NCAA - Where the players come from

[Mr_Twister]

The NCAA provided empirical data on recruiting by state.
NJ is tied with Alabama and Pennsylvania for 10th-richest high school football states.
Michigan and Iowa and Nebraska are tied for 9th scarcest high school football states.
Minnesota and Wisconsin are even worse (tied 4th scarcest).
These 5 Big Ten programs all have us in their rear view mirror.
Might be time to re-think our recruiting paradigm -- "recruit locally"; that ship has sailed.
Florida is by far the richest high school football state.

http://footballscoop.com/news/map-players-come/

From a geographic recruiting standpoint, the background of Rutgers staff is not well-suited to this comment in the article ...

"From New Jersey on down through Maryland, D.C. and Delaware to Virginia and the Carolinas has as much high-level talent as any region in the nation."

 

[Plum Street]

We did well in Florida.

 

[mikefla]

I have often maintained we should concentrate our efforts to recruit in Florida.
Many of our stars are also from NY,,,Brian Leonard, Ray Rice, the McCourtys

Bottom line......
It doesnt matter where the recruits are from...just get good players!

 

[Scarlet_Scourge]

The 10 target-richest high school football states:

1. Florida — 9.9 percent
2. Georgia — 8.6 percent
3. Louisiana — 8.1 percent
4. Washington, D.C./Maryland — 7.2 percent/6.5 percent
5. South Carolina — 6.2 percent
Tennessee — 6.2 percent
7. North Carolina — 5.9 percent
8. Virginia — 5.6 percent
9. Delaware — 5.1 percent
10. Alabama — 5.0 percent
New Jersey — 5.0 percent
Pennsylvania — 5.0 percent

 

[Manayunkeer]

The analysis in that article is absurd. It seems to indicate that WV is as rich of a high school football state as Texas.

 

[late knight]

It's based on concentration, which is not a good way to judge "where the talent is". California and Texas are not on the list. 'Nuff said.

 

[RU205]

Texas, Florida, California, are the top 3 football player producers. Ohio, PA and NJ also produce a lot of talent.

 

[mdk01]

One question two comment

Question: When they say Div. 1., does that mean Div 1 & v. 1-AA or jut Div 1?

Comments
1. They are rating on a "per capita" basis. That puts Delaware in the Top 10, but in reality there are very few D-1 recruits in Delaware.
2. Being in the otherwise very weak Northeast, New Jersey's rating is quite impressive.

 

[Scarlet_Scourge]

I believe they mean the % of High School players that go on to play D1. Pretty straight forward.

For Texas, they are so huge and have so many kids that play high school football that have zero change of playing in college, that their percentage is small, though the amount of kids that play D1 from Texas HS is very high just due to the sheer size of the state of Texas.

 

[GoodOl'Rutgers]

NJ is one of those places with a lot of municipalities.. meaning a lot of high schools.. and a lot of football teams.

I wonder what the percentage HS football players / High School Students is for NJ vs other states.

This can have 2 effects..

1) The opportunity for players to develop into good players is high in New Jersey because there are a lot of footballs to go around.

2) The competition at any particular high school is not that great.. so maybe the ration of D1 level players to the total number of players is lower than it might be in other states.

These two possibilities conflict to some degree, yet both could be true.

 

[FELONIOUSMONK]

Da womb.