Texas Recruiting Notes 2025: Duck Around and Find Out

[billfromlaketravis 11602]

1 hour ago, Js1 said:

Man Florida is going all in on NIL since they can’t pay to fire Sunbelt Belly 

It feels like they’re prolonging the inevitable, but I’ll give them credit for decisively pivoting after Lane said no. 

[HtownHorn 14917]

Just now, texifornia said:

Is that coming from anywhere other than this board's most spelling and grammatically challenged poster above?

Gerry said Fasusi is not signing with OU. Down to us and aggy. I like our chances after Saturday for sure.

1 minute ago, billfromlaketravis said:

It feels like they’re prolonging the inevitable, but I’ll give them credit for decisively pivoting after Lane said no. 

I think they decided they would rather have Lagway than Lane.

[BornAndRaised 12407]

I don't think it's mills, though the phrasing from the 995ers is weird. Being secretive and "its his announcement." We wouldn't process someone this late surely?

Also my guess is one of the Coleman brothers or Cunningham.

[Sgt Hulk 14092]

Once Broughton. Collins Norton etc all get drafted. The portal guys are gonna be begging to come here 

[Dbeasy 15229]

Littleton, I think. 

[Tex Pete 20947]

3 hours ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

You'd have to be crazy to have a spot at Texas and then switch. Sark is building a monster.  

Five players drafted two years ago.

Eleven last year.

I've seen projections of up to 13 this year. 

That game on TV last night is going to have a lot of scouts watching our film more intently.  

[HtownHorn 14917]

Just now, BornAndRaised said:

I don't think it's mills, though the phrasing from the 995ers is weird. Being secretive and "its his announcement." We wouldn't process someone this late surely?

Also my guess is one of the Coleman brothers or Cunningham.

Cunninhgam also makes sense with Wiley about to join the party.

[billfromlaketravis 11602]

5 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

Gerry said Fasusi is not signing with OU. Down to us and aggy. I like our chances after Saturday for sure.

I think they decided they would rather have Lagway than Lane.

Andy Staples is mostly regarded, but I’ll trust him on UF news. He said Lane said no a few months back.

[Elmer_Fudd 22609]

Don't want it to be Mills.  He may end up being the best OL in this class.

 

[Hookem2147 21422]

I like Mills the most out of our current OL commits so I would hope it isn’t him.

[Bevo 13635]

Who do we have that is a small fish besides Cunningham, Winston, one of the Colemans, and Christian? Maybe Chester, but we want him and wouldn't be so nonchalant. Same with Mills.

[HtownHorn 14917]

1 minute ago, Bevo said:

Who do we have that is a small fish besides Cunningham, Winston, one of the Colemans, and Christian? Maybe Chester, but we want him and wouldn't be so nonchalant. Same with Mills.

Maybe Christian is being processed for Fasusi.

[Gidnik 3376]

I hate recruiting so much but I can’t live without it 

[Atticus 4015]

I'd hate to lose any of our early evals no matter where they're ranked. I could see Jackson Christian flipping if he doesn't feel he can get on the field here though.

[SydneyCarton 48299]

15 minutes ago, texifornia said:

Is that coming from anywhere other than this board's most spelling and grammatically challenged poster above?

[Bevo 13635]

3 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

Maybe Christian is being processed for Fasusi.

 

That's an easy trade-off.

[NoName 16613]

2 minutes ago, Atticus said:

I'd hate to lose any of our early evals no matter where they're ranked. I could see Jackson Christian flipping if he doesn't feel he can get on the field here though.

Has he even visited anywhere else?

[ousux 5619]

Hate on me if you like for not knowing this, been really busy with work this cycle and even during the season. I have only one question..

We aren't losing any recruit we truly want to aggy, bloU or LSU like we may have in the past, right?

None of them have anything to hang their hat on when recruiting against us now...not a gotdam thing.

[Lonestar88 4714]

21 minutes ago, BornAndRaised said:

I don't think it's mills, though the phrasing from the 995ers is weird. Being secretive and "its his announcement." We wouldn't process someone this late surely?

Also my guess is one of the Coleman brothers or Cunningham.

Don’t see why the Coleman bros would separate.

 

18 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

Littleton, I think. 

Littleton is our 5th highest ranked commit. I don’t know how that can in any way be considered “not a big fish”.

[trythisathome 972]

38 minutes ago, Sgt Hulk said:

Once Broughton. Collins Norton etc all get drafted. The portal guys are gonna be begging to come here 

Portal DTs will do what every portal DT has done so far and chase the biggest bag possible. But I'd like to believe donor enthusiasm will be as high as it ever has been this offseason and Sark will recognize that we don't have much choice but to enter these DT auctions that he has so far avoided. 

[BornAndRaised 12407]

21 minutes ago, ousux said:

Hate on me if you like for not knowing this, been really busy with work this cycle and even during the season. I have only one question..

