while I will say you guys do get some high school footbaw gems down there, I will represent my home State of Ohio and say that you are blind from homerism if you aren't educated in the fact that Ohio high school footbaw is just as brutal. it's common knowledge that the states/regions that produce the best recruits are the South (Fl, GA, AL, etc), Texas, maybe certain regions of Cali and Penn, and then Ohio
so maybe for recruiting the SEC > the Big Ten, but the State of Ohio is on par with the SEC no doubt
in fact, since 2000 the school with the most NFL drafts is Ohio State. fyi - the school with the second most drafts is the U. fwiw - the school with the most first round draft picks is Florida, I believe. although about 85 percent of tOSU players are from Ohio, of course some of them are not. so I am skewing the stats a bit, I admit, but I think by said information one can gather that Ohio is equal to most of the South
and if you are trying to lump the whole South together (as you provincial Dixie types oft do), then I would say that certain Southern states may have a leg up on Ohio (maybe FL + GA), then the number of Southern states that are weaker than Ohio in recruiting is greater than the number that is more worthy. for example, I would say off the bat that Ohio > your Tenn, KY, Miss, etc to name a few)
I played Ohio high school ball and it was no joke. although sacking Brady Quinn was the highlight of my career for sure. you just can't categorize that type of boner
oh and Fuck Notre Dame