How did the best head coaches do in the first 6 years?

[Kburjr]

I’d take a team of Florida 2 stars over a team of Midwest and northeaster 4 stars

I like New Jersey 3-stars.

 

[Illustrious Potentate]

I like New Jersey 3-stars.

I like 5 stars from Georgia, Florida, the Carolinas and the gulf coast

 

[Kburjr]

I like 5 stars from Georgia, Florida, the Carolinas and the gulf coast

Can you imagine what NIL money those guys are demanding? What's the ROI?

 

[Illustrious Potentate]

Can you imagine what NIL money those guys are demanding? What's the ROI?

Any spending that pays off in a natty is well worth it

 

[Deep Creek]

Can you imagine what NIL money those guys are demanding? What's the ROI?

Some of those donors have so much money they don't care if they are throwing it down a hole or not! At least at that point in time. Later, yeah, they decide they want sumpin' for their money.

 

[Tharvot]

Thanks for the reply guys. I understand the urban issue but only to a certain extent. And the poverty discrepancy is real. Hoops, Soccer, etc seem to be more the choice of poorer countries, cities, etc. I equate Detroit, Chicago, NYC, etc to Houston and DFW. Until this year, it had been FOREVER since an inner city school played in a state championship football game in Texas...much less won one. This year Austin LBJ and Dallas South Oak Cliff both made it to Jerry's World with SOC winning it all in their division. Again, I get that issue.

Here's what I don't get. We do have SOME good football players that have come from the inner city schools. Proportionately, not even close but some none the less. Our high school football factories are mainly in the more affluent suburbs of the cities. Don't those urban places in the North have similar suburbs? A lot of the DFW and Houston suburbs are populated by what many would consider middle to upper income African Americans. In DFW alone you have places like Aledo, Southlake Carroll, the Denton schools, the Arlington schools, the Mansfield schools, Euless Trinity, Allen, Duncanville, DeSoto, Lancaster, etc. Houston has similar ones and here is something that is wacky about one of those Houston suburban school districts regarding the realignment that just came out two weeks ago. It is conceivable that the 6A state championship could be played by two teams from the SAME INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT!

2022-24 6A Realignment

Texas has 32 6A districts in football. 8 each in Regions 1-4. 1-8 in Region 1, 9-16 in Region 2, 17-24 in Region 3 and 25-32 in Region 4. Cypress Fairbanks ISD in suburban Houston has 10 of those 6A schools. 7 are in District 16, Region 2. 3 are in District 17, Region 3. The playoff brackets wouldn't have some of those schools meet until the finals if one of the seven and one of the three actually made it all the way. Unlikely but possible.

Hard for me to argue one way or another. I haven't lived up north in a long time, so I'm not super familiar with the lay of the land in terms of HS sports these days. When I was a youngster, all the catholic high schools dominated the sporting landscape up there because they recruited all the inner city athletes. I'd imagine not much has changed in that regard.

What it comes down to is culture and demographics. The in the south, football is king. Some parts of the north are like that. Ohio is a football state. Western PA is definitely a football area. But in many of the big population centers in the north, basketball is king and that is the sport a lot of the elite athletes gravitate towards.

 

[Tharvot]

Can you imagine what NIL money those guys are demanding? What's the ROI?

Some of those donors have so much money they don't care if they are throwing it down a hole or not! At least at that point in time. Later, yeah, they decide they want sumpin' for their money.

Bragging rights at the country club. Priceless.