The effect could also go the other way

May 15, 2020
12:25:35pm

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Players choose BYU because of culture/honor code/church who would otherwise have gone elsewhere. We win some guys just because there's no place like BYU.

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Blog: Where Are They Now? BYU Football Commits That Got Away View

[Cougs Daily] Casey Lundquist

5/15/20 8:30am

Ouch. Those look like some good players.

Brigham

5/15/20 8:32am

and after you can go on Facebook and see what is going on with your ex

Charles Darwin

5/15/20 8:32am

Looks like she signed with Notre Dame

4th and Niner

5/15/20 8:37am

Not even that. More like a girl you had a crush on but would never go out w/ you

Lip Gallagher

5/15/20 9:11am

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Lip Gallagher

5/15/20 9:09am

One thing that rarely gets discussed - selection bias

bythenumbers

5/15/20 11:32am

I've considered similar things.

CosmoK

5/15/20 11:41am

Haha. Simpler is better. I think there's something to it.

bythenumbers

5/15/20 11:48am

If an LDS player is offered by BYU and, say, NMST and chooses NMST. . .

CosmoK

5/15/20 12:01pm

The effect could also go the other way

bythenumbers

5/15/20 12:25pm

It might if you assume BYU has no differentiating factors beyond the success of the football program.

YIsForBrigham

5/15/20 12:13pm

I think that is completely silly but maybe I misunderstood....

Pretorian

5/15/20 12:12pm

I'm saying players have more information about their abilities than ratings

bythenumbers

5/15/20 12:31pm

The term “better options” all depends on what you value and how smart you are...

Pretorian

5/15/20 1:22pm

All Poly players. Was hoping Kalani would be able to snag more top players.

Forzaitalia

5/15/20 12:02pm

Maybe they had no intention of going to BYU?

Elwood Blues

5/15/20 4:44pm

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