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The fat bastard loves to hear himself talk Key notes from Billy Liucci To land KJ Edwards, this was one that surprised us yesterday in terms of when it happened. I don’t think we woke up yesterday expecting an Edwards announcement. I’m not positive Mike Elko woke up expecting it. What they did know is that A&M was way more in the mix for Edwards than people thought, and they were really sitting in a good position for him for a while. Even when Jonathan Hatton Jr committed, you felt like they could end up getting both of those guys because there was a need for more than one. The two seemed like they fit in terms of style. Texas did a lot, and LSU did a lot to convince the people covering them and both of those fan bases that they were the teams to beat. I’m reading some of the Texas stuff saying A&M made a late push, but A&M has been there through the entire process. I think LSU and Texas underestimated A&M as a possibility. They load up at a position to the point where you think they can’t take another one, then they do. I remember Mack Brown. There was a certain player A&M was going to fight Texas for. It was a one-sided beatdown, and Brown was just grabbing all of these offensive linemen. Then you assume the seventh guy, A&M should get, then Texas went and got him. When you’re elite, you can get the two unquestioned best running backs in Texas. Trooper Taylor is an elite recruiter. He always has been his whole career. That’s a unique name. Anyone from any Texas college has heard of Taylor for years. He is an ace on this staff. I love the way Adam Cushing recruits for what they’re looking for. He has more tricks up his sleeve coming up. I think we are realizing why Holmon Wiggins was hired as the receiver coach at Alabama before A&M. I’m talking about the offensive side of the ball. I think Elko has a really good recruiting staff on that side of the ball. We’ll talk about Brandon Arrington in a second because Jordan Peterson is starting to make a real name for himself. I do think part of it is when it’s national and coast to coast, the days of pulling up the “Texas Top 10” and seeing who gets the most off this list of A&M, Texas or Oklahoma are gone. Then, you started seeing more of them go out of state, and now, A&M is going to start adding Texas kids a lot more frequently in the next run of commits. When you look at some of these guys. I think a lot of it with national recruits, like Arrington, who is announcing tomorrow, everyone is gassed up to see who wins out on him of A&M and Oregon. Some of these lesser-known national guys, particularly ones that A&M gets on campus and gets commits from early, the fans haven’t gotten emotionally invested in. I think the Aggies have an excellent shot with Tristian Givens. My point is when Jamarion Carlton from Temple visits Texas, and the Aggies cancel their visit... Instead of melting down and panicking on the message boards about a coaching staff that’s putting together a top-five class, if not higher, maybe take a second and see where he ranks nationally with the other guys A&M is trying to get. It’s the same thing with this WR/DB in Cypress, Paris Melvin Jr. He flips out his A&M visit for Texas, and people melt down. I don’t know what kind of take he was at that point. If you’re going to go that negative on something, you have to be that much more positive when they get Samuel Roseborough over Texas a week after his official visit there. You can be negative, but match that energy by being positive and giving credit when there’s good. People talk about Maroon-colored glasses. Whatever the opposite is, take them off and throw them away. Start enjoying the good. They landed Edwards, an elite football player, a game-changing back. He is a game breaker, and if he weren’t running in Maroon & White, he’d be in Purple & Gold or Burnt Orange. Everybody is excited about him, but you should’ve been excited about Roseborough. You should be excited about Arrington and Camren Hamiel. Get up to speed with what is actually happening with this stuff. We’re talking about landing a five-star running back, and more of the comments from Aggie fans are that, “We’ve seen this before, and we’ll go 8-4 anyway.” If that’s your mindset, I don’t understand why you follow it. You’re allowed to enjoy it and have the common sense to understand they have to develop him and keep him on campus. But you can also see it’s a completely different coaching staff, and that 2022 recruiting class was an outlier. The top five recruiting classes typically win you football games. Just because it backfired once doesn’t mean you don’t want to be there. It’s almost like they’d rather not get the good players and have them magically turn up. You have to know how much money Texas is throwing around in NIL money. Texas Tech openly brags about it. A&M would rather it not be openly advertised. I wish fans would understand A&M is doing well on the NIL front, and you could always do better, but that’s part of why they don’t want those numbers out. Sometimes it’s just good old-fashioned recruiting. It’s a guy like Taylor, and there’s still recruiting that has to be done because everyone is offering NIL money and more this year than they ever have. I’ve reached out directly to sources out west about Arrington that feel like that has been trending significantly A&M’s way the last few days. One of those situations where you’re 24 hours from the finish line. You have reasons to feel good about it, but you