Question for Texas Am fans regarding recruiting

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You won't see many of our kids that have "offers" from Texas because they are notorious for only offering if they know you will commit. But the best player in the state (Ricky Seals-Jones) was originally committed to Texas and signed with A&M.

Same with the best rush DE in the state Daeshon Hall.

A bunch of our kids had legit interest from Mack Brown but never gave them a look so never got an offer.

So out of the top ten players in the state. A&M got more or less than years past?

Just going by 247 it looks like the Longhorn network didn't help them in recruiting. Small class and AM got the majority of talent.

Signed the best DT we have since I was in school. Excellent, excellent recruiting on the DL. We haven't been able to get crap at DT with OU and Texas taking them all in years past

A&M has started to get competitive with Texas the last couple of years but this was the first time we have really kicked their arse in the Mack Brown era. Most of the real jewels of their class were stolen by us or others, the Robinson decommit being the icing on the cake.

A few years ago Texas would have their big Junior Day and just lock up most of the big talent in the State in one swoop. I remember one year they had 22 official offers and 20 commits. Then they started to move away from kids that weren't going to commit to them and never "offer" them to keep the mystique. Then they moved to "being approved for an offer". Now they are offering kids and getting beat. 2014 looks ugly for them. They went hard after our 2 LB commits and lost already. They have some early commits but most of them are actively open to other schools which NEVER used to happen. Essentially they are becoming a "safety" school which was unthinkable a few years ago.

Of course Texas folks act as though it has always been this way but that is untrue. A&M dominated Texas recruiting from the mid '80s to the mid '90s and when Texas got Brown and OU got Stoops along with HUGE upgrades to their facilities it put us behind the 8 ball. By the time we played catch up we were too far behind and RC was on his last legs. The Fran hire along with an AD that wasn't truly committed to winning in football made the '00s a dark decade.

Now everything seems to be going our way. We have a hot coach who has made A&M into a cool destination with new unis and a myriad of other things. The SEC move is HUGE. JFF winning the Heisman. We also built an amazing new weight room and have a ton of other new facilities on the way to go with the new Kyle. A lot of that is "business as usual" in the SEC but it wasn't in the Big 12 and so we are crushing everyone. OU is basically curled up in a ball in the corner praying A&M doesn't go after any more of their commits.

At the same time Texas is even getting nibbled away at by TCU and Baylor which just shouldn't happen. Eventually they will get rid of Mack and rebuild but for now it really is murky for them. They bet big our SEC move would hurt us and it has had the complete opposite affect. The Big 12 schedule also sucks with lots of crap games in half empty small stadiums. The LHN has actually lowered their profile by putting lots of content (games and coaches shows) on a channel no one gets.

It's really a perfect storm but the difference between this one and others is A&M is so much larger, richer, and more powerful than in the past. It will be very hard to keep us down once we get up, you could argue it will be easier for us than Texas going forward because the SEC is such a dominant brand.

Most here are too young to remember when we ran shop in texas with the wrecking crew defense (the one that beat bo jackson in the cotton bowl.)

Just like the rest of college football, times change and teams get better or worse.

We've beat them in head to head... We've both lost to teams like SMU before too (eric dickerson)

Don't forget that our success is not just due to the SEC. If we had put up a season like Mizzou, we would be struggling right now. Sumlin is also a special kind of coach that kids gravitate to.