Dan Mullen has always made an effort to do an impeccable job of recruiting talent locally, and for the most part, he’s done just that. Jake Sharpless of Rukkus sent me an email earlier today where he mapped out exactly where each player in all of college football came from and then calculated the average distance that they had to travel to get to their university.
As it turns out, Mississippi State is the 3rd most localized football team in the nation. The average distance that a player for MSU travels from their hometown to Starkville is 170.