We aren't losing any recruit we truly want to aggy, bloU or LSU like we may have in the past, right?

None of them have anything to hang their hat on when recruiting against us now...not a gotdam thing.

Ehhhhhh kinda

Fasusi and Hilson are all H2H losses if they break that way. We really wanted Chace Sims but we didn't engage early enough for his liking which set us behind early.

[Texasborn91 989]

I like Mills. If we are looking good for Fasusi then maybe Jackson Christian wants out 

[Mdhorn 6093]

1 hour ago, BornAndRaised said:

Oregon?

[D3zii 3807]

8 minutes ago, Texasborn91 said:

I like Mills. If we are looking good for Fasusi then maybe Jackson Christian wants out 

Aren’t they different positions at the college level ? 

[Mdhorn 6093]

1 hour ago, HtownHorn said:

Gerry said Fasusi is not signing with OU. Down to us and aggy. I like our chances after Saturday for sure.

I think they decided they would rather have Lagway than Lane.

I read that as he wasn't signing with OU, Texas or Aggy. Spacing, man.  

[Getafix 28894]

 

 

 

 

[tokamak 6459]

38 minutes ago, ousux said:

Hate on me if you like for not knowing this, been really busy with work this cycle and even during the season. I have only one question..

We aren't losing any recruit we truly want to aggy, bloU or LSU like we may have in the past, right?

None of them have anything to hang their hat on when recruiting against us now...not a gotdam thing.

We didn’t go head to head with OU much this cycle. Really only Fasusi who the $9.95ers now say probably won’t sign with OU.

aggy and LSU both have a handful of guys we definitely wanted. For aggy, that’d be Kiotti, Kelshaun Johnson, Chace Sims, I think DJ Sanders, and maybe Cobey Sellers?

For LSU, Kade Philips, Aidan Anding, and their DTs. Also probably Harlem Berry but that was forever ago. 

[Navin R. Johnson 761]

Are there any lacrosse players interested?

[Dbeasy 15229]

1 minute ago, Navin R. Johnson said:

Are there any lacrosse players interested?

Biff Peterman, a 5’4” whirling dervish out of Dallas Episcopal.  

[Funk Doctor Spock 12802]

1 hour ago, Yuk said:

Zelus Hicks to CO is my guess.

Yep, mine too. First one who came to mind. 

[Funk Doctor Spock 12802]

1 hour ago, D3zii said:

With Jerry doing the 100% gone and saying a small fish

 

i think it’s Mills, due to the fact we’re getting Fassusi and it was mutual Parting to add him 

Nah. Mills is solid. He was just bumped up to a 4 Star. I'm thinking Winston (I was thinking Hicks, who he may end up at Colorado), but I doubt it's Mills. 

[Mittens 8375]

33 minutes ago, Navin R. Johnson said:

Are there any lacrosse players interested?

You should hope so!

 

[DixonHur 11600]

2 hours ago, Yuk said:

Zelus Hicks to CO is my guess.

He's gonna regret that once Deion leaves to coach Shedeure in the NFL, lol 😂 

[Davis Lane 5757]

2 hours ago, D3zii said:

With Jerry doing the 100% gone and saying a small fish

 

i think it’s Mills, due to the fact we’re getting Fassusi and it was mutual Parting to add him 

*Gerry

[cafe society 2880]

I have no insight into our coaching staff, so there are several players who might fill the description of a little fish, but it's clear hardly anyone on this board has watched North Crowley and Jonathan Cunningham.  He's a baller and after time in a college S&C program will develop into a very valuable asset.

[Fondren & Main 6761]

3 hours ago, chiu1040 said:

Who was that poster about 3 weeks ago that said he didn’t care if UF did well in recruiting because it would hurt our rivals more than us?

That would be Helobius.  He’s the resident Yankee dumbass from the valley.  You should put him on ignore.  You’ll just have to trust me on this.

[Horn Under a Bad Sign 20622]

 

 

 

[BERT 4443]

37 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

 

 

 

11 post and 2 hours ago. 
 

 

sorry

[shnsajax 3592]

 

 
 
 

It’s the MLB draft that worries me the most!

[deech 2302]

9 hours ago, ousux said:

Hate on me if you like for not knowing this, been really busy with work this cycle and even during the season. I have only one question..

We aren't losing any recruit we truly want to aggy, bloU or LSU like we may have in the past, right?

None of them have anything to hang their hat on when recruiting against us now...not a gotdam thing.

It's a crazy world of NIL and some schools can get stupid.  Texas has an organized and disciplined approach to NIL by all accounts.  So while we are willing to pay fair market rates, we eventually may reach a point where we are outbid because other schools put a bigger NIL package on the table and we stay disciplined.  

