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  1. Just now, South Austin said:

    We went several months ago and thought it was good, but not enough that we were in a rush to get back. I’m not surprised it’s closing. I’d drive by it on some Friday evenings and it looked almost empty.

    Classic Austin. So many good places to go that a place will be on fire one month and closing the next.

  2. 22 hours ago, TexMexBuddha said:

    One thing not touched upon is the difference in accessibility to information for more than rudimentary evaluation. HUDL did not exist in the MB days. I mean, how many could reasonably expect access to tape from a California athlete even 5 years ago? Near costless access to information on all levels makes recruiting a lot less dependent on (or limited by) regional specialization and networking. It cuts both ways too. Jake Smith sitting at home has a lot more opportunities to evaluate the fit at a place like Texas before taking an OV.

    The who-you-know is certainly important, as evidenced by Strong's reach into Florida (and Louisville ['thanks for Poona']), Beck's ties to AZ and Herman's to CA. The growth of the camps and 7-on-7 clearly contribute as well, but yeah, this should be the new norm for us to get the best talent available.

    Right. I talked about this on 4th and 5.

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  3. 2 hours ago, closetojumping said:

    I appreciate the work TFB does. I think they're the best of the $9.95ers and I'd consider subscribing when I have time for another board again.

    That considered, I really don't like to see non-scientific thinking applying correlation to a disparate set of facts. It creates a narrative that isn't correct.

    Mack Brown didn't go out of state in part because he woke a sleeping giant, sure, and in part because he got very lazy, very early, and harmed the program accordingly. I'll argue he was lazy-ish about his recruiting approach from the moment he realized he could fill an entire class of Texans and legacy UT people. By the time even 2005 rolled around, he'd cemented the premise that if someone wanted to come to Texas from OOS, they were going to have to recruit Texas aggressively, versus the other way around. As a result, Texas signed virtually no one from OOS for years. Mack Brown failed to exploit the national reach of the UT program out of sheer sloth and hubris, and then he bragged about it, and the press coverage rewarded his idiocy by lavishing him with praise. The program would have been stronger and deeper if Brown had taken a sweeping approach to recruiting the best players available after setting a Texas foundation in each class. Had he done so, Texas would have never run into QB, TB, WR, DL, or LB depth issues during his tenure. UT has been at or near the top in global merchandise sales and viewership from 2000 forward and Brown did little to exploit that national reach. I view it as a sin.

    Now consider Tom Herman's approach. What he's doing now is nothing different in landscape view than Meyer at OSU or Florida, Saban at Bama, Fulmer at Tennessee, ND ever, Miami under Johnson, Erickson, and Davis, and particularly Bowden at FSU and Carroll at USC. Bowden and Carroll are the best analogs to me because they'd created national programs, or took over national programs, inside a recruiting hotbed. They built every class with a foundation of local talent that could compete at their level and continue to keep the program elite. Then they went out and went hunting for the best of the best at either positions of weakness within their own local realm, or simply because they could and felt they needed to in order to win titles. Herman's approach appears to be similar and I hope that continues to develop as he achieves higher levels of performance success at the helm of Texas. 

    So, I agree that Strong did what he felt he had to do out of necessity. I disagree that Mack Brown stayed largely within the Texas border merely because he soundly could. He could have done more, and he didn't. I disagree that Herman is a) doing something OOS out of semi-desperate necessity and b) will change his current approach once he's in a spot to dictate his class with Texas talent alone.  If he does get lazy or myopic about his recruiting needs/reach, history dictates that we should know better, unite as recruitniks, storm the Belmont fortress, and cast him and his minions over the top of the upper westside deck. 

    And as I put in the article, there are plenty of other major variables in this. I didn't say there was a causation. I just said there is a correlation and that it's interesting. Also I know if Brown was being lazy recruiting back in 2002-2007.

  4. 2 hours ago, Machinator said:

    TFB Open Post: http://texas.thefootballbrainiacs.com/2018/05/open-post-weekend-may-11th-13th/

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    – With the commitment of Brayden Liebrock, Texas’ 2019 class is 50% out-of-state with three in-state and three out-of-state. Furthermore, Liebrock definitely won’t be the end of the out-of-state commitments for Texas, as Texas could rack up anywhere from two more to seven more commitments from out-of-state prospects. This got me thinking about the fact that the Longhorns seem to be more willing to go out-of-state to get players than in years past. Since 2012, the Longhorns have averaged 5.57 players in their class who do not hail from Texas. If we bring that into the last two coaching staffs, it’s pretty obvious that there is a larger focus out of state than earlier this century, as more than 26% of each class over the past five years has been from out-of-state with 2015 being the peak at 10 players from out-of-state. Compare this to the Mack Brown years where he averaged 2 out-of-staters per class.

