Recruiting -- Folks, it's not Raw Kit Science

[Jack_John_Mark]

Here is a map created based on the top 1500 sought after recruits over the past 6 years. The more red the color, the more top recruits the state had. States in white had minimal amounts........for instance, Nebraska had 2.

Also on the map you will see a bunch of numbers. These numbers represent the average (final) ranking over the past 6 seasons of teams residing in these states. Not the recruiting ranking, but rather what the team finished ranked after playing the season.

To me there is some obvious correlation..........maybe I'm just drunk?

 

[HuskerPower52]

So yer telling me Texas California and Florida have good talent? We should tell Bo

 

[Jack_John_Mark]

So yer telling me Texas California and Florida have good talent? We should tell Bo

If you look closer, you'll notice that a whole bunch of states have good talent......

And if you look even closer, you'll notice that Nebraska is at more of a disadvantage than almost every major program.

 

[Red_Alert]

Looks to me like Bo's doing a shitty job keeping Nebraska ranked.

 

[Jack_John_Mark]

See all those colors down there in the South???

See, we have to convince those teenagers to leave their nice warm homes to come up to that white spot right in the middle of the map called Nebraska. You know, the place where there is just corn and flat land and all that bad stuff as they're told.

It's much easier for the other schools surrounding those schools down South to convince them to leave, because at least they'll still be close to home.

 

[Jack_John_Mark]

Looks to me like Bo's doing a shitty job keeping Nebraska ranked.

Agreed.

That cocksucker. Wisconsin, Boise, and Utah all rose above the challenge

 

[HuskerPower52]

I was just giving ya shit. Yep we really are in a dilly of a pickle. But then we get Adam Taylor an newby.

 

[Jack_John_Mark]

What was amazing to me when putting this study together was how hot of a state Virginia is......yet none of those kids want to play for Va Tech or West Va.......they just want to get the hell out of that state and head south.

 

[HuskerPower52]

Wisco can thank berry for all of the success. And berry can thank Tom.

The other school's got very lucky in the head coaches they hired. But those coaches didn't stick around b.c other programs bigger and better programs came calling b.c of the HISTORY and tradition.

 

[Jack_John_Mark]

It's difficult to put much stock into Boise and Utah just because they simply played poop for teams during those seasons and then rose to the challenge when they got a chance to play a top ranked team.

I'll give them credit though.

Nebraska was #27 for the record......so we were really the next major program out

 

[blkflagmafia]

If you look closer, you'll notice that a whole bunch of states have good talent......

And if you look even closer, you'll notice that Nebraska is at more of a disadvantage than almost every major program.

win the big games and the talent will come......

 

[blkflagmafia]

What was amazing to me when putting this study together was how hot of a state Virginia is......yet none of those kids want to play for Va Tech or West Va.......they just want to get the hell out of that state and head south.

central va northern va and va beach have super talent that wants nothing to do with Uva and tech. trust me we all joke how everyone wants to get the f out of Virginia. Virginia is a hot bed for talent that people just don't know about it. but Uva high school standard and tech bs offense makes kids run out of state. tech wins defenders overt bc of history of defense but outside of that most leave or screw up and go lower division

 

[Jack_John_Mark]

Yea I was surprised by how much talent comes out of VA. NC has a shit ton too.

I understand that winning the big games will help, but honestly......most of those ranked teams on that map are losing the big games and still raking in recruits due to the fact that they grow on trees in their back yard.

No matter which way anyone tries to flip it, Nebraska is always going to be facing an uphill battle when it comes to pulling kids out of SECland and talking them into coming up here. We built the best facilities in the country........pumped millions into our stadium.......and that doesn't even make recruits think twice. Yea, they comment on how neat it looks.......their experience is always a 10 out of 10 when they visit.......but all the kids really know is what ESPN tells them. And that is that the SEC is king.

 

[Jack_John_Mark]

Personally I think we need to focus more of our search on the Pennsylvania and Virginia area. Those are kids that are just looking to get the hell out of dodge.

The kids down South like being where they're at. That's why all we can ever get out of there are the leftovers.

 

[Footballnut]

Nebraska needs to hit Missouri and Colorado hard... also getting into Chicago would be huge too. The real telling thing about this graph is the lack of elite talent in the northern part of the countr, specifically the great plains/midwest. Minnesota is going to have a good year of talent in 2015 though.

 

[tometom]

they are the least dense populated states in the country outside of Alaska, it's not hard to understand why the Northern states don't have as many kids on this list. I've also said it before, kids in these states just aren't as exposed and don't necessarily live and breath football. there's talent there, it just doesn't spend enough time at camps and practicing football to be rated as highly as kids from the south. imo

 

[HuskerPower52]

I think we need to invest in athletes in high school in Nebraska.

 

[Brasky]

I think we need to invest in athletes in high school in Nebraska.

 

[HuskerPower52]

Good job Brasky. Way to contribute

 

[HuskerPower52]

As long as those high school kids put on Good weight of course Bahahahahahahahaba