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Texas Recruiting Notes 2022 - Idiotic Slapfights Unrelated To 2022 Recruiting

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16 minutes ago, texifornia said:

Wow. That's a plot twist.

What happened?

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  • closetojumping
    closetojumping

    Thanks. I have been on the boards since 1997 when I was a student at Texas. We've spent decades as fans and board patrons feeling powerless to create any real change. The Internet, social media,

  • ChonkySalmon666
    ChonkySalmon666

    I work closely with a certain previously committed 5 star QB's father (hint: its Quinn Ewers, for those who haven't been following recruiting closely like I have) and chatted with him a bit this after

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Lol he got 8 CBs this week, all Texas and all 6 or 7 confidence

So what the fuck went wrong with our intel on this one? 

Changed his mind about them icywhites after the Texas freeze

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Just now, Machinator said:

Wonder who the next man up is. Kerr?

That'll work. Fucks with OU, too.

Let me salve this wound with the consolation that our men are way ahead of WV in basketball.

Wait.... 

1 minute ago, Gut Wagon said:

Let me salve this wound with the consolation that our men are way ahead of WV in basketball.

Wait.... 

And baseball started their season with a hotly anticipated top-10 matchup. No better time to be a Longhorn fan!

Damn the $9.95ers got absolutely pantsed on this one.

3 minutes ago, Gut Wagon said:

Let me salve this wound with the consolation that our men are way ahead of WV in basketball.

Wait.... 

nothing to see here. Just Shaka being Shaka. 

2 minutes ago, tokamak said:

Damn the $9.95ers got absolutely pantsed on this one.

It’s almost like those guys make money by selling complete bullshit.

1 minute ago, Scholz said:

It’s almost like those guys make money by selling complete bullshit.

CB day didn’t go well. 

Guess he enjoyed all the cold we had last week and wanted more of that weather.

I choose to take the hullaby situation as a good thing and as a sign that the coaches feel really good about better prospects! 🤘 Hook 'em!

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Are you telling me Gideon had an easy recruiting win fall into his lap and he dropped it? 

Need an OL to commit soon to ease my angst about the recruitment of that position. Open up the Flood gates, let’s get this moving.

Just now, Wild Bill said:

Guess he enjoyed all the cold we had last week and wanted more of that weather.

Eugene pretty much never gets that cold. Mild temperatures all year, just a lot of rain.

8 minutes ago, tokamak said:

Damn the $9.95ers got absolutely pantsed on this one.

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13 minutes ago, Machinator said:

Wonder who the next man up is. Kerr?

LSU decommits, Hyphen, Kerr.... Kamari Wilson?

4 minutes ago, texifornia said:

Eugene pretty much never gets that cold. Mild temperatures all year, just a lot of rain.

It’s certainly not Austin but it’s a great college town

 

Maybe Hullaby is just tired of the snowy weather, and wants to move to a warmer state.

5 minutes ago, texifornia said:

Eugene pretty much never gets that cold.

Nor does liquid nitrogen. 

28 minutes ago, mdleast said:

okay...maybe just a slight little bit of brakes?

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Are you telling me Gideon had an easy recruiting win fall into his lap and he dropped it? 

Guessing Stan Drayton was running this recruitment. -[emoji2487][emoji1376]
10 minutes ago, Hank Scorpio said:

Are you telling me Gideon had an easy recruiting win fall into his lap and he dropped it? 

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No Hullaby, last minute loss to WVU in basketball, and baseball drops opener to Mississippi Aggy.

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4 minutes ago, Junior Bonner said:

No Hullaby, last minute loss to WVU in basketball, and baseball drops opener to Mississippi Aggy.

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Things that don’t register on my give-a-fuck meter, Alex?

2 minutes ago, Bevo said:

Things that don’t register on my give-a-fuck meter, Alex?

So are you like a Purdue fan that wandered over to the board or what?

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36 minutes ago, texifornia said:

Also lol does Wiltfong look waaaay the fuck out of the loop.

Because he is. For now. He's talking to kids, directly or indirectly, and trainers, when it comes to Texas targets for now. Perhaps others. But not Texas.

 

21 minutes ago, texifornia said:

The sell isn't "God Texas fucking sucks, your brother's a moron", it's "Don't you want to do your own thing? And don't you hear... Gideon and Joseph are untested/not great. You should really think on this. Go your own way, maybe somewhere out of the conference even."

