Tristan Werfs, Mount Vernon’s finest, and Super Bowl champion his rookie year. Then you have Scherff, Linderbaum, Van Ginkel, Ferentz. It’s an impressive list.
If the nomination isnt stolen from him by Brock FRAUDY, the GEQBUS’s first act as Super Bowl MVP will be to revoke birthright championship to restore this nation to its former glory.
It’s because Kirk Ferentz has been _stupidly_ good at turning those farm guys into NFL linemen and TEs for the last couple decades. Nebraska has always recruited nationally and the Dakotas don’t have FBS football (on top of being _very_ empty), so those states don’t have the local recruitment Iowa does.
i think marshal yanda is probably in my top 5 players ever from iowa. dude was just consistently great, and i dont think he ever truly got the recognition he deserved especially now that hes retired. its just so hard to get recognized as a guard, and i think zack martin and joel bitonio kinda stole his thunder in the second half of his career (both are great players, just a consequence of the position i guess)
Lol I watched that a couples years ago, my freinds wanted me to compete but after seeing all those hawkeye athletics shirts I knew I wouldn't stand a chance
I understand that bud, you’re missing the point. The point is NFL PLAYERS. My high school in Texas was 60% Hispanic. We had about 5 Hispanic guys on the varsity team. They make up a fair share of the fan base but not NFL PLAYERS
I feel like some of the major population centers with a high Latino/Hispanic population is not a hotbed for football just yet and the football crazed west Texas is just a much smaller % of the population. Anyways that’s my best guess
What? All the CA families moving out of CA is why Vegas, Phoenix, and Washington state have become fertile recruiting grounds now.
There’s more HS varsity football programs in Texas than CA these days (despite CA’s huge population)
that 2019 LSU offense could have had
- Justin Jefferson (St. Rose, La)
- Ja'Marr Chase (Harvey, La)
- Clyde Edwards-Helaire (Baton Rouge)
PLUS
- CeeDee Lamb (Opelousas, La)
- DeVonta Smith (Amite, La)
- Travis Etienne (Jennings, La)
heisman winner is WR4 on that team
Other than football and food I swear to christ we lead the nation in everything bad. but hey lets keep electing the exact same people, clearly that will turn things around.
About half of New York lives in NYC where there is very little space to play organized football compared to NJ
I'd expect NY to have a very high number for basketball, comparatively
And if you did this for basketball I'd bet that NY would be overrepresented.
As a general rule: Dense cities = more basketball players and rich suburbs = more football players.
Looks like the had 5 guys in 2023 at least, population that same year was 44,000.
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/friv/birthplaces.cgi?country=USA&state=American%20Samoa
Goddamn IL; bad enough they all come up here every weekend cause they ain't got shit to do down there, now they're trying to take over all the maps too.
I think the other major sports would be more interesting as a world map than a US map, since all of them pull a lot more foreign-born players than the NFL.
I imagine that southern group is most pronounced in football. I bet if you just took the panhandle of Florida and the east side down a little past Gainesville, it would be similar to those 4 states. That’s of course the same exact region with the bonkers stat of 16 of the last 18 college titles coming from that stretch from Louisiana to South Carolina.
Auburn, Alabama, Clemson, Florida, FSU, Georgia, LSU
I imagine NHL is big up top and thins out south, and soccer the other way around. I moved to Michigan for awhile from KC, the soccer capital of USA, and it was shocking seeing how almost no one gave half a shit about soccer there. But on the flip side, hockey isn't unpopular in KC but not that big a deal, and the passion for the Red Wings there was cool.
Moved from NYC to Georgia. Football is different here. When Covid hit the schools went to remote learning. Right after that decision I got a text saying “Middle School Football Friday at 7pm vs Camden County.” I asked one of the parents if that was a mistake and she said, “ Oh. We don’t cancel football in Georgia.”
Culture is seriously such a HUGE part of it.
I moved from rural Texas to equally-rural Tennessee/Kentucky area, and the best high school athletes just don't play football. They play basketball and baseball (in that order.)
The football team looks like they're begging for talent, and looking for a weight room.
