FSU sports coaching longevity (updated)

Have to say, FSU does an amazing job with coaching stability.  Doesn't even note the decades Bobby was HC at FSU.

Sue Semrau has eclipsed 400 wins this season. Leonard Hamilton just hit the 500 win mark. Lonni Alameda is all of 13 wins away from 600. Chris Poole hit the 800 career wins mark last fall. And then there’s 11...who’s 32 wins away from 1,976.

Yeah, not too shabby.

— Shawn Davison (@SDavisonPxP) February 16, 2018

Shaping up to be quite a milestone year for #Nole coaches. Hyde got 200 at FSU, Hultquist got 300, @CoachSueFSU got 400, @FSUCoachHam got 500 overall, @Coach_Alameda will get to 600, 11 will get the all-time wins record. And @CoachTaggart is gonna get win #1 as a #Nole. #Nice

— Tom Block (@_TomBlock) February 17, 2018

FSU records

Jimbo Fisher records AT FSU......A&M needs to borrow those FSU records.

25 largest Twitter accounts by followers for College Baseball

As college baseball gets underway, here are the 25 largest Twitter accounts by followers. #smsports pic.twitter.com/ZQk3yiYmVk

— SkullSparks (@SkullSparks) February 19, 2018

Composite rankings (Update)

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/roster-talent-rankings-college-football-teams-with-the-best-players-in-2018/

In the College Football Playoff era, 11 of the 16 available spots have been awarded to four teams: Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State and Oklahoma. Each of these programs has recruited at or near the top of their conference and average at top-15 recruiting class in the College Football Playoff era. Additionally, the teams occupying the other five playoff bids of the era (Georgia, Florida State, Oregon, Washington and Michigan State) all fall in the top 25 of our rolling talent rankings.  

Now that 2018 National Signing Day is in the books, those rankings (a five-year average of the 247Sports Composite team rankings) can be updated to give a preview of the most talented teams in college football for 2018.

Team	Conference	Five-year average	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Alabama	SEC	2.2	1	1	1	1	7
Ohio State	Big Ten	3.6	3	7	4	2	2
Georgia	SEC	5.0	8	6	7	3	1
Florida State	ACC	5.2	4	3	2	6	11
USC	Pac-12	5.6	10	2	8	4	4
LSU	SEC	6.4	2	5	3	7	15
Auburn	SEC	9.0	6	9	9	9	12
Clemson	ACC	11.6	18	8	10	16	6
Notre Dame	INDIE	12.0	11	13	15	11	10
Tennessee	SEC	12.4	7	4	14	17	20
Texas A&M	SEC	12.8	5	11	19	12	17
Texas	Big 12	13.4	17	10	11	26	3
Oklahoma	Big 12	13.4	14	15	21	8	9
Florida	SEC	13.4	9	21	13	10	14
Penn State	Big Ten	15.6	24	14	20	15	5
Miami	ACC	16.2	12	26	22	13	8
UCLA	Pac-12	16.2	19	12	12	20	18
Michigan	Big Ten	17.8	20	38	5	5	21
Ole Miss	SEC	19.8	15	17	6	30	31
Oregon	Pac-12	20.0	21	16	28	19	16
South Carolina	SEC	20.2	16	19	26	21	19
Stanford	Pac-12	21.2	13	24	16	14	39
Washington	Pac-12	25.6	37	27	29	22	13
Michigan State	Big Ten	26.6	25	22	18	36	32
Mississippi State	SEC	27.0	35	18	31	24	27

Where the recent national champions (since 2010) rank: Alabama (2.2), Clemson (11.6), Ohio State (3.6), Florida State (5.2), Auburn (9.0)

Elite recruiting, no CFP appearances: USC (5.6), LSU (6.4), Auburn (9.0), Notre Dame (12.0)

Just outside the top 25: Nebraska (27.2), Arizona State (28.6), North Carolina (28.6), Virginia Tech (29.2), Baylor (29.8)

https://www.sbnation.com/college-football-recruiting/2018/2/8/16990550/college-football-recruiting-rankings-2018-class

Below are 2017, five-year, and two-year rankings.

The two-year rankings are what I use in projections, but I wanted to share all of it because I know some people like thinking in terms of five-year trends.

