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  1. 6 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    Someone educate me on Twitter, since I hate it and don't use it. Do you have to be in a certain location to set a pin or can you select it?

    You can manually change your location

     

    Any players we're battling head to head with the Bulldogs for?

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  2. 4 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    Bizarre rant. I'm confused on which troubled poster you categorize me as. Beyond that, I don't see a whole lot of difference between this board and the old board in terms of posters. Looks largely the same, but I haven't given it that much thought, I guess. 

    Ultimately, I'm not sure how you get one sort of thread meandering without occasionally getting the other. Somewhere around this time last year on the Shaggy thread for last recruiting cycle, there was a long, drawn out discussion over medical schedules due to MM's mother being a doctor or some shit. And there was repeated talk of boners from grown men over where a recruit might be going. It goes on and on. Let's not romanticize the good old days, given that today is the same as it ever was.

    your mom is the same as she ever was (AM I DOING THIS RIGHT?)...

  3. 6 minutes ago, utfan87 said:

    he is saying nothing of the sort. He was commenting on when he commits he is done with the process completely. This does not mean he's shutting it down now. 

    Read the replies to his original tweet. Someone replied to his tweet asking him when he is going to commit. He replied, simply, "Today". 

     

    Could just be messing around, but he did tweet it. 

  4. 7 minutes ago, Hank Scorpio said:

     

    14 minutes ago, angryhomer said:

     

    A college kid wouldn't give a shit about income taxes.

    "AND OVER HERE IF YOU LOOK YOU'LL NOTICE EVERY LOCKER HAS A BIG ASS TV IN IT WHOA MAN LIKE HOW ABOUT THA..."

     

    "Yah that's nice but uh, what's the water table like around here?"

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  5. 6 minutes ago, Machinator said:

    Nobody's going to be "breaking down the door" to play for a team that hasn't won more than 7 games since 2013.

    That's a big part of it. Imagine what recruiting at Texas will be like when that changes. 

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  6. 19 minutes ago, Machinator said:

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    The amount of early offers going out around the state isn't necessarily doing Texas any favors, especially since many of them given out from schools like Alabama, LSU, and Georgia aren't committable. When one of those schools offers it makes players and their parents wonder why Texas hasn't offered.

    Texas has to play by different rules because you're not going to see uncommittable in-state offers from this staff. Part of that is ethical, part of that is self-preservation with Texas high school coaches, and part of that is the staff just generally not being in a hurry to offer younger players.

    The staff puts a high priority on program/culture fit. They want to take their time with evaluations. They want to gather as much information as possible. That means old injuries, conduct in the classroom, and potential pitfalls with family, trainers, or anyone else who might be involved in the process will be fully explored.

    Another reason for their patience is, quite simply, they want the best players. Scipio has written about this, as will I next week, but the staff is casting a much wider net while at the same time keeping its offer number low, relatively speaking. At a time when offers are losing value, the goal is to retain the value of a Texas offer as much as possible.

    The staff doesn't want players who will get them to 9-4 seasons. The goal is to win 12-13 games a year. This staff knows what guys like Ezekiel Elliott, Darron Lee, and Michael Thomas looked like as sophomores. It's guys like that -- no doubt talents -- they're looking for. Guys like Zachary Evans. If Texas offers a 2020 now it's a tell they think he's a potential star.

    Internally the staff debates the pros and cons of all potential offers. If you want a kid to be offered you have to make the case for him. This also helps keep offers low.

    On to some recruiting tidbits:

    -- Stan Drayton was just in Florida visiting Noah Cain. Texas feels very good there and in a recruitment where most of the knowns are on the table, that's a good sign. Cain gives the staff great feedback. Texas still wants two running backs in this cycle. Nothing Texas does in this cycle will hurt with Evans. He's not afraid of competition in the least.

