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Nearly every commit we spoke to today mentioned recruiting Jhadyn Nelson away from Texas Tech. Based off other conversations, it sounds like he’s listening. We will see how Tech is able to limit the momentum here.

I cannot believe this game is starting at 8

It's good that A-Rod is hitting his stride in the postseason.

Highlights from last night's win:

Riojas will be a MONSTER on the mound tonight. He is built for these kind of high-intensity games

Gotta be Garror. If we flip Brewster it will be late.

You can’t trust that Aggie Gerry Hank you will soon understand lol

This is far and away the best information you’ll find on the Texas market

Just being true to oneself.

I read it differently, but could be wrong. Take my major at Texas, Electrical Engineering. You need 120 credits to get the BSEE. If you are say a generic junior at another school taking 30 credits per year you would typically have 90 credits (+/- a few) by the end of your junior year. Texas will accept up to 60 of them towards a Texas degree (is the way I read it) since you must do 50% at UT or 60. So basically you would lose a year's worth of credits in this example. To take it to the extreme like Sark's Ole Miss basket weaving faux pas, if you had 117 credits you would lose 57 of them in the sense they would not apply towards your Texas degree, while a school like Ole Miss might take all of them and require you to take just one more class to 'earn' your Ole Miss degree (an extreme example but Sark was making a point about why it's difficult for us to recruit juniors out of the portal). Basically any credits from other schools beyond 60 (in this engineering degree example) do indeed get "thrown away" in the sense that you aren't able to apply them towards a Texas degree, is the way I read it.

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Great stuff guys! Been looking forward to hearing all the buzz coming out of the first official visit weekend 🤘🏼

How’s he gonna do that with a coconut cocktail in one hand and a mayo corndog in the other?

Gerry gonna drop Part II before the livestream tonight at 7 👀

@Bobby Burton hats off to you—you have assembled a hell of a team. This level of recruiting news and analysis is not just unmatched in the market, you’re playing a completely different sport than the rest of the field. Really awesome work this weekend, OTF team!

Great stuff Hank and Jordan clearly the Aggie Gerry and the short person CJ have given up lol kidding great stuff

Nope, he actually committed to us. A Hamiltonian "Hi" signals a silent commit.

Will echo Hank here. One source called after I got home from the airport and mentioned of all of the visitors this weekend, their biggest surprise was how well Texas is positioned for Currie. Source went on to say they believed Texas was the clear team to beat, but will see on that one.

That’s the good stuff

Notes/thoughts on Texas' latest commitment, two of this weekend's official visitors, and one of next weekend's official visitors: North Forney WR Briceson Thrower — AGNB27 Looking back on it, the Thrower recruitment was awesome to cover. It was straightforward the entire time and there was never fluff or much of any misdirection. In fact, I don’t know if I’ve ever covered a recruitment of a wide receiver that had as little drama as Thrower’s recruitment did. He is a great young man from a great family and is extremely likable and easy to root for. And he’s not your regular three-star either. He could very well finish as a four-star and is a player with traits, measurements, times, and the right mental wiring to be projected to the NFL Draft years down the road. I think his commitment was taken a bit for granted given that there was no drama and that it was Texas vs. the field for months, so I just wanted to make it clear Thrower isn’t just a player that can play at Texas, he’s a player who can start and make a real impact in Austin before hearing his name called in the NFL Draft. He’s also a relentless and hard worker who will make the rest of the position room and locker room better. Rankings and stargazers might take Thrower for granted, but Texas fans shouldn’t be sleeping on the young man from North Forney. I was able to speak with Thrower’s wide receivers coach, offensive coordinator, and head coach at Thrower’s ceremony on Saturday and will have quotes from them up on OTF on Monday. Barbers Hill DL Raiden Cook — Houston commit I was able to catch up with Cook while he was in the car on the way home from his Texas official visit. I went into the weekend viewing this recruitment as one that Houston would hold on to, and I still feel that way after speaking with Cook. He had a good time on his official visit and it’s not like Texas did anything wrong, I just don’t see a flip happening here at this current juncture. The Cougars have prioritized Cook more than anyone and in every which way and I continue to think that strategy will pay off for them. Texas A&M recently offered and will host Cook for an OV the June 12-14 weekend. Then he’ll head to Texas Tech for an OV the June 19-21 weekend and he also mentioned he might see Vanderbilt on a midweek OV this week or the next. North Crowley CB John Meredith III Meredith didn’t offer much when I spoke with him coming out of the OV but he still plans to make a decision before the month is over and I still lean Texas over Texas A&M. The nation’s No. 1 CB was hosted by Jermaine Bishop and Jonathan “Deuce” Cunningham and said “it just felt like home” when talking about the visit. Meredith told me he’s still considering scheduling an official visit for the June 19-21 weekend but if you ask me I think the Texas official visit was the last OV of his recruiting process. As OTF has reported for a while, Meredith is playing in the OT7 National Tournament June 11-14 and a decision being made during, before, or after the tournament would be far from a surprise. It’s also worth mentioning Texas A&M is all-in on landing one of Meredith or Joshua Dobson. It will essentially be fiscally impossible to land both. I spoke with a source in College Station earlier today who views the Aggies as the team to beat for Dobson and that the North Carolina native has higher chances to end up in College Station than Meredith does. Meredith will probably make his decision before Dobson does but it was still worth mentioning FWIW. DeSoto RB SaRod Baker — Texas Tech commit I don’t have any new intel to include but wanted to add that a source confirmed Baker still intends to officially visit Texas the June 12-14 weekend. I felt it was worth mentioning with all of Texas-Texas Tech talk on social media as of late. He was in College Station this weekend, will be in Austin this weekend, and Lubbock the weekend after that. Baker is one of only three running backs who will see Texas on an official visit this summer. The others are Texas pledge Noah Roberts, who OVed to Austin this weekend, and Richmond Randle’s Landen Williams-Callis, who will be in Austin on an OV the June 19-21 weekend.