Posted by dahsdebater on 6/13/2019 12:12:00 PM (view original):
I think it's a mistake to just rule out any group of players based on a single characteristic. The flaws that make a player undesirable to D1 human coaches don't necessarily make them bad options at D3. For example, my #108 at his position guy I have right now is Andrew Negrete. It's very obvious why he dropped to a D3 team - his defense isn't good enough for D1. It would be pretty subpar for D2. But he's a very nice D3 player. Not a superstar, but a very nice player. It wouldn't make sense to avoid him just because his relatively high positional ranking suggests that D1 teams have probably looked at him and passed.
If I’m reading sportsbulls right, he’s talking about players ranked above 200 overall. So on average, about #40 or so by position. That’s still *really high* for D3, and it’s usually too high for D2. Probably a couple of those guys drop to D3 every few years, but it’s generally because no one at D1 or D2 want them. I generally agree, #100 by position is about the ceiling. But as you say, I don’t exclude anyone just based on OVR; if they start pretty low in ath/def, but I can project them to be useful and worthy of the resources and risk to take a shot, I’ll go after a higher level player. In general, if you aren’t getting challenged for recruits by higher level teams, you might want to think about aiming a little higher.