MJG
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RE: State Supremecy: FIve states account for over half of NFL draftees
(06-24-2014 11:46 AM)Minutemen429 Wrote: (06-24-2014 11:03 AM)MJG Wrote: (06-23-2014 08:38 AM)orangefan Wrote: (06-23-2014 08:21 AM)Captain Bearcat Wrote: I think everyone's known this for awhile.
The more I look at it, the more it seems that the list of draft picks per-capita correlates pretty strongly with this list: list of states by percent African-American population.
Undoubtedly explains why NY state (the state with the highest total African-American population) is such a football talent factory (not).
Football is big in small towns basketball is the city game.
Easy explanation of why the South is dominant in football but not basketball.
African Americans tend to live almost exclusively in cities in the North. Small Southern towns where football is king are diversified. Northern small towns tend to be almost completely white and football plays a smaller role.
I agree with everything you said, but at least in New England the sports culture has changed since the Krafts bought the Pats. The Pats have replaced the Sox as the clear number one in Boston. I feel like high school football has followed. Massachusetts isn't gonna all of a sudden become a Southern level talent producer, but we probably have 15 3 star recruits as opposed to 5 -10 a few years ago. BC has picked up a bunch under Addazio we'll see how they do.
I am pretty familiar with Michigan and if you take away the cities. Then the map looks like Montana.
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RE: State Supremecy: FIve states account for over half of NFL draftees
(06-24-2014 07:14 AM)mj4life Wrote: (06-23-2014 07:04 PM)orangefan Wrote: (06-23-2014 10:46 AM)NBPirate Wrote: NC is a top NFL producing state yet has no dominant football program. If one of the NC teams made a couple years' run in BCS games, they could really take off. Wake just doesn't have the make up to capitalize off the Orange Bowl.
Too many P5 and FBS programs over which to spread the talent. If NC had only 1 or 2 P5 programs, it/they could be national contenders.
It's more of a upper level administration issue than number of programs. Yes it's not easy keeping the top talent home but NC produces enough talent to build a base from & is close to enough to talent producing states like VA,GA,SC & Fl. The northern VA suburbs are closer to Chapel Hill than many areas in state & only a hour or so longer than the Charlotte area
One thing that I'll be interested to follow over the next few years is the recruiting impact of the sudden increase in FBS programs in the ACC's traditional heartland from GA to VA. There are now 16 FBS programs (or soon will be) in that compact four state area where there were only 11 two years ago. And three of those five programs didn't even have an FCS football team five years ago. Sure, the five newbies are in the CUSA and SBC but Wake Forest, for example, lost recruiting battles last year to at least three of those five new schools that I know of, so it seems they are already seeing the effects.
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mj4life
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RE: State Supremecy: FIve states account for over half of NFL draftees
(06-26-2014 11:33 PM)AppfanInCAAland Wrote: (06-24-2014 07:14 AM)mj4life Wrote: (06-23-2014 07:04 PM)orangefan Wrote: (06-23-2014 10:46 AM)NBPirate Wrote: NC is a top NFL producing state yet has no dominant football program. If one of the NC teams made a couple years' run in BCS games, they could really take off. Wake just doesn't have the make up to capitalize off the Orange Bowl.
Too many P5 and FBS programs over which to spread the talent. If NC had only 1 or 2 P5 programs, it/they could be national contenders.
It's more of a upper level administration issue than number of programs. Yes it's not easy keeping the top talent home but NC produces enough talent to build a base from & is close to enough to talent producing states like VA,GA,SC & Fl. The northern VA suburbs are closer to Chapel Hill than many areas in state & only a hour or so longer than the Charlotte area
One thing that I'll be interested to follow over the next few years is the recruiting impact of the sudden increase in FBS programs in the ACC's traditional heartland from GA to VA. There are now 16 FBS programs (or soon will be) in that compact four state area where there were only 11 two years ago. And three of those five programs didn't even have an FCS football team five years ago. Sure, the five newbies are in the CUSA and SBC but Wake Forest, for example, lost recruiting battles last year to at least three of those five new schools that I know of, so it seems they are already seeing the effects.
Charlotte, App State, G. State , G. Southern & ODU will get mostly left overs & transfers. I see these programs hurting the top FCS programs in the region. Wake might have lost battles last year but seem to be resurgent on the recruiting trail under Clawson
(This post was last modified: 06-27-2014 07:17 AM by mj4life.)
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