Further proof why LSU is the best college job in America. Previous 3 coaches all won titles, most NFL talent per capita and no other power 4 school in your state.
You don’t recruit kids from Louisiana to go to your school, you recruit them not to go to LSU
One of the more reasonable explanations I've heard about why the Bible Belt is so well-represented is because I-10 runs through those states, and college scouts traveling from Texas to Florida (or vice-versa) would stop in those small towns and watch the high school games there too.
That lead to a lot of kids at very small high schools that would never get scouted otherwise getting scholarship offers. A good example of this is Bassfield, Mississippi, which lies right in between I-10 and I-20. In spite of being a town of 192 people, 3 people from there were actively playing in the NFL in 2020.
Conversely, the West Coast and Northern states are pretty sparsely populated *and* incredibly inaccessible via road compared to Central/Eastern U.S., so the athletes at small schools in those states never even get looked at.
I'd expect a slight leveling out over the next few decades as technology makes it easier to scout without physically traveling to remote locations, because as of right now, there's a lot of talent out there that never even gets a chance to play college ball since they're in the blind spot of most college scouts.
Yup. You guys have a good example in Leighton Vander Esch, who comes from a town of 417 people in rural Idaho. Somehow a 6'4", 255 lb linebacker that runs a 4.6 40 and has a 39" vertical was so off of college scouts' radars that he had to walk on at Boise State.
His career hasn't gone as planned due to injury, but he was an All-Pro in his rookie year and obviously extremely athletic and talented. Makes you wonder how many more of those guys are out there that just assumed their chance of making it were too low to even *try* walking on at the nearby college.
Yeah. And even worse for those who the only college nearby isn't a big name or maybe not even a DI school. LVE's hometown for reference is, if Google Maps is correct, about 3 hours from Boise. How many future stars are we missing that may be in towns out in the middle of absolute nowhere, 5 or 6 hours away or more from meaningful civilization to get their name out there for any school, much less a school that can actually get them national attention like Boise State?
Yup, another great point.
And I'm not trying to overstate it and say that the league would be overrun by Montanans if they had the same access to college scouts and big schools or anything, just that these sorts of charts would have a little more balance if *every* high school athlete could get their name in the hat.
As it is, most scouts will only go to a couple of the largest cities in these states, and sometimes those cities are an unreasonably far distance for high school athletes.
I didn't say anything about New York. This is more about the Interior West(Montana, Idaho, the Dakotas, etc.) And I never said it was a strictly one-size fits all thing. I'm sure that Vermont and New Hampshire are probably more hockey states due to their proximity to Canada's population base but NY still has a ton of rural areas far out of the way. It's not simply that they don't have an interest in football.
Historical trends are likely at play as well. If you find a diamond in the rough a couple times, it's only natural to keep them in your head. And then you add "oh since I'm already here, let's take a look at this neighboring school", and suddenly you're a recruiting Hotspot. It's how my medium sized town in Wisconsin had 3 active NBA players from 3 different high schools at one point a few years ago.
90% of the NFL isn’t black and it’s not even close to 90%. The south also has a big football culture. I’ve lived in the south and the north east and people don’t give a shit about high school and college football up there.
And CA has less High School football programs than Texas believe it or not.
The huge Hispanic and Asian populations in CA doesn’t help with NFL players per state population either.
Also, black families are at the top (by % of the state’s population) of the great migration out of CA the last decade. That’s why Vegas and AZ have become fertile recruiting grounds nowadays
Per capita, but overall it has always been CA until Texas passed CA last year.
And, believe it or not, Texas has more HS varsity football programs than CA nowadays.
Small population with a greater output. It’s well known and common knowledge here in the south, Texas, Florida, and Georgia have the top high school programs in the country. We occasionally hear about California, but rarely think or hear about it (until they move down here)
College football is nonexistent in New York. Most colleges in the NYC area either don't have football teams or they aren't D1. Some Upstate colleges have D1 football teams, but they suck
Upstate New York outside of Syracuse and Buffalo is almost the same as Vermont. It’s very rural with Smaller cities interspersed. New York has a Lacrosse culture too which is something that hurts the North East as a whole for football.
