Over time, a college football program is only as good as the talent in its immediate recruiting area.
The only consistent exceptions to this are Notre Dame and academic schools such as Stanford and Northwestern.
This doesn’t mean all of a team’s players need to come from within a 200 mile radius but there needs to be a fire base of talent before players from farther away will be enticed to sign with a distant school.
Why does East Tennessee produce so few SEC-level players?
The only consistent exceptions to this are Notre Dame and academic schools such as Stanford and Northwestern.
This doesn’t mean all of a team’s players need to come from within a 200 mile radius but there needs to be a fire base of talent before players from farther away will be enticed to sign with a distant school.
Why does East Tennessee produce so few SEC-level players?
