re: Taylor Hamm & Billy Liucci make SWEET LOVE in 2019 + Football Recruiting Thread

:gig em:

Not that we had much of a chance but Dean chose UGA.

Any chance of that happening today? Or is it for sure a February decision?

Don’t recruits have until Friday to early sign?

Regardless I think shepherd waits so he can get his official visit here

I believe that is correct but I think it’s been hinted that Jimbo can create a spot or 2 if needed

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oh my god the secret visitor was actually, 100%, carrington. holy. shite

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Who is Carrington?

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man that Herman pays to give...a good time

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Sounds about right

I want both. I would have preferred them to Hunter.

This is 2018 (almost 2019) . The culture and landscape of college football has changed since the programs most recent run of success under former coach Mack Brown. The SEC has been the power seat of college football for the Better part of a decade thanks to Saban and company. The old
Power structure and glory days of the SWC are not even a memory for today’s recruits and the Big 12 has failed to keep up in the college athletics arms race in terms of imaging, marketing, and strategic positioning. The changing of the guard became official ,really , in Pasadena California when Colt McCoy went down and UT fell to the Crimson Tide.
Since that time the road to the College Football National Championship has gone through Tuscaloosa more often than not. The teams getting all the love on TV and in sports media have been well East of the I35 corridor over the last decade. Even Oklahoma with its success and prolific offense has suffered due to The Longhorns long walk in the dessert.
After all , what sexy match up can OU claim to have in its list of victories or close defeats if it loses to a irrelevant Texas team that has failed to make it to the title game or a bowl game of significance more often than not since 2009? College football lost something that day in Pasadena when Colt’s shoulder gave. When it did, the University of Texas lost its swagger and sway on blue chip recruits.
Sure Mack put together a very highly rated class in 2010 . But it never developed into anything on the field and the previous classes going back to 2005 failed to fill needs and had a high bust rate in critically important areas. Mack had lost touch with what made him successful and started grasping at straws in recruiting. Hence the long walk in the dessert of college football irrelevance.
Why is this worth rehashing today? Because it’s important to understand a few very important points. One, Mack’s failure was related to his revolving door at coordinator positions, system changes , meddling and bad player personnel fits as a result.
We are not suffering from that right now. It is being corrected as we speak. That will lead to more consistency and success as we amass the talent (even without 5 star recruits) that fits this system to and learns to run the system as intended.
Second, We have been mediocre to bad and irrelevant more often than not since getting our arse handed to us by Arky in the Texas bowl. That hurts recruiting. Period. It ain’t something you correct in one season either. It will take three to four years of competing for championships and 10 plus win seasons to get rid of that hangover unless you hire Nick Saban or Urban Myer.
Third, the world is smaller thanks to technology and kids don’t care as much about being away from home. Society has become more transient itself so thinking you can pull top talent in your back yard because they want to stay closer to home applies less than it did a decade ago.
And finally, the fourth recruiting reality is a simple math problem. You need a system that can compete and 3-4 years (maybe 5) of top ten classes to amass enough talent to become dominant. When you fall as far as we did, it takes longer to get back up. You need the average recruit ranking of your EXPERIENCED starting line up to be .9 or above. Luck is the only way you do it faster (having a very high success rate developing lower ranked recruits). This last point is most critical for horn fans to understand. Our bust rate , combined with poor performance and bad strategic recruiting has dug a Sizable hole in this regard. There is no way to fix it overnight. It takes consistent effort, good coaching, and 3-4 years before the results really start to show in terms of being a national power when you have the holes we had in the trenches and at QB. If Herman can continue his upward trend on the field while continuing to bring in top 10 classes, he can get the talent differential closed on those sexy top tier programs that these five star kids love right now.
Horn nation, don’t hit the panic button yet. If we continue to win on the field and recruit at the level we have recently, the blue chippers will line up.
One last word. Texas doesn’t need OU to be good and win. It’s the other way around . OU needs Texas to return to glory . We are in the cusp!

Hook Em!




This guy is delusional

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The Longhorns long walk in the dessert.

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Which dessert is he talking about? Pumpkin Pie? Key Lime Pie? Or their cow’s good old-fashioned cow pie? I’m guessing it’s the latter.