XxSpectrexX said:
Soldiergriz...Not to start an argument, so let's be objective San Antonio for instance has 155 high schools. Montana (the entire state) has 166. Dallas has 138, this excludes the surrounding cities that have their own... The sheer number of scholarships available per athlete is way too few for you guys, BUT lets say that out of those cities programs there are no more than two really good athletes per team on average and one exceptional athlete per district that by sheer skill, luck, or being on the dominant team and get to look like they are just that good. I know you guys live and die football, but are there really that many true studs out there? From my experience 90% of the kids on any team are average players, 8% are good, 1% is eye catching and the remaining 1% is that kid that could play blind folded and score...just because you have a zillion players down there doesn't mean you have a zillion athletes. Now at our camp there was a kid that came from Texas that was discussed on another thread and I found out who he was, he was very dominant, very fast and kind of had his way with the other teams when they played. I think he's one of those top 2%, because 1. he actually came all the way up here for camp and only a serious kid does things like that and 2. America is America, no matter where you are, or are from football is football and unless you guys put steroids in the tap water kids are still kids. So what gives? If Texas was that talent rich, everyone would just go recruit down there and not at home.
Everyone DOES come recruit down here. Every year Texas leads the nation in # of FBS football recruits. This quote is from 2013, but it remains relevant to this day:
The national average signing day class is a fraction over 19 commits (and also very stable), which means that Texas annually produces enough players to fill about 18 recruiting classes, Florida produces enough for 16-17 average classes, and California kicks in another twelve or thirteen. Combined, the Big Three have produced just under 40% of all FBS signees over the past six years, and add in Georgia and Ohio and a full 50% of FBS signees come from just these six states.
Not sure where your experience comes from, but my daughter went to Reagan HS here in San Antonio. Reagan is a 6A-1 school (biggest division), and was a quarterfinalist in the playoffs this year. On JUST this team there were 6-8 players who would ALL be All State in Montana--and the team was relatively young (starting QB was a sophomore). Yet of the seniors, only ONE went to an FBS school, 2 went D-II, 2 went D-III and 1 went unsigned (perhaps didn't want to pursue football, I'm not sure).
In Texas a MUCH higher % than 10% are above average players. Texas has 1,869 high schools--at 90 players per team that's an estimated 165,000 varsity football players. 2% of that is over 3,000 potential recruits. In 2015 alone Texas had over 1300 (think about that for a minute) 3/4/5 star recruits!! The only other state even close is Florida. Yes, there's 12 FBS schools in Texas. Yes there's another 8-10 FCS schools. But Texas has the 5th highest concentration of 3+ star athletes per FBS school in the country.
So, 1300 3/4/5 star players....but only about 350-400 signed by FBS schools on an annual basis. That's a ton of overlooked talent in this state...simply because of the sheer volume of players. It's much more difficult to really stand out. The .1% stand out, and are fairly easy to identify--many of the rest end up under the radar...and Stitt having a pipeline into this state means nothing but good things as far as I'm concerned.
