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3) It is not a question of matching imho. If Bama loves Saban (for instance) why not pay him $8mm per right now? If Texas comes hard after Saban or Meyer or anyone else, there is a chance they get their guy. Big money, big facilities, ESPN network, fertile recruiting, no significant in state competition, Austin is a heck of a town.

Both of these are overstated by UT fans.

Brown has found the LHN to be hindrance, and Saban would absolutely hate something like that.

As far as recruiting, no offense, but I'd take the top recruits from Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana any day over the top kids from Texas. Texas high school football produces too many soft kids who run the spread -- AL/GA/LA produce the monsters who have made the SEC what it is today.

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Posted by UT755LN

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Posted on 12/4/13 at 11:23 am to Feral

"As far as recruiting, no offense, but I'd take the top recruits from Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana any day over the top kids from Texas. Texas high school football produces too many soft kids who run the spread -- AL/GA/LA produce the monsters who have made the SEC what it is today."

No offense taken, this is just a conversation. If you look in the NFL right now there are more players from Texas then any other state followed closely by Florida. The NFL talent includes 10 current QBs for example.

One of my personal knocks on Mack is that while he recruits the Rivals list well, he doesn't necessarily develop talent well. In addition I think that he spends too much time in Texas and not enough time recruiting border states.

If you take a more industrious coach who pulls 15 top 50 kids from Texas each year and then pull 1 or 2 kids out of Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana ect... it could be a very different result.

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