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1 hour 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.

Well, gird your abacuses because OTF has repeatedly stated that the team will not say no to Guervil, Johnson or Simeon if they all want in the class.

The Georgia mods today stated that they do not expect Johnson in their class at this point in time. Same for Malakai Lee. They still project that UGA will sign Atkinson, but also acknowledged that things are far closer in landing him "versus other schools" than they expected. 

Miami fully expects to land Johnson, on the other hand.

30 minutes ago, TXpride said:

We would be better off hitting the portal for an immediate contributor if Watson and/or January leave early.

Both of those guys have 2 years left on campus unless they portal, by then you will have had 3 classes to restock, and we are adding 4 and 5 star guys to that cupboard. The strategy is to develop HS LOS guys because they aren't easy to find in the portal. Not too mention, that PK likes to rotate 6 guys at both IDL and Edge throughout the game.

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It's honestly hard to believe the state of our recruiting right now. We have a chance to land 5 top 150 DTs and 3 top 50 national DEs in a single class. I'm not sure we landed that many elite DL in a 10 year span from Mack's last class to Sark's first class. 

Hopefully, the idea of playing 20-30 full energy high impact snaps in a rotation versus playing 60 snaps with some number of them being tired reps that lead to poor performance, is a meritorious idea that makes sense to guys that are used to dominating all game long. 

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2 minutes ago, Burt Macklin said:

It's honestly hard to believe the state of our recruiting right now. We have a chance to land 5 top 150 DTs and 3 top 50 national DEs in a single class. I'm not sure we landed that many elite DL in a 10 year span from Mack's last class to Sark's first class. 

I guess I just feel like that 10 year span was the aberration. Not what's happening now.

When I first started following Texas football we churned out great defensive tackles like Hallmark spits out Christmas movies. Shearer, McMichael, Sims. There were always playmakers in the interior defensive line. Jeter and Patton years later. And of course under Mack Brown in the first part of his tenure. 

The shocking thing to me is how few of these recruits are Texas high school players. To me that's the sea change this year. I always felt like we could do this if we would have ever made the effort. We've never made this kind of effort before. A lot of factors involved. The feeling we didn't have to. Maintaining great relationships with the Texas high school football coaches. Choosing to go after low hanging fruit rather than the challenge of out of state recruiting. Not building connections out of state.

It helps that the size of the football staff has practically doubled. 

Texas has just never shown this kind of interest in out of state recruiting. And the kids they're bringing in aren't aware of how awesome Austin is. There are a lot of arrows in the quiver. NIL. Sarkisian's approach. Success in the draft. Post season success. The prestige of UT as a public school. And those have some barriers to entry about them. But Austin as a combination big city/college town is a true unicorn. I feel like Sarkisian is bound and determined to utilize all of the advantages Texas football has to offer. 

35 minutes ago, Burt Macklin said:

It's honestly hard to believe the state of our recruiting right now. We have a chance to land 5 top 150 DTs and 3 top 50 national DEs in a single class. I'm not sure we landed that many elite DL in a 10 year span from Mack's last class to Sark's first class. 

Sir, you can disparage Breckyn Hager at your own risk.

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40 minutes ago, Burt Macklin said:

It's honestly hard to believe the state of our recruiting right now. We have a chance to land 5 top 150 DTs and 3 top 50 national DEs in a single class. I'm not sure we landed that many elite DL in a 10 year span from Mack's last class to Sark's first class. 

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Just spitballing here.  Maybe go to a 6 star scale if there are so many 4++ stars. 

7 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

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I realize Austin isn't exactly next to the Gulf Coast, but if coming from Hawaii they feel themselves hankering for the warm waters of the Pacific Ocean, Lake Michigan is going to be as much of a shock as the weather overall. At least once you make it to the Gulf of Mexico the water is going to feel a lot more like Hawaii than anything remotely close to Ann Arbor. And you can always hit up one of the nearby lakes. I'm not trying to suggest it's the same as Hawaii, but it's a darn sight closer than anything Michigan has to offer. 

Also, I wish we'd just set up an academy in the South Pacific islands and the west coast of Africa. For linemen especially. Oh, and for recruiting purposes, encourage a large Mormon population to relocate the Hill Country. I swear The Church of Latter Day Saints has converted every talented Tongan and Samoan football player on the planet. When Gerry says Malakai Lee has family in the DFW area, dollars to donuts it's Euless. 

3 minutes ago, runthebone said:

Just spitballing here.  Maybe go to a 6 star scale if there are so many 4++ stars. 

Alternatively they could actually use the 1* and 2* rankings.

