Could someone please post the first Project 40 class. Was that in 97? 96? I'm curous to see how many are still pros. Thanks
Re: Project 40 first year Inaugural class - 1997 Ubusuku Abukusumo played 430 minutes over 11 games (4 starts) from 1997-2000. The defender played one game in ’97, 7 in ’98, and 3 in ’99, and began 2000 on the books of the Mutiny but played no games. Jose Botello was a forward who spent three years with the LA Galaxy (1997-99), earning one assist in 191 minutes spread over ten games. Nino DaSilva spent four years in MLS as a forward with both Kansas City (1997-99) and the MetroStars (2000). He netted no goals or assists in thirteen games (three starts), comprising 400 minutes. Joey DiGimarino was a well-regarded player with Colorado from 1998-2000, before heading to Germany (2001-02) and returning to MLS with New York and Colorado in 2003-04, when injuries ended his career. His seven goals and eight assists all came during the first stint with the Rapids. Brian Dunseth had the longest career (most games and minutes) of the 1997 P-40 class. He appeared in 82 games for the Revolution, 10 for Miami, 46 for Columbus, 9 for Dallas, 24 for RSL, and in CONCACAF Champions Cup matches for the Galaxy. Carlos Parra spent no more time in MLS than da Silva or Abukusumo, but he appeared in many more games (57, with 34 starts) than either of the other two. A midfielder, he spent time with the MetroStars (1997-8), Miami (1998-99), and New England (1999-2000) and scored both a goal and an assist. Eric Quill also played through 2005. A forward, his best year was 2000 with Tampa Bay, when he scored five goals and added 11 assists playing alongside Big Mama, Mamadou Diallo, who scored 26 goals that season. Quill ended his career with 12 goals and 31 assists. Esmundo Rodriguez played midfield for San Jose (10 games) and Dallas (3) from 1997-2000; he had two starts, took two shots, and scored one goal in 347 minutes. Tim Sahaydak was a defender who did not appear for Miami during his first two years with P-40. He first appeared in 1999, and made 22 appearances (13 starts) through 2001. Juan Sastoque, a forward, was drafted by Dallas, and appeared in five games (no starts) over two seasons. He did not register a shot in his 72 minutes of action. Scott Vermillion was a defender who played with the US U17 and U20 teams, then started 22, 22, 24, and 21 games in his four MLS seasons. His career was cut short by injury, and he coaches in the Kansas City area now. Evaluation: four players (DiGimarino, Dunseth, Quill, and Vermillion) and arguably a fifth (Parra) found some measure of success in MLS. The other six clearly did not.
Re: Project 40 first year Nice! IIRC DiGimarino's serious injuries occurred during his time in Germany, didn't they? I thought there was a gap in there when he retired and then decided to come out of retirement and give it another go.
Re: Project 40 first year Remember when several of us thought (including me, full disclosure) that DiGi would be a critical part of the national team?
Re: Project 40 first year Nice stuff. Is the data available for all years available on the web somewhere?
Re: Project 40 first year Not that I know of; I have it for most P40 years. I could post it here if folks are interested.
Re: Project 40 first year That first year was a real disaster, wasn't it? Am I right that there's not a single All-Star game appearance in that whole group? In my book, that makes them 0 for 10 that year.
