Signing Day 2010: Where The Talent Came From
February 8th, 2010 ║ Posted By: John Pennington ║ Permalink ║ Tags: Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vanderbilt
Recruiting is over for 2010 and coaches are already starting to line up commitments for 2011. But before we put Signing Day 2010 completely to bed, let’s go back and see where the SEC’s talent came from.
Below you’ll find various charts and numbers showing you — among other things — which SEC states were mined by the most schools, which states across the country provided SEC teams with the most signees, which schools had to travel outside their own states most often, and where each league school went to lock up their signees.
It’s geekery to the Nth degree… which is just the way I like it. Enjoy.
| State |
ALA |
ARK |
AUB |
FLA |
UGA |
KY |
LSU |
MSU |
MISS |
USC |
TN |
VU |
Total Signees |
| AR |
5 |
2 |
1 |
8 |
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| LA |
2 |
1 |
13 |
1 |
2 |
19 |
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| MS |
2 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
19 |
10 |
1 |
1 |
37 |
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| AL |
9 |
2 |
11 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
2 |
3 |
3 |
36 |
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| GA |
5 |
2 |
8 |
3 |
14 |
7 |
3 |
2 |
6 |
6 |
9 |
65 |
|
| FL |
3 |
3 |
16 |
4 |
2 |
2 |
7 |
5 |
2 |
2 |
46 |
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| SC |
1 |
1 |
1 |
4 |
7 |
2 |
1 |
17 |
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| TN |
3 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
12 |
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| KY |
3 |
1 |
4 |
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| MD |
1 |
2 |
|
3 |
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| NC |
1 |
1 |
3 |
5 |
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| TX |
3 |
4 |
1 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
15 |
|||||
| VA |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 | 6 |
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| MO |
1 |
1 |
2 |
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| OK |
5 |
5 |
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| CA |
|
2 |
2 |
1 |
3 |
1 |
9 |
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| KS |
1 |
|
|
2 |
1 |
0 |
4 |
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| CT |
1 |
|
1 |
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| NY |
2 |
2 |
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| PA |
1 |
1 |
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| OH |
|
3 |
1 |
1 |
5 |
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| IL |
|
|
2 |
|
2 |
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| NJ |
|
1 |
1 |
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| Total |
26 |
25 |
32 |
28 |
19 |
26 |
27 |
26 |
24 |
23 |
25 |
24 |
305 |
SEC programs signed 305 players on national signing day from a total of 25 different states. Below, you’ll see which states (by percentage) produced the most SEC-caliber football players:
| State |
SEC Signees |
PCT of Total SEC Signees |
| GA |
65 |
21.3% |
| FL |
46 |
15.0% |
| MS |
37 |
12.1% |
| AL |
36 |
11.8% |
| LA |
19 |
6.2% |
| SC |
17 |
5.5% |
| TX |
15 |
4.9% |
| TN |
12 |
3.9% |
| CA |
9 |
2.9% |
| AR |
8 |
2.6% |
| VA |
6 |
1.9% |
| NC |
5 |
1.6% |
| OH |
5 |
1.6% |
| OK |
5 |
1.6% |
| KS |
4 |
1.3% |
| KY |
4 |
1.3% |
| MD |
3 |
.9% |
| IL |
2 |
.6% |
| MO |
2 |
.6% |
| NY |
2 |
.6% |
| CT |
1 |
.3% |
| NJ |
1 |
.3% |
| PA |
1 |
.3% |
Observations:
* Georgia, not Florida, provided the most SEC signees in 2010. And by a fairly wide margin, too.
* More than 60% of the signees in the SEC came from Georgia, Florida, Mississippi and Alabama.
* Texas (15) produced more SEC signees than league states Tennessee (12), Arkansas (8) and Kentucky (4).
* California (9) produced more signees than Arkansas (8).
* More SEC signees came from Ohio (5), North Carolina (5), and Oklahoma (5) than Kentucky (4).
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