You framing this as an emotional argument is hypocritical. You're every bit as emotionally invested the opposite direction. You love those Florida NFL lists full of Clemson and Bama guys.
The coaches have to evaluate better in Texas just like they do in Florida. Using Polendey and Baxa...
You left out Adrian Colbert, an NFL guy who actually repped the U hard unlike most of your SoFla boys, and D'Eriq King who's probably the best college football player on our roster.
When Butch and JJ were recruiting, Texas kids were disproportionately awesome for us. With ****** coaches...
You could make an all-Texas Miami team that would be competitive with the all—Florida Miami team with the exception of QB, where Miami’s evaluated horrendously everywhere.
For every AJ Highsmith there are 5 Rob Knowles.
Here’s the thing - some kids in Texas still (amazingly) think Miami is something special. I’m not convinced many kids in South Florida still do. Seems like a lot of them treat UM like a joke. So yeah... in some ways I do think we have better odds over here.
First rounders, per twitter:
Texas-7
Florida, Georgia, Louisiana-3
Alabama-2
1-Ohio, Maryland, Hawaii, Oregon, Kentucky, Kansas, Virginia, Iowa, South Carolina, Arizona, Nevada, New Jersey, California, New York