Biggest recruiting hotbeds: Tennessee

[kamoshika]

...finding prospects in the Volunteer State is as simple as finding the airport at its two largest cities.

Greater Nashville and greater Memphis are two hotbeds in a state that is otherwise unremarkable. They are close to par with Baton Rouge and better at producing players than greater Birmingham, prospect-laden cities in states more noted for their player production.

But where Alabama gets help from its prospect-rich southern region (Mobile, Montgomery), Tennessee recruiting pretty much begins and ends with two metro areas. The pair produced 36 of the state’s 42 elite (four- or five-star) prospects in the last five years. No other metro area produced more than one.

Knoxville? Just one in an area of 700,000 folks. Chattanooga? Not one.
Biggest recruiting hotbeds: Tennessee

 

[Dobbs 4 Heisman]

The rise of Nashville as the significant metropolitan city in the south will greatly benefit Tennessee football going forward.

We just need to win championships RIGHT NOW so the generation of kids growing up right now in middle tennessee grow up seeing Tennessee football on top.

 

[bignewt]

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[Glitch]

Hi ho. Kermit the Frog here. We have some additional breaking news to add here. Jack has indeed jumped over the candlestick. It has been merely rumor and conjecture for sometime but it has finally been confirmed. He was nimble and quick and he jumped right over that candlestick. Back to you Ron Burgandy.

 

[sjt18]

Careful.... posting something like that might draw the wrath of the resident thought police.