Economists take on recruiting

National Signing Day is almost here, and a buddy of mine at work were chatting about it recently. He referred me to an interesting site maintained by three economists at Stetson University.

The College Football Recruiting Prediction Model contains information about an econometric model that has been developed by three economists (Mike DuMond, Allen Lynch and Jennifer Platania) to predict the collegiate choices of high school football players.

Their success rate is pretty impressive, but luckily for WVU fans they were wrong on two -- Michael Carter (predicted to go to Florida) and Eugene Smith (predicted to go to Alabama). The Mountaineers did lose one on their model -- Jerod Askew to Tennessee.

Tuesday will find out how accurate.