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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Woody O'Hara" data-source="post: 129474858" data-attributes="member: 1854998">From WV Illustrated: And in reference to Holgorsen's abandonment of recruiting the state of Texas, providing more of a focus on the east coast, he offered a telling assessment of how his opinion has changed on football in this portion of the country, which, in turn, has led to a greater effort to attract east coast prospects to play in a mainly Midwestern conference.“My background was the Southwest – it was Texas and the Southwest,” Holgorsen clarified. “Oliver [Luck] thought it was a good idea. Because of the conference that we were in and because of the kids that we were recruiting, we could get some guys like Jordan Thompson out of Katy High School, which is a national power, Garrett Hope out of The Woodlands, which is a national power, Noble [Nwachukwu] out of Wylie High School, which is a regional power, and Dustin Garrison out of Pearland, which is a national power.”“Those guys brought something to our team that I didn't feel like existed at that point – just a ton of structure and hard working guys that were undersized and that weren't recruited by a lot of those Texas schools. So, I thought it served its purpose. Going to the Big 12, it's just our philosophy that we can recruit a better kid more regionally in the Northeast, up and down the east coast, and in Florida. We can sell the Big 12 brand and recruit against almost everybody, and get a better kid that we could do in Texas right now," he explained.Holgorsen's translation is that he will stress the importance of regional recruiting (Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, Georgia, Florida), over the importance of Texas-based recruiting. It makes sense. A school like West Virginia in the Big 12 Conference provides a unique opportunity for east coast prospects to play in a Midwestern league.<a href="http://www.wvillustrated.com/story/28057734/holgorsen-emphasizes-depth-variety-in-2015-recruiting-class">http://www.wvillustrated.com/story/28057734/holgorsen-emphasizes-depth-variety-in-2015-recruiting-class</a></blockquote>

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