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5 hours ago, Bevo14 said:

Makes sense to me. There's so many athletic receivers in the state every year. Might as well take advantage of it and dedicate resources to positions that don't have as much abundance.

Didn't Texas just allocate a decent amount of their resources last cycle to WR? I know they didn't get Moore but still a heck of a position group for one cycle.

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2 minutes ago, rvm96 said:

Didn't Texas just allocate a decent amount of their resources last cycle to WR? I know they didn't get Moore but still a heck of a position group for one cycle.

 

I wonder if our wide receiver class last year has any bearing on our wide receiver class this year. In other words, if the freshmen look good in practice maybe the staff would be okay getting developmental players this year. Personally, I think the answer is that the coaches may look at the overall health of the room but barely even take the freshmen class into account simply because you never know how things will turn out with freshmen even if they are performing well in practice (see Cook).

 

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Great WR’s are fun, and important. But not worth bankrupting yourself over. Alabama had the “best Freshman WR in history” and went 9-4 and probably looking at the same again this year 

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21 minutes ago, MirrOlure said:

Great WR’s are fun, and important. But not worth bankrupting yourself over. Alabama had the “best Freshman WR in history” and went 9-4 and probably looking at the same again this year 

Are you saying in their history because I would argue he wasn't even the best freshman WR in college football last season.

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1 hour ago, HtownHorn said:

Yeah, we are getting Lee, Turntine, and Ojo.

 

1 hour ago, BurntOrange&White said:

 

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Reading these back to back is like asking  a magic 8 ball the same question over and over again. Stupid magic 8 ball. 

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So Cleveland, Berymon, and Wells already in the class. Lead for Guervil and Simeon. Still in pursuit of Johnson and Perry-Wright. No chance we take more than 5 on the DL, right?

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How may RIVALS 100 players will Texas end up with? I say eight.

6 Richard Wesley - Texas
9 Felix Ojo
12 Derrick Cooper
22 Tyler Atkinson
28 Jake Kreul
30 Samari Matthews
36 Kaiden Prothro
46 Jamarion Carlton
50 Jalen Lott
56 Chace Calicut
59 Dia Bell - Texas
61 Bryce Perry-Wright
76 Xavier Griffin
83 Brayden Rouse
93 Kaydon Finley

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1 hour ago, rvm96 said:

Are you saying in their history because I would argue he wasn't even the best freshman WR in college football last season.

I don't even think it's much of an argument.

But Ryan Williams is still really good. So is Ryan Wingo, for that matter. But Jeremiah Smith was the best WR last year period, regardless of classification. IMO. 

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Posted
7 hours ago, rvm96 said:

Are you saying in their history because I would argue he wasn't even the best freshman WR in college football last season.

I figured the quote marks would indicate that I was repeating a narrative 

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7 hours ago, Mason Ramsey said:

So Cleveland, Berymon, and Wells already in the class. Lead for Guervil and Simeon. Still in pursuit of Johnson and Perry-Wright. No chance we take more than 5 on the DL, right?

I could see a 6 DL class but 5 seems right considering the chart:

 

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8 hours ago, rvm96 said:

Are you saying in their history because I would argue he wasn't even the best freshman WR in college football last season.

He was the first 17 year old to lose to Vandy

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10 hours ago, BurntOrange&White said:

 

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I mean I could be wrong, but wasn’t Gerry saying it was dim on Lockett and French playing together last year? 
 

just saying anything can happen. 

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Posted (edited)
3 minutes ago, D3zii said:

I mean I could be wrong, but wasn’t Gerry saying it was dim on Lockett and French playing together last year? 
 

just saying anything can happen. 

That was Lockett and Moore, and I think that had more to do with them getting along with each other

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Very interesting bolded note on this list

 

Gerry Hamilton

 

Best Class Scenario: June 24 edition

The Texas Longhorns are knocking on the door of a fifth straight top 5 ranked class with six months until signing day remaining. This week will continue to shape where the class is headed with three announcements scheduled June 27. If the Longhorns go two for three, a top 5 class is a near lock by late July. 

