The most interesting part about that chart is that 30% of the players come from unidentified locales. FL is growing, as is TX, and the mid-west. They are not on the list.
The problem for LI is that wherever they play football well, you will eventually see college lacrosse players from those high school programs. The football coaches want lacrosse to keep those boys who can't hit a baseball running in the spring. And the football players and their parents are even happier, because the lighter, equally quick kids who are third on the depth chart at linebacker might be the best lacrosse players (and might be the better students who will appeal to more academically minded colleges). The "football factory" high schools can conceivably double the number of overall college recruits once their lacrosse programs become competitive, which only takes a couple of years (assuming they have the competition to play).
Which is why NJ is gaining. Big population, lots of excellent football programs. For example, the D1 football boys at Don Bosco and Bergen Catholic are still going to D1 football schools -- many of the others are being recruited for lacrosse.
You will most definitely see FL and TX on that list in the future. | 
