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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: They Can't Keep Getting Away With This


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1 hour ago, MirrOlure said:

This is among, if not THE best 45 someodd minutes of sport talk tv I’ve ever encountered. Thanks for sharing. 

Agree. It was not coach speak, it was subject matter expert discussing their work. Also, the first time I have seen someone wax poetic about highway onramps of LA.

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40 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Ojo looked awful today. Got beat every way possible 

We could use an OT more like Mikey Grandy

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Every time I see a “FONG BOMB” post, I imagine Steve standing up from his porcelain throne, looking down at what he has done and smirking about another Fong Bomb he has left behind

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14 minutes ago, MirrOlure said:

You know that in real life the pigtailed girl in the background married the fat kid set manager?

 

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x, x, x, x, x, 3, 4, 1, 2, x, x

 

10 minutes ago, UDontKnow said:

X, X, X, X, X, 2, 1, 4, 3, X, X

we'd be great wingmen for each other

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4 hours ago, futureman said:

if you think we can't run on georgia without a ricky or an earl you are saying the same thing that I am.  the OL was the problem in those games.  so, thank you.

There is no substitute for a great….repeat…great offensive line.

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1 hour ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Ojo looked awful today. Got beat every way possible 

Ojo is all ceiling.  He needs to become a great football player while he's here.  He has one of the best LT frames I've ever seen, on any player on any level of football.  If he ever hits his potential, he could be the first overall pick.  If he doesn't he could still be really good. He has a low floor too.  It's up to Ojo where he ends up.  He has endless potential but has a lot of work to do.  

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2 hours ago, Elmer_Fudd said:

If ya'll want some cool aid, Wiltfong says he still likes his Texas picks for Ojo and Turntine, says Texas is surging for James Johnson and can see him and Guervil both at Texas, and that Texas is a big threat for Tyler Atkinson.

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Gerry Hamilton

 

Some Wednesday AM Recruiting Thoughts

1. Texas has continued to battle for 4-star++ running back Ezavier Crowell (Jackson, Ala./High), as we have said. Everything we have heard for weeks is a Bama vs. Texas decision likely with Georgia and Auburn the other OV's. And that has also been Bama having the most confidence since early May. The Longhorns are considered the competition for the Crimson Tide due in part to Ezavier and mom both truly liking the Texas program and everything it can provide. 

2. Confidence remains in Austin on OTF 5-star OT John Turntine III. With that said, OTF doesn't believe he has informed the winning school of his decision ahead of the July 4 announcement. OTF doesn't believe the winner will be Texas A&M - barring a reverse course from Tuesday. We do believe Texas and Michigan are very much in it. And Stanford hasn't thrown in the towel.

3. There has been some saying Texas would shut down defensive line recruiting with four commitments. That is not the case. The Longhorns would absolutely go to five in the class. Texas has continued to receive positive feedback from 4-star++ DL's Damari Simeon, Kendall Guervil and James Johnson early this week. How the dominoes fall will be key here. Simeon's commitment date is June 27, Guervil July 2 and Johnson expected in early July. 

4. OTF believes Texas is very much in the mix for 5-star LB Tyler Atkinson (Loganville, Ga./Grayson). We continue to believe that it's not a likely scenario 5-star's out of the Peach State Xavier Griffin (Gainesville, Ga./High) and Atkinson end up at the same school. Griffin is scheduled to be the first off the board June 29. Griffin is Texas vs. Alabama with Ohio State and FSU the other OV's. 

5. OTF 4-star++ OT Malakai Lee remains a slight mystery as of Tuesday afternoon. He had not informed with winner and losers in the race based on what a source told us. Texas vs Michigan with Georgia in it, and Alabama battling after falling behind is the race. OTF does know that Lee can envision himself playing for the Longhorns. We also expect the family to move to the state where Lee plays in college. Lee has multiple family members that live in Dallas currently. 

6. Texas wants 5-star EDGE Trenton Henderson (Pensacola, Fla./Catholic) as badly as any prospect on the board. The Longhorns also know they are working from a position of making up ground on Florida headed into a July 2 decision. LSU is battling. 

