Its really quiet here in my office so I went back and took a look at a 6-year run of my recruiting classes at Miami in Phelan.  I'm starting with my recruiting class in S36 and ending with the class in S41 - the remaining players in S41 class will be seniors this year so I have a full data set on those guys.  I'm presenting this initially as interesting data and attempting to make no editorial comments about whether this experience with EEs is bad or good.  If this thread gets some responses I'll chime in with my editorial comments later.

• This was a relatively good 6-year run for Miami: 1 NC loss, 2 Final Fours, 1 Elite Eight, 2 2nd round losses
• I generally play a pretty balanced roster 4-5 guards, 1-2 SF, 4-6 bigs.
• My classes were distributed in a way that would've required me to sign 20 players if all stayed 4 years.
• I signed 23 players.
• Of the 23 guys I signed, 8 were guards (6 PG, 2 SG), 3 were SF, 12 were bigs (7 PF, 5 C).
• Out of the 23 I signed, 14 left early.
• Of the remaining 9, 6 stayed all 4 years and were drafted.
• The remaining 3 losers stayed all 4 years and were not drafted (including a 920+ SF...wtf?).
• I signed 1 Ineligible player that stayed 5 years.
• The average "roster life" for all players was 3.2 years
• The average time a player that eventually went EE stayed on my roster was 2.6 years.
• 1 player left after his FR year, 3 left after their SO years, the remaining 10  EEs left after their JR year
• Of the 12 bigs I signed, all were drafted and 10 of the 12 left early (all 5 C went early, 5 of 7 PFs went early)
• Bigs stayed on average 2.9 years (including the 5-year inel). PFs roster life was 2.9 years, C were 3.0 years
• All 5 of the C I signed stayed exactly 3 years
• SF stayed on average 3 years - 2 went early, 1 stayed 4 years
• Of the 8 guards I signed, 2 went early.
• Guards stayed on average a little under 3.8 years (PG a little over 3.8, SG 3.5)

Did you keep track of how many stars, overall rank, and postition rank of the players?

Unfortunately, no. I know you're getting at the quality of incoming players by position but what I can tell you is that, aside from two guards I signed to play pure PG that didn't have high enough ratings to go early or get drafted, all these guys were Top 20 guys.  There was no skew toward better bigs that I was conscious of.

Good info man. Thanks.

interesting info - if you recruited lesser guys like I do, you would have fewer EEs!