are we going to see a mass exodus of highly rated ACC-country/Texas recruits go to places like Arky and LSU from Texas (as if they don't get enough already) and will teams like Clemson lose in-state recruits more often than not to their rival South Carolina, or to other teams like Georgia and Tennessee?
Tennessee is a storied program, but they were bad this year--by their standards--and yet I saw them on national TV 5 times (3 on ESPN at night, 2 on CBS). During the Clemson-S. Carolina game and the UGA-GT game all I heard was how the SEC is dominant and is the best conference hands down. Now while I would agree with that sentiment for this year, imo, rivalry games are always a toss-up, especially when they are the last game of the season and emotions are riding very, very high.
With teach team in the SEC garnering over 7MM a year from ESPN you will bet they get their knobs slobbered on for years to come to get big ratings. Coaching salaries will certainly outpace every other conference and you could see even schools like Miss St or Vanderbuilt paying top coin.
There's still a lot of talent to go around, mind you, but I'm starting to wonder if everyone else will start to be a have-not outside of USC, OU and UT in the "other" conferences. A lot of talent won't leave because a lot of kids still want to stay close to home, better academics, etc.... I'm just wondering if the only chance we'll have of establishing a real TX pipeline is due to the fact that we play some games in Tejas.
It could get ugly....
Tennessee is a storied program, but they were bad this year--by their standards--and yet I saw them on national TV 5 times (3 on ESPN at night, 2 on CBS). During the Clemson-S. Carolina game and the UGA-GT game all I heard was how the SEC is dominant and is the best conference hands down. Now while I would agree with that sentiment for this year, imo, rivalry games are always a toss-up, especially when they are the last game of the season and emotions are riding very, very high.
With teach team in the SEC garnering over 7MM a year from ESPN you will bet they get their knobs slobbered on for years to come to get big ratings. Coaching salaries will certainly outpace every other conference and you could see even schools like Miss St or Vanderbuilt paying top coin.
There's still a lot of talent to go around, mind you, but I'm starting to wonder if everyone else will start to be a have-not outside of USC, OU and UT in the "other" conferences. A lot of talent won't leave because a lot of kids still want to stay close to home, better academics, etc.... I'm just wondering if the only chance we'll have of establishing a real TX pipeline is due to the fact that we play some games in Tejas.
It could get ugly....