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Title: Trivia poll: best H.S. athletes come from which state? Post by: XHotlanta on July 21, 2011, 03:28:22 EDT Allright, here's the deal: assume the top 25 athletes in any given single state are recruited to the same team, every year, year after year, and the coaching staff is a given (same coaches good or bad, just take coaching, facilities, fanbase, etc. out of the equation).
Given all that, if you could stock a team with only the *best* players from one and only 1 state, year after year, which state's players would produce the best and most successful football team? I'd say it's between Florida and California, but I change my mind every time I think about it. :biggrin: Title: Re: Trivia poll: best H.S. athletes come from which state? Post by: VinnieVOL on July 21, 2011, 04:51:23 EDT "Best", I don't know. But Texas, California, and Florida are three of the four largest states in the nation, so naturally they're going to produce the most. What I found interesting was Louisiana.. which produces the most NFL players per capita, since it ranks 25th in the nation in population but has the 6th most players in the NFL.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Friday-night-stars-California-and-Texas-produce?urn=nfl-272416 (http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Friday-night-stars-California-and-Texas-produce?urn=nfl-272416) Title: Re: Trivia poll: best H.S. athletes come from which state? Post by: BanditVol on July 21, 2011, 05:07:58 EDT I voted for Cali, because I saw an article a couple years ago that said Cali had the greatest number of HS football players in the NFL. Texas was second and Florida third. I do think La was 4th, but it may have been either Georgia or Ohio.
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