How does our State Champions stack up?

[BIGPURPLEMACHINE]

49 minutes ago, Salem said:

This article is over three years old and is based on places of birth of NFL players not high school attended but TN is in the top third. Some counties in the top 5 may have more players than most states. 

https://www.cleveland.com/datacentral/2016/09/which_states_produce_the_most.html

 

Rank	State	Players
1	Florida	193
2	California	187
3	Texas	160
4	Georgia	97
5	Ohio	80
6	Pennsylvania	66
7	Louisiana	63
8	Alabama	60
9	New Jersey	50
10	South Carolina	48
11	Michigan	46
12	Virginia	43
13	North Carolina	42
14	Illinois	38
15	New York	36
16	Tennessee	34
17	Maryland	28
18	Mississippi	27
(tie)	Missouri	27
(tie)	Wisconsin	27

 

Over half of all NFL players come from just seven states. Most states will seem weak when compared to GA or FL . 

 

 

I agree Florida and Georgia are tops in talent. However basing it on number of players per state is not a fair comparison. I would love to see states broken down by number of nfl players verses total state population. 

[Tide21]

7 minutes ago, BIGPURPLEMACHINE said:

I agree Florida and Georgia are tops in talent. However basing it on number of players per state is not a fair comparison. I would love to see states broken down by number of nfl players verses total state population. 

What I read showed the most ever have came out of the Miami dade county area and I believe it was Houston in Texas 

 

of course those areas have large population but I’m sure there are other cities that have just as many people. They contributed it to a really large serious youth tackle football league in both areas 

Edited December 19, 2019 by Tide21

[BIGPURPLEMACHINE]

1 hour ago, Tide21 said:

What I read showed the most ever have came out of the Miami dade county area and I believe it was Houston in Texas 

 

of course those areas have large population but I’m sure there are other cities that have just as many people. They contributed it to a really large serious youth tackle football league in both areas 

No doubt there is serious talent in that city/county. I was referring to more of the state level in regards to the poster above. 

[sum1uno]

1 hour ago, BIGPURPLEMACHINE said:

No doubt there is serious talent in that city/county. I was referring to more of the state level in regards to the poster above. 

 

[BIGPURPLEMACHINE]

3 minutes ago, sum1uno said:

 

So TN has roughly 1/6 of the players in the nfl that Florida does at 193 vs 34. And I looked up TN 2019 population and it is about 6.8 million which is about 17% of Florida’s population. That is also about 1/6. It seems the number of nfl players in  TN and FL is very comparable based on total state population. Maybe TN isn’t so far behind after all. Hmmm.....

[sum1uno]

5 minutes ago, BIGPURPLEMACHINE said:

So TN has roughly 1/6 of the players in the nfl that Florida does at 193 vs 34. And I looked up TN 2019 population and it is about 6.8 million which is about 17% of Florida’s population. That is also about 1/6. It seems the number of nfl players in  TN and FL is very comparable based on total state population. Maybe TN isn’t so far behind after all. Hmmm.....

Louisiana has very good ratio along with South Carolina. Louisiana has about 4.5 million pop

[rlh]

20 hours ago, GeneralForrest said:

that discussion has already been had. 

Incorrect.  It was a simple question, not a discussion. 

[rlh]

12 hours ago, BIGPURPLEMACHINE said:

So TN has roughly 1/6 of the players in the nfl that Florida does at 193 vs 34. And I looked up TN 2019 population and it is about 6.8 million which is about 17% of Florida’s population. That is also about 1/6. It seems the number of nfl players in  TN and FL is very comparable based on total state population. Maybe TN isn’t so far behind after all. Hmmm.....

That is along the lines of what I was getting at in several earlier posts. 

[ysoangry]

17 hours ago, Tide21 said:

I read somewhere that Florida has put more players in the nfl than any other state. Majority of them coming from Miami dade county area. 

I believe it. The school in the town I live in has won 64 straight regular season games. State record for most regular season wins. They usually win first couple games of playoffs then a Miami area school beat them like a red headed step child. Happens every year that I've been here. 

[TheRefuter]

I don’t know what it’s worth, but here in the tri-state area, we just had a “border war” FCA game between Tennessee and Georgia and the Tennessee team won 27-7 I believe. Tennessee team was made up of Meigs County, Rhea County, Cleveland, Bradley Central, Walker Valley, McMinn County, McMinn Central, Copper Basin, and Grace Baptist and Georgia team was Fannin County, Union County, Towns County, Pickens County, and Gilmer County with I’m sure a dash of others thrown in (Habersham Central has sent players in the past that weren’t announced until game time).

[rlh]

On 12/20/2019 at 9:31 AM, ysoangry said:

I believe it. The school in the town I live in has won 64 straight regular season games. State record for most regular season wins. They usually win first couple games of playoffs then a Miami area school beat them like a red headed step child. Happens every year that I've been here. 

The big schools in Florida are BIG.  In other words, there are a lot more Maryville, Greenville, Powell, Farragut sized schools.   That said, there are several schools that to well in the regular season year in and out and get drummed in the 2nd round of the playoffs.

Edited December 31, 2019 by rlh

[WingT08]

On 12/30/2019 at 8:26 PM, TheRefuter said:

I don’t know what it’s worth, but here in the tri-state area, we just had a “border war” FCA game between Tennessee and Georgia and the Tennessee team won 27-7 I believe. Tennessee team was made up of Meigs County, Rhea County, Cleveland, Bradley Central, Walker Valley, McMinn County, McMinn Central, Copper Basin, and Grace Baptist and Georgia team was Fannin County, Union County, Towns County, Pickens County, and Gilmer County with I’m sure a dash of others thrown in (Habersham Central has sent players in the past that weren’t announced until game time).

Sounds like a pick up game