    -- Mater Dei's Bru McCoy will be a very tough pull as @CaliHorniaBoy recently pointed out. He's likely headed to USC but the staff will stay on him throughout. He's told UT it will get an official visit. Right now Texas appears to be the second most likely destination. He's also warming to the idea of playing linebacker.

    -- Texas just offered Alvin cornerback Marques Caldwell. Obviously this is a response to the 180 degree turn in the recruitment of Marcus Banks. Once Banks' mother went quiet on the phones out of nowhere it was time to look elsewhere. Caldwell has always coveted a Texas offer. My initial reaction is this would be like offering DaShaun White....but last spring. I'd be surprised if he didn't end up a Longhorn. He'll visit soon. Interestingly he knew this offer was coming. That means the staff has liked him for a while and this isn't a knee-jerk response.

    -- There is still no real concern with DeMarvin Leal's recruitment. Texas has some allies on its side and he'll also very likely visit Alabama and Clemson. He's more likely to stay closer to home in the end, but those schools won't be speaking highly of A&M. Jason Washington is on the case and he's won some vicious recruitments, notably Anthony Cook's.

    -- We don't expect Texas to move on from the core offensive line targets any time soon. Texas either feels like its leading or still in it for Branson Bragg, Tyler Johnson, Kenyon Green, and Javonne Shepherd. Herb Hand is going to be extremely patient with this group. Hand will be in Houston this upcoming week.

     

     

    Hope he is correct on the oline part. 

  7. 54 minutes ago, GotThatFire said:

    csb I have a cousin named Ty Robinson, coaches small town TX football now, as does his bro Bo Robinson. Bo just sent his son, Silas, to play at Arky (lame). 

     I guess what this all means is that I should pencil this Ty Robinson into both our calculator and Arkansas calculator just to be safe 

    At least Silas' teammate, Joshua Moore, wasn't lame. 

  8. I know we've talked a little on here recently about recruiting out of state/west etc..., with the Scipio Tex articles, and it got me thinking and crunching some numbers.

     

    Starting with scipio's numbers, Urban Meyer's last two classes were 74% out of state players

     

    Now, to compare to Texas:

     

    Charlie Strong's last class in '16: around 18% oos players.

     

    Herman's first full cycle class of 2018: 30% oos players.

     

    Longhorns 2019 class offers so far: almost 71% of offers to oos players (80/113).

     

    So far, the 2019 commit list is at 50% oos players (3/3).

     

    Just for the fyi.

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  9. 2 hours ago, satyanash said:

    (Scipio Tex) Out Of State Recruiting Part 2: The Perils of Parochialism

     

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    Before we talk about owning the state of Texas in recruiting, let's define what it really means. Look at a map of the great state.

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    Ah, the majesty of our beloved state. Drink it in. There is no better novelty ashtray shape known to man. Now draw a line from San Antonio to Galveston. Follow that line up the Louisiana border and take a hard left before the Arkansas border to Dallas. Now connect Dallas south to San Antonio. Color it all in. That rhombus drawn by a 2nd grader comprises less than 20% of the geography of the state and 95% of the football talent. So that's what we mean by recruiting the state, with apologies to the good people of El Paso, Harlingen, Dumas and Buffalo Gap. What we really mean, more precisely, is that UT should recruit a small part of the state and then ignore vast swathes. I'm simply arguing we should do the same out West. Direct flights take us to every city we'd want to target. 

    Austin sits on the true Texas recruiting region's central western edge. The best players are frequently 2.5 to 4 hours away by Ford F-150. Yet some fans pretend that a 2 to 3.5 hour direct flight to LA, Phoenix, New Orleans, Las Vegas, or Denver is a bridge too far. No other major college program thinks this way. State borders are artificial constraints to tactical thinking. Written over a talent pool that's variable in total and positional talent from year to year. Many assume that the Top 10 or 50 players in Texas are of similar quality every Fall. They are not. Texas parochialism ignores dramatic positional talent fluctuations from year to year, shifts in competitive landscape (Jimbo, Lincoln Riley, Urban and ESS EEE SEE!) or that some years offer greater character risks or wider proliferations of street agents opinionated 7 on 7 coaches and helpful informal advisors. Sometimes the state's best QB just isn't feeling Texas and second best option would be the #7 guy in California that year. So book that flight. Putting the program in thrall to random fluctuations because TEXAS 4EVER is absolutely foolish.

