2023 RB Rueben Owens

[Doc Reeves 6434]

5 minutes ago, UncleBuck said:

I think the thing that sucks about this the most, is that a lot of us who had doubts that this commitment would last up to signing day were getting pulled in by how actively he's been pushing for UT/the multiple visits etc... I think we might end up with him signing on anyway, but it'd be cool to have that class builder for the whole ride. 

I think those are going to become more and more rare

[UncleBuck 6455]

1 minute ago, Doc Reeves said:

I think those are going to become more and more rare

And honestly it seems they already are. He pulled me in the past few weeks or so. 

[Newy25 7927]

I never even click in the 23 thread or even know who most of the important prospects are for this reason. Especially in this environment with essentially a year of no in person recruiting. When a good portion of your 22 commits have to be actively recruited still the likelihood of a blue chip 23 prospect staying committed seems unlikely. 

[texifornia 59023]

18 minutes ago, Newy25 said:

I never even click in the 23 thread or even know who most of the important prospects are for this reason. Especially in this environment with essentially a year of no in person recruiting. When a good portion of your 22 commits have to be actively recruited still the likelihood of a blue chip 23 prospect staying committed seems unlikely. 

What's it like to be as smart and cool as you? Just parachuting into threads to say you never read them like a fucking boss.

[Hornius Emeritus 12807]

Rueben we hardly knew ye.

[victory88 5773]

The truth is that you can only sell promise for so long.  I listened to the recent blitz episode where they analyzed 27 power 5 programs and Texas was dead fucking last when it came to developing blue chip prospects.  Rod Babers is right that schools are easily negative recruiting us simply by showing them the data and our results.  It's hard to argue with 10 years of data.  Garrett Wilson said, talented WRs come here only to disappear and never be heard of.  He's not wrong.

In addition, the leadership within our program got lazy and let this entire thing slide.  We were more focused on what fucking taco bell commercial to put on the jumbotron that keeping our program elite.  Give aggy as much shit as you want.  They managed to position themselves in the best conference, pulled a national championship winning coach to that shit hole, upgraded all their facilities even if it's made them broke, and figured out a way to compete with the Bamas, UGAs, and LSUs when it comes to buying recruits.  Meanwhile, we let our facilities slide, stayed in a pathetic conference, hired 3rd rate coaches like Charlie Strong, and have a inflated image of our program thinking that elite recruits will come here regardless of results because we are Texas.

Recruits would love to come here.  We simply have to win.  My hope is that Sark and his staff can accomplish that.  Until we start putting players in the 1st round and competing for the national championship, we are going to see more of the same.  The other option is that we start buying recruits like aggy but I've lost hope in that as well.  I don't think NIL is going to have the effect people think it will at the moment.  

On the bright side, it takes 1 coach to figure it out.  Look at Texas basketball.  We might be the hottest program in the country right now.  I never imagined seeing us recruit the way we are.  If Sark can figure it out, recruits will line up to play here again.  

Edited June 17, 2021 by victory88

[texifornia 59023]

4 minutes ago, victory88 said:

The truth is that you can only sell promise for so long.  I listened to the recent blitz episode where they analyzed 27 power 5 programs and Texas was dead fucking last when it came to developing blue chip prospects.  Rod Babers is right that schools are easily negative recruiting us simply by showing them the data and our results.  It's hard to argue with 10 years of data.  Garrett Wilson said, talented WRs come here only to disappear and never be heard of.  He's not wrong.

In addition, the leadership within our program got lazy and let this entire thing slide.  We were more focused on what fucking taco bell commercial to put on the jumbotron that keeping our program elite.  Give aggy as much shit as you want.  They managed to position themselves in the best conference, pulled a national championship winning coach to that shit hole, upgraded all their facilities even if it's made them broke, and figured out a way to compete with the Bamas, UGAs, and LSUs when it comes to buying recruits.  Meanwhile, we let our facilities slide, stayed in a pathetic conference, hired 3rd rate coaches like Charlie Strong, and have a inflated image of our program thinking that elite recruits will come here regardless of results because we are Texas.

