RSJ de-commitment

Cool, I agree with most of your post. However the issue is - don't commit until you are sure because once you commit, that is it. This commitment is probably the first big commitment in these guys lives so "excusing" them for a withdrawn commitment sets a tone that exceptionalness has privileges which will end for them in less than 15 years, but the effects of which will scare them for the rest of their lives.

The process is a big part of the issue as the pressure grows as the scholarships available decline.
 
From this morning's (6/14) SA Express News, maybe this explains some things:
The Link


UT football: Brown says some recruits ‘didn’t fit us’


“Sometimes people panic when you lose a guy,” Brown said. “We might have been trying to lose the guy. Maybe we didn’t want him, and he didn’t fit us. And in some cases, we’ve moved on long before the public moves on.”
 
replying to that link.......Why did we offer these guys in the first place? I thought a lot of pre-offer work went into these guys before an offer was ever tendered.
 
I seriously doubt that those comments were referencing Robbie or RSJ or their offers would be pulled.

HOOK 'EM,
Texdoc.
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How can you not recognize that by the time you get up to 14 or so commits that the complexion of a recruiting class will change, and the guy who commits first may, as the class evolves, subsequently not fit.

This obsession with individual recruits is laughable. It's the class, and what we do with it that counts.
 
As much as I respect Colt and what he did (towards the end he was the career winningest college QB in history) I don't put him on the same level as the other 3.

You take Earl out of 1977, Texas doesn't go 11-0 regular season.

You take Ricky out, Texas would probably had repeated a losing season and not gone to a bowl.

You take VY out and, uh, did anyone watch the two Rose Bowls?

I'd put Colt on the level of Street, Wooster, Leaks, Cotton, and a host of others that were very, very good.

Just my 2 cents but I think their teams would have done okay, probably not as well, but okay.

You take out Earl, Ricky, and VY? A bit different.

Not dissing Colt. Maybe if he hadn't gotten hurt early in the Bama NC game, Texas would probably have won, and he'd be in that group.

But that's not the way it happened unfortunately for him and us.

Hook 'em
 
No, we really don't disagree much; my opinion on those 3 isn't as strong as maybe I posted as compared to the host of "others" (e.g., Street, Leaks, Cotton, and let's not forget Nobis).

At 56 years of age, I'm in the minority on this board who actually watched (on TV) "The Big Shootout" live and ached through 3 quarters until Slick masterminded the comback with the long run and amazing pass the Peschel.

I'm probably in an even smaller minority who consider that game a bigger victory (at least in importance) than the VY v. Heisman winners NC game in the Rose Bowl. Maybe it's because I was younger and more impressionable, but it was bigger to me.

I hate lists anyway, top 10, top 25, etc., always leaves someone out. It IS hard to draw a line between Earl, Ricky, and Vince, and the next 5 or 6 of Slick, Roosevelt, Tommy, etc. They were all great!!

Hook 'em
 
we dont go 13-0 and go to the NC game in 2010, nor do we win the 2009 fiesta bowl. Thats without having showing these

RecordsUT - Total Touchdowns, Career: 132 (Broke record on October 18, 2008 versus Missouri)[14]
UT - Touchdown Passes, Career: 112 (Broke record on September 20, 2008 versus Rice)[12]
UT - Touchdown Passes, Season: 34, (Broke own record of 29 on November 15, 2008 vs. the Kansas Jayhawks) [13]
UT - Touchdown Passes, Game: 6, (October 14, 2006 versus Baylor)
UT - Passing Completions, Game: 41, (January 5, 2009 versus Ohio State Buckeyes)[64]
UT - Consecutive Passing Completions, Game: 18 (October 25, 2008 versus Oklahoma State (surpassed his own record of 17 on October 18, 2008 versus Missouri).[14]
UT - Career Wins by a Starting Quarterback: 45 (November 27, 2008 vs. Texas A&M, surpassed Vince Young, also most career wins in FBS history)[15]
UT - Passing Yards, Season: 3,859 yards (November 27, 2008 vs. Texas A&M, surpassed Major Applewhite)[15]
UT - Passing Attempts, Game: 58(Tie), (January 5, 2009 versus Ohio State Buckeyes)[64]
NCAA - Highest Single Season completion percentage: 76.7%.[95]
NCAA - Colt McCoy is one of the three FBS quarterbacks to average 10 wins per season for four seasons.
 
Colt McCoy, with a big hand from Jordan Shipley, made chicken salad out of Greg Davis' chickenshit offense and GD's acceptance of underachievement by his offensive staff.

McCoy was one of the savviest QBs who ever played college football and had an incredible knack for reading defenses and sensing when his lousy OL was breaking down. Without McCoy there no way Texas wins double figures. He, like Vince Young, deserved the Heisman.
 
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