This SEC School Produces More NFL Draft Busts Than Any Other Program, And I’m Not At All Surprised

We’re a week away from the 2016 NFL which will take place at Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre (can you be more redundant with your theater names, Chicago?). As we march towards this year’s NFL Draft we’ve entered that final stage of the news cycle where the ‘experts’ have exhausted any and all analysis.

What we’re seeing now is the dismantling of previous NFL draft picks and the NCAA programs from which those players were drafted. The bros over at USA Today’s ‘For The Win‘ put together two charts, one showing the NCAA Football programs that produce the most NFL Draft busts, and another chart that shows the programs which produce the least amount of NFL Draft busts.

Unsurprisingly the list of ‘schools that produce the most busts’ is headlined by an SEC program. What is surprising though is there is only 1 SEC school on that list:

Had to toss in this meme for good measure:

Listen, I hate the University of Florida Gators as much (if not MORE) than 99% of the population. That said, I do think that they’ve had an impressive program for decades. You really cannot make a legitimate argument claiming that the Gators are a dumpster program, because they’ve racked up a ton of impressive wins over the years. I do think that being in the SEC is why they’re on this list though, because they’ve got the almighty ESPN hype train in their corner, artificially inflating the coverage of their program which in turn leads to more hype around their prospective NFL draft picks.

Moving on, these are the programs that produce the fewest NFL draft busts:

After fifteen years the University of Miami Hurricanes are still riding the laurels of that 2001 National Championship team, considered by many to be the greatest NCAA football team in history.

Anyways, I’m pretty bummed to see my Florida State Seminoles on that list of NFL Draft Busts but I’ll go ahead and chalk those ‘busts’ up to the Lost Decade in which Bobby Bowden rode off into the sunset before Jimbo Fisher came in and revitalized the program, returning the Seminoles to national prominence.

To see how the Power 5 programs rank versus non-Power 5, in terms of NFL Draft busts, CLICK HERE to head on over to For The Win!

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