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University of Texas Recruiting

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wadc45

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We've talked about this in several threads...the fact that it seems like every year UT has the majority of their class wrapped up by the summer, largely with in-state kids, which allows the UT staff to focus on the big OOS fish (i.e. Jordan Hicks).

Scout.com: Horns' 2011 Class Takes Shape (free)

By Greg Powers
Scout.com
Posted Feb 13, 2010

Texas Longhorns is a recruiting machine and it has been able to secure commitments so early in the process that potential pledges are forced to make a quick decision when presented with an offer. Saturday was the first Jr. Day and the first Longhorn offers were extended and a high percentage of the players have already accepted.

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A look at the 12 verbal commitments Texas secured this weekend (they actually have 13 but the article does not include OG Marcus Hutchins)...including a pair of early 5-stars and the nation's #1 safety per Rivals and Scout:

DT Desmond Jackson

Jackson dominates in the middle of the field and can get in the backfield early and often. Plus he has the ability to rush the passer. He is also good at backside pursuit, he puts a lot of effort into his play and because of his athleticism on the interior he sometimes requires double teams to keep him somewhat in check. He understands how to use his hands well and has an understanding of how to use his technique to cause offensive linemen to become off balance. Once he gets moving and gets his hands on the lineman he is hard to stop.
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CB Leroy Scott

Leroy Scott has been a man-child ever since he first set foot on a high school football field. He has great coverage abilities and has the strength and power to jam his man up on the line and the speed to recover if he is not able to slow him up on the jam. He takes very good angles when making a tackle and is not afraid to get inside the box and light up a ball carrier. Scott does an outstanding job at sticking with the receiver and making plays on the ball. Corners who can cover and play the run like Scott are a rarity.
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S Sheroud Evans

Evans has excellent cover skills and good hips for a bigger defensive back, so he could realistically play corner or safety on the next level. He tackles well but his length is another strength factoring in to his safety projection. There will also not be too many players in the country that can even sniff his speed as he is one of the top track stars in America and has posted an indoor time of 21.3 in the 200-meter. At this time Evans is more of a track star playing football but the potential to become a dominant force is there.
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Question for anyone who may pay closer attention to Texas recruiting:

With the increase in decommitments these days compared to years ago, has Texas been retaining these early commits or are some of them "saving a spot" and then choosing elsewhere later on?
 
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Redhawk;1660155; said:
Question for anyone who may pay closer attention to Texas recruiting:

With the increase in decommitments these days compared to years ago, has Texas been retaining these early commits or are some of them "saving a spot" and then choosing elsewhere later on?
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Texas rarely gets decommitments. These kids just really, really want to be Longhorns.

They also have another Junior Day coming up on the 20th, I believe. Mack has this process down to a science now; he will bring in kids and offer them on the spot right after showing/telling them everything about UT. He has these kids salivating right before he drops the steak.

I expect UT to have around 20 commits after the second Junior Day, saving a few spots for big OOS kids they are targeting (Jermauria Rasco.)
 
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In the FWIW category, I did five years in Baja Oklahoma(Texas). While I was there, the University of Texas was THE place that everyone wanted to go. The smartest guys, the prettiest girls, you name it, that was the destination of choice. Almost like Notre Dame is for Catholics. There was a network of UT grads that ran most of everything, and the 'old money' (read that Oil $) wanted their kids to get the diploma that said U of Texas.....it meant much to them in the long haul.

Now, there were upstarts, SMU (before the death penalty) and T A&M (a rival on the football field and engineering school), but they were 'second choices'. It does not surprise me that Texas has the pick of the litter each and every year, nor that they do not lose a commitment during th e process. Oklahoma, etc do gain football recruits from Texas, but no one that UT really wants (same for baseball and basketball) escapes the net. Heavy hometown pressure is brought to bear to get into UT.

The two most important seasons in HS are football season and spring football season. The HS Friday nights are destination events at the stadium, and after the game, the bars fill up. Not seen anything like it before or since. It is rare that a 5* gets away from UT, and when they do, it is usually to out of state. There are many similarities between Austin and Columbus as well. Just my thoughts.

:gobucks3::gobucks4::banger: UT treats their football players like demigods, all the way back from the Fred Akers days. The only coach not successful has been John Malkovic (former Illinois coach) who bombed out (he was a Yankee). Oh yeah, the civil war still rages down there, and I was a California Yankee, the worst kind of Yankee......
 
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Redhawk;1660155; said:
Question for anyone who may pay closer attention to Texas recruiting:

With the increase in decommitments these days compared to years ago, has Texas been retaining these early commits or are some of them "saving a spot" and then choosing elsewhere later on?
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No, they stick, b/c Mack Brown tells them that if they take a visit somewhere else, they are no longer a Horn. He will continue to recruit in-state stars who want to look around, but if they go public with their verbal, there is no game playing.
 
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College football recruiting -- Junior days speed up recruiting process - ESPN

It didn't take Mack Brown long to figure out how fast college football recruiting changes in Texas.

About halfway through his 12-year tenure as coach at the University of Texas, Brown started getting telephone calls from high school coaches around the state.

