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  1. (Justin Wells) Inside Scoop: Five-star visitor and update, top targets latest schedule, and commit taking UOV

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    Inside Texas has the latest on a top OL target setting his official visit, another LB offer that’ll see Austin soon, a member of UT’s Class of 2025 visiting a rival, and a five-star receiver that needs to hit Austin in Monday’s Inside Scoop.

    Michael Fasusi, OL, Lewisville (Texas)

    While Fasusi has a busy Spring, the On3 Industry Ranking’s No. 11 prospect has locked in his official visit to Austin. The 6-foot-5, 300-pound five-star and top offensive tackle target told Inside Texas he will take his OV to Texas on June 21-23. This is his only scheduled official trip at this time, but IT wouldn’t be surprised to see Oklahoma, LSU, Missouri, and Texas A&M get official visits as well.

    Fasusi will visit LSU on March 20 and then head back to Texas A&M March 30. He also has trips scheduled back to Texas on April 9, Oregon on April 17-18, Oklahoma on April 25 and then Colorado on April 27-28 for the first time.

    Elijah Barnes, LB, Dallas (Texas) Skyline

    Barnes just dropped his top 10: The 6-foot-3, 225 pounder is down to LSU, Alabama, Texas, Ohio State, Oregon, Florida State, Nebraska, SMU, Texas A&M, and USC. Now he has a visit schedule. He’ll hit LSU on March 9, Ohio State on March 23, Alabama on March 30, Texas on April 6, Texas A&M on April 13, and Oregon on April 20 over the next two months.

    After that, he has his first official visit to Nebraska scheduled for April 26-28. Texas continues to look strong in this recruitment, as Barnes continues to build his relationship with Johnny Nansen and the Texas staff.

    Anthony Williams, EDGE/LB, Alvin (Texas) Shadow Creek – #AllGasNoBrakes

    The 6-foot-4, 185-pound three-star is happy with his commitment to Texas. But he also wants to enjoy the process and he’ll take an unofficial visit to Texas A&M on March 30th, he tells IT. Williams jumped into the class on January 1 and has been recruiting for the Horns ever since, including pitching his Shadow Creek teammates Cobey Sellers, Jacorey Watson, and Chris Stewart on donning burnt orange. Williams still hears from Texas A&M, TCU, and Baylor, but assured Inside Texas he’s locked into his Texas pledge.

    Jaime Ffrench, WR, Jacksonville (Fla.) Mandarin

    Texas needs a huge visit with the Florida native Ffrench. The On3 Industry Ranking’s No. 25 player in the country will visit Texas on April 6th. Though Ffrench is excited about the visit, Texas is playing from behind against a handful of others and will need to have a 10/10 visit to wiggle its way into genuine contention. Sark’s history with receivers, including very recent history at Texas, certainly helps. As does having K.J. Lacey in the Texas class.

    Standout schools or leaders right now: “Definitely say Florida State, LSU, Ohio State, Tennessee as well, and Miami. Those schools.” What is it about those schools? “Really just the bond. A lot of those schools offered me when I was young, it’s not just the change in coaching staff (at Alabama), the head coach (Nick Saban). They still knew me when I was a freshman camping, sophomore camping, building that relationship with me and letting me know what it is.”

    What’s he looking forward to on his Texas visit? “Really just the atmosphere. I heard everything is big in Texas. Just want to check it out. First time on campus, I’m looking forward to it, man.” [There was genuine enthusiasm in his voice about the Texas visit] Ffrench was a the best receiver on the field this weekend in The Woodlands. Others who impressed were Marcus Harris and Andrew Marsh.

    Marcus Harris, WR, Santa Ana (Calif.) Mater Dei

    One out-of-state receiver name very familiar to Inside Texas is Marcus Harris from Santa Ana (Calif.) Mater Dei. IT has viewed Harris as a Texas lean, and that’s still the case, however his public comments wouldn’t necessarily give you that feeling. Here’s the latest from the On3 Industry Ranking’s No. 137 player in the country. How has the process been so far?

    “It’s been going good, getting down to the nitty gritty, taking unofficials, things like that. I’ve been talking to teams like Texas, Oregon, Tennessee, Bama, Penn State, Ole Miss, a lot of schools at the moment. Relationship like with Texas? “It’s good, the coaches always come down to my school to see me: (Tashard) Choice, (Jeff) Banks, (Chris) Jackson, Coach Sark. They all come down, that’s the family right there.”

    Status of official visits? “I’m in the process (of setting up officials) but I have two set up. I have Oregon and Texas set up. I think Texas is the last week in June and then the 14th is for Oregon.” [Note: Harris’ official will be June 21-23, the last week of June is in the dead period.] Thoughts on the Ducks: “Oregon, I’ve been talking to them for a while ever since my sophomore year. They always check in with me and make sure things are good. That’s just a good coaching staff over there for sure.”

