Recruiting Powerhouses

Foxsports has posted the Scouts.com top-10 recruiting powerhouses. Florida sits at the top, among usual suspects like USC and Texas, as well as a handful of SEC programs. Georgia comes in at a VERY respectable #7. Here's the order:

1. Florida
2. USC
3. Texas
4. LSU
5. Ohio State
6. Oklahoma
7. Georgia
8. Alabama
9. Notre Dame
10. Miami

Here's the blurb on Georgia:

"Georgia finds itself in a similar situation as Ohio State and LSU, a flagship program in a state loaded with college prospects. With roughly 150 players who sign college scholarships every year, and only two Football Bowl Subdivision programs, the state of Georgia has the highest ratio of athlete to FBS school in the entire country at 75 to 1. Georgia and Georgia Tech rarely go head to head for players with 150 to choose from, and under Mark Richt, the Bulldogs have made a living keeping the top players within its borders. The success Georgia had early under Richt enabled the Bulldogs to expand their reach and get two of their most recognizable stars from out of the region, Matthew Stafford (Texas) and Knowshon Moreno (New Jersey)."

I never realized that 75:1 ratio existed here for the Dawgs. In my mind there's never been an excuse for LSU not competing for a title every year. They have no real recruiting competition in a talent rich state and pipelines across the deep south and into the heart of recruiting, Texas. I mean, I understand that Georgia Tech's the only other FBS school here, but they carry more weight than all the other FBS schools in Louisiana combined. You cannot tell me that UL-L, UL-M, Tulane and Louisiana Tech are really threatening LSU's stock. So, while their recruit to school ratio might be much lower, it doesn't mean much. They should do it by BCS schools.

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You see that? FOUR teams from the SEC in the top-10. Suck it, you talent poor hacks everywhere else.

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Soon, we might have our very own recruiting expert on staff here at FTS. Stealler1 has agreed to come on and enlighten us on the goings on that will take us up to signing day. Let's see if he lives up to his end of our ridiculously drunken agreement. Or, even remembers it...