Caleb Siler commits to Northwestern

[MBHORNSFAN]

Decent player. Probably wasn't seeing the field anytime soon at Texas. Can't overpay for bench players. 

[LonghornFan4Ever]

Maybe Brent Musburger was enough to convince him that Northwestern was the right place for him…

[Jordan Scruggs]

16 hours ago, 901longhorn said:

Do I question flood, obviously. But look at this objectively. I am going to this school because I am their number 1 target at my position, longer relationship, more NIL, and equal education. Compared to Texas which is obviously a dream school, but they’re not half as invested in me because they offer less money, offer late, and I’m number 3 at my position on their board.

This. He was THE guy at OT for Northwestern and they treated him like THE guy with the way they recruited him and the way they put together a 7 figure financial package. Texas stayed in the 6 figures FWIW. On the flip side, he wasn't even Texas' top OT target on campus last weekend and he knew that. If this recruitment was 5 or 10 years ago there's no doubt in my mind it'd be Texas, but we're in 2026 where this is a perfect example of modern recruiting. He's also gonna go play for OL coach Tim Drevno who has a great track record as well. Drevno was with Harbaugh at Stanford, SF 49ers, and Michigan. Drevno also spent time at USC, UCLA, and Ohio State. Both schools checked all the boxes but Northwestern had a bigger financial package, a faster path to the field, just as good if not a better education, valued him more, and were on him earlier. This was always going to be a tough recruitment to win for Texas 

[Jc Dobbs]

14 hours ago, Jordan Scruggs said:

This. He was THE guy at OT for Northwestern and they treated him like THE guy with the way they recruited him and the way they put together a 7 figure financial package. Texas stayed in the 6 figures FWIW. On the flip side, he wasn't even Texas' top OT target on campus last weekend and he knew that. If this recruitment was 5 or 10 years ago there's no doubt in my mind it'd be Texas, but we're in 2026 where this is a perfect example of modern recruiting. He's also gonna go play for OL coach Tim Drevno who has a great track record as well. Drevno was with Harbaugh at Stanford, SF 49ers, and Michigan. Drevno also spent time at USC, UCLA, and Ohio State. Both schools checked all the boxes but Northwestern had a bigger financial package, a faster path to the field, just as good if not a better education, valued him more, and were on him earlier. This was always going to be a tough recruitment to win for Texas 

I'm always curious about what the TAX burden is on the financial offer from Northwestern (State of Illinois, City of Chicago and Federal combined) compared to the smaller financial offer from the University of Texas (No state income tax and total Federal tax burden). Surely the player's agent works up the tax figures for presentation to the player.

I guess Texas wasn't his "Dream School" after all. 

Hook 'Em!

[Jordan Scruggs]

9 hours ago, Jc Dobbs said:

I'm always curious about what the TAX burden is on the financial offer from Northwestern (State of Illinois, City of Chicago and Federal combined) compared to the smaller financial offer from the University of Texas (No state income tax and total Federal tax burden). Surely the player's agent works up the tax figures for presentation to the player.

I guess Texas wasn't his "Dream School" after all. 

Hook 'Em!

The difference in Texas' offer and Northwestern's offer was over half a million dollars and Northwestern's offer nearly doubled Texas'. So taxes were never gonna make a real difference. I get what you're saying about Texas not being his dream school after all, but this is modern recruiting in a nutshell. If Siler was in the 2022 class or any class before it, there's no doubt in my mind he would've ended up at Texas