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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
Here's the other thing to consider:
Who are the elite programs that draw primarily from Texas? Oklahoma, Texas, aTm. Okie State is a notch above Missouri as well, but there is still plenty of second tier talent for Missouri to build the backbone of their team from Texas.
Who are the elite programs that draw from Florida? Alabama, LSU, Georgia, Florida, FSU, with teams like Ole Miss, Miami, South Carolina, Auburn, and Clemson drawing very good talent as well.
We had established pipelines in Texas and severed them to build pipelines in states that are harder to enter and establish. Missouri has a better shot of getting 4* kids from its border states than Florida or Georgia, and if it needed to it could have used those states as a secondary recruiting area.
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Mizzou was not pulling 4 star kids from border states as it was. Since 2002 here is the list of 4 star kids that were from border states (non JC) Tristen Holt, James Franklin, Gilbert Moye and Josh Barbo. That list sucks other than Franklin. If you go over to rivals and take a look at the classes since 2002, I think you are going to be shocked by the lack of difference makers from the state of Texas that have played for Mizzou.
This is my count of players that actually made a difference. Ziggy Hood, Chase D, Denario and Spoon (both 2 stars) Dom Hamilton, K-Law, Josey, Murphy and Hansborough, Mike Sam and maybe Sasser. Others are all role players for the most part. So we established a pipeline for the most part to role players and the occasional home run 2 star. Those two star types are most likley going to still be available to us with our current Texas recruiting plan.
I would argue that a 3 star kid from Kansas or Iowa or Illinois is not quite as good as most of the 3 star kids in Florida or Georgia on average simply based on the level of competition.
We have to keep our top level talent at home and then supplement with these south eastern recruits in my opinion. We play in that area more than Texas so we have more equity there now.
We probably won't agree on this and that it cool, I just wanted to present the other side of the arguement.