OTF brings the latest edition of the BCS. 

QB (1) ...

Dia Bell, QB, Plantation (Fla.) American Heritage #AllGasNoBrakes
OnTexasFootball ranking: 5-star 

RB (1-2) ...

Ezavier Crowell, RB, Jackson (Ala.) High
OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star++
Commitment date: June 26

WR (3-4) ...

Jalen Lott, WR/ATH, Frisco (Texas) Panther Creek 
OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star++ 
Commitment date: July 8 (as we reported over a week ago, Texas is long shot)

Kaydon Finley, WR, Aledo (Texas) High
OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star+
Commitment date: July 4

Kohen Brown, WR, Waxahachie (Texas) High #AllGasNoBrakes 
OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star

Chris Stewart, WR, Pearland (Texas) Shadow Creek #AllGasNoBrakes 
OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star

TE (1-2)...

Hezek Kent, TE, Brunswick (Ga.) High
OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star++ 
Commitment date: July 12

Kaiden Prothro, TE, Bowdon (Ga.) High - or - Keawe Brown, TE, Corona (Calif.) Centennial
OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star++ and 3-star++
Commitment date: Prothro July 12, Brown early July

OL (5)...

John Turntine III, OT, Fort Worth (Texas) North Crowley 
OnTexasFootball ranking: 5-star
Commitment date: July 4

Felix Ojo, OT, Mansfield (Texas) Lake Ridge  
OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star++ 
Commitment date: TBD, early July

Malakai Lee, OT, Honolulu (Hi.) Kamehameha
OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star++ 
Commitment date: June 27

Max Wright, OT/IOL, Melissa (Texas) High #AllGasNoBrakes
OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star

Nicolas Robertson, IOL, Klein (Texas) High #AllGasNoBrakes
OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star+

DL (4-5)...

Kendall Guervil, DL, Fort Myers (Fla.) High
OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star++
Commitment date: July 2

Damari Simeon, DL, Richland (N.J.) St. Aug - or - James Johnson, DL, Fort Myers (Fla.) Northwestern
OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star++ and 4-star++
Commitment dates: Simeon June 27, and Johnson early July

Corey Wells, DL, Petal (Miss.) High #AllGasNoBrakes
OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star+

Dylan Berymon, DL, Monroe (La.) Ouchita Parish #AllGasNoBrakes
OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star+

EDGE (2-3) ...

Richard Wesley, EDGE, Chatsworth (Calif.) Sierra Canyon #AllGasNoBrakes
OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star++

Trenton Henderson, EDGE, Pensacola (Fla.) Catholic - or- Jamarion Carlton, EDGE, Temple (Texas) High
OnTexasFootball ranking: 5-star and 4-star+
Commitment dates: Henderson July 2, and Carlton July 10

Jake Kreul, EDGE, Orlando (Fla.) IMG Academy
OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star++
Commitment date: Early July 

LB (3) ...

Xavier Griffin, LB, Gainesville (Ga.) High - or - Tyler Atkinson, LB, Loganville (Ga.) Grayson
OnTexasFootball ranking: 5-star and 5-star
Note: Griffin announces June 29, Atkinson likely July 4

Brayden Rouse, LB, Marietta (Ga.) Kell -or- Calvin Thomas, LB, Cypress (Texas) CyRanch
OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star++ and 3-star++

Kosi Okpala, LB, Houston (Texas) Mayde Creek 
OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star+
Commitment date: July 2

DB (4-5) ...

Chace Calicut, S/LB, Houston (Texas) North Shore
OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star+
Commitment date: June 27

Davon Benjamin, DB, Westlake Village (Calif.) Oaks Christian
OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star++
Commitment date: TBD

Samari Matthews, CB, Cornelius (N.C.) Hough
OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star++
Commitment date: July 12

Hayward Howard Jr., CB, New Orleans (La.) Edna Karr #AllGasNoBrakes
OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star

Yaheim Riley, N/CB, Austin (Texas) Anderson #AllGasNoBrakes
OnTexasFootball ranking: 3-star++

ATH (1) ...

