If you grew up here, you must be fast. House caves in at 4am on a Thursday morning? You better have 4.4 speed to escape!
As we all await the inevitable drama from Bryce Brown on Wednesday, I thought this would be a good time to settle an ongoing argument. Where does the best high school football talent come from? (Not Kansas!) We will all agree that the top 3 states for mining players are Florida, Texas, and California. And in the end, it always comes back to Florida and Texas.
This debate has raged on and on for years, especially when places like ESPN put up a poll for fans to vote upon. Does anyone really think Texas wasn’t going to get the most votes? We know how dem Texans are. They never back down on anything. They will tell you there is a movie theater with 87 screens right outside their doorstep in Arlington, it’s called the Dallas 87 Grand, and when you go online, find the truth, call them out on it (only 24 screens!), they will simply move on to telling you Kyle from Real World Chicago will come out as gay by the last episode, he knows this as fact, because his sister knows someone at MTV in Manhattan, you guys should go online and bet on this. You following the trend here? If they know they lost one argument, they will just fixate you onto a new one, which most likely you cannot disprove.
Then, in a gift from a former Cane god, the answer arrived. Butch Davis, when describing the potential pitfalls of recruiting, threw out this gem:
“You may be buying the finished product,” Davis said. “There’s a little bit of that in Texas. Those schools have got more money than God. They have a strength coach, 15 high school coaches. The players have been in the same program since sixth or seventh grade. You get them and four years later they are the exact same player.
“You go to Pahokee, Fla., where a kid eats once a day, his parents may not be around,” Davis said. “You get him in a weightlifting program. Two years later, he’s three times better than the kid from Texas.”
Dammit. I knew I should’ve emancipated myself, moved to downtown Detroit, and ate breadsticks for lunch as my sole government-assisted meal for the day.
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The lack of food in impoverised S.Fl. must also be the reason the Canes can seldom get any decent O-lineman!
And if we do get a good one, he’s only 260lbs. when he gets here.
Oh were have you gone Mt. McKinnie………..?
So true Hurriphin. The State of Florida needs to cancel the sale of US Sugar, and start up some Texas style football camps, but at these ones all they do is eat left over sugar, and throw watermelons for workouts. The Everglades Foundation is killing a potential OL pipeline here!