re: 2014 Recruiting Discussion

That's horrible. I've seen more people at Kyle during a midnight yell while it was raining. It wasn't even close to that bad for that Thursday night hurricane game against TSU.

Not sure about Daylon. He keeps getting excited he's going to commit and his parents keep making him wait. They told him over the summer after the season so I'm not sure if they are going to suddenly relent now just because he's excited to get it done.

On the rest...

Garrett - set to announce his college choice on Oct 19th. What day is that again?
Lodge - happy to get him on campus. Crazy good WR but he seems to favor the sips
Elbert - I could see him commit. He's had us leading for a while. Top OT target for '15
Iheanacho - seems to really like A&M but you wouldn't blame him for wanting to look around some. He's getting all kinds of attention overnight. Btw, he looks legit but he's going to need a year in the weight room imo. Edward Pope thinks he's too skinny. Here's an interview with him with Courtney Roland (hi Courtney ) and sounds like an absolutely great kid. Calm, cool, smart and blown away with what's going on.
Lampkin - no offer yet but he's got to get his grades in order. Probably the 2nd best DT in Texas though
Hasty - extremely fast little athlete that could be a great slot receiver if he wants to be. The sips took Stevenson because Hasty likes Baylor more than them but he might be ours if we can convince him he's not a RB
Stidham - our only other QB offer outside of Murray in '15. We're going to take two and those are our top two. Not sure if he's going to want to be the "other" QB in the Ag hearts and minds though. But with such a bare cupboard at QB, I'm sure we're telling him he plays and Kyler redshirts (Kyler is young for his class and really could use a year)
Martin - early thoughts are best back in '16.

despite what your side is hearing CC, Daylon has been pretty adamant for a while that he wants to come to A&M. Like a lot of guys though, he doesn't like that to be taken as fact until he does it so he never says it publicly. But the entire time he's been pretty overtly recruiting for us despite not having committed yet

by the way, was told to expect 2-3 more big names this weekend. Saw 247 just said Tony Brown will be there so there is one. Was hoping for someone we have a chance with

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I'm not sure if his parents are against him going to A&M or just want him to make the best choice by giving other teams time to meet and greet him.

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His parents are absolutely 100% not anti-A&M. In fact, if anything the family is pro-A&M.

They are against their 16-year old son making a commitment without fully considering his options and have told him in no uncertain terms that a commitment means something. That when you commit, you are done. At least as of the summer, they didn't feel like he was ready yet.

I wish more parents were like this to be honest. They seem to get it and imo they are bad arse.

Hard to see him not ending up in Maroon. He will be a good one no matter what.

Also attending:

2015 West Mesquite DB Josh Butler
2016 West Mesquite DB Bailey Phillips

I don't know much about them. Hopefully tmc can tell us more about them.

Hoza is such a hard one to read. I had completely written him off but now it looks like he has a real shot. The difference with him and Griffin from what I can read between the lines (have no idea really) is it sounds like he isn't in the giant hole that Griffin was. Griffin was trying to make up for 3 bad years in 1, it doesn't sound like Hoza is in quite that bad of shape but he screwed around last year. I know he is apparently about to take his ACT, the issue is if he needs a ridiculous score on it or not and that's really hard to tell.

Kid is an absolute freak though. If he can get in he will make an immediate impact, he just oozes talent.

The biggest key for this weekend though has to be locking down Garrett. Garrett may be the best DE prospect in the country this year and gives us an immediate pass rush threat.