Where should Arkansas Recruit

[jhudson84]

I really think the Hogs have to start tapping into some of that talent in the Memphis area, it has been way too long since we have pulled a great player out of there.

[ListenHereMister]

Can I vote for Kansas City?
With Nebraska not being the team they once were, they
don't automatically get every top D1 recruit for KC anymore.

[jhudson84]

KC, is another good option.

[501Ben]

Are we talking basketball or football? I think for basketball, along with football, we need to get back into Memphis as well.

[killamon]

definitely Dallas.....and the whole state of Louisiana

[whocares]

killamon has it down those are the two places we HAVE to get better at recruiting.

[jhudson84]

The thing about LA is it is so different from everywhere else in the country. Its is its own little world.  That is why those kids so rarely leave the state espcially at the top with LSU being so good right now.

[Hawgballz]

I checked Sheveport, but I believe it is really 2 places, Northern Louisiana & Dallas.

[bellavistamike]

Hawgball, you are correct -- I-20 from Dallas to Monroe. You get a dozen kids a year from that region and you've got some players. The rest of the places will get you some players but only Houston would be able to compete with the I-20 kids.

[Hogstocking]

Hands down, Dallas.  It's only a 4 and a half or 5 hour drive and it produces a ton of talent.

Only Los Angeles, South Florida and Houson put more players on the rivals 250 than Dallas did this year

Rivals250: Top Metro Areas 
1. Los Angeles 26 
2. South Florida 14 
3. Houston 11 
4t. Atlanta 10 
4t. Dallas 10 

[Beaverfever]

I checked Sheveport, but I believe it is really 2 places, Northern Louisiana & Dallas.

Exactly.  If we could regularly recruit well out of LR, S. AR/ N. LA, and Dallas we would be set.

[The_Bionic_Pig]

Can I vote for Kansas City?
With Nebraska not being the team they once were, they
don't automatically get every top D1 recruit for KC anymore.

They (Coach Shibest) are starting to tap into KC recently (testing the waters)  &  Coach Pel has already targeted Memphis, Northern Mississippi with Coach Rob Evans hitting Jackson, MS.  & Eastern Louisiana area.

[UhOhioHog]

Kansas City puts out some good football players.

Why would anyone pick Kansas or Mizzou over the Razorbacks.  Nebraska and Iowa are the big players unlike Dallas where we battle Texass and OU.  We should be able to rack up in KC!

[Oklahawg]

Critical to the Hogs is not completely switching gears. That was Nutt's trademark for the first 5-6 years at UA. Horrible decisions as they walked away from decades of inroads only to reverse course before they could sink any roots in new locations.

Houston and Dallas would be my choices. Anything north of Joplin or Springfield is too far north, in my opinion. They continue to dink around Tulsa with success. That's good, also.

[Hogstocking]

Of the 12 four stars Dallas produced last year, we managed to get one (J Love) and everybody thought we were gonna get another one until William Cole shocked everybody and chose Okie State.  After the Vol game a lot of people thought Ron Brooks was Arkansas' to lose, but we know how that turned out..

Arkansas didn't do to bad in the Dallas metro area last year though getting Love, Bret Harris, Nathan Dick, Adrian Campbell, and Issac Madison.    Last year 100 athletes from the Dallas metro area signed D1 scholarships (http://dallasnews.rivals.com/viewrank.asp?ra_key=1618).  It's to close and to much of a goldmine to not be our 1rst priority out of state.  IMO.

[mbgrulz]

bball - Memphis and dallas/houston

fball - need more from LA, keep on truckin in tulsa/florida/georgia, and expand northwards.

[TX HOG]

I live in East Texas and A LOT of talent is here.  Texas and Oklahoma rack up in East Texas.

[slopinhogs]

i voted Dallas but i think we should look everywhere. :razorback:

[AUSTXHOG]

I voted Dallas.  You have so many good schools around the metroplex.  Dallas Skyline, Tyler John Tyler, South Grand Prairie, North Grand Prairie put out some amazing talent.

[jhudson84]

Only one vote for Mississippi and look what I found:

http://footballrecruiting.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=686063

[Hawgballz]

Only one vote for Mississippi and look what I found:

http://footballrecruiting.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=686063

There is no doubt but what there is great talent in Mississippi, but I just believe that the I-20 stretch from the Dallas Metroplex to North Louisiana has more talent overall and is a much more furtile recruiting area for the Hogs.

[jhudson84]

I agree but with the way the MISS. schools are playing right now we should get down there and build some roads now. 

[Tomhog™]

I still think Dallas is the most important area.  We are having success.  But we need to continue to hit all over eastern Texas, north LA, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida.  We have to have success in all areas to produce BCS bowl type teams.  Not to mention stellar in-state recruiting.

[mrcrowley]

LONG BEACH, CA  is a hotbed. tough to beat  sc an ucla for these guys though

[tophawg19]

dallas is my choice but mississippi is a state we should really be hammering .

[SwinerBock]

Personally, I don't see how we can continually pull recruits out of Alabama, Georgia, and Florida, and yet come consistently come up dry in Mississippi.

Ideally, there's no reason we shouldn't be able to recruit nationally.  But realistically, NE Texas (including Dallas), north Louisiana, everything east of the Oklahoma panhandle, the southern half of Missouri (including KC and St Louis), northern Mississippi, and of course Memphis.

[thahawg]

Only one vote for Mississippi and look what I found:

http://footballrecruiting.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=686063

Thats were my vote goes.

[VenturaHog]

great thread, I knew dallas was big for football but 100 players playing D1? thats crazy! If we could become the major SEC presence there we would be sitting pretty. Our location geographically puts us at a disadvantage for the deep south i think but at a huge advantage in tx and ok.