Texas Recruiting Notes 2025: Duck Around and Find Out

irishtexan · July 7

This is one of the dumber arguments I’ve seen in a board that has about a dozen dumb arguments every day. Jesus Christ on a cracker

Junior Bonner · July 7

5 minutes ago, irishtexan said:

This is one of the dumber arguments I’ve seen in a board that has about a dozen dumb arguments every day. Jesus Christ on a cracker

I seent it!

BurntOrange&White · July 7

UCONN before 1999 in basketball

Getafix · July 7

If I may be so rude as to interrupt w/ a tweet about an updated commitment date/time for a guy who is now an important target, whether primary or backup:

Edited July 7 by Getafix
Added Hank's note.

Colonel Sanders · July 7

10 minutes ago, Getafix said:

If I may be so rude as to interrupt w/ a tweet about an updated commitment date/time for a guy who is now an important target, whether primary or backup:

June 10? That's one hell of a storm.

DixonHur · July 7

1 hour ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Candidate to be Brandon harris boss?

Why?

His resume looks kinda blah to me. What am I missing?

Funk Doctor Spock · July 7

3 hours ago, Newy25 said:

Would you fucking guys stop quoting the troll?

Only it you stop being a pussy? Can you do that? You sound pathetic crying, honestly.

"Guys! Do what I say! I'm stomping my feet and my puss is Infected!"

Good lord lol

Edited July 7 by Spider2YBanana

Funk Doctor Spock · July 7

8 hours ago, closetohumping said:

Buddy it’s a 12 team playoff. Also they’re preseason #4

I said they aren't making the final 4, not the playoffs. Starting and finishing are two seperate things.

bwub60 · July 7

1 hour ago, closetohumping said:

When has their football coach left for another college job? I think it’s a top 12ish job and you’re not leaving it for Florida. I think it’s a better job than UW

Mario C - Miami

IDIOTsavant · July 7

4 minutes ago, DixonHur said:

Why?

His resume looks kinda blah to me. What am I missing?

That he’s not Brandon Harris, mostly.

Junior Bonner · July 7

2 minutes ago, IDIOTsavant said:

That he’s not Brandon Harris, mostly.

Sounds like an excellent resume, then…

Edited July 7 by Junior Bonner

Pato del Muerto · July 7

3 minutes ago, bwub60 said:

Mario C - Miami

Likes to keep it clean

RabidM · July 7

I'm sure the aggies had a good laugh about Moore going to Oregon. Let's how funny it is if we take Lockett and Johnson off the board.

Edited July 7 by RabidM

Getafix · July 7

(Around 4:30 PM, apparently.)

Fondren & Main · July 7

Hurricane Steve is on the warpath.

texifornia · July 7

Yall remember that dude's kid is on the team, right?

closetojumping · July 7

Banks and Sarkisian are basically trying to run the entire show when it comes to recruiting, to the point of limiting access for position coaches with their position targets. Sounds really fucking weird.

Harris has provided consistently dated and/or clueless intel from the recruits’ camp side and is just basically an order taker otherwise.

Texas lost a talented scout that they haven’t replaced and they lost a talented roster management/personnel guy that they arrogantly decided to not really replace by instead promoting an unqualified yes man.

This predicament is entirely of Sarkisian’s making. He’s going to have to fix it soon as there is more bad news looming.

Lonestar88 · July 7

1 hour ago, RabidM said:

I'm sure the aggies had a good laugh about Moore going to Oregon. Let's how funny it is if we take Lockett and Johnson off the board.

They are still the favorite to land Johnson.

Sark picking up communication with him after losing Moore, screams “back-up plan” way too obviously. Wouldn’t be surprised if Johnson isn’t super receptive to that.

Bevo · July 7

2 hours ago, cafe society said:

Willie Lyles was his bagman in Texas.

Per OTF, Sark has heavily re-engaged with Kelshaun Johnson and Chris Jackson with Tanook Hines.

My take from the last month is that we miss Glasscock's management of NIL. I'm not sure that it would have made a huge difference in the initial recruiting losses but I think he would have helped the coaches adapt. From what I can gather, we went in with what we thought were appropriate NIL offers. Most teams matched and raised and then we got into bidding wars with most of our targets which were basically the cream of the crop. When the numbers got too large, we backed out. All this seems reasonable, but based on a miscalculation of where the market was. In retrospect, we needed to offer more in the beginning and get kids locked in before there were bidding wars.

