The Kings of the Quintiles

[Wrestleknownothing]

@Dark Energy asked "what about The Other Guys?" in the Big Board Big Boys thread. And he wasn't talking about Allen "Gator" Gamble and Terry "The Yankee Clipper" Hoitz.

He was talking about the teams that do well recruiting outside of The Big Board Top 20.

But before we get into that, a shout out to The Brain, @Husker_Du, for setting me up with a better, more complete, and higher quality, consistent data set for The BB. He was kind enough to fill in the blanks for me and replace the years Flo attempted to replicate his Brain, with his actual Brain. So now there are little bits of Willie all over these rankings. Read on if you dare.

Breaking down The Big Board into groups of 20 and merging it with the AA data we get the following Kings of the Quintiles below the first quintile.

• Northwestern and Missouri have done the best mining the wrestlers ranked 21 - 100 (plus and honorable mention) with 14 AA's from those ranks over the past 10 recruiting classes (2013 - 2022).
• However, it has been a struggle to keep these guys, as Eierman, Rivera and Micic all transferred.
• The other teams with double digit AA success are Virginia Tech and NC State.

 

 

• As expected there are not a huge number of NCAA winners from these quintiles, but there aren't none.
• The deed has been done five times. Nino Bonaccorsi at #30, Max Dean at #74 and Ryan Deakin at #97 we know about. But there was also Darian Cruz (#37), and Seth Gross (#47).

[Dark Energy]

Good stuff.  A good indication of great wrestler development by these programs.