The draft year after year still proves that Florida high schools (particularly Florida high schools) are at the top. Some theories:
1) the absolute creme de la creme (majority) are now going to mainly out of state schools (Bama, Georgia, Clemson, OSU and even Oklahoma).
2)among the remaining still loaded players there is so much outside interest they are widely dispersed across a much larger variety of schools (UCF, Indiana, WVU, Rutgers, Minnesota,Kentucky, etc) than ever before.
3) the big 3 (well mainly us) have totally sucked at hiring coaching staffs for years
Finally I do agree that speed is a priority across the country more than ever before regardless of Florida or not. Florida is still loaded but again it’s so widely dispersed with that talent and coupled with the increasing speed priority elsewhere, that it’s negated a lot of the talent advantages among the former big three here who haven’t had as good as coaching, either.