California and Colorado have always been more important. Before Barnett's 2002 class (10 Texans), Chuck Fairbanks had brought in the largest Texas class in CU history (8). McCartney's largest Texas class was 5, while he brought in as many as 12 in a single year from California or Colorado. Neuheisel, as you would expect, also recruited more prospects from California than Texas (though he did bring in 2 more Texans than Coloradans). Even with two huge Texas classes (10 and 8), Barnett still brought in an equal number of Californians during his time at CU (and a lot more Coloradans than either). Hawkins' largest Texas class is 3, largest Cali class is 8, and largest CO class is 5 (plus the focus on building the CO walk on program).
Ringo has a great blog on this today (with the statistics provided by Plati): http://buffzone.pmpblogs.com/2010/03/04/texas-recruiting-rarely-big-for-cu/
Basically, we need to recruit Texas because of the amount of talent there. But averaging 3 or 4 guys a year from TX should be the expectation. From California, we should be pulling twice that per year (6 to 8). Colorado should go no lower than 4, but can realistically go as high as 10 (5 to 7 on average). And while Texas is the least important of the 3 for CU recruiting, it's still one of the "Big Three" for us that, together, make up as much as 65-80% of our recruiting classes.
Ringo has a great blog on this today (with the statistics provided by Plati): http://buffzone.pmpblogs.com/2010/03/04/texas-recruiting-rarely-big-for-cu/
Basically, we need to recruit Texas because of the amount of talent there. But averaging 3 or 4 guys a year from TX should be the expectation. From California, we should be pulling twice that per year (6 to 8). Colorado should go no lower than 4, but can realistically go as high as 10 (5 to 7 on average). And while Texas is the least important of the 3 for CU recruiting, it's still one of the "Big Three" for us that, together, make up as much as 65-80% of our recruiting classes.