Survey says: Georgia producing the most SEC players
Quick, name the state the produces the most football talent for the Southeastern Conference.
If you said Florida, you’re wrong.
According to a survey done by Doug Segrest of The Birmingham News, the state of Georgia has more residents on SEC rosters than any other state with 86. Florida is a close second with 84.
Segrest reveals all kinds of cool facts in his research, including:
- Every SEC school has at least two players from Georgia among its top 22 starters. The state of Florida provides at least one on every depth chart. Of course these numbers fluctuate from week to week.
- Alabama produces the third-most SEC players with 66 and Louisiana (46) and Tennessee (39) round out the top five.
- Somewhat surprisingly, the state that produces the sixth-most SEC players isn’t an SEC state. It’s Texas with 37.
- There are 28 home-grown players on Georgia’s two-deep, most of any school. Florida and LSU are next with 25 each.
- Vanderbilt has more starters from Georgia (11) than any out-of-state school. Auburn, Florida, Kentucky and Tennessee all have six.
There are all kinds of other facts and figures so be sure to pop over there and check it out.
Now for some lunchtime links:
- Tennessee is not the only school trying to flip committed recruits. According to GoVolsXtra.com, Georgia is working hard to sway away Miami wide reciever Ted Meline from the Vols. . . .
- Speaking of the Vols, coach Lane Kiffin claims in this story by Gannett Tennessee that losing is not hurting Tennessee’s recruiting efforts. . . .
- Stanford.scout.com has an update on wide receiver commitment Tai-ler Jones of Gainesville. It’s a pay site but the most important quote in the story is this one: “I’m still 110 percent committed to Stanford and as soon as I get my acceptance letter after turning in my application it will be as solid as it can be. The only thing that will be missing will be my signature in February,” he said. So much for rumors that other schools were trying to turn Jones. . . . Speaking of Jones, there’s a great story in the San Jose Mercury News about how Stanford graduate — and current teaching assistant — Condoleezza Rice — heavily influenced his decision to go with the Cardinal, as she has with numerous Stanford recruits. . . .
- FirstCoastNews.com has a video report on Georgia commitment Brent Benedict of The Bolles School in Jacksonville. . . .
- Georgia reportedly has its eyes on another prospect from the Tampa area, according TampaBay.com — 2011 TE Jordan Prestwood (6-6, 255) of Plant City High. . . .
- South Carolina got a verbal commitment from a punter this week, according to TheItem.com — Patrick Fish of Shelby, N.C.
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Steve Spurrier
October 7th, 2009
1:42 pm
Thanks for Kenny Mckinley, Kenny Miles, Jared Cook, and Eric Norwood not to mention Sharpe, Rogers and many others who saw the light and wanted to get out of Georgia.
Chip Towers
October 7th, 2009
1:53 pm
Steve Spurrier: Yeah, you’d think the Gamecocks got more Georgia players overall but you can’t argue with the quality of the ones they do get. Don’t forget Dunta Robinson from right there in Athens, Ga.!
mr me
October 7th, 2009
2:02 pm
What light? The one where they weren’t recruited by Georgia? Dont get me wrong they ended up being great players but UGA only has so many scholly’s. I can assure you that the majority of recruits will choose Ga over south carolina any day.
Anyways back to the topic at hand. Georgia is one of the best states for all athletic talent. It gets the publicity for football but baseball, basketball and tennis all have great talent.
Chip Towers
October 7th, 2009
2:20 pm
mr me: the key for Georgia being a great state for athletes in mainly one thing — population. There were 9.6 million Georgians in 2008, 5.4 million in Atlanta. . . . But it helps that the state’s citizens take sports seriously.
Pete
October 7th, 2009
2:25 pm
Steve Spurrier,
Please answer this question, how many bowl games has South Carolina won in it’s history?
mr me
October 7th, 2009
2:31 pm
Chip, Population is a factor when you compare southern states to Ga. but take a state such as Ohio with comparable numbers, the Peach state produces many more athletes across a variety of sports. And yes I was lucky to grow up in this state where we live for sports and competition, playing all the above mentioned sports myself.
Jake 7
October 7th, 2009
2:50 pm
Not a SURPRISE…..
Dinnertime!
October 7th, 2009
3:16 pm
South Carolina Gamecocks got a verbal commitment from a punter this week… Patrick Fish of Shelby, N.C.
Now the Dawgs won’t have to choose between “fish” and “chicken.”
