D-1 Football Signees: State by State report

[Keller]

http://highschool.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1182411

D-1 Signees

Texas: 345 (161,000 total players)

Florida: 344 (39,000)

California: 253 (104,000)

Georgia: 170 (32,000)

Ohio: 144 (55,000)

Louisiana: 87 (15,000)

Alabama: 86 (22,000)

North Carolina: 79 (35,000)

Illinois: 73 (49,000)

Pennsylvania: 60 (26,000)

Michigan: 59 (43,000)

Virginia: 56 (26,000)

Mississippi: 52 (22,000)

New Jersey: 45 (26,000)

South Carolina: 44 (18,000)

Tennessee: 44 (23,000)

*Bottom of the barrel: New Hampshire(0), Vermont(0), Wyoming(0), Rhode Island(0), Montana(1), Maine(1), South Dakota(1), North Dakota(2), West Virginia(3), Idaho(4).

[Makkah]

A clear concentration of talent.

[Keller]

A clear concentration of talent.

Exactly. I just don't know how much more clear it can become that the practice of breeding slaves for physical acumen produced human beings like Dwight Howard and Trent Richardson.

[g++]

Ratio wise there is no clear geographical spot where good football players come from except Florida which is a mind boggling outlier to the point where I wonder if there is a non-football related reason so many people in Florida are able to get D1 scholarships. Like some archaic state law or something. Hawaii and Utah football players were more likely to get scholarships than Texans.

[Keller]

Ratio wise there is no clear geographical spot where good football players come from except Florida which is a mind boggling outlier to the point where I wonder if there is a non-football related reason so many people in Florida are able to get D1 scholarships. Like some archaic state law or something. Hawaii and Utah football players were more likely to get scholarships than Texans.

Really?

Florida - .88% of players are going to D1 schools
Georgia - .54%
Louisianna - .58%
Alabama - .39%

Compared to

Texas - .21%
California - .24%
Ohio - .26%
North Carolina - .23%
Illinois - .15%

[g++]

Well yah but theres stuff inbetween those groups, Utah Is .37% its not an astronomical drop off.


So the south east states produce a bit more football talent ratio wise but its not like it shoots down astronomically in the mid-west/eastern seaboard. Once you get past those four states its distributed pretty evenly and jumps around quite a bit. I thought the idea was to say "The South" by listing Texas first in the OP with the other four states.

[Latrinsorm]

Just because a player is going to a D1 school doesn't mean they're any good. Haven't you ever noticed how on those MNF things where each player says what school they're from at least half of them are always from schools like East Montana A&M? Now I'm interested in this, hold on while I count how many starters were from D1 schools this past year.

[g++]

Id like to keep watching this thread but Im just really worried someone is going to walk into my office and see Kellers Avatar lol.

[Drew]

Florida has a lot of talent but not many high schools, so less kids can play football. Texas has more smaller high schools so lesser talent gets a chance to play HS football. Part of the reason Florida looks good is that a school can field 55 kids if they have 100 boys or 3000 and a lot of Florida public schools are HUGE.

A better comparison would probably be the number of kids attending high school vs those that go D1.

[Keller]

Id like to keep watching this thread but Im just really worried someone is going to walk into my office and see Kellers Avatar lol.

Jesus fucking christ, just turn them off.