Map showing where College football players are from

[KPENN]

This is pretty wild and cool.

Where Football Players Call Home

 

[woolybug25]

I knew that AZ through out good prospects every year, but I was pretty shocked by the extent of it.

AZ, and Maricopa County in particular, put out high levels of talent in every position. Wow...

 

[ACamp1900]

Whole lotta red out these parts...

 

[Damion704]

SEC SEC SEC lol

 

[IrishJayhawk]

I knew that AZ through out good prospects every year, but I was pretty shocked by the extent of it.

AZ, and Maricopa County in particular, put out high levels of talent in every position. Wow...

Phoenix metro is just so huge. Maricopa doesn't do nearly as well per capita.

 

[ACamp1900]

SB County, largest in the country, hell of a lot of empty space, and still red.

 

[alaskandomer]

This map seems to be missing 2 states.

 

[ACamp1900]

This map seems to be missing 2 states.

Or even more than that, depending on which elected official you ask....

 

[IrishSteelhead]

A good chunk of the top end talent from the entire state of AZ comes from 3 high schools, all in the East Valley: Chapparal (Scottsdale), Corona Del Sol (Tempe), Desert Vista (Ahwautukee).

*Chandler does quite well also, and East Mesa cranks out a BYU factory of Mormon boys.

I wouldn't be salivating too much over AZ's production though. They are still around a top 15-20 (at best) state for recruiting hotbeds IMO.

 

[IrishJayhawk]

A good chunk of the top end talent from the entire state of AZ comes from 3 high schools, all in the East Valley: Chapparal (Scottsdale), Corona Del Sol (Tempe), Desert Vista (Ahwautukee).

*Chandler does quite well also, and East Mesa cranks out a BYU factory of Mormon boys.

I wouldn't be salivating too much over AZ's production though. They are still around a top 15-20 (at best) state for recruiting hotbeds IMO.

Tucson does okay. Salpointe and Sabino, in particular. Ka'deem Carey went to Canyon Del Oro. But not nearly as much talent as there is in the valley.

 

[Bluto]

This is pretty sweet. If you compiled the right data sets in GIS you could pinpoint the schools that produce not only physically talented players but also those schools that consistently produce players that meet specific academic standards as well as these players overall success rates in college both on and off the field.

 

[GowerND11]

This is pretty sweet. If you compiled the right data sets in GIS you could pinpoint the schools that produce not only physically talented players but also those schools that consistently produce players that meet specific academic standards as well as these players overall success rates in college both on and off the field.

Sounds like a perfect project for a college student to do for a Geography research project using GIS!

 

[BleedBlueGold]

I'd like to see it go one step further and do avg recruit ranking. you'd be able to filter out the top 250-300 recruits come from every year. everyone already has a good idea...but it'd suit this map well to have that feature.

 

[NDBoiler]

I didn't relaize how huge some of the counties out west are, which is important to note as well.

 

[TDHeysus]

SB County, largest in the country, hell of a lot of empty space, and still red.

I figured LA and Orange county would be red, but SB county being red was a little bit of a surprise.

 

[Monk]

I like Garfield County in Montana. That county looks to be as big as Connecticut and only has 25 college age males. What is out there?

 

[NDBoiler]

This is pretty sweet. If you compiled the right data sets in GIS you could pinpoint the schools that produce not only physically talented players but also those schools that consistently produce players that meet specific academic standards as well as these players overall success rates in college both on and off the field.

I'm willing to bet that a lot of college coaching staffs have this exact info at their disposal.

 

[ACamp1900]

I didn't relaize how huge some of the counties out west are, which is important to note as well.

Growing in San Bernardino County I often heard SBC is larger than a third of the countries on the planet... never checked to see if that's correct, but it wouldn't suprise me, massive county.

 

[GowerND11]

Growing in San Bernardino County I often heard SBC is larger than a third of the countries on the planet... never checked to see if that's correct, but it wouldn't suprise me, massive county.

With an area of 20,105 square miles, San Bernardino County is the largest county in the United States by area. It is larger than each of the nine smallest states, larger than the four smallest states combined, and larger than 71 different sovereign nations.

Per Wikipedia.

 

[ACamp1900]

Per Wikipedia.

They forgot to mention the extreme percentage of the population that is cracked out...

 

[Jebediah Springfield]

They forgot to mention the extreme percentage of the population that is tweaked out...

FIFY

 

[ACamp1900]

yeah, that too...

 

[chubler]

I'd like to see this data we're discussing include quality in the form of rankings, success at the college level, success getting to the NFL, and also academic success somehow. Being able to predict academic busts as well as football busts would be huge for maximizing our scholarships given we seem to always use less than 85

 

[nlroma1o]

I like Garfield County in Montana. That county looks to be as big as Connecticut and only has 25 college age males. What is out there?

Big Foot.... Lots and lots of Big Foot's

 

[dshans]

Big Foot.... Lots and lots of Big Foot's

As well as a certain cat suction cupped to car windows ...

 

[Bluto]

I'm willing to bet that a lot of college coaching staffs have this exact info at their disposal.

I'm sure they do. It would be fairly straight forward albeit time consuming process if they had all this info compiled in excel.