7. Haven't heard anything to back OTF off of believing the Longhorns are in the best spot for 4-star+ LB Kosi Okpala (Houston/Mayde Creek) ahead of a July 2 or 3rd decision. OTF believes Texas would take both Okpala and Calvin Thomas, as of Monday. 

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Bobby

Couple of recruiting notes:

- Alabama RB Ezavier Crowell is slated to make his decision tomorrow. Texas remains highly involved as of late yesterday. It will be Texas or Alabama. I know conventional wisdom says Alabama here for an Alabama product, but it said the same for Justus Terry and Georgia a year ago. This recruitment has a somewhat similar feel to me, just earlier in the process.

- I reported yesterday that North Shore defensive back Chace Calicut may be trending toward Georgia. That remains the case. But Texas continues to recruit him and recruit him hard.

There have been a couple of different times in this recruitment where Calicut was on the precipice of announcing a decision for multiple schools. That means  that not only has he been torn about this decision but that he has also been susceptible to various pitches. We see that all the time in recruiting.

We’ll see what pitch and program wins out. Georgia recruiting him as a corner may sound nice to his ears, but if his true calling is as a safety, that year at corner would do nothing but put him a year behind in his development at safety.

Again, I think there’s some recruiting left to do here. We’ll find out which way the decision cuts on Friday.

- Texas and Michigan appear to be the teams standing out for New Jersey defensive tackle Damari Simeon. Simeon is ranked one of the nation’s top five defensive tackles and his relationship with Texas DL coach Kenny Baker has been outstanding. I lean Texas at this moment, but like others, this decision hangs in the balance until Friday.

- Malakai Lee, the huge offensive lineman from Hawaii, is set to announce on Friday. This is one of those recruitments where we don’t think any school knows where he’s going, at least not at this time.

In other words, he’s not tipping his hand in the slightest, not to reporters and not to colleges.

I will add this.

Based on feedback from multiple college programs, we can throw the recruiting rankings out with Lee. The various services all have him outside the top 100 in the country. There’s not a school out there that views him as anything less than a top 50 prospect in the country. He’s that talented.

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9 hours ago, MirrOlure said:

You know that in real life the pigtailed girl in the background married the fat kid set manager?

 

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The douchey guitar player from Jack Black's original band in the film is now the DA for Tyler

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Posted
1 hour ago, BurntOrange&White said:

We’ll see what pitch and program wins out. Georgia recruiting him as a corner may sound nice to his ears, but if his true calling is as a safety, that year at corner would do nothing but put him a year behind in his development at safety.

Wut? I guess that's literally true, but that's it. It's not like his "true calling" is to be a quarterback but they want him to play cornerback for a year. Moving from cornerback to safety happens all the time. There are even instances of extremely talented players moving from safety to cornerback, although less often. This is a dumb take.

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1 minute ago, Post Oak said:

Gerry said this AM to not be surprised if someone were not expecting announces on the 28th. Wouldn't say who and it's not set in stone yet.  

He also said something about that 4th of July event out west but I only caught the end of it.

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Gerry said this AM to not be surprised if someone were not expecting announces on the 28th. Wouldn't say who and it's not set in stone yet.  

Announces their commitment to Texas or to anyone in general?
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10 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

He also said something about that 4th of July event out west but I only caught the end of it.

Yep. He was talking about BP-W announcing there and I think he was talking about Davon Benjamin possibly announcing there but don't quote me. 

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I put very little stock into football without pads.  7 on 7 means next to nothing.  Pass rush 1v1 even less than that, and is skewed towards the defense unequivocally.  Gotdamn, Ojo had a horrible day at the Rivals camp in Indy though.  Poor fella looked like he was on a tranquilizer of some sort.  Hopefully he's a RS Freshman AA in a couple of years and it's a Landon Jackson bag drill memory.  

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35 minutes ago, Post Oak said:

Gerry said this AM to not be surprised if someone were not expecting announces on the 28th. Wouldn't say who and it's not set in stone yet.  

