Texas Recruiting

[KChorn11]

5 star kids don't go play in college for the school that they had a poster of hanging on their wall as a kid. Not anymore, at least.

5 star kids KNOW they have a shot a being multi-millionaires in 3.5 years-- IF they go to the right school.

Money is thicker than childish alma-mater loyalty.

Yep which kinda relates to the EOT situation. It may mean something to fans, alumni, and maybe a few of the players. Most of the players though could give two shits about whatever song any school might sing

I mean look at Justin Fields and Bru McCoy. Fields went from UGA to Ohio state in a blink of an eye. Bru McCoy went from USC go Texas back to USC in like a 2 month span. The school doesn’t matter to most of those kids. For better or worse that’s the way it is

 

[soonersoldier]

Yep which kinda relates to the EOT situation. It may mean something to fans, alumni, and maybe a few of the players. Most of the players though could give two shits about whatever song any school might sing

I mean look at Justin Fields and Bru McCoy. Fields went from UGA to Ohio state in a blink of an eye. Bru McCoy went from USC go Texas back to USC in like a 2 month span. The school doesn’t matter to most of those kids. For better or worse that’s the way it is

I am not a fan of this new ability to move around so easily...but I am not sure how we get the toothpaste back in the tube?

 

[KChorn11]

I am not a fan of this new ability to move around so easily...but I am not sure how we get the toothpaste back in the tube?

Yeah I’ve always felt that players should have some freedom to move, but yeah I think it’s gone too far the other direction

 

[2300 Nueces]

I am not a fan of this new ability to move around so easily...but I am not sure how we get the toothpaste back in the tube?

When a large number of players permanently lose scholarships this trend will begin to slow. College football is becoming extremely boring as the playoff is essentially the same thing every year. I am getting bored. Texas football is boring and a turd.

 

[outhereincali]

When a large number of players permanently lose scholarships this trend will begin to slow. College football is becoming extremely boring as the playoff is essentially the same thing every year. I am getting bored. Texas football is boring and a turd.

crybaby crybaby crybaby

the sky is falling the sky is falling the sky is falling

 

[soonersoldier]

When a large number of players permanently lose scholarships this trend will begin to slow. College football is becoming extremely boring as the playoff is essentially the same thing every year. I am getting bored. Texas football is boring and a turd.

There will never be a shortage of scholarship offers. The player may not end up where they thought or wanted to be but in their mind it will be better. I agree on the playoffs, but I think most disagree with my suggestion: 5 conference champions with 3 wild cards (no bye weeks). If that means cutting back one out of conference I'm cool with that, if not I'm good with that too. It still maintains importance for winning a conference and leaves the door open for a team with 1 loss (which already happens). But I get it most would be against this approach.

 

[KChorn11]

When a large number of players permanently lose scholarships this trend will begin to slow. College football is becoming extremely boring as the playoff is essentially the same thing every year. I am getting bored. Texas football is boring and a turd.

National title contenders have always been the same group of schools for a long time time now.
Alabama
LSU
Ohio state
Miami
USC
Florida state
Texas
Clemson
Nebraska
Florida
Norte dame

those 11 schools cover a pretty large number of the last 40 years of national titles. There has never been much parity in college football. Not sure why people are acting like this is a new problem.

 

[2300 Nueces]

There will never be a shortage of scholarship offers. The player may not end up where they thought or wanted to be but in their mind it will be better. I agree on the playoffs, but I think most disagree with my suggestion: 5 conference champions with 3 wild cards (no bye weeks). If that means cutting back one out of conference I'm cool with that, if not I'm good with that too. It still maintains importance for winning a conference and leaves the door open for a team with 1 loss (which already happens). But I get it most would be against this approach.

Actually, I think all school budgets are going to be decimated going forward. Yes, scholarships are going to take a hit because some programs will be "going away".

 

[2300 Nueces]

National title contenders have always been the same group of schools for a long time time now.
Alabama
LSU
Ohio state
Miami
USC
Florida state
Texas
Clemson
Nebraska
Florida
Norte dame

those 11 schools cover a pretty large number of the last 40 years of national titles. There has never been much parity in college football. Not sure why people are acting like this is a new problem.

You left out OU.

Four of these schools have been to more than 1 playoff and 6 none. The playoff is an invitational and is getting more exclusive and that will be to the detriment of cfb. I agree with SS. There should be auto bids to the playoff and that would be winning a conference title.

There is one thing that college basketball has over cfb. It's the ability to have a bad game and still win the national championship. Conference championships have a greater meaning in cbb because they have an autobid to the final tournament.

If there is one thing that the China Virus may do, it may completely destroy the current revenue construct of cfb. I would like to rid cfb of the meaningless games against g5 opponents, decrease the seasonal schedule, and increase the playoff to at least 8 teams, maybe 16. This won't happen til ESPN is bankrupt.

The head brass at ESPN are going to kill their business model. While they twist like pretzels to get their favored schools into their invitational, they are going to kill the TV ratings for the schools that are being left out because many fans will view the season as rigged. I would think that a healthy advertising business model would be to increase the value of their overall product rather than concentrate it into a few games.

