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Steve Wiltfong says there’s buzz that ultimately he stays in state rather than signs with Texas, he said there’s optimism that we keep him but is this something we actually need to start getting more worried about? Obviously he’s 5* WR from Florida so for them to not recruit him through the whistle would be very stupid, but it’s a little concerning what Wiltfong said. “There’s some buzz that ultimately it’s more likely he stays in the state than signs with Texas,” On3 VP of Recruiting Steve Wiltfong said on Wednesday. “So you’ve got Miami, and you’ve got Florida battling for Ffrench.” Added On3 Director of Recruiting Chad Simmons: “I think there’s some confidence that Texas can keep him in this class. And they’ve been involved with him since the spring, getting his mom and dad on campus — Jamie as well. But Florida is not going away. They’re getting him on campus this weekend for an OV, a full weekend spent in Gainesville. Miami, he has been there numerous times. Kevin Beard and that staff is not going away.”

He’s out according to Carter Karels from A&M 247.

Their issue was also being so portal focused versus a healthy balance of portal and HS recruiting.

I’m confused apparently Dallas says it’s not him and one of the Oregon guys thinks it’s someone on the defensive

Baker has been here for all of a hot minute and you’re acting like it’s all his fault. If Bo is here we have Zion and Brandon. Both were being courted by Bo for a while before Baker ever got here and yes he’s had success and is more proven. But you acting like Bo going to LSU and us losing out on Brown and Zion has nothing to do with the fact that he took the kids he was recruiting who trusted in his development and had a long standing relationships meant nothing is funny. If your logic was right then hiring Chris Jackson should've been a disaster. Yeah kids come to play for a Sark offense but having a good WR coach still matters and just because he decided to hire from the NFL versus college didn’t hurt us. Maybe your right and Baker was a bad hire, but blaming him without ever seeing how his coaching and recruiting abilities actually will play out yet is dumb. We went from having a coach who had good standings with the recruit to that coach going to LSU and those kids following him. Baker is playing catch up and he was about to land Sharma until Oregon bag dropped on him last second.

Some of you guys are seriously acting like kids right now. Sark hiring Kenny Baker didn’t hurt us, losing Bo hurt us and we knew that would happen. It’s so crazy that a guy we had recruit all these guys on the DL for a while went to LSU and now they follow him as well, especially given the fact that he was a fairly big part of T’Vondre’s and Byron’s success in being high draft picks for that position. But let’s act like this hire as trash as if we didn’t hire a WR coach from the NFL who landed us a 5 star last year. The dude literally just got hired not even half a year ago and people are acting like this is a horrible hire 🤣

How do you feel about this? You still feel some sort of confidence at all for UT?

Definitely isn’t that unfortunately, if I’m wrong I’ll gladly be wrong

Apparently the NIL demands were higher than what we wanted to give, seems like a good kid and athlete but if there’s one position we definitely don’t need to overpay it is RB. If we end up with him great if not then I’m more than happy to get Simon in the fold.