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Video: Why 70% of top football players come from the SOUTH
Posted on 8/12/12 at 6:05 pm
Posted on 8/12/12 at 6:05 pm
Video: Why 70% of top football players come from the SOUTH
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Many reasons were mentioned in this short video for why more football talent comes from the south. Here are a few that stuck out to us:
- Civil Rights Movement was important for black athletes
- Kids grow up wanting to play football, it’s the top sport in the south
- Reduced manufacturing facilities in the north
- More Speed in the South
- Don’t let boys play spring football up north
- 12% live in poverty, higher than other parts of country
- Bigger crowds at high school games
- 92% of SEC’s top recruiting classes are from the south
- Warmer weather lets kids play outside year-round
- More African Americans in south than throughout the country
- 27% of NFL rookies now come from Florida, Georgia & south Atlantic
- “All we have to do is play football.” -Eddie Williams
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Posted on 8/12/12 at 6:17 pm to Big Bam
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- Civil Rights Movement was important for black athletes
- Kids grow up wanting to play football, it’s the top sport in the south
- Reduced manufacturing facilities in the north
- More Speed in the South
- Don’t let boys play spring football up north
- 12% live in poverty, higher than other parts of country
- Bigger crowds at high school games
- 92% of SEC’s top recruiting classes are from the south
- Warmer weather lets kids play outside year-round
- More African Americans in south than throughout the country
- 27% of NFL rookies now come from Florida, Georgia & south Atlantic
- “All we have to do is play football.” -Eddie Williams
Only one I believe is "- More African Americans in south than throughout the country" and should add breed freak athletes
Posted on 8/12/12 at 6:29 pm to Big Bam
So we're the best at football all across the board? News to me...
Posted on 8/12/12 at 6:31 pm to MrPlanters
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breed freak athletes
because of the widespread emphasis placed on HS football. Schools are ultra competitive and have Spring Football. As a result, large crowds show up. As a result, kids want to show out and so practice their asses off. Faton Bauta said it best, that if his parents had moved to Florida from New York 3 years earlier, he'd be 10x the football player he is now
Posted on 8/12/12 at 6:35 pm to tylerdurden24
I work with a lot of guys who were born up north (PA, Long Island) and they are stunned by how big high school and college football are here. It's self reinforcing.
On a seperate note, LSU has a running back from Cinncy and our top comitment thus far is from Indiana or Illinois. You would have never seen that 10 years ago.
On a seperate note, LSU has a running back from Cinncy and our top comitment thus far is from Indiana or Illinois. You would have never seen that 10 years ago.
This post was edited on 8/12/12 at 6:39 pm
Posted on 8/12/12 at 6:41 pm to MrPlanters
quote:I believe this one has a lot to do with it also. In the North, a lot of people grow up basketball fans and want to do that instead. Take LeBron James. The man is a freak athlete who chose to play basketball instead of football even though he likely would have been a stud. I cannot remember the last time a Southerner chose basketball over football.
All we have to do is play football.” -Eddie Williams
Posted on 8/12/12 at 6:45 pm to mule74
I mean, Knowshown was from New Jersey, and Tim Kimbrough of Indiana is one of our biggest recruits this year, so occasionally you're going to get those big time Northern guys that rise up to th occassion. Next year, Virginia figures to be like Georgia this year in recruiting: just overflowing with 5* talent
Posted on 8/12/12 at 6:48 pm to UAFanFromNOLA
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I believe this one has a lot to do with it also. In the North, a lot of people grow up basketball fans and want to do that instead. Take LeBron James. The man is a freak athlete who chose to play basketball instead of football even though he likely would have been a stud. I cannot remember the last time a Southerner chose basketball over football.
It's sad, in a way, actually. Working in public HS's in GA, I know a ton of kids who are passionate about basketball from 7th to about 10th grade. But gradually the passion is forced out and replaced with football because thats what gets them known (unless they live in and around ATL, Columbus, or Macon, in which case they can try to do something with an AAU team).
Otherwise, you get a lot of football players down here who have grown up training for basketball and by the time high school hits, they've begun cross training for both before finally focusing solely on football
Posted on 8/12/12 at 6:49 pm to Big Bam
Historically, Texas, California, and Pennsylvania have been hotbeds for football talent. In fact, those three states rank 1-2-3 all-time. But in recent years, the states that are football factories has shifted a little.
California and Texas are still at the top of the list. But now, Florida has joined them as one of the three biggest producers of NFL talent. Those three states currently have 597 players in the NFL. That is more than 30 percent of all active players listed Pro-Football-Reference.com. California alone, at 225 active players, accounts for more than ten percent of NFL players.
Read more: LINK
California and Texas are still at the top of the list. But now, Florida has joined them as one of the three biggest producers of NFL talent. Those three states currently have 597 players in the NFL. That is more than 30 percent of all active players listed Pro-Football-Reference.com. California alone, at 225 active players, accounts for more than ten percent of NFL players.
Read more: LINK
Posted on 8/12/12 at 7:32 pm to Zamoro10
Texas will never fall by the wayside.. When I was playing ball in the 90s, we did our own workouts over summers.. Now-days, kids go to camps all summer long, and are playing 7 on 7 at the skilled positions.
