re: Ricky Seals-Jones Announcing Monday

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Now to see what your school does best, get back to co-ed basketball.

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FIFY

We are recruiting the beef as well. We have four 4* DTs committed for 2013. We have four athletic and big OL committed. We have something like 5 LBs committed and still trying to land the stud ILB from Hawaii who we lead for.

I completely agree on the premise that only recruiting skill position players turns you into Arkansas the last few seasons. I think however that we will have that skill position talent of Arkansas with the athleticism and beef necessary to compete in the front 7 on defense and continue to have a dominant OL

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The DL haul is arguably the strength of a very strong 2013 class.

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DT, not so much DE, and DT's are one of the hardest if not the hardest position to project.

A couple examples.

LSU

5* DT- Al Woods (barely even started his senior season)
5* DT-Chris Davenport (has yet to see the field)
4* DT-Joseph Barksdale (became a damn fine OT)

Miami-5* DT, one of the top 10 players in the country out of Northwestern HS Marcus Fortson had an okay freshman season and never had a season better.

Florida-5* Torrey Davis didn't get to play much, gets kicked off the team.
5* DT Gary Brown kicked off team

Florida St.-5* DT Jacobbi McDaniel

Michigan-5* DT William Campbell isn't even projected in the top 20 DT's in this years draft as he is finishing up his senior season at UM.


Also, look at Taylor Bible at UT, guy is just too fat to play, was also a 4*.

Plenty of examples throughout CFB. Expect a fair portion of those guys to either not pan out or find their way some where else one way or another. Just expect it so you won't be disappointed if it does happen because it usually does. Thats what happens when you recruit good talent, there are plenty of risks.

See Hoza Scott, he already looks like a behavioral risk. Great player no doubt, plenty of questions.

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Why are you arguing the law of averages as a gambit to trivialize A&M's DL class?

Of course everything is speculative. Of course guys may not pan out.

So what?

As evinced by your examples--notwithstanding your cherry picking--that reality isn't exclusive to Texas A&M.

Recruiting isn't a science--you do the best you can with what you've got. We're all playing that game.

I just have no idea why you think this is relevant to whether A&M's DL class is the strength of the entire 2013 class. It's tough to project--we know. So you index your confidence to account for the risk. Either way, we're all dealing with the same issues.

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Because it seems as though many A&M fans believe that just because they have a good recruiting class they are automatically going to get better next year or just replace the guys leaving as if every player is going to be every bit he's hyped up to be.

Seen many "2013 A&M roster breakdowns" note freshman as a reason they will be "better" on defense or just replace 2 WR's who probably produced more than any duo of WR's in the history of A&M over their careers. Along with like 1 of the best OT's A&M has had in decades.

I assume this is all predicated on the fact that every player in A&M's class is going to be good and exactly what they're projected to be.

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tiggerthetooth

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for some reason you flame on every a&m thread across the rant. some recruits dont pan out? oh wow man. never realized that in my life. but lets also look at the top 10 programs in todays college football: lsu, oregon, bama, florida, usc, ohio state, georgia, oklahoma, notre dame, and florida state. now what do you think they all have in common? no shite every recruit doesnt pan out. but theres a reason why, generally speaking, that programs who recruit well have success.

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We have something like 5 LBs committed and still trying to land the stud ILB from Hawaii who we lead for.

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I take this to mean Tommy Sanders is prettymuch ours - provided that Urban stays out of the way?

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for some reason you flame on every a&m thread across the rant. some recruits dont pan out? oh wow man. never realized that in my life. but lets also look at the top 10 programs in todays college football: lsu, oregon, bama, florida, usc, ohio state, georgia, oklahoma, notre dame, and florida state. now what do you think they all have in common? no shite every recruit doesnt pan out. but theres a reason why, generally speaking, that programs who recruit well have success.

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I don't "flame" A&M threads, aggies just say really stupid things constantly in terms of where they stand, everyone on the board now knows it too. Its annoying as hell.


Top 10 Programs in college football. keyword PROGRAMS, schools with a great amount of talent, and recent success.

Whether you like it or not, TEXAS is an elite program, everyone knows they have top 5 talent currently.

Then LSU, Florida, Alabama, Oklahoma, Ohio St., Florida St., Georgia, USC.

Yes, they recruit well, but they've been recruiting well for 5+ years, and over that time span they have players pan out, but from each class there are more than enough busts.


All the above schools have also had at least one season with 5+ losses in their time of great recruiting success.


You and every A&M fan make it seem certain you are going to out recruit everyone now and that will automatically translate into wins....when thats so far off its not even funny.

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Whether you like it or not, TEXAS is an elite program, everyone knows they have top 5 talent currently.

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And all that top 5 talent has gotten them is an Alamo Bowl berth. Which, to the horror of their Wal-Mart t-shirt fan base, is an improvement over the prior two years.

And now they're genuinely concerned that their incoming 4* QB is not all people thought he was (couldn't stay healthy, and led his team to a 1-9 record in AA football), so now they're bringing in a JUCO transfer. The Longhorns could have SIX (that's not a misprint) QB's on their roster next season.