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Jeff Howe wrote an excellent article about the role of the 2021 class over on OTF. The article isn't paywalled and here's the link: https://ontexasfootball.com/news/articles/the-importance-of-the-2021-recruiting-class-to-steve-sarkisians-texas-program-r1935/ In reading it, I got curious about the totality of the class, versus just the contributors. I found some of the results in looking these guys up to be kind of fascinating. Below, by OTF rank: -Ja'Tavion Sanders - TE- 5 star ride or die for Texas recruit who signed and stayed without knowing much about Sarkisian. Had a great career at Texas and ended up being a 4th round pick in 2024. -Xavier Worthy - WR - Sarkisian's first HS signee and a near 5 star. Had a terrific career at Texas, set the 40 time record at the combine, 1st round pick and the 1st Longhorn to ever score a TD in the Super Bowl, and then he scored another. A budding star in the NFL. -JD Coffey - Safety - 148th ranked player in the country. Couldn't crack the 2 deep at Texas, now a productive starter at ASU with eligibility remaining. -Ishmael Ibraheem - CB - I remember this guy, 215th ranked player in the country, running into problems with the law. I assumed football would be behind him, but he's playing at Southern Miss after not doing much for Marshall the prior two seasons. A pure bust as far as a recruit goes. -Terrence Cooks - LB - a guy that TCU tampered with and Texas didn't want to see leave. He rushed out the door before NIL could fully be explained/sold to the roster. Looks like we dodged a bullet. He hasn't done shit at TCU either. Another bust. -Jonathan Brooks - RB - workhorse RB who bided his time, never threatened to leave, played his ass off and became a 2nd round pick in 2024. NFL future is now uncertain, sadly, due to multiple knee injuries, but he became a star at Texas and a great story. -Morice Blackwell - S/LB - became a major contributor on STs and a solid role player on defense for multiple years, even if a tweener. He's camped/camping for one of the NFL teams, KC maybe, but he goes down as a quality collegiate performer. The type that plays a role for elite programs. -Byron Murphy - DT - came in and quickly established himself as a potential force, which he became. Ultimately an All American, a 1st round draft pick in 2024, and a massive contributor to the rise of Sarkisian's culture at Texas. -Hayden Conner - OG - the less heralded Katy Taylor OL prospect in this class, he went on to have a much better career than his teammate, Bryce Foster, did at ATM. Multi-year starter who still has not blocked anyone in the run game, wound up a 6th round pick in the NFL draft in 2025. -David Abiara - DE/Edge - came in as a low 4 star, did jack shit at Texas, and promptly split for SMU. While at SMU, he did nothing there either. Now he's headed to Texas State where he'll likely matter, by which I mean he'll have mass and take up space. -Jamier Johnson - CB - couldn't crack the depth chart early at Texas so he left and wound up at Indiana. He's been a productive player there and is likely to be so again this season. -Jordan Thomas - Edge - weird deal here where he signed and then left the team due to a family issue. Came back, didn't play, transferred and disappeared. He's apparently on the SFA roster, but I couldn't find any stats. -Derrick Harris Jr. - LB - seemed like a good dude who was vocal with keeping the class together. Never saw any PT at Texas and transferred. He's currently at USF, but I didn't find any stats. -Jaden Alexis - WR - I forgot this dude. Never did shit at Texas, transferred to USF, had some success in 2023. Missed 2024 due to injury but is expected back this season. -Keithron Lee - WR - we were excited about this guy helping at WR. He threw his opportunity in the trash by apparently putting a relative in a chokehold at a party and then buttfucking that person. He was convicted for that felony and 5 others, eventually, as well 12 different misdemeanors involving drugs, guns and other shit. He's currently in prison serving multiple sentences. Sounds like a stand-up guy. Robert Joseph thinks this guy needs to take it easy. https://wtaw.com/guilty-pleas-to-18-criminal-charges-in-14-brazos-county-district-court-cases-in-16-months/ -Juan Davis - TE - lowly-ranked recruit who simply came to campus and took care of his business. Patiently waited and developed into a regular contributor late in his career at Texas. UFA as of 2025, solid late in college though. -Barryn Sorrell - Edge - another lowly-ranked recruit who maximized his capabilities and potential at Texas and became a decorated starter. Eventual 4th round pick in the 2025 NFL draft and one of the key pieces in establishing the Sarkisian regime at Texas. -Gunnar Helm - TE - yet another lowly-ranked recruit who maximized everything at Texas and finished with an excellent career on a semifinal playoff team. 4th round draft pick in the 2025 NFL draft. -Casey Cain - WR - played a little at Texas when Texas was desperate for WR depth. Got passed over by youth and transfers on the DC and left for UNLV. Played some there and is now at Liberty. Meh