Now, I think we need to see where things land and play the long game. Continue trying to get our targets and lock in 75% of our class. And if we want Anding, offer him a number that we know LSU won't match instead of reacting to what LSU does. Then, as the season progresses as we suspect, revisit guys and even look at new ones from teams that are reeling and finish out the class. Bottom line is that we took a smart conservative approach that backfired as more money was out there than we thought (at least for 2025). Now we need a manager of NIL to better control the offer process.

Bevo · July 7

15 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

He’s going to have to fix it soon as there is more bad news looming.

I assume Ffrench to tOSU and Brooks to Georgia.

Edited July 7 by Bevo

texifornia · July 7

1 minute ago, Bevo said:

I assume Ffrench to tOSU.

Johnson to aggy is the obvious one

closetojumping · July 7

1 minute ago, Bevo said:

My take from the last month is that we miss Glasscock's management of NIL. I'm not sure that it would have made a huge difference in the initial recruiting losses but I think he would have helped the coaches adapt. From what I can gather, we went in with what we thought were appropriate NIL offers. Most teams matched and raised and then we got into bidding wars with most of our targets which were basically the cream of the crop. When the numbers got too large, we backed out. All this seems reasonable, but based on a miscalculation of where the market was. In retrospect, we needed to offer more in the beginning and get kids locked in before there were bidding wars.

Now, I think we need to see where things land and play the long game. Continue trying to get our targets and lock in 75% of our class. And if we want Anding, offer him a number that we know LSU won't match instead of reacting to what LSU does. Then, as the season progresses as we suspect, revisit guys and even look at new ones from teams that are reeling and finish out the class. Bottom line is that we took a smart conservative approach that backfired as more money was out there than we thought (at least for 2025). Now we need a manager of NIL to better control the offer process.

This is reductive nonsense and to be ignored outside of the missing Glasscock part.

Texas didn’t lose Rogers or Petitjohn to bidding wars. Same for Charles and Brown, for Christ’s sake.

They have fucked up focus and effort and they have been out worked and misapplied energy to high risk targets without backup plans. That’s recruiting fuckuppery 101.

closetojumping · July 7

2 minutes ago, Bevo said:

I assume Ffrench to tOSU and Brooks to Georgia.

Don’t assume anything. Less conjecture is better from your end. There are too many idiots going full aggie and taking random speculation on here and elsewhere as a true narrative and it’s not helping anything. Just live with your fears and hope bullshit gets sorted in our favor.

Pdawg88 · July 7

1 hour ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Likes to keep it clean

DixonHur · July 7

27 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

This predicament is entirely of Sarkisian’s making. He’s going to have to fix it soon as there is more bad news looming.

Fondren & Main · July 7

5 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

Don’t assume anything. Less conjecture is better from your end. There are too many idiots going full aggie and taking random speculation on here and elsewhere as a true narrative and it’s not helping anything. Just live with your fears and hope bullshit gets sorted in our favor.

Sounds like we need to put in a call to Marvin Dorfler because Walsh is fuckin’ this thing up.

Bevo · July 7

20 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

Texas didn’t lose Rogers or Petitjohn to bidding wars. Same for Charles and Brown, for Christ’s sake.

They have fucked up focus and effort and they have been out worked and misapplied energy to high risk targets without backup plans. That’s recruiting fuckuppery 101.

You had previously said that we preferred Faraimo over Pettijohn and we didn't have room for Rogers if we took Brooks and Fasusi. And it seems Pettijohn and Rogers were aware and chose accordingly. Same with Johnson for that matter. If you play that game, you absolutely have to close on your targets, otherwise you end up with jack shit.

I am more concerned about our targets of Brooks and Fasusi. I predict we end up with Fasusi. If we wanted Brooks, we needed to offer more in the beginning. It will absolutely have to do with money when we lose him to Georgia. You say this is what happens when we go after high risk targets. And maybe you are right but I say that if you go big game hunting that you need to be armed for big game. You can't half ass high risk targets, because that is a waste of time and then you are right that we should have been satisfied with Rogers and targeted him earlier.

