TrackingFootball has been a national leader in researching the high school multiple sports background of football players at all levels. We recently focused our attention on the 2015 recruiting classes of B1G football programs. Overall 84% of all B1G recruits had multiple sports backgrounds in high school. In addition there were more three sport athletes […]
College Football Recruiting
Alabama football players showing up on the track
Matt Zenitz of al.com recently posted an article featuring 4 Alabama football players who recently completed their 2015 college track season. Anthony Averett, Tony Brown, Marlon Humphrey, and Bradley Sylve were also track participants in high school. Tracking Football has PAI scores on each of them from when they were being recruited. The PAI scores listed […]
Most Powerful College Football Recruits of 2014
College Football Signing Day is tomorrow…with that in mind let’s take a look at some of the most powerful recruits from 2014. We’ll look at the Top 50 high school shot put and discus performances from 2014 recruits. You can bet quite a few of the names on this list will be drafted and play in the NFL in […]
Most Explosive College Football Recruits of 2014
College Football Signing Day is tomorrow…with that in mind let’s take a look at some of the most explosive recruits. We’ll look at the Top 50 recruits’ long jump and triple jump performances in high school. Those performance numbers can tell us a lot as the explosive ability indicated by these events tends to transfer […]
Top 100 meter times 2014 Division I-FBS recruits
The day before 2015 college football Division I-FBS Signing Day seems like an appropriate time to look back at 2014 recruits . Listed below are the 100 fastest recruits from 2014 based on 100 meter times. This data was compiled, authenticated and organized by TrackingFootball.com. A few names at the top of the list stick out…Tyreek Hill, K.D. Cannon and […]
The Ohio State Recruiting Graph that’s Breaking the Internet
This graphic has generated almost 1,000,000 shares on Facebook and over 18K retweets on Twitter, thanks in part to a blog called High School Sports Stuff. Kudos to that gentleman for bringing attention to this graphic and the interesting topic of multi-sport participation vs specialization in high school sports. But I would like to give credit where credit is […]
Big Ten Football Recruiting Classes and Multi-Sports
Recently we looked at recruiting classes throughout the Big Ten, keep in mind the conference has expanded to 14 teams. So this was not a small amount of research and we totaled 305 recruits across the 14 teams. Specifically we looked at multi-sport participation and track participation by recruits. KEY STATS: * Overall multi-sport participation […]
SEC Football recruits more speed than Big Ten?
Recently we crunched 2014 recruiting data on the five “power” teams from both the SEC Conference and Big Ten Conference. What we found was 40 yard dash averages, gathered from ESPN, Rivals and team sites, was nearly identical across the two conferences. So taking 40 times to try to establish a speed differential between SEC and Big Ten […]
Leonard Fournette vs. Herschel Walker vs. Bo Jackson?!
LSU’s 2014 super recruit Leonard Fournette has been favorably compared to several of the SEC’s all-time great running backs. How can Fournette possibly be compared to the likes of Bo Jackson or Herschel Walker when he hasn’t even played a down of SEC-ball? Is it even fair? Not really. Can he even be compared with Georgia’s current stud running back Todd Gurley or […]
Texas Longhorns still recruiting speed despite coaching change
The Texas Longhorns have seen some major changes since Mack Brown’s departure and Charlie Strong’s takeover as head coach. One thing that has not changed is UT’s recruiting of speed. Sure, everyone says “there’s more speed in Texas” and all the kids down there run track. However, there are plenty of football programs in and around Texas […]