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    Gerry Hamilton

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    Monday Morning Recruiting Nuggets 

    Spring practice for Texas is officially less than a month away. While the Longhorns on the field will be the focus in March and April, the staff is beginning to make a push to get top targets in 2025 back on campus around spring practices and the spring game. 

    The visitor lists are beginning to build with many of the top targets yet to finalize plans or release their spring visit dates. 

    With that said, it’s time to start your Monday morning off with some OnTexasFootball recruiting notes and nuggets.

    Elijah Barnes and Texas
    OnTexasFootball continues to feel good about where the Longhorns sit with the Dallas (Texas) Skyline linebacker. 

    Barnes, 6-2 and nearing 230 pounds, has a March 22 visit planned to Ohio State. He’s also looking at March/April visits to Texas, Oklahoma, LSU and possibly Texas A&M. 

    Nebraska and Oregon are potential June OV’s, along with Texas for sure. The Longhorns June visit weekend hasn’t been locked down. Look for the last weekend in June to be that date targeted by the staff. 

    On the Texas side, it’s both Johnny Nansen and Jeff Banks that the DFW area star communicates with. 

    “We haven’t really gotten into that (June OV date) yet,” Barnes told OnTexasFootball Sunday. “I will be back in April.” 

    Barnes is on the track for this spring for Skyline High competing in the 4x100, 4x200 and open 100 meter. Barnes sports a 77-inch wingspan and 9.5 inch hands. 

    Jacorey Watson spring visits
    The Shadow Creek High 2025 wide receiver has four schools he plans to visit in the spring. 

    “I’m going to get to Texas A&M, Texas and LSU again and probably Missouri,” Watson told OnTexasFootball. 

    Watson, 6-1 and near 180, has been in communication with receiver’s coach Chris Jackson within the last week.

    “We chopped it up a little bit last week. He wants to see me in the spring (spring practice) at receiver. He’s never really seen me play receiver since I played QB last season, He said he can’t wait to see me play receiver (in person).” 

    Watson is scheduled to be fully released in the next couple of weeks after a foot injury mid-way through the 2023 season, and surgery that followed. He will not participate in track this season, but instead focus on spring football. 

    Watson has one tentative official visit set up in June as well. He’s scheduled to make an OV down the road to Houston June 14-16. 

    April visits scheduled 

    April 6:
    John Mills, IOL, San Francisco (Calif.) St. Ignatius
    Attended Texas Junior Day January 20, and will make official visit June 14-16. The April trip will be his fourth since June of 2023. Michigan and Washington are the main competition right now. 

    April 13-14:
    Major Preston, CB/DB, Hopewell (Va.) IMG Academy
    Texas offered January 30. Blake Gideon is in consistent communication. 

    Spring Game April 20:
    Michael Terry, ATH, San Antonio (Texas) Alamo Heights
    Texas, TCU and Texas Tech the top 3 currently. 

    Rickey Stewart, RB, Tyler (Texas) Chapel Hill
    Texas leads large over Baylor, SMU and Oklahoma State.

    Gus Cordova, DL, Austin (Texas) Lake Travis 
    Texas, Texas A&M and Oregon the three talked about the most. 

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    1 hour ago, Gerry Hamilton said:

    Elijah Barnes junior HUDL ... needless to say we are all fans at OTF

    http://www.hudl.com/v/2Mwmue

    I watch this and see a lot of Overshown. Great athleticism and see ball/get ball type LB. He is kept clean on 95% of the snaps. Lots of blitzing and shooting gaps (which is a double edged sword). Pass coverage was limited, but he appeared to be covering grass rather than a man. Not particularly shocking, but needs work. Like to see some more video of him being forced to make reads and shed blocks, but that is almost always the case with highly rated ILBs in HS. The physical attributes definitely check all the boxes. 

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    22 minutes ago, spencer hoelscher said:

    What's the allergy stuff with Cordova?

    Had to look it up myself.

    While allegedly bullying a kid who is severely allergic to peanuts he put peanuts in his jersey. 

    If I'm Sark and he's a borderline take I'm backing out. If he's a definite take I'm putting in the time to dig into this as much as possible to determine if you believe he knew this could kill a person or if he's just dumb. If the former then I'm out, if the latter then keep watching to see how he responds. 

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    5 hours ago, Ace Recruiter said:

    Bullies are the worst kind of people. It would take a minor miracle for me to take a second look at that kid. I believe in 2nd chances, but it has to be earned.

    After thinking a bit more about it I tend to agree. Situations like these remind me of a quote in the movie Casino where Joe Bob Briggs plays the nephew of an influential Vegas politician who as a pit boss lets 2 machines pay out jackpots back to back without realize he was being scammed. After firing him De Niro says something like "he was either in on it or too stupid to know the difference. Either way I can't use him".

    I see this the same. This kid either intentionally poisoned his teammate or was too stupid to realize he was poisoning his teammate. Either way not Texas 2025 material. 

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