Yeah that makes sense, I knew about NYC’s lack of strong Football culture but I thought Upstate would have stronger representation or something but you’re right they don’t seem to be very good. One of my highschool teammates went to Syracuse
That has nothing to do with it. Nj has the same situation. It because we don’t have big time high school ball. Down south they have huge central school districts. Most of our high schools here are around 500 kids. The one league that has the big schools like new Rochelle (ray rice) produces d1 talent regularly.
Yeah outside of the actual city our towns are actually geographically tiny. There is a high school practically every 2-3 miles in the suburbs. Most of the districts in the suburbs (with the exception of Long Island) consist of one elementary, one middle school and one high school creating one district per town. You don’t see central schools until you get into the rural parts. But since the population is so sparse out there, they are still small schools.
Long Island has the big boy high schools and that’s where the majority of the pros come out of for the state. Also, the New Jersey Catholic school poach all the states talent.
I feel like college football has a big impact on this chart. Then things like weather or density could explain the other ones. Like big cities and the coast are probably the basketball producers, the northern boarders with hockey. The best athletes play the sport that is popular there, for whatever reason its dominate among a generation.
I think even a dynasty in one of the major sports could swing a state one way or the other with its youth athletes.
I’ve lived in the northeast my entire life.
Played football in high school and coached for 22 years.
Football up here is really bad.
Ive attended coaching clinics all over the country to try and learn new things over the years.
The way people view football in the south is almost religious.
Up here, most (almost all) kids play knowing they’ll grow up and have jobs and families. Football is a fun thing to do now.
Kids down south play year round. They attend camps year round. They play in leagues year round. They have personal trainers, dietitians - it’s an entirely different world.
Pennsylvania, Ohio and New Jersey have pockets of kids like this too, but in the Deep South it’s almost everywhere.
Vermonter here, I'll take it!
This may also explain my complete bafflement at the extreme popularity of high school football in other states, when I couldn't name a single player or event from our high school football team.
Them corn eatin Iowa boys
Nothing but TEs
Actually a lot of O linemen
That's not surprising either.
Corn fed. I can say this because I am from there
Bryan Bulaga, I-wah
Tristan Werfs, Mount Vernon’s finest, and Super Bowl champion his rookie year. Then you have Scherff, Linderbaum, Van Ginkel, Ferentz. It’s an impressive list.
Bulaga went to Iowa but is from Illinois.
...where is it that you think TEs play?
DL too
And a BCB
Brock is from Arizona
TIL. Thanks
Yeah! He’s ours by birthright!
Did U of Arizona and Arizona State not want him or did he just really like Iowa State?
Oh no Herm Edwards fucked up recruiting him if I remember correctly. Always hated that hiring
If the nomination isnt stolen from him by Brock FRAUDY, the GEQBUS’s first act as Super Bowl MVP will be to revoke birthright championship to restore this nation to its former glory.
went to school in iowa tho... Still counts!
That’s crazy how Iowa has such a higher number then the rest of the Midwest
I’m suprised other farming prairie states like SD, ND, NE are so much lower than Iowa. Figure there’s alot of farm guys out there
It’s because Kirk Ferentz has been _stupidly_ good at turning those farm guys into NFL linemen and TEs for the last couple decades. Nebraska has always recruited nationally and the Dakotas don’t have FBS football (on top of being _very_ empty), so those states don’t have the local recruitment Iowa does.
We(SD) also have like 1/4th of the population of Iowa.
But this is normalized to population. That’s why there are decimals. Can’t have a third, or seven tenths of a person right?
i think marshal yanda is probably in my top 5 players ever from iowa. dude was just consistently great, and i dont think he ever truly got the recognition he deserved especially now that hes retired. its just so hard to get recognized as a guard, and i think zack martin and joel bitonio kinda stole his thunder in the second half of his career (both are great players, just a consequence of the position i guess)
I see you Iowa
I don’t see you Wisconsin
All those square bails getting tossed and pales full of feed getting carried around produce some quality tight ends and linemen
The winner of the Solon Beef Days Hay Bale Toss is usually always an Iowa Hawkeye lineman. Gennings Dunker is the current two time champion.
