Lowest ranked recruit team: Texas edition

[Horns11]

Since most of the recruiting sites started keeping tabs on players about 10 years ago (we'd probably have to use Dave Campbell's in order to go back further), here's our "best of" team made up of 3-star players or worse from that time period. I'm liberally using whichever site (Scout, Rivals, etc.) that actually ranked the kid lowest... not an average.

Overall it's a decent team, especially because of who's the starting QB and some of the individuals we have at DE and OL. Our glaring weakness would be WR, but with a line like that, we might run a bit more spread game with Ramonce and hopefully he's not in jail.

QB
Colt McCoy
David Ash
Case McCoy

RB
Ramonce Taylor (what could have been...)
C. Ogbonnaya
Joe Bergeron
Tre Newton

WR
Nate Jones **
Marquise Goodwin **
I think Dustin Miksch might have caught a pass in a game once, but that was about it. Shows how thin our WR recruiting has been. Or it shows how even though we get some big names in recruiting, we don't coach them up to all be Shipleys and Cosbys and Williamses.

TE
Neale Tweedie
Barrett Matthews

OT
Adam Ulatoski
J. Cochran
D. Hawkins

OG/C
Kasey Studdard
C. Tanner
C. Hall **
G. Porter
C. Dockery
T. Ashcraft

DE
Orakpo
B. Robison
S. Acho **

DT
K. Randall
D. Lokey
B. Alexander **

LB
E. Acho
R. Muckelroy **
R. Bobino
Scott Derry

CB
Ryan Palmer
Brandon Foster

S
Michael Griffin
Blake Gideon *
Marcus Griffin
Erick Jackson

K
H. Lawrence
J. Tucker

P.
Trevor Gerland

 

[madcow]

Cool list ... I'd forgotten Orakpo being considered a 3 star ... cat was pretty good

 

[OldHippie]

Blake Gideon was a 2 star recruit and 4 time Big-12 honorable mention safety. He started 52 straight games at Texas and at last report was on the Denver Broncos practice squad. He had his detractors, but I think he was as good as at least one of those safeties you have listed.

 

[Horns11]

Yeah I had him written down and totally forgot to throw him in there because I was so excited that Michael Griffin was a 3-star. I'd put Gideon ahead of Marcus Griffin based on experience and his honorable mention alone. Edited to fix it.

 

[PFD]

At WR, Billy Pittman?

 

[Horns11]

Billy Pittman was 4-star by both Rivals and Scout. I had considered him and was sad to find it out.

 

[horndoggus]

Goodwin came to UT on a track scholarship. Wouldn't he quaify as WR?

 

[Horns11]

Ahh yes. You are correct. He was 3-star by Rivals and no stars from Scout so he definitely applies. He just wasn't listed on either recruiting class chart by either site. Thanks for the catch! Fixed on the depth chart.

It truly doesn't make up for the fact that our WR recruiting hasn't been great.

 

[Hornilicious]

Guys I might include-

Nathan Jones at WR.
Sam Acho at DE.
Chris Hall- All over the OL. Not terribly talented, but versatile.
Rod Muckelroy at LB.
Ben Alexander at DT. Pretty good player kinda lost in the shufflle at a deep position.

I'm curious who would rank guys like Michael Griffin, Kasey Studdard, and Brian Orapko as 3 stars. Smoking the good stuff.

 

[Horns11]

Nate Jones was borderline 4-star (Rivals had him lower) so I'll include him. Edited.

Acho was the same (4 by one and 3 by the other) so I'll get him on there too. I was wondering why I had E. Acho but not Sam. Edited.

Not sure why I forgot Chris Hall. I had him written down on my sheet that I was going through and never put his name on the list. Edited.

Muckelroy was another that was 4-star by one service but not the other. Not sure why I didn't see him when I was going over the 2nd time. Edited.

I think I left off Alexander because he didn't contribute much. I see him right here on the list I wrote down but when I was typing it up, I passed him over. Edited.

 

[Finger Likcin']

Orakpo = 4 Star