Comments on: State Of Texas Recruiting Context: Part II

By: ponderos

ponderos — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:33:53 +0000

I should get a refund from my Evelyn Woods course.

By: Scipio Tex

Scipio Tex — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:25:07 +0000

ponderos:

Yeah, that’s what we just described if you read the comments.

By: ponderos

ponderos — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:38:01 +0000

Sweet map, scipio.

As far as Central TX talent, I can think of maybe a handful of D-1 players (Victor Ike and Derrick Strait just off the top of my head) that came out of AISD in the last 10 years. I think for Central TX recruiting purposes, you have to get outside AISD.

By: dasmithjones

dasmithjones — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:48:16 +0000

I think the point is this: It is great to be a Texas Longhorn football fan.

By: David McWilliams

David McWilliams — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:23:23 +0000

What’s the point of the article, that Texas produces more BCS players than Alabama? Does that suprise anyone? Birmingham, the largest city in the state of ‘Bama is about the size of Austin. The closest metroplex Alabama has that comes close to Houston or Dallas is Atlanta, then Miami, Florida. Neither of those are geographically close to Alabama. The 1000 word picture that I see is that you like to pin-prick stuff. And the comment about Samoans, I haven’t seen one Samoan playing QB, RB, WR or CB. Mostly linemen, a couple of LB’s. You’re not gonna build a winning team around that.

By: Rick Barnes

Rick Barnes — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:29:20 +0000

Who is Andy Staples?

By: Scipio Tex

Scipio Tex — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:12:55 +0000

Nero:

Dave Campbell’s Texas Football used to have per capita regional data every year. Obviously, South Texas was always a barren wasteland. I’m not sure if he does it anymore as I stopped buying it sometime around the time I realized that the product now sucked.

That doesn’t dissuade me from buying Athlon, so I’m not sure I can explain my discrimination.

If anyone has it, post it please.

By: Nero

Nero — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:02:38 +0000

HJ –

Stuck in MN above lists per capita numbers for states that I can’t verify at the moment, but have seen before and look accurate. According to those Alabama and Mississippi are above Louisiana. I was just speaking of areas within Texas though.

By: HenryJames

HenryJames — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:48:25 +0000

Per capita I would guess that Louisiana would be first.

By: Nero

Nero — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:47:03 +0000

Also, it is interesting to see the per capita numbers for each state, but what I’d really like to see is the per capita data for metro areas. I’m willing to bet that the Golden Triange (Beaumont, Port Arthur, Nederland, Port Neches – Groves, Bridge City, Orange, Lumberton) Produces players at a higher density than any other region of the state.