SKULL SESSION: LINCOLN RILEY'S ADVICE TO RYAN DAY, JEFFREY OKUDAH HYPE, AND TEXAS SLANDER
GET BETTER, TEXAS. Turns out, Demetrius Knox had an extremely good and simple reason for going to Ohio State instead of any school in Texas: Ohio State is better.
From Mac Engel of the
Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
“I’d say I wish it wasn’t that way,” said Knox in a recent phone interview. He was signed by the Seattle Seahawks as a undrafted rookie free agent. “I’d have to say it would take a while for Texas, the state, to keep up and adapt to the standard of football elsewhere. Like Alabama and Ohio State.”
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“I wanted to stay in the state of Texas, actually,” Knox said. “I was committed to Texas A&M, which was my first offer. That was my sophomore year in high school. But when I went there, it just looked like College Station and nothing was around it. The environment threw me off.”
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“TCU was great, but it was four minutes from my house. It wasn’t like I was leaving,” he said. “I committed to Texas, but when Mack Brown was fired, it didn’t feel stable. I’m a big Texas guy, and I wanted to go there.”
During the Steve Patterson and Charlie Strong era, Texas was as stable as an active earthquake.
“Like, with UT and TCU being in the Big 12, there is a perception their defense isn’t up to par,” Knox said. “That’s the outside perception of the Big 12 is that it’s not strong. That it’s not a Big Ten or SEC defense. That’s what the public perceives.”
A few years later and not much has changed. We've just gone from Texas kids choosing Ohio State over Texas (J.K. Dobbins, Baron Browning, Garrett Wilson) to a couple of Arizona kids choosing Ohio State over Texas, if you catch my drift.
Entire article:
https://www.elevenwarriors.com/skul...fl-draft-hype-texas-recruiting-demetrius-knox