Gerry and I dove into the recruiting heat map we have seen from the Texas staff in regards to where they offer and pursue most of their targets since arriving in Austin.

Really interesting trends in the state of Texas, plus a look into where the staff can create deeper inroads across the rest of the country.

 

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Sark's firs three full classes ...

2024 class - 10 of 22 (counting Jordon Johnson-Rubell)

2023 class - 10 of 25 

2022 class - 8 of 28

28 of 75 prospects from out of state

Those states (11):

Florida

Louisiana

Mississippi

Alabama

California

Arizona

Utah

Hawaii

Washington

New Jersey

Missouri 

If Texas can just get its foot in the door throughout the state of Georgia as tough  as it may be then they’ll have connections in basically all the big time SEC states for recruiting. With Atlanta being as crowded as it is with talent I wonder if sark would start south of Atlanta and then work his way up or vice versa. Good video for sure definitely a good combo between Gerry and CJ !

Interesting trend from Sarkisian to go more nationally as he gets more comfortable with his staff at Texas.

One thing that is interesting is 55 offers extended in the state show me Sarkisian is never going to turn his back on the state and more importantly we talk about the immediate backyard with the CenTex schools around Austin.

Texas in state in Sark's first three full classes...

 

28 of 47 in-state signees from DFW

High schools represented:

Duncanville

DeSoto

South Oak Cliff

Denton Ryan

Allen 

McKinney 

Melissa

Red Oak

Arlington Bowie

Grand Prairie

Little Elm

Arlington Martin

Arlington Seguin

North Crowley (Fort Worth area)

Aledo (Fort Worth area)

Lovejoy

Richland (Fort Worth area) 

Frisco High

Frisco Wakeland

 

Greetings from Cumming, GA! Awesome content guys! And welcome back Gerry! You and CJ make a great team! I quit Inside Texas last week after being a sub for many years. Always enjoyed Bobby, Gerry, Rod and the rest of the OTF team. Videos and content are outstanding! Keep up the great work! Icing on the cake to get Gerry back on the team. 

22 minutes ago, Gerry Hamilton said:

Texas in state in Sark's first three full classes...

 

28 of 47 in-state signees from DFW

High schools represented:

Duncanville

DeSoto

South Oak Cliff

Denton Ryan

Allen 

McKinney 

Melissa

Red Oak

Arlington Bowie

Grand Prairie

Little Elm

Arlington Martin

Arlington Seguin

North Crowley (Fort Worth area)

Aledo (Fort Worth area)

Lovejoy

Richland (Fort Worth area) 

Frisco High

Frisco Wakeland

 

Pretty telling numbers!

Love all the great content you guys are putting out, Much appreciated 

59 minutes ago, CJ Vogel said:

Gerry and I dove into the recruiting heat map we have seen from the Texas staff in regards to where they offer and pursue most of their targets since arriving in Austin.

Really interesting trends in the state of Texas, plus a look into where the staff can create deeper inroads across the rest of the country.

 

 

View full news

 

Clearly Sark is following the Old 97s recruiting strategy:

Well the roadmaps of west Texas never gave me good advice

24 minutes ago, Jay Bryan said:

Greetings from Cumming, GA! Awesome content guys! And welcome back Gerry! You and CJ make a great team! I quit Inside Texas last week after being a sub for many years. Always enjoyed Bobby, Gerry, Rod and the rest of the OTF team. Videos and content are outstanding! Keep up the great work! Icing on the cake to get Gerry back on the team. 

Great to have you on OTF! Thank you very much 

2 minutes ago, Viper said:

Clearly Sark is following the Old 97s recruiting strategy:

Well the roadmaps of west Texas never gave me good advice

I miss the days of the Little SWC!!! 
 

Ced Benson

Eric Winston

Roy Williams 

etc…

That was a very interesting and informative video. Thanks guys.

1 hour ago, CJ Vogel said:

 

One thing that is interesting is 55 offers extended in the state show me Sarkisian is never going to turn his back on the state and more importantly we talk about the immediate backyard with the CenTex schools around Austin.

 

Sure 55 in-state offers, but arent about half of those offers “Committable Offers” and the other half extended as a curtesy to the HS Coach/Program/Kid?

All the talk about getting into Georgia made me recall Derrick Brown the Georgia RB  whom Herman recruited from Buford but who could not play for Texas.  Did he not stay and receive his degree from Texas?

Edited February 3, 20242 yr by BurntOrangeHorn

12 minutes ago, BurntOrangeHorn said:

All the talk about getting into Georgia made me recall Derrick Brown the Georgia RB  whom Herman recruited from Buford but who could not play for Texas.  Did he not stay and receive his degree from Texas?

I believe he did. But will double check

Wished for a long time Mack Brown would take this national recruiting tact. Surreal to see Texas go into the southeast with a real pitch now that the playing field is leveled. 

1 hour ago, Rivalrygameblock said:

Wished for a long time Mack Brown would take this national recruiting tact. Surreal to see Texas go into the southeast with a real pitch now that the playing field is leveled. 

I’ve often wondered how many recruits Mack Brown would have lost with Texas NIL behind him… would have been extremely scary for the competition 

As someone who views heat maps for work, I really enjoyed what you guys did with it tonight pertaining to recruiting. Great job CJ & Gerry. I’d rather look at recruiting heat maps than what I have to at work