• Next, the natural progression leads to conflict known as storming. In a sports team, storming may appear when determining the starter versus the bench. • Once trust is built and conflict becomes healthy, the team moves into phase three, known as norming. While no team is driving to be considered normal, this phase is crucial to get to the last one. • The final phase of team construction is performing — now it’s time to achieve the goal. IT’S A NUMBERS GAME No matter the strategy, regardless how long it takes to build a great roster, recruiting is ultimately a numbers game. For example, Google, with more than 3 million applications submitted each year, hires roughly 20,000 people annually, for a 0.67% acceptance rate! Statistically speaking, it’s easier to be accepted into Harvard than to get a job at Google. I graduated Navy basic training as one of just over 52,000 Naval recruits graduating that year. Of those, an average 6% are eligible to try out for the Basic Underwater Demolition School to eventually join Navy Sea, Air, and Land Teams. On average, 2000 SEAL candidates attend BUDS annually; only 200 to 250 graduate with the Trident. The odds of making it from Navy Recruit to becoming a SEAL is a spare 0.49%. “It takes a Navy to find Navy SEALs.” — Ben Kinney Perspective: According to Business Insider, our PLACE partner, Goldman Sachs, receives about a million applications for mid-level jobs each year. Only about 0.5% of people (just 5,000 out of that million) actually get hired. PLACE is partnering with the Navy SEAL of Banking. WANT MORE NUMBERS? NCAA Division 1 Football Bowl Subdivision formerly known as Div-1A, is the highest level of college football in the U.S. These programs start scouting talent from high school sophomore and junior classes. Seniors eventually recruited often start receiving offers four to five years before ever stepping foot into a college classroom. An estimated 310,465 high school seniors play football in this country. Of those, 7,0147 (or about 6.5%) go on to play football for an FBS program. Of 15,588 starting seniors, only about 6,500 are scouted by the NFL. Only 256 of the 350 top college players invited to attend the NFL combine are drafted. Football hopefuls have a .08% chance of going from playing in high school to making it to the NFL. And of those lucky elites, only 150 athletes play for more than four years, which might be why many players facetiously refer to the NFL as “Not For Long.”
Perspective: Of the NFL’s 25,000 players, 362 reach the highest level of achievement and are inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame.
“If you want to go farther and faster, go with the right others.” — DRU LEE
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