College Football 2015-16

Genjiro

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Lol we should be lower than 48, hard as shit to recruit kids to come play there and not for whatever their home state team is.

Not to mention West Virginia produces a good D1 talent once every 5-10 years, the ones on the roster from the state are pretty much practice players who they sign just so the fans wont get all bitchy we have no in-state players.

And as for the SOS thing:

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East Carolina x2 and Youngstown state are the only non D1 teams we have scheduled for 2016-2025. It will be sooooooo nice to be playing our real rivals again in the coming years! No fucks given playing any B12 school, they're all so meh in the rivalry department.

Massively proud of our AD for having the balls to actively get rid of the non BCS games for the most part.
 
Brando

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Most kids in SoCal grow up wanting to play for USC so with a decent coach and nothing stupid going on like sanctions then they'll almost always get their pick when it comes to recruiting. Nobody disputes the talent on the roster year after year being one of the best in the nation and the amount of players in the NFL bears that out. Most people don't care or realize how low USC's scholarship count got during the sanctions so they'd be playing games with 50 real players vs. everybody else with 70+. Didn't help though that they hired retards to coach.
 
Foggy

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IMO:
1. USC (see: Brando's post)
2. Texas (Similar to USC, when the program isn't tripping over itself it gets to pick the majority of players it wants in-state. More competition from outside the state than USC faces though due to SEC)
3. Georgia (no in-state competition)
4. LSU (no in-state competition)
5. Florida (tough in-state competition but one of 3 best states)
6. Florida St. (see: Florida)
7. Alabama (Smaller in state, but massive program gives it huge presence throughout the south)
8. Ohio St (Only competition anywhere nearby is Michigan but it has to go South to pick up good skill position players)
9. Oklahoma (National presence and second in Texas only to Texas)
10. Michigan (See: Ohio St.)
 
Joeboo

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LSU and Georgia do have pretty sweet deals for recruiting. Obviously all of the SEC schools recruit the entire SEC region, but everyone else that's in a state with a high number of high-level recruits has serious in-state competition.

Alabama and Auburn have to fight over Alabama
Miss St and Ole Miss
Florida has Florida St and Miami to contend with
South Carolina has Clemson
LSU just has a bunch of low-level schools to compete with(which isn't really a competition at all)
Georgia has Georgia Tech, but recruiting to Georgia Tech is like recruiting to Stanford or Vanderbilt, the academic requirements really hamstring them from going after a lot of top athletes.

Missouri, Tennessee, & Arkansas don't have any in-state competition but also don't have near enough high level in-state recruits to be worth mentioning. Those states each put out a handful of P5-level recruits each year, and thats about it. They don't put out dozens per year like the other SEC states.
 
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Lately a bunch of talent from Ohio isn't actually playing for Ohio state. Urban seems more focused on recruiting the SEC areas and losing a bit of focus on Ohio. Don't 100% quote me on it but I *think* Michigan and MSU both had more starters from Ohio than Ohio St.
 
Joeboo

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That might have been a little more true in Urbans first couple years at Ohio St, before he established in-state relationships and connections. He still had mostly SEC-area recruiting ties when he first came in, so probably snagged more kids from there than he normally would have otherwise.

Ohio St is doing damn well for next years signing class in teh state of Ohio

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Tenks

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Yeah that looks like a nice Ohio class. I can't say I follow recruiting very heavily but they talked about it in the Ohio St vs Michigan* games how much Ohio talent Michigan teams had.
 
Borzak

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joeboo_sl said:
LSU and Georgia do have pretty sweet deals for recruiting. Obviously all of the SEC schools recruit the entire SEC region, but everyone else that's in a state with a high number of high-level recruits has serious in-state competition.

Alabama and Auburn have to fight over Alabama
Miss St and Ole Miss
Florida has Florida St and Miami to contend with
South Carolina has Clemson
LSU just has a bunch of low-level schools to compete with(which isn't really a competition at all)
Georgia has Georgia Tech, but recruiting to Georgia Tech is like recruiting to Stanford or Vanderbilt, the academic requirements really hamstring them from going after a lot of top athletes.

Missouri, Tennessee, & Arkansas don't have any in-state competition but also don't have near enough high level in-state recruits to be worth mentioning. Those states each put out a handful of P5-level recruits each year, and thats about it. They don't put out dozens per year like the other SEC states.
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Louisana has the highest per capita rate of NFL players currently which doesn't hurt.
 
radditsu

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joeboo_sl said:
LSU and Georgia do have pretty sweet deals for recruiting. Obviously all of the SEC schools recruit the entire SEC region, but everyone else that's in a state with a high number of high-level recruits has serious in-state competition.

Alabama and Auburn have to fight over Alabama
Miss St and Ole Miss
Florida has Florida St and Miami to contend with
South Carolina has Clemson
LSU just has a bunch of low-level schools to compete with(which isn't really a competition at all)
Georgia has Georgia Tech, but recruiting to Georgia Tech is like recruiting to Stanford or Vanderbilt, the academic requirements really hamstring them from going after a lot of top athletes.

Missouri, Tennessee, & Arkansas don't have any in-state competition but also don't have near enough high level in-state recruits to be worth mentioning. Those states each put out a handful of P5-level recruits each year, and thats about it. They don't put out dozens per year like the other SEC states.
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LSU also has that weird Australian pipeline that always has them a kicker/punter and Ben fucking Simmons (but thats basketball) . However I would argue Alabama would be easiest now due to its success in the last...10 years ish now, They could really recruit anyone in the country if they really keyed in on them....except a Quarterback for some reason.
 
Joeboo

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Alabama will fade back a bit when Saban decides to retire. I don't think they'll return to Mike Shula/Mike Dubose levels of bad, but they won't be in the championship game/playoffs 3 out of every 4 years
 
Genjiro

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Fadaar_sl said:
Which is also the reason you see a school like UCF (my alma mater) go from good to shit in such a short time frame. They get lucky with a few recruits like Blake Bortles and then go right back to the shit heap because of the massive recruiting draw from the other schools in the state. Maybe with their new coach (former Oregon OC Scott Frost) they'll be able to pull in some worthwhile talent, but it'll take a few years.
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UCF just needs to get into a BCS conference when the next shake up happens, they have the money they just need the exposure. When you look at UCF's potential, they could rival anyone in the state with the sheer number of donors they would have for their program going forward.
 
Joeboo

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Most people outside of Florida probably don't realize that UCF is a bigger school(by enrollment) than Texas, Ohio St, Michigan, Florida, etc. It's fuckin massive. Although its also not a very old school, so it doesnt have near the amount of money that those older state schools do, but its catching up with every passing year.
 
Genjiro

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If it was in a BCS conference other FL schools would be terrified of what it would do to their recruiting.
 
Fadaar

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Rais_sl said:
Plus the benches make you bounce during games. OP shit right there. Aluminum bowl!
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Went to the UCF/USF game a few years ago with the family and I told my dad beforehand that the stadium bounces. He didn't believe me. First time Zombie Nation came on and the place started bouncing he looked me dead in the eye with this slightly scared look on his face and goes "holy shit".
 
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