Darrell Scott Update from Colorado TV station

Cases like this is one of the reasons that I agree with Mack not focusing a lot of time in recruiting OOS. How many times have we been burnt in these situations?
 
Per Craig Haubert of Scouts Inc. on a ESPN recruitng chat today...

Ron(Victoria, Tx): word has begun circulating this morning that darrell scott is no longer a texas lean the day before signing day, is this rumor true and if so what happened last night to make him to switch gears

SportsNation Craig Haubert : (12:05 PM ET ) Ron I think part of the problem is people assumed he was a Texas lean, with Charles leaving for the NFL. People assumed that that would be the smart move for him to make. In my chats I have been saying that I though he was heading to Colorado. I think that Dan Hawkins does a good job selling recruits, and the fact that he has an uncle who plays WR there is a big factor. So I do not think anything big happned last night.
 
So he's telling the CO press that he's going to Texas, but telling the Texas press that he's leaning to CU? Did he recently hire RP to do his PR?
 
Ketch and Jason are the "most" reliable of the UT recruiting services. I put most in quotes because you have to put their reliability into the recruiting context. If they were held to the standard of a traditional news service, I would put them right next to the OK Gossip magazine in terms of real world reliability.

However, there should be no doubt that they up-spin non-news and use bombastic headlines for minor events in order to try and woo subscribers. They are notorious for that. A lot like Fox News I would say.

That said they are the best we've got.

This case is another one where they are whipping up stuff we already knew with a new meaningless factoid in order to put up a story with a attention grabbing headline for the purpose of getting new subscribers.
 
They don't make stuff up. They create headlines, which is their job.

What I can't stand is the posters that come on here (or any non-Orangebloods site) and regurgitate Orangebloods' artificial terror.
 
Scott is leaning back to CU because he has a close relative playing there? Yeah, that did Tellus a lot of good, didn't it.
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True Orange is more reliable than Orangebloods. Jerry actually has a background in journalism and holds his publication to a higher standard than Ketch. This is not a slam on Orangebloods. I think Ketch is entertaining. Jerry's just from a different era.
 
Jeez, whatever DS's choice is going to be, with all this freakin' banter going back & forth... I'm heading to the ******* bar. I can't take any more.

Somebody come shake me at the Velvet Melvin when the decision is announced.
 
Yeah, but half of Jerry's stuff is taken straight from UT press releases and reformed into an update, much like what a newspaper would do.

Orangebloods had a guy at Darrell Scott's high school in California this morning and their updates are based on this guy's conversations with his teammates and coaches.

So what they're writing about today is what their guy heard this morning at St. Bonaventure.
 
If Scott was from Colorado, then I'd say sure thing to CU. But he is from California. An uncle at CU can definitely be strong, but an opportunity for immediate playing time at a top 10 program is a very strong carrot to dangle in front of him.
 
I really hope Scott comes to Texas, but the way I see it is that if Mr. February can't get the kid to come he wasn't meant to be a Longhorn. In that case, best of luck to the guy wherever he ends up.
 
Two things bother me: First, I haven't seen many bigname recruits wait until signing day to decide and then sign with Texas. For whatever reason, they usually commit early or not at all. Maybe that's a good reflection on us and the type of kids we attract. I don't know.

Second, too many memories of Marcus Houston, the last bigname RB to wait until signing day to choose between us and CU.
 
Matt Malatesta from Rivals.com just came on the radio station that I work for ESPN 97.5 The Ticket here and Houston and said that he believed that Scott would be calling UT home next season. Take that for what its worth.

Also if any posters here live in Houston Matt and Randy McIlvoy from Channel 2 will be hosting the High School Round-Up National Signing Day show on 97.5 The Ticket tomorrow from 5-630 pm so be sure to tune in / call in.
 
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

Guys. It'll be great if this kid decides to make the 40 his home.... but haven't we learned our lesson. Let's not get our hopes up. We've lost to many great recruits in similar situations.
 
This thread reminds me about what I DO NOT miss about recruiting in the pre-Mack Brown era. It begins with a link from a Colorado TV station reporting that Darrell Scott is probably going to Texas and ends less than 24 hours later with doom and gloom conjecture based on second/third hand information picked up in high school hallways. To me it shows that the our staff's practice of targeting Texas kids and getting them on board early is the most sound recruiting strategy in the long run.
 
Exactly, I remember an article about Mick Haley talking and recruiting. He had a decent player in Texas who loved him and UT and a "5 star" recruit OOS that was showing interest but wouldn't commit. His wife overheard him talking about it and told him that she would rather have the player who was passionate about playing for him vs. the one that couldn't make up her mind. I can't remember the player's name now but she was one of the top players when UT won the national championship. I think Mack is from this same school of thought. I don't think that its OOS recruits he doesn't like so much as he wants players who want to come here.
 
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