Kansas Wrestling Forums General Discussion High School Will Geary signs with K-State Football

Is Will on scholarship or prefered Walk-on?

So K-State offers a walk on to Finney and now he is a scholarship starter and a freshman All American. Now they offer another walk on deal to another big time heavyweight from Kansas. Maybe one of these days, if we all live long enough, the Kansas Universities will show enough respect to in state heavyweight champs to offer them scholarships like they do the Texas kids who come and go and you never hear from them again. Seems like they might learn one of these days that when a heavyweight is as good moving big bodies as these kids are and have been, that they are worth the initial money. Ok I will now climb down off my soap box.

They are not undeveloped, they are undervalued. It took Finney about five minutes for K-State to coach him up. There are a lot of former Kansans in the NFL Hall of Fame. The problem here is not development, it is appreciation by the coaches of the schools in this state. The difference is not "staggering", your perception of the difference is really "staggering".

One of our kids back in the day, Mike Woolridge, went to Oklahoma State because he was not valued highly here. He beat out a Texas Defensive Player of the Year and started for four years for them. We had kids go out all over the country and start for good teams without being recruited here. Barry Sanders was not recruited here. I suppose he was "underdeveloped" too. Baloney. Geary is just as "developed" as any kid in Texas, he just doesn't play in Texas. K-State lucked out.

Well it isn't hard to argue with them but there isn't any point. It has become a blood sport to make fun of Kansas athletes and coaches and make Texas out as the great God of athletics. The truth is Texas is bigger than some countries and why Kansans have an inferiority complex about Texas is beyond me. I have coached here, recruited there, and I know that the difference in good players is zero. Alabama won the national championship this year and only one kid on their entire roster was from Texas and 45 players on their roster were Alabama kids. Now I guess that means Bama high school football is totally superior in their ability to develop kids in relation to Texas. That is as dumb and as short sighted as the arguments made here. Not wanting to argue because you see no point is not really the same as not being able to.

I think K-State is lucking out on Geary just like they did on Finney. If he was from Texas, exact same kid with exactly the same skills, they would have begged him to take a scholarship. Then he would have been part of those superior numbers he googled.