Correct. This is what Saban did to Javonne Shepherd and A&M, which obviously helped us. Saban's not the best recruiter in the sport just because he's charismatic, persistent, and backs it up on the field, but he frequently works to negative recruit his competition to their targets until NSD has come and gone, even prospects his school is not interested in taking. Assuming good coaching to be held by all competing teams, the difference will be the size of the talent gap, not the total talent quantification on either team. An excellent example of this that has been discussed frequently on the Football board is ND, who has good coaching and talent, and can never compete once it gets to the peak of the sport, because it's just not talented enough by comparison. Making sure your conference rivals never escape that purgatory is why Saban has held such a stranglehold on the SEC and the national championship trophy. It's a strategy that is used against Texas a lot by our regional competition, and one I hope we start to utilize in the near future.

 

(Was not meant to come off preachy to you Tex, apologies, just meant to expand/vent on something I've seen often that Texas didn't do enough of on past staffs).
 

4 minutes ago, Lou_Sassle said:

I choose to take the hullaby situation as a good thing and as a sign that the coaches feel really good about better prospects! 🤘 Hook 'em!

We wanted him. It's a loss for Texas, but that is okay. He's a kid we'll keep contacting and maintain a strong relationship with throughout the cycle while we pursue the multiple other prospects left on the board. Most of our targets in the secondary are still on the market. There's no reason to spin it as anything other than a strikeout by us, and simultaneously no reason to worry right now. I'm not sure how the recruitment went down, but I agree with what @golfclap said to have been a big factor. I don't think he liked being penciled into Texas' 22 class for so long largely because his brother was there, undoubtedly with some negative recruiting having exaggerated that emotion. The same thing happened to Kelvontay Dixon, who would have signed with Arkansas had that religious zealot Morris not gotten shitcanned.

1 minute ago, Bam Bam Sam said:

Because he is. For now. He's talking to kids, directly or indirectly, and trainers, when it comes to Texas targets for now. Perhaps others. But not Texas.

 

Correct. This is what Saban did to Javonne Shepherd and A&M, which obviously helped us. Saban's not the best recruiter in the sport just because he's charismatic, persistent, and backs it up on the field, but he frequently works to negative recruit his competition to their targets until NSD has come and gone, even prospects his school is not interested in taking. Assuming good coaching to be held by all competing teams, the difference will be the size of the talent gap, not the total talent quantification on either team. An excellent example of this that has been discussed frequently on the Football board is ND, who has good coaching and talent, and can never compete once it gets to the peak of the sport, because it's just not talented enough by comparison. Making sure your conference rivals never escape that purgatory is why Saban has held such a stranglehold on the SEC and the national championship trophy. It's a strategy that is used against Texas a lot by our regional competition, and one I hope we start to utilize in the near future.

 

(Was not meant to come off preachy to you Tex, apologies, just meant to expand/vent on something I've seen often that Texas didn't do enough of on past staffs).
 

We wanted him. It's a loss for Texas, but that is okay. He's a kid we'll keep contacting and maintain a strong relationship with throughout the cycle while we pursue the multiple other prospects left on the board. Most of our targets in the secondary are still on the market. There's no reason to spin it as anything other than a strikeout by us, and simultaneously no reason to worry right now. I'm not sure how the recruitment went down, but I agree with what @golfclap said to have been a big factor. I don't think he liked being penciled into Texas' 22 class for so long largely because his brother was there, undoubtedly with some negative recruiting having exaggerated that emotion. The same thing happened to Kelvontay Dixon, who would have signed with Arkansas had that religious zealot Morris not gotten shitcanned.

Hah, no need to apologize to me - we're agreeing after all.

4 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

That is one of then greatest movie openings of all time, sir. It doesn’t matter if the rest of the movie is shit. It should be dissected in HS classes for its brilliance.  

My all time favorite interview answer regardless of the question

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57 minutes ago, mdleast said:

okay...maybe just a slight little bit of brakes?


Maybe just downshifting from 5th to 4th gear. 

14 minutes ago, texifornia said:

That's a solidly built kid

 

Can’t wait to over analyze some Maalik 7on7 clips! 

This is a complete guess, but maybe the 9.95ers may have whiffed so badly on L. Hullaby's recruitment similar to why they were wrong on Xavion Alford for so long. To summarize, the beat writers' assumption that he was a lock to A&M (after his near commitment to LSU), annoyed him and he went along with it hoping they'd stop pestering him and his family while he figured out where he really wanted to go. The media settled until they were made aware of the news that he was going to Texas shortly before his announcement, which I'm guessing is when he notified A&M's staff he had committed to us.

 

LJ Johnson did something similar, which I had hinted about prior to this last season. Obviously that recruitment wound it's way up and down into A&M's favor in the end.

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1 hour ago, texifornia said:

Lol, you'd think his brother would counter that. 

Not an irreplaceable guy, though obviously you'd rather just have that set of skills in the boat.

I choose to believe that means our safety group will be Anderson, Allen and Hyphen.  

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