Quote Originally Posted by PaladinFan View Post
That hasn't been my observation.

Most of those player "chose" another school over the FCS institution. I expect some kids may decide that they made the wrong school choice, but I presume most often that some of these kids just are not seeing the field at the FBS school. Sometimes that is because they are not very good football players. Being a 3 or 4 star athlete in high school is not the same as being a productive and quality player in D1 football.

There are always exceptions of course, but most often guys that rode the bench at FBS schools are going to ride the bench at the FCS schools too.
We obviously have different observations then. Of course it doesn't hold true in every case(Michael Eubank QB comes to mind), however, in the last 5 years at Samford, we've had 3 such cases that were VERY productive while here and are now all in the NFL.