Advantages Southern players have over Northern players

without a doubt the high school competition is better because the players get to play more because of the help from the weather.

I agree...but let me relay something the coach at Gulf Coast C.C. (Panama City, FL) told me a number of years back. If he sees a player from FL and a northern player, and they are of equal skill, he would many times want the northern player because he has more room to grow. He has developed talent playing on bad fields in bad weather.

I agree with Coach larry...

With the way the HS player has opporuntiies now to play out of his region the gap between the warm weather and cold weather regions has narrowed immensely.

TRhit

The season is longer here. My son's team reported for practice 1/5, by the end of january they were playing inter-squad games. Started scrimmaging other team in the middle of febuary. First game on record was on 2/23, district starts 3/25. Playoffs begin at the beginning of may. They have 27 games scheduled.

We start our first game on March 22nd, but we play 26 or more games during regular season. Our Districts start the end of May.
So we get started later but play a similar amount of games. It probably means that down south the summer season starts sooner. Also there is no way we can play outside in the winter here. So they use the time as individuals to weight and agility train. I believe a lot has to do with population density. In a highly populated area, there will be more ballplayers.

Ih Ohio, try-outs begin today. Regular games begin April 1 and they will play 27 games by about May 7. Districts start after that. The first 2 weeks of April are usually cold, wet, and sloppy!!

If a player works hard enough, has enough desire and enough god given talent, it doesn't matter where you live!