Football Academic Index/banding

varska
Fri, 24 May 2013 18:48:42 +0000

I don’t think the band system in football is necessarily due to football players having lower grades and test scores. I think it has more to do with preventing coaches from bringing on 10 guys at the AI floor and balancing it with 20 high AI recruits that will never play. When you’re bringing on 30 recruits like they do in football, there’s a lot of potential for index shenanigans.

Along those lines - I don’t think there’s an inverse relationship between AI and athletic ability, but there is obviously a much bigger pool of athletes at the 176 cutoff than the 205 cutoff.