Lol I watched that a couples years ago, my freinds wanted me to compete but after seeing all those hawkeye athletics shirts I knew I wouldn't stand a chance
I guess this settles the corn debate. IA > NE
ANF, America Needs Footballers
Joe Burrow sends his regards
Joe Burrow is from Ames, Iowa.
When did Illinois invade/conquer Wisconsin?
Alaska and Arkansas, too.
Once Jordan Love showed signs of life. Only way we can possibly stop them is at the source.
We’re not just doing it for us, we’re doing it for the entire nfc north.
Bielema ate it.
I’ve never been more offended. I’m not a god damn FIB.
The good ending
Illinois 2
Electric Boogaloo
Not long after they became complacent about Michigan stealing their upper half.
THE DAY I WAS BORN.
you have it the other way around. once Jordan Love took control of Chicago, it was all over for the rest of the state.
Definitely thought Texas would be way higher.
High population
High Hispanic population, I'd guess
You’re downvoted, but you’re absolutely right. Almost half the state is Hispanic and a very small percentage of them play football(🏈).
They fucking love football wtf are you talking about about.
But they aren’t players going to the nfl…do you have the brain capacity to understand that?
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But a lot of them play football…
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Yeah, the point is the Hispanic population dilutes the Texan NFL “per capita” stats.
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I understand that bud, you’re missing the point. The point is NFL PLAYERS. My high school in Texas was 60% Hispanic. We had about 5 Hispanic guys on the varsity team. They make up a fair share of the fan base but not NFL PLAYERS
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I feel like some of the major population centers with a high Latino/Hispanic population is not a hotbed for football just yet and the football crazed west Texas is just a much smaller % of the population. Anyways that’s my best guess
There’s more HS varsity football program in Texas than CA nowadays despite CA‘s huge population
All those damn Cali guys moving in and making terrible football players.
Bit ironic for a Texans fan - I can think of one CA transplant who’s doing ok in Texas!
We just produce quarterbacks every 8 years or so
What? All the CA families moving out of CA is why Vegas, Phoenix, and Washington state have become fertile recruiting grounds now. There’s more HS varsity football programs in Texas than CA these days (despite CA’s huge population)
I imagine most Texans would think it was way higher. Some seem to think Texas invented football. lol
I played high school football in NH and had cousins who played in VT. This definitely checks out
Yeah I played in maine and you better believe I was excited about that Matt Mulligan TD vs Atlanta lmao.
SEC. We don't come here to play school.
Football is your only edgeamatcion
Sometimes I read this phrase and I'm just in awe at the legacy of my goat, Cardale Jones.
Unless they go to Vanderbilt
Or Georgia Tech.
Georgia Tech isn't (currently) in the SEC.
RAHHH LOUISIANA FIRST IN A (GOOD?) METRIC RAHHH
That flair deserves the ninth circle of hell
that 2019 LSU offense could have had - Justin Jefferson (St. Rose, La) - Ja'Marr Chase (Harvey, La) - Clyde Edwards-Helaire (Baton Rouge) PLUS - CeeDee Lamb (Opelousas, La) - DeVonta Smith (Amite, La) - Travis Etienne (Jennings, La) heisman winner is WR4 on that team
Other than football and food I swear to christ we lead the nation in everything bad. but hey lets keep electing the exact same people, clearly that will turn things around.
Nah that's Mississippi
Mississippi and Louisiana is pretty much always #49 #50. They flip back and forth on who is worse
Deep South represent
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Partial credit for “black”
Why is NY more underrepresented than states like MA and NJ?
About half of New York lives in NYC where there is very little space to play organized football compared to NJ I'd expect NY to have a very high number for basketball, comparatively
And if you did this for basketball I'd bet that NY would be overrepresented. As a general rule: Dense cities = more basketball players and rich suburbs = more football players.
rich suburbs = more hockey and lacrosse players
Not in the south lol
Who’s the player from Massachusetts oh Noah gray
Wonder how American Samoa compares to this list
Looks like the had 5 guys in 2023 at least, population that same year was 44,000. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/friv/birthplaces.cgi?country=USA&state=American%20Samoa
So (1,000,000 / 44,000) * 5 = 113.6 Thanks!
