How Many States are Represented on your Team's Roster?

[ngineer]

In the realm of geographical diversity, how many different states are represented on your team's football roster. Which state has the most players represented?
At Lehigh, we have players from 21 different states, with 28 hailing from New Jersey.

[Lionsrking]

In the realm of geographical diversity, how many different states are represented on your team's football roster. Which state has the most players represented?
At Lehigh, we have players from 21 different states, with 28 hailing from New Jersey.


We have players from seven states, breaking down as follows:

Louisiana....63
Georgia......17
Mississippi...6
Alabama......3
Florida........3
Texas.........1
Kentucky.....1

[ysupenguins!]

13 states represented

Ohio - 57
Illinois - 2
New York - 2
Pennsylvania - 9
Florida - 8
Maryland - 1
Georgia - 1
California - 3
Texas - 1
Kentucky - 1
Michigan - 1
Virginia - 2
Wisconsin - 1

[slostang]

Cal Poly only has three players on their roster that are not from California. They have one player each from Oregon, Arizona and Hawaii.

[BULLDOG8180]

15 states represented. Breakdown as follows:

South Carolina- 51
Georgia- 16
Florida- 8
North Carolina- 7
Texas- 4
Alabama- 3
Virginia- 2
Tennessee- 2
California- 1
Conneticut- 1
Illinois- 1
New Jersey- 1
Oklahoma- 1
Pennsylvania- 1
Louisiana- 1

[Go Lehigh TU Owl]

One of the Ivy League schools should win this contest hands down. Because of their academic requirements their recruiting base is a lot more expansive then just about every school minus the academies. The Patriot League schools will probably have the second most diverse rosters for the same reasons.

[MO-State JK]

Missouri State has players from the following states, province and district:

Missouri- 45
Georgia- 3
Arizona- 1
Iowa- 1
Florida- 5
North Carolina- 1
Texas- 1
Alabama- 2
California- 3
Illinois- 8
New Jersey- 1
New York- 1
Oklahoma- 9
Louisiana- 2
Ohio- 3
Kansas- 2
Colorado- 1
Mississippi- 2
Arkansas- 1
Michigan- 2
DC- 1

Quebec- 1

[grizband]

Cal Poly only has three players on their roster that are not from California. They have one player each from Oregon, Arizona and Hawaii.
If you are recruiting California, is it really necessary to look anywhere else...?:smiley_wi

Montana has players from 14 different states/provinces:

Arizona - 1
British Columbia - 1
California - 9
Colorado - 5
Idaho - 3
Illinois - 2
Montana - 50
Nevada - 1
Ohio - 1
Saskatchewan - 1
Tennessee - 1
Utah - 1
Washington - 13
Wyoming - 2

[kats89]

99.5% Texas
.5% Florida

Need football players, everyone comes to the Lone Star State.:bow:

[SiouxFallsJack]

This is how the roster for SDSU breaks down:


South Dakota 28
Minnesota 17
Iowa 15
Nebraska 12
Arizona 7
Wisconsin 5
California 3
Texas 2
Missouri 1

[RadMann]

Based on last year's roster, I get the following counts for UD:

NJ - 19
PA - 18
DE - 13
MD - 11
GA - 9
NY - 7
FL - 7
VA - 5
CA - 2
Germany - 1
ID - 1
MI - 1
Wash. DC - 1
CT - 1
MA - 1
MS - 1

[slostang]

If you are recruiting California, is it really necessary to look anywhere else...?:smiley_wi

That is true. Another big reason we do not recruit outside the state of California is so we do not have to pay out of state tuition.

[DFW HOYA]

Georgetown's 2006 roster features 22 states, but none from Washington DC.

AZ-1
CA-7
CT-1
DE-1
FL-5
GA-3
IL-5
KS-1
LA-1
MD-12
MA-6
MI-3
MN-1
NH-2
NJ-16
NY-7
NC-2
OH-4
PA-8
TX-4
VA-6
WI-1

[Gil Dobie]

NDSU - Bison

Texas 6
California 2
North Dakota 17
Minnesota 34
Wisconsin 14
Nebraska 2
South Dakota 5
Mississippi 2
Illinois 5
Florida 2
Ohio 1

[Umass74]

For the 2006 UMass roster:

Mass 28
New Jersey 12
Florida 11
Virginia 9
New York 7
Conn 6
Conn, Ohio, Penn, California 2
Arizona, Illinois, New Hampshire, Rhode Island 1

14 states total:)

[Demon Fan]

Northwestern State

Louisiana 52
Texas 32
Mississippi 3
California 2
Kansas 2
Alabama 1

[UNHWildCats]

Massachusetts 18
New Hampshire 14
New Jersey 12
New York 10
Pennsylvania 8
California 7
Connecticut 7
Vermont 4
Florida 2
TExas 1
Rhode Island 1
Maine 1
North Carolina 1
Sweden 1
Ontario, Canada 1

[RadMann]

So far Montana, UNH and UD are the ones with at least one non-US player, well Canada does not really count as foreign so only UD... lol

[UNH_Alum_In_CT]

So far Montana, UNH and UD are the ones with at least one non-US player, well Canada does not really count as foreign so only UD... lol

I guess you missed the Swede on the UNH roster. :smiley_wi

[Maroons]

Eastern Kentucky University

Florida - 27
Kentucky - 22
Georgia - 15
Ohio - 12
North Carolina - 6
West Virginia - 2
Tennessee - 1

[lucchesicourt]

UC Davis appears to have one player from Colorado. The rest are homegrown.