    Any teams standing out at this point? “Really four teams stand out to me right now: Tennessee, Oregon, Bama, and Texas.” Harris doesn’t have a set timeline for a decision states it’ll probably be before the season.

    Eric Nahlin co-authored this article.

     

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  2. Has OnTexasFootball pretty much killed this thread's traffic?

    Eric Nahlin: Sunday afternoon Texas recruiting intel after attending 7 on 7 and training session

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    Inside Texas spent much of Saturday and Sunday between a 7 on 7 in The Woodlands and a training session at Shadow Creek to see some younger receivers. Between the two events I had the chance to converse with a number of recruits, their family members (including two former NFL players), and teammates of Texas targets. Throw in a couple of quality trainers as well.

    CB Coby Sellers, DB Kade Phillips, TE Kiotti Armstrong

    A teammate of four-star Sellers was confident the Shadow Creek cornerback will ultimately select Oklahoma. There’s been confidence on the Oklahoma side since his unofficial visit in January. An early theme of this cycle is OU’s aggressiveness. That staff is doing a good job connecting with recruits. A teammate of On3 Top 100 defensive back Phillips feels like Texas is the team to beat. “That’s the one he was waiting for. His dad likes Texas, too.”

    Having talked to Phillips recently I could certainly see Texas winning out. A teammate of Jasper’s stud tight end mentioned A&M or Texas for Armstrong. I told him if I had to guess I’d have A&M, he said either A&M or UT and that he’ll likely stay in state. LSU and USC are also pushing. USC is another team we’re hearing a fair amount this cycle despite the Trojans’ struggles in 2023.

    Andrew Marsh is a bellwether

    The Katy Jordan receiver comes across as wide open. On two separate occasions when listing schools he mentioned OU first. He mentioned Texas frequently as well. We keep hearing about A&M having a good chance but when he talks to media they’re usually down the list. A number of instate recruits are watching what Marsh will do this cycle. They seem to think if he goes elsewhere Texas could step up their recruitment of them. That written, Marsh seems nowhere close to making a decision.

    Marcus Harris impressed onlookers

    Texas was the first team the Mater Dei receiver mentioned and the first coach he mentioned was Tashard Choice. He also mentioned Jeff Banks and of course Chris Jackson and Steve Sarkisian. Both Choice and Banks have spent plenty of time at Mater Die while recruiting 2025 running back Jordon Davison and 2023 Texas signee Spencer Shannon.

    Harris’ recruitment feels like a Texas vs Oregon battle and we still like Texas’ chances. I did not see him play but Harris impressed a person I trust with his close-area explosiveness and his size. “More filled out than I was expecting.”

    Christopher Stewart remains a name to know

    2026 Shadow Creek receiver Chris Stewart is expecting to hear more from Texas in the coming weeks. Despite UT being his first offer things have been quiet of late. He’ll visit Oklahoma on March 9 and then A&M later in March or early April. He’ll probably see Baylor, too. He’s a sub 11-second 100 meter sprinter as a sophomore with really good play-speed and ball skills. He has a ton of offers including OU, Alabama, and Ole Miss. I’m not the biggest fan of 7 on 7 but it’s always interesting when guys come down with passes like this game winner.

    Texas’ wide receivers really caught his attention the day before with their performance at the NFL combine. We talked for a few minutes about Xavier Worthy and Adonai Mitchell.

    2026 WR Mike Brown

    Mike Brown is the son of former A&M linebacker Reggie Brown who was famously injured while playing for the Detroit Lions. He has a lot of offers already but Texas is the offer Mike wants. I heard that from his trainer, Deche Milburn, and I also heard it from both of his parents. His dad said he could see Mike being the black sheep “sort of like me being from Austin and going to A&M.”

    Brown attends Legacy School of Sports Sciences in Spring so he’s not playing great competition. Camps will be big for him and he intends on camping at Texas to see if he can earn an offer. Currently he holds Oregon, A&M, Penn State, OU, and a lot more. I told Reggie I sensed some 2026 athletes were getting antsy when it comes to Texas and offers. His response, “When you make the playoffs you can be patient.”

    Finally

    A good contact put me on the phone with Jonah Williams briefly. The five-star athlete says he will visit Texas this Spring but he’s not sure when. He wants to see a practice. Texas baseball will need to become involved for Texas to have any sort of shot of making up ground on OU.

    (Justin Wells) Recruiting Notebook: Detailed evaulation for Alvin (Texas) Shadow Creek WR Jacorey Watson

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    Inside Texas takes a closer look at the fit and evaluation for Alvin (Texas) Shadow Creek wide receiver Jacorey Watson in this edition of the Recruiting Notebook.