know it’s not across the finish line. Even last year in that cornerback class, I think part of it is not just that Peterson is an Aggie, it’s that he came from Kansas. I go back to a guy Kevin Sumlin told me he was going to hire. It was David Beaty. He did an amazing job recruiting wide receivers to A&M while he was here. Really putting A&M back on the map in DFW, where they had been a non-factor for several years prior. Whether it was Mike Sherman or Dennis Franchione, it was a problem. Oklahoma was rolling the way they were. Beaty really turned it around. He was at Kansas at the time. He had gone from high school to Rice to Kansas. Peterson got his first job at Fresno with Tim DeRuyter when he got the head job. I know when Elko hired him, part of it was that he had a reputation for recruiting lights out at Kansas. He brought some real talent there that ended up in the NFL. The question was if he could translate it to A&M. I think Elko made the right call because he’s just a great recruiter. Everybody talks about Jeff Banks as one of the best recruiters in the country. I mention him because he was at A&M, but he got hired by Nick Saban. Then he left for Texas. But when he got to A&M, nobody gave a damn about him because everyone was worried about losing Brian Polian because he had a name at Stanford before. Then you hire a former punter from UTEP who didn’t have a name at all to the A&M fanbase. I think Peterson is quietly kicking ass on the trail right now. I always prefer when coaches make a name for themselves somewhere else first. That carries more weight to me. Real quick, Edwards again. A&M has a couple of spectacular skill players committed in this class. There’s more, but Aaron Gregory, Edwards and Hatton... Those guys are potential game changers. Edwards is electric. You watch that tape. He had 11-something yards per carry. We talked yesterday about what will set A&M up. The one box I don’t know if they’ll have checked is whether they'll have skill players who will be top five at their position in the conference. There are dynamic players all across the field on any team in the SEC. Edwards absolutely has that juice. I could think about six guys off the top of my head that I absolutely think they are going to land, and I’m probably forgetting one. I think the Edwards addition is going to set off a little run here. I could see them landing three guys who are borderline five-star players between now and then. That’s not factoring in Lamar Brown or Tristen Keys, who A&M is now in the mix for. Jase Mathews, too. I think there will be another player or two that they see add that people weren’t really expecting -
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Texas A&M begins official visit season with an action-packed weekend By Jason Howell June 10 The summer official visit season has begun in Aggieland, and Mike Elko and staff kicked things off with a bang. How big was the weekend? Well, here are a few stats: 18 official visitors 6 commitments going into the weekend 1 new addition over the weekend 2 Tanks 11 different states 5 Texas prospects Every single position group represented There was also one extremely highly touted and high-priority 2027 prospect in town for an unofficial visit. High priority targets from across the country descended upon College Station for an action-packed Aggie experience, and they hit the ground at full sprint. There was fishing, karaoke, tomahawk steaks, lobster, brisket, a day on the lake with tubing and a photo shoot with goats that went viral as soon as it hit the internet. When the weekend wrapped and all the airport runs were done, fun was had, memories were made, bonds were formed, and a lot of top targets left town with the Aggies high on their mind. Following the visit, Shreveport (LA) CE Byrd kicker Asher Murray became the newest addition to Texas A&M’s 2026 class. The All-American kicker received his offer last week and scheduled his official visit, so it was pretty clear that momentum was building quickly. On Monday, he let the world know. During the weekend, wide receiver Aaron Gregory and running back Jonathan Hatton Jr turned heads when they announced they were shutting down their recruitments and standing firm in their commitments. Tight end Caleb Tafua and defensive lineman Jermaine Kinsler have also issued statements, and don’t be surprised to hear more from the commitment group. As for the uncommitted group, there is still work to be done, but plenty of momentum was built. Commitments are always the goal, but last weekend, it was not the expectation for a few reasons. Many prospects on hand had visits scheduled to other places over the next few weeks. Most entered the weekend fully intending to take those trips. Several of the guys already had commitment dates set for a later time. At wide receiver, five-star LSU commit Tristen Keys of Hattiesburg (MS) made headlines the day of his arrival by inking a deal with Adidas. Miami joins the Aggies and Tigers as top contenders, and Keys had plenty of people in his ear throughout his weekend in College Station, including QB Helaman Casuga and a fellow standout wideout in Gregory. Aledo (TX) standout and longtime target Kaydon Finley slid a bit further under the radar during his visit, and Notre Dame and Texas have grabbed momentum there over the course of the spring. He was fairly quiet throughout the weekend and has not said much since. Right now, the word is Finley is trending elsewhere. @Evanjacobson12_/Twitter Evan Jacobson is listed