When is Morris going to cash in on all that TEXAS talent??

Just because the thre biggest recruiy states just so happen to be the biggest states (Cali, Fla, TX) doesnt mean the numbers match up.

when i first moved here all I heard was Texas High School football was all that. So I went to a few games and you know what? NOTHING was different abot them than a good ole game In South Carolina. True their numbers are up per capita, but we bring some players too. Today there is a lot of talent everywhere. Players are bigger faster stronger. As long as we can hold our presice in the Jacksonville area we will be okay. That started with Terrance Flagler and recently CJ. Where was Gaines from? Duanne Alan....the Carolinas, and lately we have been all over Ga.

Plus its harder to get a kid to travel too far from home.

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Re: Texas talent is overated

Oct 25, 2012, 1:20 AM [ in reply to Re: Texas talent is overated ]

Note the date of the article...and the 650-member marching band. I didn't see the following in any state until I arrived in Texas... and this will be the 5th largest... interesting write-up. I grew-up in SC, arrived in Texas, saw my first high school stadium here, and wondered what college, until I saw the sign. LOL
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Texas' $60 Million High School Football Stadium

by Morgan Smith
May 27, 2010

Drive north of Dallas on Highway 75 and after about 25 miles you'll find Allen, where a suburb that grew up in the boom of the late-'90s telecommunications juggernaut is just entering its prime. Down a road framed by tennis courts and endless parking lots, on the other side of a traffic circle, is an imposing red brick school building that dominates an otherwise bleached landscape of oatmeal-colored sidewalk, gray pavement and drab green athletic fields. On a day near the end of the school year, the heat of midsummer is already in the air, interrupted only briefly by gusts of wind that blow forcefully across the flat North Texas terrain of Collin County.

This is Allen High School, home of the Eagles and a study in bigness: a 5,000-student campus, with a 650-member marching band, the nation’s largest, supporting a football team that draws 8,000 fans to away games. And now — the pinnacle of the community’s collection of suburban spoils — Allen will break ground on an 18,000-seat palace of a stadium. Though only the fifth-largest high school football stadium in Texas, it’s the largest that will be occupied by a single team. Of course, it carries a big price tag: $60 million, approved as part of a $120 million bond initiative that also includes new performing arts and transportation service centers. Voters approved the measure 63 percent to 37 percent in 2009, a year after the Eagles won their first state football championship.