    However, was this due to Mack just being in love with Texas recruits and Texas recruits alone? It appears to have more to do more with necessity. When you compare the Longhorns previous three years’ total win percentage vs the percent of talent from out-of-state in that year’s class the point becomes much more clear. For example: the combined winning percentage of 2003, 2004, and 2005 was 89% and the percentage of OOS talent in the 2006 class was 9%, whilst the combined winning percentage of 2012, 2013, and 2014 was 59% and the percentage of OOS talent in the 2015 class was 34%.

    There are plenty of other factors at play and the following graph is far from statistically sound, but I still feel it provides a good tool to visualize the correlation between the perceived trajectory of the program and the reliance on out-of-state talent.

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    Even under Mack Brown, he had to start off by taking a good number of guys from out-of-state until he secured the results to lock down the state.

    Now, two questions remain…

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    “No-hahaha-no. This isn’t going to be forever…” But it probably won’t go away entirely either.

    As you can see above, when Texas is at it’s peak, there is minimal need to go out-of-state. However, Texas still had about 2-4 guys from out-of-state a year. If Tom Herman were to ever get to that point, Texas would probably see a similar dominance in-state, yet Herman has shown a willingness and ability to step outside the border and take some talent. We’ll see just how great that willingness is after this season, but it’s there.

    The second question is, “Can Tom Herman go out-of-state without ruffling the feathers of the easily angered Texas High School Football Coaching community?”

    We saw Charlie Strong get in trouble for going out-of-state for recruits at times. What makes Tom Herman any different?

    I think @Unofficial Longhorn put it best:

    Herman has the existing equity to make OOS moves, whereas Strong was borrowing with no existing credit history.

    When Charlie Strong went out and got the “Florida 5” and the other five out-of-state recruits, he was a guy going immediately out-of-state without having built prior relationships with teh Texas High School Coaching community. This gave them the idea that he wasn’t interested in Texas kids. And Charlie wasn’t good at being buddy-buddy or politicking, so whether or not the claims were valid didn’t matter. Add to this the fact that Strong came into a dysfunctional athletic department with a front office and donor-base that wasn’t exactly a fan of the hire (not because he was black), and high school coaches who weren’t a huge fan of the hire as well. Charlie Strong took a step forward to ensure he got some (seemingly) great talent when he had stood himself at the edge of the TXHSFB cliff.

    Tom Herman may not originally be from Texas, but he may as well be. Herman has coached fifteen out of his twenty-one year-long career in the Lone Star State. He has built up strong relationships with the high school staffs around the state and continues to keep them steady by allowing them free access to the practices and flexible access around the facilities. He knows the correct people to know in these circles and has built those relationships out. He has played this game correctly all the way down the line, and for that he’s given himself plenty of wiggle room to play around with going out-of-state and meeting 7on7 coaches. – (Will)

    May 8th Shhh:

    – Two hours after the news of Brayden Liebrock broke, we were graced with some more good news.

    The player connected with the most recent shhh, I’m told, has moved his timeline up and may actually announce late May/early June.

    So, look for something to potentially drop in the next three weeks but we’ll continue to follow it. – (Super K)

    Elijah Higgins: For a while it seemed like Elijah Higgins ending up at Texas was a matter of when, not if. Over the past month, we’ve heard that this was no longer the case.

    I spoke with a source earlier today who tells me that Texas is actually behind both Texas A&M and Stanford and that Higgins is set to visit Stanford this month.

    It’s hard to know whether this will hold up. Fortunately, Texas is within striking distance on a couple big wide receivers in Makiya Tongue and Bru McCoy. I plan on speaking with Makiya in the very near future. – (Super K)

    – One of my favorite Wide Receiver’s I’ve seen in 2019 is Notre Dame Prep (AZ) Jake Smith. Smith cut his list down to two recently, with Texas and USC as the lone schools remaining.

    While it isn’t surprising to see Texas and USC as the finalists for him (I’ll break them down in a second) I wasn’t sure if he was going to narrow it down this soon. I say that because some other schools were trying to get him to extend the process a little bit. Schools like Texas A&M, Ohio State, and Notre Dame were wanting to get him on campus this summer for official visits. But, now it just looks like he will take the two officials to USC and Texas.

