Akron's players by state:

Ohio: 46
Pennsylvania: 20
Florida: 6
New Jersey: 6
Virginia: 4
Maryland: 4
California: 4
Illinois: 4
New York: 1
Georgia: 1
North Carolina: 1
South Carolina: 1
Texas: 1
Michigan: 1
Indiana: 1
Europe: 1
Canada: 1

Most of our best players on the team are from Ohio and Western Pennsylvania. There's no lack of talent, even with so many schools here.

Most of the players Akron got from Florida were busts that never saw the field due to academics and/or discipline problems. We recently have begun recruiting the Mid-Atlantic states pretty hard, but we won't see how that works out for a few more years.

Airport KC Wrote:

OZoner Wrote:I like that you suggest Texas and Florida, as if they don't have a ton of schools themselves.

Its not how many schools you have in a state that is important, its how much talent do you have per in-state school.

Also important is the # of BCS schools in a particular state.

Florida and Texas have 4 BCS schools and several non-BCS but they have a boat load of D1 talent, enough to fill 20 solid D1 recruiting classes every year.

A school like a Western Michigan can go into Florida, flash the MAC logo, and it many cases out recruit SBC or CUSA schools.

Could a Houston or a Florida Atlantic come into Michigan and pull a recruit away from WMU/CMU? The answer is F-no.

Important thing to remember is kids all over the East Coast and Nationwide to some extent sign to play ball at UF, FSU, Miami, UCF, etc...

FLA schools will always continue to recruit "out-of-state" as playing college ball/going to school in "warm" FLA is very attractive to some players.

Example: Chad Hounshell, 3-star OL from Mentor, OH...that signed with UCF this past Feb over offers from Colorado, Kansas, Indiana, Cincinnati, Air Force, Kent State, Western Michigan and Akron.

With over 350 plus Div I HS recruits last year from the State of FLA alone (more so than 12 states combined in the Northeast!)....there will always be a big contingent of FLA HS kids that want to "get away" and go to school out of state...which is why basically every team in the Nation east of the Mississippi recruits in FLA.

There are enough "fish in the sea" for everyone to pick and choose from.