"Coach, this kid has 15 scholarship offers and y'all have not even met him," they'd tell him.

When Brown coached at North Carolina from 1988 to 1997, he and his assistants tried to recruit one year in advance. It was all the Tar Heels could do to keep up with more established programs like Notre Dame, Ohio State and Penn State.

"The big schools in the East started having juniors in their summer camps," Brown said. "Those schools would bring in the best in-state kids, and then they would go out of state. Most of the in-state kids would be locked up."

So Brown started having junior day at North Carolina. He would invite many of the state's top high school juniors to Chapel Hill to tour the campus and football facilities and meet the Tar Heels' players and coaches.

But when Brown got to Texas before the 1998 season, he stopped having junior days, because none of the other Big 12 schools he was competing against had them.

"When we got to Texas, none of the schools in the state had summer camps," Brown said. "No schools in the state of Texas were offering kids scholarships until the middle of football season or after their senior seasons. It was just a much slower process."

But about six years ago, Brown discovered the Longhorns were being left behind.

"We weren't doing any junior days," Brown said. "All of the sudden, we were way behind. We were trying to build our junior day around our spring football game in April. But other schools were having junior days at their bowl practices and having them before national signing day. We just felt like we were so far behind."

The Longhorns are definitely ahead of the game now. With the ink barely dry on the national letters of intent that 25 high school seniors signed with Texas on Feb. 3, the Longhorns already have 17 junior prospects verbally committed to sign with them in February 2011.

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Texas Longhorns, Maryland Terrapins get reprieve on recruiting rule - ESPN

AUSTIN, Texas -- The NCAA has given Texas and Maryland a one-year reprieve from a new rule that limits off-campus football recruiting by a coach designated as the head coach-in-waiting.

That will allow Texas defensive coordinator Will Muschamp and Maryland offensive coordinator James Franklin to fully participate in the critical spring evaluation period in April and May.

The new rule says coaches "publicly designated" to be the next head coach are bound by the same recruiting rules as the current head coach. That would limit them to one off-campus visit with a prospect and it could not be during the spring evaluation period. Other assistants can have multiple off-campus visits.

Texas spokesman Nick Voinis said Tuesday the grace period gives the schools time to seek permanent relief.

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calibuck;1660347; said:
While I was there, the University of Texas was THE place that everyone wanted to go. The smartest guys, the prettiest girls, you name it, that was the destination of choice.
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Good post. A friend of mine, who is a UT alum and formerly worked on the football staff there, pretty much affirms calibuck's observations.

It is clear that Coach Tressel understands the importance of being THE Ohio State University and the ideal of being supreme. The University of Texas has the advantage of being the top dog in a geographically large state with few nearby rivals. In addition, UT has the longstanding tradition of being an excellent school academically (it's ahead of A&M and Tech and may be the best in the Big 12).

It takes years to alter public perception and tOSU is working hard to be a premier school academically. tOSU continues to increase its admission standards and the mean ACT scores of its students is also on the rise. While it pains me to say it, NoD and TSUN have benefited greatly from the public perception that their schools are top notch schools academically (I've seen pinheads in Ann Arbor wearing t-shirts claiming that Harvard was the "M*ch*g*n of the East.")

Fortunately, the future just keeps getting brighter for tOSU. Respect for the school is growing significantly and it's success in football and basketball is not going unnoticed. Conversely, TSUN is mired in excrement. In three sports where TSUN has excelled the past generation (football, basketball and hockey), Sparty, their in-state rival, is now clearly better in all three.
 
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mross34;1675073; said:
Are we finally seeing the Texas method implemented at tOSU? I hope so.
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Well idk. We did this kinda thing for the '09 class and had it almost completely locked up before the season even started. I'd say its definitely the most effective route for us to go because last year bit us in the butt.
 
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mross34;1675073; said:
Are we finally seeing the Texas method implemented at tOSU? I hope so.
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I hope not, the situations aren't remotely comparable. They can pass on Russell Sheppard and still land Garrett Gilbert. OSU doesn't have that luxury with enough depth to risk losing 6-10 of their instate offers and not suffering as a result.

2010 TX prospects - 07 ***** 41 ****
2010 OH prospects - 02 ***** 13 ****

2009 TX prospects - 07 ***** 32+ **** (scout's database isn't loading the 2nd page of 09 recruits)
2009 OH prospects - 03 ***** 11 ****

In '10, Texas passed or missed on:

5* Seastrunk
5* Nelson
4* Dixon (#10)
4* Lewis (#7)
4* White (#13)
4* Thompson (#18)

...and still landed the #3 class, 6 ***** 13 **** & 9 top-100.

In '09, Texas passed or missed on:
5* Loston
5* Shepard
5* McFarland
5* Michael
4* Wort (#5)
4* Rollison (#11)
4* Pratt (#11)
4* Lowe (#13)
4* Mahoney (#13)
4* Barrera (#14)
...etc.


Texas only landed 2 of scout's top-6 texans.

...and still landed the #7 class, 4 ***** 8 **** & 6 top-100.
 
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