Second year - 1998 Class of 1998 Jamar Beasley was a can’t-miss prospect (“the Kobe Bryant of MLS”, he also signed directly from HS) who managed to, well, miss for the most part. A forward, he started three games total in 1998 and 1999 for the Revolution before breaking out with 7 goals and 6 assists in 2000 and 2001, when excessive partying ended his career. He plays in the MISL today. Judah Cooks was a seldom-used reserve midfielder on the MLS Cup winning side of DC United in 1999 (he did not play in the postseason). His MLS career comprised less than 900 minutes from ’98-2001; he was traded mid-season in 2001 to Miami, and played in fifteen minutes one game. Tim Howard certainly qualifies as a successful P-40 player. He played five and a half seasons for the MetroStars, becoming a part time starter in his second and third seasons (eight starts each year) and full time in 2001. His transfer to Manchester United midway through the 2003 season was a high point for the league. Andy Kirk was also a goalkeeper in the 1998 P40 class, and he starred with both the U-20 and U-23 national teams. He fared less well in MLS, going 3-10 in his first two seasons and retiring in 2000, having split time with San Jose (1998) and Tampa Bay (1999-2000). Alen Kozic played in six games over two seasons for the Miami Fusion. He managed two shots in 1999, and played less than 200 minutes total. He did enter a game in place of RSL fan favorite Pablo Mastroeni, in which the Fusion lost to the Rapids (yes, Pablo was a Miami man before a Rapids stalwart). Chad McCarty was a solid midfielder with Tampa Bay (1998-2001) and Columbus (2002-03); he missed almost the entire 2001 season after breaking his ankle during the first week or two of the season. He even earned a cap for the USNT in 1999. McCarty appeared in 97 games (87 starts) and scored three goals. He was captain of the 2000 US Olympic team that earned bronze in Sydney. Matt Napoleon spent five seasons in MLS but did not make an appearance in the final two. He played more than fellow P40 GK Howard in 1998 (four starts for Miami in 1998, though with a 3.00 GAA), but totaled only 14 appearances for the Fusion, Crew, Burn, and Rapids. Ben Olsen recently completed an MLS Best XI season, his tenth consecutive with DC United. His two hundred appearances would be lower if not for injuries which kept him from completing a move to England. Barry Swift had a fantastic name for a forward entering MLS with the MetroStars. His two appearances that year (thirty minutes, no shots) show that he did not live up to the billing as he was released in early 1999 (he is Trinidadian, so perhaps he played there later on). Brian West is fast. Very fast. Some people think all he was in MLS with the Crew was fast, but he did score 18 goals to go with 32 assists in six seasons; he also earned seven USNT caps in midfield before transferring to Norway. Important fact: he became the first P40/GA player to graduate from college. Josh Wolff set the rookie scoring record for the Fire in 1998, netting 7 goals, and went on to score 32 goals in five years before being traded to Kansas City in a salary cap move. He played the next four years for the Wizards (2003-06), scoring 27 more times, and appeared in many important USNT games, including the World Cup. Now plays for 1860 Munich in Germany. Evaluation: Four unqualified successes (Howard, Olsen, West, and Wolff), another solid player (McCarty), one major disappointment (Beasley), and five players who pretty clearly flamed out. Little better than 1997, but still not 50% success rate. Addendum: I understand that Scott Vermillon may have been part of this class as well, but was injured before officially joining the class.
Third year - 1999 Class of 1999 Chris Albright is a nine-year MLS vet who entered the league with DC United as a touted forward; his best offensive year came as a defender with LA in 2003. He has appeared in almost 200 games and, when healthy, is (was?) a common selection with the USNT. DaMarcus Beasley made Chicago’s senior roster in 2000, when he started eleven games. He was a Fire regular right up until his transfer to Holland shortly into the 2005 season, while his USNT career began shortly before the 2002 World Cup. Scott Bower was a touted midfielder at Clemson who was assigned to San Jose. He started 14 games over three seasons, with 41 total appearances, registering six assists. In 2002 he was loaned out to the Portland Timbers, and he retired shortly thereafter. Sergi Daniv was one of two Ukrainians who entered MLS with P40 this season. He played right midfield for Dallas for two seasons before moving to the Fire, where he joined the second P40 Ukrainian, Dema Kovalenko. In all he netted three goals and seven assists in 53 games (42 starts). Francisco Gomez played a number of productive seasons with Kansas City (1999-2004), before moving to Chivas USA during its inaugural campaign. With 11 goals and 16 assists in 126 games, he had a successful career before being released after the season. He was the player-coach for the Bakersfield Brigade of the USL this past season. Michael Green was on Kansas City’s roster for three seasons, finally seeing first time action in 2001, when he played for 154 minutes. The defender played in parts of three games, adding one assist. Dema Kovalenko entered the league as a forward, but found his role as a midfielder with Chicago in his second year. He has been in MLS ever since, with a short loan spell to FC St. Pauli between the 2001-02 MLS seasons and a very brief stay with a Ukrainian club prior to the 2006 season. He has also played for DC and the Red Bulls, with both 36 goals and 36 assists in his career. Matt Nyman is (according to Climbing the Ladder) one of only eight MLS players all-time who played only one US Open Cup or CONCACAF Championship game for his club, with no regular season or playoff appearances. He came on for Tampa Bay in a 3-2 USOC loss at Connecticut in 2001. Antonio Otero won an MLS Cup with DC United during his rookie season (though he did not appear in the playoffs), and played in 2000 as well (totaling 18 starts in 25 games, with one