There's a pretty obvious reason for that. This is a high school recruiting thread, and those guys weren't high school recruits. We are doing great with grad transfers from everywhere.
When Butch and JJ were recruiting, Miami had won titles within living memory of the kids we were recruiting. I'd love to land five-star studs like Jessie Armstead and Damione Lewis. It's not happening today.
No, almost all of our takes have not been horrendous. That's why we're still third in overall NFL players.
However, every single one of our takes from Texas has sucked. The list I posted says it all.
We will never get all the local kids. Nobody does. But yes, we will get more elite players when we stop going 6-7.
Miami is a joke everywhere. We just lost to FIU, Duke and Louisiana Tech. Simply because of our location, we still signed kids like Chaney, Knighton, Roberts, Rivers, Redding, Harrell, Avantae and Chantz.
You keep saying anecdotes that the brand is popular in Texas. Maybe. But I posted a list of the kids in Texas that actually picked us. They all sucked. That is the best evidence we have of our current ability to recruit Texas.
When we're good, I hope we recruit Texas. There are great players there and great Miami teams have Texas players. But it's not going to fix our current problems. The only way to fix those problems is to win with the Top 15 talent we already have.