    This is an interesting one to predict. As I know Texas fans hate the term “dream school” as a lot of recruits call Texas their dream school, and end up picking other schools. But, USC was the school Smith dreamed of playing at while growing up. And, Texas is the school that really opened his eyes on the visit and is giving him a ton to think about. It’s usually the opposite with the Longhorns.

    Smith would like to make a decision this summer. And it sounds like he just about has his official visit dates locked in for USC and Texas. The official visit to USC will be May 19th, and Texas will their shot on June 2nd. Right now I feel good about Texas’ chances and the fact that he was willing to narrow his choices down to two this early in the process makes me feel like he somewhat knows what he wants to do. But this one isn’t over yet, and will likely come down to the official visits. – (Andrew)

    Jalen Catalon just dropped his top 8. As we have stated in the past, Texas is one of the front runners here, so they obviously made the top 8.

    Jalen Catalon will be committing January 31st, so don’t expect anything to happen anytime in-between then an now. However Texas is still in a very good position here. – (Will)

    Fixed the graph because I am an idiot. Disregard my stupidity and listen to me. Thank you.

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  5. 2 hours ago, Bodacious Bevo said:

    I really thought I had been on top of the shhh's but I guess not

    Commits since 3/31: 
    DeGabriel Floyd 3/31
    Kenyatta Watson 5/1 (shhh 4/4)
    Brayden Liebrock 5/8 (shhh 5/7)

    I had assumed the 3/31 shhh was Floyd, but I guess not. Wonder who it is and why they're sitting on it so long then. 

    I guess it’s out there. Anyways, I fucked up. Floyd was the 31st.

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  6. So yeah. This is who we were talking about. Surprise.
    Anyways, here's our breakdown of him.
    http://texas.thefootballbrainiacs.com/2018/05/hookem-arizona-te-brayden-liebrock-commits-texas/

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    It didn’t take take long in his official visit for Brayden Liebrock to realize that he was home. Tim Beck and the Longhorns’ staff beat out teams like Ohio State, Notre Dame, Arizona State, California, USC, and LSU for the commitment of the fast rising 6’5″ 220-pound TE out of Arizona  to help secure a position of need.

    Liebrock absolutely blew up earlier this Spring when people started to really notice him dominating the 7on7 scene. It makes sense that it was 7on7 where he was first noticed because he has all the attributes that go into making a great receiving threat. Myself and everyone who has watched Liebrock live or on film have come away impressed with his ability down the field. First off like most great tight ends, he’s a mismatch, which I’ve been told becomes really apparent inside the 20 because he’s a “red-zone nightmare.”  Liebrock has a knack for finding the soft spots in the defense, combined with some crazy hands and receiving capability. He’s a fluid route runner and looks natural finding a way to get separation. He also knows how to bring in some tough catches. He’s like Cade Brewer where he has highlight reel level catching ability and can make defenses pay after he comes down with the ball. Brayden will likely be compared quite a bit with Cade Brewer, but Brayden is a lot more fluid than Cade Brewer whereas Cade Brewer has higher motor and more grit.

    That isn’t to say that Liebrock doesn’t know how to block. In fact, Liebrock is more than willing blocker. His height makes it a bit difficult to get his pads low enough to really take on a guy who is a lot stronger, but (again) like Cade Brewer, Liebrock has the fire that is needed to be a good blocking tight end and is particularly good when it comes to setting an edge. Still he’s a work in progress in that area judging from his Junior year. I assume when he gets to Texas he will follow a similar path to Cade Brewer.

    Liebrock has the ability to put his hand in the dirt or line up outside and grab the jump ball. Texas will likely want to use him in both areas as they have shown a propensity to do with guys like Cade Brewer or Reese Leitao; however, he will need to clean up his game in the trenches before he’s ready for the next level. This comes with learning the more finesse side of blocking and getting more muscle on his bones.

    With Brayden Liebrock in the fold, Texas has a good start to their TE class. Now their targets are set on Temple HS’s Jared Wiley who would be the yin to Liebrock’s yang.

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  7. 17 minutes ago, golfclap said:

    Fucking EJ did it again. He staged the Liebrock commit article at 10:30 and accidentally published it again and now pulled it back. 

     

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    Hey y'all. Sorry to ruin the "Fuck EJ party," but sometimes shit happens. Unlike others, this was obviously not intentional.

