Well first of all, ranking high school players is bull___. It's a way to profit off of message board talk, basically.
But if you accept the idea of ranking high school players, and if you accept the following "composite" ranking:
http://247sports.com/Season/2017-Footbal...amRankings
Then here are some comments:
- Oklahoma was #8 in the nation.
http://oklahoma.247sports.com/Season/201...ll/Commits
Their class includes plenty of highly ranked ("4 star") players from Texas.
- Texas A&M was #12 in the nation (yes, I know it's no longer in the Big 12 ... it's just for comparison)
http://tamu.247sports.com/Season/2017-Football/Commits
Their class includes plenty of highly ranked ("4 star") players from Texas. Also, interestingly to me, from Florida.
- Texas was #26 in the nation
http://texas.247sports.com/Season/2017-Football/Commits
Their class includes plenty of highly ranked ("4 star") players from Texas.
So as should be obvious, to me it doesn't amount to a hill of beans that Texas and Oklahoma didn't land any of these "5 star" uber recruits from Texas.
In my opinion, such players are vastly over-hyped, have well bought into the BS that surrounds them, thinking they're the next coming of a 20x Pro-Bowler, and that they should be starting immediately and winning the Heisman.
Give me "3 star" players, that the coaches build up into a cohesive unit of young men who fight for each other and have each others' backs, any day of the week.
(02-02-2017 11:29 AM)adcorbett Wrote: But do expansion issues really affect how potential recruits view Texas, Oklahoma, Texas Tech, Baylor, and TCU? Or Oklahoma St? I wonder if the spread offense and no defense strategies in the leagues are more to blame? I can see conference instability maybe affecting the lower tier teams in the conference, but not the top teams or the ones based in Texas.
I would think the same.
As far as the spread offenses, it looks like the "top" players in Texas were mostly defensive. I see one back. Possible as a RB, you might not be interested in playing in a Big 12 offense ... but then again, sometimes those wide open schemes actually do quite well in rushing yards.