[Husker] Texas recruiting

[Steve Stone]

  RJ Wessel wrote:

>I guess I am confused, what normal recruiting process would there be 
>to morph back into. Would you not continue to recruit where the 
>talent is?


Good question!

There's talent everywhere, even Nebraska. Texas has many times 
Nebraska's talent because it has many times Nebraska's population. An 
athlete is by definition an exception to the norm. Texas and Nebraska 
have largely the same norms and the same percentage of exceptions. So 
Texas has more athletes. Other states have pretty much the same norms 
and pretty much the same percentage of exceptions.  Texas enjoys not 
only a climate advantage like California and Florida and other 
warm-weather states but spring football, practice, so it Texas 
football athletes end to develop at an accelerated rate, that is, at 
a younger age; however, in the long term they do not develop more or 
better than athletes from colder climates.

Like in, say, New Jersey or Minnesota or Nebraska. On average most 
athletes from northern climates tend to develop more slowly but in 
time reach the same levels as lads from southern climates.

>Texas' program of 7 on 7 develops the skilled positions faster than 
>anywhere else.

Yes, that's what I said in the first place.

>So unless other states adopt the same practice, I really don't see 
>why any school would not continue to recruit heavily in Texas.

Nebraska will always recruit in Texas but probably not so heavily as 
at the present because the need is immediate. Because NU can always 
use kids like Mike Rosier and Iving Fryer and Nate Swift and Dave 
Rimington.

A factor against recruiting in Texas at a fever pitch is that Texas 
is not only the target of intensive recruiting by Oklahoma and 
Arkansas but by most other major football powers, including Florida 
and California programs. Further, Texas has seven big-time college 
football programs which tend to get the cream of the crop.

T.O. did pretty well with NU's traditional recruiting patterns.

Steve Stone