To some football programs, recruiting is a national affair. To others, all they can hope to do is keep the talent in the surrounding areas home to play for their team.
The folks at Rukkus blog — a site we at Eleven Warriors are just now learning about — cobbled together a cool interactive map of the hometown of each of the 13,738 college players at Division I programs. There is also data about the average distance from home for each player and what states produce the most talent.
The photo you see above is a heat map of Big Ten teams.
You can see the interactive map here. It is sortable by conference and team.
For a closer look at how Ohio State recruits nationally under Urban Meyer and how it compares to Jim Tressel, read this story by our Andrew Lind.
