Brandon Brown Final Decision (Friday 2:00 p.m.)

45 minutes ago, Hashtag said:

No, Sark choosing not to spend the market value or slightly above at the position has hurt Texas. Knowing the guy doesn’t have the skins on the wall , we needed to go above and beyond to give the guy a leg up on a top 3 most competitive NIL market position. 

Correct! LSU hired a guy with skins on the wall like a power program should, recruits followed. Either we couldn’t get someone to make a lateral move or Sark decided he liked to play roulette. 

All I can do is 🤦🏻 at some of these comments and how ignorant some people can be. UT is not the top program in the nation (yet); still need to have sustained success to consistently win over the best recruits in the nation.

Sustained success and some coaches who know how to recruit at an elite level.

44 minutes ago, Tito Bonilla said:

All I can do is 🤦🏻 at some of these comments and how ignorant some people can be. UT is not the top program in the nation (yet); still need to have sustained success to consistently win over the best recruits in the nation.

We haven't had trouble winning over the best recruits in the nation the several couple yrs. Ja'Tavion Sanders and Xavier Worthy in 21. Kelvin Flood and DJ Campbell in 22. Arch Manning, Anthony Hill and Cedric Baxter in 23 and Colin Simmons, Brandon Baker and Ryan Wingo last year. Maybe think about that instead of calling those that are concerned with why Texas is struggling so much this year ignorant 

I think several things can be true at the same time:

1.  Did Baker’s lack of relationship hurt us with Williams and Brown….absolutely.

2.  Sharma signed off on Kenny Baker until Oregon came in at the end and offered more than what UT would.  That’s an institutional loss…..not a Kenny Baker loss.

3.  Charles and Wynn were both expected to go to Florida State and committed there.

At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter how great of a relationship Baker has with a recuit if Sark is going to let every team outbid us for the DT’s we want.

I think there is enough data after three years to show that Sark just doesn’t want to allocate the type of NIL funds to the DT position that it takes to go win these National recruitments there.

Hopefully we take the mil plus we were offering Moore and split that between two of the DT’s that we previously have lost out on.

56 minutes ago, Jonesyfam7 said:

I think several things can be true at the same time:

 

1.  Did Baker’s lack of relationship hurt us with Williams and Brown….absolutely.

2.  Sharma signed off on Kenny Baker until Oregon came in at the end and offered more than what UT would.  That’s an institutional loss…..not a Kenny Baker loss.

 

3.  Charles and Wynn were both expected to go to Florida State and committed there.

 

At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter how great of a relationship Baker has with a recuit if Sark is going to let every team outbid us for the DT’s we want.

 

I think there is enough data after three years to show that Sark just doesn’t want to allocate the type of NIL funds to the DT position that it takes to go win these National recruitments there.

Hopefully we take the mil plus we were offering Moore and split that between two of the DT’s that we previously have lost out on.

First of all these young kids don’t owe coaches or teams any kind of loyalty.  Clearly money talks.

Maybe Bobby and Gerry can speak to this, but it was my impression that these kids also have some sort of representation/manager to negotiate NIL.  They also have family giving the kids opinions.

so, given this era of NIL and Portals, I think to save ourselves some angst we have to start with believing that what the kid does is probably more important than what the kid says.  I definitely learned this lesson.

finally, yes Texas is probably going thru growing pains especially given this is the first year in SEC.  Once the season starts, let’s see how Texas does.  If we are successful, then the recruits will come.

2 hours ago, SuperDave0805 said:

We haven't had trouble winning over the best recruits in the nation the several couple yrs. Ja'Tavion Sanders and Xavier Worthy in 21. Kelvin Flood and DJ Campbell in 22. Arch Manning, Anthony Hill and Cedric Baxter in 23 and Colin Simmons, Brandon Baker and Ryan Wingo last year. Maybe think about that instead of calling those that are concerned with why Texas is struggling so much this year ignorant 

If you didn’t get offended by my post then I wasn’t referring to you, however, if you did get offended by my post then you know what you are…

Why even stay committed this long when it’s clear he’s been all LSU? Go to LSU, that’s fine with me. But kindly leave the class sooner, sir. 

Nice time for Bo to finally start recruiting...🙄

On 7/5/2024 at 5:30 PM, TexasLonghorns said:

Is LSU blaming their previous DL coach today? Absolutely not because LSU hired a coach with recruiting experience and relationships, and is in turn landing recruits. Sark hired a coach with zero relationships or recruiting experience and has whiffed on every target he got to take an official visit. This isn’t Bo Davis fault, our loan commit was a a player Bo got to commit to Texas, Baker couldn’t convince him to stay and he gave him a real chance. Texas fans LOVE to blame previous coaches for the current coaches shortcomings, it’s a favorite, a continuous tag line. Surprised Herman isn’t at fault for us struggling on the recruiting trail this year in all honesty. 

Bc no kid wants to have a firmer NFL Asst as a coach?!  Come on.  You win some, you lose some.  They’re unpredictable kids, like herding cats.