The SEC turf down South has six times as many good football players as the Midwest!
That’s according to the 2015 ESPN 300 Recruiting Site. We compared their top high-school football players in each state with the population of that state according to the 2010 census.
The South from Texas to Virginia has 34% of the US population, and 207 or 69% of the top 300 football recruits. So they have twice as many top players as their population would suggest. See table below.
The Midwest from Ohio to Kansas, on the other hand, has 22% of the nation’s population, but only 7% of the top recruits. So they have one third as many good football players as the population would warrant.
Thus according to ESPN, the South has six times as many good football players per capita as the Midwest. Really?
| East | Midwest | south | west | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Top High-School Football Recruits | 23 | 20 | 207 | 49 |
| Percent of 2015 ESPN 300 | 8% | 7% | 69% | 16% |
| Population in millions | 64.4 | 66.9 | 105.4 | 72.0 |
| Percent of 2010 US Census | 21% | 22% | 34% | 23% |
Also the large states of New York, Massachusetts and Missouri have zero ESPN top football players. This causes me great concern for our recruits Curtis Samuel of New York and Ezekiel Elliott of Missouri. Why recruit them? What was Urban Meyer thinking?!
