Interactive Map of all FBS Recruits from 2002-2014
The guys over at Corn Nation, the Nebraska blog for SB-Nation, made a map showing where every single FBS recruit from 2002-2014 has come from.
Here's a still of it:
The interactive version is here. It's pretty fun to play around with. You can see, during coaching changes, where each coach emphasized.
If you want, they also made a 2014 Big Ten version
February 13th, 2014 at 11:39 AM ^
You can really see the impact Saban has had on Alabama's national brand.
Four years before Saban:
Saban's first 4 years:
The last 4 years for Saban:
February 13th, 2014 at 11:42 AM ^
I believe the 2014 version was on the board yesterday, but not the other one. In any case, it is interesting to see the clusters that each team's recruits fall into geographically. Michigan, for example, recruited largely from the southern Great Lakes, from Chicago through Cleveland and Columbus and all the way into Pennsylvania, with small clusters in southern California, south and central Florida and the east coast from DC to almost Boston. I know we've had diaries about this very phenomenon here before, but this is a neat depiction of it.
February 13th, 2014 at 12:25 PM ^
I'm shocked that there hasn't been one player from the U.P. in the last 12 years
February 13th, 2014 at 12:29 PM ^
I'll do it for free, Brady. It's the least I can do!
February 13th, 2014 at 12:31 PM ^
February 13th, 2014 at 12:37 PM ^
Looks as if they used the old Microsoft Office, "Bring to Front" tool for themselves to make it look that way.
February 13th, 2014 at 12:41 PM ^
thanks for the post!
February 13th, 2014 at 12:54 PM ^
Hmph, apparently the Corn Nation people hate the Fighting Irish as much as we do.
Oh, so you need to belong to a conference? That's how they getcha.
February 13th, 2014 at 12:55 PM ^
the location of all Big Ten players who've blown their ACLs out?
February 13th, 2014 at 1:52 PM ^
Too soon.
February 13th, 2014 at 1:07 PM ^
if you click on only 4 and 5 stars, you still can see that the overwhelming majority of top rated players is in the south.
February 14th, 2014 at 3:59 AM ^