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  8. My breakdown of the Spring Game, with video

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    Defense will be consistent at worst

    Despite missing four defensive backs (two starters and two second stringers), two linebackers (one leader and one second stringer), and the starting NT, Texas looked very solid in all facets of the game.

    Obviously, the most impressive part of the entire defense was how solid the fundamentals of the game are within every single player. This was best shown in how reliable they were at making tackles in the open field.

    These fundamentals of position, tackling, and playing the ball were visible in every single player from the best players on the defense to the walk-ons. Every single level of the defense was doing the little things correctly which resulted in minimal yards after first contact (basically stymieing the run game).

    This along with the different blitz packages (that I detail in almost every play below), will be as much a problem for opposing offensive lines as it was for their own.

    And while there was a bit of give and take in the passing game, when the offense didn’t hit the weakness of a certain scheme as the starting defensive backs were solid. The only times there was blown coverage, it came against walk-on transfer Chase Moore. The only times that the offense just flat-out beat the defense were when Kobe Boyce or Josh Thompson had to guard the two best players on the offense every single play.  Even then they looked good. For example:

    You almost can’t play better defense than what Kobe Boyce shows in the below video. He’s in the hip pocket of Collin Johnson and gets a hand in the catch zone. Against almost any other receiver, those are break-ups. And that’s your back-up.

    Protection up-front still has issues

    Certain players on the offensive line had mediocre to bad performances during the Spring Game. Two of those were Denzel Okafor and JP Urquidez. Both of them were facing two monsters in Breckyn Hager and Charles Omenihu every single play. Furthermore, Denzel Okafor a guard trying to play tackle and JP Urquidez probably still needs another year of development before he’s ready to take on those two every single play.

    However, the one player who worries me the most on the offensive line is Patrick Vahe.

    For a guy who wants to be drafted, the Senior leader, and the anchor of the offensive line, plays like the ones below are unacceptable, and Patrick Vahe knows this.

    On the first play, the offense uses a scissors route combo to completely take advantage of the weaknesses present in four deep coverage, and it works! Unfortunately, when Patrick Vahe moves to pick up a blitzing Malcolm Roach, he opens his body completely. This poor position proves to be like a partially cracked door for Roach who runs right through it. This causes Shane Buechele to have to get the ball off quicker than he’d like, throw off his back foot, and sail the ball just over a wide open John Burt. Buechele had pressure in his face just when the getting was good, and that costs his team six points.

    Again, the play is perfectly drawn up for the defense called, but as I showed above, two things happened the resulted in a fumble.

    The first is again Patrick Vahe whiffs on his assignment or miscommunicates with Denzel Okafor. While Vahe tries to carry the DE down, he is completely unaware of the blitzing B-backer who is being passed off to him. With no OG to get in his way, the walk-on B-backer has a straight shot to the hand-off point and makes the offense pay. The offensive line should not be beaten by a walk-on.

    The second is freshman TE misreads the situation in front of him thinking he’ll need to block Anthony Wheeler. When Derek Kerstetter makes the correct read and works to the second level, Leitao is left searching for something to do. He needs to follow the DE and carry him whichever direction he chooses to go.

    Now I could be very wrong on whose responsibility is what for these two plays, but from what it looked like, the offensive needs to step up big time, or Texas will be in a world of hurt. Luckily, reinforcements are on the way.

    TE position has a pulse

    Now it’s not perfect. The good news is that the TEs were consistent in pass catching. Whenever the TEs were targeted they were able to pull in five catches (on seven targets). But whenever they did make the catch, there wasn’t much going on afterwards, with the longest catch of the day being a six-yarder. I would chalk up the lack of yardage to the phenomenal open field tackling I showed above.

    When it came to blocking, it was almost reverse of the pass catching. There was a bit of inconsistency, but when they did everything correctly, the protection was phenomenal and resulted in the longest RB run of the day.

    This play was made possible by due to a good block from Denzel Okafor and a great sealing block from Andrew Beck. Beck puts himself in position for the block by taking a great angle to it. This and other examples showed understanding of assignments that are much better than what Texas has seen over the past couple of years. This should enable Texas to open up the run game and bust a few big gains per game.

    However, there were still instances of plays like this one.

    Now blame the lack of positioning here to Andrew Beck playing his first game in about two years, but with the running back blocking inside-out, he needs to figure out a way to disallow the inside rush and push his man beyond the QB.

    Still, the TE position is miles ahead of where it has been, and Cade Brewer returning to the line up Texas has a solid group of talent in that position which will help in every phase of the offense.

