rainjacktx":3pv1zk5n said:
You use the entire country to prove that Texas is not the only strong recruiting area in the country?
as a matter of fact, I do - for you and every Tech fan on this board that thinks that Texas and Lubbock are the center of the football universe - figured I better attempt to lay it out for you to comprehend by comparing TX to other areas of the country - not the only the specific Leach @ UW situation. There are good football players in every state of the country, not just TX.
rainjacktx":3pv1zk5n said:
Like I said previously, you need to go back and re-read. I never said what you think I said. I said Texas was a better recruiting area than the Pacific Northwest.
yes, but by speaking of only the Pacific Northwest, you took what I originally said out of context. WA can and will recruit very well from the Pacific recruiting region under a guy like Leach - and taking CA out of the equation is impossible. hmmmm, only works for you when someone takes you out of context?
rainjacktx":3pv1zk5n said:
You also conveniently left out the part where I said, you can take all the blue chips you want from WA, OR, NV, and AZ, and I would beat you 9 games out of 10 with second tier Texas recruits.
ditto to what i said above - you're the one who started comparing apples and oranges - of course the states of WA, OR, NV and AZ do not have the depth of talent that TX has - but the 5star recruits in these states would not get run roughshod through by 2nd tier TX recruits.
rainjacktx":3pv1zk5n said:
You said that the Pacific Northwest, to include Cali, is a great recruiting area. Cali is the only state out of the entire region that even has a noticeable football presence in high school.
noticable on the scale of TX - yes, but to say there's no noticeble "presence" - and by that I'm assuming you're alluding to the players in those states of WA, NV, AZ or OR - is ridiculous. To my original point - there's plenty of good football played all over the U.S. - including those 4 states.
rainjacktx":3pv1zk5n said:
Now - based on the notion that Leach is going to Washington, you seem to think that he would have a fairly easy time recruiting top tier players to a program that has been an abject failure for the better part of a decade. I said, at least twice in this thread, that it would take Leach several years to get anywhere near the top tier Cali prospects.
I don't remember ever saying he'd bring in all those recruits in his first UW recruiting class (which you seem to insinuate). Of course it'd take several years to recruit the players conducive to his system - as it does for any new coach at any major D1 school. Do you really think that the 5th or 6th best WR or QB in California who didn't get recruited by USC wouldn't jump to play in WA state for Leach? How about the best WR in OR, WA, NV, or AZ wouldn't think about going to play for Leach at UW? His system and what he has done will attract the players sooner than later.
rainjacktx":3pv1zk5n said:
If you would take the time to read, I even go so far as to say that Auburn would be a much better recruiting area for Leach than would Washington.
again you are wrong - as pointed out earlier in this thread, the SEC is a defensive conference (look how great Spurrier has done at SC with the fun-n-gun). The PAC-10 is not a defensive conference (notice the success of Oregon the last decade or even Oregon State this year? - how about Cal?) Leach's system would tear up a conference like the Pac-10, and he would draw talent to UW. His system would get torn a new one by the speed of the SEC defenses (refer to TT @ OU a couple weeks ago). Plus, as stated earlier - the Auburn job is a huge pressure cooker - @ UW, he can only take the program one direction, and that is up.