8 minutes ago, runthebone said:

Just spitballing here.  Maybe go to a 6 star scale if there are so many 4++ stars. 

Or instead of a 3 point scale from 3 to 5, have something else analogous like a 6 point scale from 6 to 10, or a 23 point scale from 14 to 36.

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8 minutes ago, SL Xpress said:

At least once you make it to the Gulf of Mexico the water is going to feel a lot more like Hawaii

I'm sure that brown gulf water will remind them of home....

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12 minutes ago, SL Xpress said:

I realize Austin isn't exactly next to the Gulf Coast, but if coming from Hawaii they feel themselves hankering for the warm waters of the Pacific Ocean, Lake Michigan is going to be as much of a shock as the weather overall. At least once you make it to the Gulf of Mexico the water is going to feel a lot more like Hawaii than anything remotely close to Ann Arbor. And you can always hit up one of the nearby lakes. I'm not trying to suggest it's the same as Hawaii, but it's a darn sight closer than anything Michigan has to offer. 

Also, I wish we'd just set up an academy in the South Pacific islands and the west coast of Africa. For linemen especially. Oh, and for recruiting purposes, encourage a large Mormon population to relocate the Hill Country. I swear The Church of Latter Day Saints has converted every talented Tongan and Samoan football player on the planet. When Gerry says Malakai Lee has family in the DFW area, dollars to donuts it's Euless. 

Isn't Euless' Polynesian population mostly Tongans? Lee is Samoan.

EDIT: should have just looked. While Euless's Polynesians are mostly Tongans, most Samoans in Texas live either there or Killeen: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samoan_Americans

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1 hour ago, TXpride said:

We would be better off hitting the portal for an immediate contributor if Watson and/or January leave early.

I don't know how long you've been in the recruiting thread, so apologies if it comes off disrespectful. 

From my POV we're carpet bombing the DT board because real legitimate contributors are hard to come by and even harder to win in the portal. Maraad Watson was a welcome anomaly, but you're not going to find true difference makers in the portal on the DLine. Everyone wants them. I know we've had good experiences with our past portal haul, but the idea is to raise the floor and develop lines from the HS ranks rather than have to drop a few million on a DT every transfer portal period. I think it's extremely unlikely that if we get to 5 or 6 DT commits that they're going to start looking around. At the very least they'll stay a year, collect their money and the cream will rise to the top. Thats what an elite program looks like. Quit being a pussy about the numbers.

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2 minutes ago, speed817 said:

I'm sure that brown gulf water will remind them of home....

You just have to go far enough south. The brown water is the silt from the Mississippi River. It clears up around Corpus Christi. 

But sure. Galveston is going to be a shock. No question.

2 minutes ago, BornAndRaised said:

I don't know how long you've been in the recruiting thread, so apologies if it comes off disrespectful. 

 Quit being a pussy about the numbers.

I'm just glad you apologized first. 

3 minutes ago, texifornia said:

Isn't Euless' Polynesian population mostly Tongans? Lee is Samoan.

It's all Mormon. 

2 minutes ago, SL Xpress said:

You just have to go far enough south. The brown water is the silt from the Mississippi River. It clears up around Corpus Christi. 

But sure. Galveston is going to be a shock. No question.

It was to my Brazilian wife.

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8 minutes ago, speed817 said:

I'm sure that brown gulf water will remind them of home....

Sir! On special days in Galveston, you can see your feet in waist deep water. 

Just now, HtownHorn said:

It was to my Brazilian wife.

It is to everyone. I grew up with it, so my shock was my first vacation to Florida and I could actually see the ground below the water. "What is this wizardry?"

I thought it was normal to have something rub against your leg on a regular basis and not know if it was seaweed, a jellyfish, or a shark. One of God's many mysteries!

3 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

Sir! On special days in Galveston, you can see your feet in waist deep water. 

back in february i went down there to take my wife out for lunch on her birthday.. it was such a beautiful day.. sun was out, warm and the water looked BLUE.

1 minute ago, Thiefery said:

back in february i went down there to take my wife out for lunch on her birthday.. it was such a beautiful day.. sun was out, warm and the water looked BLUE.

Just to circle back, I wonder what Lake Michigan was like on that day. 

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Just listened to Dia Bell interviewed on the Cover 3 podcast (link for anyone interested, it's at the start).  About as media trained a high schooler as you'll ever hear, in the sense that he's very polished but not robotic at all. You didn't need to read between the lines to pick up that Arch staying 2 years has been communicated to him. He also sounds very willing to wait his turn. Really impressive prospect. 