++Sorry, this was typed before I saw your post above** Morons, please realize that this is pure speculation**

Edited July 7 by Bevo

Beer Drinker · July 7

45 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

Banks and Sarkisian are basically trying to run the entire show when it comes to recruiting, to the point of limiting access for position coaches with their position targets. Sounds really fucking weird.

Harris has provided consistently dated and/or clueless intel from the recruits’ camp side and is just basically an order taker otherwise.

Texas lost a talented scout that they haven’t replaced and they lost a talented roster management/personnel guy that they arrogantly decided to not really replace by instead promoting an unqualified yes man.

This predicament is entirely of Sarkisian’s making. He’s going to have to fix it soon as there is more bad news looming.

LTtxfan · July 7

49 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

Texas lost a talented scout that they haven’t replaced and they lost a talented roster management/personnel guy that they arrogantly decided to not really replace by instead promoting an unqualified yes man.

This predicament is entirely of Sarkisian’s making. He’s going to have to fix it soon as there is more bad news looming.

Thanks... how does Rees fit ???

BigHorn'13 · July 7

54 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

Banks and Sarkisian are basically trying to run the entire show when it comes to recruiting, to the point of limiting access for position coaches with their position targets. Sounds really fucking weird.

Could it be that Sark is planning for some changes after this season/thinking that some staff might flee? It wouldn't make sense for guys like Flood and Choice, both of which are assets.

Sgt Hulk · July 7

3 hours ago, irishtexan said:

This is one of the dumber arguments I’ve seen in a board that has about a dozen dumb arguments every day. Jesus Christ on a cracker

Is there cheese also on the cracker? Gouda or Brie

closetojumping · July 7

1 hour ago, Bevo said:

You had previously said that we preferred Faraimo over Pettijohn and we didn't have room for Rogers if we took Brooks and Fasusi. And it seems Pettijohn and Rogers were aware and chose accordingly. Same with Johnson for that matter. If you play that game, you absolutely have to close on your targets, otherwise you end up with jack shit.

I am more concerned about our targets of Brooks and Fasusi. I predict we end up with Fasusi. If we wanted Brooks, we needed to offer more in the beginning. It will absolutely have to do with money when we lose him to Georgia. You say this is what happens when we go after high risk targets. And maybe you are right but I say that if you go big game hunting that you need to be armed for big game. You can't half ass high risk targets, because that is a waste of time and then you are right that we should have been satisfied with Rogers and targeted him earlier.

++Sorry, this was typed before I saw your post above** Morons, please realize that this is pure speculation**

Let’s take the Brooks recruitment in a microcosm.

Texas knew going in that Georgia was all over the guy and led. They chose to recruit him anyway.

It was known it was an NIL recruitment and Texas sorted its side in that regard. They then full court press the guy.

Brooks is allegedly responsive and people in his camp imply that Texas leads.

That is the most recent outlook. Flood is one of the only guys allowed to handle his own business and he still brought Choice in on the recruitment as well as Sarkisian.

So why are they going to lose him? I do not know that they will. This isn’t a money thing. Georgia isn’t beating Texas on this recruitment over a little money.

If this recruitment goes against Texas during an interim period when nothing really happened, how were communications handled between the Texas staff and the Brooks camp and how did someone else elsewhere make that happen? The handholding before an announcement is always important. Why in the fuck is that part suddenly going sideways?

If that isn’t going sideways, and Texas just isn’t the favorite in these recruitments where the Texas staff thinks that they’ve got the deal done, who is fucking that up?

So, in a recruitment like Brooks’, there’s no geographical issue, no production issue, no precondition with the family, no NIL gap, and then Texas comes out of the OVs leading, they should close on him. If they don’t, something is weird somewhere.

As far as I know right now, Texas leads for Brooks, btw.

Sgt Hulk · July 7

3 hours ago, Getafix said:

If I may be so rude as to interrupt w/ a tweet about an updated commitment date/time for a guy who is now an important target, whether primary or backup:

Well shit we missed June 10th

MrX · July 7

Oregon is a top 10 job now that they’re in the Big 10. Huge NIL program, and even if you’re the 3rd best team in the Big 10 in any given year you’re making the playoffs.

