re: 2015 Recruiting Discussion

I may have just contributed to it on CGSC's thread regardless this is huge news and says a lot about our staff. I have zero doubt the defense will
Improve dramatically over the new few years with the talent we have coming in. Hopefully it gets to the point where we can truly compete for national championships. I still think it will

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“Every visit I take from here on out will be to College Station,” he said. “I gave Coach Sumlin my word and I don’t intend on taking it back.”

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Damn I like this kid. Got his head square on his shoulders. 16/17 years old and already acting like a man.

A bit from composite 5* '15 LB Malik Jefferson

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"We (Mack and him) told each other we were going to try to go to the same college," Jefferson said. "We're still working on that. It's just a confirmation thing, like if I truly want to go there {tu} because I've been wanting to go there for the longest." He added, "It puts (A&M) in a much better position let's just say that."

"It's big," he said of the recent commitments of Myles Garrett and Daylon Mack to A&M. "It shows me they are building something great. I just want to see how they're going to produce because of the loss against Auburn made me slow my roll a little bit, just a little bit." He added, "It shows how good their recruiting class is, and I know how Daylon has been high on them for the longest, and I think people understand that I was high on Texas, but the firing of Coach (Manny) Diaz made a big impact on my recruitment. It's just an eye opener for me. I think I'm going to keep what's in my heart and in my mind to myself right now and try not to rush anything."

"I kind of want to wait things out but we'll see," he said. "I would like to take some official visits first."

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Only other offer the kid has per 247 is north Texas. The staff must see something others don't

Yeah and also it's really early so a lack of offers could mean very little. Given we have 1 WM DB now and another on the way I'm sure we've seen quite a bit more of him than anyone else.

also I'm going to point out that WBS was way ahead of the curve and posted this on 10/16/13 at 12:38 am

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Also attending:
2015 West Mesquite DB Josh Butler
2016 West Mesquite DB Bailey Phillips

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These two attended the Auburn game with DSG.

Also, I do wonder how Akilian Butler is related. Akilian is a WR for West Mesquite that has a Clemson offer. They are listed at the same height and virtually the same weight.

And here are Josh's highlights so far for 2013. ETA: I can't figure it out but the link keeps going to his SO film instead of his JR one but you can click on it.

It should be interesting to see who starts to take a look at him and offer after this. Our staff seems to have an eye for picking out talent before others, giving us a little head start.

Dunning blew his ACL earlier this year. But he's an absolute freak athlete. He's a legit 6'3" and ran a computer timed 4.41 at the East Texas combine (2nd fastest among '14 and '15 class behind Hasty) as well as recorded the best vertical at 40" (dude may could dunk on a 12' rim!)

I got a text about 5 min before Hamm posted that

yeah, kinda sucks but he's only a JR so he has a year and a half to recover (and he's already running a bit). I think the injury has pulled his ranking down as Scout had him at #41 nationally preseason but 247 has him much lower. We'll see.

Couple tweets

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@JD3ThaTruth 14m Happy to say I just committed to Texas A&M University! Glad to be part of the Aggie family! BLESSED All Glory to God! Thank you JESUS #gigem

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Im lowkey done with reporters so yall can stop texting me and calling me with that friendly stuff

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And Highlights

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Malik Jefferson 4?6? ?@dredgame46 22m

@CoachSumlin s/o to my bro @JD3ThaTruth new A&M commit !

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