In the spirit of futility and praying at the altar of Saint Rita of Cascia, I'll throw a few things out there that are allegedly germane to the origins of this thread.
1) If things go right, Toviano and Matthews sign with Texas and round out the DB class.
2) That means there wouldn't be room at the inn for flips on the db side.
3) Toviano is a wild card for the weekend. He might wind up at the bbq and the aggie swimming sword fight. Might go to neither.
4) They're still trying to find as many big bodies for the DL as they can. It doesn't sound like there's really a limit for those spots. If they can get Deal, Brown, the Florida guys, Hicks, Vasek, Akana, Shelby, Gullette ... it would be interesting to see if that created a limit. They've never fully pushed for Vasek, so I guess there's some limit hypothetically. That said, they're highly unlikely to get many of those guys.
5) Hicks could go anywhere over the next few days, but he's choosing to go to Oklahoma. The depth chart is ugly for him at ATM and the scheme, as far as he and his dad can tell, is ugly for them at Texas. There's a significant contributor to Hicks' ultimate decision that favors Texas big time, so I guess it's good that this will drag out and that person can keep talking. Especially if Texas has a strong year.
6) Shelby is USC bound barring the parents putting their foot down about distance.
7) How hard is Bama going to push Hale this weekend? No one knows.