Year after year it seems like the elite recruits in the state of Texas are mostly found in the Houston or DFW areas, not surprisingly. Seems like DFW had the elite 2020 kids (Gusters, Andrews, Kelly, etc.), while Houston had them in 2021 (Harmon, Hunter, Malone). For 2022, it's the DFW area thanks mainly to DeSoto high school.
While we are competing against schools from all over the country for the elite recruits in our state, we all know that we will mostly be competing against Baylor for those recruits who want to attend college in Texas.
I noticed something interesting when comparing the current rosters for Texas and Baylor. BU has 5 players from the DFW area (Gusters, Andrews, Jordyn Oliver, Trinity Oliver, and Jaden Owens), and only one from the Houston area (Queen Egbo). Conversely, Texas has 5 players from the Houston area (Charli, Joanne, DeYona, Elyssa and Precious), and only one player from the DFW area (Audrey).
For 2021, Texas adds two more players from the Houston area. So, we are up to 7 players from the Houston area. Not sure if that's surprising in itself, but when you see that we only have 1 player from the DFW area (and Audrey was actually from Missouri before she moved to the DFW area for her last 2 years of high school), it's quite troubling.
When we landed Joyner Holmes and Jada Underwood from the DFW area for the class of 2016, I really thought it would pay dividends with future recruiting in the metroplex. I was wrong; it did not. We have to do better there and becoming a recruiting presence; and, it has to start with the 2022 class.
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