Recruits would love to come here.  We simply have to win.  My hope is that Sark and his staff can accomplish that.  Until we start putting players in the 1st round and competing for the national championship, we are going to see more of the same.  The other option is that we start buying recruits like aggy but I've lost hope in that as well.  I don't think NIL is going to have the effect people think it will at the moment.  

On the bright side, it takes 1 coach to figure it out.  Look at Texas basketball.  We might be the hottest program in the country right now.  I never imagined seeing us recruit the way we are.  If Sark can figure it out, recruits will line up to play here again.  

It's a good thing you're not letting the ebbs and flows of recruiting get you down or anything like that.

[victory88 5773]

Just now, texifornia said:

It's a good thing you're not letting the ebbs and flows of recruiting get you down or anything like that.

Bro, I'm going to be on cloud nine singing errrbody when Arch commits.

[crash_davis 23470]

We may not have brakes but our transmission is stuck in park.

[CooterBrown 18289]

I can't even care about 2023 right now. 

I’m not even sure that’s a real year.

[Mitch Hedberg 2117]

Reportedly Owens dad and Cooper Manning spent time together. The Manning’s have been through big recruitments and maybe they gave Rueben and Mr Owens some things to consider that they have never thought of before and they decided to take a step back. Or it could be that El Campo is a red ass aggy town and they hear negative stuff about Texas everyday and decided to take a step back. If he was class of ‘22 I’d write him off because kids seldom come back. But we have a lot of time. If we win games and Bijan goes off this year like we think and he truly liked Texas, I have full faith in him coming back in the fold.

[jeevsie 3789]

I like reading Mitch's post better than Victory88's.  All due respect.

[UncleBuck 6455]

16 minutes ago, Mitch Hedberg said:

Or it could be that El Campo is a red ass aggy town and they hear negative stuff about Texas everyday and decided to take a step back

That was one of the reasons I was really surprised when he did commit to the good guys. I had already written him off for aggy a long time ago.

[Laga4 1270]

3 minutes ago, UncleBuck said:

That was one of the reasons I was really surprised when he did commit to the good guys. I had already written him off for aggy a long time ago.

I grew up about 30 miles from there and it was really aggy territory.  I was shocked too when he signed.  

When your mascot is The Rice Birds,  that's a clue it's an agricultural area.  

[ztejas 44236]

56 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

We may not have brakes but our transmission is stuck in park.

So get a couple huge commits and it's business as usual but lose one verbal guy from 2023 and everything's going in the wrong direction? 

[UDontKnow 10572]

6 minutes ago, ztejas said:

So get a couple huge commits and it's business as usual but lose one verbal guy from 2023 and everything's going in the wrong direction? 

[crash_davis 23470]

16 minutes ago, ztejas said:

So get a couple huge commits and it's business as usual but lose one verbal guy from 2023 and everything's going in the wrong direction? 

he was the pied piper for the 2023 class. he was pushing both Manning and Cook to Texas. odd that coming off a reportedly awesome weekend for those 3, a few days later, he decommits. yes it is a lot disconcerting.

there's many miles to go in this recruitment. anything can happen but to spin this as anything other than a big disappointed is not understanding what this might mean.

[6th Street 6692]

Even if we miss on signing him, there's a fair shot we can scoop him up from the transfer portal after a year or two. 

[Mitch Hedberg 2117]

1 hour ago, UncleBuck said:

That was one of the reasons I was really surprised when he did commit to the good guys. I had already written him off for aggy a long time ago.

Yep. I lived in EC. I was shocked.

[ztejas 44236]

28 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

he was the pied piper for the 2023 class. he was pushing both Manning and Cook to Texas. odd that coming off a reportedly awesome weekend for those 3, a few days later, he decommits. yes it is a lot disconcerting.

there's many miles to go in this recruitment. anything can happen but to spin this as anything other than a big disappointed is not understanding what this might mean.

