Austin American Statesman

[OldHippie]

Sunday's AAS reports official visits this weekend for Malcolm Brown, Jaxon Shipley, Taylor Doyle, Brandon Alexander, Steve Edmond, Kendall Thompson, Mykkele Thompson and Josh Turner.

Only Alexander of this group has not made a commitment and Turner seems to be the least firm of all the 2011 UT verbal commitments.

Mack Brown and Major Applewhite are scheduled to have an in-home visit with Cedric Reed on Monday.

UT is currently looking at 2012 O-Line prospects Kennedy Estelle, Curtis Riser, Trey Keenan and Michael Starts.

 

[caryhorn]

Those are some fine athletes you named there old hippie. This is going to be a monster class.

 

[dgnr8]

The Link

 

[Horns11]

It's quite convenient to use the 2006 class as a frame of reference for that study, especially if you want to make Texas look pretty fuggin awful.

14 out of 25 were washouts or transfers. 56 percent.

I still think that recruiting class (other than Kindle and Houston, and even those guys had their off-field "moments") was Mack's big failure as a recruiter. For someone who was known as Coach February before the national championship win, he sure dropped the ball immediately after our epic win. We took a bunch of 4-to-5-star guys who wanted to play for the national champ, but had no idea what type of effort and teamwork it took to get there.

It also speaks volumes about why we had a rough time in 2010.

 

[where_are_my_8s]

That would have been more meaningful to look at the recruits who didn't score any points on the scale.

 

[l00p]

Please tell me that neither of the amazingly talentless hacks at AAS (Kirk Bowels and Cedric Fools Golden) don't do anything with recruiting. I have no way of knowing as I don't read that rag mostly due to the incompetence and sketchy "writing" of those two.

 

[Branyon]

A good number of the 2006 class committed in the spring of 2005 well before the Horns won the NC. The early recruitment and commitment practices of MB left little room to exploit the big win before NSD in 2006.

The staff went on vacation after the NC. The key classes were 2007 and 2008 which consisted of players who were HS juniors and sophomores when Texas won the NC. Those were the classes which should have reflected the benefit of the NC.

It appears there were plenty of coattailers in both classes.

 

[chango]

sooner fans say they measure themselves by national championships - so that class was a failure, right?

 

[blonthang]

Without opining of whether OU's recruiting class was better than the others' or not, the linked Fort Worth Star Telegram methodology is about the most worthless "analysis" I've seen in a long time.

It only gives "points" for awards, not for being a good contributing player to the squad.

Example, you could have a few teams with really good centers, or safeties, or tight ends, etc., but only the team with the one that is named "all-Big 12" gets points. All the other players contribute "0" to their team, following this scoring system.

Huh?

And frankly, 8 points for a Heisman? The year Bradford won, he certainly had a great year, maybe the best, but Colt wasn't far behind.

OU would get 8 points for Bradford's Heisman year.
Texas would get 0 points for Colt's essentially equal year, just got fewer Heisman votes.

(assuming they were from the same recruiting class year --- too lazy to look it up, but the point is the same).

Sam was worth 8 points, Colt was worth 0.

That's spot on analysis, allright.

Epic fail.