R.J. Washington

I still don't get this okie need to come on this board. I look around and don't see anything that smacks of crimson, cream, trailer parks, broken cookies, toothlessness, or ladies my dog would love. Seems like the level of conversation here would just leave 'em confused...or is it the need for culture that an okie can only meet by coming here? In any event...go home, until you're prepared to come on here and be rational.
 
OUE-So, the whole thing is over one year? You come on here to brag about that and then get pissed that people throw it back at you that you can't win a bowl game. I thought you were a cut above the rest of the morons that visit here to spout their venom. Your stock is dropping OUE.
 
I'd still like to see one of the many OU posters try to defend the kid's position. On a day when the kid should be happy to be where he is, when he should be focused on his future and how he plans to make his future in Oklahoma after his playing days are over, he feels compelled to trash Texas and its coaching staff.

There's rivalry, and smack talk, but, on such a "red letter day" for these kids, one would think they would only focus on where they were going, NOT, on where they weren't.
 
skyranger43 - I wasn't referring to you, I was responding to the sooner who's post was subsequently deleted.
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Apparently Gilbert isn't taken aback by the early commitment method. Or the 14 recruits we had committed by the end of Feb. 2007. Or the 10+ we'll get in the next 3 weeks.
 
The UT model may not work for all recruits, but any other method would not work for all of them either.
I am so glad we don't patronize the pompous jerks who play the hat game at news conferences at high school all-star games, those fools are so irritating. A lot of them may turn out to be great players, but who wants to babysit them until they become human? OU does, I know.
Washington is a good fit for OU-a card carrying horns down hater of Texas. His former state doesn't miss him.
 
he didn't badmouth you really. it is arrogant. you are basically the only school that does it. i'm sure you will say you are the only school that can, but that doesn't mean all recruits are going to embrace it.

stop being homers. it was worked out well for mac, but it is unusual to a certain extent.
 
it's arrogant because you are saying basically:

"we are texas. when we offer you, you better accept now, or we will not be offering you anymore."

I realize this is your team and i realize RJ might have been out of line to even mention it, but what he says rings true to me. if a school did that to me, i would tell them thanks, but no thanks. I am going to look at all the schools and get back to you when i decide. it's great as long as the kid has dreamed of playing for texas, but apparently not every kid has that dream.

as a poster above said, mack has really changed the process with early commits. he was one of the first to really push for it an be successful in terms of entire classes committing early. but that doesn't change the fact that texas is basically saying when the offer comes, it is only good for the next couple of weeks. to a five star athlete, that might not work out so well for you in the future.

i'm just saying.
 
It could be seen as arrogance. Or, it could be seen as Mack's way of saying, "If you don't come here, we'll beat you with someone who does."

You will see it one way or the other, depending on how your personal bias lies.

That Washington, and the Sooners posting on this board, view it the same way, is the least shocking thing I've heard in the last 72 hours...
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It is not arogant, it is respectful of the other recruits to not keep 60 of them dangling waiting for Mr. Stud to pick out his baseball cap at the final day of recruiting at his four network press conference, then tell #2 he is no longer needed.
It is good policy, it pleases the families and the recruits and the high school coaches to know that your word is good when you offer a scholarship, and the word of the recruit should be good also. That sounds like good policy, not arogance.
 
Let's see if we can keep this very simple, for those who fail to grasp the concept. Mack does NOT give a deadline to every player Texas recruits. He does do it in some instances, based strictly on the situation and position.

Texas has been plenty patient in the past, even when we've been played by some 17 year old on an ego trip who decided long since to go somewhere else. (...and no, I'm not referring to any current recruiting controversies.)

Mack does NOT want Texas to be a pawn in some players' power trip. That's why he'll tell one who says he's trying to decide between us and five others goodbye...thereby reducing the number of choices available to that player.

Mack doesn't have a "one size fits all" approach to recruiting. He also doesn't do anything that most other coaches with the resources of a Texas don't do. He simply wants, exclusively, players who are excited about wearing the burnt orange. I find no fault with that.
 
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