Northeast Recruiting

FootballGuru2014

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Recruiting buzz in the Northeast (MA, CT, RI) is in full effect.

-Danny Dalton, TE of Marshfield, Mass who held offers from Boston College and UMass had just received his third offer. This offer is from Alabama. Who else is going to hop on the offer train?

hudl.com/athlete/1798714/danny-dalton

-Scooter Harrington, TE of Greenwich, CT is holding offers from BC, UConn, NC State, UVA, and Wake Forest.

hudl.com/athlete/2759994/scooter-harrington

-Koby Quansah, LB of West Hartford, CT is getting big offers with more to come.

hudl.com/athlete/1549415/koby-quansah

-Andre Bibeault, DE of Cumberland, RI has been creating much buzz out of the RI area.

hudl.com/athlete/3153279/andre-bibeault
 

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We used to get a lot of really good players from up there when George was coach. And before Rutgers started to have a decent football program (bye, bye New Jersey). What people have a tendency to forget is that, even though they don't have spring practice up there, there are almost as many people in NYC alone as there are in the whole state of Georgia. There's a lot of talent there if you can scare it up.

Problem = this is ND, BC, Cuse, and Rutgers territory now. Too bad, that.
 
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Rutgers, Syracuse, & BC get kids from NJ, but not the best kids from NJ. Those kids go to Penn State, Ohio State, Wisconsin, Michigan, & Notre Dame, in no particular order.

Forget I-Perfection Harris. The great Charlie Rogers came from NJ. Jermaine Miles was an NYC guy. So was Kenny Celaj.

We used to have a pretty solid pipeline in to the Northeast during the 90s. Unless you're getting a top top kid from NJ though, it's not necessarily worth the effort. As a friend of mine at work, who's a HUGE Rutgers fan has pointed out to me, your average 3-star kid from GA or FL would be equivalent to a NJ 4-star.
 
TechTravis

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I'm sure there's talented kids all over the country. I think it's more about concentrations of talent. We need to be heavy in the states with the most talent PER CAPITA. Texas, Florida, Louisiana, California, Georgia, Alabama, Virginia, Ohio, and what, Pennsylvania? Don't waste limited resources trying to run down a half-dozen kids in New Jersey and Connecticut.
 
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TechTravis said:
I'm sure there's talented kids all over the country. I think it's more about concentrations of talent. We need to be heavy in the states with the most talent PER CAPITA. Texas, Florida, Louisiana, California, Georgia, Alabama, Virginia, Ohio, and what, Pennsylvania? Don't waste limited resources trying to run down a half-dozen kids in New Jersey and Connecticut.
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That makes sense. But just to fine tune this a bit, is it really per capita talent by state? I think in some cases isn't it really more about concentrations in particular zip codes? If you are team on the East Coast you might not recruit the entire state of California, for instance, but you might concentrate on LA and its suburbs. In Texas you probably go heavy into the Houston area and you might work your way from there toward the coast and toward Louisiana even though the state has plenty of good recruits spread out over this largest of the lower 48 states. Ohio and Pennsylvania share a border area that seems to be rich on both sides, if I remember correctly. In Virginia you would concentrate, I would think on the D.C., Potomac suburbs of Virginia and Maryland. In most states you would do well to concentrate in certain areas. The only reason for Tech to "go all in" on Georgia and Florida and recruit the entire state is the relative ease of transportation and distance factors.
 
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Northeast Stinger said:
That makes sense. But just to fine tune this a bit, is it really per capita talent by state? I think in some cases isn't it really more about concentrations in particular zip codes? If you are team on the East Coast you might not recruit the entire state of California, for instance, but you might concentrate on LA and its suburbs. In Texas you probably go heavy into the Houston area and you might work your way from there toward the coast and toward Louisiana even though the state has plenty of good recruits spread out over this largest of the lower 48 states. Ohio and Pennsylvania share a border area that seems to be rich on both sides, if I remember correctly. In Virginia you would concentrate, I would think on the D.C., Potomac suburbs of Virginia and Maryland. In most states you would do well to concentrate in certain areas. The only reason for Tech to "go all in" on Georgia and Florida and recruit the entire state is the relative ease of transportation and distance factors.
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I would suggest spend time in Texas and LA . Just out of the SEC bull S and big 12 is down ( it and ou)
Houston , Dallas have very very good schools ( oil money) , lots of talent and top level high school football, lots of GT alums ( oil money). Gt would have a chance even though heavily recruited by everyone (yes even Stanford and ND).
The sleeper area is EAST TEXAS and CENTRAL La . To east Houston dallas for 300 miles to miss border (all the way across La ) there is only 1 major college (LSU). Arkansas does well but it is 200 miles into NW ark. Baylor is only major Texas school recruiting this area. Even with oil boom these high schools are academically better but still a stretch for academics. Need a recruiter that has food discipline or he will get fat eating all the good barQ .
 
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