That is just it, there isn't. Sure Texas produces more talent than any other state, but that is because there is more of a population here and that population is football crazy compared to say California. But per capita Louisiana actually produces more than Texas does. There is a reason that California jucos were so huge in finding good football players. Californian kids didn't get the training they go in Texas because footall isn't as big on the middle school and high school area and these guys were over looked for the most part.
The point is there isn't a place, and for people in Texas to say stay local is BS, you stay local and you are cutting off 90% of the talent available to you.
Then you have handlers like Foot Work King who is on the Adidas payroll funneling kids to aggsy because they are an Adidas school crying that Texas doesn't need to go out of state for talent. Well yea we do, he is just pissed that he can't get paid for sending his sloppy seconds to Texas.
Finally and most important, we like to say that Texas is a national brand blah blah blah, if Texas is a national brand then we need to act like it.
I'm not saying that Texas doesn't have talent in this state, I'm saying there is a local "group think" from people in this state that:
1. Everything is bigger and better in Texas.
2. We are the Lone Star State we don't need anything or anybody else.
Both are BS bravado that holds no water when you compare the state of Texas to the United States as a whole. If you wish to compare Texas to other individual states, it's likely that Texas will come out on top, but as a whole, to say don't recruit the rest of the nation because we don't need to is ridiculous. You are talking about an area of 28 million vs an area of 300 million.
Tom Herman is the first coach at the University that finally gets it. And for that i stand up and applaud him.
Screw the handlers and screw any high school coach that thinks Texas should take their lesser talented kid over a higher qualified athlete because we need to stay local. If they want Texas to stay local, they should funnel their elite athletes to Texas not their second rate athletes.
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Last edited: Dec 26, 2018