From so many experiences in the recent years when the big fish who gave us so much hope went away somewhere in the end after protracted waits from us, I am officially NOT expecting Lache to come to UT.
I have come to the realization that there have just got to be some things that we do, that some recruits just do not like - whether it is our stress on wrapping them up early, or our way of putting honest/unavoidable pressure on them as the "last guy (or the only big name) we are recruiting at his position" etc etc. The guys who simply want to give everybody a chance to recruit them and take their time deciding, perhaps cannot deal with that way of recruiting. May be the player simply does not want to commit early and does not like feeling the whole Longhorns nation's eyes being on him, making him feel guilty for even delaying it - as though all the horn fans would just keel over and die if he doesn't become a horn ... After a few months, it all gets pretty old and weird .. And the player says to hell with it, I am just going to LSU or Auburn or USC or wherever.
It is not Mack's fault either. Do we want Mack to change his style of recruiting, hell no. He does what he does in an honest way and has been successful at it. We should rather probably just accept that there is a side to that type of recriting, that probably does not work in the case of some big names, for nobody's fault.
Anyway, I just don't feel Lache will become a Longhorn. May be I am just somebody burnt so many times by the "waiting and waiting big name". I am accepting the reality that we mostly get all the big names early, and really do not get any real bluechip within even a few months of signing day.
R.J.