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  1. 1 minute ago, Thiefery said:

    Hell all we need to do now is close on both Collins and Princely and wrap up the state's top DL prospects for 2020. Hell of a job Coach Giles (Ducks)

    Looks like we have a new ace recruiter on our staff!

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  2. 42 minutes ago, ShowmeyourTDs said:

    After an hour session of yoga she is about strip down to take a shower, and she doesn’t want to wash her hair.  Demas on the other hand, wears his everyday to prevent flying jizz and drool from the aggy faithful.

    What the hell is this comment 

  3. 8 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

    I’m going to pass along something I heard related to some of the recent recruiting challenges. No idea if this is true or not. It’s just what I heard. 

    When a player visits, it is sometimes not clear whether that player could be influenced by improper benefits. The reason is that often players and the families don’t make those intentions clear. Rather they sit back and see what materializes.

    The schools that engage in those practices address that topic during the visits to the school, obviously in a very careful, hidden way.

    So you could get a player on campus and believe you are in a great position to land them, until the improper benefits appear at a future campus visit at a competitive school.

    The player accepts trips to schools that don’t pay improper benefits because they don’t know that nothing will be forthcoming when they visit. Or, they aren’t quite sure whether any school will offer anything. When it doesn’t happen, they move on to the next school to see what is offered. 

    So how does this sometimes play out regarding Texas? They gets guys on campus who really like the program. Texas thinks they’ve got a potential recruit. But when that recruit visits certain other campuses,  certain time-limited offers are made. All of a sudden, the player accepts that offer and Texas is on the outside looking in.

    I won’t mention particular names, but I think we’ve all read stories about players we thought were interested in Texas who very suddenly committed elsewhere. In some cases, that is all about the fast route to money. Families need it so they take it. Also, they don’t want to get passed over for another recruit who will take the money and the slot.

    The player is then wed to that school. They are okay with it because they want to help their family, and live a better lifestyle, obviously. So they rationalize it that way and Texas doesn’t get them, even if the player liked Texas the most. This is what explains the sudden shifts away from Texas, in some cases. 

    This actually might be one of the most logical things I've read on this board. That or it's just confirmation bias, but it would explain a lot. 

  4. 1 hour ago, SydneyCarton said:

    Herman has no choice. I've seen other people make reference to Herman paying players, specifically Michael Knight or 6th Street or whoever decides to show up for a drive by to say "pay players" while having no understanding whatsoever how the process works. You think Tom Herman would have a problem paying players? The problem isn't Herman. It's the UT Institution and the Boosters. It's a systemic cultural aversion. A majority of the wealthy don't want to pay players, they think it's fucking unseemly and that UT and it's alumni should be above such reprehensible behavior. We're too good for that shit, in their minds. The money we have generally speaking isn't interested in paying players or setting up a network. 

    I sat in a room full of boosters that that guide the Longhorn Foundation while CDC gave a presentation on the South End zone project. The average age was probably 65-70. And let me tell you, a vast majority gave audible sounds of distaste when the topic of how much we were going to spend on facilities and medical renovations. When the talk of a player's lounge came up, one fucking old fart literally raised his hand and said he didn't understand the need for all these extras, the value of a degree from the University of Texas was reward enough. I don't think the average, normal fan REALLY understands the age and mentality behind who's shaping some of the aspects of how we do business as an Athletic Department. I thought I did, but seeing it in action is fucking startling. And none of this shit is probably going to change until some old people die. 

    If you think Herman is going to start contacting boosters to feel out who might be interested in starting paying players, developing a network, etc, well, I don't personally see it, and I find it highly unlikely. What I find more likely is he has some measure of success here and takes a job elsewehre if he feels like he can't win at the highest level at Texas. But that's just my personal opinion. 

    This certainly makes a lot of sense, but isn't the typical bag man network so far removed from the program that the most prominent boosters and administration would have no connection to it? To be fair, I'm basing most of what I know off of that SB Nation article from a few years back, but i'd be surprised if the head coach contacts anyone in a modern player-paying situation. 

  5. 1 minute ago, RomaVicta said:

    So, is it more important how you feel about them as prospects or how they actually play on the field? 

    Rhetorical questions aside, my whole point is that we clearly have a hard time landing consensus top 10 guys, and there's one very likely explanation for that. 

  6. 2 minutes ago, texifornia said:

    Like Jordan Whittington? Or Brandon Jones? Or Caden Sterns? Or *sigh* Bru McCoy?

    This is where we may just agree to disagree, but Bru's the only one of those that I felt that way about as high school prospects.

  7. 1 minute ago, texifornia said:

    *Some recruits. We're always going to get our share of good recruits - our class is really high quality, just small.

    True. But bags are definitely what land the elite "holy shit this guy is good" level of croots. 

  8. 1 minute ago, Luka Skywalker said:

    I just can't get over the fact that we did not capitalize on the momentum of this past season.  Will a win over LSU really make that much of a difference in recruiting?  I think we will still have our picks of the 3 stars.. 

    This might be the most fitting application of Herman's motto that "momentum is an illusion." We've had some great examples recently that bags are what win croots, not momentum and on-field success. 

  9. 1 minute ago, Hornsfan91 said:

    Seems like we can’t celebrate for one day on this thread. IT pumped the biggest sunshine in saying Robinson was going to commit on his OV.

    Didn't one of them say that if Bijan goes to OSU, they have to completely reevaluate how they process information? Looks like they have some pretty big fucking homework to do

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  10. 4 minutes ago, Stampeder said:

    For some perspective in terms of number of committed recruits for teams ranked in the top 50 in recruiting:

    Avg # of committed recruits:  15

    High:  22 (Michigan, Minnesota)

    Low:  7 (Texas)

    Pre-season Top 10 teams # of commits:

    Clemson:  18

    Bama:  20

    tOSU:  19

    UGA:  14

    OU:  14

    Michigan:  22

    LSU:  20

    Florida:  17

    Texas:  7

    ND:  16

    Yikes, this context makes it seem worse than I thought 

  11. 6 minutes ago, Lonestar88 said:

    JQJ is a higher ranked prospect than Dorbah and his commitment satiated the board for less than 24 hours. The 10th will take us to the 11th and then the gloom here will continue.

    Isn't that all life is though? Just trying to make it to the next enjoyable thing before we have to go back to dealing with the shit of normalcy? 

  12. 11 minutes ago, texifornia said:

    We're just not going to participate in those kind of auction recruitments unless something fundamental changes, and you know that.

    Not arguing, because this is definitely correct. But how did we land those kinds of guys back when Mack was here? Was the "market" for top 10 prospects not as intense as it is now or did we use to play ball more? 

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