at 6-foot-7 and 220 pounds, and he received an offer from the Aggies in April of 2024. The Iowa product has visited A&M in both April and June. At tight end, the Aggies welcomed Evan Jacobson of Waukee (IA), and this is one where momentum seems to be trending in a very positive direction. The Aggies were one of his first offers, and tight ends coach Christian Ellsworth has formed a long-standing bond with Jacobson and his family. He has official visits coming up to Auburn, Florida State and Notre Dame, and if I’m looking at top competition, my eyes are on the Irish. Jacobson does plan to make a decision shortly following his officials. The offensive line had a lot of eyes on it over the weekend. The Aggies have yet to receive a commitment on the offensive front, and this weekend, three top targets were in town: John Turntine, Zaden Krempin and Samuel Roseborough, all on official visits. Again, the word has been positive on all fronts. The Aggies are among the favorites for each and considered top contenders. However, the competition is tough and spirited as they make their moves. Turntine has his eyes on A&M, Stanford, Michigan and Texas; Krempin has A&M, LSU, Michigan and Texas as his finalists; Roseborough has five with A&M, Florida State, LSU, Ohio State and Texas all in the mix. There is a chance all three could end up in Aggieland, but it also would not be a surprise if all ended up elsewhere. The Aggies positively moved the needle with each offensive lineman this weekend, and I would say the best odds are somewhere in between all and none, with the Aggies winning some and losing some. On the defensive side, there was a lot of “Tank” talk, as in edge defender Tank Jones and linebacker Tank King. The Aggies entered the weekend in favorable positions for both and exited the weekend with some strong momentum. Both have had an eye on the Aggies throughout the recruiting process and have visited Aggieland on multiple occasions. So have their families, and the A&M staff has formed strong connections throughout the process. TexAgs Tank King is a 6-foot-2, 215-pounder from Port Arthur Memorial. Both have plans for a few more trips, and then they plan to sit down and make some decisions. Jones has not announced a decision date, but he does have upcoming visits to Oregon and Alabama, and he plans to sit down and make a decision with A&M, Auburn, Miami, Florida, Oregon, and Alabama in the running. King has his sights set on a July 4 decision with the likes of A&M, LSU, Texas and Notre Dame vying for his talents. Things have been pretty quiet with Lakeland (FL) linebacker Malik Morris, and shortly after his visit, he posted and deleted a statement about his recruiting process being open on his X. The Aggies have been in the running there with Florida and Miami a couple of other schools to watch, and right now, it appears things are trending closer to home. Then there was the secondary with Carrollton (GA) cornerback Dorian Barney and Flowood (MS) Hartfield Academy safety Bralan Womack in town. Barney and the Aggies have flirted back and forth throughout the process, and at times very heavily. There were a few times over the last six months I would have declared the Aggies the favorite, and as he wraps up his visit and looks toward his July 5 decision date, the Aggies are among his finalists. However, coming off this weekend, I do not get the sense he will end up in Aggieland. The Aggies have two commitments and are in strong contention for a few top targets, while Barney has some big options on the table himself. I get the feeling both things are trending in different directions for both parties. Womack is another who has been a frequent visitor to College Station, and he has been very high on the Aggies throughout the process. Over the weekend, it was another strong effort for the guys in Maroon as Womack eyes an August decision. Ohio State has been the longtime favorite by prognosticators and analysts, and it is hard to ignore the Buckeyes and Womack’s affinity for Caleb Downs. However, the Aggies are right there in the mix and have been for a while and should not be ignored. TexAgs Texas A&M offered John Meredith III after his 2024 camp performance. The Aggies also hosted 2027 Euless Trinity cornerback John Meredith III on an unofficial visit. A&M was one of his first offers, with Jordan Peterson leading the Aggies’ recruiting efforts, and Meredith was able to spend quality time around the staff as well as get in some fishing, which is always a plus with him. There is still a long way to go, but the Aggies are right in the thick of it with plenty of competition for one of the top corners in the 2027 class. Away from the official visit weekend, the Aggies do have a mid-week battle for a top in-state target as Mansfield (TX) Timberview safety Chance Collins announces his decision between A&M, Texas Tech, Utah and West Virginia at 2 p.m. on Wednesday. Make sure to check out his Instagram (@chance.collins8x) for the live announcement. Collins is coming off an official visit to Texas Tech over the weekend, and the Red Raiders generated some strong momentum. However, Collins will be in College Station on Tuesday with his Timberview teammates for A&M’s 7-on-7 camp, which is always a good thing. Then it's back to official visit season, with another strong group of visitors expected in town this coming weekend. As always, we will post a list soon and keep you updated throughout the week, so stay tuned. -
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