recruit, really. -Charles Wright - QB - stanners on this site will tell us he's a great guy who loves UT. That's cool and all, but I want guys on the roster to have a greater impact than being a clipboard holder. Transferred to App State, then disappeared. Allegedly made it back to UT in some form, but who the fuck cares? -Max Merril - OL - this nepo baby showed up and stood around for 4 years, collecting a degree and NIL money. Hopefully he goes on to do great things with his family fortune and contributes to Texas football monetarily in the future. -Isaac Pearson - Punter - this guy came over from Australia and then shit himself at Texas. One punt for 15 yards. He later transfers to SMU and becomes one of the better punters in college football. Thanks, bud. **** Transfers: -Ben Davis - Edge - 5 star recruit who signed with Bama. Never did much, came to Texas, helped Sarkisian and Co. establish a no-nonsense culture. I can't remember who he knocked out, but I believe he whipped someone's ass at practice in 2021 who deserved it. Didn't do much on the field at Texas, but cost us nothing and helped right the ship. -Ray Thornton - LB - came over from LSU. I don't remember him doing a fucking thing while on campus and not sure where he's at these days in life. He could be selling insurance or playing rugby in New Zealand, you tell me. -Keilan Robinson - RB - came over with Sarkisian and became a multi-year contributor and a great story. Drafted in the 6th round of the 2024 NFL draft after never really being a starter at Texas. -Ovie Ogfunanabdfugbo - Edge - transfer from Notre Dame who looked like Tarzan and played like Jane. Helped on some level on defense for a year or two before leaving to LSU. At LSU, he apparently looked good in early practices and that led to the room temperature IQ coonasses honking that they'd stolen one from Texas. I believe he wound being a non-entity for one of the worst LSU defenses ever. -Devin Richardson - LB/FB - came over from New Mexico or NMSU, doesn't matter, and promptly did nothing at Texas. Have no idea what happened to him. So this was an unheralded transition year class that wound up contributing 8 draft picks, including 2 1st rounders, and double digit starters. It also included a future hedge fund manager, a prison gang leader, and multiple starters for other programs. This was a pretty good group and they overachieved compared to this board's expectations.56 points
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Oregon mod on On3 just put in a Texas pick for 5* TE Mark Bowman.49 points
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Had a blast at the game. Fuck aggy and happy the maroon around me got to swallow that loss leaving the game. 🤘🏼 The drone show after was cool and it was hilarious to see the players sing The Eyes then sit on the field like little leaguers watching fireworks. Saw Chin Pubes there but didn’t get a chance to thank him for all the comedy gold over the years. Pooooooooor…🤘🏼 Special shout out to @Fletch🤘🏼Let’s sweep these hoes.48 points
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I don't...I don't think you understand how sex works.47 points
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There's going to be a time, years from now, where everyone is going to pretend that they were against this administration. We're not going to forget.47 points
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Flattie, I am not going to be an asshole in hopes that you hear me. I have said this here before but I guess it needs repeating. I am the first generation in my family to live their entire life with equal rights by law. My daughter is 16. We haven't even gotten to our 3rd generation yet. My mom joined the police dept a few years out of high school. Then she went back to school and got her nursing degree. Then she literally spent the rest of her life not taking care of herself so that I could get out. Mom died at 64. Not everyone is willing to dive on the grenade to further future generations but she did that and here I am. My mom never owned a home and I own a home in one of the richest suburbs in Houston, before that Woodland Hills CA, before that a golf course cul-de-sac. Now I am not rich, but my daughter has never known struggle. Most blacks are somewhere between my mom and me. Now you mentioned slavery which is a mistake a lot of conservative whites always make when having a little civil discourse about the black struggle. After slavery you had a huge backlash about blacks being free as soon as you know who got in office. Then came decades of taking away any progress blacks made. Debt Peonage. Jim Crowe. Racial Covenants. Redlining. Whites were violent against blacks on the regular. Then came the 70's and being physically violent against blacks wasn't kosher. So whites started attacking blacks through law making like stop and frisk. The US prison population was about 300,00 in 1970 and almost 2 million 3 decades later. Reagan instituted the 100-1 law where 5 grams of crack got you the same sentence as 500 grams of powder. Crackheads with 3 little rocks in their pocket were going away for years instead of getting help