Howabout a win
October 7th, 2009
3:22 pm
Well DUH – Big surpize on “Georgia producing the most SEC players” (NOT) – After all – GA (excluding the state of FL) has a much greater population than the rest of the SE. So no surprise there. And the State of FL has to share players b/t FL, FSU, and Miami; among other schools. So I get sick and tired when I read about and hear talk about all the players from GA on other teams – especially Auburn – Well stupos – GA has close to 3 times the population as AL (as well as SC). Let’s use a little logic here.
shankit
October 7th, 2009
4:06 pm
Spurrier
We are still waiting on you to get back from your car
to get the cash to pay your losses in golf to Grant and Rodgers
at the Valdosta Country Club.
dawes
October 7th, 2009
4:13 pm
any player that leave ga does not see the light
shawn
October 7th, 2009
4:24 pm
Spurrier,
I’ll take AJ Green any day. Thank you.
carolina dawg
October 7th, 2009
4:40 pm
I’m thinking that Florida has more athletes if you expand it to ACC and SEC, regardless, there are quite a few good prospects out there between the two.
Dear South carolina
October 7th, 2009
4:48 pm
Thanks for the SEC’s best receiver Aj Green
RMP
October 7th, 2009
5:28 pm
UHH, with all that Georgia talent available to come to Georgia how come Georgia is the 5th best team in the conference with 5 losses over their last 17 games. I guess the best of those 84 Florida kids sign up with Urban Meyer and the best of the Georgia kids go somewhere else. Or maybe Georgia does not coach them up like they do at Florida.
dawg dandy
October 7th, 2009
5:56 pm
Why dont we have the best team in the SEC..that is the real question. Explain that one and you have done something
Uga91
October 7th, 2009
5:59 pm
Hey Howabout, It’s a Georgia paper! If you’re sick and tired of reading about Georgia topics in the ATLANTA Journal Constitution maybe you should not read the ATLANTA paper. Dum azz!
yarddawg
October 7th, 2009
6:29 pm
You tell em UGA91!
Browncoat
October 7th, 2009
6:37 pm
And UGA will still be mediocre, even with all this talent available.
verge
October 7th, 2009
7:17 pm
Browncoat please inform them again. UGA mediocre! In everysport other than the gym dogs.
RedMan
October 7th, 2009
7:21 pm
Well, duh!!!
Slide Rule
October 7th, 2009
7:26 pm
Congrats to Tai-ler Jones on a good decision. Stanford is a great school in a great location.
BS Patrol
October 7th, 2009
7:31 pm
Maybe the SEC had better start recruiting nationally.
SuperB
October 7th, 2009
7:41 pm
The only players from the Peach State the Cocks get are: THE ONES GEORGIA DOESN’T WANT!
In 49 1/2 states (and all of Canada) USC stands for: the University of Southern California.
TechFan
October 7th, 2009
8:03 pm
This just proves how good Georgia Tech is.
techredneck
October 7th, 2009
9:28 pm
Remember that famous quote from the “ole ball coach” or as some call him “the evel genus” , ” UGA GETS ALOT OF THE BEST TALENT AROUND, BUT SOMETHING SEEMS TO HAPPEN TO THEM WHEN THEY GO TO UGA?”
ghost dawg
October 7th, 2009
10:48 pm
yep techredneck, something does happen, they end up kicking gamecock and bug butts, suffer boy
Erk
October 7th, 2009
11:48 pm
Chip, Very interesting but Florida has to produce more division 1 football players than any other state in the region, any data on total number of division 1 players per state?
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October 8th, 2009
1:45 pm
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zino
October 8th, 2009
2:45 pm
GA also has the 4th most NFL players, and an amazing 10% of NBA players.
All hail the Peach State!
JB
October 8th, 2009
3:28 pm
SuperB that is not entirely accurate. There are oodles of players that will not make it into UGA that can make it in other places due to less stringent entrance and character requirements.
Gerald
October 8th, 2009
7:14 pm
Howabout a win:
I agree that Florida has 2 ACC schools and an SEC school, but lots of Georgia athletes also go to ACC schools as well: Georgia Tech plus Clemson, FSU and the North Carolina schools. I am certain that Georgia produces more players per capita than Florida. As far as Alabama goes, most Alabama kids go to SEC schools. Alabama and Georgia probably produce the same amount of BCS conference football players per capita, although Alabama likely produces more major college players overall because of the presence of two Sun Belt schools (Troy and UAB) in your state as compared to none for Georgia (although Georgia State is likely to join the Sun Belt within 10 years).
J Dog
October 9th, 2009
8:02 am
With all these D-1 players to pick from, I wonder why Georgia does’nt have more SEC championships? And why do our players at Georgua play so sloppy & undisciplined?? And don’t tell me it’s because of the recruits not panning out, because if that was the cause, who chose thoes recruits in the first place?? (a clue) The answer is the same for all 3 glaring problems.
At least Ga. Tech is heading in the right direction.
Rebel Ace
October 9th, 2009
8:18 am
Mississippi is not doing bad, considering there is almost no one living here. But, hey, the Rebels can compete with all of ‘em.
David
October 9th, 2009
8:47 am
Chip, no offense dude, but your credibility is in question. You act like you invented being a Ga homer.
How can we trust anything you say?