What is the importance of recruiting Texas to have success in the P12? There are a lot fans who seem to think that recruiting TX hard is vital. This seems to be old thinking carried over from the BigXII. NewMac himself stated that there are over 1000 schools in CA and that it was much more important to hit that state hard rather than TX. I think he has his priorities straight and I am happy he has established connections in CA due to his camps. Hopefully he can do the same in CO to keep whatever talent there is from leaving. Don't get me wrong, I think it is still good to recruit TX to spot fill areas of need but I don't think it is as vital to the success of the program as it once was. And in keeping with NewMac's reasoning, I don't think too many kids will be attracted to leaving the state for a program in a conference that has no presence there anymore. A quick look at the current commitment list of the P12 schools yielded the following numbers of TX recruits:
CU: 3
USC: 1
UO: 1
UCLA: 2
Cal: 2
Stanford: 0
UW: 2
OSU: 1
WSU: 3
ASU: 3
UA: 0
UU: 3
CU: 3
USC: 1
UO: 1
UCLA: 2
Cal: 2
Stanford: 0
UW: 2
OSU: 1
WSU: 3
ASU: 3
UA: 0
UU: 3