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Recruiting Hot Beds ... there's Florida and Georgia and Texas ... and then ... who?

A lot of folks might put Louisiana in 4th place for high school talent in the SEC footprint. I know I would've before reading this article. Turns out, at least when it comes to the offensive side of the ball, over the last ten years Louisiana isn't quite as good as all that, and Tennessee isn't quite as bad as "conventional wisdom" would have you believe, either.

Here's the article, which goes position by position and counts the number of SEC recruits from each state:

Best SEC recruiting grounds by position: Offense - SEC Blog- ESPN

And within all those numbers, focus on the relative positions of Tennessee and Louisiana. It might surprise you.

Here's the score card:
  • QBs - Tennessee and Louisiana tied at 10
  • RBs - Louisiana has 22, Tennessee right behind them at 20
  • WRs - here's the one spot where Tennessee falls well behind, with 17; Louisiana had 44
  • TEs - here's where Tennessee leaps ahead, with 18; Louisiana had 12
  • OL - advantage to Tennesssee, 41, over Louisiana at 34
Bottom line seems to be, yes, Texas and Florida and Georgia have the lions' shares. Behind them, it's a mish-mash, with Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Louisiana going back and forth.

One thing is clear, though. It's no longer Tennessee down at the bottom, far below those three other states in talent...well, except when it comes to wide receivers. The profile there does look a lot like the way it used to be across the board.

Hopefully, the writer (David Ching, I think) will follow up with a count on the defensive side as well.

I found this interesting, thought you might, too.
 
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I just hope we continue to climb.
So far, all signs point to we will.
This is just a new age of football, you don't have to be a great hub, but all statistics point to the fact that it helps considerably.
 
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which makes it all that more important that Butch and the staff closes the deal on Tee Higgins. They have to close the deal on him. Can't let him get away! Don't resort to Ole Miss level, of course but with in the legal parameters show him the love! Name a Street after him for goodness sakes!
 
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The talent level in high school football across the state of Tennessee has gotten a lot better since the 90s IMO
 
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Vol$_Deep_11_9 said:
The talent level in high school football across the state of Tennessee has gotten a lot better since the 90s IMO
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The talent level has gotten better just since about 6 years ago. I remember when I was a senior in high school and the state was pretty dry when it came to decent football talent. Now, in the past 6 years there has been just a huge boom in talent. Especially in the midstate area.

I mean just look at the 2017 in-state class. If you could keep every top target from the state of TN, that could almost be enough to put you in the top 5 right there alone.

Trey Smith, Ty Chandler, Tee Higgins, Jacoby Stevens, Amari Rodgers, Maleik Grey, etc. The list goes even deeper than that, but that's just a few names. The state is absolutely loaded this year.
 
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Metropolitan cities have grown. High school athletic programs became better...mo' money, etc. Tennessee is not to bad a place to live and people are still coming. It's a good time to be a Tennessee Vol...:)

GO VOLS!
 
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My Top Hot Beds:

1. Lisa D'Amato
2. Whitney Thompson
3. Heidi Klum
4. CariDee English
 
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A few years back, some guy did a 10 year study to pinpoint where the recruits come from. He put a "pin" on each town where a player came from. He also took into account the total population concentration. So the results instead of being based on geographic boundaries were based on recruits per capita.
Basically, that map looked like the most "color" started like a curved swatch from a paint brush starting in NC to SC to GA to FL to AL to MS. His numbers showed GA have a thin edge over MS, then FL and I think SC or AL. TN was significantly below.

Just stating his fact here and nothing more, because I can't tell what offends anymore. But, wherever the highest concentration of African Americans resided (per capita) in the south, were the hottest recruiting areas.

Wish I had saved that. It was real interesting.
 
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livefaith said:
A few years back, some guy did a 10 year study to pinpoint where the recruits come from. He put a "pin" on each town where a player came from. He also took into account the total population concentration. So the results instead of being based on geographic boundaries were based on recruits per capita.
Basically, that map looked like the most "color" started like a curved swatch from a paint brush starting in NC to SC to GA to FL to AL to MS. His numbers showed GA have a thin edge over MS, then FL and I think SC or AL. TN was significantly below.

Just stating his fact here and nothing more, because I can't tell what offends anymore. But, wherever the highest concentration of African Americans resided (per capita) in the south, were the hottest recruiting areas.

Wish I had saved that. It was real interesting.
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I would love to see that one, then see one from this year.
Just to keep track of the hot bed trend.
In other words, sure we are growing, but are our rivals also.
 
