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  • these numbers reflect the number of players in each state that signed with a BCS school during the 2008-2012 signing classes. I broke out the number of 4 and 5 stars in that total. These are the states where SEC schools are located only. Shows how far behind our in confernce schools we are with recruiting base to compete with them.

    Texas - 1301 players signed, 209 four stars and 19 five stars

    Florida - 1126 players signed, 252 four stars and 29 five stars

    Georgia - 639 players signed, 129 four stars and 11 five stars

    Alabama - 239 players signed, 55 fours stars and 10 five stars

    Louisiana - 227 players signed, 60 four stars and 7 five stars

    South Carolina - 193 players signed, 55 four stars and 4 five stars

    Mississippi - 177 players signed, 41 four stars and 2 five stars

    Tennessee - 159 players signed, 29 four stars and 0 five stars

    Missouri - 90 players signed, 16 four stars and 4 five stars

    Arkansas - 67 players signed, 11 four stars and 2 five stars

    Kentucky - 65 players signed, 7 four stars and 0 five stars

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  • Wow. 0 five stars.

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  • Great work- per usual!

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  • Great stuff, LWS. Isn't it amazing that as prospect poor as Tennessee is, Kentucky isn't even in the same league?

    This post was edited by RockytopATL on 12/27/2012 at 6:27 PM

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  • RockytopATL said...

    Great stuff, LWS. Isn't it amazing that as prospect poor as Tennessee is, Kentucky isn't even in the same league?

    Tennessee is getting better every year at producing D-1 prospects, and IMO, you'll start seeing a few more 5 stars over the next few years.

    ocoeerivervol

  • ocoeerivervol said...

    Tennessee is getting better every year at producing D-1 prospects, and IMO, you'll start seeing a few more 5 stars over the next few years.

    Hope you are right.

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  • Tiny Richardson was 5* worthy- but so raw!

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  • I would have thought that Arkansas and Kentucky would have more talent than they did. Great breakdown LWS. +1

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  • Thanks for sharing, LWS.

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  • I didn't realize our in-state talent was THAT bad. Thanks for sharing, LWS!

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  • The_General said...

    I didn't realize our in-state talent was THAT bad. Thanks for sharing, LWS!

    Traditionally, it's been even worse. The number of top in-state prospects has improved in the last couple of years.

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  • Great post. Makes me wonder about the Ohio numbers. I'm hoping we can get a few peerless recruits out of Ohio based on the staff's relationships from the previous years.

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  • This is a very interesting breakdown. I would have thought that the talent produced would be somewhat relative to a state's population. That does not appear to be the case at all. TN and Missouri are the 4th and 5th states in terms of population yet Alabama, Louisiana, and Miss have considerably more prospects signing with BCS schools.

    The only rationale I can think is the most populous cities for TN and MO, Memphis and St. Louis, are decidely "basketball towns". If you did this same breakdown by state for basketball then I'd think you'd see a drastically different ranking. So it's not that TN does not have the athletes. It's they have opted for a different sport.

    In Memphis, the apathy for their football program is shared by everyone - from their athletic department to the city itself. Basketball on the other hand is worshipped and so many of the athletes here grow up wanting to play basketball (Jarnell Stokes being a great ex). A healthy football program has a huge trickle down effect and I actually think we benefit from a relevant Vanderbilt program in Nashville.

    We will continue to see a rise in the talent coming out of TN and I love Butch Jones' outlook on recruiting the state of TN. Will be curious to see how the breakdown by state looks 4 years from now.

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  • memphischic said...

    This is a very interesting breakdown. I would have thought that the talent produced would be somewhat relative to a state's population. That does not appear to be the case at all. TN and Missouri are the 4th and 5th states in terms of population yet Alabama, Louisiana, and Miss have considerably more prospects signing with BCS schools.

    The only rationale I can think is the most populous cities for TN and MO, Memphis and St. Louis, are decidely "basketball towns". If you did this same breakdown by state for basketball then I'd think you'd see a drastically different ranking. So it's not that TN does not have the athletes. It's they have opted for a different sport.

    In Memphis, the apathy for their football program is shared by everyone - from their athletic department to the city itself. Basketball on the other hand is worshipped and so many of the athletes here grow up wanting to play basketball (Jarnell Stokes being a great ex). A healthy football program has a huge trickle down effect and I actually think we benefit from a relevant Vanderbilt program in Nashville.

    We will continue to see a rise in the talent coming out of TN and I love Butch Jones' outlook on recruiting the state of TN. Will be curious to see how the breakdown by state looks 4 years from now.

    It's actually quite simple and we've discussed it here before. A majority of college football players are African-American. The states with low numbers of D1 prospects have low AA populations when compared to other SEC states.

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  • RockytopATL said...

    It's actually quite simple and we've discussed it here before. A majority of college football players are African-American. The states with low numbers of D1 prospects have low AA populations when compared to other SEC states.

    I understand that dynamic but it still makes Tennessee an anomaly. The AA population in Tennessee is right in line with Alabama, South Carolina, and Mississippi ( not % of population). Yet has historically produced significantly less BCS prospects.

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  • memphischic said...

    I understand that dynamic but it still makes Tennessee an anomaly. The AA population in Tennessee is right in line with Alabama, South Carolina, and Mississippi ( not % of population). Yet has historically produced significantly less BCS prospects.

    Check out this wiki, with statewide population percentages. The maps are particularly telling.

    I know what you are saying about overall population, but I still think this is the key factor.

    This post was edited by RockytopATL on 12/28/2012 at 7:16 PM

    List of U.S. states by African-American population - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_African-American_population

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