Quote: Reccos: More to your question - I think we are doing pretty well, given our size. My strong hunch is that if you were to compare our results in producing college soccer players to those states with 20% more or less than our population, you would find that we do significantly better than most.
We've lived in 6 different states and based upon my observations SC is the weakest. Our kids started playing in Oregon, population 3.8 million compared to SC's 4.6 million. Comparing the Women's rosters - Oregon's top three programs have 23 of 76 players coming from in state. U of Portland with 7 in state players is ranked 4th in the nation. Oregon and Oregon State were the other two programs I used. If you look at SC (USC, Clemson and College of Charleston) only 10 out of 79 players come from in state. If you eliminate C of C then there are only 5 in state players.
We also lived in Iowa (population 3 million). If you check Iowa and Iowa State's rosters you'll find numbers closer to Oregon's than SC's.