So, how, exactly, can we not be surprised if something unexpected happens?

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Have to think one of our current DT commits will either look around or be encouraged to do so if we land 2 more. Not a bad problem to have I guess.

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Posted
6 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Why? We need 5 

I have a hard time seeing 5 DTs sticking. We might take them all if they want in, but we don't "need" 5 after backfilling through the portal.

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1 minute ago, TXpride said:

I have a hard time seeing 5 DTs sticking. We might take them all if they want in, but we don't "need" 5 after backfilling through the portal.

You certainly haven’t seen the classification chart and how we do need 5. So we aren’t filling in the portal again like we had to this year. 

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1 minute ago, TXpride said:

I have a hard time seeing 5 DTs sticking. We might take them all if they want in, but we don't "need" 5 after backfilling through the portal.

I am fine with taking as many recruits as possible along the DL and OL. We have all seen Texas fill up at the skill positions and the results were tepid at best. If I recall correctly one of Sark's 1st comments about the roster was there were too many WRs. 

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10 minutes ago, Codaxx said:

I am fine with taking as many recruits as possible along the DL and OL. We have all seen Texas fill up at the skill positions and the results were tepid at best. If I recall correctly one of Sark's 1st comments about the roster was there were too many WRs. 

It's easier to get skill guys in the portal because there a ton, it's harder to get LOS guys because the good ones are expensive due to their scarcity.

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Guys are on different development curves. Play different positions. And we rotate a shitload on the DL, so they play the bulk of their snaps at or close to 100% against more fatigued OL. 
 

Factor in development, NIL, and other aspects, and it isn’t hard to see us taking 5 DL prospects. 

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5 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

You certainly haven’t seen the classification chart and how we do need 5. So we aren’t filling in the portal again like we had to this year. 

I have seen it. Assuming no attrition, we only lose Brevard and Hunter after next season, leaving 8 plus however many we sign this class. 5 would be a luxury, not a necessity.

10 minutes ago, Codaxx said:

I am fine with taking as many recruits as possible along the DL and OL. We have all seen Texas fill up at the skill positions and the results were tepid at best. If I recall correctly one of Sark's 1st comments about the roster was there were too many WRs. 

I don't disagree.

Posted
1 hour ago, Post Oak said:

Gerry said this AM to not be surprised if someone were not expecting announces on the 28th. Wouldn't say who and it's not set in stone yet.  

More chicken fried steak or steak fingers then I guess.....

Posted
1 hour ago, Post Oak said:

Gerry said this AM to not be surprised if someone were not expecting announces on the 28th. Wouldn't say who and it's not set in stone yet.  

Even Gerry can $9.95 with the worst of em.

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This whole "numbers" needs to be looked at differently in this day and age.  All of these elite players of course have their eye on an NFL career, and with the prospect of playing 15-16 games a year in college, and the RB's and DL's in particular should be looking for places where they don't have to be the one-man workhorse playing 40-50 snaps a game.

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19 minutes ago, TXpride said:

I have seen it. Assuming no attrition, we only lose Brevard and Hunter after next season, leaving 8 plus however many we sign this class. 5 would be a luxury, not a necessity.

I don't disagree.

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That is slim pikcings after this season. Watson if he continues on his trajectory will be a junior when 2026 class are freshmen and could be a potential loss to NFL. Melvin Hills is likely not going to be a major contributor at Texas. 

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20 hours ago, closetojumping said:

Pertaining to the RB musical chairs, the Miami 247 mods are now telling their base that Lamar is trending Georgia's way. They're now doubling down that Cooper is theirs. That leaves Crowell to Bama or Texas, if so. Bama is the big favorite in that one. Maybe Sarkisian decides he needs one of these backs and gets more aggressive. Maybe he waits for the season to watch ATM go 6-7 and picks up Edwards when he circles back. 

Today Gerry hinted at some surprise announcement on 6/28. That's in 3 days. And...Tradarian Ball wears #3. So I'm on Oregon decommitment watch. I realize he's not even looking around, but don't anyone spoil my dream of the next pass-catching RB in Austin. 

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