 

[KChorn11]

Four of these schools have been to more than 1 playoff and 6 none. The playoff is an invitational and is getting more exclusive and that will be to the detriment of cfb. I agree with SS. There should be auto bids to the playoff and that would be winning a conference title.

There is one thing that college basketball has over cfb. It's the ability to have a bad game and still win the national championship. Conference championships have a greater meaning in cbb because they have an autobid to the final tournament.

If there is one thing that the China Virus may do, it's that it may completely destroy the current revenue design of cfb. I would like to rid cfb of the meaningless games against g5 opponents, decrease the seasonal schedule, and increase the playoff to at least 8 teams, maybe 16. This won't happen til ESPN is bankrupt.

The head brass at ESPN are going to kill their business model. While they twist like pretzels to get their favored schools into their invitational, they are going to kill the TV ratings for the schools that are being left out because many fans will view the season as rigged. I would think that a healthy advertisement model would be to increase the value of their overall product rather than concentrate it into a few games.

Yea 4 of those schools have been to playoffs. College football has always been cyclical wheee schools have a 5-7 year run of dominance it’s really nothing new.

Florida won 2 out of 3 from 2006-2008
Nebraska won 3 out of 4 from 94-97
USC won the AP in 03, the BCS in 04 and lost to Texas in 05
Miami won 3 in a 6 year period on the 80’s.

if they had a 4 team playoff this whole time you would see similar runs with 3 or 4 of the same teams years in a row. The playoff didn’t create this college football has always been this way

 

[2300 Nueces]

Yea 4 of those schools have been to playoffs. College football has always been cyclical wheee schools have a 5-7 year run of dominance it’s really nothing new.

Florida won 2 out of 3 from 2006-2008
Nebraska won 3 out of 4 from 94-97
USC won the AP in 03, the BCS in 04 and lost to Texas in 05
Miami won 3 in a 6 year period on the 80’s.

if they had a 4 team playoff this whole time you would see similar runs with 3 or 4 of the same teams years in a row. The playoff didn’t create this college football has always been this way

It won't be allowed to be cyclical if ESPN has its way. ESPN would rather keep everything the same so that they may satisfy their revenue models by not upsetting the apple cart with an 'unexpected' participant. It used to be conference champs who went to the big 4 bowl games. I would rather go back to that model over the current one. Aggy got screwed for a completely mediocre ND team.

Used to be:
SWC
Big 8
Pac 10
Big 10
SEC
Big East
ACC
Notre Dame - Service Academies

Rose Bowl
Sugar Bowl
Cotton Bowl
Orange Bowl

There was never a finish through on a championship. Today we are not allowed to have an unbiased playoff. The media/cumulative monied interests don't want to lose control so we have never had a real champion, only a net "payoff" a la Jeruh Jones.

The Sweet 16 to the Final 4 in CBB is infinitely better than anything CFB has.

 

[DancesWithWolves]

^^this! And I could care less about college basketball

 

[JoeAg]

^^this! And I could care less about college basketball

Couldn't care less. Sorry, just a pet peeve

 

[Boogie63]

I think we should start looking at something besides 4 or 5 Star player, KState showed me that with Vaughn, being from Round Rock, man that was a miss, That was Pop Snyders thing, and they still are doing it, and the Brock Boys , he knocked us down when didn't get them and the 5 Star QB, this guys a crazy guy for sure on building a team...

It all comes down to evaluation and hard work. A great team will have some 3-star players, but the majority will be 4 stars players with 5-star players sprinkled in. Ask Nick Saban to mainly recruit 3-star players and will walk out in the middle of the night as he did with the Miami Dolphins. I think many times the Texas coaching staff has a tendacy to fall in love with certain players and forget to do their due diligence as whole. We need a coach who has proven record of putting players in the NFL is the bottom line what kids want.

 

[JoeAg]

Someone said "I COULD care less." The correct wording is COULDN'T care less. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

 

[Son of Wasatch]

I could care more and I could care less, but I care just the right amount for this topic.

 

[Bevo1979]

Does anyone know if we have a chance to sign any other defensive lineman or offensive lineman in February?

 

[outhereincali]

One more positive note about our 2021 class. It was announced today that Jonathan Brooks was named Mr Texas.

Not Cam Wheaton
But Jonathan Brooks

Not Tommy Brockemeyer
But Jonathan Brooks.

Hookem Jonathan Brooks.

 

[outhereincali]

Does anyone know if we have a chance to sign any other defensive lineman or offensive lineman in February?

I don't know but I know we are in the running for rb LJ Johnson who's listed in the Texas top 10.

And I don't know about ol or dl. But I do know that we still have 9 scholarships to offer.

Maybe tonight's game will change some minds.

I know the coronavirus hit you hard. Are you alright?

 

[Son of Wasatch]

One more positive note about our 2021 class. It was announced today that Jonathan Brooks was named Mr Texas.

Not Cam Wheaton
But Jonathan Brooks

Not Tommy Brockemeyer
But Jonathan Brooks.