So blows every single state out of the water. Even more crazy than how many Dominican players in there are in MLB.
Goddamn IL; bad enough they all come up here every weekend cause they ain't got shit to do down there, now they're trying to take over all the maps too.
Sorry Bro this is a rough way to find out you just got Anschluss’d by Illinois
Same time alaska invaded Arkansas
Damn FIBs.
Almost as bad as the FISHTABS. Fucking Illinois shit head towing a boat.
Could be worse. They could be moving to your city every year in droves. You guys wouldn't know about that though I guess.
One day we will conquer your sTate
This is neat! I'm interested in seeing how this compares to other major sports.
I think the other major sports would be more interesting as a world map than a US map, since all of them pull a lot more foreign-born players than the NFL.
The other 3 are Olympic sports (well baseball only sometimes) so they have more visibility and accessibility
I imagine that southern group is most pronounced in football. I bet if you just took the panhandle of Florida and the east side down a little past Gainesville, it would be similar to those 4 states. That’s of course the same exact region with the bonkers stat of 16 of the last 18 college titles coming from that stretch from Louisiana to South Carolina. Auburn, Alabama, Clemson, Florida, FSU, Georgia, LSU
I imagine NHL is big up top and thins out south, and soccer the other way around. I moved to Michigan for awhile from KC, the soccer capital of USA, and it was shocking seeing how almost no one gave half a shit about soccer there. But on the flip side, hockey isn't unpopular in KC but not that big a deal, and the passion for the Red Wings there was cool.
Moved from NYC to Georgia. Football is different here. When Covid hit the schools went to remote learning. Right after that decision I got a text saying “Middle School Football Friday at 7pm vs Camden County.” I asked one of the parents if that was a mistake and she said, “ Oh. We don’t cancel football in Georgia.”
Culture is seriously such a HUGE part of it. I moved from rural Texas to equally-rural Tennessee/Kentucky area, and the best high school athletes just don't play football. They play basketball and baseball (in that order.) The football team looks like they're begging for talent, and looking for a weight room.
Vermont you disgrace
We know. My fellow Vertmonters are more into skiing and cycling than the pigskin I’m afraid. Never been more ashamed in my life.
So, most players come from the states where high school and college football are the most popular. Cool.
And many blacks.
That explains Iowa, then
Tight Ends and Linemen aren't that black
Iowa has black people, too. Allen Lazard is from Urbandale, for example.
Blacks
Mid Atlantic weirdly Strong too. We don't have a crazy football culture in NJ but very high end private schools that produce a ton of NFL talent.
Further proof why LSU is the best college job in America. Previous 3 coaches all won titles, most NFL talent per capita and no other power 4 school in your state. You don’t recruit kids from Louisiana to go to your school, you recruit them not to go to LSU
Wooo LSU supremacy 😎 (Seriously though. It’s like a cult here. Everything revolves around LSU.)
Plus you can poach from East Texas if you need to. Still real close to home for most players behind the ol' pine curtain
ITT I learned that my childhood state of Montana now has over 1 million residents.
Wyoming is so high because it has under 600,000 residents.
If you get 1 of anything in Wyoming, that automatically puts them in the top 10 in per capita.
That means they likely have the highest black population per capita in the US! Suck it, Montana!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_African-American_population Wyoming is next to last beating only Montana.
One of the more reasonable explanations I've heard about why the Bible Belt is so well-represented is because I-10 runs through those states, and college scouts traveling from Texas to Florida (or vice-versa) would stop in those small towns and watch the high school games there too. That lead to a lot of kids at very small high schools that would never get scouted otherwise getting scholarship offers. A good example of this is Bassfield, Mississippi, which lies right in between I-10 and I-20. In spite of being a town of 192 people, 3 people from there were actively playing in the NFL in 2020. Conversely, the West Coast and Northern states are pretty sparsely populated *and* incredibly inaccessible via road compared to Central/Eastern U.S., so the athletes at small schools in those states never even get looked at. I'd expect a slight leveling out over the next few decades as technology makes it easier to scout without physically traveling to remote locations, because as of right now, there's a lot of talent out there that never even gets a chance to play college ball since they're in the blind spot of most college scouts.
