While I’m not arguing a rant and a dogpile on Oscar’s “Hustle Never Sleeps” thread isn’t merited, I do think the Umanmainlymanian recruitment bears further thought irrespective of the dipshit recruiting him.
This guy has been looking for a reason to go elsewhere during the entirety of the cycle thus far. He talked up OU to people for a while. He’s now talking up ATM. In the process he’s searched for reasons as to why Texas is a backup pick in his backyard. With OU, Texas doesn’t win enough or put guys in the pros. The winning thing, fine, we’re coming up but yeah, OU has dominated the conference while we’ve been down. But a draft history over the last 11 years goes a long way of removing illusions for defensive players about OU putting defenders in the pros.
So then you have ATM contending that he’s apparently going to be Bruce Smith in their defense and if he comes to Texas, he’s going to be turned into the defensive version of a buttplug inside so that all of the other defenders can get the glory. The counters to this argument are, you know, facts and film footage. However, sometimes that isn’t good enough. Then you have voices in the ear saying “maybe there’s a bunch of better options out east”.
At what point, when you’re dealing with a middle of the road 4 star who might be a tweener and almost certainly won’t be an elite difference maker that you’ve busted your ass harder than anyone else to recruit, do you just tell the guy to fuck off and pursue better alternatives? Probably after next weekend.
Then there’s the whole issue of having a choice to go to Texas in your backyard or picking to move to College Station willingly. I’ll never respect it, and guys that talk up ATM in recruiting when Texas is in power or moving there can pretty much just go fuck themselves in my book. I’m cheering for the closing of Blidi and/or Fillinger, or one of them and the continued pursuit of others that get discovered as well. The flip is that if dipshit turns around and commits to Texas, okay, I’ll take it gladly as a recruiting dork, but he’ll be high on my “first guy in the transfer portal” betting pool.