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ben said:
Traore?
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Georgia. I just checked the roster and they don’t list anyone from Kansas. Scholarship or walk-on. Interesting side note, we have players from Australia, England and Mexico. Only Headley is a scholarship guy though.
 
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Georgia is the big void as I see it. Its one of the most prosperous states, we play there every two years and really only one power program in-state.
 
svenben said:
Georgia is the big void as I see it. Its one of the most prosperous states, we play there every two years and really only one power program in-state.
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Georgia is a donor state to the entire SEC (Auburn, Bama, LSU) as well as Clemson and a couple Ohio State guys. Atlanta is hard af to recruit and it's dirty.
 
svenben said:
Georgia is the big void as I see it. Its one of the most prosperous states, we play there every two years and really only one power program in-state.
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It's proximate to Alabama, Clemson, USCe, FSU, Tennessee, and UNC and Louisville aren't that far away. Heck, Ohio State (Columbus) is closer to Atlanta than Miami is.
 
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gogeta4 said:
i WOULDNT RECRUIT THE WHOLE AREA OF VA...just the TIDEWATER area to DC (Hampton,VA beach, Newport News,Portsmouth) reason i said it is we have lost to kids fromt hat area for years.....VA Tech coaches cant recruit and UVA is to bougie and also has a coach that doesnt recruit the area tough. Watch UNC kill it in the area over the next coming years. We should make an insurgence
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Finally sent something out that way...



got offered today by Aristide.
 
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Goulds Cane said:
OOS, we do great in California, Texas, Georgia and New Jersey.

I'm surprised we haven't had any kids from Indiana, Missouri, Michigan and Connecticut. And I don't know why we don't recruit Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina and Ohio more.

EDIT: It says no kids from Minnesota. Wasn't Seantrel Henderson from there??
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And the Walsh Bros.
 
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GojiraCane said:
Here you go - including transfers. By state.

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The Texas recruiting really started with JJ. He was from Texas and Butch was from Oklahoma, played at Arkansas but knew that area. Pretty much the same with Coker. Our Texas recruiting died with Golden, a product of New Jersey and PSU. (Pennsylvania and especially NJ were also historically good areas for UM.)

I know JJ and staff really loved Texas kids who were so well coached in HS.

A lot depends on where coaches have ties. When Hubbard Alexander was one of our best recruiters we recruited Memphis and Chicago. Both areas had some good talent, especially Chicago but we would get more and better in other areas. Chicago gave us Rod Holder, Andre Brown, Russ Maryland, Alvin Ward (I think), and others.
 
svenben said:
Georgia is the big void as I see it. Its one of the most prosperous states, we play there every two years and really only one power program in-state.
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But other SEC schools and Clemson hit Georgia hard. Where’s Trevor Lawrence from?

Back in the ‘80’s we didn’t put much effort in Georgia or North Florida. Back then, even the Black kids felt more comfortable at Southern schools, like SEC and FSU. I remember the recruiting during the ‘80’s. There was even talk on JJ’s staff that we just wouldn’t send coaches to North Florida, anymore. They began to see it as a waste of time and resources. We’d pull a kid from Gainesville now and then (Lamar Thomas) but the Panhandle was terrible for us. And that’s when some of the best kids were coming out of Ft. Walton Beach and especially Pensacola. We got a few kids from Jax like Carl Walker and Kevin Kirkeide. We generally had trouble competing regularly for top kids in North Florida. I think most of the kids outside of South and Central
Florida felt more comfortable at southern schools and Miami was not a southern school.
 
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