Hookem Jonathan Brooks.

Recruiting is not an exact science, however, Brooks benefitted from playing some really bad talent. He is a legit college talent but he has major holes in his game. The so-called experts point out his lack of top end speed and his running style is very upright. I haven't had a chance to watch him myself, I hope he plays in all star game so I can see for myself.

 

[outhereincali]

Recruiting is not an exact science, however, Brooks benefitted from playing some really bad talent. He is a legit college talent but he has major holes in his game. The so-called experts point out his lack of top end speed and his running style is very upright. I haven't had a chance to watch him myself, I hope he plays in all star game so I can see for myself.
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They've reclassified hs fb in TX. JB played in class 3A isn't that the 2nd smallest classification now?

I'm not worried about the competition he faced. Billy Sims, Eric Dickerson, and most recently Ladainian Tomlinson played at small schools and they were great rbs.

And 3000 yards is a lot of yards nobody does that regardless of the competition. He took a fb team that has a history mediocrity to the title game. And you should check out his stats from that game.

I suppose he does the things the critics say he does. But a good coaching staff can correct that.

He was an early commit and lastly

Welcome to the 40 acres Jonathan Brooks.

 

[outhereincali]

They've reclassified hs fb in TX. JB played in class 3A isn't that the 2nd smallest classification now?

I'm not worried about the competition he faced. Billy Sims, Eric Dickerson, and most recently Ladainian Tomlinson played at small schools and they were great rbs.

And 3000 yards is a lot of yards nobody does that regardless of the competition. He took a fb team that has a history mediocrity to the title game. And you should check out his stats from that game.

I suppose he does the things the critics say he does. But a good coaching staff can correct that.

He was an early commit and lastly

Welcome to the 40 acres Jonathan Brooks.

 

[Son of Wasatch]

3A is the old 2A classification. I didn't say he wasn't talented, he is a legit talent, however as I said, I haven't seen him run myself. I tend to be a pretty good judge of RBs but I would need to watch film to get an idea of his strengths and weaknesses.

Last year I was all over Ty Jordan, when I saw his film and he turned out to be freshmen newcomer of the year in the PAC. I'm looking forward to watching this kids film and judging for myself, but until then I can only tell you what is being said by those who have seen him.

 

[hookem365]

TTT

With WR Evan Stewart's commitment, Texas is in the top 5 now for '22.

 

[Oldmanastro]

TTT

With WR Evan Stewart's commitment, Texas is in the top 5 now for '22.

And more possibly in the next few days. We have Murphy working the west coast and Blue working Texas.

 

[Craigrb]

 

[oldhorn2]

And 3000 yards is a lot of yards nobody does that regardless of the competition. He took a fb team that has a history mediocrity to the title game. And you should check out his stats from that game.

Hell....that aint so much...Ken Hall had over 4000 yds...........his senior year. He finished High School wih 11,232 yds

He had 14,558 total yds.....one year he averaged 337.1 yds per game rushing.

 

[Son of Wasatch]

Hell....that aint so much...Ken Hall had over 4000 yds...........his senior year. He finished High School wih 11,232 yds

He had 14,558 total yds.....one year he averaged 337.1 yds per game rushing.

Keep in mind at a time when running 4.7 40 was considered fast, Hall was running a 4.3 40. Almost unheard of for that time.

Today 4.3 is considered fast, but not unheard of.

 

[StrangerHorn]

I see all these RBs and Qb and Wr and Defensive players being brought in but very few Oline guys, I think he had better start there pretty soon or we will have all that fire power and nobody to block for them...and they will take our asses down in backfield...he took only a few Olinemans


Hook'em

 

[Son of Wasatch]

I see all these RBs and Qb and Wr and Defensive players being brought in but very few Oline guys, I think he had better start there pretty soon or we will have all that fire power and nobody to block for them...and they will take our asses down in backfield...he took only a few Olinemans


Hook'em

Patience

We got 6 spots set aside for the big uglies, they will come, we just need to let the process play out. Flood is one of the best in the business at developing talent, he is also a great recruiter, we also have one of the best recruiters in the country helping him out for the tippy top of the food chain.
We can revisit this after a few guys commit and discuss what went right and what went wrong.

 

[oldhorn2]

The guy we want is Cambell....

 

[Son of Wasatch]

The guy we want is Cambell....

Actually the guys we want are: Campbell, Banks, and Dewberry. as far as I'm concerned Campbell and Banks are equally top must gets in this class. Dewberry is also just as important but Campbell and Banks are the Bell Cows for the line.

Unless we go out of state or flip an Aggie commitment there isn't defensive linemen I'd call Must-gets in this cycle.

 

[DrinkToIt]

I suggest we start calling them "Big Handsomes" because they got feelins too.

 

[Son of Wasatch]

I suggest we start calling them "Big Handsomes" because they got feelins too.

If they didn't want to be known as big uglies they shouldn't be so big since they can't help but be ugly.

 

[RoboCocks21]

Texas commit Jaydon Blue now ranked No. 1 running back in new Top247 update. Looks like he will be getting his 5th star as well.