Jermaine Bishop, CB/WR/Ret, Willis (Texas) High #AllGasNoBrakes
OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star++

Specialist (3) ...

Jake Collett, K, Ringgold (Ga.) Heritage #AllGasNoBrakes
OnTexasFootball ranking: 3-star

Mikey Bukauskas, P, Prosper #AllGasNoBrakes
OnTexasFootball ranking: 3-star

Trott O'Neal, LS, Plano (Texas) Prestonwood #AllGasNoBrakes
OnTexasFootball ranking: 3-star 

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Posted
2 minutes ago, rvm96 said:

No Vodney Cleveland in the best case scenario class is interesting.

I think Bobby and Gerry are tempering expectations and are still living with a bit of BFS.  None of us expected to get Justus Terry last year and we bitchslapped Georgia.  Texas may be building something truly great for once.  Look at the NFL draft the past 2 years.  Steve is building a machine.

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Posted
21 minutes ago, rvm96 said:

No Vodney Cleveland in the best case scenario class is interesting.

Pretty sure GH is just drunk on meds/CFA and forgot to include him. 

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20 minutes ago, Fondren & Main said:

I think Bobby and Gerry are tempering expectations and are still living with a bit of BFS.  None of us expected to get Justus Terry last year and we bitchslapped Georgia.  Texas may be building something truly great for once.  Look at the NFL draft the past 2 years.  Steve is building a machine.

The kid is currently committed, had to be an oversight.

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7 minutes ago, Boko Bevo said:

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49-17.  These MF's just say anything.  

And yet, their comments are usually so much more lucid than those on Aggy boards.

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3 minutes ago, futureman said:

georgia did manhandle us on the lines.  at least their DL vs our OL.  it was embarrassing.  you guys will just say anything. 

Two things can be true.  Getting bruised by UGA doesn't equate to not having acquired SEC intensity on the line.  Not when you're 8-1 in that SEC 

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1 hour ago, BurntOrange&White said:

 

LB (3) ...

Xavier Griffin, LB, Gainesville (Ga.) High - or - Tyler Atkinson, LB, Loganville (Ga.) Grayson
OnTexasFootball ranking: 5-star and 5-star
Note: Griffin announces June 29, Atkinson likely July 4

That is interesting because Bobby did state over the weekend that Xavier would be more of an of Edge to start then transition to an OLB, whereas Atkinson would be more of an MLB. His comments alluded to they could potentially be in the same class. So for Gerry to put this out after the fact, assuming he and Bobby are trading notes and intel, there is something here that might be more than position numbers that would cause them not to be in the same class.

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Just now, Danimal said:

That is interesting because Bobby did state over the weekend that Xavier would be more of an of Edge to start then transition to an OLB, whereas Atkinson would be more of an MLB. His comments alluded to they could potentially be in the same class. So for Gerry to put this out after the fact, assuming he and Bobby are trading notes and intel, there is something here that might be more than position numbers that would cause them not to be in the same class.

The more interesting thing isn't the and/or of that is that they put a potential date for Atkinson when one, at least from what I've seen, has not been listed yet.

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1 hour ago, Boko Bevo said:

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49-17.  These MF's just say anything.  

Came to comment here. Haven’t acquired sec intensity yet.  Made the sec our bitch. We gave the game away in the sec championship.  Guiible celebrating and not blocking was a pick 6 win the game. We boat raced these fuckers too

Posted (edited)
2 hours ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Bobby Burton

 

One highly ranked recruit is set to announce Thursday: Alabama running back Ezavier Crowell, who is thought to be deciding between Alabama, Texas and Georgia.

Three more blue chippers on Friday: 

OL Malakai Lee from Honolulu. It’s a Texas, Georgia, Bama and Michigan battle.

S Chace Calicut from Houston North Shore. It’s between Texas, Georgia and Michigan.

