"The best teams are found where the best players are raised. The 2010 ESPNU ranking of the top 150 high school players included 28 from Florida, 24 from Texas and 18 each from California and Georgia. Michigan had five, Pennsylvania four. Ohio, home of The Ohio State University and home of famed high schools such as Massillon and Moeller, had two.
Some years are better than others, yes. And the accuracy of recruiting rankings is always fodder for discussion. But you don't need a statistician to interpret the shift in the numbers. From 2007 to 2010, an entire four-year cycle of recruits, Pennsylvania had a total of 21 players ranked in the ESPNU 150. Ohio had 16 and Michigan 14.
Over that four-year period, those three states had fewer than Florida and Texas had this year alone."
I would like to see where all of the NFL 1st , 2nd and 3rd round Draft picks hail from by State. I think that would be more telling then where the most highly rated recruits are from.
I also find it qestionable citing the economic turns in States like Michican, Pennsylvania
for the implied lack o talent in the Midwest while not mentioning the economic down turn in the sun states effecting high profile programs down there. Apparently it doesn't.
I'm not saying none of this has any basis but the truth of the matter is that is the B10 schools had the admission standards, and ethics of the SEC schools and USC then well ......
