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OOS Recruiting: Looking Westward to Texas

Liberty City El said:
This jump is most noticeable in Alabama’s title-winning teams.

The Tide’s 2009 team was built mostly via players from their region as 18.3 percent of signees from their previous four classes hailed from outside Alabama or a bordering state. That number climbed steadily with each proceeding champion: 2011 (21.4%), 2012 (26.4%), 2015 (30.4%), 2016 (37.2%).
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That article supports what we've been saying. Look at Alabama in the quote above. They built their first good team locally, and then branched out more and more as they became more successful. That's the proper order, not the other way around.

If you can recruit five stars across the country, you do it. The question is what is the best approach when you are a 7-win program? Based on our past results, our local players have outperformed our OOS players by a good margin. That tells me there is no advantage to recruiting even more OOS until we become a better team.
 
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The 7 Texas QBs who participated in the Elite 11 Finals:




From left to right:
Behren Morton, Garrett Nussmeier, Dee Davis, Maddox Kopp, Kyron Drones, Kaidon Salter, Grayson James
 
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You know I’m all about Texas recruits but this is misleading - Texas is frickin HUGE, so much that Cali/GA/FL could all fit inside of Texas and still not fill the Texas footprint.

Nonetheless the caliber of HS coaching in Texas (due to $$$/resources) is 2nd to none. I don’t understand how Mario isn’t targeting them as his 2nd/3rd most visited territory.
 
CaneThang2020 said:
You know I’m all about Texas recruits but this is misleading - Texas is frickin HUGE, so much that Cali/GA/FL could all fit inside of Texas and still not fill the Texas footprint.

Nonetheless the caliber of HS coaching in Texas (due to $$$/resources) is 2nd to none. I don’t understand how Mario isn’t targeting them as his 2nd/3rd most visited territory.
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Too far away, he's locked in on Georgia as 2nd and North Florida as 3rd.
 
For UGA's 2024 class, 19 of their 28 commits were from out of state, meaning non-Georgia kids.

For Michigan, it was 23 of their 26 commits were non-Michigan kids.

For Bama, it was 17 out of their 28. Although Bama had a really high concentration of Bama kids in their class, more than they usually do.

For Texas, it was 10 out of their 22 were non-Texas kids. (Shocking right..)

For Clemson, it was 20 out of their 22 were non-Carolina kids (both North & South).

For Oregon, it was 23 out of 27.

For Ohio ST, it was 13 out of 23 non-Ohio kids.

For UF, 12 of their 19 were non Florida kids.

Of the major recruiting powers, only Miami, FSU, LSU, Auburn & Ole Miss signed predominantly in state recruits.
 
We are a program that can and should recruit nationally. Pigeon holing ourselves to south Florida is stoopit. We have seen success in Georgia & Alabama. Texas makes sense. As LCE/Memnon has pointed out the kids from Houston metro area should like being near a major coty or at least feel comfortable at a place like Miami. My $0.02.

Go Canes!
 
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Memnon said:
For UGA's 2024 class, 19 of their 28 commits were from out of state, meaning non-Georgia kids.

For Michigan, it was 23 of their 26 commits were non-Michigan kids.

For Bama, it was 17 out of their 28. Although Bama had a really high concentration of Bama kids in their class, more than they usually do.

For Texas, it was 10 out of their 22 were non-Texas kids. (Shocking right..)

For Clemson, it was 20 out of their 22 were non-Carolina kids (both North & South).

For Oregon, it was 23 out of 27.

For Ohio ST, it was 13 out of 23 non-Ohio kids.

For UF, 12 of their 19 were non Florida kids.

Of the major recruiting powers, only Miami, FSU, LSU, Auburn & Ole Miss signed predominantly in state recruits.
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So the wall back up?
 
Top 10 players from Florida we’ve landed the last 10 years

Silvera
Pope
Lingard
Payton
Taylor
Williams
McDermott
Chad Thomas

Mario has landed Mauigoa, Blount, Patterson
 
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cway313 said:
**** that is crazy.
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The Mauigoa thing was also part of my point it’s like yeah he’s a Florida player but also not really. Williams and Taylor came in during the Covid year when there were no camps and basically no one was out there recruiting and creating rankings so who knows how that would have worked out rankings wise if there were the usual amount of camps and whatnot

I’m fully on board with looking elsewhere but man we have been horrific in state
 
Well @cway313 @Memnon I ****ed up

Prior to D Brown (18) and Stafford (16) I went back to 2014 and we had not landed a composite CB in the top 19 in the country

We did land 3 guys that were ranked #20. Marcus Clarke, Gil Frierson, and Christian Williams
 
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