Does anyone know why Texas did this?

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Texas used only 25 of the 62 official on-campus visits permitted by the NCAA and 20 of those prospects signed National Letters of Intent to join the Longhorns on Wednesday.

It seems like you would want to use all of your permitted visits. I'm no expert of course. Could it be that we knew what we wanted and only went after them? Still, how could bringing in a few longshots hurt?

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Texas identifies the kids they are interested in very early on. Notice how many get offers on junior days and how many accept. The official visits seem to be used to surround a few prospects not yet committed with kids the same age but who have already long since committed to Texas. The commits can then help recruit their uncommitted peers with a great deal of credibility. Therefore, Texas makes a much different use of "official visits" in recruiting than many other schools.
 
I thought today's press conference in the afternoon, by Mack, was one of the finest explanations of the philosophy behind Texas' recruiting, and why everything is done exactly the way it is done... right down to explanations of money and time, in particular the time period following December -- and in particular how Texas handles the timing of Junior Days, and so much more.

After today I felt I had a good appreciation for how the Longhorn program looks at kids and why and all that goes into it. I'm not sure if there is another football program in the land that goes about it precisely this way. Just my opinion on it, but I think Mack has evolved a good approach. And makes me extremely proud of the kids who want to play here and who are going to come to play here.

I hope that press conference -- including the Players' Video -- will be made available. To hear Mack talk in the background during the play of that video.... excellent.
 
Using 25 of the 62 allowed visits. Signing 20 of the 25. That is about the same as the last ten years.
 
We commit to players and they commit to us. It creates the family atmosphere that Mack has always preached. You have your few bad apples every once in a while, like Perriloux, but for the most part we keep the players committed that we go after. The shotgun approach may work for some other schools, but this works for Mack and Texas.
 
As someone mentioned earlier - time & money, but I think mostly time.

The coaches have a certain number of hours per day. It's a zero-sum game so if the coaches are spending time with "extra recruit #8," then they aren't able to spend as much time with "primary recruit #5."
 
B/c Mack hates and fears rejection and failure.

He's not the guy that is going to invite the most popular girl in the school on a date- he's going to stick with someone that's "in his league"

We select from the best players in the state, provided they want to become longhorns, and sprinkle in recruiting guys from around the country that make the first move toward us.

I'm not really complaining as the Texas brand is at such a high level in the state that this works really well. BUt it's a big reason why our recruiting borders are the red, sabine and rio grande (excepting sons of former longhorns living in their NFL cities.
 
Pretty simple really. Mack and Texas want kids who Love Texas and want to be a Longhorn. Cream of the crop from Texas that want to be Horns probably have known that for a long time, it is in their blood. Mack really does not want kids to come to Texas who don't Love Texas.
 
Love Mack, and who knows in the end which approach is better, but if this true love theory is as true as you say, there are concerns.

What kind of arrogance will not approach other people? And by other people I mean recruits who don't know about us other than what their ******* cousin said one night to some aggies by a Jack in the Box in Temple.

If you overly care about rejection when dating you'll never get laid.
 
I would say that our program is at or very near the "gets laid twice every night" level. Mack is eating a lot of oysters.
 
Well before the recruiting season really got started I think the staff felt they had room for 20 maybe 3 more spots for guys they felt were too good to pass up(Kennard, Jones, Kirkpatrick), by June we already had 19 verbals, and there were only a few guys they were going after hard in McFarland, Jones, Kennard, and Kirkpatrick, so there wasn't a need to use all the alloted visits.
 
None of us truly know what "overtures" are made or not made by Mack. He could send letters to every top OOS recruit. He could only send it to a select few. Too much speculation about something we don't know about.
 
What he's done seems to work, who are we to even start to doubt his methods?

I think a lot has to do with his "word", if you will. I bet he tells a lot of players he reall wants early on that if they commit to him, he'll commit to them, therefore he won't talk to other kids and break his promise.

Besides, Mack has been right more than wrong, so I'd say he has a good handle on things.
 
I agree with Hu Fan. After hearing the pressie I now have a greater understanding of the philosopy on the 40 Acres and like Mack said, it is working. We came with .0003 of playing for the MNC this year with what we recruited out of Texas.
 
This may be why recruiting results right before NSD are so bad, Texas finishes their class and may only wrk on one or two more while focusing on the next year.
 
Rare commodities are usually considered more valuable. Texas scholarship offers are relatively rare commodities and so high school athletes may feel lucky to receive one and might take it more seriously than an offer from a school that gives every top 250 athlete in the country one and then accepts them on a first come, first serve basis.
 
Tough to complain. Alabama had a great class but what if half those recruits didn't commit on the last day?

He saves some slots for some top 100 kids on the last day, but why take a 25% shot on a no. 45 kid when you have a no. 120 kid ready to commit? Different way of playing the numbers.

If Mack had a fear of rejection and failure, he would have stayed at UNC where being above average got him worshipped.
 
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