GERG at Syracuse

Short post today, planning on watching football. The question was raised by our loyal readers, how many sacks were generated by Syracuse alumni in the NFL. Reasonable question given that our new DC was the coach there for 4 years.


Here is an expanded list of NFL sacks by College:

Rank	College Name	Sacks
1	Tennessee	38.5
2	Georgia	37.5
3	Florida	34
4	North Carolina	33.5
5	Iowa	26
6	Purdue	25.5
7	Notre Dame	23
8	South Carolina	22.5
9	Michigan	22.5
10	Florida State	22
11	Ohio State	22
12	Troy	20
13	Miami (Fla.)	19
14	Auburn	18.5
15	Colorado State	18.5
16	Wake Forest	18
17	Idaho State	17.5
18	North Carolina State	16.5
19	Kent State	16
20	Virginia	15.5
21	Cincinnati	15.5
22	Oklahoma State	15
23	Clemson	14.5
24	Nebraska	14
25	Louisville	14
26	Syracuse	13.5
27	Louisiana State	13
28	California	13
29	Boston College	13
30	Oklahoma	13
31	Kansas State	12.5
32	Texas	12.5
33	Alabama	12
34	Alabama A&M	11.5
35	Maryland	11
36	UCLA	10.5
37	USC	10.5
38	Texas A&M	10.5
39	Mississippi	9
40	Minnesota	9
41	Hawaii	9
42	Missouri	8.5
43	Mississippi State	8
44	Arizona State	8
45	Michigan State	7
46	Indiana	7
47	Central Arkansas	7
48	Brigham Young	6.5
49	Virginia Tech	6.5
50	Northwestern	6.5
51	Colorado	5.5
52	Northern Colorado	5.5
53	Alabama-Birmingham	5.5
54	Penn State	5.5
55	Southern Mississippi	5
56	South Florida	5
57	Eastern Michigan	5
58	Buffalo	5
59	Akron	4.5
60	Iowa State	4.5
61	Memphis	4
62	Arkansas	4
63	Western Illinois	4
64	Central Missouri State	3.5
65	Northwest Missouri State	3.5
66	Temple	3.5
67	Manitoba (Canada)	3.5
68	Saginaw Valley State	3.5
69	St. Augustine's	3
70	West Virginia	3
71	Oregon	3
72	Central Michigan	2.5
73	Southern Utah	2.5
74	Georgia Tech	2.5
75	San Diego State	2.5
76	Washington	2
77	Appalachian State	2
78	Maine	2
79	Knoxville	2
80	Cal Poly-S.L.O.	2
81	Montana	2
82	Washington State	2
83	Tennessee-Chattanooga	2
84	Western Michigan	2
85	Alabama State	2
86	Southern Connecticut State	2
87	Hampton	2
88	South Carolina State	1.5
89	Vanderbilt	1.5
90	Kentucky	1.5
91	Arizona	1.5
92	Richmond	1.5
93	Southern Illinois	1.5
94	Fresno State	1
95	Texas Tech	1
96	Central State (Ohio)	1
97	Clark Atlanta	1
98	Texas-El Paso	1
99	West Texas A&M	1
100	Northwood	1
101	Texas Christian	1
102	Grambling State	1
103	Texas El-Paso	1
104	Winston-Salem State	1
105	Pittsburgh	0.5
106	Utah	0.5
107	Arkansas State	0.5
108	Southeast Missouri State	0.5
109	John Carroll	0.5

26th? Not bad for the talent he had. Except:

only Jameel McClain is a Greg Robinson alum. Dwight Freeney and Keith Bulluck pre-date Greg Robinson. So he didn't put alot of Defensive players in the NFL. Not terribly surprising since one of the knocks on him is that he was a terrible recruiter (or Syracusewas a terrible place to recruit for -- I've been to Syracuse, it lacks the cultural and social charms of a, say, Toledo...)


Up Next: Should the Big East be in the BCS?