I mean I think Mitch hit it on the head. This was always going to be a nervy recruitment simply due to geography. But it is 2023 and we can't be sure how much his decision will or won't affect Arch and Cook. I'm not sure that is necessarily a 3 recruit package. 

Not saying this is good news - but we have a season to play and the 2022 class to close on before we really get down to brass tax on 2023.

[Ricky's one-hitter 9622]

Arch Manning, of the New Orleans Mannings, is not going to allow his recruitment to be influenced by the whims of Reuben Owens and anyone that says otherwise should be power negged. 

[FunkSoulBrother 977]

1 hour ago, ztejas said:

So get a couple huge commits and it's business as usual but lose one verbal guy from 2023 and everything's going in the wrong direction? 

Edited June 17, 2021 by FunkSoulBrother

[Dbeasy 15605]

On 5/6/2021 at 10:39 AM, Spider2YBanana said:

He ain't going nowhere. He and Blue see Bijan and what Sark can do and he'll get to play more minutes faster here, anyway. 

Nice call

[Tigersnake 680]

34 minutes ago, Ricky's one-hitter said:

Arch Manning, of the New Orleans Mannings, is not going to allow his recruitment to be influenced by the whims of Reuben Owens and anyone that says otherwise should be power-pegged.

At first glance I read it that way...FIFY.

[Funk Doctor Spock 13289]

16 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

Nice call

You want the lottery numbers next?

Edited June 17, 2021 by Spider2YBanana
Fucking iPhone

[Newy25 7927]

2 hours ago, texifornia said:

What's it like to be as smart and cool as you? Just parachuting into threads to say you never read them like a fucking boss.

You took that the wrong fucking way. It will be ok, man. 

[UncleBuck 6455]

31 minutes ago, Ricky's one-hitter said:

Arch Manning, of the New Orleans Mannings, is not going to allow his recruitment to be influenced by the whims of Reuben Owens and anyone that says otherwise should be power negged. 

Correct... but it's pretty obvious to me that Reuben Owens, of the Wharton County Owens clan, caught wind that Arch Manning is no longer considering Texas after a pelican arrived carrying word that Quinncy Ewers of house Southlake is about to march his glorious mullet back on down to Austin to claim the Whiskey Barrel Throne.

[DigglerontheHoof 21557]

So our biggest on-campus recruiting day in years ends up w/ our only commitment de-committing?  

Sweet. 

[irishtexan 11712]

Is this the time to wildly speculate? 

[Machinator 32103]

5 minutes ago, irishtexan said:

Is this the time to wildly speculate? 

When isn't it?

[ztejas 44236]

17 minutes ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

So our biggest on-campus recruiting day in years

Was it? I remember some pretty big ones recently. 

[Cairn Horn88 8502]

5 hours ago, Sgt Hulk said:

Lmfao.  This fucking tool bag telling everyone how solid he was to Texas.  When the fuck are we gonna stop accepting commitments from kids 700 days a way 

Exactly.  700 days to a 16 year old kid might as well be 5 years.  

[Cairn Horn88 8502]

6 hours ago, Tex-19 said:

Man, had him on campus twice last week and then he decommits right after? Not a good sign.

Also this is why we should ignore everything recruits say. He just spent the last week telling all the 9.95ers how solid he is, retweeting/liking stuff about Texas, etc. Classic.

So, he came to town and didn't get any pussy....ok.

[ztejas 44236]

5 minutes ago, Cairn Horn88 said:

So, he came to town and didn't get any pussy....ok.

The co-eds smelled the aggy from a mile away.

[perfectchaos007 6780]

7 minutes ago, Cairn Horn88 said:

So, he came to town and didn't get any pussy....ok.