College football 2- and 5-year recruiting rankings

Team	2018 class pctile (Rk)	2018 Rk	5-year avg	5yr Rk	2-year avg	2yr Rk	Chg in 2yr Rk
Team	2018 class pctile (Rk)	2018 Rk	5-year avg	5yr Rk	2-year avg	2yr Rk	Chg in 2yr Rk
Ohio State	99.6%	2	98.7%	2	99.6%	1	1
Georgia	99.7%	1	97.8%	3	99.4%	2	3
USC	98.8%	3	97.5%	5	98.7%	3	4
Alabama	97.0%	7	99.0%	1	98.4%	4	-3
Florida State	95.1%	10	97.8%	4	96.8%	5	-2
Oklahoma	96.1%	9	92.7%	11	96.4%	6	6
LSU	92.5%	14	96.9%	6	95.1%	7	-1
Penn State	97.8%	5	89.8%	16	94.8%	8	9
Miami-FL	97.0%	8	89.1%	17	94.6%	9	9
Notre Dame	94.5%	11	94.1%	8	93.4%	10	0
Auburn	94.2%	12	95.1%	7	92.7%	11	-2
Clemson	97.0%	6	94.0%	9	92.3%	12	-1
Florida	90.3%	15	91.6%	13	92.0%	13	-5
Texas A&M	90.0%	16	93.3%	10	91.1%	14	-1
Michigan	79.9%	23	83.8%	22	89.3%	15	-11
Texas	98.3%	4	91.1%	14	88.3%	16	3
Washington	93.0%	13	79.1%	24	88.0%	17	9
Oregon	89.8%	17	85.3%	19	87.6%	18	5
UCLA	86.9%	18	90.4%	15	86.0%	19	-4
South Carolina	85.3%	19	85.6%	18	85.5%	20	2
Tennessee	82.2%	20	91.7%	12	85.0%	21	-7
Nebraska	81.5%	21	78.4%	25	82.9%	22	-1
Maryland	75.5%	27	68.5%	37	80.4%	23	9
Virginia Tech	80.8%	22	76.3%	29	78.8%	24	14
North Carolina	79.3%	24	78.2%	26	77.8%	25	4
Mississippi State	77.3%	25	77.5%	27	77.6%	26	5
Stanford	61.2%	45	83.9%	21	75.7%	27	-11
Louisville	74.9%	28	70.9%	34	74.6%	28	8
Kentucky	70.7%	35	75.6%	30	73.6%	29	1
Ole Miss	74.7%	29	84.3%	20	73.4%	30	-10
TCU	77.0%	26	72.2%	33	73.4%	31	-3
Utah	69.6%	37	65.4%	41	73.0%	32	1
Michigan State	74.5%	30	79.7%	23	72.7%	33	-8
Baylor	74.3%	31	74.7%	31	71.5%	34	-10
Oklahoma State	71.8%	34	69.6%	36	70.1%	35	5
Wisconsin	67.7%	39	70.6%	35	69.2%	36	-1
Pittsburgh	67.2%	40	64.7%	42	68.3%	37	-3
Arizona State	70.3%	36	76.4%	28	67.6%	38	-1
Iowa	66.9%	41	59.7%	46	66.4%	39	2
NC State	74.0%	32	68.0%	38	66.2%	40	6
Arkansas	52.7%	58	73.7%	32	65.4%	41	-14
West Virginia	72.2%	33	66.8%	39	65.0%	42	1
Colorado	57.5%	50	52.6%	57	64.7%	43	7
Missouri	64.9%	42	65.9%	40	63.7%	44	5
Arizona	55.4%	53	64.2%	43	60.4%	45	-3
Washington State	61.1%	46	56.0%	52	60.0%	46	6
Minnesota	68.1%	38	57.5%	48	59.8%	47	6
Georgia Tech	56.1%	51	57.3%	49	59.5%	48	6
Iowa State	55.8%	52	53.9%	55	58.4%	49	2
Illinois	55.1%	54	51.6%	59	57.5%	50	9
Duke	51.5%	59	58.8%	47	57.3%	51	-12
Vanderbilt	63.9%	44	56.9%	50	57.0%	52	5
Rutgers	51.1%	60	50.6%	60	56.5%	53	10
Northwestern	53.1%	57	55.9%	53	55.8%	54	-7
Cincinnati	60.2%	48	48.7%	64	55.0%	55	12
Indiana	60.6%	47	56.1%	51	54.3%	56	6
California	64.7%	43	62.9%	44	54.1%	57	-9
Syracuse	53.8%	55	52.0%	58	52.9%	58	3
Texas Tech	41.9%	71	59.8%	45	52.1%	59	-15
Oregon State	42.6%	70	53.2%	56	51.6%	60	-15
Virginia	47.5%	64	55.6%	54	49.6%	61	-1
Purdue	57.6%	49	45.2%	69	49.4%	62	10
Kansas	53.6%	56	44.6%	70	49.2%	63	14
Kansas State	47.4%	65	50.1%	61	49.1%	64	4
Boise State	51.0%	61	48.6%	65	48.9%	65	-1