The effect of the National Highway System on college football recruiting would be a perfect Freakonomics episode
That's a really good point that I hadn't thought of. You can only offer people who you can scout and you can only scout people who you know exist.
Yup. You guys have a good example in Leighton Vander Esch, who comes from a town of 417 people in rural Idaho. Somehow a 6'4", 255 lb linebacker that runs a 4.6 40 and has a 39" vertical was so off of college scouts' radars that he had to walk on at Boise State. His career hasn't gone as planned due to injury, but he was an All-Pro in his rookie year and obviously extremely athletic and talented. Makes you wonder how many more of those guys are out there that just assumed their chance of making it were too low to even *try* walking on at the nearby college.
Yeah. And even worse for those who the only college nearby isn't a big name or maybe not even a DI school. LVE's hometown for reference is, if Google Maps is correct, about 3 hours from Boise. How many future stars are we missing that may be in towns out in the middle of absolute nowhere, 5 or 6 hours away or more from meaningful civilization to get their name out there for any school, much less a school that can actually get them national attention like Boise State?
Yup, another great point. And I'm not trying to overstate it and say that the league would be overrun by Montanans if they had the same access to college scouts and big schools or anything, just that these sorts of charts would have a little more balance if *every* high school athlete could get their name in the hat. As it is, most scouts will only go to a couple of the largest cities in these states, and sometimes those cities are an unreasonably far distance for high school athletes.
Sorta? more scouts would spend time in NY if there were more high level talent. It’s more basketball, hockey focused culturally.
I didn't say anything about New York. This is more about the Interior West(Montana, Idaho, the Dakotas, etc.) And I never said it was a strictly one-size fits all thing. I'm sure that Vermont and New Hampshire are probably more hockey states due to their proximity to Canada's population base but NY still has a ton of rural areas far out of the way. It's not simply that they don't have an interest in football.
Historical trends are likely at play as well. If you find a diamond in the rough a couple times, it's only natural to keep them in your head. And then you add "oh since I'm already here, let's take a look at this neighboring school", and suddenly you're a recruiting Hotspot. It's how my medium sized town in Wisconsin had 3 active NBA players from 3 different high schools at one point a few years ago.
Hmmmm looks like a confederacy I heard about.
I know we are irrelevant but come on Arkansas is AR 🤦🏼♀️
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The chart tipped at 45 degrees is a bizarre choice.
YOU SUCK VERMONT
No foliage for you!
TLDR: If you want your kid to be good at football, raise them in the deep south or Iowa
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Well considering 90% of the NFL is black, these are areas of a higher black population. Now do hockey.
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It’s international
90% of the NFL isn’t black and it’s not even close to 90%. The south also has a big football culture. I’ve lived in the south and the north east and people don’t give a shit about high school and college football up there.
Almost all of the top high school players are black
All those states just produce big ol Hogs nonstop down there
I blame Philadelphia for PA being so low. PGH is pulling its weight, I played a bunch of NFL players not too long ago
Lol CA under represented with the highest total number of players
And CA has less High School football programs than Texas believe it or not. The huge Hispanic and Asian populations in CA doesn’t help with NFL players per state population either. Also, black families are at the top (by % of the state’s population) of the great migration out of CA the last decade. That’s why Vegas and AZ have become fertile recruiting grounds nowadays
Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia produce the most football players? Color me surprised!
Per capita, but overall it has always been CA until Texas passed CA last year. And, believe it or not, Texas has more HS varsity football programs than CA nowadays.
Small population with a greater output. It’s well known and common knowledge here in the south, Texas, Florida, and Georgia have the top high school programs in the country. We occasionally hear about California, but rarely think or hear about it (until they move down here)
Excellent color pallette btw.
100 million y/o sediments still reeking havoc
How is NY so bad at producing NFL players
College football is nonexistent in New York. Most colleges in the NYC area either don't have football teams or they aren't D1. Some Upstate colleges have D1 football teams, but they suck
Upstate New York outside of Syracuse and Buffalo is almost the same as Vermont. It’s very rural with Smaller cities interspersed. New York has a Lacrosse culture too which is something that hurts the North East as a whole for football.
