There’s been a lot made over the past few years about how many top recruits are leaving the state of Texas. It’s a big concern, when so many kids are opting out of playing for one of the many home-state teams, but it seems like most of the coaches at major Texas schools are handling the exodus like you’d expect. Patterson, Herman, Rhule, Kingsbury, and Sumlin seem to do what coaches do when they see kids they want going other places:
1) they recruit harder, and maybe employ some different strategies (like assigning assistants to different regions, etc.