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[QUOTE="leftytg, post: 2895912, member: 2651"]
The thing about Texas is that everyone recruits Texas.  The top shelf kids will go to Texas/A&M/LSU/OU/Alabama.  The national recruiting schools like Stanford/ND/Ohio St pick off guys every year.  The next tier goes to TCU/Baylor/Ok St/Arkansas's of the world.  My point isn't to quibble about tiers and the teams on them - it is simply to point out that a large swath of the college football world flocks to Texas for the deep well of recruits that are churned out every year.  I went and check the 247 composite for 2018, and the 50th ranked player in the state of Texas was a composite 4 star player.  The number 200 ranked kid in Texas went to Colorado and also had a Texas Tech offer, among other non power 5 offers.

The point is nearly EVERY school has a coach/coaches with strong Texas ties.  Texas is just too important to too many programs.  Plenty of programs have former Texas high school football coaches on their staffs.  Plenty of programs have guys with decades of experience recruiting the state.  Syracuse wasn't going to simply hire Martin and suddenly have an in with the state and pulling lots of quality recruits.  The RB Syracuse is about to sign briefly played for Martin and goes to his former school - which is a very limited "in".  This isn't a criticism of Martin in any way, shape, or form - it is a comment for those who think his hire, simply by virtue of being a former HS head coach, opens up a Texas pipeline.  It doesn't.  If anything, all it does is put Syracuse on more equal ground with dozens of other programs that recruit Texas, only Syracuse still has the major disadvantages of distance and perceived bad football branding (which, to be sure, is changing quickly with DIno).
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