2011 class

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hornpharmd

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The 2011 class is really starting to look like one of Mack's best classes. The weird thing about it is that that class wasn't recruited by most of the current position coaches.

The 2010 class may have been better on paper but attrition has taken hold and that class has sunk down a few notches. Already gone from the 2010 class are: Wood, Bible, Shead, Terrell, Darius White, Jones, Cotton, Adrian White. That is 8 players gone in less than 2 years. 6 of those were 4 star. There are still some key players left from that class (Jeffcoat, Hicks, Espinosa, Hopkins, Dorsey, Davis, Byndom, McCoy). But just not enough starters or backups in that class remaining to make it a great class.

Contrast that 2010 class with the class a year later and a year younger. Already that class has shown much more potential including:
Malcolm Brown
Desmond Jackson
Quandre Diggs
Steve Edmond
Jaxon Shipley
Davis Ash
Joe Bergeron

And there are potential stars in:
Evans
Flowers
Greanlea
McFarland
Moss
K. Thompson
M. Thompson
Turner
Onyegbule
Scott

Much less attrition in this class thus far and already more guys are producing on the field. And more should step up and make their mark this year.

Very exciting to know that we have such quality young players on the team now and this should help produce better results on the field.

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Much less attrition? They've only been on campus 9 months. How many of the 2010 class had attritted by May10 of 2011?
 
Some have been here since January of 2011. Many of these others came in the summer.

I get what you are saying and I am sure we are going to see some added attrition to this 2011 class. However the attrition from the 2010 class occurred much more quickly than I think it will with the 2011 class. I mentioned 8 players that were gone from the 2010 class and that is less than 2 years. So the question for you is do you think we will see 8 players leave from the 2011 class by then?

I don't think so. And I don't think we will see 6 four players gone by the either.

But back to the point we have already seen as many playmakers from the 2011 class as the 2010 class and we may have another 6 or 8 become starters in the next year or 2.
 
Here's how it will probably break down over their tenure for the 2011 class:

Highest caliber:
Cochran
Diggs
Shipley

Starters/Majors:
Bergeron
Brown
Edmond
Greenlea
Jackson
McFarland
Reed

I'm hesitant to throw Ash or most of the DBs into the mix because they'll be platooned so much over the next couple seasons. Not sure why you think Moss is ever going to play much.
 
Wow, no wonder we sucked the last two years. Further, that class was one of the better ones at the end of Mack's tenure. Some other classes were totally destroyed by attrition and what not.
 
Didn't Mack bring in a so called talent evaluator he stole from Alabama his last few years
 
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Didn't Mack bring in a so called talent evaluator he stole from Alabama his last few years
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That's what I recall. But it was either too little too late, or was just a plain ol' disaster and didn't work out.
 
According to Scout.com, the Longhorns have put together the No. 1 class in the entire country.

After finishing with the No. 3 class in 2011, Texas should be ready to get back to the top of the Big 12 after a poor on-field showing this past season.

Here is how the two great back-to-back classes stack up by position
 
Mack Brown signed a few talented players on the offensive line last season, including Garrett Greenlea and Sedrick Flowers, but it is nothing compared to the men coming in next year.

Kennedy Estelle is a huge left tackle that is physically ready to play from Day 1. Also coming in is Curtis Riser, who is considered by Scout.com to be the second-best offensive guard in the nation.
 
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