The good news is that by all accounts bloU and LSU are struggling with raising NIL funds.  Aggy though are just two years off of buying the greatest recruiting class of all time.  I would think they would then look at their current roster and evaluate the stupidity of that decision, but never underestimate Aggy's ability to Aggy.  

[closetojumping 63099]

11 hours ago, Dondrysdale1 said:

I bet mills will be a really good player either here or at meatchicken

Could he be really good anywhere else? Think about it. 

11 hours ago, BornAndRaised said:

I don't think it's mills, though the phrasing from the 995ers is weird. Being secretive and "its his announcement." We wouldn't process someone this late surely?

Also my guess is one of the Coleman brothers or Cunningham.

No one is getting processed except possibly Texas with multiple major risks right now. You should also stop guessing. 

6 hours ago, shnsajax said:

It’s the MLB draft that worries me the most!

If/when he enrolls, he’s not eligible for the draft this cycle. 

[Bevo 13635]

4 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

Could he be really good anywhere else? Think about it. 

 

Well, he isn't going to Stanford or Cal but up north one state there is a pretty good program.

[BurntOrange&White 40437]

2 hours ago, deech said:

So while we are willing to pay fair market rates, we eventually may reach a point where we are outbid because other schools put a bigger NIL package on the table and we stay disciplined.  

If you keep getting outbid at the same position does that mean you’re willing to pay “fair market rate”? Seems to me the market is what is being paid at the time for said position group and our “fair market rate” is below that. 

[closetojumping 63099]

6 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

If you keep getting outbid at the same position does that mean you’re willing to pay “fair market rate”? Seems to me the market is what is being paid at the time for said position group and our “fair market rate” is below that. 

As always, you fail to fully grasp the environment but never allow that to give you any pause whatsoever as you spray the board with whatever words spill out of your brain and onto the keyboard.

There is no “market rate” for individual players. If someone shows up with 2 or 3  times what the player has seen, at the last minute, it’s a choice then and there for everyone.

When that happens once, okay. When it’s 5 schools for 6 different players, with portal work also coming, it’s a fucking problem and it has nothing to do with some notion of a “market rate” or whatever the fuck else you want to bawl all over. 

[BurntOrange&White 40437]

11 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

As always, you fail to fully grasp the environment but never allow that to give you any pause whatsoever as you spray the board with whatever words spill out of your brain and onto the keyboard.

There is no “market rate” for individual players. If someone shows up with 2 or 3  times what the player has seen, at the last minute, it’s a choice then and there for everyone.

When that happens once, okay. When it’s 5 schools for 6 different players, with portal work also coming, it’s a fucking problem and it has nothing to do with some notion of a “market rate” or whatever the fuck else you want to bawl all over. 

So that’s the new market then yeah? Especially when it happens every year? 

[closetojumping 63099]

12 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

So that’s the new market then yeah? Especially when it happens every year? 

Why don’t you take a stab at defining the term “market” for us? Just a simple request. Tell us what you mean when type “market” out here. 

[theBigHen 369]

12 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

Why don’t you take a stab at defining the term “market” for us? Just a simple request. Tell us what you mean when type “market” out here. 

Is the problem here just a few schools going bonkers on a few guys late, or is it an oversight from our staff and them not having a good finger on the pulse of where things stand with guys? Seemed like you had staff concerns on the recruiting side months ago but haven’t seen much on that since but I assume those problems didn’t just go away. 

[Atticus 4015]

Staying disciplined helps you stay dangerous in the portal and keep the right people on your roster from leaving.

[Bevo 13635]

9 minutes ago, theBigHen said:

Is the problem here just a few schools going bonkers on a few guys late, or is it an oversight from our staff and them not having a good finger on the pulse of where things stand with guys? Seemed like you had staff concerns on the recruiting side months ago but haven’t seen much on that since but I assume those problems didn’t just go away. 

 

It's more likely that we had a tough away game that we had to focus on so we couldn't bring our commits to the game and we couldn't travel to see them until Sunday.

[deech 2302]

2 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

If you keep getting outbid at the same position does that mean you’re willing to pay “fair market rate”? Seems to me the market is what is being paid at the time for said position group and our “fair market rate” is below that. 

Just like any free agency in sports - the market is what people are willing to pay.  There is usually one idiot willing to overpay because that's the one player they need to win it all or whatever delusions they can create.   The fair market rate is never what the idiot is willing to pay.  Sure agents will go the following year and claim what idiot paid Player A is now the new market and we want a deal that beats that one, but that is not the market because of the idiot or the claim by the agent. 

Texas has been a sophisticated purchaser for three years running now.  They are well aware of the market for any position/player they have been interested in.  Oregon, Aggie, Florida, whomever can always come in last second and try to throw money at their problems.  We then have a choice - pay more for that particular player or just pay the market rate for the next kid on the list or the next kid in the portal.  We typically always choose the ladder.  That doesn't mean Texas is not willing to pay the market rate.  Just that it won't overpay out of desperation.