not only to win the Big 12 but also have a chance to be the pre-season's #1 team in the country. The Sooners I am talking of are the ones that have had their names called in the NFL draft. Since the year 2,000 Oklahoma has placed 49 players into the NFL through the draft. That's 32 more than little brother Oklahoma State, four more than Texas and five more than Nebraska.
| School | Draft Picks Since 2000 |
| Oklahoma | 49 |
| Texas | 45 |
| Nebraska | 44 |
| Kansas St | 32 |
| Texas A&M | 32 |
| Colorado | 26 |
| Texas Tech | 20 |
| Missouri | 19 |
| Oklahoma St | 17 |
| Kansas | 12 |
| Iowa St | 11 |
| Baylor | 9 |
Even with a predictably low draft count this year Oklahoma is in no jeopardy of losing its status as the top NFL prospect producing school in the Big 12. While this weekend will be a far cry from last year's, where the Sooners dominated the first round, there are still going to be Sooners heading into the NFL. Running back DeMarco Murray and safety Quinton Carter will be in competition to see who will be the first Sooner taken.
The 2010 draft was the crown jewel of Oklahoma draft classes. That draft saw seven Sooners taken in all but four went in the first round with Sam Bradford, Gerald McCoy and Trent Williams all going in the top four picks. Tight end Jermaine Gresham was the fourth Sooner selected in the first round of that draft when he was selected 21st overall by the Cincinnati Bengals.
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Last year yall represented like no other...
but I noticed you cut it off at 2000 which is somewhat arbitrary. Texas has more players in the NFL than OU has currently which is a more impressive stat to me personally since it speaks to how successful these draft picks have been, but regardless its nice to see both us representing so well in the pros…
With the draft being in 2 days, I think the point was that Stoops
has coached all 49 of those picks. It was not a slight toward any other team but rather just a glimpse of the past decade (technically 11 years) and what was accomplished in those draft years. Oklahoma fans still have high hopes for a few players in this years draft and we are hoping the trend of first rounders continues. However, I do know it is nice to be on top and to point it out as well as gloat a little. No doubt that if we wanted to break it down by state, Texas is the second best NFL player producing state which is far more than Oklahoma will ever be able to say.
On a side note, 10 years is a good measuring stick of a program as it is a solid round number with calculations being easy to manufacture from it.
He cut it off at 2000
Because I believe the stats he’s using are coming from a Rivals story that was released today covering this very subject. So, if I’m not mistaken as to his source, if it’s an arbitrary date as you say, it’s really more on the part of Rivals not CC.
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Started at 2000 because of the Stoops era/turn of the century
Should have made that more clear in the post
by ccmachine on Apr 26, 2011 3:47 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
Gotcha
Guess it was just an odd coincidence, my bad.
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So only the 2 this year?
Texas has 4 (A Williams, Ch Brown, Cu Brown, Sam Acho) plus 2-3 that may be late rounders (Eddie Jones, Kyle Hix, Greg Smith) so we may catch yall…
There are others but
Carter and Murray should be the first two taken
by ccmachine on Apr 26, 2011 4:20 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
I have no problem with the facts...just pointing out the parameters
found this on SB nation a month ago, it does a pretty good job as far as I can tell, all I can say is wow about ND and USC…
Also wasn’t trying to rain on yall’s parade, what OU did last year in the draft made me proud of our conference, if I was there I would have chanted BIG12! to shut out all those stupid SEC chants.
And BTW I am from Longview, TX and played ball with both Malcolm Kelly and Trent Williams<<<who was my backup in fall of 2003. I played RT next to his fat brother Freddie who stepped on my foot during a double team in the 2nd game of the year breaking multiple bones and tearing the major ligament. I played through the rest of the game but unfortunately it ended my SR year but it gave Trent some valuable playing time.
nice.... there is some stout football played in longview.
my inlaws live at lake fork. we usually take in a game or 2 around long view or tyler. of course around a bye week…
Funny story about the district, back in 2000-2004 it was messed up...
before 2000 the district had Marshall and Nacogdoches in it but they dropped to 4A
then they tried to redraw the district and put in Rockwall and Desoto with Lufkin Longview John Tyler and Tyler Lee but they complained and got out of joining.
So the district had only 4 schools in it that played each other twice a season, round robin home and homes, of which 3 of the 4 went to the playoffs (2 little 5A 1 big).
One year (’03 I think) the district was really good overall; Longview and Lufkin both split the series and both beat Tyler Lee twice, everyone beat John Tyler. Because of the school size Robert E Lee Tyler went to big 5A and Longview and Lufkin went to little. Longview and Lufkin won all their games until they had to play each other for a third time in quarter finals, Lufkin won but then was beat in the semi finals but South Lake Carroll who won it all, however Lee ended up winning state in big 5A, having never beat Longview or Lufkin…just a weird turn of events. Now Lufkin plays the North Houston schools and Tyler Lee/Longview play the Eastern Dallas schools 3 of which are in Mesquite. John Tyler dropped to 4A.
yeah its all jacked up.
I am in Wichita Falls. we usually get to see some good games in the playoffs as the neutral site….
Lufkin should be with the N H-town schools. Are Marshall & Nacogdoches in the same 4 A district?
Just looked it up
Lufkin plays with Conroe and Humble schools
and Nacogdoches and Marshall play together with Kilgore, Hallsville, John Tyler and the reject Longview schools…just found out that Kilgore’s big rival Henderson just moved down to 3A.
I'll give you this
You are one skilled sabateur. Bravo.
by KratosWasASooner on Apr 26, 2011 10:55 PM CDT up reply actions
Why are tyler lee & Tyler John Tyler separate?
I used to be more current working in sports medicine, but stopped 4 years ago….
by OU JJ on Apr 26, 2011 11:17 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
its been heading that way for a while...
All the good athletes have been transferring to Tyler Lee for the past 15 years or so and John Tyler’s competitiveness in nearly all sports has been suffering, this transferred over rather quickly to an academic perception as well and more people began moving to the Lee side of town which was booming. JT’s side dropped in population and when they tried to redistrict the lines moving many people back into JT they had a big uproar. So…they left it alone and eventually the population difference between them grew to where now Lee is 5A and JT is 4A. Something similar happened in Longview where they moved the lines to get Springhill, Pine Tree, White House, and Hallsville all in 4A which caused Longview to drop to 4A for a couple of years but the community got upset so they changed it back pretty quickly so they could have at least one 5A school in the area.
IF YOU HAVEN'T
SEEN IT.. There is a good list of accomplishments put up today on soonersports. It’s pretty incredible.
by jbb10 on Apr 26, 2011 7:09 PM CDT via mobile reply actions
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