Central Florida	42.9%	69	47.5%	67	47.9%	66	-8
Wake Forest	50.2%	62	49.3%	62	46.0%	67	-1
Boston College	44.2%	67	47.8%	66	44.5%	68	3
South Florida	49.2%	63	49.0%	63	43.3%	69	0
Houston	44.5%	66	42.8%	71	42.2%	70	-14
Memphis	31.8%	84	38.5%	75	40.4%	71	-6
BYU	31.2%	85	46.4%	68	39.0%	72	-17
Toledo	40.4%	73	30.3%	81	37.0%	73	10
Southern Miss	35.0%	77	29.8%	82	35.9%	74	7
San Diego State	34.3%	79	38.9%	74	35.7%	75	-1
UTSA	34.1%	80	24.3%	94	35.7%	76	10
Florida Atlantic	27.4%	90	31.2%	79	34.3%	77	2
Western Michigan	41.3%	72	40.3%	72	33.4%	78	-5
Tulane	43.7%	68	28.6%	84	32.9%	79	13
Marshall	38.9%	74	40.2%	73	32.8%	80	-5
East Carolina	29.4%	86	32.0%	78	32.7%	81	-3
Colorado State	29.4%	87	31.0%	80	32.2%	82	-12
Florida International	37.2%	76	24.8%	91	32.2%	83	10
SMU	31.8%	83	32.8%	77	31.7%	84	-8
Western Kentucky	33.3%	81	26.7%	87	30.9%	85	6
Louisiana Tech	37.4%	75	28.7%	83	30.6%	86	4
Tulsa	27.0%	91	26.4%	89	28.3%	87	-2
Bowling Green	26.2%	92	21.9%	97	27.0%	88	11
Arkansas State	32.3%	82	25.4%	90	26.2%	89	6
Temple	34.7%	78	37.5%	76	25.4%	90	-10
Northern Illinois	28.3%	88	20.8%	101	24.6%	91	26
Navy	20.8%	98	27.3%	86	24.0%	92	-4
Middle Tennessee	18.4%	101	24.6%	93	23.8%	93	-9
Georgia State	27.4%	89	19.2%	105	23.8%	94	21
Fresno State	15.9%	106	26.4%	88	22.6%	95	-13
Connecticut	23.1%	95	21.9%	96	22.3%	96	6
Troy	24.5%	93	20.6%	102	22.1%	97	-3
Nevada	23.5%	94	21.7%	98	21.3%	98	6
North Texas	22.6%	96	19.1%	106	21.0%	99	15
Texas State	19.4%	100	20.1%	104	20.7%	100	5
Ball State	12.5%	115	18.1%	109	19.2%	101	0
UL-Monroe	16.6%	103	16.8%	115	19.0%	102	11
Miami-OH	10.6%	121	21.9%	95	18.8%	103	-16
UNLV	20.0%	99	21.5%	99	18.5%	104	-15
Hawaii	15.8%	107	14.9%	119	18.4%	105	6
Georgia Southern	20.9%	97	24.6%	92	18.4%	106	-10
Central Michigan	12.3%	116	17.2%	113	18.1%	107	-1
San Jose State	16.2%	105	27.3%	85	17.3%	108	-8
Appalachian State	14.8%	110	20.4%	103	16.4%	109	3
Army	16.5%	104	16.4%	116	15.7%	110	-2
Wyoming	9.4%	124	16.1%	117	15.4%	111	-1
Charlotte	11.6%	118	14.9%	120	15.3%	112	7
Ohio	14.4%	111	17.4%	111	15.1%	113	3
New Mexico	9.1%	126	18.3%	108	15.0%	114	-16
Utah State	9.4%	125	17.2%	112	13.9%	115	-6
Massachusetts	11.1%	119	17.9%	110	13.3%	116	-19
UAB	17.7%	102	14.9%	121	13.3%	117	-14
South Alabama	13.4%	113	18.4%	107	13.2%	118	-11
Kent State	14.9%	108	12.5%	126	12.7%	119	-9
UL-Lafayette	10.8%	120	16.9%	114	12.3%	120	-2
Eastern Michigan	13.4%	112	13.2%	123	11.5%	121	5
Old Dominion	10.3%	122	20.9%	100	11.5%	122	1
Rice	7.6%	127	15.4%	118	10.8%	123	1
New Mexico State	12.5%	114	11.3%	128	10.4%	124	3
Buffalo	5.6%	130	14.3%	122	10.1%	125	-5
Akron	11.9%	117	13.0%	124	9.7%	126	-3
UTEP	9.4%	123	12.2%	127	9.5%	127	5
Coastal Carolina	14.9%	109			9.1%	128
Air Force	7.1%	128	12.8%	125	7.3%	129	-8
Liberty	6.7%	129			7.1%	130

