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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 493472, member: 780"]
Could it be that you have somehow convinced yourself that in order to effectively recruit an area, a coach must be from that area or have contacts in that area?
 
Suppose that weren't true? Or that it was true ... but that it was a minor, minor factor in determining how successful a coach would be in a particular area? Would your comments about not having coaches from a particular area have any importance?
 
Twenty or thirty years ago, colleges depended much more on high school coaches to identify kids that they thought could play D1 football and coaches had a much bigger role in steering kids towards programs. In my experience that's much less true than it was. They have some influence, but not much.
 
First, because of the net and recruiting services and more newspaper coverage, there are no secrets anymore. Everybody knows who and where the prospects are. So the colleges don't need the high school coaches to tell them who can play. Especially, since the parents have already created highlight tapes of their sons to share with colleges.
 
Secondly, the parents pretty much think the high school coaches are either stupid or interested in only their stake in where the recruit goes. The parents think the coach is dumb because they can't recognize just how good or how much potential their progeny actually has. So the high school coaches influence in where a prospect goes is way, way down.
 
I wouldn't worry too much about where a coach is from. Can they coach? Can they recruit ... in today's world? That's what we should worry about and not where the coach is from and where he has previously recruited.
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