Sandbagging Steve

Who doesn't hate Geoff Ketchum?

Maybe he can just broadcast it on OAN?

Just because they wanted him at safety doesn't mean they didn't like him at receiver. For athletic kids at skill positions, who don't need to add much weight and run well on film at en early age, you can usually expect to see a two-tenths of a second improvement year-to-year in high school. I think that's a fair assessment, although it can vary quite a bit. He shows the film and has the body type to even get faster in college. He may have originally wanted to play safety. If a skill player of his athleticism is willing to play defense, many college coaches prefer to switch them to that side of the ball. He is a really good receiver prospect IMO. I'm not concerned with his speed. I do agree with you that the rest of slots, and the receiver position in general, has to be upgraded. We need more speed. Texas needs to double down on Pettaway. If they want to take one big receiver, then take 5 at the position this year.

Harrison-Pilot is a take as a slot receiver. A slot doesn't have to be fast but quick. Besides, Pilot is on pace to be a 10.7 kid (ran 11 flat as a junior), and that is fast enough for the position. He's going to have really good size as well. He could even play some running back. A little bit of Whittington in his game. We absolutely do need to land some speed guys in the class. It's really hard to comprehend losing Pettaway.

I love this place!

Stroh reminds me of Jupiter swallowing other planets.

I believe it is!

Malcolm Epps is a good example. Our rosters have been filled with examples for well over a decade. Marcus Washington is a perfect example. He was way too slow to ever be any good at the college level. He got a very high ranking early in the process and never blossomed into the athlete they thought he would turn into. But he kept showing up to the stupid basketball-on-grass tournaments and remained a 4-star, even though he dropped in the ranking some. Many on this site tried to use an injury as an excuse for his lack of speed when he committed here. The recruiting rankings want him to remain a 4-star because he showed up to all the camps and he committed to one of their biggest subscriber bases. Not only that, they're just terrible evaluators. tOSU told you straight up they backed off and so did many of the other schools. I don't need proof of that. Bluebloods rarely want 4.7-4.8 wide receivers, unless they're super quick slot receivers with other elite skills. Texas has been the place where the leftover scraps of the 4-star world that were turned away by most of the bluebloods go to school. And then it's used against us in recruiting. We can't develop talent! Development is the easy part. Recruiting should be an easy part at Texas. Just pay the players like everyone else. X's and O's should be the real competition. Unfortunately, there's only a few bluebloods and only a few of those bluebloods willing to pay the players top rate. They get all the recruits; it's not competitive; really average head coaches like Cookie Monster, Gras Eater Miles and Kirby Smart win championships. It's embarrassing for the sport.

Being the highest bidder wins recruits. It's that simple. Herman and Strong both SUCKED at recruiting. Some of those "team rankings" were laughable. A whole lotta Marcus Washington and worse in there. Washington is a good kid with a good head on his shoulders. He wanted it. He's just not good enough and never was good enough. It's even worse when a kid doesn't have the skill AND is a headcase. We had plenty of those too.

TO: Chris, Roy, BJ, and Sloan FROM: The new, modern TEXAS scoring machine

Bubba the Aggie, prolly: Racist Farmer Boy: Did you see how much pressure he was under? He had to get rid of the ball too soon way too often. Unbiased Scout: Yes. He was amazing. He got the ball out in the nick of time and hit all his targets, many of them in somewhat tight coverage, with a quick, controlled release under duress. Racist Farmer Boy: Why can't he control his puny offensive line? The defense lived in the backfield. Isn't that concerning to you? Unbiased Scout: No. Racist Farmer Boy: The defense almost sacked him every other play. He's overrated and you know it. Got that burnt-orange recruiting bump. Unbiased Scout: He's been ranked at the top since the first rankings. He's got size, accuracy, throws receivers open, gets rid-- Racist Farmer Boy: --IT'S A CRIME AND SOMEONE SHOULD GO TO JAIL FOR IT YOU STUPID BIASED t-sip!! tu CHEATS!! Ssssssss, Ssssssss, Ssdsssss!!

Damn, things must be getting really bad up there. They sound like Texas fans the past decade. You hate to see it.

I don't think we are stacked at receiver here, especially in the timeframe Pettaway would be playing here. And anyone who has the speed, deep ball ability of Pettaway has as good a chance as anyone of finding success in Sark's offense. Add to that the Arch commitment. It is what it is though. Maybe the staff will get more aggressive in the recruitment in order to land him; or maybe they aren't as high on him. I think OU has simply out-recruited Texas for Pettaway.

Cook and Pettaway Not sure how we could lose Pettaway, a pefect Sark fit, to some rookie head coach with a defensive background.

Greathouse's wide receiver ranking is a good example of just how bad the recruiting services are at evaluations, especially once you get outside the top 100. Yikes. Got to land a bunch of top 100 players with good film and measurements and make good evaluations the rest of the way. The recruiting services are a big fucking joke. This is one reason Texas has struggled so much for over a decade. We don't land enough top ranked talent. Mikal Harrison-Pilot is much better than several of the receivers ranked above him. Give me Cook, Pettaway and Pilot from within the state. Texas kid who went to Oregon looks like he could be really good at some point too.

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I present to you the entire NCAA Infractions Committee:

This is how it has always worked. Only once in a blue moon does a program get as careless as Ole Miss (penalties were light compared to the things going on in Oxford anyway). Not only do you have to turn yourself in, you have to cooperate with the investigation; otherwise, very little happens. Even with cooperation, the punishment doesn't usually fit the crime. The only time I've ever seen a penalty fit the crime, outside of a SMU, would be when there's some rogue penalty, not systematic cheating, that didn't really help a program all the much in the long run and the school is bent on getting itself in trouble. Texas had a larger compliance department than the entire NCAA (not sure if it still does or not). And it's there to find violations and help "prosecute" Texas. Who does that in the real world? It's supposed to be the other way around. Doesn't work that way at just about every other school. Most schools are trying to stop it from reaching the NCAA office. And the NCAA winks and silently says thank you for keeping it under wraps and not including us in your mess. The NCAA doesn't care about the fake rules. They've always just wanted it done under the table in order to keep all the money for the universities. All in the name of "amateurism". Can't wait when the head is finally cut off of this monster. If any president from Texas, Alabama, Ohio State, Michigan or Notre Dame picks up the phone and says "enough", then this thing is over. Stop being greedy and end this abortion.