    Hudl/highlights

    How he fits at Texas:

    Watson is a water bug quick athlete who played a fair bit of quarterback last year for Shadow Creek but will now move to wide receiver, his eventual destination at college. Watson is a slot all the way, a bit shorter at 5-foot-10, and not currently very stout although that could come with time. He’s blazing quick and agile and would be a major weapon running crossers and screens in the RPO game but his ability to work deep from an outside receiver alignment is harder to gauge right now. His functional, on-speed athleticism is obvious and he’s very dangerous with the ball in his hands. – Ian Boyd

    Coach Says:

    Strengths — Looks like he could fill out into a stocky frame (e.g., Devin Duvernay). Straight line speed flashes his track speed (~11.5s 100m).  Balanced out of his stance and threatens the leverage consistently and quickly. Great agility with cuts that are sharp. Can decelerate and accelerate quickly. Has split time between QB and WR in his high school career. He fights through contact in the red zone and looks to focuses well under tight coverage. Appropriate catch motion that is so natural he does not give the defender a key that the ball is arriving. QB film shows very good vision as he maneuvers through blocking. Has a really nice KOR highlight.

    Areas for Improvement/Concern — Route tree on film is limited (stick, bubble, post). Run blocking and ability to beat the press are unclear.

    How this affects Texas:

    In what looks like an obvious three wide receiver class, with potentially four, the Horns might be recruiting the Sharks athletic phenom the hardest. Texas has its eyes on pass-catchers from around the country, including Dakorien Moore, Marcus Harris, Andrew Marsh, and Jaime Ffrench. But they would love to add an athlete like Watson, who played quarterback for Shadow Creek last season. Now he’s back to receiver and working towards a big senior campaign. And Texas is watching. – Justin Wells

    According to the On3 Industry Ranking, a weighted average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies, Watson ranks as the No. 87 overall prospect in the country and No. 14 wide receiver in the nation. On3 has him as the No. 59 overall prospect and No. 11 wideout nationally.

    Joe Cook: 2025 WR Andrew Marsh talks recruitment, relationship with Texas, timeline

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    2025 Katy (Texas) Jordan wide receiver Andrew Marsh has a number of options at this point, as indicated when he explained to Inside Texas who some of his most consistent suitors have been. “Recruiting has been good so far,” Marsh said. “It’s starting to pick up a lot. Some of the leaders have been Oklahoma, Texas, USC, Michigan, Kentucky, Nebraska, Louisville, Florida, Miami, Alabama, A&M, and TCU.”

    Those are some of the best football programs in the country, but he’s built a relationship in recent months with Steve Sarkisian and Chris Jackson of Texas. “For sure Coach Jackson and Coach Sark,” Marsh said about who he keeps up with most in Austin. “I talk to them quite a bit. I’ve started talking with Coach Sark once a week and I talk to Coach Jackson probably multiple times a week. The relationship with those guys is really good, really strong. I’m really just building on it daily.”

    Marsh said he’s built good relationships with all of his top contenders, but his bond with Texas A&M had a bit of a reset when Jimbo Fisher was fired. He’s since started to communicate with Mike Elko and Holman Wiggins. “I get to know them better daily,” Marsh said. Marsh had a sister who attended Texas A&M, and so familiarity with the Aggies and Longhorns is going to have an increased effect on this pursuit. “The Texas schools, staying in state, is kind of big for me,” Marsh said.

    Marsh was asked if he has his official visits scheduled. None have been confirmed according to the four-star receiver, but he has an idea of where he wants to see. “I know I’ll be taking some to places like Oklahoma, A&M, USC, TCU, Texas, Michigan,” he said. Marsh explained how he’ll start winnowing his schools down soon. “Definitely want to start narrowing it down,” Marsh said. “I’m looking closer towards making a decision around Veteran’s Day, around that time.”

    Marsh is ranked as the No. 53 overall prospect, the No. 7 wide receiver, and the No. 12 prospect in Texas according to the On3 Industry Ranking, a proprietary algorithm that compiles ratings and rankings from all four primary recruiting media services. On3 ranks Marsh as the No. 223 overall prospect, the No. 28 wide receiver, and the No. 37 prospect in Texas.

     

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  3. Chris Vannini: ACC and Big 12 face no-win situation in 14-team CFP proposal. What will they do?

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    Most of the headlines accompanying the recent discussion of a 14-team College Football Playoff have focused on the Big Ten and the SEC, and understandably so. The two most influential conferences’ consideration of a model in which they receive three automatic qualifying spots each and both first-round byes in a 3-3-2-2-1 AQ format is an unprecedented and obvious power play.

    But the fate of the CFP may actually hinge on the other two Power 4 conferences. Only the ACC and the Big 12 had any real power to push back on the initial suggestions of as many as four automatic qualifying spots for the Big Ten and SEC.

