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closetojumping
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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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word 😂 brooks not being a take clemson starting rb pistol whipped & robbed his own teammate he lead clemson to a national championship & 3 playoff appearances recruit to wi

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Now Mpagi is better than Leal???!???    Guys tell me you’re trolling. Please tell me this isn’t real. I feel like I’m in a Seinfeld bizarro world episode. I can’t take this shit anymore. Whe

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4 hours ago, closetojumping said:

Just so BigVegasHorn26 can go fuck his miserable self, sure. 

Orlando went and saw him in the spring evaluation period after a friend of the program gave them a heads up that the kid is a stud. One of those raw Florida guys that feeds the SEC, Clemson, Miami and FSU. 

In June, he measured 6’1” without shoes, weighed 218 and ran a 4.27 shuttle. He has a 76 inch wingspan. Those are no bullshit measurements from someone who was present. 

He likes and has liked Texas for a while. Texas has been working on him for months and they’ve built up to this moment with him. It’s not a “in the moment” scenario for a noob recruit. 

I realize that the $9.95-ers haven’t had this guy on the radar, so handwringers in the fan base  can’t understand the commit and need EJ Holland or Geoff Ketchum to give them an update so they can know how to feel, but people who know what the fuck they’re doing within the program and near it think they’re stealing this guy.

Did anyone on the staff take a shit at his house? Since he committed, I'm guessing no.

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Jeff Howe: Longhorns recruiting outside of state to add championship pieces

When the 2019 recruiting cycle began, Tom Herman didn’t plan on Texas going beyond the borders of the Lone Star State. That’s just the way it’s worked out for the Longhorns, who now have half of their 14-member recruiting class comprised of out-of-state recruits. “If we had our druthers, we would sign our entire signing class from the state of Texas,” Herman said recently during Big 12 Media Days.

Herman and Co. did an outstanding job of locking down the state of Texas during the 2018 cycle. Not only did the Longhorns snag the top two prospects in the state according to the 247Sports Composite rankings five-star safeties Caden Sterns (No. 1) and B.J. Foster (No. 2), Texas ended the cycle by landing seven of the top 10 and a total of 12 of the 20 highest-ranked recruits in the state.

For a few different reasons, the 2019 cycle has been a challenging one for the staff to navigate. While Texas A&M is in the midst of assembling a strong class loaded with talent from within the state (the Aggies have 10 of the top 32 recruits in Texas in their current class) in the first full cycle on the job for Jimbo Fisher, the first full cycle for Lincoln Riley to stockpile talent for three-time reigning Big 12 champion Oklahoma has seen the Sooners get their share of high-level prospects (four of the top 14 prospects in the 247Sports Composite rankings are in Oklahoma’s class).

What the Longhorns haven’t able to land within the state, Herman and his staff have shown no hesitation about casting a wider net to make sure the talent pool on the Forty Acres stays replenished.

The latest recruit from outside of the state of Texas to jump in the #fUTure19 boat is Marcus Tillman Jr. (Orlando, Fla./Jones), a three-star linebacker who was committed to Florida during his junior before backing out on his commitment to the Gators in January. With Tillman (6-1, 220) in the fold, Texas has picked up their seven out-of-state commitments from five different talent-rich states — Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia and Oklahoma — that have provided quality bodies to the Longhorns under John Mackovic (Bryant Westbrook, Ricky Williams), Mack Brown (Lyle Sendlein, Blaine Irby), Charlie Strong (John Burt, Davante Davis, Collin Johnson and Chris Nelson) and Herman (Reese Leitao, Cameron Rising and Casey Thompson).

While addressing out-of-state recruiting to media members assembled at the Ford Center in Frisco, Herman used a hypothetical recruiting scenario for what the Longhorns might do when it comes to recruiting linebackers. That’s ironic considering that’s exactly where Tillman, who was offered on Friday during the on-campus Stars at Night event, will help the Longhorns when he gets to campus.

In Herman’s hypothetical scenario, the Longhorns would start out looking to sign four linebackers. The staff’s evaluations, Herman said, might show that there are four linebackers in the state of Texas the Longhorns could land and go win a national championship with and perhaps a fifth linebacker being a recruit the staff would evaluate based on film from their senior season and possibly pursue them later in the cycle.

Even if Texas was to land two of the four, Herman said, there’s a chance that the other two either might have grown up "wearing maroon (Texas A&M) pajamas and mom and dad have rings and stuff like that,” or come from a Catholic family "and it's been his dream to go to Notre Dame."

Whatever the scenario, Herman said the situation for the staff then becomes looking at how they’re going to fill their needs without having the necessary bodies from within the state. “You’ve still got to sign four,” Herman said. “If the fifth-best one in the state, you’re not quite sure is national-championship worthy, then that’s when you cast your net out of state. I think that’s what we’ve done this year and it just so happens that that net has snagged a few more early than it has in previous years.”

The out-of-state recruits the Longhorns have landed in the current cycle have been quality prospects. Four-star linebacker De’Gabriel Floyd (Westlake Village, Calif./Westlake) and four-star wide receiver Jake Smith (Scottsdale, Ariz./Notre Dame Prep) rank No. 58 and No. 82, respectively, in the 247Sports Composite rankings for 2019. A quartet of four-star prospects — cornerback Kenyatta Watson II (Loganville, Ga./Grayson), wide receiver Demariyon Houston (Oklahoma City, Okla./Millwood), tight end Brayden Liebrock (Chandler, Ariz.) and safety Chris Adimora (Lakewood, Calif./Mayfair) — rank among the nation’s 200-best recruits for 2019.

The staff’s philosophy hasn’t changed in terms of where they look for talent, Herman said. While Herman regime will always strive to field a team that represents the best the Texas high school ranks have to offer, the ultimate goal for the Longhorns is to leave no stone unturned in an effort to build a championship-caliber squad.

“The philosophy is never going to change in terms of we want to sign an entire class full of Texas high school football players, but we owe it to the University of Texas to sign national championship, NFL-quality players as well,” Herman said. “The balancing act then there becomes who are you going to get, and then if you’re not going to get that level of player, where can you go find that level of player?”

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I haven't followed recruiting all that closely but 1) his offer list is confusing and 2) we should absolutely offer him. He's smooth as hell and I've seen several tweets about him way before we were even engaging him. 

 

Maybe he has academic issues or his 247 profile isn't updated? No way this guy shouldn't have a bunch of P5 offers by now. 

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1 minute ago, texasstrong12 said:

I haven't followed recruiting all that closely but 1) his offer list is confusing and 2) we should absolutely offer him. He's smooth as hell and I've seen several tweets about him way before we were even engaging him. 

Maybe he has academic issues or his 247 profile isn't updated? No way this guy shouldn't have a bunch of P5 offers by now. 

Hard to believe someone with a Rice offer is a qualifying concern.

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45 minutes ago, I Plead Da Fif said:

What's the deal with Broussard? He's got 4 total schools on his recruiting list with no P5 offers. Are most people looking at him as a RB and not thinking he's explosive enough for it?

He's been a basketball recruit, only recently did he decide to go towards football instead.

https://247sports.com/Article/ATH-McKel-Broussard-has-options-but-focused-on-one-sport-119682533

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