I know Connelly is a bit of a polarizing figure for Coogs, but some of the data he provides is interesting. Pretty good correlation for teams returning a lot of production to improve while teams losing a lot of production to falter (which is fairly common sense). Still, here it is in stat form.
Coogs are pretty far down the list; not surprising since we’re losing Ward/Allen on offense and Taylor/Bowser/Malveaux/H.Wilson on defense. Still, we do return better than 45% of our production which is Connelly’s cutoff. Overall, we return 55% of our production which is 96th best overall and just below Boise State.
Here’s a Conference List:
In all, the Big Ten brings up the rear when it comes to average production returning.
Conference USA (65.6%)
SEC (65.4%)
Pac-12 (65.2%)
Big 12 (64.9%)
ACC (64.8%)
American (62.3%)
Sun Belt (61.7%)
MAC (60.8%)
Mountain West (60.5%)
Big Ten (58.8%)