Signing Day 2010: Team Talent Searches
February 8th, 2010 02:08 PM ║ Posted By: John Pennington ║ Permalink ║ Tags: Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vanderbilt
One last Signing Day 2010 breakdown for you today. In this one, we simply lay out where each school went to find it’s 2010 signees:
Alabama
Total Signees: 26
From: 9 states
Alabama – 9
Georgia – 5
Tennessee – 3
Texas – 3
Mississippi -2
Maryland – 1
North Carolina – 1
South Carolina – 1
Virginia – 1
Arkansas
Total Signees: 25
From: 9 states
Arkansas – 5
Oklahoma – 5
Texas – 4
Florida – 3
Alabama – 2
Georgia – 2
Louisiana – 2
Missouri – 1
North Carolina – 1
Auburn
Total Signees: 32
From: 11 states
Alabama – 11
Georgia – 8
Florida – 3
Arkansas – 2
California – 2
Kansas – 1
Louisiana – 1
Mississippi – 1
Missouri – 1
South Carolina – 1
Texas – 1
Florida
Total Signees: 28
From: 8 states
Florida – 16
Georgia – 3
California – 2
Maryland – 2
New York – 2
Alabama – 1
Connecticut – 1
Pennsylvania – 1
Georgia
Total Signees: 19
From: 3 states
Georgia – 14
Florida – 4
South Carolina – 1
Kentucky
Total Signees: 26
From: 10 states
Georgia – 7
South Carolina – 4
Kentucky -3
Ohio – 3
Tennessee – 3
Florida – 2
Alabama – 1
California – 1
Mississippi – 1
Virginia – 1
LSU
Total Signees: 27
From: 9 states
Louisiana – 13
Georgia – 3
Texas – 3
Florida – 2
Mississippi – 2
Alabama – 1
Ohio – 1
Tennessee – 1
Virginia – 1
Mississippi State
Total Signees: 26
From: 5 states
Mississippi – 19
Alabama – 3
Texas – 2
Louisiana – 1
Tennessee – 1
Ole Miss
Total Signees: 24
From: 7 states
Mississippi – 10
Florida – 7
Alabama – 2
Georgia – 2
Arkansas – 1
Tennessee – 1
Virginia – 1
South Carolina
Total Signees: 23
From: 5 states
South Carolina – 7
Georgia – 6
Florida – 5
North Carolina – 3
Kansas – 2
Tennessee
Total Signees: 25
From: 12 states
Georgia – 6
Alabama – 3
California – 3
Florida – 2
Illinois – 2
South Carolina – 2
Tennessee – 2
Kansas – 1
Kentucky – 1
Mississippi – 1
Texas – 1
Virginia – 1
Vanderbilt
Total Signees: 24
From: 12 states
Georgia – 9
Alabama – 3
Florida – 2
Louisiana – 2
California – 1
Mississippi – 1
New Jersey – 1
Ohio – 1
South Carolina – 1
Tennessee – 1
Texas – 1
Virginia – 1
Observations:
* Kentucky, Tennessee and Vanderbilt are the only three SEC schools whose home state is NOT their top talent-producer. Interestingly, all three schools had more signees from Georgia than any other state.
* Arkansas and Tennessee are the only schools in the conference to not get at least 25% of their talent from any one state.
* Mississippi State and Georgia each got a whopping 73% of their signees from inside their home states… followed by Florida (57%), LSU (48%), Ole Miss (41%), Alabama (34%), Auburn (34%) and South Carolina (30%).
* Georgia’s signees all came from just 3 states (Georgia, Florida and South Carolina). Mississippi State and South Carolina signed talent from just five states each.
* Tennessee and Vanderbilt had to grab talent from 12 different states. Auburn dipped into 11 states… Kentucky into 10.

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John Calipari has said all year that his team is “playing for a #1 seed.” As it stands today, the Wildcats certainly appear to be in that mix.
Thirteen days ago Arkansas was handed its worst SEC loss ever by Kentucky, 101-70 in Lexington. That loss dropped the Razorbacks to 8-11 overall and 1-3 in the SEC. It turned up the heat on the seat beneath John Pelphrey’s behind.