Now that the NFL Draft has come in gone, I’m eagerly awaiting for someone to post a 2010 or 2011 mock NFL Draft - and yes, I’ve seen the 2009 NFL mock drafts with USF junior DE George Selvie a first-round pick. While I wait for the first 2010 or 2011 mock draft, here’s a quick look back at some interesting numbers from the 2008 NFL Draft.

While the SEC (35) had the most players selected, the Pac-10 had a higher average of picks per team. The Pac-10 had 3.4 players selected per team. The SEC (2.916) was next, followed by the ACC (2.75), Big Ten (2.545), Big 12 (2.416), Big East (2.375) and WAC (1.11). By comparison, C-USA was 0.75.

By team, here were the leaders:

(10) USC
(8) Virginia Tech
(7) LSU
(6) Arkansas, California, Michigan
(5) Auburn, Arizona State, Louisville, Texas, Texas A&M
(4) Arizona, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, San Diego State, Wisconsin
(3) Boston College, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Iowa, Miami, Michigan State, Nebraska, Ohio State, Oregon, Pittsburgh, Purdue, Tennessee, UCF, UCLA, UTEP, Vanderbilt, Virginia, Wake Forest, West Virginia

USF and Florida were among 22 schools that had two players drafted.

The biggest underachievers? How about Notre Dame with more NFL Draft picks (four) than wins (three). Then there was California with six draft picks and six wins and Louisville with five draft picks and six wins.

Around the Big East: Mitch Vingle and Jeff Rider of the Charleston Gazette in West Virginia look ahead to this fall’s potential All-Big East candidates. Vingle estimates WVU will have 14 players with a legit shot at All-Big East honors.

Vingle writes that USF and Louisville will have nine or 10 candidates. For USF, he says: “DE George Selvie (the given), LB Tyrone McKenzie, safeties Nate Allen and Carlton Williams, TB Mike Ford, OL Ryan Schmidt (6-4, 327), WR Carlton Mitchell and LB Brouce Mompremier. Oh yeah. Also like that other defensive end, Jarriett Buie. And that other wideout Taurus Johnson. And what was that quarterback’s name? Yep. You nailed it. Matt Grothe. Pretty good player.”

That’s a pretty fare assessment, I’d say, of USF’s All-Big East candidates. ...

While Notre Dame isn’t a Big East football member - the Irish at least are a future USF opponent - Coach Charlie Weis had an interesting quote at a recent booster function. He said: “I could get hoodlums and thugs and win tomorrow. I won’t do it that way.” Oh, so now we know why Notre Dame was 3-9 last season.