Comments on: More than 2,500 Georgians playing college football

By: Keith

Keith — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:36:17 +0000

And my wife wonders why I want my sons to stay here and play football! If you are a solid player out here, you will get a look from SOME school.

Names to watch out for: Tyren Jones, Eddie Printz, Brian Porter

By: bank walker

bank walker — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:40:31 +0000

Alphabama, you have not a clue. We have twice the athletes as your state playing college ball, as well as per capita. Our football in Georgia, as well as Florida, is a step above what you guys are playing in Bammer.

By: gafootball

gafootball — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:20:43 +0000

Georgia also has highest ratio of college football players in a state to division 1A schools in the country. There is no reason UGA and GT should not both be perennial top 15 schools with that many football players in their backyard.

By: gafootball

gafootball — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:17:53 +0000

Some websites use to carry this data a few years ago for every state in the USA.

Georgia is consistently no. 4 on the list in the most total college football players. Georgia is usually no. 2 in the highest percentage of college football players by state (although the southern part of the state from warner robins to valdosta has a signifigantly higher percentage than the rest of the state).

Total players:
1. Florida
2. California
3. Texas
4. Georgia

Highest percentage by population:
1. Louisiana
2. Georgia
3. Florida
4. Mississippi

By: alphabama

alphabama — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:54:26 +0000

As a side bar to this story and comments…..

GA has a large number of kids playing college footbal because it is a large state population wise compared to other southeastern states sans FL. With that Said I submit the following data from the Wall Street Journal last December that supports GA does not produce the most NFL players as a per cent of population.

Among states that have more than 10 native sons playing in the National Football League, the top six producers by percentage of population are Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Alabama, Florida and Georgia
- WSJ 12/5/08

GA is big but not so bad!

By: Please

Please — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:33:44 +0000

Thank you Mr Saly for sharing! Go Georgia keep up the good work .

By: Uga91

Uga91 — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:16:46 +0000

One thing we can all agree on is the state of Georgia high school football is awesome. I often see list ranking Pennsylvania ahead of us but I can’t see it. Florida, Texas, California, Georgia, Ohio are the football states. Go Dawgs!!!

By: Chip Towers

Chip Towers — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:52:07 +0000

GeoffDawg: NCAA rules allow teams to carry 105 players, 85 scholarship players and 20 walkons. But many more walkons come out for the team before they pare down the rosters for the season. Mr. Slay pulls from the complete rosters, which don’t distinguish between scholarship and walkons.

By: GeoffDawg

GeoffDawg — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:29:50 +0000

How many walkons do we have at UGA? Just surprised that we have 89 native Georgians given that there are only 85 scholarships avaialable and we obviously have a good number of out of state players like Joe Cox, AJ Green, Carlton Thomas, etc. already on the roster.