Potential records for individual story:
- Team present rosters
- Team past rosters
- Data on foreign athletes playing for Division 1
- Data that could show patterns between athlete’s nationalities and the sport they play
The records that would answer some of the key questions about recruiting patterns would mostly consist of team rosters and maybe some data over years. I think this information would be fairly easy to gain access to. I could look on school websites and get a roster for every single team. Usually online team rosters have it set up where you can click the player’s name and read their bios that state where that player is from. Although this would be tedious and time consuming work, it’s fairly easy that involves little effort outside of open my laptop. Getting data on past recruiting habits, however, may be a little more difficult to find. But I’m sure the NCAA’s website or some other record keeping site would have some of this information.
Potential records for team story:
- Rosters of teams
- Transfer roster
- Data that shows the percentage of football transfers a particular county gets a year
- Or going deeper to how many transfer a school receives a year
- Percentage of these transfers that have made it to D1 colleges
The records that would answer key questions for the team story will be more difficult to find than those for my individual story simply because high school records are hard to get a hold of. Jordan has done a great job of compiling a list of local transfers that will be great for contacting sources. Finding the data and percentages will just take patient work, but once the information is compiled and organized, it could present some interesting facts.