    Not enough to evaluate extent of QB development…

    But if I had to choose right now I’d pick Sam over Shane. While both quarterbacks progressed in areas, I saw Sam do the little things more often than Shane.

    For example, looking back at the previous play, that is a small lack of understanding from Shane Buechele to stare down Collin Johnson and not keep BJ Foster glued to the middle of the field with his eyes. If he looks off Collin Johnson or pump fakes, that is a for sure touchdown. Instead the safety is able to easily read the play and make a play on the ball. Next year, BJ Foster intercepts that.

    Now let’s take a look at Sam Ehlinger on the other side. Both quarterbacks looked good throwing the short to intermediate ball, but I saw more development and higher upside from Sam.

    He goes through his reads in a timely fashion, understanding how to work inside the pocket (even though he works better outside of it), and delivers a ball to the correct spot. That was an impressive throw and field vision. In fact, his field vision came into play a few more times than that with one of my favorite plays of the game, an 8 yard pass to Devin Duvernay that he fit into the correct spot.

    Don’t get me wrong. You did see something similar to this from Shane Buechele from time to time. In fact you saw a lot of it in his touchdown throw to Collin Johnson, but it wasn’t there as consistently from what I could see on the film.

    Also, I’m not saying all of Sam’s problems are fixed.

    I don’t really need to break down this play to show what’s wrong here. Sam and tries to force the ball and ends up throwing to the wrong shoulder. This ball needs to be thrown to the outside of the wide receiver or farther down field. At the very least make it a jump ball. This could’ve easily been an interception.

    Still, I trust Sam to run this offense more efficiently. What he can do and the areas he’s shown improvement far outweigh his flaws. It’s still a close fight though, and Shane could easily reclaim his starting spot.

    WR’s really helped out QB’s with long ball

    This point kind of rags on the last, but this wide receiver group is special. How can you tell? Because they made the quarterbacks look good. Both QBs could use a tune up on their long balls. Shane moreso than Sam. Shane was having trouble locating his receivers, overthrowing John Burt (how do you do that) once without a valid excuse. Sam was consistently underthrowing his receivers.

    The times they did complete the longballs, they were given considerable help from their wide receivers.

    Like on this play right here:

    This is probably not the best decision coming from Shane Buechele to throw off his back foot into double coverage with a man in his face (which by the way, check out how well that blitz was executed). There is a way to get the ball to Jerrod Heard there, but the throw wasn’t put in a spot where only Jerrod Heard could get it. Luckily, Jerrod Heard was in the mood to make a lot of plays in the Spring Game and made a great adjustment to the ball and came back for it.

    Sam Ehlinger also had help from the wide receivers, but a little less so. His problem was mainly me saying, “if you throw a yard or two deeper, it’s a touchdown.” Like here:

    A few things to notice, as I pointed out above. The offensive line and Toneil Carter pick up a nice blitz to create a nice pocket for Ehlinger. Ehlinger then steps into his throw with a quick throw into a pretty tight spot. However, he throws it short. This forces Devin Duvernay, who runs a great go, to have to come back to the ball and take a massive hit instead of having the chance to catch the ball in stride.

    Texas has QB Depth

    It’s a recruitmas miracle. Texas has a solid QB room. It was obvious from first viewing that the freshmen QBs will be good. I don’t really need to break it down.

    Again, both young quarterbacks look to have promising careers. Rising was able to read and fit a nice ball into a perfect spot with a quick throwing motion. He also displayed a heck of an arm with accuracy.

    However, I was much more impressed with Casey who threw a few great balls and looked good inside and outside the pocket.I mean, that ball to Collin Johnson on the second video is placed perfectly.

    I believe these are flashes of what both will be capable of later on. The offense for these two was very much simplified to be more digestible for the youngsters, so they’re obviously not ready to jump right into the fire.

    WR Corps Have Potential to be All-Time Great

    I don’t have film for this section because most of the film I showed above.

    Let’s start with a guy I’ve been saying all Spring, “If he’s becomes consistent, he’ll be incredible.” Collin Johnson showed what he can do when he’s consistently making catches on jump balls and routine catches. It was highlight catch after highlight catch. He ended the day with six catches for 91 yards. If he’s able to be that good next year every game, at the very least he’s an early second round pick in the NFL Draft.

