2019 Recruiting - Football

A thought about Tom Herman upon wrapping up this recruiting class

In his second year he got us to 10 wins, beat a top 5 ou team in Dallas, played for the B12 title, a Sugar Bowl championship over a highly favored top 5 Georgia, and he is crushing it in recruiting with back to back top 3 ranked classes. Damn straight Texas is on the right path again
 
Recorded college football live this afternoon and Jim Mora Jr and Lugenbill both commented on McCoy ending up playing "rush end". Hadn't heard that one before.
 
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Need to focus on RB, OL, and DL next year to finish the job of adding depth across all positions.
 
mchammer said:
Need to focus on RB, OL, and DL next year to finish the job of adding depth across all positions.
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Can never have too many OL but I think the last 2 years plus the targets this year have me feeling pretty good. We definitely need more DL and RB.

Here's OT recruits the last 2 years
2018
OT Junior Angilau 4*
OT Reese Moore 4*
OT Rafiti Ghirmai 4*
OT Mikey Grandy 3*
OT Christian Jones 3*

2019
OT Tyler Johnson 4*
OT Isaiah Hookfin 4*
OT Javonne Shepherd 4*
 
The Alford PWO is exciting to me. The Superbowl MVP's super power is short area quickness, similar to Alford's. Of course the wide receiver room is adding lots of bigger guys with more highly regarded talent. I just have a feeling Alford will emerge with a role and a scholarship.
 
To put this in perspective, in Mack Brown’s 16 years as head coach at Texas, his recruitment ranking had 4 top three finishes with 247. Tom Herman’s first two full cycle recruiting he has two top 3 ratings.

Mack 4 out of 16 years top 3 with no back to back top three recruiting ratings.

Herman 2 out of 2 years with top 3 with back to back recruiting ratings. *note Herman’s hire was very late in the recruiting season his first season and finished #25 by 247.
 
BigL-Horn said:
Can never have too many OL but I think the last 2 years plus the targets this year have me feeling pretty good. We definitely need more DL and RB.

Here's OT recruits the last 2 years
2018
OT Junior Angilau 4*
OT Reese Moore 4*
OT Rafiti Ghirmai 4*
OT Mikey Grandy 3*
OT Christian Jones 3*

2019
OT Tyler Johnson 4*
OT Isaiah Hookfin 4*
OT Javonne Shepherd 4*
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Not mentioning what a great job coach Hand is doing with that squad. We are looking great in this area. Just need time to develop the young ones so they will be ready when that time comes.
 
BigL-Horn said:
Can never have too many OL but I think the last 2 years plus the targets this year have me feeling pretty good. We definitely need more DL and RB.

Here's OT recruits the last 2 years
2018
OT Junior Angilau 4*
OT Reese Moore 4*
OT Rafiti Ghirmai 4*
OT Mikey Grandy 3*
OT Christian Jones 3*

2019
OT Tyler Johnson 4*
OT Isaiah Hookfin 4*
OT Javonne Shepherd 4*
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We’re going into the 2019 campaign with a returning senior center, a returning starting sophomore RT, a returning/redshirt sophomore RT, and about 10 talented to very talented OLs from which to choose to fill out the line. We might just have something very special, starting this year.
 
I35 said:
To put this in perspective, in Mack Brown’s 16 years as head coach at Texas, his recruitment ranking had 4 top three finishes with 247. Tom Herman’s first two full cycle recruiting he has two top 3 ratings.

Mack 4 out of 16 years top 3 with no back to back top three recruiting ratings.

Herman 2 out of 2 years with top 3 with back to back recruiting ratings. *note Herman’s hire was very late in the recruiting season his first season and finished #25 by 247.
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Just waiting on aggy "coach February" comments to start up again. The funny part about that is they cant even claim that.
 
Any interesting / funny aggy social network chatter / meltdowns out there about the J. Sheperd recruiting conspiracy?
 
Some Suchomel on potential transfer Parker Braun --

" .... Braun took an unofficial visit to Florida last weekend. I'm told it went well, but he's still very much looking forward to his Texas official visit next weekend (February 15). It'll be interesting to see how Texas handles Braun's visit. On one hand, you want to blow him away with everything your school has to offer, on the other, Braun isn't the type that's going to be blown away by a lot of bells and whistles.

The factors that are important to him ... what Master's programs will be available, how he fits and if he can make an immediate impact, the strength and conditioning program.

One note of interest ... Braun feels his he may be able to make himself attractive for NFL teams by doing some cross-training at center and guard. He's had conversations with Herb Hand about that...."​
 
dukesteer said:
We’re going into the 2019 campaign with a returning senior center, a returning starting sophomore RT, a returning/redshirt sophomore RT, and about 10 talented to very talented OLs from which to choose to fill out the line. We might just have something very special, starting this year.
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I assume your are referring to Kerstetter as being the RS sophomore? I thought he played in more than 4 games.
 
Looks like aggy DC Elko may be leaving for the Bengals. Not announced until 2 days after NSD2.

Should the kids he recruited but had know idea he was looking to immediately leave them be allowed out of their NLI's without penalty?
 
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WorsterMan said:
Any interesting / funny aggy social network chatter / meltdowns out there about the J. Sheperd recruiting conspiracy?
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Not really. At this point Aggies are saying they are happy with their class regardless of Horn ranking. However still butthurt over being passed.
 
WorsterMan said:
Any interesting / funny aggy social network chatter / meltdowns out there about the J. Sheperd recruiting conspiracy?
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They are 100% myopically focused at the ESPN team rankings (which is probably the worst of the 3 main services with the least money and least people assigned. It used to be good, but some years ago they cut way back).
They are pretending the other two do not exist, nor does the 247 Composite exist (which combines all 3)

 
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