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When I read we were "going back and forth" with the states of Alabama and Louisiana I had to check that out, and as suspected thats just not the case.

Alabama and Louisiana produce exponentially more talent than the state of Tennessee, and since the author used a 10 year spread to make his case, these
numbers have to be filtered by the 51 players signed by Vandy and KY over that period. And while its true that the state is producing more quality D1 talent now
than ever, thats also true for all other football producing states in the South. However, the numbers have exploded locally since 2013, and the numbers are encouraging.

D1 players signed out of the state of Tennessee:

2016 - 98
2015 - 122
2014 - 99
2013 - 97
2012 - 52
2011 - 46
2010 - 46
2009 - 47
2008 - 57
2007 - 58

No other SEC states have doubled their output in such a short amount of time, and what makes this even more impressive, the state of Alabama has experienced
this doubling effect, but over an 8 year period from 2009-2016. Nobody is growing faster than we are, and thats good news!
 
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HoptownVol said:
When I read we were "going back and forth" with the states of Alabama and Louisiana I had to check that out, and as suspected thats just not the case.

Alabama and Louisiana produce exponentially more talent than the state of Tennessee, and since the author used a 10 year spread to make his case, these
numbers have to be filtered by the 51 players signed by Vandy and KY over that period. And while its true that the state is producing more quality D1 talent now
than ever, thats also true for all other football producing states in the South. However, the numbers have exploded locally since 2013, and the numbers are encouraging.

D1 players signed out of the state of Tennessee:

2016 - 98
2015 - 122
2014 - 99
2013 - 97
2012 - 52
2011 - 46
2010 - 46
2009 - 47
2008 - 57
2007 - 58

No other SEC states have doubled their output in such a short amount of time, and what makes this even more impressive, the state of Alabama has experienced
this doubling effect, but over an 8 year period from 2009-2016. Nobody is growing faster than we are, and thats good news!
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Thanks for the info. Very encouraging, for sure.
 
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Volador said:
My Top Hot Beds:

1. Lisa D'Amato
2. Whitney Thompson
3. Heidi Klum
4. CariDee English
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Just so you know, she is a Tennessee grad, NYPost a few years back had her in their celebrity photos at least once a week, fitness and bikini model. Enjoy!
 

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HoptownVol said:
When I read we were "going back and forth" with the states of Alabama and Louisiana I had to check that out, and as suspected thats just not the case.

Alabama and Louisiana produce exponentially more talent than the state of Tennessee, and since the author used a 10 year spread to make his case, these
numbers have to be filtered by the 51 players signed by Vandy and KY over that period. And while its true that the state is producing more quality D1 talent now
than ever, thats also true for all other football producing states in the South. However, the numbers have exploded locally since 2013, and the numbers are encouraging.

D1 players signed out of the state of Tennessee:

2016 - 98
2015 - 122
2014 - 99
2013 - 97
2012 - 52
2011 - 46
2010 - 46
2009 - 47
2008 - 57
2007 - 58

No other SEC states have doubled their output in such a short amount of time, and what makes this even more impressive, the state of Alabama has experienced
this doubling effect, but over an 8 year period from 2009-2016. Nobody is growing faster than we are, and thats good news!
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So Alabama has done the same thing over a slightly more recent time frame...? Doesn't that diminish what's happened in Tennessee?
 
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General Jack said:
So Alabama has done the same thing over a slightly more recent time frame...? Doesn't that diminish what's happened in Tennessee?
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Perusing what I think are the current 2016 Rosters, I see 36 from-Alabama Players on theirs, and 52 from-Tennessee Players on ours.

I find this more interesting.
 
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VersaceButch said:
The talent level has gotten better just since about 6 years ago. I remember when I was a senior in high school and the state was pretty dry when it came to decent football talent. Now, in the past 6 years there has been just a huge boom in talent. Especially in the midstate area.

I mean just look at the 2017 in-state class. If you could keep every top target from the state of TN, that could almost be enough to put you in the top 5 right there alone.


Trey Smith, Ty Chandler, Tee Higgins, Jacoby Stevens, Amari Rodgers, Maleik Grey, etc. The list goes even deeper than that, but that's just a few names. The state is absolutely loaded this year.
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Right. I remember back when I was in high school it was seldom you heard of guys in East TN getting offers. It is more heard of now but nothing like the mid state guys. West Tennessee has always been good but it's been hard for us to recruit at a good, consistent level out there being closer to Alabama and Mississippi.
 
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