O-8

[ZPHookem]

Down bad right now in recruiting boys! 🤘

[Joe Zura]

Stupid post do better 

[Traves]

Remember when the over/under on the late June/early July commitments on the OTF graphic was 8? Oh the optimism….

[drag worm]

Remember when at the end of last week Bobby and Gerry said not to hit panic and see how this week went first with guys like Guervil? 

[NothinButDaHorns34]

At this point we were gonna get who really wants to be here, the season will happen, as well as flips, senior risers, and i bet another top 5 class happens. 

[Traves]

My guess is we come up with Okpala and one of Turntine/Ojo

[Assistant Regional Manager]

If you actually believe Texas pushed for and didn’t land all 8 of these guys, you must be new to recruiting.

Just because a guy officially visited Texas doesn’t mean it is a “miss” if he doesn’t commit here. Texas brought in 44 official visitors for a class that will under 30 guys.

Edited 9 hours ago by Assistant Regional Manager

[drag worm]

13 minutes ago, Assistant Regional Manager said:

If you actually believe Texas pushed for and didn’t land all 8 of these guys, you must be new to recruiting.

Just because a guy officially visited Texas doesn’t mean it is a “miss” if he doesn’t commit here. Texas brought in 44 official visitors for a class that will under 30 guys.

Which ones do you think we didn’t push for?

[Shmatt]

Lmao the panic thread gotta love it, we will be fine. The staff is going to have like 20+ isn commits from the guys we really want then we can focus on getting the cherry’s on top to finish off the class like the past 2 years 

[Assistant Regional Manager]

8 minutes ago, drag worm said:

Which ones do you think we didn’t push for?

Maybe push for isn’t the right phrase, but the very site said we decided not to match the NIL for Simeon. Don’t think we were sweating Henderson’s decision today knowing that will go all the way to December. Krempin and Roseborough we didn’t have slotted into spots where it was worth the NIL.

When Bryce Perry Wright announces for A&M “over Texas” next week are we going to consider that a miss? When we stopped going all in after getting Wesley.

Not all decisions are equal.

Edited 9 hours ago by Assistant Regional Manager

[TexasLonghorns]

For those keeping score at home

[TTown]

But but but , there were Hi's announced 🤣🤣🤣🤘

[drag worm]

24 minutes ago, TexasLonghorns said:

For those keeping score at home

Lordy

[Bobby Burton]

I don’t have any real problem with where Texas sits right now.

Texas has lost exactly one recruit where the Horns’ NIL offer matched or exceeded someone else’s and that was to a home-state team (Crowell).

Texas does not have unlimited NIL. Neither do other teams, though some are acting like it.

Let me ask you all this: are any of the players left on the board worth 1/15th of your entire roster salary cap? Maybe there might be but that number is few and far between.

Today alone, Henderson and Guervil just went for those amounts.

[watty7796]

At what point do you push the "panic" button??  Texas has done well at the end of cycles.  My only issue is playing russian roulette year after year and hoping you dont end up with snake eyes.  Just food for thought.

[drag worm]

41 minutes ago, Bobby Burton said:

I don’t have any real problem with where Texas sits right now.

Texas has lost exactly one recruit where the Horns’ NIL offer matched or exceeded someone else’s and that was to a home-state team (Crowell).

Texas does not have unlimited NIL. Neither do other teams, though some are acting like it.

Let me ask you all this: are any of the players left on the board worth 1/15th of your entire roster salary cap? Maybe there might be but that number is few and far between.

Today alone, Henderson and Guervil just went for those amounts.

Bobby a lot of people have been asking why we keep calling it a roster cap when NIL as we have known it isn’t going away. There is a cap on university funds, for sure, but why are y’all talking like that’s the total amount that can be spent on a class when NIL deals are still on the table?

[MBHORNSFAN]

Don't keep us posted 

 

Unbelievable 

[TXFF]

It seems to me that missing out on a recruit that is making it all about the NIL isn't much of a loss. Most likely, they'll be the first ones to transfer if they don't get an NIL raise down the road. What you want are the recruits that see the big picture...NFL caliber development, great education, life-long connections, incremental NIL opportunities in a thriving city and state, etc, in addition to a fair initial NIL package. Those are the guys that will stick around for 3-5 years while they develop and earn playing time. It's a tough balance to achieve, but Sark seems to be good at it so far.

[drag worm]

7 minutes ago, TXFF said:

It seems to me that missing out on a recruit that is making it all about the NIL isn't much of a loss. Most likely, they'll be the first ones to transfer if they don't get an NIL raise down the road. What you want are the recruits that see the big picture...NFL caliber development, great education, life-long connections, incremental NIL opportunities in a thriving city and state, etc, in addition to a fair initial NIL package. Those are the guys that will stick around for 3-5 years while they develop and earn playing time. It's a tough balance to achieve, but Sark seems to be good at it so far.

Our roster is full of players who took the highest NIL deal. Especially in the 25 class. 

[TXFF]

4 minutes ago, drag worm said:

Our roster is full of players who took the highest NIL deal. Especially in the 25 class. 

So all the NIL packages offered by all the other schools were available to you to draw that conclusion? I'm impressed!

[drag worm]

11 minutes ago, TXFF said:

So all the NIL packages offered by all the other schools were available to you to draw that conclusion? I'm impressed!

Yep. All posted in the newsletter. 

[512Horn]

1 hour ago, Bobby Burton said:

I don’t have any real problem with where Texas sits right now.

Texas has lost exactly one recruit where the Horns’ NIL offer matched or exceeded someone else’s and that was to a home-state team (Crowell).

Texas does not have unlimited NIL. Neither do other teams, though some are acting like it.

Let me ask you all this: are any of the players left on the board worth 1/15th of your entire roster salary cap? Maybe there might be but that number is few and far between.

Today alone, Henderson and Guervil just went for those amounts.

The problem is we are operating like there is a salary cap, while our competitors are not. 

[harveycmd]

58 minutes ago, drag worm said:

Bobby a lot of people have been asking why we keep calling it a roster cap when NIL as we have known it isn’t going away. There is a cap on university funds, for sure, but why are y’all talking like that’s the total amount that can be spent on a class when NIL deals are still on the table?

There's not a "cap," but there is a limit to viable NIL funds. I've been on record saying there is almost no chance this "clearing house" entity withstands higher judicial scrutiny. Even so, that doesn't mean that the NIL market won't become more stable. As that plays out over the next couple of years, there is good reason to be cautious about monetary risk in an unstable market. Texas will not have a talent deficiency in the next couple of years.