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JC from LP said...
Where I think we could see a difference is that elite talent is elite talent... no matter where you're at it tends to stand out above the rest.
If you're trying to bring in a New England style offense, you can likely find TEs in our region naturally and with regularity.
If you're trying to find slot receiver types with elite speed and quickness (if not necessarily stud WR/DB skills set) --> it doesn't hurt to fish in a pond that has a ton of athletes like that. The Northeast region simply doesn't have the #s that Florida would have re: track speed / quickness. Not to say it doesn't exist... just not in groves the way that the South has it.
I'd prefer to take a 3* DB / WR / ATH from Florida than the same type of player from the tri-state area as an extremely broad generalization.
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This post was edited by Wmpsu on 1/20/2012 at 9:40 AM
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jetli said...
Everybody recruits Florida, so why should a kid come all the way to Penn State instead of UGA, Alabama, LSU, the in-state schools etc? Almost all of the kids who would be available will be the left-overs who would otherwise pick WVU or Rutgers, so why make such a big effort when there is similar talent closer to home?
It sounds dumb to have 3 coaches recruiting Florida when most of that elite talent is going to stay closer to home -- I can see having one coach try to cherry pick talent from there, with the other two focusing on Virginia and the Carolinas, because at least then distance will be less of an obstacle.
Such a strategy may have made sense when he was at Georgia Tech, but it doesn't now.
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