🏈 Recruiting maps of where the top 4 teams get their talent

[planomateo]

http://uxblog.idvsolutions.com/2014/12/2015-college-football-playoff.html

 

[PhillyGirl]

Oregon's reach is incredible.

 

[UAgrad93]

Oregon has to go that far because the level of HS football in state SUCKS!!

 

[planomateo]

Interesting to me that Oregon isn't able to pull more recruits from Washington.

 

[UAgrad93]

Washington may have the same caliber of HS football as Oregon. They thrive in Cali though!!

 

[riz]

Oregon's reach is incredible.

I consider it more of they have to reach.

 

[russb8903]

This "Air-Mile Index" doesn't really make sense. The majority of FSU's players are instate, and their index is the same as UA's spread all over the country?

 

[planomateo]

Oregon's reach is incredible.

I consider it more of they have to reach.

Or that people in Northern and Southern California really like those ugly ass uniforms...

This "Air-Mile Index" doesn't really make sense. The majority of FSU's players are instate, and their index is the same as UA's spread all over the country?

I poked around on his blog and found this.

http://uxblog.idvsolutions.com/2014/09/the-air-mile-index-ncaa-football.html

You take the distance between a player's hometown and his school (then the square root of that, for lots of reasons), and average it out across the whole team. That resulting unit-less number is a simple quantifiable way of comparing the reach of recruiting between schools, which might then give us fun clues or insights about the programs and their regions.

 

[BAMAFSTBACK]

Who we got from Mexico?? lol That's pretty cool.

 

[UAgrad93]

I believe we have a punter on the roster from Mexico @BAMAFSTBACK. His name is Adrian Lamothe, 5'9" 190 punter from Monterrey.

 

[BAMAFSTBACK]

Very cool.