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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
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Schools getting a bump in recruiting during a new coach's first full cycle is normal. If Elko finishes with a top 5 class, my hat's off to him. Good job leveraging your employer's NIL and selling playing time, a new vision for the program, and whatever else a new coach sells. The problem for them is that one year of recruiting momentum won't be enough. Marcel Reed is not the answer at quarterback. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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I'll add that Michael Brandl himself is a great, great guy.- 8938 replies
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
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They have to find the $ to fire Earley somehow. Putting him in charge is like Texas going from 2005/2008 Mack to Chris Jesse. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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Does Elko not understand that the signature is ultimately what matters? Or does he think he can flywheel "momentum" into something, like a lower price for the signature later on? I don't get it. (And from the inside, I wouldn't be able to explain it) -
Ha, I think most Surly posters are pretty clever compared to the typical Internet message board. I mean, have you ever been to Texags?
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Totally fair, and what you are saying could be true. My sample size is small, and doesn't include the sports you mention as far as I know, but I have been happy to have student-athletes in my class because they take the "student" part seriously and are really trying to pick up the material. Of course, there is self-selection bias because I teach in a major that has a reputation for being difficult. No academic advisor will direct students to our department for an "easy" major.
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I teach an upper-division elective at the business school and have had multiple student-athletes in my class. As a whole, they are above the average for my class--they show up most of the time, pay attention, and do the work. I don't know what sports they play unless they give me documentation about the specific classes they are allowed to miss due to University-sponsored sports events. One student who plays a sport people know about wrote to me yesterday asking the best way to make up the work they have to miss due to the competition schedule. I am impressed by our student-athletes. They work much harder than I did when I was a student.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
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A bunch of my college friends are sending their kids to A&M. The state's population has grown a lot and getting into UT is hard. I am not sure if these kids who grew up as Longhorns suddenly become redass, or remain 2%ers, or something in between. A&M has also gotten so big that Fish Camp fills up within hours or minutes of the slots opening up, so at least, a smaller percentage of the incoming class is getting the immediate indoctrination. At the public in-state price point, A&M seems to be the next best option for a lot of people. Not exactly sure why UT-Dallas isn't higher on people's lists, but for whatever reason, it just isn't. Or maybe getting into UTD is also very competitive (I don't know). -
Lol Micah Hudson is at A&M now? Greatness
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
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So OU has a Charlie Strong clone as coach, and A&M has a Herman clone. What a time to be alive. -
OU Recruiting 2025: Truck Balls and Broken Dreams
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Chances are they've lost another submarine wide receiver since you last hit F5 -
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- Yell leaders - Reveille - The Corps - Only Texas school in the SEC - Small town feel with 70,000 students on campus - Consistent 8-4 performance - Maroon carrots - Jizz jars -
Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
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It is unbelievable to me that they are already talking about firing Elko. I thought they would do much worse than 8-4 given the roster turnover they had. Not to mention, residual buyout payments for Jimbo AND Elko, and salary for a new coach, and NIL? -
There must be something in the water in College Station.
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