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Recruiting In Texas: Food for Thought
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As a Texas resident I agree with you statement. Most of the residents of Texas live in this triangle. Most of the population doesn't come from native born but inbound residents from other states.
BadlandsGrizFan
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That and all the Texas powerhouses are manly in that triangle. Duncanville DeSoto Allen. Southlake Aledo. In the Dallas area
North Shore and a couple other powerhouses in the Houston area. Westlake in Austin.
The amount of D1talent on those teams rosters year in and out would shock a lot of people if they ever went to watch a game.
SinCityGriz2005
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UM has a pretty good Tailgate scene. I have been to more than a few. Ranked from first to worst:
LSU
Ohio State
App State
Duke
Georgia
Kentucky
Oregon
Texas
North Dakota State
Montana
Boise State
TCU
Texas Tech
ECU
Tulane
West Virginia
Ohio
Marshall
UM needs more space, more variety, and really needs to be better organized into travel lanes on the grass and they need to close off the north parking lot and open it up for more tailgates. Also they need to get rid of some of their ridiculous rules, but that's just me.
Real talk? LSU is like Mardi Gras during home games. If you haven't been, you gotta go. I do want to hit an Ole' Miss tailgate though. They are rumored to have the best tailgate in all of college football. IDK, it would be hard to beat LSU.
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according to ai, for the 2024-2025 season cali had the most:
| State | Number of NFL Starting QBs | Notable Players (2024/2025 season) |
|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | Josh Allen, C.J. Stroud, Jayden Daniels, Sam Darnold, Jared Goff, Aaron Rodgers, Jordan Love, Derek Carr |
| Texas | 6 | Patrick Mahomes, Baker Mayfield, Andy Dalton, Jalen Hurts, Matthew Stafford, Kyler Murray |
| Florida | 4 | Lamar Jackson, Anthony Richardson, Geno Smith, Jacoby Brissett |
| Georgia | 3 | Justin Fields, Trevor Lawrence, Deshaun Watson |
| Ohio | 2 | Joe Burrow, Mitchell Trubisky |
| Alabama | 1 | Bo Nix |
| Louisiana | 1 | Dak Prescott |
5280Griz
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That is missing Brock Purdy from Perry High School in Gilbert Arizona. Retired qb Ryan Fitzpatrick is also from Gilbert. You could add Tyler Shough for the 2025-2026 season who is from Chandler which is right next to Gilbert. He went to Hamilton High School go Huskies! My buddy played at Hamilton while Tyler Shough was on the team as a freshman against Brock Purdy. Perry and Hamilton are rivals from the same district.
Perry vs Hamilton | Football | 11/6/2015
View pregame, in-game and post-game details from the Perry (Gilbert, AZ) @ Hamilton (Chandler, AZ) playoff football game on Fri, 11/6/2015.
www.maxpreps.com
This game was 1 future NFL qb’s first high school playoff game and another future NFL qb was on the bench of the other team.
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it seems like there used to be a lot more tailgating, but along the stadium now there are quite a few very large vehicles that are for the most part advertising. they seem to have displaced a lot of the smaller, but more raucous tailgates. plus, the gsa takes up a lot of prime tailgating space, and that area feels more like you are patronizing a business than 'tailgating', per se. oh, and then there is the cost - i don't know, but suspect, that tailgating spot prices have increased far past the rate of inflation.
of course i could be wrong...
SinCityGriz2005
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That's too bad. I haven't been to a home game since 2022. I was going to go this year, but cancer...
BadlandsGrizFan
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Nice so it has changed. Do it for just total nfl players next. That would be interesting.
BadlandsGrizFan
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I think our scene is better than NDSUs. I’ve been to the parking lot in Fargo and it wasn’t that great. They do have a lot of nice rigs. But you fee like you’re just drinking in a Walmart parking lot. Also they don’t let you leave at half. Pansies
The sheer number of NFL QB's that come from the TX triangle is mind-boggling.
Just in the past 15-20 years:
Pat Mahomes
Kyler Murray
Drew Brees
Matt Stafford
Andy Dalton
Ryan Tannehill
Baker Mayfield
Nick Foles
Case Keenum
Derek Carr
Jalen Hurts
Cam Ward
Andrew Luck
Jarrett Stidham
RGIII
Ty Detmer
Vince Young
And about 50 others...
5280Griz
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NDSU’s scene was a lot better when the Griz played there in 2014 and 2015 compared to now. I think it was comparable to Montana then but Montana’s is now a lot better. They don’t even sell out the Fargodome anymore.
billingsgriz
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Good luck and Godspeed, SCGriz, in your health battle against cancer !!!
Keep the faith; there's light at the end of the tunnel, I can vouch for that, I'm 4 years clear now. But it has cut into my game attendance, not as tough as I once was. Hope to do better this year. But the new 85" TV is real completion.
5280Griz
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Texas just swept the NFL honors this year. MVP, defensive POY and offensive POY all are from DFW public high schools.
For my tastes, Cal Poly should be in there instead of lowly NDSU or Boise.
5280Griz
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You must have gone to a different Cal Poly game than me. There was less than 9,000 fans to see them play the Griz in 2016, which was a week after the Griz upset the #3 team in the country in the road the prior week. The Griz played in Fargo in 2014 and 2015. The environment at those 2 games blows the environment at the Cal Poly game away. I haven’t been to a game in Fargo recently but from what I understand the tailgating and gam day scene there has dropped off a lot since 2014 and 2015 though.
I was at that game. Like I said--for my tastes. For me, bigger is not better. Wa-Griz packed to the gills is a PITA. Excellent seats at Spanos that day, beautiful weather, I was also at a Niners-Broncos tailgate, and not for me. The titans games in Pburg are more fun.
