When Charlie Strong said at his Texas press conference introduction in 2014 that he wanted to control the state from a recruiting standpoint, it felt like more of a threat than a promise. Whatever it was, it wasn’t empty; Strong and his staff landed a number of high-profile kids from the Lone Star State.
Losing in recruiting wasn’t part of his swift demise. Losing on the field was.
Mike Gundy’s never made such a sweeping declaration to my knowledge about the talent pool from the state which he exists and recruits often from, but if he did, it too would not be empty.