re: Why is Texas so Butt Hurt over losing Texas A&M & Mizzou to the SEC?

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But you'll be playing in Texas. Mizzou and Okie State for instance couldn't get any Texas kids til the Big 12

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Mizzou and Okie State aren't a 5 hour drive (4 if you put the hammer down!) from Houston.

Since 2000, LSU has averaged roughly 15 kids from Texas on our roster. During that time, we played only one regular season game in Texas and that was last year's game against Oregon in Dallas.

We played A&M annually from 1986 to 1995. During that time, LSU averaged 16 players from Texas per year -- with two large outlier years: 1988 (29 players) and 1989 (25 years). Throw out 1988 and you get rougly the same average as we've had the last 12 years: 15 players per year.

In five years, we can look back and see how A&M joining the SEC has impacted LSU's ability to get recruits from Texas. Raw data below. But I don't see us doing much better than we already are.

Year # of Recruits from Texas
1982 4
1983 8
1984 7
1985 10
1986 12
1987 16
1988 29
1989 25
1990 19
1991 17
1992 15
1993 12
1994 10
1995 6
1996 6
1997 10
1998 9
1999 10
2000 12
2001 17
2002 10
2003 11
2004 14
2005 14
2006 13
2007 17
2008 19
2009 19
2010 16
2011 13
2012 13