{"id":81181,"date":"2017-12-21T12:39:33","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T12:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/college-football-recruitment-maps\/"},"modified":"2018-03-26T21:15:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T21:15:52","slug":"college-football-recruitment-maps","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/analytics\/analytics\/college-football-recruitment-maps","title":{"rendered":"College Football Recruitment Maps"},"author":6971,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[23341,23851,22941],"tags":[23201,26451,32331,23551,23391,25581],"industry":[],"product":[36561,36611],"class_list":["post-81181","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analytics","category-data-management","category-mapping","tag-cartographic-design","tag-cartography","tag-how-to","tag-location-analytics","tag-spatial-analytics","tag-spatial-statistics","product-arcgis-pro","product-story-maps"],"acf":{"short_description":"Did you hear about this thing that colleges have football teams now? And at the end of the year some committee decides on the four best, ...","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Did you hear about this thing that colleges have football<\/em> teams now? And at the end of the year some committee decides on the four best, and they play each other<\/a>?<\/p>\n

We have to support this or it might not make it. So, in that spirit, I made some maps of the recruitment footprints of all four teams. These footprints are quantified (because I’m a nerd) by something I call the Air Mile Index. Because it is a proxy for how many air miles the assistant coaching staff racks up.<\/p>\n

So if you are prepared mentally, and emotionally, to swim through an analysis of these recruitment footprints in the linked Story Map<\/a>. You can yank a couple of quips from here and spout them off at a game-watching party over some chips and pop…and alienate yourself utterly. Hurry, though, because this particular set of maps has a really limited shelf life.<\/p>\n

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There are details-a-plenty in this<\/a> steamy Story Map walk-through.
\nNo time for that? Download and dig right in to my Pro project<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Here are all 482 player hometowns:<\/p>\n

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Here’s what those probably-impossibly small dots represent…<\/p>\n

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Let’s break it out by school.<\/p>\n

Alabama:<\/p>\n

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Georgia:<\/p>\n

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Oklahoma:<\/p>\n

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And finally Clemson:<\/p>\n

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