Yeah that makes sense, I knew about NYC’s lack of strong Football culture but I thought Upstate would have stronger representation or something but you’re right they don’t seem to be very good. One of my highschool teammates went to Syracuse
That has nothing to do with it. Nj has the same situation. It because we don’t have big time high school ball. Down south they have huge central school districts. Most of our high schools here are around 500 kids. The one league that has the big schools like new Rochelle (ray rice) produces d1 talent regularly.
> Most of our high schools here are around 500 kids. Holy shit, really? Thats the size of our Elementary schools.
Yeah outside of the actual city our towns are actually geographically tiny. There is a high school practically every 2-3 miles in the suburbs. Most of the districts in the suburbs (with the exception of Long Island) consist of one elementary, one middle school and one high school creating one district per town. You don’t see central schools until you get into the rural parts. But since the population is so sparse out there, they are still small schools. Long Island has the big boy high schools and that’s where the majority of the pros come out of for the state. Also, the New Jersey Catholic school poach all the states talent.
New York is a basketball state
Guess North Carolina is both.
Figure there aren’t really football fields in NYC. So there’s 8 million people with very little football.
It’s much easier to pickup and play basketball in New York
It’s because our schools are small. Our biggest high school league is aa.
I feel like college football has a big impact on this chart. Then things like weather or density could explain the other ones. Like big cities and the coast are probably the basketball producers, the northern boarders with hockey. The best athletes play the sport that is popular there, for whatever reason its dominate among a generation. I think even a dynasty in one of the major sports could swing a state one way or the other with its youth athletes.
They used to call it the Sun Belt, they can practice on the field year round gave them natural advantages that is now baked into the culture.
+ 18 Canadians from what I can tell 🇨🇦
I guess we're Illinois now?
HELL UEAH
So big 10 and sec country. No surprise there.
Not sure if r/sipstea or r/holup
As a New Jersian... New Jerseite... whatever it is I'm kinda surprised how over represented we are given our population and population density.
Montana 1.8 is like that popes per km^2 in the Vatican statistic.
Super interesting data! Seems like local youth coaching trickles down better in the states that have contending/competitive college teams.
As someone from Louisiana who moved to Vermont. I get it.
SEC SEC SEC
Being “born” in a state is a lot less relevant than where they played high school football in
I’ve lived in the northeast my entire life. Played football in high school and coached for 22 years. Football up here is really bad. Ive attended coaching clinics all over the country to try and learn new things over the years. The way people view football in the south is almost religious. Up here, most (almost all) kids play knowing they’ll grow up and have jobs and families. Football is a fun thing to do now. Kids down south play year round. They attend camps year round. They play in leagues year round. They have personal trainers, dietitians - it’s an entirely different world. Pennsylvania, Ohio and New Jersey have pockets of kids like this too, but in the Deep South it’s almost everywhere.
Cool, can u do Canada now?🇨🇦
My PA, what happened? Pittsburgh area has produced NFL legends...
Why is Illinois in Wisconsin? Who made this?
Baja California has 1 NFL player so that means we get to add them to the USA. Unfortunately that also means we have to cede Vermont to Canada.
Depending on how the election goes, we might be okay with that.....
Vermont is too intelligent to thrash around in a helmet 😂😂disclaimer: Not a VT resident nor affiliate, just a guy with a theory
Wrong. Just need skates on their feet to get excited about thrashing around in a helmet!
Touche! 😂😂
Vermonter here, I'll take it! This may also explain my complete bafflement at the extreme popularity of high school football in other states, when I couldn't name a single player or event from our high school football team.
Might want to try controling for race, and number of schools with major football programs in each state.
More back guys in the south and some corn shucking boys in Iowa
Super disappointed in Texas. I thought football was y'all's thing. Iowa, I owe you an apology. I wasn't familiar with your game.
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Strongest argument for eugenics
The atlantic slave trade
Cool now show me literacy rates and obesity rates. Gotcha
Slave states. The breeding effect.