Interesting website about recruiting hot spots

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It has several maps that break down which counties in each state produce the most college players. You can access more maps that break it down by position, team or conference. Just thought this was interesting since this is a pretty common discussion on this forum. Enjoy

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UTMVol76 said:
Shelby County has the highest number of SEC players from what I've seen.
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I saw that too and found it very interesting. For a state that, according to most recruiting experts, "lacks talent," Tennessee sure does produce its share of SEC players.
 
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VolinMichigan said:
I saw that too and found it very interesting. For a state that, according to most recruiting experts, "lacks talent," Tennessee sure does produce its share of SEC players.
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Yeah, I agree. I think people get so caught up in the "Tennessee doesn't produce enough talent" line. At that scale, I would argue it's proximity to cities with big suburban zones (Nashville, Memphis, Atlanta, New Orleans, Houston, Dallas, Tampa, Miami, Jacksonville, Charlotte, the VA tidewater area, etc.) that matters the most.

Also, when you scale this data by per capita, it makes counties in North Dakota and Montana pop out. I highly doubt any of these players would make the two-deep in the SEC.
 
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map doesnt work for me. anyone wanna take a screen cap and post it?
 
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85SugarVol said:
map doesnt work for me. anyone wanna take a screen cap and post it?
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Let me summarize - Miami and Southern Cal should go undefeated and have the number one and number two recruiting classes in the country every year. It really is hard to screw that up. When you highlight each individual category of player they still are the top two hotbeds for talent. I wish we had a recruiter with influence in South Florida just to handle the leftovers and the overflow.

How Florida manages to screw the pooch is beyond me.
 
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From eyeballing the map, it looks like you could rank the metro areas like this:

1. Los Angeles
2. Miami
3. Houston
4. Atlanta
5. Dallas
6. Chicago
7. DC

Though, UT is actually close to a lot of very good mid-size markets (Charlotte, Nashville, Memphis, Raleigh), on top of Atlanta.

Surprising how little talent comes from the Northeast. It would appear that New York City has fewer prospects in the entire city than Mecklenburg County, NC (Charlotte). Strangely, there's one county in Maine that produces more talent than Queens County, NY.
 
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Need percentages here. The red counties are humongous in population.

LA County, CA and Harris County, TX look impressive, but not percentage-wise. They're not up to Spartanburg County, SC, percentage-wise.

Jefferson County, AL and Orleans Parish, LA, as well as several others, are impressive.
 
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DiderotsGhost said:
From eyeballing the map, it looks like you could rank the metro areas like this:

1. Los Angeles
2. Miami
3. Houston
4. Atlanta
5. Dallas
6. Chicago
7. DC

Though, UT is actually close to a lot of very good mid-size markets (Charlotte, Nashville, Memphis, Raleigh), on top of Atlanta.

Surprising how little talent comes from the Northeast. It would appear that New York City has fewer prospects in the entire city than Mecklenburg County, NC (Charlotte). Strangely, there's one county in Maine that produces more talent than Queens County, NY.
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No room for football stadiums other than the pros in NYC. Basketball is king for high school sports up there.
 
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