re: 2017 Taylor Hamm Recruiting VIP Info Thread

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Manziel benefitted from scheme in HS too. He was 60% his Junior year and almost 66% his Senior year, with bad mechanics and all.

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If Johnny benefited so much from our scheme, why is it that no other A&M QB since, in significant playing time, has equalled his worst season completion percentage? Up until this year, we were playing the same scheme, with the same OC, that Johnny had in his highest completion percentage year.

Why is it that no Texas Tech starting QB (running Kingsbury's scheme, just like Johnny did) has equalled Johnny's worst season completion percentage? Not Davis Webb, not Baker Mayfield, not Pat Mahomes.

I guess that means that instead of scheme, Johnny was "accurate" because Mike Evans was the real star, eh?

But if that's the case, why did Johnny's completion percentage go UP when he started spreading the ball around more his soph year? Evans had 82 catches in 2012. Ryan Swope was the only receiver with more than 30. Contrast to 2013, where Evans nabbed just 69 balls, and three other receivers, including all-world talent Travis Labhart, had at least 51 receptions.

In fact, let's assume that in 2013, all 69 of Evans' receptions came at the end of Manziel passes. And let's assume that Evans caught every ball for which he was the target. That would give us the maximum possible positive contribution by Evans to Manziel's completion percentage. Take all that out, and Manziel is still 231/360 to all other receivers. That's a 64% completion rate.

So no, Johnny doesn't just owe his success to Mike Evans, either.

So unless Derel Walker, Malcolm Kennedy, and Travis Labhart were actually All-Conference level receivers and we didn't know it, maybe Johnny really was an accurate passer.

tmc, Are we gonna get Marvin Wilson?

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Are we gonna get Marvin Wilson?

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Sips believe it is OSU. A&M fans believe it is between A&M and LSU. I think it is particularly tough recruiting any kid that is looking at both the Sips and LSU. The negative recruiting would be tough to overcome.

I would hire Brick Haley as member of the non coaching staff, if I was Sumlin, to try and steal this kid.

Positives are that...
A&M is the local team
-We haven't fired any staff
-We are in the SEC
-Basketball commit, Flagg, is his cousin
-We have been led to believe that Ausbon and Hines are good friends

Negatives
- His buddy, Walker Little, seems to be a real influence in his recruiting process. He seems like a big Sip lean. Little had him visit both Ole Miss and FSU together. They have both taken unofficial trip(s) to see the Sips and A&M (A&M vs. UT game).

There's an Aggie family at Episcopal that has done good work in getting basically the whole team to any game they want to attend. Also his parents prefer him to be close to home. They also liked Charlie Strong and didn't like how that was handled so supposedly they are out. Too much time left for me to believe though

But it seems he really enjoyed the OSU trip. The good thing is he isn't an early enrollee so it will have worn off by the time he signs. Our best shot is to get him in on the 20th after the EEs have enrolled so he can hang out with guys in this class that he knows (for instance, Ausbon attended Episcopal for a year).

But in the end, I wouldn't get particularly optimistic on that front

Little grew up a sip. And while he enjoyed his visit to Aggieland and he likes Turner, he politely told us he just wasn't an Ag at heart.

Perhaps trying to account for the fact that EHS is in Bellaire but none of the kids who go there are actually from Bellaire

4Star

Does anybody know if Pat Henry is getting involved in Kendall Sheffield's recruiting?

His 53% completion %

And he doesn't give off the vibe of a guy whose approach or work ethic will be affected because he's a 5 star