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Florida has the the 2nd best recruiting area in the SEC behind A&M, the difference being UF, with the right coach and success, can dominate the state...A&M has a mountain to climb. Boom looks like he can make good staff hires, it's just a matter of undoing Myer taking a nap and being (understandably) bamboozled by the persona of Weis. But, just a heads up, after the Spurrier beatdowns of the 90's, UF will always now be the pond lizards on LSU gameday.

Sorry but this just isn't really true. UF gets competition in Florida from FSU and the rest of the SEC trying to poach as well as Miami when they aren't in melt down mode as they currently are. Yet there is still plenty of talent and UF wins the battle most of the time.

For the last decade Texas has been dominant in Texas recruiting with OU, LSU, and even OSU getting quite a bit of the largesse and A&M generally just having Top 20ish classes. It hasn't always been that way. In the mid 80s through the mid '90s A&M dominated recruiting in Texas and it wasn't the cheating (everybody got paid back then), it was the winning. Problem was when Texas and OU went crazy with their facilities in the late '90s A&M was slow to react and got behind. Then you add the Frantastic era and only now is A&M digging itself out.

A&M could always compete with Texas when we were winning in the recruiting game. If you add in winning AND the SEC with all the TV coverage, big games, and NFL pipeline? A&M will crush them. Right now LSU is probably just as big of a threat but if A&M can win on the field they will keep those kids at home.

The key for A&M is just winning. Once A&M wins all the other factors go in to place in their favor. I mean think of it this way, A&M does a very solid job of recruiting right now and the last time we won a New Year's Day game was freaking 1988 while LSU, Texas, and OU all have a trophy case of NC's, Conference Titles, and BCS wins in the last decade. What do you think happens if A&M actually proves it can win those games? That is why it is the sleeping giant.