    I think Tom Herman feels similarly. Encouragingly, 13 of Herman's 44 signees (29.5%) were from out of state in the 2017/2018 classes. I expect 2019 to hold or increase that ratio. Why? Because we now know that 2017's class composition wasn't just desperation. Well, some desperation. But Herman's first true class in 2018 - a year where Texas dominated in-state recruiting and took much of what we wanted - featured 8/27 out of state signees. Just under 30%. That's healthy. Win at home, but don't reach at home. About what Kirby Smart is doing at Georgia.

    The Dangers of Parochialism

    I know the retort to all of this. Didn't Mack Brown win a lot of football games in the 2000s with Texas heavy football rosters? Sure did. Then he lost a lot of games doubling down on that tactic in a changing world. Brown excelled in a world where A&M was irrelevant, SEC encroachment was when a Cajun lost his way on a pirogue, Alabama was going 6-6, Urban Meyer was kicking ass in Utah and not on recruiting trails in Texas and the Big 12 had some modicum of national respect. His success begat more success. Initially fueled by a Heisman winning RB from California. Oh, cruel irony! 

    Would you say that's our current environment? No, it is not. Here's how Texas parochialism played out with Mack's recruiting classes between 2007-2013. The classes that formed the core of Longhorn decline.

    2007 - 1/24
    2008 - 1/20
    2009 - 1/20
    2010 - 3/25
    2011 - 1/21
    2012 - 4/28
    2013 - 2/17

    Look at those numbers. Mack Brown was more of a nativist than Bill The Butcher in Gangs Of New York. Out, Dead Rabbits! Over seven years, Brown signed only 13 OOS players. 8.4% of his recruits. Urban Meyer signed 21 out of state recruits in 2018 alone. Which staff showed more activity if we checked their Fitbits? Encouragingly, Tom Herman has signed 13 OOS players in his last two years. Out of state recruits are no panacea, Texas athletes should be the core, and the argument is simply one of degree. I'm arguing 30%ish. If you're arguing for 50%, I have concerns. If you're arguing for 5%, I have much deeper concerns.

    Mack's recruiting class distributions were a symptom as much as a cause (OOS recruiting alacrity is a pretty solid proxy for diagnosing staff complacency) and I'm not suggesting that's its solely or even largely responsible for our decline, but anyone who believes that we can go back to those numbers and maximize in the current environment is misguided. The game changed.

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    Now draw a line from San Antonio to Galveston. Follow that line up the Louisiana border and take a hard left before the Arkansas border to Dallas. Now connect Dallas south to San Antonio. Color it all in. That rhombus drawn by a 2nd grader comprises less than 20% of the geography of the state and 95% of the football talent. So that's what we mean by recruiting the state, with apologies to the good people of El Paso, Harlingen, Dumas and Buffalo Gap. What we really mean, more precisely, is that UT should recruit a small part of the state and then ignore vast swathes.

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  10. 22 minutes ago, irishtexan said:

    I've read Wright is similarly skeptical of our offense and ability to get the ball to the wide receivers. Apparently he's good friends with Wilson, and whatever poison Urban and Co infected Wilson with has seemed to spread to Wright. While Wilson seems to have made a firm decision, it doesn't seem like Wright has shut us down. 

    It's been said a million times, but we need to improve on offense and show that we can pass the ball. If we do, we'll win games and win recruits. If we don't, we probably fucked.

    I'd be willing to bet that ole Baker Mayfield had an impact on Wilson also. It's not lost on me that the bitter QB from Wilson's own HS who had to go out of state to get a real shot got drafted #1 overall just days before Wilson decided to....go out of state.

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