    Now let’s take a look at the MVP of the game and probably the best all-around player on the team, Lil’Jordan Humphrey. I’ve been singing his praises since last year ended and then bought a microphone during Spring ball to make sure the point was clear. Lil’Jordan Humphrey will consistently get you production wherever you put him pulling in seven catches for 100 yards. He won’t make the big play in the air as consistently as Collin Johnson, but if you get the ball in his hands, he’ll make something happen… which is why they put him at running back where he succeeded there as well. If he doesn’t go to the draft after his Junior year, I’m predicting he’s in the Heisman conversation his Senior year.

    Next up is the “back-up” to Lil’Jordan Humphrey, Jerrod Heard. Now, I put back-up in quotes because Jerrod Heard played like a starter and would be on most any other team. The only reason he’s a back-up is because you have to get Lil’Jordan on the field somehow. Heard has found a natural fit in the hole that was slot and showed just how well he can adjust to the ball and bring it in multiple times throughout the game. I don’t even think we saw him shine where he shines best, which is in the redzone. He’ll be a guy who gets you large chunks of yardage at a time as he pulled in four catches for 89 yards. I’m excited about Heard and what he can do.

    There were plenty of rumors surrounding Devin Duvernay in January and February, but Devin showed in the Spring Game why those quieted down. While he wasn’t targeted as much as I thought he should’ve been, Devin showed palpable and marked improvement in his route running and understanding of positioning. Add to that his hands and speed and you have an exciting guy on the outside.

    Devin will be splitting time with John Burt, who while he didn’t put up crazy numbers, like Devin Duvernay, showed he has taken a huge step in his game. Burt’s problem has been pulling in the easy passes. Even when he did catch the easy balls last year, it looked like a huge struggle. During this game and through the Spring, Burt has gotten over the yips. The only reason he didn’t have two touchdowns during the Spring Game is because he was overthrown both times. Even on those overthrows, Burt showed a tremendous amount of athleticism and willingness to sacrifice.

    Again, when it comes to the wide receivers…

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  9. 6 hours ago, SquishMitten said:

    I appreciate the thorough response. Glad to hear you folk aren’t just running amok. 

    Can we assume this is a requirement for all of the reports y’all put out? And you would be able to similarly justify each one if called out like you were? Apologies if that comes off antagonistic as that’s not my intention. Some of us that are only slightly-in-the-know get mixed information from slightly-more-in-the-know folks who feel $9.95ers occasionally stamp down a particular recruit’s momentum.

    There are definitely some posts where we just have to get the info out so we do, like my note that Ishmael Sopsher is visiting.

    Other things need to be handled more delicately like knowing who's committing and where.

    We're also not going to let people dictate what we can or can't say otherwise you're a mouthpiece.

    Does that answer your question?

  10. 40 minutes ago, Hank Scorpio said:

    Just passing along what I've been hearing, but it sounds like UT really cooled off on Wilson and he basically didn't have an offer by the time he committed to OSU. Herman is big on Texas guys who love Texas (and good kids who graduate) and Wilson didn't really check off those boxes. Look for UT to start looking at some higher character Texas kids in the Brock Fitzhenry mold now that they have moved on from Wilson. 

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  11. On 4/26/2018 at 7:13 AM, Fud said:

    Once again, Brainiacs spills info that wasn't supposed to be public. It probably didn't matter much here, but this recruitment would have been much easier for our staff if it had been on the down low. I get that someone from Richardson's side is giving this info, but Brainiaics continuously posting "Demani will visit at some point" only makes A&M defend their turf harder. 

    On 4/26/2018 at 8:01 AM, Machinator said:

    @OnAComputer, what say you?

     

    1. What makes you think that we're only getting info from Richardson's side

    2. The info they were supposed to keep quiet was that Texas was visiting Demani? Well I guess we shouldn't let A&M know by putting it up on our board, even though they were there too.

    3. What makes you think we don't go through the proper channels before we release something?

    Sometimes we get stuff that the others can't post because we have different sources that they don't and they have different source we don't. Sometimes it depends on who gives it to you and how comfortable they are with sharing it. Then you have to wondering how will this affect everything and make sure it doesn't destroy a recruitment in some way.

    In this case, we went through multiple channels, knew Texas A&M and Texas would be there, knew that A&M and Texas knew each other would be there, and made sure that this info could be released (even though we really don't have to).

    Also if Texas A&M is getting scoops from our board, then we need to be paid more and Jimbo shouldn't be making $75 million.

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  12. With the huge ads on the scoreboard it's obvious Texas is trying to get back to the good ol' days when Texas was atop the annual rankings in revenue... that was such a long time ago. Now...

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