RocketsandCanes
RocketsandCanes
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Yet more proof that while the LA, Atlanta, Dallas and Houston areas produce a lot really good football talent, Greater Miami is on a whole different level.
Standard Swag commentary follows, skip if you've heard this before....
Miami is definitely the top metro area in America for producing talent and I don't think it's particularly close, but this stat is apples and oranges with regards to DFW/Houston. Dallas and Houston kids don't get to transfer wherever they want like kids do in South Florida & almost every other school on that list (mad props to Glades Central). DFW powerhouses are lucky to get 1 impact transfer a season, and those are heavily scrutinized in the media, and often get vetoed by the school the kid left or flat out overturned by the UIL. The head coach at Desoto (which is on that list) is about to get ran out of town after winning the school's first state championship because the community is ****ed off at him trying to bring in outsider kids into the school (he supposedly found a QB/WR duo from Louisiana - allegedly). The school board has been in gridlock for over a week now after half of them tried to get him ousted. Texas football is much more community driven and the people - for the most part - don't want the mercenary programs. There's a price to pay for that - you don't see the schools with 15 D1 kids appear on their rosters as soon as they hire a Roland Smith or Ice Harris type guy - but it's also much better in some ways as well.
Let's be real - with the money and emphasis on football in DFW & GHA, if the rules got abolished and things got opened up with recruiting & private schools like they are in Florida, you would see STA type-factories all over Texas, too... not to mention, the inner city schools would get to come back, too. To the same degree as SoFla? Who knows, but the list would look a whole lot different.
I'm with you Miami metro is definitely the top metro area for producing fball talent. But man I've always been amazed by Florida's crazy transfer policy. I went to HS in Michigan where if you transfer to a school you have to sit out a whole academic year of sports from the time you transfer (like college). This leads to the only kids transferring high schools being kids that don't play/care much about sports. The kids that grow up playing in ****** districts just do school of choice when transitioning from middle school to high school to make sure they play at a bigger school. This is frustrating in a sense because I do think that kids should be able to play sports at whatever school they want to attend.
On the other hand, I think the mercenary/free agent culture of SoFla sports is not good for the kids. I mean how many kids have we seen through the years on here whose transcripts are so jacked up from attending 4 different schools in 4 years. It's insane. There has to be some sort of good middle ground.