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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
We need to recruit St. Louis better. It's not an excuse to say "Oh, St. Louis."
Think of some of the kids from St. Louis this program has lost out on over the last several recruiting cycles:
Adrian Clayborn
Marvin McNutt
Monte Ball
Laurence Maroney
And now they've lost out on Wallace and Johnson, who are two of the best tackles the state has produced in the last decade.
And don't even get me started on the recruiting of St. Louis area basketball talent.
It's the only BCS school in the state. Missouri should be in the position of selecting the best in-state talent, not missing out on more than half of it.
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I know I will sound dumb saying this, but I think part of it is generational. When these kids were growing up, Mizzou wasn't all that good. Yes the last 6 years have been very good for us, but before that not so much. I think recruiting the instate talent is only going to get easier as time goes by.
edit: For example, the Chiefs were pretty damn good when I started paying attention to football (late 90s), but my friends younger brothers who have grown up with the Chiefs the last 6 years or so (these kids are 14-15), could give almost zero shits about them. If you ask them it is because they see them as perennial losers.