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The 12th man is dead!

A much more interesting read than the latest recruiting adventures. Thank you for putting in the effort to put this together. The WR, DB and DL transfer rates are really interesting.

My list is SHSU, SFA, and Texas State. We’re in the SEC now, need to start acting like it.

I’m not an Aggie, just made the mistake of dating an Aggie with an older brother in the corps. I learned to embrace the hate 35+ years ago!

I feel good that Sark will finish strong and have a Top 5 class, but recent events certainly haven’t helped in that regard. If we want to create a dynasty we need to stack the firewood like Saban and Smart. Sark is in the neighborhood, but it’s going to take a good bit more work to be knocking on the front door.

I’m wondering if we can’t spin someone down from safety. It shouldn’t take that long to go from 215 #s to 325 #s.

Looking forward to Gerry’s next article “How Texas can get a Top 10 Class”, followed two weeks later by “How Texas can get a Top 15 Class”. I know it’s early, things will change, etc. I’m actually not that worried about recruiting, but the ups and downs are pretty comical.

I was a big fan of Bill Schoening. I know he’s the voice of the Spurs, but I don’t live in SA and don’t care about NBA basketball. On the original topic, Craig has done an outstanding job for the Longhorns. He’s first class all the way.

The real test will be whether he continues to be bought in / focused

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Has Texas ever gotten a kid from Sachse? I remember that A&M had a pipeline there for a while.

Was disappointing that he wasn’t able to shine when he had the opportunity at Texas. Great guy, I wish him all the best.

Hard to complain when you finish 2nd in the country. Nice job ladies!

No doubt he’s earned it. The most accomplished coach on campus now that Eddie is hanging it up for real.

A nice list, but who was the last 5 star DT to sign with Texas?

These are all positive changes for the game. The Michigan situation basically forced a rationalization of the rules.

I disagree. I think a players union is the only way the legal madness stops. The SEC/BIG need someone to negotiate with so that they, along with their media partners, can develop something that sticks. The universities can’t create a lasting system that doesn’t include the “employees” and right now it’s negotiating with a large number of players (85 x 28 teams, excluding the other 100+ “minor league D1 teams). We’re headed towards a pro sports format and it’s just a matter of time. If Texas football was a professional franchise it would be a billion dollar plus business. The players are going to get a piece of that through TV package revenue including the huge CFP contract payday.

As part of my season ticket renewal I learned my Longhorn Foundation points ranking. I was wondering what the cutoff for getting tickets through the University was for OU, Bama (Michigan this year), Big XII Conference Championship, And the CFP. Anyone know?

There are 1,000+ schools that still want the NCAA or something similar to manage every level of competitive collegiate sports that isn’t the top half of division 1 football. That being said, the NCAA has completely lost control of the situation and has become an anachronism that D1 football schools are now essentially just ignoring. The players being employees ruling recently is pretty interesting. There’s a massive difference between a Texas football player being an employee of the UT versus a gymnast at a 1,000 student D3 liberal arts college. It’s obvious that the “amateur” tag that applied to college athletes for decades is now dead, but the replacement for how players and academic institutions interact is now being redefined in real-time as legal rulings and negotiations amongst the parties lay the groundwork for the future lay of the land. In the meantime, chaos is the order of the day.

Texas needs to make sure that we don’t spend too much time trying to figure out the nuances of the situation while our friends in B/CS, Oxford, Eugene, Baton Rouge, Norman… are acting. Say what you want, but a large part of the massive recruiting success of that ‘22 Aggy class was because they were ready to go and taking an active approach while Texas was still talking to lawyers and trying to figure out how they wanted to do things. The horse is so far out of the barn now that doing anything less than a full frontal assault is really putting yourself at a disadvantage versus the rest of the field.

Burke at #11? I thought he was a great take when Texas picked him up late, and I think he’s coming along, but he’s going to have to take a massive step forward to become the #11 pick in next year’s draft. I hope it happens, but that’s quite a projection.

Thanks Bobby, this is a seriously underrated post. Texas Athletics is a large business and much more than just the head man and coaches. It takes a multitude of people to facilitate the success that CDC has been able to enable at Texas.

Technically the only part of that that goes directly to the players is tuition, books, food, and lodging. Not a dime of the NIL money comes from that haul. Pretty amazing. And why it’s just a matter of time before the players start getting a cut.

I think having players viewed as employees is a big step towards the future CFB stratification. The SEC/BIG need the players to unionize so that there is someone to negotiate with to create ground rules for how the new world order will operate. Without that my concern is that the SEC/BIG ends up playing whack-a-mole (N.C.A.A. 2.0) as they try to balance (outline?) their interests with those of the media and players.

Amazing to me that our Houston recruiting is behind Cen-Tex and essentially equal to Cali and Fla. If there’s one region that I think Sark could improve it’s definitely Houston. Can’t complain about the overall results though.