under the guise of "distribution". Again, any progress the black community made was being wiped out with swaths of people being put away for a ridiculous amount of years for having an addiction. Then came the 94 crime bill, the 3 strikes and your out bill, and gang injunction. Under gang injunctions if you were caught on the street after curfew. Jail. If you were thought to be a gang member and you were talking to another suspected gang member. Jail. If you were believed to be wearing what law enforcement saw as gang colors, or had suspicious tattoos. Jail. So you see buddy, they have never left us alone. It's 2025 and The President of the United States of America is attacking Universities for teaching about African Americans and punishing anyone with a Diversity program. But yeah......slavery. PS. As soon as white people started smoking weed regularly they decriminalized it. They also started trying to get people help when the opioid epidemic hit White America. Had that been us they would've increased the sentences.45 points
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Oh he lost your respect? No wonder he left. Couldn’t live with that44 points
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It's refreshing to see actual consequences for shitty behavior happening somewhere in this country.43 points
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A bit of earnestness I’m sure I’ll regret. I am not a Catholic, I am a believer. I do not think that the pope is infallible, even when speaking ex cathedra. The Catholic Church, like every institution of the Christian faith, is not infallible and quite often has been significantly worse than that. In the late 1970s Karol Wojtyla became John Paul II. He was also not a perfect or infallible man, and at times he could be rather worse than even that. But this man proclaimed from the chair of St. Peter to millions of Central and Eastern Europeans that the inhuman and anti-moral system they lived under had lost all credibility and moreover, that they didn’t need to be afraid anymore. And while that may seem simple and trite, in the 1970s and 1980s fear was as much a part of that corner of God’s creation as castles and beer and dumplings and sour cream. Fear hung in the air, written in red, blown in from a leaden gray Moscow sky. Millions of people decided to believe him and acted thus. Catholics and non-Catholics and atheists and Jews and within ten years the fear was gone, the Soviet barracks emptied and the castles and beer and sour cream and dumplings remained. No one had to shoot at anyone, no superpower intervened. Maybe it was God or maybe John Paul II or maybe neither. Maybe it was just people who looked for a reason to stop being afraid. Today a friend with Slovak passport, Hungarian name, Jewish roots, and secular worldview— a sensitive and intelligent woman, a graduate of Columbia j-school, an award winning anti-corruption crusader— wrote that perhaps the selection of Leo XIV will serve as an “impulse to calm an agitated America or to return to basic values like care for your neighbor and empathy.” Maybe so. It’s possible. Deus vult.42 points
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"When a kid puts on the University of Texas uniform, we tell him that he's just naturally expected to believe in himself. You hear guys who went to another school in our conference—A&M, Baylor or somewhere—talk for 20 minutes on why they didn't want to go to Texas. But you'll never hear a Longhorn bother to explain why he didn't go to another school." -- DKR Still holds true today.40 points
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Huge shout out to @BillyGoatHill for transferring his tickets for today's game to my wife. I was already taking my 4.5-year-old son, but my wife also got to take our 2.5-year-old son. It was both of their first games in person (however, we do watch most of them on TV). They got to experience one hell of an offensive showing, including the ultra exciting three-run walk-off HR, saw Jonah Williams continue to ball out, ate a ton of ballpark food they normally don't get to eat, ran the bases after the game was over, and even got to see Surly cult hero DDA in the flesh! I am an ever-increasingly sentimental person since becoming a father. I grew up going to the Disch often with my dad. The memories and pictures from today will last many lifetimes in my family. I cannot thank you enough, good sir.38 points
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I live in a world where 1) Derka 2) can observe that Dave Portnoy speaking as to the economy is important, and 3) both Derka and Dave are right. Stop this planet, I'd like to get off.37 points
