Recruiting Hotbeds

[Mavric]

Not exactly new info but it's interesting to see the numbers.

 

You don't have to be an analytics geek to understand the importance of location in college football recruiting. If you live in a state where there are a lot of talented high school football players, you're at so much of an advantage over the other guys.

Data tell us Texas, California and Florida produce the most FBS-level prospects annually, but other states like Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana and Ohio are also home plenty of elite prospects. There's a reason why Ohio State, Florida State, Alabama, Auburn, Florida, LSU and Texas have captured the past 10 national championships. All come from states where there's an abundant amount of elite recruits each and every season and many of those players dream of playing for State U growing up.

This doesn't mean that schools outside of those states can't win titles, because they can and have. But it's much more difficult to succeed when your talent base is Kansas, Kentucky, Iowa, Idaho and Connecticut, which annually rank as the bottom five for producing elite prospects.

 

States producing the most FBS talent

These states produced the most FBS talent between 2006 and 2014.

Rank State FBS prospects

1 Texas 1,779

2 Florida 1,444

3 California 1,112

4 Georgia 903

5 Ohio 593

6 North Carolina 401

7 Pennsylvania 372

8 Virginia 365

9 Alabama 357

10 Illinois 311

 

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[Mavric]

247 broke down the numbers per capita:

 

Top 10 States by FBS Players Per Capita (2006-2014)

1: Georgia - 10,728 residents per FBS player
2: Florida - 13,020 residents per FBS player
3: Alabama - 13,389 residents per FBS player
4: Texas - 14,135 residents per FBS player
5: Ohio - 19,454 residents per FBS player
6: Virginia - 21,921 residents per FBS player
7: North Carolina - 23,779 residents per FBS player
8: California - 33,502 residents per FBS player
9: Pennsylvania - 34,146 residents per FBS player
10: Illinois - 41,256 residents per FBS player

 

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[Mavric]

Miami has 19 commits for the 2016 class. Twice the number of any other school. They are all from the state of Florida.

[Thanks_Tom RR]

Miami has 19 commits for the 2016 class. Twice the number of any other school. They are all from the state of Florida.

Sounds like they are going back to the recruiting formula that made the U successful in the 80's and 90's.