Michigan lost Harbaugh and Ryan Day is a goatfucker - why can’t Oregon with Lanning win the conference a bunch in the next decade?

Bevo · July 7

18 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

The handholding before an announcement is always important. Why in the fuck is that part suddenly going sideways?

That's my question as well. I assumed that in the last few days that there has been back and fourth with money and then we pull out when the number gets absurd. If that is not the case, then I don't get it.

Bevo · July 7

30 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

As far as I know right now, Texas leads for Brooks, btw.

And if we get Brooks, losing Rogers is inconsequential. By all accounts, we should get Fasusi. But no one should be overconfident with the way things have been going.

And if we get Faraimo and the staff likes him better than Pettijohn, then we are fine there.

We are absolutely getting fucked at DB and DT.

WR probably bothers Sark more than it bothers me.

So overall, the sky isn't falling.

Longhornlove · July 7

2 hours ago, closetojumping said:

Banks and Sarkisian are basically trying to run the entire show when it comes to recruiting, to the point of limiting access for position coaches with their position targets. Sounds really fucking weird.

Harris has provided consistently dated and/or clueless intel from the recruits’ camp side and is just basically an order taker otherwise.

Texas lost a talented scout that they haven’t replaced and they lost a talented roster management/personnel guy that they arrogantly decided to not really replace by instead promoting an unqualified yes man.

This predicament is entirely of Sarkisian’s making. He’s going to have to fix it soon as there is more bad news looming.

It sounds like he has realized a problem and is doing a bunch of the work himself. This can't go on perpetually. He needs to hire some help he trusts to do the job.

Edited July 7 by Longhornlove

6th Street · July 7

Sark has gotten complacent after that massive contract.

Dbeasy · July 7

Some insights from someone familiar with him when he was first hired.

Sark came in with a reputation for being a great guy that people really like working with. And very competent in his areas of expertise.

Like many great “people persons”, there was a question with him regarding his ability to organize and effectively manage complexity, and judge management talent.
We’ve seen some cracks. I sure hope we see him fix whatever problems are occurring, quickly.

Edited July 7 by Dbeasy

Ricky Butler · July 7

2 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

Some insights from someone familiar with him when he was first hired.

Sark came in with a reputation for being a great guy that people really like working with. And very competent in his areas of expertise.

Like many great “people persons”, there was a question with him regarding his ability to organize and effectively manage complexity, and judge management talent.
We’ve seen some cracks. I sure hope we see him fix whatever problems are occurring, quickly.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

BigHorn'13 · July 7

23 minutes ago, Bevo said:

By all accounts, we should get Fasusi.

You mean except the ones where he's trending towards ou?

closetohumping · July 8

4 hours ago, bwub60 said:

Mario C - Miami

Correct. Missed him and taggart. But I think Mario wanted to be near his dying mom and he’s from Miami. But I’ll take the L. However I wouldn’t underestimate Oregon at all

The Beast · July 8

This is outstanding stuff, you nimrods will believe anything. Please don’t stop.

BachelorTrek · July 8

2 hours ago, Sgt Hulk said:

Is there cheese also on the cracker? Gouda or Brie

"Never anger a dragon, for thou art crunchy and go well with brie." Lulz.

Napoleon · July 8

9 minutes ago, BachelorTrek said:

"Never anger a dragon, for thou art crunchy and go well with brie." Lulz.

Just had some of this…

Gidnik · July 8

4 hours ago, closetojumping said:

Don’t assume anything. Less conjecture is better from your end. There are too many idiots going full aggie and taking random speculation on here and elsewhere as a true narrative and it’s not helping anything. Just live with your fears and hope bullshit gets sorted in our favor.

Hope is not a strategy

Bevo · July 8

10 minutes ago, Gidnik said:

Hope is not a strategy

He was talking to me. I don't need a strategy. I'm not involved in recruiting.

lilMAC25 · July 8

2 hours ago, 6th Street said:

Sark has gotten complacent after that massive contract.

You gone get negged into Bolivia!

NoName · July 8

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