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	Quote:	Padreruf
	The last time I looked the states that produced the most NCAA D-1 football athletes were: California, Ohio, Florida, Texas and Georgia. Each has a tremendous population advantage. Bobby Bowden said that he should have a top ten class every year with all the athletes in Florida. Alabama does usually produce enough athletes for one dominant team...not two. Traditionally Bama has gone to Mississippi and Auburn to Georgia and Florida to add players. Now we see Bama going all over as times have changed. Tennessee has always had to recruit nationally as there are not enough players in Tennessee proper to keep them stocked. The kicker in this is: guess which state leads the nation in NFL players per capita? Mississippi. I trust we can get those we need and hold off Mullen and Nutt -- but it won't be easy.

Yes and no . Per capita , California sucks . Always in the bottom 5

Ohio cycles up and down in much the same manner as AL , Ms and La .

2008 #'s (in '07 , AL was #1)
BCS signees on a per capita basis .
10.0 FL +
9.79 GA -
9.66 MS +
8.89 SC +
7.82 TX +
7.66 AL -
7.27 LA +
6.78 OH +
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46th CA 3.01 ... and that is up a fair amount .

For decades GA had been far the leader but 1.7 million new residents have heavily dented their ratio during this decade . Obviously many of their newer residents do not play football . At least not very well if they do

By the # of total BCS conference signees ....
TX 190 +
FL 183 +
CA 114 +
GA 95 -