18 minutes ago, SL Xpress said:

It clears up around Corpus Christi. 

...at which point the used syringe-to-sand ratio starts becoming unfavourable.

25 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

Sir! On special days in Galveston, you can see your feet in waist deep water. 

I'd settle for being able to see my feet in knee deep Gulf water

26 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

Sir! On special days in Galveston, you can see your feet in waist deep water. 

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I'm heading down there today to spend a couple of days with my daughter, and we're going to have a blast. 

I love Galveston. Fuck all you haters.

Just now, SL Xpress said:

I'm heading down there today to spend a couple of days with my daughter, and we're going to have a blast. 

I love Galveston. Fuck all you haters.

Spent a year in Galveston playing JUCO baseball. Its actually underated and has gotten better since I was there in the early 2000's. 

Just now, Blackcat00 said:

Spent a year in Galveston playing JUCO baseball. Its actually underated and has gotten better since I was there in the early 2000's. 

Well, better and worse. 

George Mitchell is the one who should get the credit for turning it around. That guy was instrumental in the development of The Woodlands, revitalizing Galveston, and the development of fracking. For a normal person any one of those would have been plenty to hang their hat on. But my sadness upon his death mostly revolved around Galveston.

They used to say Galveston was all about the three Ms - Mitchell, Moody, and Mafia.  

The disparity in income has always seemed like one of the worst in the state, though, for such a small place. There was a time when Galveston Ball was an NFL factory. Now most of the athletes in the area move to other school districts. But the poverty is still there. Then you have the ultra rich there, too. It's a strange place in many ways. 

Not sure how this is related to recruiting. But my middle name is Tangent. 

In any case, I would deny to Malakai's family that Galveston even exists. As far as they're concerned, the Gulf starts in Corpus Christi and then heads south to South Padre. 

Straight face comparing Hawaii to Galveston is uncharted territory and peak offseason. In the late July summer doldrums when this board is yet again reliving the greatest losses in the Tom Herman era while Satya is furiously fapping in the corner, we will be looking back fondly on these days. Well done.

9 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

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Same guy had Justus Terry to Georgia then wrote the story on how we outbid them. He has seen it before but can’t help himself

Just now, Professor Chesney said:

Straight face comparing Hawaii to Galveston is uncharted territory and peak offseason. In the late July summer doldrums when this board is yet again reliving the greatest losses in the Tom Herman era while Satya is furiously fapping in the corner, we will be looking back fondly on these days. Well done.

No one compared Hawaii to Galveston. I compared the Gulf Coast to Lake Michigan. And I wasn't thinking of Galveston when I said that. 

59 minutes ago, texifornia said:

Isn't Euless' Polynesian population mostly Tongans? Lee is Samoan.

EDIT: should have just looked. While Euless's Polynesians are mostly Tongans, most Samoans in Texas live either there or Killeen: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samoan_Americans

I'll always remember Useless-Trinity high school getting punked to lose the 2010 state football title.

Pearland says, "Hi!"  Lulz.

1 hour ago, SimkinsMan said:

Alternatively they could actually use the 1* and 2* rankings.

Wee Bay

5 minutes ago, irishtexan said:

Galveston? Jesus fucking christ. You goddamn idiots.

Exactly. Lake Bryan is half the distance that Galveston is.

35 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

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Per OTF, sounds like he is now announcing June 28th

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June, not july

BTW, Corpus Christi is an hour closer to Austin than Galveston is. So there.

Not that Corpus Christi is exactly paradise or will remind anyone of Hawaii, either, but the water isn't brown. 

32 minutes ago, Professor Chesney said:

Straight face comparing Hawaii to Galveston is uncharted territory and peak offseason. In the late July summer doldrums when this board is yet again reliving the greatest losses in the Tom Herman era while Satya is furiously fapping in the corner, we will be looking back fondly on these days. Well done.

The beaches, yes. But he's from Honolulu. He's no stranger to traffic or crack heads on street corners talking to themselves. He'll feel right at home in Austin. 

6 minutes ago, SL Xpress said:

BTW, Corpus Christi is an hour closer to Austin than Galveston is. So there.

Not that Corpus Christi is exactly paradise or will remind anyone of Hawaii, either, but the water isn't brown. 

It’s green instead of brown, but not blue. Also the massive population of sea manatees that crowd the beaches drags it down as well. But corpus does have S tier bay fishing going for it.

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1 minute ago, Not a Sock said:

Also the massive population of sea manatees that crowd the beaches drags it down as well. 

Perhaps you're not aware of the dimensions of the average Samoan?

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