I don't think you (and most others on this thread) watched the press conference.
Herman obviously had planned to hit this topic specifically and hard. He is calculated. He starts the lead in to this topic with addressing the 2019 class (and some peoples concerns A&M is way out in front...He makes it clear 2019 is barely getting started). Yes, he mentions Iowa St as giving the most offers and then lists Texas as 5th least offers behind Stanford, Northwestern, Clemson (which he lists how many guys Clemson was expected to sign...only 15) and Washington, in addition he takes shots at Saban and Alabama and how their offer is frequently just an offer to show up to camp to maybe get a real offer.
Herman is clearly leveraging UT's strengths to make an offer more valuable and simultaneously allow them to be more thorough and calculated in offers. He is saying we are not going to carpet bomb offers like ISU and we are ALSO not going to be like BAMA and fake offer to get you to camp. Here is a small portion of his quotes:
I think it's very important that everybody in the state of Texas knows, Oklahoma and Louisiana, that when we say the word 'offer', the young man can say yes on the spot right then and there, and we're going to be doing cartwheels and backflips down the hallway and celebrate because we got our guy.
We are not in the business of offering to get in it. Coach, I got to throw an offer out so I can recruit him.
No, you don't. Not in this state you don't. You say the word 'offer', we better be happy if that kid commits. More than happy, ecstatic.
Do we get beat up a little bit sometimes? Yeah.
Coach, I had 47 offers before you guys offered me.
I know. We weren't sure. We needed to see you in camp. We needed to see three games of your senior film because we weren't sure. We don't offer people we're not sure of.
There's all this non-committable offer. That's a real phrase. So it's not an offer. If it's not committable, what is it? It isn't an offer. Or offer to get to camp. I hear that all the time.
We want you to come to camp.
I'm only camping at the places that offer me.
Great. See you at camp.
It's not real, right, we all know that. It's really important for me to continue to spread that message, that we are going to be very diligent in our research with guys that fit what we do.
I'm providing a link from the UT athletic dept website to the press conference.
http://texassports.com/news/2018/2/...an-national-signing-day-press-conference.aspx
It's a GREAT, over 45 min, presser but for this particular topic tune in at the 31 minute and 10 second mark and listen for Anwar's question to Tom and then all the way through to the 35 min and 15 sec. mark That's how much time Herman spent on this and the relating topics.