Good county by county break down of football recruiting. You can also break it down by conference.

http://mode.github.io/blog/2014-01-16-fo...ndex.html#

(01-17-2014 04:37 PM)WakeForestRanger Wrote:  Good county by county break down of football recruiting. You can also break it down by conference.

http://mode.github.io/blog/2014-01-16-fo...ndex.html#

Surprised by sw Arizona (Phoenix area)

(01-17-2014 04:55 PM)westwolf Wrote:  

(01-17-2014 04:37 PM)WakeForestRanger Wrote:  Good county by county break down of football recruiting. You can also break it down by conference.

http://mode.github.io/blog/2014-01-16-fo...ndex.html#

Surprised by sw Arizona (Phoenix area)

Most folks would be. In 1950 the area was only 100,000 strong. Now, it is a 4 million person metro area and just for reference it was almost 80 degrees today. The temperatures of the area allow it to be a year round area for the sport much like other areas of California, Texas and Florida. A very respectable number of quarterbacks come from the area as well as other skill positions. The High School football scene is very strong here because there is A LOT of money here.

(01-17-2014 07:49 PM)He1nousOne Wrote:  

(01-17-2014 04:55 PM)westwolf Wrote:  

(01-17-2014 04:37 PM)WakeForestRanger Wrote:  Good county by county break down of football recruiting. You can also break it down by conference.

http://mode.github.io/blog/2014-01-16-fo...ndex.html#

Surprised by sw Arizona (Phoenix area)

Most folks would be. In 1950 the area was only 100,000 strong. Now, it is a 4 million person metro area and just for reference it was almost 80 degrees today. The temperatures of the area allow it to be a year round area for the sport much like other areas of California, Texas and Florida. A very respectable number of quarterbacks come from the area as well as other skill positions. The High School football scene is very strong here because there is A LOT of money here.

It's the fourth-largest metro area in the Pac-12, after LA and the Bay Area, and just barely behind Seattle.

Good database.

Viewing the academies, I noticed that Navy was distributed evenly across the hot national recruiting zones but Army's distribution seemed more concentrated in the Northeast and Chicago. Army may be looking at a lower level type of player instead of true FBS material.

There isn't a lot of surprises in the data overall. Surprised at how frequently schools dip into Ohio for multiple recruits, practically everyone within a 2000 mile radius of the state is doing it.

(01-17-2014 07:49 PM)He1nousOne Wrote:  

(01-17-2014 04:55 PM)westwolf Wrote:  

(01-17-2014 04:37 PM)WakeForestRanger Wrote:  Good county by county break down of football recruiting. You can also break it down by conference.

http://mode.github.io/blog/2014-01-16-fo...ndex.html#

Surprised by sw Arizona (Phoenix area)

Most folks would be. In 1950 the area was only 100,000 strong. Now, it is a 4 million person metro area and just for reference it was almost 80 degrees today. The temperatures of the area allow it to be a year round area for the sport much like other areas of California, Texas and Florida. A very respectable number of quarterbacks come from the area as well as other skill positions. The High School football scene is very strong here because there is A LOT of money here.

Why would anyone be surprised that Phoenix has one county that is dark? It has 4 million people in one county. Compare this to Atlanta, which has 4 counties in the same shade, each with 700-900k residents. When you click on the per-capita number, Phoenix is not even remotely impressive.

Also, counties in the West look more impressive simply because each county has the land area of a whole state in the East. That doesn't mean that the CA desert by NV has more football players than rural Pennsylvania.

What's really impressive to me is the large cities that are still some of the darkest in terms of per-capita. Atlanta is particularly impressive, but so are Mobile, Birmingham, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Cincinnati, Charlotte, Ft. Lauderdale, and suburban Houston.

The per capita button was the most revealing. The rest is simply obscured by population densities. It sure makes it clear why Oregon has to recruit Texas and Southern California like they do. The wildest one of all was to see where kickers and punters come from. It looked like they came from just a few counties all across America.

Ohio is very well represented in the Southwestern section of the state around Cincinnati. Great recruiting grounds. Would be a nice ACC pickup IMHO.

Other than B12 possibly adding 2 expansion is dead for now. It is now about separation.

Rule #1, recruit Florida kids.

FSU/UF/UCF/UM seem to be 90% or more Florida kids.
Most of the top 10 BCS teams have 5-20 kids each, save for Stanford.
Even Duke had 14 players, 2 are starters


Looking at some of the top teams in the non P5 conferences:
Louisville 1/3 of their team is from Florida, 11 starters
Cincinnati - 18 players, 3 starters
Northern Illinois - 9 players / 3 starters
Bowling Green - 15 players / 2 starters
Buffalo - 10 players / 3 starters
Marshall - 35 players / 9 starters + 3 special team starters
Notre Dame - 11 players
Navy - 23 players - 5 starters


Some of the top 2014 NFL draft prospects from FLA (in most 1st round mocks):
Sammy Watkins
Teddy Bridgewater
Blake Bortles
Khalil Mack
Calvin Pryor
Timmy Jernigan
Kelvin Benjamin
Ha Ha Clinton-Dix
Louis Nix
Lamarcus Joyner
Carlos Hyde
Marcus Roberson
Ryan Shazier

Interesting map, thanks for that!

(01-18-2014 03:14 PM)jaxnolefan Wrote:  FSU/UF/UCF/UM seem to be 90% or more Florida kids.

FSU has 28 scholarship players from outside Florida. Roughly 2/3 (67%) are from Florida.