It's official Dixon changes his verbal to Baylor

So has anyone ever been able to ask the question, "Why?" I'm not sure he would say anything on the record to someone like Clendon or Ketchum, but I'm pretty sure we'd just hear he wants to be close to home. THe real reason lies somewhere along the lines of our depth, which is totally speculation on my part but damn... he's good enough to get PT pretty quick.

I haven't followed recruiting as much as many of y'all, but I must say this is the strangest thing I've seen. I mean, Baylor? Come on...
 
Oh well, good luck to the kid. It's better he goes and wastes his time at Baylor than attend OU or LSU where he might actually play for something or bite Texas in the ***.
 
Baylor has a good coach and is coming up in the world, so no need to bash the Bears. Good luck to Dixon. It is amazing that more recruits do not change their minds with the verbals happening so early now. It's bound to happen once in a while, so no reason to panic.
It's never a good thing to lose a recruit, but if UT can get committments from one or more of the big three or four remaining targets out there we are pursuing, this won't be seen as anything too cataclysmic.
 
Hate to lose any commits, but time to find a replacement.
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Recruiting Roundup
May 29th, 2009 by Scipio Tex

You know by now that Texas received it’s first blow of the recruiting season when Ahmad Dixon declared for Baylor. Losing an elite recruit to Baylor is like having Pat Boone pick your pocket. Dixon was one of our best five recruits and will serve as the bellcow of Baylor’s class. I don’t think this one is necessarily over, but if it is, Dixon must take heed of the Mack Brown recruiting curse.

How we deal with this one will tell me a bit about Muschamp’s impact on our philosophy. Urban Meyer would shrug and recommit himself to recruiting the prospect, chuckling at the great game that is swaying the suggestible minds of 17 year olds. As for Texas, we’ve had the tendency to act like an aggrieved wife who found out about an affair. Not even a clever French wife, who would use the affair as leverage to make the husband buy her a new wardrobe and take her to Cannes, but a mean-spirited American wife who takes all of your stuff and refuses to talk to you.

A lot of people have speculated about the angles Baylor played to pull this off and I think it’s pretty clear that it was a combination of depth chart angst, classroom worries, and access to Dixon via the defensive coordinator’s son, Levi Norwood. I also wonder if Akina showed him sufficient love after getting his pledge. Baylor played pretty effectively upon the notion that he’s a Day 1 starter in Waco who will be given small classes, individual attention, and “an academic plan” and Jason Smith’s draft status proves that the NFL will find talent wherever it is. This is all easily combatted, but the question is whether we even care to do so.

Folks who are saying “Forget Dixon if he’s scared to compete” are missing the boat. First, many high school players have no idea how good they actually are - see Connor Wood. We run a base nickel now and our coaches would like to do it with three safeties. There’s plenty of opportunity. Second, his fear of competition may not be on the football field, but in the classroom. It’s worth our time to fight this one out.

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rereading the post above, and the scipio comments, I couldn't disagree more.
Frankly, assuming that Scipio is correct (and he may or may not be) that the kid has difficulties competing in the classroom, then he indeed may not be a good fit at Texas. A 5 star that's ineligible contributes less than a 2 star that can play on saturdays.

Also, the comments about Mack's style vs. Meyer; Mack has made it crystal clear that he wants kids that want to play for Texas. There are plenty of them.

When it comes to recruiting, I trust Mack a **** of a lot more than I trust Scipio and the rest of the comedians that post over there.

Frankly, I respect the **** out of the fact that the kid did it now, and not the day before signing day.

Good luck to him, and to Baylor. GO BEARS...BEAT AGGY! (not that they need my support to do so).
 
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