assist). He was one of several players shed by DC following their first-to-worst 2000 season, ending up with Miami, for which he did not make an appearance. Marvin Quijano was a forward assigned to the Galaxy; he played sparingly his first two seasons (just over 300 minutes) before earning 9 starts in 2001. He netted both of his career goals and added two assists that season. Quijano moved to Colorado in 2002 but played only 77 minutes that season. Maurizio Rocha’s career spanned two seasons with the Miami Fusion; the midfielder had three assists in thirteen games (six starts). The Bolivian later played with Rochester in the A-League. Seth Trembly was the first player to move from the Rapids (for whom he made 17 starts in 52 games over five seasons) to Real Salt Lake (an injury limited him to a single season, in which he made 11 starts in 22 games). In his career he had four goals and two assists. Scott Vallow was a backup goalkeeper for five MLS seasons with Dallas, Chicago, New England, Dallas again, and Colorado; he started and played in his only four games in 2003 with the Rapids, losing two and tying two in the process. Evaluation: Four players (Albright, Beasley, Gomez, and Kovalenko) could be considered MLS successes; RSL fans might find it interesting that the next most successful player was ex-RSLer Seth Trembly. The remaining 8 players had little or no success. --------------------- Running total: in 1997, 1998, and 1999, 35 players entered MLS through the Project 40 program. 12 (a rate of slightly less than 33%) were clearly successful. Two or three were solid to successful, and the remaining 20-21 players did not develop into good MLS players. Addendum: Scott Vallow, along with a player named Jim Welch, were under some sort of P40 provisional arrangement. Vallow entered the program; Welch did not. One report says that Tim Shadayak (drafted by Columbus and traded to Miami) was P40 but I couldn't (okay, didn't bother to!) confirm.
Re: Second year - 1998 1998 was a big advance. My personal criteria for a P40/GenAd class would be an All-Star appearance and/or a significant transfer. That would make Howard, Olsen, and Wolff the successes of this crop. West is pretty close, and you can understand the Beasley signing, he probably should have been just as successful or moreso than his brother. For '99 Albright and Beasley at least meet the criteria, and Kovalenko makes it or was pretty close.
Year four - 2000 Class of 2000 Shaker Asad had a relatively brief career with New England and Miami (he appeared only once for them before returning to New England when the Fusion were contracted following the 2001 season). He started twelve games, and had one goal and one assist. Kyle Beckerman played six more minutes for Miami than did Asad (14 to 8); he was selected by the Rapids, with whom he played five and a half seasons before being traded to Real Salt Lake in 2007. His best year to date was 2006, when he scored 7 goals and added 2 assists as a strong two way player. He made his first two USNT appearances in Copa America 2007. Carlos Bocanegra was an immediate starter for the Chicago Fire, taking the field in 27 games in 2000. In addition to anchoring the Fire backline, he added five goals and seven assists before being transferred to Fulham of the EPL following the 2003 season. He has captained the USNT regularly this summer. Danny Califf also played immediately upon joining MLS, starting 16 games for Los Angeles in 2000 and playing regularly for them through 2005, when he joined San Jose. He made 115 starts, scored 7 goals and tallied 4 assists before transferring to Aalborg in Denmark following the 2005 season. He also served one game as USNT captain in the 2007 Copa America. Bobby Convey appeared regularly for DC United from 2000 to early 2004 in midfield. Although he occasionally frustrated DC fans and USNT supporters alike, he played 84 times for DC and has 45 caps for the national team. While Convey’s initial transfer to the EPL with Tottenham was denied due to work permit issues, he returned temporarily to DC before heading to England with Reading. Micah Cooks joined his brother Judah with DC United for both the 2000 and 2001 seasons. He made two starts for the last place team in 2000, playing a scant 165 minutes in five total games. After two minutes in 2001, his MLS career ended. Nick Garcia was the second pick in the 2000 MLS draft – and second defender selected – behind the MetroStars’ bewildering selection of Steve Shak. Garcia started all 32 games for Kansas City that season and has 224 starts total (compared to 22 for Shak) and remains one of the most consistent players in MLS. Mario Longo’s MLS career with the Columbus Crew lasted all of 32 minutes over two seasons; he did manage one assist. With that sort of production, he should be in MLS to this day! Rusty Pierce rounded out a stellar group of defenders who contributed right away. Pierce went to the Revolution, and started 29 games that year. He has since struggled with injuries, but has started at least 13 games a year for the Revs (2000-04), Real Salt Lake (2005), and Columbus (2006-07). He holds the odd record of most minutes played without scoring an MLS goal (13,110 and counting). Nick Rimando started in goal almost right away for the Miami Fusion in 2000. Those 22 starts foreshadowed a lengthy MLS career that has looked in danger twice: in 2006 with DC when he made only three starts, and at the beginning of 2007 when he looked likely to have his playing time with RSL decline. Yet, he rebounded to have a solid year behind a shaky RSL defense in 2007. Sergio Salas managed eighteen minutes as a forward with the 2000 edition of DC United. A midfielder of the same name played in 2007 with Indios soccer club of the NPSL. Evaluation: This is the gold standard of P40/GA classes, with seven of the eleven players going on to successful MLS, international, and/or USNT careers. Oddly enough, the ones who flamed out did so in spectacular fashion. -------------- Running total: over the first four years of the program, 46 players entered MLS through Project-40; 19 (a rate of 41%) have found success.