(Note: Service academy recruiting rankings are notoriously strange. A lot of guys commit, many don’t get accepted, many change their plans, and plenty without recruiting profiles end up on the roster. So the grain-of-salt method is the way to go with Army, Navy, and Air Force.)

There are rarely a ton of changes here — the teams that recruit well tend to be the teams that always recruit well. Still, there are some interesting shifts. As it pertains to the S&P+ projections, here are some of the most important:

Largest positive change in two-year recruiting rankings (Power 5)

• Virginia Tech (14 spots, from 38th to 24th)
• Kansas (14 spots, from 77th to 63rd)
• Rutgers (10 spots, from 63rd to 53rd)
• Purdue (10 spots, from 72nd to 62nd)
• Penn State (nine spots, from 17th to eighth)
• Miami (nine spots, from 18th to ninth)
• Washington (nine spots, from 26th to 17th)
• Maryland (nine spots, from 32nd to 23rd)
• Illinois (nine spots, from 59th to 50th)
• Louisville (eight spots, from 36th to 28th)

Obviously a list of rising rankings is going to feature a lot of teams that started really far down the list (with lots of room to rise), but two of the top 10 risers were already doing reasonably well.

Both Penn State and Miami have kicked their respective recruiting games up a notch or two. Penn State’s 2018 haul finished fifth overall in my percentile ratings, ahead of Alabama, while Miami finished eighth, just behind the Crimson Tide. James Franklin has taken full advantage of PSU’s recent on-field success, while it appears that both Georgia and Miami benefited when the former fired head coach Mark Richt and the latter picked him up.

Three other teams rose a decent length to join the two-year top 25: Washington, Virginia Tech, and Maryland. Terps head coach D.J. Durkin is doing all he can from a recruiting standpoint; we’ll see if that begins to translate on the field in 2018.

And now we look at the other side: the teams that are falling.

Largest negative change in two-year recruiting rankings (Power 5*)

• Oregon State (15 spots, from 45th to 60th)
• Texas Tech (15 spots, from 44th to 59th)
• Arkansas (14 spots, from 27th to 41st)
• Duke (12 spots, from 39th to 51st)
• Stanford (11 spots, from 16th to 27th)
• Michigan (11 spots, from fourth to 15th)
• Baylor (10 spots, from 24th to 34th)
• Ole Miss (10 spots, from 20th to 30th)
• California (nine spots, from 48th to 57th)
• Michigan State (eight spots, from 25th to 33rd)

'all time' recruiting rankings (2002) (update)

FSU #1 (Tied with USC with most 5 stars signed all time (as of 2018)) with 57.



https://www.sbnation.com/college-football-recruiting/2018/2/14/17003548/recruiting-rankings-all-time-history

Who’s been the top recruiting team of the entire internet rankings era? The answer will probably surprise you.

