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There's more than just 2019 stuff in this update, but I'm not being paid to post, so I'm dumping it all here and you guys can do with it/disseminate it/ignore it as you like. Regarding the UA guy

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If OL don’t really come into their own until year 3, our timeline for Herman’s non-transition recruits to be ready would be something like:

2020 Angilau, Ghirmai, Jones, Moore (plus Cosmi, Kerstetter, Okafor, ?Urquidez) = Hopefully 7 developed guys

2021 Johnson, Hookfin, Shepherd (plus 2020 guys, plus Cosmi) = maybe upwards of 8 developed guys

2022 Parr, Majors, ?Lindberg, ?Garth, ?OLTBNL (plus 2020/2021 guys) = maybe upwards of 12 developed guys

Even assuming a high hit rate, we look like going after grad transfers may be a good idea even as late as 2021 to make sure we have quality depth. One year rentals are great in that they don’t clog depth charts or scholarship charts but often plug holes nicely.

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15 minutes ago, Magus Ossis said:

If OL don’t really come into their own until year 3, our timeline for Herman’s non-transition recruits to be ready would be something like:

2020 Angilau, Ghirmai, Jones, Moore (plus Cosmi, Kerstetter, Okafor, ?Urquidez) = Hopefully 7 developed guys

2021 Johnson, Hookfin, Shepherd (plus 2020 guys, plus Cosmi) = maybe upwards of 8 developed guys

2022 Parr, Majors, ?Lindberg, ?Garth, ?OLTBNL (plus 2020/2021 guys) = maybe upwards of 12 developed guys

Even assuming a high hit rate, we look like going after grad transfers may be a good idea even as late as 2021 to make sure we have quality depth. One year rentals are great in that they don’t clog depth charts or scholarship charts but often plug holes nicely. 

Hmmmm

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3 hours ago, Magus Ossis said:

If OL don’t really come into their own until year 3, our timeline for Herman’s non-transition recruits to be ready would be something like:

2020 Angilau, Ghirmai, Jones, Moore (plus Cosmi, Kerstetter, Okafor, ?Urquidez) = Hopefully 7 developed guys

2021 Johnson, Hookfin, Shepherd (plus 2020 guys, plus Cosmi) = maybe upwards of 8 developed guys

2022 Parr, Majors, ?Lindberg, ?Garth, ?OLTBNL (plus 2020/2021 guys) = maybe upwards of 12 developed guys

Even assuming a high hit rate, we look like going after grad transfers may be a good idea even as late as 2021 to make sure we have quality depth. One year rentals are great in that they don’t clog depth charts or scholarship charts but often plug holes nicely.

It's telling that OU is going after grad transfer OL on a yearly basis

 

2 hours ago, HtownHorn said:

Kerstetter getting a RS would be nice, especially if he used that time to play nothing but center.

It looks like Ghirmai is the Center of the future for now

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4 hours ago, closetojumping said:

Read it again. That’s not what he wrote. 

This. And a simple google search for cfb bluebloods will reveal a general consensus of the 8 true blue blood programs along with the criteria currently used to define such. Aggy isn’t remotely considered a blueblood. And, the Big 12 has 2, while the SEC has 1.

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10 hours ago, pacman said:

What about Herman makes anybody think he would demote an upperclassman starter? We all just sat through Hager and Wheeler. Shack is nfl pro bowl in comparison to those two.

Sterns over Bonney. Ingram over several other RBs that had more experience. 

They probably stuck with Hager and Wheeler too long but I don't get the narrative that "Herman is unwilling to demote upperclassmen starters". He will play young guys like Foster, Sterns, Ingram and so on if they are ready to contribute. 

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Jeff Howe: RJ Proctor to visit as Texas looks for grad transfer O-line help

AUSTIN, Texas — Tom Herman made it clear during his press conference on National Signing Day that as Texas shifts its focus to the graduate transfer market when looking for pieces to add to the 2019 roster, the offensive line is where the Longhorns will look at bodies. With that in mind, this weekend is setting up to be significant with one of the top offensive linemen on the market expected to be on the Forty Acres.

Virginia’s RJ Proctor is a prospect the Longhorns have been eyeing since he put his name into the NCAA transfer portal. The 6-foot-4-inch, 335-pound interior lineman took to Twitter on Tuesday to announce that he’s headed to Texas this weekend for a visit, making him the first of the graduate transfer linemen the Longhorns are looking at to make his way to campus.

Proctor started 12 games in three seasons with the Cavaliers, including making six starts at left guard while seeing action in 11 of Virginia’s 13 games in 2018. Proctor played every snap at left guard in Virginia’s 28-0 win over South Carolina in the Belk Bowl, his final game for the Cavaliers.

Proctor will be the first graduate transfer lineman to visit the Longhorns this spring, but he won’t be the last based on what Herman said last week and what’s known publicly about the recruiting efforts of the Texas staff in the graduate transfer market. “There's already some names out there that we've been in contact with that are interested in Texas,” Herman said on National Signing Day. “That's not to say that we're unhappy or displeased with the O-line room, we're just still pretty young there.”

Proctor has been in contact with offensive line coach Herb Hand since entering the portal. Along with Proctor, Texas is expected to play host Parker Braun — an All-ACC offensive lineman at Georgia Tech who attended Hallsville in East Texas (former Longhorns Roddrick Muckelroy and Josh Cochran are Hallsville products) — at some point and is believed to have interest in former Tennessee offensive lineman Drew Richmond.

