College Football Recruiting: UNC-ACC North Carolina Schools Strike Out With NC Recruits

You would think these kids grew up in Florida or something.  To sum things up, pretty much every single top end, North Carolina high school football player chose to play his college football outside of the state.  Winning your state is vital in college football recruiting.  In a weak football division, Fedora’s new task, and one of his most important, is taking control of North Carolina.  To me, UNC has as good, if not better chance over all the other ACC schools.

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Here’s why: Two schools have a huge national following in the state.  The University of North Carolina and Duke.  Duke is not even in the football discussion as their program looks like a bad high school team to me.  I challenge anyone to name one famous Duke football player or coach.  You can’t, and that’s because there aren’t any.  Who else is there?  Wake Forest?  Please, give me a break.  NC State, yeah let’s run to the State school and play football, that’s been my lifelong dream.  Maybe when David Thompson was balling for them, but not now.

The reality is the only school with the star power and allure to get these kids to stay in state is North Carolina.  I give Larry Fedora and his staff no criticism for their lack of success recruiting in the state.  What were they supposed to do?  Walk out on their previous coaching jobs, come to Carolina and just focus on recruiting?  No, they couldn’t, they had jobs to finish.  They also had to sit and wait while recruits from the Butch Davis regime made their stinking minds up about whether or not they wanted to keep their commitments.

So the obstacles were stacked against the Tar Heels this recruiting season.  All and all, Larry Fedora and company did a fine job considering the circumstances and the many obstacles in their way.  And who knows, the team could still land WR/CB/KR Davonte Neal.  Which would vastly improve the overall quality of this class on all three sides of the ball.  Still, when 13 of your top 15 and 22 of your top 25 high school players choose leaving the state as opposed to staying home, that’s a problem.  North Carolina, although it’s not Florida, Texas or California is very good HS football.  If UNC or any other team for that matter could somehow gain control over the region.  That team could and in my opinion absolutely will gain control over not only the state, but the entire conference.

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