The list of current FBS teams, going back to 2002, or the oldest year before the recorded rankings start getting pretty weird (recruiting ratings have been around forever, but only became a casually accessible thing around the turn of the millennium):

Average recruiting ranking, 2002-2018

Overall	Team	Current conference	Average ranking
Overall	Team	Current conference	Average ranking
1	USC	Pac-12	4.8
2	Georgia	SEC	6.8
3	Florida State	ACC	7.1
4	Florida	SEC	7.7
5	LSU	SEC	7.8
6	Texas	Big 12	8.5
7	Ohio State	Big Ten	10.2
8	Alabama	SEC	10.2
9	Oklahoma	Big 12	10.4
10	Michigan	Big Ten	12.6
11	Miami	ACC	12.8
12	Notre Dame	Independent	13.6
13	Tennessee	SEC	13.7
14	Auburn	SEC	13.8
15	Texas A&M	SEC	17.5
16	Clemson	ACC	19.3
17	South Carolina	SEC	20.5
18	Oregon	Pac-12	22.7
19	Penn State	Big Ten	22.7
20	UCLA	Pac-12	24.7
21	Nebraska	Big Ten	26.1
22	North Carolina	ACC	27.5
23	Ole Miss	SEC	27.8
24	Virginia Tech	ACC	27.9
25	Arkansas	SEC	28.7
26	Mississippi State	SEC	28.8
27	Washington	Pac-12	29.7
28	Stanford	Pac-12	30.2
29	Arizona State	Pac-12	31.8
30	Oklahoma State	Big 12	31.9
31	California	Pac-12	32.1
32	Maryland	Big Ten	32.8
33	Michigan State	Big Ten	33.4
34	Missouri	SEC	36.0
35	Wisconsin	Big Ten	39.4
36	West Virginia	Big 12	40.4
37	Virginia	ACC	40.7
38	Pittsburgh	ACC	41.3
39	Arizona	Pac-12	41.4
40	NC State	ACC	41.8
41	Texas Tech	Big 12	42.8
42	Iowa	Big Ten	42.9
43	Louisville	ACC	44.4
44	Baylor	Big 12	45.2
45	Illinois	Big Ten	45.3
46	TCU	Big 12	45.8
47	Rutgers	Big Ten	45.9
48	Colorado	Pac-12	47.0
49	Kentucky	SEC	47.6
50	Oregon State	Pac-12	48.5
51	Georgia Tech	ACC	50.4
52	Kansas State	Big 12	51.1
53	Utah	Pac-12	51.7
54	Washington State	Pac-12	52.0
55	Boston College	ACC	52.1
56	Minnesota	Big Ten	52.6
57	Kansas	Big 12	55.0
58	Iowa State	Big 12	55.7
59	Purdue	Big Ten	56.3
60	BYU	Independent	56.6
61	Vanderbilt	SEC	58.2
62	Syracuse	ACC	58.2
63	USF	AAC	59.1
64	Duke	ACC	60.1
65	Indiana	Big Ten	62.1
66	Northwestern	Big Ten	62.1
67	Houston	AAC	65.8
68	Wake Forest	ACC	67.2

5. Conference rankings show something like four tiers.

Average rankings, based on current membership (that’s imperfect, since teams have changed conferences, but it’s what’s happening here):

1. SEC, 23.2
2. Pac-12, 34.7
3. Big 12, 38.7
4. Big Ten, 38.8
5. ACC, 39.4
6. American, 77.9
7. Mountain West, 90.2
8. Conference USA, 99
9. MAC, 101.4
10. Sun Belt, 111.8

The SEC stands alone, which makes sense. It dominates the most talented region and doesn’t depend on just a couple teams to bring in all its five-stars, like most other power leagues usually do. For all the talk about the SEC being top-heavy in the Alabama era (which is sometimes true in individual seasons), the league’s had four different schools win titles since 2002. The Big 12, Big Ten, and Pac-12 have one title-winning school each in that span.

The AAC and MWC stand apart from the Group of 5, and not just because their numbers include lots of rankings by once and future Power 5 teams.

7. Your hardest power-conference jobs, more or less:

1. Wake Forest
2. Northwestern
3. Indiana
4. Duke
5. Syracuse
6. Vanderbilt
7. Purdue

Northwestern’s had a handful of 10-win seasons, but S&P+ has Indiana as the best recent program in this group. The numbers evidently prefer a team that nearly beats elite teams to a team whose games are always 17-10, no matter the opponent.

Please never forget that time Wake Forest won the ACC.

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