Recruiting in Memphis

[BillySee58]

I asked a question a few weeks ago about where we could recruit with recruiting having picked up this summer and with us starting our first season in CUSA. I suggested we start recruiting in Memphis because it is only about 7 hours from Denton and we play La Tech, Southern Miss, UAB, Western Kentucky, and MUTS who are all less than 5 hours away and their parents could easily watch them play games at those venues.

Memphis produces solid SEC size and speed every year, but also has plenty of D1 caliber players who don't go to the big-time SEC programs.

Here's a list of what players in Memphis are being recruited and/or have been offered D1 scholarships.

http://rivals.yahoo.com/tennessee/football/recruiting/recruit-search-results;_ylt=AkfZaIUvKwgVPwvaJj9vH8Wpt5B4?sport=football&year=2014&hometown=Memphis&state=Tennessee

Take guys like Dejuan Mcquarters or Trey Moore.

Here are their offer lists and highlights.

Mcquarters:

Rivals - http://rivals.yahoo.com/tennessee/football/recruiting/player-Dejuan-Mcquarters-151663;_ylt=Ak9mEDG6yQIA_HyQIEif2Riqt5B4

Highlights - http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W9Am_MMBR20&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DW9Am_MMBR20

Moore:

Rivals - http://rivals.yahoo.com/tennessee/football/recruiting/player-Trey-Moore-145627;_ylt=AtpDG0koGeKiewsESlhcEgCqt5B4

Highlights - http://www.hudl.com/athlete/441757/trey-moore

These guys are ballers but they have offer lists that I think we could match up against. Maybe we don't get these guys or even go after them, but I think we should stick our nose in Memphis and see who we can get being in CUSA.

What do you guys think? I don't know our history recruiting guys from Memphis or Mac's history over there.

Edited August 26, 2013 by BillySee58

[NT03]

Would we have a prayer ?

[BillySee58]

Would we have a prayer ?

Like you said, you could sell Texas itself. Couple that with success, should we have some, and we would IMO.

Look at a guy like Trey Moore who I mentioned. His best offers right now are Kent State and South Alabama but he's a pretty good player who I think would make a good addition.

His offer list:

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/recruiting/player-Trey-Moore-145627

We seem pretty set at linebacker for this class so Moore himself may not be a likely target, but he's an example of a good player over there who has offers but offers that we could potentially beat out.

[MeanGreenTexan]

Gotta win first. Then, we can start looking wherever we want.

[Mean Green 93-98]

Gotta win first. Then, we can start looking wherever we want.

True dat!

But wait . . . we've gotta start getting recruits, then we can start winning.

[MeanGreenTexan]

True dat!

But wait . . . we've gotta start getting recruits, then we can start winning.

Doh! We appear to be stuck in the dreaded catch-22.

[BillySee58]

Doh! We appear to be stuck in the dreaded catch-22.

Lol yup, there's that chicken vs the egg of college football argument.

To me, with this example in particular, you can get your nose in with prospects like Trey Moore, who I mentioned. A good player who I believe would play here and help us win games but who's best offers right now are Kent State and South Alabama. Two schools who we can out recruit.

Then, the more you win and the more familiar we become to recruits in Memphis, you can move up and recruit guys who have offers from other CUSA schools and maybe some lower tier SEC schools like Kentucky or Miss St.

We will probably almost always get about 70% or more of our high school commits from Houston and Dallas. Other than that, the only other big recruiting hotbeds closer to us than Memphis are in Louisiana and we seem to have abandoned that state. For now at least.