It's amazing to go back down memory lane and see these guys who ended up being stiffs in the same crop as guys like Beasley, Bocanegra, and Howard. I wonder if they ever used their college money
Year 5 - 2001 Class of 2001 Devin Barclay was one of seven forwards in the P40 class of 2001. He made twelve starts for Tampa Bay in his first season (scoring two goals), but made only four more starts (and took only two more shots) the rest of his career as he bounced from San Jose to DC to Columbus before leaving the league in 2005. Isaias Bardales Jr. started one game and played 270 minutes over the course of the 2001 season for the LA Galaxy. He injured his knee during his rookie year, showed up to camp in 2002 out of shape, and was shipped to Syracuse of the A-League. The forward did score in a US Open Cup game against Seattle, and played for many years in the lower divisions of US soccer. Edson Buddle has been much maligned during his career, but the forward has scored 53 goals over the course of his seven years in the league. He scored 3, 9, 10, 11, and 9 goals in his five seasons with Columbus, but was traded to New York before the 2006 season. He split 2007 with Toronto and Los Angeles. Jose Burciaga Jr. spent three seasons on the bench with Kansas City before becoming one of the defensive stalwarts for the team along with P40 class of 2000 member Nick Garcia. For the next four years he became a rather unique (for MLS) two way threat, as he scored as many as eight goals (with eight assists) in 2006. He ended 2007 on the bench, and played only 8 minutes in the Wizards’ three playoff games before heading to the Rapids. Chris Carrieri entered MLS with San Jose, but was quickly traded to Colorado where his strike rate of a goal every 3.6 games was hampered by a move from forward to right midfield during his last year with the team. His salary demands unmet, he switched to the A-League, where he has played since 2004. His three year MLS totals: 19 goals in 69 games. DJ Countess spent three years as a backup (2001 with the MetroStars, 2002 with Dallas, and 2004 with Chicago) and two years as a starter (2003 with Dallas and 2005 with RSL) before trying his luck abroad. Both teams he started for had woeful records, making an evaluation of DJ’s time in MLS rather difficult. He now plays in Argentina - one of only about a half dozen non-Argentines in the league. Nick Downing played a handful of games on the New England back line in 2001 and 2002; after 946 minutes on the field, Downing was off to the A-League, first with Portland and later Charleston. Eddie Johnson spent a rough trio of years with Dallas to start his career before bursting out in 2004, when he scored 12 goals. A pair of down years (and a trade to Kansas City) were followed by another outstanding season in 2007, with 15 goals and 6 assists for the Wizards. Martin Klingler ended up with the MetroStars, but never appeared in MLS (at least I can't find anything on him). I think he was a very high draft pick - #4 or something? Santino Quaranta has had something of a strange career. He spent five and a half up-and-down years with DC United, appearing in 64 games and scoring 14 goals while often frustrating DC’s fans. He was shipped to LA in mid-2006, which then traded Quaranta to New York in mid-2007, for whom he played 47 minutes. Miguel Saavedra was the last of the P-40 players selected in the 2001 draft, going to Dallas in round six (among the P40 class, only Buddle – round three – and Klingler – round four- went after the second round). A forward, he never appeared for the Burn but did appear for the Milwaukee Rampage in 2002. Evaluation: Three players qualify as clear successes (Buddle, Burciaga, and Johnson), two are debateable (Carrieri and Quaranta), one was average (Countess), three were washouts (Barclay, Bardales, and Downing), and a couple fared worse than any player from previous classes (Klingler and Saavedra). ------------------- Running total: These 11 players bring the five year total to 57 who entered the program; with the clear success total being lower than in any other year, the percentage of successes in the program drops slightly to 38%.
thanks for the hard work, Ismitje. I now sit back to await our friend from Florida posting about what a poor job MLS does in talent evaluation.