Didn’t OKST have a program where okst coeds would act as escorts with recruits? I can’t find any info on it now because They scrapped that program once the NCAA started getting suspicious. Pussy >>> bagmen 

[Cairn Horn88 8502]

1 hour ago, crash_davis said:

he was the pied piper for the 2023 class. he was pushing both Manning and Cook to Texas. odd that coming off a reportedly awesome weekend for those 3, a few days later, he decommits. yes it is a lot disconcerting.

there's many miles to go in this recruitment. anything can happen but to spin this as anything other than a big disappointed is not understanding what this might mean.

Sark is now our Pied Piper....

[ztejas 44236]

6 minutes ago, perfectchaos007 said:

Didn’t OKST have a program where okst coeds would act as escorts with recruits? I can’t find any info on it now because They scrapped that program once the NCAA started getting suspicious. Pussy >>> bagmen 

I don't think Okie Lite has the market cornered on that practice. Zeta (sorority) at SMU got kicked off campus for whoring to football players in the 80s. I'd imagine plenty more examples exist. 

[golfclap 6903]

12 minutes ago, perfectchaos007 said:

Didn’t OKST have a program where okst coeds would act as escorts with recruits? I can’t find any info on it now because They scrapped that program once the NCAA started getting suspicious. Pussy >>> bagmen 

 Almost every school in the country had a group of hostesses like that but the Vandy rape and Colorado strippers scandals pretty much put a nail in the coffin as an official practice. 

[EZ$ 2128]

1 hour ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

So our biggest on-campus recruiting day in years ends up w/ our only commitment de-committing?  

Sweet. 

Dude, we got a kicker!

[ztejas 44236]

1 hour ago, EZ$ said:

Dude, we got a kicker!

Landing a 5 star at one of the most important positions on the field who may be able to kick, punt and kickoff is kind of a huge get. 

[RollLeft 5092]

1 hour ago, EZ$ said:

Dude, we got a kicker!

..and he's perfect.

[ztejas 44236]

3 minutes ago, RollLeft said:

..and he's perfect.

Steeeeeeeeeve

[Blackcat00 774]

5 hours ago, Mitch Hedberg said:

Reportedly Owens dad and Cooper Manning spent time together. The Manning’s have been through big recruitments and maybe they gave Rueben and Mr Owens some things to consider that they have never thought of before and they decided to take a step back. Or it could be that El Campo is a red ass aggy town and they hear negative stuff about Texas everyday and decided to take a step back. If he was class of ‘22 I’d write him off because kids seldom come back. But we have a lot of time. If we win games and Bijan goes off this year like we think and he truly liked Texas, I have full faith in him coming back in the fold.

The majority of Wharton and Matagorda (24 4A) county are brainwashed Ags. I grew up around that shit my entire childhood even though our QB Richard Walton and Beau Trahan were Horns at that time. Imagine teammates of his who wouldn't even start at a D3 school are in his ear. 

[stork642 4511]

7 hours ago, Sgt Hulk said:

Once Bijan wins the heisman  he will beg to come back 

At which time we will tell him to fuck right off good sir.  
 

not really. 

[Reese Bennett 3663]

 

[FartingMonk 3625]

Winning solves everything.  Put a good product on the field next year and they will all come.  Right now we are just a bunch of sunshine pumpers.

[Ghost of Shag 2730]

I’m late to the game here so allow me to just say WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK. YOU GO ON A FUCKING OV AND DECOMMIT THE FOLLOWING WEEK. 
 

Ok I’m better.

[Machinator 32103]

Not an OV.

[fattyflattie 4640]

Aggy going to take a second mortgage on that shithole stadium to drop the bags on this dude. 

[1leggedduck 443]

On 6/17/2021 at 4:02 PM, perfectchaos007 said:

Didn’t OKST have a program where okst coeds would act as escorts with recruits? I can’t find any info on it now because They scrapped that program once the NCAA started getting suspicious. Pussy >>> bagmen 

I recall Aker's Angels from my early days at UT. They were very hot, and always in attendance at recruiting functions. I do not know if they were offering spiritual guidance, or otherwise. But they were world class, no doubt.