re: Why do we not have more football players from Texas???

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Toliver
J. Lee
R. Shepard
R. Brooks
C. Loston
C. Agahyare
L. Muncie

Probably missing some but those guys are all good

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throw in 6'6" 295lb Micheal Brockers and
freshman OL 6'5 290lb Evan Washington
to name a few

plus

loston was the 1 safety prospect
sheppard was 1 at dual-threat qb
and tolliver was 1-3 wr in the country

what more can we expect

im thinking of great Tigers that came from Texas;
and harvey williams keeps coming to mind.

wasnt eric martin from texas

Don't forget the annual game during the State Fair in Dallas that gets Oklahoma tons of Texas publicity, particular in DFW. Note, too, that Norman is just as close to Dallas as Austin is to DFW (around 200 miles).

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Why do we not have more football players from Texas???

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Easier said than done. Here in N. Tejas, outside of the 3 state schools, ZeroU, Okie State, Nebraska, & UArk pick up a lot of recruits, not to mention what Gary Patterson has been doing at TCU for the last few years.

Throw in the kids that want to go a good ways from home to play in the Pac10 or B10, and there's a lot of schools fishing in the Tejas pond. Other SEC teams are starting to pull kids from here as well.

LSU has had a good presence in this area for years, and this past year saw more N. Texas kids enroll for fall semester than ever before.

With the opener at JerryWorld against UO next season, plus the coming home/home with TCU in '13 & '14, the chances for the Tigahs to pick up more recruits from this area should only improve.

Didn't Jenkins turn UT down to come to Baton Rouge? I know he used to live in Louisiana, but thought I remembered an article that they we're high on him, but he wanted to go to LSU.

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Didn't Jenkins turn UT down to come to Baton Rouge?

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Yes Jenkins has commited along with LB Randle, both are big time TX recruits.