Year 6 - 2002 Class of 2002 Nelson Akwari started at least half of his team’s games in three of his five MLS seasons. He was picked in the 2002 Super Draft by New York, was traded the next season to Columbus, and selected by RSL in the expansion draft, becoming one of many ex-U17 players to be reunited with John Ellinger in Salt Lake City. Akwari was released during the 2007 preseason, sought a team in Russia, and signed with the USL’s Charlotte Eagles. Craig Capano was a midfielder who entered Project 40 as a 17 year old, as he was selected by Chicago in the second round. He was on the team’s roster for five years but saw no action in the final two; he stared six games the previous three seasons and socred one goal in 654 total minutes of game action. Brad Davis bounced around his first four years in the league, having been drafted by New York and traded first to Dallas and then San Jose. He has developed into one of the most respected outside midfielders in MLS with Houston, and earned two caps for the USNT in the 2005 Gold Cup. His best year for goals was 6 for Dallas in 2003, and assists was 11 for Houston in 2006. Kelly Gray played extensively (at least 20 games) during his first four seasons in MLS but has tailed off since. A regular Chicago Fire playoff sides in 2002 and 2003, he was traded to San Jose/Houston and then to Los Angeles in exchange for Nate Jaqua. Both Gray and fellow 2002 P40 player Kyle Martino were made available by LA in the expansion draft but were not selected. Justin Mapp was assigned to DC United following his high school graduation in 2002; he made three substitute appearances that season, and was traded to Chicago for Dema Kovalenko in the offseason. He logged eleven goals and added 24 assists over the next four seasons with the Fire, before an injury-plagued 2007 season saw him limited to one assist in just over 800 minutes. He remains one of the most enigmatic figures in MLS, capable of the most sublime move one moment and disappearing the next. Kyle Martino started his career with Columbus, where he started in midfield for four and a half seasons before being traded to the Galaxy along with John Wolyniec in exchange for Ned Grabavoy and Joseph Ngwenya. In 2007 he had an odd combination of stats: three goals, three penalty kicks earned, and two ejections in 25 games. He has eight USNT caps since 2002, with 13 goals and 21 assists in 124 MLS starts. Jordan Stone was a defensive midfielder for the Dallas Burn who saw decent playing time (9 starts) in 2003 before being relegated to the bench behind Simo Valakari in 2004. He subsequently retired and began working on a college degree at Texas Tech, presumably with P40 funding. Evaluation: This becomes tougher as the classes become of more recent vintage. Only seven players were in the 2002 class, and only two (Capano and Stone) can be easily dismissed as unsuccsesful. Akwari and Gray were/are relatively average MLS players, and so probably do not qualify as successes, but Davis, Mapp, and Martino probably do. ------------------- Running total: 64 players participated in P40 through 2002, with 25 being clear successes for an average of 39%.
Tremendous!! Thanks so much for posting this. I had no idea how many really good players came out of the P40 program!