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You know, I did things the right way. People said I should save for my son's education, so I saved for my son's education. Started a 529 because people said it was the right way. I didn't choose anything too risky, just Index Funds because people said it was the right way. I put a little (very little) money in each month and put some of his birthday and Christmas money every year. My son graduated high school last year with $20K in that 529. I know that's nothing to some of ya'll, but to me, considering that I started college with Jack Shit, being able to give my son that $20K is something I take great pride in. And now, after 20 years of doing the right thing, when my son actually needs that money to pay for school, I'm worried Trump's fucking around and I'm going to be the one finding out. Fuck every one of you that voted for him. Fuck you for not knowing better. Fuck you for not caring.37 points
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So my wife and I had our long-awaited sit-down with my parents this weekend. It went... not bad? My mother actually apologized for her vote. My dad admitted he should have at least left president blank if nothing else, and has finally realized Dan Patrick and Ken Paxton are clowns who he has vowed not to support. There was some defensiveness from my dad about immigration that remains pretty nonsensical, but they agreed with things like deportation being out of control, January 6th and pardons being a really bad thing (still don't see how they overlooked this in November), healtchare and education gutting being scary, foreign policy being absurd. It doesn't absolve them of their votes, but I have hope that they have been nursing the kool-aid slow enough that they may be salvagable. Somehow we didnt even really touch on the economy, which would usually be a place they'd want to direct the conversation, so I'm guessing they're none too thrilled about that. How much of this was them capitulating so they can see their grandkids more? Perhaps a little. But they didn't roll over entirely or immediately, and my mother is not able to mask or manipulate her emotions, so I think there was real sincerity with much of what they said.37 points
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Mackovic dipped his toes in recruiting other areas. Well, his assistants did, in any case. Ricky Williams case in point. Eric Metcalf recruited us as much as the other way around. But we've never really flexed as a national recruiting power the way other schools do because of the perception we didn't have to. There was also the fact high school coaches ran recruiting in the old days in many ways. You had to stay on their good side or you weren't going to have much of a chance with their players. A good way to piss off that fraternity was to bring in a bunch of out of state players. Everything is so transactional now. Not just NIL, although that's obviously a critical part of it. But high school coaches have seen their influence diminished by trainers, 7 on 7 programs, and other 3rd parties even before agents got involved. One of the big reasons why Texas was so fiercely opposed to A&M heading to the SEC is that as an institution Texas spent decades trying to keep the SEC out of Texas as a prominent presence. But once A&M broke that seal the floodgates were opened. We'll never go back to the days of instate schools dominating Texas recruiting. At the end of the day Texas and the coaching staff at UT do not owe their loyalty to high school coaches. Their priority is to build the best roster they can. There are going to be years where different positions of need are going to have a weak in state class. I love the idea that Sark and company have created enough in roads in hotbeds outside the borders that they can go get the best regardless of geography. There was a feeling that in the 2000s Mack Brown had an opportunity to do the same thing. The brand after 2005 had never been hotter. Vince in football, TJ Ford and especially Durant in basketball. Baseball winning a national championship. Instead he sat on his laurels and allowed Saban to take the recruiting momentum away from him while he acquired a lot of summer camp bread to build recruiting momentum, and ended up with very average classes that were overrated because the commits had "Texas" next to their name. This is honestly the best I've felt about the program in my lifetime. I was too young for the glory wishbone era. But I remember the 70s, and all the decades since. This is the best shape the program has ever been in during that time in terms of long term sustained success. It feels like this is the way it always was supposed to be, and we even got a little glimmer in the mid 2000s. But that was a mirage, and I knew it at the time. This feels good, man.36 points
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No--I'm sorry, but fuck him. He came into my country, availed himself of its openness, opportunity, and kindness. And while doing so, actively worked to undermine all those things. He came here and stanned for a guy who tried to violently overthrow the government of the United States. He openly supported a guy who promised to undermine the Constitution, carry out vendettas against his political opponents, and eliminate the rule of law. He's an enemy of the United States. He has campaigned to destroy the country I love and that my forefathers helped build. And if he dies in the deepest darkest hole El Salvador has to offer, then it'll be precisely the death he deserves.35 points
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