Commit #2 for 2013 In and it's a big one

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Great highlight film. Not only is he very tall, has ridiculous hands, and likes to squash CBs on running plays, but his routes leave jockstraps all over the field and he pulls away from much shorter guys with his speed.

Looks like a very good get. Our QBs are finally going to have multiple targets again.
 
Parents from Dallas are not going to want to do the SEC travel to see their son play. They aren't going to be all that keen about the East Coast, either (read Virginias and Carolinas). You really can't do anything other than Mississippi, Arkie and LSU without a very hard drive and a very expensive hotel*. The farther West you live in Texas is just that much worse. Since driving all the way is pretty much out of question you also have to factor in the time of driving (after work on Friday) to an airport, parking for two days, rental car and another drive to one of the many schools who do not have major airports Houston is better with respect to LSU 2 times in a college career, but it's a certain loss in one of those.

My son attends an SEC school and he is fairly ambivalent about college footbal (although he DID clandestinely set off an enormous crimson, 30 cannon, triple break fireworks display on 1/9 that his pyromaniac father built in anticipation of the win) and he said that, at least at his school, it is just kinda "whatever" about aggie. They don't like, fear or loathe them. They just don't really think about them much. Their attitude is that they hate/grudgingly respect some schools, but they have no history with aggy and so they don't really care. That might work in favor of aggy for a while in that the other schools don't really dislike them yet, but that will come soon enough.

I'm reminded of Humphrey Bogart's line in Casablanca where where responds to the question "You don't like me much, do you Reek?" with "If I thought about you at all, I suppose I wouldn't".

In any event, Aggy is not going to draw recruits in from any further than, maybe, Arkansas, Mississippi or Louisiana. In part because they are also ******** dwellers and because they can drive. Probably a few, but they are also going to drive a fair number of Texas kids away.

At best, it a zero sum recruiting move to be in the SEC and my personal opinion is that if aggy falls on it's sheep-turd encrusted face in the first two years it will cost aggie mightily.

*In Tuscaloosa, they are pretty much sold out for every football weekend in perpetuity and if you were somehow able to get a hotel for parent's weekend at the very convenient (but also very unimpressive) Capstone, you would have the priviledge of paying $1k/night with a 3 night minimum. You can still get into a business traveler place like The Hampton Inn, but it's still going to knock you back a bit and they aren't convenient. Auburn is probably even worse for availability, Ole Miss probably has 3 hotels and even Athens probably has availability issues. Atlanta has plenty of rooms, but it has its issues as well. You think that might be fodder for keeping recruits from going to BCS? You think that stuff like that is known only by me?
 
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