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  1. 1 hour ago, Enchubben said:

    You’ve got it right. The parents are both huge longhorn fans. He’s just taking visits and accompanying his friends and teammates.

    Watson Jr is way more strategic than just his son coming to play here. Herman is not going to risk screwing up a chance to establish a recruiting pipeline in a prime territory for a kid that may or may not be 5% better than Watson II. I bet this is the last we hear of Banks.

  2. 23 minutes ago, C-Man said:

    I think any rematch with OU is going to wind up with a loss for us at this point. This shit always falls perfectly for OU.

    And this -- so it makes my first comment moot.

    I think we actually have a shot to win out. Tech is playing their backup QB who is a huge step down from their starter, which should give us a solid chance in that game. ISU is at home and will be a tough matchup but one that is winnable if we play as good offensively as we did against WVU, and Kansas to close out the year who will throw everything imaginable at us but shouldn't matter. Our offense seems to be rounding into form over the past few games into an effective unit.

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  3. 10 hours ago, texifornia said:

    Honestly having Harrell or Littrell to keep them from their historic levels of shittiness is good for us. I don't think either of them is a Wizard level coach and we want K-State to be a quality win (assuming we fucking ever get back to being "Texas" again).

    No way. I am so tired of facing most of the top 10 offenses in the country each and every week during B12 play. It is ok to have doormat teams in conference. Every P5 conference has them, the mighty SECSECSEC has tons of them. In my perfect world, Kansas, KState, and Baylor would be doormats. 6 quality conference wins plus a quality non con win should get you to the playoffs if you run the table or have one loss.  

  4. 2 hours ago, Orange&White said:

    It's a good thing high school recruits don't read twitter. Saying something like that in public where they could read it might turn a few qb recruits off from wanting to commit to a place that already has a terrible history of competing.

    You're right, I wouldn't be surprised to see Calzada start looking around soon. I hear he is blowing up on the trail right now. 

  5. 42 minutes ago, Gardner Barnes said:

    Ive read back a  few pages and discovered that crazy Karen is involved with recruiting to some extent, perhaps a bag lady.  If this is indeed the case, why take that chance?  She is a nut and is a potential liability.

    This, why on earth is she "communicating with the mom of a prize recruit". She is not a staffer, or officlally involved in the recruiting department. Yet she somehow followed a coach across the country and is deeply engrained in the recruiting cycle. This lady has been outed by Hamm for trying to get TO98 and TexAgs to start giving impermissible benefits during "high level meetings" with their leadership, and she is stupid enough to be active on message boards and social media talking about these conversations. She is going to be Jimbo's undoing.  

  6. Roach, Ossai, Bimage, Graham on the ends next year would be solid. Overshown is going to be a player, he could solve some of our problems at LB with some size, but Floyd, Gbenda, Curtis Johnson and Bru McCoy if we could pull that off would be the foundation for the future.

  7. 11 hours ago, Thetexashammer said:

    He's gonna win two Heismans, the Nobel Peace Prize, and Iron Chef America.

    Pump the brakes dude. There is no way he is beating Bobby Flay on the road at Kitchen Stadium.

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  8. 53 minutes ago, BigVegasHorn26 said:

    I'm now completely on board with paying for any top DL and LB talent available.  Top dollar.  Ford F-350s.  Buy momma a new house.  Move Uncle to Austin with high paying job at Dell.  Hook older brother up with some sick Beats and rad kicks, maybe a bag full of cash.  Whatever the f it takes.  

     

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  9. 2 hours ago, Machinator said:

    TFB Open Post: https://texas.thefootballbrainiacs.com/2018/11/open-post-weekend-november-2nd-4th/

     

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    Isaiah Hookfin | In-Game | Recruiting Update
    – Super K

    As you all know, last week I went by practice at Dulles High School to see 2019 OT, Isaiah Hoofkin. Here is what I wrote…

    I came away from that practice absolutely blown away by Hookfin’s athletic ability. I cannot emphasize enough how well this young man runs. Completely fluid in his lower body. Very flexible. He’s a natural athlete. He has to be a 4.8 perhaps even 4.7 guy at 6’5 265 lbs. He has a nice frame on him. Thick hands. Will comfortably hold around 300 lbs. Definitely one of the best athletes I’ve seen at that position in a while.

    Hookfin really just started playing football last year. He played on the defensive side in 8th grade and then was injured during his freshmen and sophomore seasons. So, he played his junior year and is now doing well into his senior season.

    I was interested in seeing more of Hookfin so I went to watch him play last Friday night. What you notice right away is how quickly he gets out of set. He can stay in front of anyone and the opposing team had some defensive guys with athleticism.

    He flashed the ability to roll his hips and plant someone but for the most part, I saw him position blocking. I’m slow to criticize a player for this because you really don’t know if that’s what they’re being taught to do. But it is clear to me based on a few things I saw and just how strong Isaiah is and how big his hands are that he is the kind of guy who has the ability to steamroll his man.

