Pretty good discussion on this topic fellas . . . I'll add my 2 cents.
The story I'm about to relate came directly from my father. He told me this story about 20 years ago and I have no idea if it has anything to do with Bru or not . . . but it's interesting. Now my father was very connected, back in the day, to high school sports in Texas. Most of the college coaches knew him and pretty much all the major high school coaches knew him.
Dad was one of the Principals at Midland Lee and if you wanted to recruit one of his kids . . . there's a good chance you called my father 1st before stepping foot on campus. Well, being buddies with all those coaches comes with perks. Like playing lots of golf on Saturdays which dad loved to do.
Anyway, according to dad there were a couple of Pac coaches in town recruiting a Midland Lee guy. Hell, it might have been Ced but I don't really remember. So there they were, Dad, the Midland Lee head coach and 2 Pac coaches and they were playing golf . . . and dad asked one of the Pac coaches why they didn't recruit more Texas kids.
I'm paraphrasing here but 1 of the Pac coach basically said . . . "The culture of black kids in California is very different than the culture of black kids in the south. The 2 cultures don't mix well. You have to make a decision . . . are you going to have a California team or a Texas/Alabama/Georgia team. You can't have half and half, it doesn't work. They simply don't get along with each other. You can have a couple of southern kids on a Pac team but that's about it."
So take that with a grain of salt but that's what a couple of Pac coaches thought 20 years ago. Has that changed? I have no idea.
