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Mark Heim | mheim@al.com
Former Oklahoma and Dallas Cowboys says "damn right they're good" when talking about Alabama coach.
"They don't recruit very well," the former Dallas Cowboys coach told SportsTalk with Bo Mattingly on Tuesday of the Big 12. "Take an Iowa State, Kansas, they don't get the blue-chip players. Someone said Alabama versus the Big 12, they had more NFL draft choices (in the first three rounds). No, they recruited them. It's the talent you recruit. They don't get the talent that Alabama gets. If they had them, they'd have been high draft choices.
"Not saying the Alabama coaches aren't good -- damn right they're good -- but they get to coach good players. You just don't recruit the good players at schools in the Big 12. The only schools that really do are Texas, which is down, and Oklahoma -- they beat the teams they're supposed to beat but haven't beaten the ones as good as they are. That's the difference."
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"They don't recruit very well," the former Dallas Cowboys coach told SportsTalk with Bo Mattingly on Tuesday of the Big 12. "Take an Iowa State, Kansas, they don't get the blue-chip players. Someone said Alabama versus the Big 12, they had more NFL draft choices (in the first three rounds). No, they recruited them. It's the talent you recruit. They don't get the talent that Alabama gets. If they had them, they'd have been high draft choices.
"Not saying the Alabama coaches aren't good -- damn right they're good -- but they get to coach good players. You just don't recruit the good players at schools in the Big 12. The only schools that really do are Texas, which is down, and Oklahoma -- they beat the teams they're supposed to beat but haven't beaten the ones as good as they are. That's the difference."
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