    Now it’s the ACC and Big 12 with the toughest decisions to make. In the 3-3-2-2-1 model, those two conferences have the most to gain and the most to lose. In exchange for more guaranteed CFP access, they would solidify themselves as second-class conferences. That’s an offer on the table (among other options, yes, but this model has gained the most traction, according to sources familiar with the discussions).

    It’s not hard to see why two guaranteed CFP spots each could be appealing to the ACC and Big 12. In 2023, the leagues had just one team from each of their future memberships finish in the top 14 of the College Football Playoff rankings: Florida State (ACC) and Arizona (Big 12). Under this model, the last team left out of a 14-team field last year would’ve been LSU, which finished 13th; meanwhile, Louisville (15th) and Oklahoma State (20th) would have made the cut. In many years, the ACC and the Big 12 could get teams outside the top 14 into the field, likely at the expense of a higher-ranked Big Ten or SEC team.

    But there’s the other side of that deal, which requires the ACC and Big 12 to relegate themselves to lesser-than status, admitting that the Big Ten and the SEC are better conferences that deserve more guaranteed spots, more guaranteed money and the only byes. That would still leave them ahead of the Group of 5, yes, but the Power-2/Middle-2 disparity would be an extremely hard sell to fans, many of whom feel insulted that this tiered model is even being discussed. And if you’re the ACC trying to keep Florida State and Clemson from leaving, the admission that more postseason opportunity lies elsewhere definitely doesn’t help.

    The perception of equal access and opportunity separates American sports from other sports like European soccer, where the best leagues and teams constantly have rules and formats bent in their favor. But college football has never really acted like U.S. pro sports. Its recent consolidation of power is the latest in a long line of moves leaders have made to narrow the paths of money and influence.
    go-deeper

    The ACC and Big 12 don’t have enough sway to stop that consolidation in this situation, only to delay it. They face a choice accompanied by a thinly veiled threat that the Big Ten and SEC could leave the current college sports power structure and do their own thing without everyone else. A month ago, the Big Ten and SEC formed an advisory group with a vague mission statement that seems to be about charting their own course in an uncertain future and making sure they have the money to do it. If you’re the ACC and Big 12, you can’t let them create any further formal separation.

    Faced with these options and no perfect way out, the ACC and Big 12 have to at least consider a deal that comes with two guaranteed CFP spots they may not get every year otherwise. The math and the money say that the Big Ten and SEC hold almost all the cards, and there’s no more pretending after this summer’s realignment. Without a need for unanimity to change CFP rules for 2026 onward, those two can bend this format and future CFP revenue and governance in their favor and threaten to storm off altogether.

    The model on the table does have positives beyond the guaranteed bids. It would emphasize conference standings over rankings — a results-based focus. A version of this model might have been the perfect solution 20 years ago when conferences were closer to equal in size and strength. But today, when everyone has a conference title game and intricate standings tiebreaker rules, this idea feels like a mess.

    In the summer of 2021, commissioners and presidents praised their new 12-team CFP proposal. Everyone sacrificed something to produce an expanded playoff that helped the entire sport. It was a rare moment of optimism. A month or so later, Texas and Oklahoma jumped to the SEC, and conferences ripped each other apart with realignment. The Alliance formed and died. Commissioners stopped talking to each other. CFP expansion was put on ice and later revived. The Pac-12 collapsed.

    By the time the 12-team CFP finally begins next winter, half of the 10 commissioners in place during its proposal will have changed, as well as the Notre Dame athletic director job. Everyone is out for themselves. It’s been the case for years, and it’s what the ACC and Big 12 have to consider now. Is this the best deal they can get for themselves out of a no-win situation? Or do they hold on to some hope that their football leagues can stay equal to the Big Ten and SEC? Because the Big Ten and SEC look determined to make sure that never happens again.

     

  4. Some interesting updates:

    • 5,000 CFB players have already opted-in to the game in the last 12 hours. That's about 40% of all FBS players.
    • No ability to add in players that opted out via custom player creator (probably  a lawsuit avoidance measure on EA's part
  5. 2 minutes ago, immamac said:

    Was coming to post about this. 
    https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/ea-will-offer-11-000-college-football-players-600-each-for-video-game-nil-rights

    shit is insane. People are telling them to reject the offer lmao this is stupid as fuck. $600 is more than basically all athletes get it’s a huge deal and it’s a lot of money. Everyone comparing it to NFL players cuts is insane there are way fewer pro players and they are actually professional. 

    The big wild-card is roster customization options. If those features are cut out, then opt-outs have more leverage because they know they can't be replaced in the game as easily. Imagine an Alabama fan hearing that Milroe won't be in the game, and getting stuck with a 6' 5" blond-haired blue-eyed Rico Dynamite or whoever at QB instead. Sales would take a big hit if too many opt-outs like that happen.

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