2017 Recruiting?

Someone please enlighten me as to whom little ricky cantu is other than some neverwas wannabe trying to catch on with some fishwrap, without being smart enough to realize that there are no fishwraps left worth writing for. The guy is obviously classless piece of ****, who should thank The Good Lord that it is Bob Brewer's son and not mine, because little ricky and I would have a really serious conversation over lunch at El Patio, after which I would pay the bill, hug the members of the Joseph family that are there, and leave the quivering sack of jello trying to discover if he could walk without a backbone.
 
Daniel Young to Texas --


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I'll probably catch some flack for this observation but...

While the star rating system is certainly not an exact science -- and if we ever needed an example of that observation it would be a particular 2-Star RB who won this year's Doak Walker -- I struggle to be enthusiastic when learning about 3 star additions. And yes, Conor Williams was a 3-Star... But I would feel much more confident with more highly rated players. After all, we're Texas, not SMU or UH, and the rating services exist for a reason.

OK, rail away...
 
Unfortunately we're not Alabama or Ohio State either at this point. Haven't been for while but we will return. The 3 ***s who recently committed are very good athletes, potentially great. Have faith, we're on our way to being Texas again :hookem:
 
I certainly believe in Herman, and I think he'll tear it up in the recruiting wars after year one. I also suspect that perhaps some of the players he had been pursuing at UH are in play for us because he likely feels an obligation to follow through, so to speak.

His reach increased exponentially when he accepted our offer. In other words, kids that may have been long shots for him as the HC at UH will not be long shots as the Texas HC going into '18.
 
A really good coach can coach up lesser athletes to win games. Hopefully Herman can do that, and once he does, the elite athletes will be easier for him to recruit to Texas than they would have been to recruit to UH.
 
dukesteer said:
I struggle to be enthusiastic when learning about 3 star addition
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It really depends on coaching evaluations. In the late Mack Brown years, he was still winning the recruiting battles ... as Rivals and Scout keep score. But the honest truth we watched play out is that lower star players at TCU, A&M, Baylor and even Kansas State were often better college prospects. A good college coaching staff is better at evaluating players than Chip Brown and Jeremy Crabtree.

I watched Kerstetter's highlights. I like the way he dominates and overpowers the guy across from him ... in 6A football he was blocking big, strong, well conditioned players. What impressed me more was the blocks he made in space on linebackers ... faster guys who are typically nimble enough to avoid 280 pound offensive tackles.
 
Crockett said:
It really depends on coaching evaluations. In the late Mack Brown years, he was still winning the recruiting battles ... as Rivals and Scout keep score. But the honest truth we watched play out is that lower star players at TCU, A&M, Baylor and even Kansas State were often better college prospects. A good college coaching staff is better at evaluating players than Chip Brown and Jeremy Crabtree.
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Yes, but I think it's the reality that what Alabama, Michigan and Ohio State are signing are legit 5-stars and Texas did not get a big bump from Herman in the near term. It may be that it's too hard to come in so late and pry loose those big guns but it is what it is. Ohio State is making huge in-roads into Texas and if any high school players were listening to last nights pre-game, they would have heard Zeke's recruiting pitch about how Urban Meyer makes them practice and think like professionals. There is no doubt that the elites are not living off of Chip Brown's evaluations.

That being said, the first step is to become dominant in the conference and hopefully, relative to that, these 3-star players were incorrectly evaluated and Herman will coach them to their proper rating.

I just wonder if Herman is still thinking he's Houston. It's like an over-weight woman who goes on a crash diet and suddenly looks hot but still doesn't believe it because her personality has not caught up yet. What looked good as the coach of Houston looked good RELATIVE to the competition on the field. Maybe?
 
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Yes, but I think it's the reality that what Alabama, Michigan and Ohio State are signing are legit 5-stars and Texas did not get a big bump from Herman in the near term.
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Yeah, no question some players are so great that everybody can tell they are great. If such players want to play for National Championships and have lots of self-confidence, it would make sense to play for Saban, Harbaugh and Meyer, who are proven, elite coaches. Herman seems prepared and enthusiastic to prove he can compete with anybody. But honestly, until he proves himself at Texas it's all just talk and optimism.
 
Crockett said:
Yeah, no question some players are so great that everybody can tell they are great. If such players want to play for National Championships and have lots of self-confidence, it would make sense to play for Saban, Harbaugh and Meyer, who are proven, elite coaches. Herman seems prepared and enthusiastic to prove he can compete with anybody. But honestly, until he proves himself at Texas it's all just talk and optimism.
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Agree. When the wins come, so will those top level players.
 
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