DL Damari Simeon from New Jersey. Texas, Michigan, Penn State and Ohio State.

I don’t want to talk about the individual recruits in this column. Instead, I just want you to step back and consider the teams Texas is recruiting against for each of these players.

Alabama, Georgia, Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State.

That’s the entire list. It’s indicative of a new dawn for Texas recruiting.

How? Because I’ve never seen a time where Texas was involved in this many hotly contested recruiting battles against other elite programs for players both in state and out. Never.

And it won’t stop this week, it’ll go into the next two weeks as well.

Before our eyes, Texas is morphing from a national brand that focused primarily itself as a regional recruiting power with specific outreach to other parts of the country to a full-fledged national recruiting power that flexes its muscle anywhere it goes.

Again, it’s a new dawn for Texas recruiting.

That being said, we don’t know (and won’t know) if the end results will be better or worse until much later, perhaps three or four years down the road.

But the reality is, Texas is a true national recruiting power. The transformation has happened

It’s so exciting to be in (our third straight year of) a new dawn for Texas recruiting where we are finally becoming a national recruiting power. What a unique approach from Sark (for the third time in a row). Very happy that we are now starting to recruit outside our state borders (after doing so the last two years)! /s

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26 minutes ago, Danimal said:

That is interesting because Bobby did state over the weekend that Xavier would be more of an of Edge to start then transition to an OLB, whereas Atkinson would be more of an MLB. His comments alluded to they could potentially be in the same class. So for Gerry to put this out after the fact, assuming he and Bobby are trading notes and intel, there is something here that might be more than position numbers that would cause them not to be in the same class.

I would guess that Gerry is simply playing the odds. Its hard to get the #1 and #2 rated recruit at the same position in any class. Texas would take both in a heartbeat

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Posted (edited)
3 minutes ago, BornAndRaised said:

Holy shit
 

 

That’ll work.  I like dl recruits who throw ol around like ragdolls.

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Assuming that we can only get 2 of Turntine/Ojo/Lee, that would give us just a 4-man OL class, which seems light. I was expecting at least 5, maybe 6. What other names are out there?

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1 hour ago, Boko Bevo said:

Two things can be true.  Getting bruised by UGA doesn't equate to not having acquired SEC intensity on the line.  Not when you're 8-1 in that SEC 

I don't know whether you've been around and just created a new handle, or you're new here. On the chance that you're new here, just a heads up, but the poster you quoted is a complete fucking imbecile. Just voluminous, insipid troll, trying to find people ignorant of his uncreative schtick to respond him so that he can then flood a thread and irritate the rest of us. 

41 minutes ago, Danimal said:

That is interesting because Bobby did state over the weekend that Xavier would be more of an of Edge to start then transition to an OLB, whereas Atkinson would be more of an MLB. His comments alluded to they could potentially be in the same class. So for Gerry to put this out after the fact, assuming he and Bobby are trading notes and intel, there is something here that might be more than position numbers that would cause them not to be in the same class.

OTF has maintained for awhile that those two guys are highly unlikely to go to the same school. It doesn't matter where either one will be lining up. 

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Posted
21 minutes ago, Sgt Hulk said:

... Guiible celebrating and not blocking was a pick 6 win the game....

 

19 minutes ago, texifornia said:

... this one took effort

Motto material, yo.

Surly's Arent' Gulible

 

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20 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

I don't know whether you've been around and just created a new handle, or you're new here. On the chance that you're new here, just a heads up, but the poster you quoted is a complete fucking imbecile. Just voluminous, insipid troll, trying to find people ignorant of his uncreative schtick to respond him so that he can then flood a thread and irritate the rest of us. 

OTF has maintained for awhile that those two guys are highly unlikely to go to the same school. It doesn't matter where either one will be lining up. 

I lurked the board for a long time, but this is the only handle.  I guess there wasn't sufficient focus on my end to figure out who was who from a posting perspective.  That said, thanks for the heads up and apologies to the board for shitting on it.  Fool me once... 😂

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