Football is just too important here and our population is only growing.
Football is just too important here and our population is only growing.
This post was edited on 8/12/12 at 7:33 pm
Posted on 8/12/12 at 7:42 pm to tylerdurden24
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I mean, Knowshown was from New Jersey, and Tim Kimbrough of Indiana is one of our biggest recruits this year, so occasionally you're going to get those big time Northern guys that rise up to th occassion.
That is the thing, when they do rise up you will see a lot of them choose SEC schools. Rarely will you see elite southern talent go outside the SEC.
Posted on 8/12/12 at 7:46 pm to MontyFranklyn
They start lifting weights in the 7th grade down here.
Posted on 8/12/12 at 9:10 pm to Big Bam
I think our climate may be the biggest reason. Recall that football is a game of inches and that you only need a step. Down here we can play outside longer and the development of our athletes may be just enough to get that single step.
Plus, being that there typically isn't much to do around here, we tend to absorb ourselves in the things we have, i.e. football. Therefore, we spend more money and attract the better coaches.
Plus, being that there typically isn't much to do around here, we tend to absorb ourselves in the things we have, i.e. football. Therefore, we spend more money and attract the better coaches.
Posted on 8/12/12 at 9:11 pm to mauser
I think that video brings up a huge point. I have never thought about this before and it makes a lot of sense.
Decline in Industrial towns all over the north either closing, moving over seas, and lowing their work force would have a huge impact on the amount parents working in the factories. I know during the automobile industrial revolution many of my relatives went north in look for work. My grandmother moved to Chicago with my papaw. WWII had offered many people in northern cities work to be able to help on the war front. There was kind of a great exodus from the south to feed their families.
Since those jobs are no longer there a lot of people have moved back home to be with their families in the south. People born in the late 50's and early 60's have had the opportunity to become more educated and live in areas of the country more suitable to raise a family.
I'm sure the invention of computers and the internet has also had an impact on where people can work. It might have just been a fluke that the North had produced so much talent in the late 1800's and early 1900's.
Considering the fact that up into the industrial revolution many more people lived in the south and just migrated north. Now that there is no longer a need for that people have continued to move south to warmer climates.
Decline in Industrial towns all over the north either closing, moving over seas, and lowing their work force would have a huge impact on the amount parents working in the factories. I know during the automobile industrial revolution many of my relatives went north in look for work. My grandmother moved to Chicago with my papaw. WWII had offered many people in northern cities work to be able to help on the war front. There was kind of a great exodus from the south to feed their families.
Since those jobs are no longer there a lot of people have moved back home to be with their families in the south. People born in the late 50's and early 60's have had the opportunity to become more educated and live in areas of the country more suitable to raise a family.
I'm sure the invention of computers and the internet has also had an impact on where people can work. It might have just been a fluke that the North had produced so much talent in the late 1800's and early 1900's.
Considering the fact that up into the industrial revolution many more people lived in the south and just migrated north. Now that there is no longer a need for that people have continued to move south to warmer climates.
Posted on 8/12/12 at 9:17 pm to RebelWriter
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I think our climate may be the biggest reason. Recall that football is a game of inches and that you only need a step. Down here we can play outside longer and the development of our athletes may be just enough to get that single step.
Actually until the invention of the air conditioner no School in the state of Florida had won a National Championship in football.
History of Air Conditioning
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After World War II, window units air conditioners appeared, with sales escalating from 74,000 in 1948 to 1,045,000 in 1953.
Today, air conditioners have been said to be a partial cause for the changes in the South, and for most of us who have experienced its cooling benefits in times of searing heat waves, it is an invention that is hard to live without.
This post was edited on 8/12/12 at 9:18 pm
Posted on 8/12/12 at 9:27 pm to Sig
Texas is a different world when it comes to football.
Posted on 8/12/12 at 9:28 pm to Tammany Tom
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80% of all NFL players in 2011 were African American.
And people say it's "racist" to claim that they are athletically superior.
Posted on 8/12/12 at 9:32 pm to brewhan davey
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And people say it's "racist" to claim that they are athletically superior.
Blacks are not athletically superior. Blacks are good at a few sports. Realistically if you look at all of the sports combined, whites are better overall athletes than blacks. I'm not sure if you've been paying attention to the Olympics but most of those athletes are white if you consider sports other than basketball, football, and running.
Posted on 8/12/12 at 9:33 pm to UKWildcatsFAN
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Decline in Industrial towns all over the north either closing, moving over seas, and lowing their work force would have a huge impact on the amount parents working in the factories. I know during the automobile industrial revolution many of my relatives went north in look for work. My grandmother moved to Chicago with my papaw. WWII had offered many people in northern cities work to be able to help on the war front. There was kind of a great exodus from the south to feed their families.
Since those jobs are no longer there a lot of people have moved back home to be with their families in the south. People born in the late 50's and early 60's have had the opportunity to become more educated and live in areas of the country more suitable to raise a family.
This!!! Its mostly associated with black families moving back to the south.
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