The talent is absolutely still in Texas. Let's not kid ourselves. The talent however has spread out far more than it use to be because thousands more schools have been built. Gone are the best SW schools, the Converse Judsons, the Houston Yates, the East Texas schools of Longview, TJT, Tyler Lee, Marshall, etc. days. The bigger problem is Texas HS going to this finesse soft pass happy spread offenses that is thankfully starting to decline in the state. There's a reason why the inner cities and inner suburbs are making a come back as of late. But Texas still has the talent. Schools from all over the nation still make it extremely important to recruit Texas just as much as California and Florida.