miller58

Thanks.

Appreciate your work.

Do you happen to know the exact injury that is keeping DT Scales out?

Regards

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Now I'm more confused?

Your previous post of the roster 5+51+16+3 = 75 players

Above you said it already includes spots for the players from the 2012 class so are we going to play with only 75 players on the roster or add another 10 of Sherman's three star ranked players making 61 or ?

Apprerciate your help.

_____miller58 :banghead:

_____miller58 :banghead:

Great post, agree completely!

_____miller58 :banghead:

On 4/13/12 @6:08pm you posted:

2012 Roster:
5* players-3
4* players-16
3* players-51
2* players-5

Today you post our roster has 42-3* players which makes sense making room for up to 7 -4* and 12 more 3* players from the 2012 class(rivals) soon to be added to the 85 man roster.

My post indicates 9 more defensive players needed in "this class" (2013), not the past 2012 class.

I also want 11 more 4* defensive players by position in the 2014 and 2015 classes so we are finally on an even playing field with 3-deep winning defenses like 'bama, lsu, florida, ut, ou, etc by 2016-'17.

Of course I will follow Sumlin's progress on the 11 -4* defensive players by position to signing day!

Pope is an outstanding safety and would make the rotation if not starting by midseason as will the other two you mentioned but Pope's deal with Sumlin was he gets to try playing receiver first then maybe some time later safety.

We don't have a team this year that can beat the ranked teans we play but our fastest hope is to recruit 11 -4* defensive players this year by position to just start building a winning defense adding on 11 more 4* defensive players each of the next two years with S&C and good coaching build that winning defense.

Obviously Sumlin has to build an offense almost from scratch except for 5 O-line positions as well.

The actual exact numbers I don't follow but Sherman used to keep up to 120 sgned/committed players trying for the 85 man roster, down to 105 for part of the year, etc. all complying with ncaa rules.

That is where he stashed a lot of the 3* players he signed after the first year.

And of course you are exactly right about the 2008 class 3* players being gone as they sadly are being replaced by the 3* players in the 2012 class. And sadly Sumlin has already used 11 2013 commits less 3 decommits on three star ranked players instead of fours and fives which with the ones Sherman signed/committed less the 2008 class plus the 2012 class at every position is way too many to soon inprove our team to a winning level vs ranked teams!

It loked like both C Mike and Mathis were held out of last Saturdays scrimage(I was looking at recruits mostly so could have missed them) so we will start the season with uo to 25 or more 4*/5*'s and up to 60 or more 2*/3*'s totaling 85.

On Sumlin's arrival at A&M 'bama had signed 84 -4*/5* players the previous 5 years, florida 81, tu 81, lsu 78, etc. so A&M at only 25 now means these other teams on our sec schedukle still have 3 times the 4*/5* speed, size and athleticism we have?

Good posts!

Regards,

_____miller58 :banghead:

Sumlin still has nine defensive positions to fill in this class to start this Friday Nite Lights to build a defense.

DE__4*______?
DT__4* Golden
DT__4* Huggins
DE__4*______?
OLB_4*______?
MLB_4*______?
0LB_4*______?
CB__4*______?
CB__4*______?
S___4*______?
S___4*______?

How soon will the Sumlin 10 fill in the blanks?

We simply need to build this 4* defense to stop losing to most ranked teams every year!

_____miller58 :banghead:

I notice the Absence of the mention of Texas A&M in any of these posts?

I understand but hope we can upgrade our commitments to the four and five star ranked category with mentions of the suggested schools as offers.

Our fan base does not yet understand that our previous coaches the past 20 years were using our large three star recruitment, bringing our total commitments up to 25-28 every year, as a coverup excuse to falsely inflate our recruiing class rankings but resulted in lousy performance on the field!

There is little correlation with our recruiting class rankings the last 20 years and our finishing out of the top ten teams on the field for the last 16 years and out of the top 25 teams for 12 of those last 16 years including last season(Associated Press)!

We must start now to do better!

miller58 :banghead:

Thanks!

Sumlin is on several top 2014 defensive studs I'd like him to reel in.

_____miller58 :banghead:

EXACTLY!

The purpose of the Saturday scrimages are only to provide a scrimage recruiting atmosphere favorable to potential recruits each weekend.

What you said about good recruits this weekend is encouraging and I'll look forward to checking out the recruits for both this weekend and the M&W game. Last weekends recruits were a major disappointment.

I think we may be pushing for some of these reaches because we are just completely striking out so far for the better recruits since the first couple of jr days that we got the 6 four star ranked commits and nothing since.

Every time this staff commits another three star ranked recruit and not a four or five star ranked recruit that upgrades our program it admits failure!

We must support Sumlin this season because he can't control what he inherited but the first step is to successfully sign 15 to 20 four and five star ranked recruits this year and the next couple and then coach them to upgrade our #76 ncaa ranked defense and even worse ranked special teams.

With only one good recruiter and the other coaches we just hired seemingly novices, I don't expect results. Our novice recruiting coaches are mostly paid bottom tier salaries, half of what comparable tu coaches are paid (texastribune.org).

I expect this staff to be partialy replaced in 2 years again and hopefully the BOR and Administration will approve salaries this time that allow us to recruit competitively.

This has been a BOR/Administration problem for years. A previous A&M Head Coach complained that he had "previously tried to hire a top recruiter and could not get the salaty approved".

The scout A&M recruiting pages show for free up to 80 or more offers all over the U.S. if you want a good free A&M offer source to follow. They are removed from the list after they commit to someone else as has been the case.

Have a great day!

_____miller58 :banghead: