Fun thread, kudos for starting it.
Judkins was viewed as a cancer or at least a prick and they did not work to retain him. Kiffin said good riddance on twitter.
You can like Finkley and Crawford all you want, but they were not guys we tried to retain. They were flawed players who were never going to be anything here other than a teeener and a special teams demon.
Terrence Brooks sucked and it did not hurt to lose him. The guy and his dad came to Texas asking for more money and we laughed and said good luck. He’d already lost his starting job to Muhammad by the end of his last season.
in regards to the overall conversation, I think damn near every guy we’ve gotten was someone the other team wanted to retain. Ok, maybe not all of them. Norton and the other DT two years ago who sucked, but Norton ended up being a great pickup. Watson from Syracuse, Brevard, Endries, Matthew Golden, Isiah Bond, even Duke Catalon, all were viewed as big time gets to varying degrees as well as all the other folks mentioned.