Sportswriter David Ching compiled this table showing how many P5 recruits have come from high schools in each of the top 40 recruit-producing states, over the 10 recruiting classes from 2008 through 2017.

Also listed is the top high school in each state for producing P5 recruits. Incredible that a single high school in Florida sent 71 football players to P5 schools over this 10 year period.

Source.

NY sandwiched between Kansas, Iowa, & Utah is surprising.

(10-30-2018 01:53 PM)Wedge Wrote:  Sportswriter David Ching compiled this table showing how many P5 recruits have come from high schools in each of the top 40 recruit-producing states, over the 10 recruiting classes from 2008 through 2017.

Also listed is the top high school in each state for producing P5 recruits. Incredible that a single high school in Florida sent 71 football players to P5 schools over this 10 year period.

Source.

It makes it pretty clear why Arkansas, Kentucky, and Missouri are challenged to succeed in the SEC doesn't it!

(10-30-2018 09:07 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(10-30-2018 01:53 PM)Wedge Wrote:  Sportswriter David Ching compiled this table showing how many P5 recruits have come from high schools in each of the top 40 recruit-producing states, over the 10 recruiting classes from 2008 through 2017.

Also listed is the top high school in each state for producing P5 recruits. Incredible that a single high school in Florida sent 71 football players to P5 schools over this 10 year period.

Source.

It makes it pretty clear why Arkansas, Kentucky, and Missouri are challenged to succeed in the SEC doesn't it!

This chart explains Maryland and Rutgers to the Big Ten as much as any TV numbers do.

(10-30-2018 09:07 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(10-30-2018 01:53 PM)Wedge Wrote:  Sportswriter David Ching compiled this table showing how many P5 recruits have come from high schools in each of the top 40 recruit-producing states, over the 10 recruiting classes from 2008 through 2017.

Also listed is the top high school in each state for producing P5 recruits. Incredible that a single high school in Florida sent 71 football players to P5 schools over this 10 year period.

Source.

It makes it pretty clear why Arkansas, Kentucky, and Missouri are challenged to succeed in the SEC doesn't it!

Arranged by per capita rank:

1. Georgia
2. Mississippi
3. Louisiana
4. Florida
5. Alabama
6. Texas
7. Hawaii
8. South Carolina


Hawaii???

Ranked by # of P5 signees per P5 school:

1. Ohio..................699
2. Florida...............625
3. Georgia.............620
4. Louisiana...........444
5. California...........410
6. Texas................407
7. New Jersey........388
8. Maryland...........341
9. Alabama...........218
10.Virginia.............218
11. Pennsylvania....207
12. Illinois.............187
13. Missouri...........185
14. Mississippi........161
15. New York.........156
16. South Carolina.154
17. Tennessee.......143
18. Michigan.........131
19. Utah...............126
20. Arizona...........123
21. North Carolina.120
22. Arkansas........118
23. Wisconsin.......115
24. Colorado.........103
25. Oklahoma.........97
26. Minnesota.........92
27. Washington.......88
28. Massachusetts...81
29.Kansas..............79
30.Indiana.............66
31.Iowa.................61
32.Kentucky...........53
33.Nebraska...........50
34.Oregon..............42
35.West Virginia......28

(10-31-2018 07:20 AM)ken d Wrote:  Arranged by per capita rank:

1. Georgia
2. Mississippi
3. Louisiana
4. Florida
5. Alabama
6. Texas
7. Hawaii
8. South Carolina


Hawaii???

Explains why SEC football fans are so rabid.

(10-31-2018 05:52 PM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  

(10-31-2018 07:20 AM)ken d Wrote:  Arranged by per capita rank:

1. Georgia
2. Mississippi
3. Louisiana
4. Florida
5. Alabama
6. Texas
7. Hawaii
8. South Carolina


Hawaii???

Explains why SEC football fans are so rabid.

It's nothing like it was 40 years ago. Back then there was standing room only at high school games on Friday nights. Now those schools are lucky to fill half of the home bleachers and 1/4 of visiting bleachers.

I look at all of the signs and they all point to a slow steady decline.

(10-31-2018 06:38 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(10-31-2018 05:52 PM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  

(10-31-2018 07:20 AM)ken d Wrote:  Arranged by per capita rank:

1. Georgia
2. Mississippi
3. Louisiana
4. Florida
5. Alabama
6. Texas
7. Hawaii
8. South Carolina


Hawaii???

Explains why SEC football fans are so rabid.

It's nothing like it was 40 years ago. Back then there was standing room only at high school games on Friday nights. Now those schools are lucky to fill half of the home bleachers and 1/4 of visiting bleachers.

I look at all of the signs and they all point to a slow steady decline.

It's never going to be like it was before there were 50 football games on TV every week and before we all had mobile phones.

Larger public schools, and the private high schools that recruit players and waive their tuition, don't have anything to worry about yet and might be ok for at least 20 more years, but we are past the days of everyone in town building their Fridays around HS football.