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TheRagingWolf said:
it seems like the two states we have been going after the hardest outside of FL is Georgia and NJ. I like that.
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We seem to be going hard after California, too. I wish we could go harder after Louisiana and Texas. We started hitting Texas hard when Jimmy and his crew, especially Butch Davis, arrived. We went after Louisiana hard when Curtis Johnson was at UM. A lot of it has to do with where the coaches have been, their home states, and contacts they have.

Obviously, we've ratcheted up in California because of Brennan Carroll. We don't have a recruiter to match CJ in Louisiana and haven't had one like him since he left. I guess we just don't have the guys who know Texas or like to go there like we did with Jimmy and his staff. After all, Jimmy was a native of Texas, and he and Butch both played at Arkansas when it was in the Southwest Conference.

We did a lot of recruiting in New Jersey when Schnelly was HC, and continued that with Johnson. NJ has been very good to us: Greg Mark, Danny Stubbs, Gregg Rakoczy, richard Newbill, Howard Clark, James Lewis, Bryant McKinnie and some others. Every one of the guys I mentioned started on one of our national championship teams. I've left out others.

I like recruiting in Georgia. Back in the '80's, when perhaps the best HS all-star game in the country was the Georgia-Florida game, I used to marvel at the talent from both states. Although Florida was bigger, and probably deeper, the best from Georgia went toe-to-toe with the best from Florida. I remember watching Charlie Ward play QB for Georgia.

In about 1989, I went to a Big 33 Game, perhaps the granddaddy of all HS all star games, and the talent didn't compare. It was Maryland vs. Pennsylvania, and no way was the talent as good wall-to-wall for either team as it was for the Florida and Georgia teams.
 
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