10-20-2015, 09:13 AM
The state of South Carolina has far more high school football talent than Arizona, and the Gamecocks draw well from North Carolina, too, and are the number one college draw in their state, which Arizona isn't.
Arizona and ASU lose many of their homestates best hs players to other Pac 12 teams--notably, Stanford: Tucker, Martinez (Arizona passed on him, of course), Peat, Murphy. But Rodriquez's staff has compensated by recruiting California well, after doing almost nothing in that state before he arrived.Â
Arizona and ASU lose many of their homestates best hs players to other Pac 12 teams--notably, Stanford: Tucker, Martinez (Arizona passed on him, of course), Peat, Murphy. But Rodriquez's staff has compensated by recruiting California well, after doing almost nothing in that state before he arrived.Â