[UNH_Alum_In_CT]

Massachusetts 18
New Hampshire 14
New Jersey 12
New York 10
Pennsylvania 8
California 7
Connecticut 7
Vermont 4
Florida 2
TExas 1
Rhode Island 1
Maine 1
North Carolina 1
Sweden 1
Ontario, Canada 1

And I'm guessing that a pretty fair number of those NH kids are freshman walk-ons.

Wow, as many kids from Cali as CT!!!! Almost as many as from PA and NY!! :eek: I guess we better be figuring out a way to afford home and home series with either UC-Davis, Cal-Poly or Sac State!!

Pretty amazing how much UNH has to depend on out-of-state kids and other schools rely almost completely on in-state kids!!

[Killtoppers90]

I counted 10 individual states representedfor this season's Toppers:

KY, TN, FLA, GA, OH, IN, IL, NC, AL, LA

[McNeese75]

All La and Tx with one from Miss and one from Georgia thown in for seasoning :nod:

[PaladinFan]

For Furman, not all that suprising...

Georgia- 35
South Carolina- 24
Alabama- 9
Florida- 6
North Carolina- 6
Tennessee - 4
Maryland - 1
Texas - 1
Pennsylvania - 1

[RadMann]

Yes, I must have missed the Swede. Then again being half Norwegian myself, that is not surprising. We don't like the Swedes... lol

[Ronbo]

MSU had a great Norwegian kicker in the 60's. Jan Stenerud. Pro football Hall of Famer. He was the reason they moved the kickoff point to the 35 as he boomed the kick offs though the end zone every time. LOL.

http://www.profootballhof.com/hof/member.jsp?player_id=203

http://brunvoll.nu/stenerud/

[ericappstate]

10 States

NC - 71
GA - 15
FL - 8
SC - 6
VA - 5
KS - 1
KY - 1
NY - 1
TN - 1
WV - 1

[RadMann]

Interesting link. I remember him from the NFL but did not realize he was Norwegian. How many people went to college on a ski jumping scholarship and ended up being a college footbll player and later NFL Hall of Famer? lol, gotta be only one ....

[downbythebeach]

Saint Francis University

Pennsylvania - 54
Maryland - 12
New Jersey - 8
Hawaii - 7
American Samoa - 4:hurray:
New York - 2
Connecticut - 2
D.C. - 1
Virginia - 1
Ohio - 1
California - 1
West Virginia - 1

[catbob]

Are you talking about where they played HS, or where they transferred from?

High school:

MT - 40
CA - 29
WA - 5
OR - 4
FL - 4
ID - 2
TX - 1
CO - 1
LA - 1

I might've missed a few but that's close enough.

[Tribe4SF]

W&M

CA-1
CT-1
DE-3
GA-3
MD-10
MA-1
NJ-7
NC-4
OH-3
PA-9
SC-1
VA-53
DC-1

[DUPFLFan]

Drake Bulldogs

Iowa - 39
Illinois - 36
Missouri -17
Colorado - 6
Kansas - 5
Minnesota - 5
Nebraska -1
Maryland - 1

[JohnStOnge]

McNeese is VERY "home grown" if you look at it in terms of how far the home towns of players are from Lake Charles. Back in 2003, when one of the "takes" on Florida Atlantic was how they got all their players from a small area I compared the average distance between their school and players home towns to the same thing for McNeese and McNeese's players were from a smaller average distance.

Doing the State thing with McNeese doesn't really capture it because they're about 30 miles from the Texas border. Lake Charles is about 134 miles east of Houston and about 125 miles west of Baton Rouge, so it's really kind of in "Texiana" when it comes to recruiting.

I like that. However good or bad McNeese does, the players really do overwhelmingly represent the area the school is in.

[RadMann]

States are generally smaller in the east, so if someone comes to UD from MD, PA (except for western PA), NJ or DE it is likely they would be called "local" for a school in the west or midwest....

[TheValleyRaider]

Florida-18
New York-18
New Jersey-12
Massachusetts-8
Pennsylvania-8
Ohio-6
Georgia-5
Maryland-4
California-2
Connecticut-2
Maine-2
New Hampshire-2
Virginia-2
Louisiana-1
Michigan-1
Ontario-1
Texas-1

16 states and 1 province, mostly Northeast with a significant presence from the South

[RabidRabbit]

This is how the roster for SDSU breaks down:


South Dakota 28
Minnesota 17
Iowa 15
Nebraska 12
Arizona 7
Wisconsin 5
California 3
Texas 2
Missouri 1

:eek: Kind of surprised no NoDak'er's :eek:

[poly51]

Are you talking about where they played HS, or where they transferred from?

High school:

MT - 40
CA - 29
WA - 5
OR - 4
FL - 4
ID - 2
TX - 1
CO - 1
LA - 1

I might've missed a few but that's close enough.

Wow, You guys should play some of your home games in California.

[ngineer]

Are you talking about where they played HS, or where they transferred from?

High school:

MT - 40
CA - 29
WA - 5
OR - 4
FL - 4
ID - 2
TX - 1
CO - 1
LA - 1

I might've missed a few but that's close enough.

From where their homes are.

[UAalum72]

University at Albany, 16 states:

New York - 61
New Jersey - 16
Florida - 3
Texas - 2
Georgia - 2
Penn. - 1
Virginia - 1
Maine - 2
Connecticut - 1
Rhode Island - 1
Illinois - 1
California - 1
Ohio - 1
Massachusetts - 1
North Carolina - 1
New Hampshire - 1

[EKU05]

Eastern Kentucky University

Florida - 27
Kentucky - 22
Georgia - 15
Ohio - 12
North Carolina - 6
West Virginia - 2
Tennessee - 1

Not that I've examined things close enough to remember, but does any team other than EKU have more players from another state than it does from its own? I'm sure a few do, but it's not all that common at the I-AA level.