    He’s still learning how to use his hands as weapons. He put his hands out there but he doesn’t lock on right now. That’ll come though.

    Again, give a guy like a Hoofkin some time in a program where he will be developed and he could very well end up being a draft guy.

    Recruiting

    As we mentioned last week, he does plan on taking the trip to Texas for an unofficial visit this weekend. Texas has yet to offer but I imagine the staff just wants to get a look at him and make sure they see a guy with the size and frame they can develop.

    Also, it’s worth noting that while Texas has been working to flip Andrew Coker, Coker let me know that he is no longer visiting Texas this upcoming weekend. When I saw Coker in action a couple weeks ago he mentioned that he’d be at the West Virginia game. But he let me know earlier today that he won’t make it in. I’ll check to see if that’s going to be rescheduled.

    Back to Hookfin. He’s really starting to pick up steam on the recruiting trail. Last week he picked up a Baylor offer. And, last night he picked up offers from Mississippi State and Auburn.

    Hookfin’s father tells me that after the Texas visit this weekend they have an official visit to Arizona State scheduled the following weekend. In terms of remaining visits, his father said, “it’s all happening so fast right now so we still haven’t had a chance to sit down and talk through what visits he’s going to take”

    2019 DE Myron Warren | In-Person + Recruiting Update
    – Super K

    I went out to Many (LA) to see 2019 Texas defensive end target, Myron Warren. I stopped by Lufkin’s practice before that and ended up missing much of the practice in Many. So, I didn’t get a chance to see Myron move around. But I really don’t have any question marks about his athleticism. He’s truly elite in that regard.

    In fact, Myron grew up playing basketball and coach Jess Curtis, head coach at Many, says Myron can dunk the ball every which way you want it. Myron told me it was the encouragement of his friends, family, and coaches that really prompted him to first start playing football about two or three years ago.

    Myron agrees that it was a good decision. He tells me has athletes all through his family. In fact he has a cousin who played basketball at Nebraska.

    Myron certainly looks the part. I’d say he stands at around 6’3 and he’s nearly 240 lbs right now. Good frame on him. He’ll comfortably be 270 lbs. Extremely explosive off the line of scrimmage. Based on the film I’ve seen, he plays in an aggressive 30 front. Could really see him playing in an aggressive 30 or outside the tackle at 5 technique in a 4-man front – maybe even a Jack backer in college.

    Recruiting

    In terms of recruitment, TCU was his first power five offer. Given Gary Patterson and company’s ability to evaluate, that’s a really good sign. Following his TCU offer, this past summer, he picked offers from schools like Texas A&M, Ole Miss and a number of others. In fact, Myron tells me that he visited Texas A&M over the summer and the original plan was to visit Texas on the same visit but due to time constraints the trip didn’t materialize.

    Texas has been in communication with Myron since the summer time, “they’ve been in the picture for a while…coach Oscar Giles contacted me right after I left TCU”. The Horns then pulled the trigger earlier this season.

    Once he picked up the Texas offer, Myron decided he needed to take some time and reevaluate his options. As such, he decommitted from TCU and says he has high interest in Texas along with three or four other schools. Myron described the Texas offer as “amazing” adding, “to get an offer from a program like that, it just made me want to keep working harder and harder and harder”.

    He continues to communicate with both Texas and TCU.

    This upcoming weekend he will take a trip to LSU. The Tigers have yet to offer but it sounds like it’s a possibility. I asked Myron if he grew up of any program, assuming of course that it would be LSU. He said, however, “I really didn’t have a favorite football team. I was just mostly into basketball. I just loved basketball. I kept up with basketball”.

    In fact, though Myron is from Louisiana he tells me that his kin are originally from the Killeen and Austin area of Texas. Having said that, should the Tigers offer, they’ll be stiff competition. But Myron insists that regardless, he plans on taking his visits including a visit to Texas.

    He’s scheduled to take his first visit to Texas as an unofficial visit on November 17th when the Longhorns face Iowa State. After the season, he plans to take his official visits.

    Quick-Hitters | Bru McCoy & Noah Cain
    – Super K

    ***Received word earlier today from Horace McCoy, father of Bru McCoy that it’s looking unlikely that they will be able to make it on their official visit Oklahoma for the Bedlam game.

    Horace said their schedule is tight from now until Bru makes his decision so it’s possible the visit won’t happen.

    It’s looking more and more like this one will remain a Texas vs USC battle with Washington in the mix a bit, as well.

    I can tell you that USC is going to have to assure a lot of their targets that things are on stable ground. Texas needs to end the season strong.

    ***As we previously reported, Noah Cain is scheduled to take his official visit to Texas this weekend.

    He still has his LSU, Penn State and Ohio State OVs remaining but with LSU looking like the probable landing spot for John Emery this is looking better and better for Texas.

    I’m on a plane now about to take off to Florida. I’ll be over at IMG sometime early next week. I hope to have more then.

     

     

    I know we rip on the 9.95ers a lot, but Super K is flat getting it done the last few years. 

     

    Pay this man @OnAComputer

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