The interior of the offensive line is where the Longhorns could use a buffer before redshirt junior Tope Imade, redshirt freshmen Junior Angilau and Rafiti Ghirmai or true freshman spring enrollee Tyler Johnson are looked at as the best available options. Derek Kerstetter has started 15 of the 24 games in which he’s played over two seasons with the Longhorns with four of those starts coming at right guard in 2018, but Kerstetter’s experience is really all the Longhorns have to speak of with Elijah Rodriguez and Patrick Vahe out of eligibility.

On top of Kerstetter’s guard experience, his role as the backup center might be most important to the Longhorns considering 2018 first-team All-Big 12 center Zach Shackelford has been forced to miss time due to injury in each of his first three seasons in the program. Not wanting to leave anything to chance, and mentioning the coaches like the progress being made by Imade and JP Urquidez to help from a depth standpoint, Herman said the Longhorns would love to bring in a veteran presence to bolster a group of young, talented prospects in the trenches.

With Calvin Anderson coming off of a year where he started all 14 games at left tackle for the Longhorns, earned honorable mention All-Big 12 recognition and is currently preparing for the 2019 NFL Draft after arriving as a graduate transfer from Rice, Herman is hopeful that success can help the Longhorns entice one of their top options to join the fold. “It would be more of an experience issue for us to patch a hole,” Herman said. “Maybe just for one more season before this young crew of kids that we've got a lot of faith in their development until they really, really start coming into their own.”

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13 hours ago, Machinator said:

If anyone is interested in actual recruiting news, an FSU mod says that Texas is leading for grad transfer OT Drew Richmond.


Interesting to be 23 and a Junior.

(Though I was probably 24 or 25 by the time I hit my first Junior year.)

The clock isn't ticking as loudly for OLs as other positions I guess.

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On 2/11/2019 at 10:13 AM, Katfid54 said:

Glad to hear Braun is thinking big picture about things like academics in Austin, now that he's leaving the scholastic shithole that is Georgia Tech.

GT isn't much outside of engineering, which almost no athletes major in.  Braun's degree is " literature, media and communication."

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24 minutes ago, PsychMike said:

I am deeply offended by an aggy commenter using the word "sychophant." [sic]

 

Also, the article discusses the release of Bru from his LOI. I thought I read he never signed one with USC. Can anyone verify either way?

Sycophant. Couldn't pass up the chance to use sic for the spelling of syc. Am I a Syco?

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Jeff Howe: Longhorns bringing in JUCO O-lineman for weekend official visit

Texas isn’t done adding to the 2019 recruiting class. The Longhorns are going to be players in the graduate transfer market and are set to host a top offensive line target this weekend, but Tom Herman and Co. are also bringing a junior college body in the trenches to campus. Willie Tyler, a 6-foot-7-inch, 330-pound offensive tackle from Iowa Western Community College told Horns247 recruiting analyst Mike Roach that he will be on the Forty Acres for an official visit.

Originally thought to be a December 2019 graduate and a 2020 spring enrollee, Tyler is set to graduate in May and would then be immediately eligible to join his program of choice thereafter. Tyler will have four years to use his remaining three seasons of collegiate eligibility. A Racine, Wisc. native, Tyler met with offensive line coach Herb Hand last month and the two discussed how the Longhorns would handle Tyler’s recruitment from that point forward.

Tyler told Roach his relationship with Hand got off on the right foot and the Longhorns definitely had his attention. “I stayed up to date pretty well before they even contacted me,” Tyler said. “Growing up, I played for the Longhorns, and I always wanted to play for them in college. Ever since then, I have been staying up on them since the Colt McCoy days.”

The Longhorns, who had the No. 3-ranked recruiting class in the country according to 247Sports, were able to secure the future services of Houston North Forest four-star prospect Javonne Shepherd. The 6-foot-6-inch, 318-pound Shepherd ended his recruitment by signing his National Letter of Intent on National Signing Day after visiting Alabama, Georgia and Texas A&M in January all while maintaining his status as a Texas verbal commitment.

Along with Shepherd, Texas currently has four-star signee Tyler Johnson on campus and will welcome four-star signee Isaiah Hookfin into the program this summer with the rest of the 2019 signees. Herman and Hand are looking for a few experienced bodies to fill out the offensive line depth chart to make up for the losses of Patrick Vahe and Elijah Rodriguez to graduation, which is why the Longhorns are hosting Virginia graduate transfer interior lineman RJ Proctor this weekend along with Tyler.

Proctor, former Georgia Tech All-ACC offensive lineman Parker Braun is a top offseason target of the Longhorns. Texas has also reportedly expressed interest behind the scenes in former Tennessee offensive lineman Drew Richmond, who like Proctor and Braun currently has his name in the NCAA transfer portal.

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1 hour ago, Katfid54 said:

He signed one, and they released him from it the day he stated his intentions to transfer.

This seems odd, because his name was (reportedly) never entered in the database of players who had signed LOIs and that was why Texas kept recruiting him. 

Mother reports stated that he only signed financial aid papers, but not an LOI. 

I don’t even know who to believe anymore. 

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18 minutes ago, Napoleon said:

This seems odd, because his name was (reportedly) never entered in the database of players who had signed LOIs and that was why Texas kept recruiting him. 

Mother reports stated that he only signed financial aid papers, but not an LOI. 

I don’t even know who to believe anymore. 

He supposedly signed the LOI but USC agreed not to file it until after he announced his committment, so it didn't enter into the database until after he announced.  That was why Texas was able to maintain contact until his announcement but then had to wait until he was in the portal to renew contact. 

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