Year whatever - 2003 Class of 2003 Arturo Alvarez entered the league as a forward with San Jose; although he has five years under his belt, he has only started more that six games twice, both times as a midfielder with Dallas (15 games in 2005 and 21 games in 2007). He had his best season this year with both 3 goals and 3 assists. Brian Carroll played only in US Open Cup and reserve games during his rookie season with DC United, but became a midfield mainstay during his sophomore campaign. In the midst of starting 26, 30, and 31 games from 2004-06, Carroll appeared in 90 straight games and began infrequent appearances for the USNT. He played less in 2007 as Coach Tom Soehn employed a midfield rotation, was selected by San Jose in the expansion draft, and was promptly traded to Columbus. Ricardo Clark was an immediate impact player for the MetroStars with 28 starts as a rookie. A well-regarded defensive midfielder, he moved to San Jose/Houston prior to the 2005 season in exchange for an allocation. Also in 2005, Clark earned the first of five caps with the USNT, and it is assumed that his international career will continue. The one blemish on his record was the violent stomp on a prone Carlos Ruiz at the end of the 2007 season, which drew a nine game suspension and caused him to miss the Dynamo’s MLS Cup run. Alecko Eskandarian had a career year during his second season in the league with DC United, when a 10 goal, 2 assist regular season was capped with a four game tear through the playoffs, including a brace in MLS Cup. He was goalless in June 2005 when a serious concussion in a collision with Matt Reis sidelined him for the rest of the year; he rebounded in 2006 to score 7 goals. Traded to Toronto FC and then RSL to split the 2007 season, he scored 2 goals on 58 shots – the same number of shots he took in his ten-goal year in 2004. Eddie Gaven turned 21 at the end of the 2007 season, by which time he had already been named to the MLS Best XI (for a 7 goal, 7 assist campaign in 2004), traded to Columbus where he frustrated fans with uneven play (while scoring 9 goals and adding 11 assists in ’06 and ’07) and, because of an odd substitution rule-loophole, become the youngest goalkeeper in MLS history and scored a game winning goal in the same game (against DC in 2003). Guillermo Gonzales is a cautionary tale for assuming too much future success from a U-17 USNT star. Taken eighth in the draft by the LA Galaxy, he remained on the Galaxy roster through the ’07 preseason, much to the frustration of the Galaxy faithful. Memo played a total of 243 minutes. Still only 21 years old, he appears to have no prospects for a return to MLS. Jacob LeBlanc went to the Metrostars as a fifth-round pick in the SuperDraft. The midfielder from Virginia appeared in seven games, starting two, scoring twice in 225 minutes, but was released in 2004 and did not play again in MLS. Ricky Lewis joined Gonzales with the Galaxy and initially found more success, but ironically lasted less time in MLS. He appeared in 13 games (7 starts) for LA as a rookie and started several games the following season as well, yet was traded to Colorado mid-2004 for a late round pick. After starting 16 games for Fernando Clavijo’s Rapids in 2005, he was released outright; failed trials in Belgium in 2005 and with RSL in the 2006 preseason rounded out his career. Mike Magee has struggled with injuries so much the last two seasons that some people may be surprised that he had 58 starts for the MetroStars from 2003-05 at both forward and attacking midfielder. With 15 goals and 11 assists in those three seasons – and another 3 + 1 before the injuries in 2006 – he looked like a sure bet for long-term MLS success. Logan Pause has started no fewer than 15 games since his rookie campaign, when the midfielder played in 21 total matches for the Supporter’s Shield winning Chicago Fire. He made important contributions the next season when both Chris Armas and Jesse Marsch went out with injuries. With almost 100 starts in five seasons, Pause is a solid, albeit low-key, MLS contributor. David Stokes never really contributed to DC’s defense after his selection as the fifth pick in the draft. Highly touted, Stokes had been defensive MVP of UNC’s College Cup champions; he didn’t play during his rookie season, and made only seven starts over the ensuing three years before being cut prior to the 2007 season. He played for the Carolina RailHawks of the USL in 2007. Jason Thompson was drafted out of Eastern Illinois by his hometown Dallas Burn, but tore his ACL training with the U-23 USNT and missed the entire season. He played one minute in one game for Dallas the following season before a midseason trade to DC United. Thompson played 60 minutes in one game that season and one minute in 2005 before leaving the league. Evaluation: Depending upon Magee's status, there were 11 or 12 players in the class of 2004. Four players (Carroll, Clark, Eskandarian, and Gaven) are clear successes, while a case could be made for Magee and Pause. It also seems likely that Alvarez (assuming he stays in MLS) will enter this realm in the future. The five that failed did so spectacularly. ------------- Running total: 76 players (counting Magee) entered MLS via P40 through 2003. 29 were clear successes, so the average stays at 39%. Addendum: I’m not sure if Magee entered MLS on a P40 contract. He was named to the initial class, but opted to try to catch on in Europe first before entering the draft. Anyone know?
well seeing that so far the success rate is about 40% and each class gets progressivly better. id say that this years class stands to have 50-60% success rate meaning that of the 9 GA this year, 4-6 will be successful...hopefully more though