Talent Follow up.

Yes, I do drink the SEC Kool-aid as the best in talent, but with reason.
I would place the states of California, Ohio and Texas ahead of the SEC states excluding Florida in Football talent, but of course that is based on total population.  Louisiana and Mississippi are still way ahead in percentage of population.
USC in my opinion has always been at the top of talent list during the last 10 years.  The SEC teams just play against better teams week in and week out and seem to develop at a higher rate.  I would have placed Texas, Okla, Ohio State and USC ahead of everyone but Florida during the decade.

Here is an article from April 2011 on conference NFL status.
The scary part of these numbers are that Alabama with Saban and Auburn with Chiznik will make the NFL talent depth lean more to the SEC unless probation
NFL Players.
SEC-308, 25.6
ACC- 278, 23.1
Big 10-256, 23.2
Big 12-221, 18.4
Pac-10-215, 21.5
Big East-115, 14.3

4 of top 10 schools with active NFL players are SEC schools.
7 of top 25.

1. Miami, FL-45
2. LSU-44
T3. Texas, Ohio State-42
5. USC-39
6. Georgia-38
7. Florida-36
8. Tennessee-35
T9. Michigan, California-33
11. Florida State-31
T12. Iowa, Oklahoma-30
T14. Maryland, Penn State, Nebraska-29
T17. Auburn, Notre Dame-27
T19. Alabama, Purdue-26
T21. Georgia Tech, Virginia, Oregon-25
24. Michigan State-24
T25. Boston College, Ole Miss, Virginia Tech-23

http://www.holyturf.com/2011/04/nfl-players-conference-affiliation/
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