How would you like to be Texas today?
Pick up a 5* DE and a 5* LB in a single day. Their class (according to Rivals http://rivals100.rivals.com/commitlist.asp?Year=2010&School=81) now has 2 5* and 19 4* recruits. What a haul!
January 29th, 2010 at 1:27 PM ^
/looks out window to see 15 degrees on the thermometer
Yes please.
January 29th, 2010 at 1:28 PM ^
It's 43° in Austin. 18° here in AA...
January 29th, 2010 at 1:32 PM ^
I would love to be. Girls are playing there tonight and they are the bees knees.
January 29th, 2010 at 1:50 PM ^
Iron and Wine is playing tonight in AA. Caught him last night at Hope College Chapel in Holland. Great show, that guy is an amazing performer.
January 29th, 2010 at 2:07 PM ^
+1, excellent choice. I prefer more casiotone beats with my guitar, but I like it.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:12 PM ^
This doesn't really help your argument since Samuel Beam lives in Austin and plays there all the time.
January 29th, 2010 at 1:34 PM ^
I wonder who this "Case McCoy" kid is. With two males in the family named "Colt" and "Case," I shudder to think what they may have named a girl.
January 29th, 2010 at 1:41 PM ^
I wouldn't put it past them.
January 29th, 2010 at 2:24 PM ^
Maybe Réal McCoy.
January 29th, 2010 at 1:48 PM ^
As in Stella Artois.
And no, I didn't drink a Case of Colt 45 before answering.
January 29th, 2010 at 9:23 PM ^
Perhaps another 4-lettered 'C' word?
January 29th, 2010 at 1:37 PM ^
I would never want to be a little bit Texas, no matter who they picked up. Screw Texas (sorry for any M fan that resides in Texas.)
January 29th, 2010 at 1:55 PM ^
And that would be me... UM fan living in burnt orange hell down in Austin. I actually never really had anything against UT until my Enterprise pick-you-up driver showed me his 2005 Rose Bowl ring. The bitterness from that day has yet to subside...
January 29th, 2010 at 2:49 PM ^
The level of homerism down here is disgusting. The level of disregard for the upper midwest is also disgusting. Overall, I really like Austin, it's a fabulous city, but the major topic on sports radio usually goes something like this:
"Isn't Texas awesome?!"
"Yes, I love Texas."
"But, you've never left the state except when you were a reserve fullback for the Longhorns."
"Yep, lifetime Longhorn."
Or:
"Colt McCoy is so awesome, and I have a feeling that he should have won three Heismans."
"Yeah, but Jordan Shipley should be the first pick in the draft."
There's no Mike Valenti down here to balance any of it out. I can't believe I just said that.
January 29th, 2010 at 3:37 PM ^
What's up with the avatar photo?
January 29th, 2010 at 5:13 PM ^
Its how I imagine a typical buckeye looks during childhood.
January 29th, 2010 at 1:37 PM ^
I'd rather be a Michigan Man with the 37th ranked recruiting class than anyone else with 5-stars coming out my ass.... 'Cause it's great to be a Michigan Wolverine.
(With that said, however, Texas fans are some lucky bastards today...)
January 29th, 2010 at 2:01 PM ^
5-stars tend to be pretty big guys most of the time. I don't think I'd want them coming out of my ass, either.
January 29th, 2010 at 2:04 PM ^
have said it any better myself. +1 to you.
January 29th, 2010 at 1:38 PM ^
Texas has a phenomenal class and 22 of the 24 recruits are from Texas! The other two are Oklahoma and Ohio. In Texas they get whoever they want. And Texas competes with THREE other BCS conference teams (A&M, Tech and Baylor) plus such schools as TCU and Houston. Now that is what I call dominance.
January 29th, 2010 at 2:51 PM ^
The only one that really counts is OU. Or as they say down here "O Who?"
January 29th, 2010 at 1:39 PM ^
22 out of 24 of his commits are from Texas.
Purely from a recruiting standpoint, leaving aside won-lost record, the recruiting hurdles faced by any UM head coach dwarf those faced by the coaches of Texas, USC, Florida/FSU, Ohio State, and PSU, who can all do very well by concentrating on the talent just within their own state borders. That's why the most encouraging thing to me about the 2009-2010 classes is our collection of kids from the state of Ohio.
January 29th, 2010 at 1:50 PM ^
To put it another way, Brown has the best coaching job in the country: great natural recruiting base, not so much competition (as in Florida or California). If I were a coach, I think UT would be the most attractive job out there.
January 29th, 2010 at 2:00 PM ^
This is exactly why Muschamp isn't exactly jumping at other opportunities. He knows he just needs to bide his time until Brown retires and he'll immediately be one of the "best coaches" in the county. Just because he'll be the coach at Texas.
January 29th, 2010 at 2:19 PM ^
You're right that they recruit in states with great talent. However, to the extent that the state of Michigan does have talent, UM has never been particularly good at locking it down.
For example:
5* Joe Barksdale
5* Ronald Johnson
5* Willie Gholston
4* Nick Perry
4* Mark Ingram
4* Taurian Washington
Then there are guys like Dior Mathis and a number of 4*s who went to MSU.
My point is simply that we could probably make things a lot easier on ourselves if we could lock down our own state. I think we do recruit out of state pretty well, but as others have noted, out of state recruiting can be pretty tough. I think it would be nice if all the in state kids were UM locks - just like the schools you cited (Texas, USC, Florida, OSU etc). Then, any out of state success we have would be icing on the cake.
January 29th, 2010 at 3:44 PM ^
BUT, it's a whole lot easier to lock down a state if you can concentrate nearly all of your resources there b/c it has all the talent you need. UM does not have that luxury.
January 29th, 2010 at 5:42 PM ^
But it's not necessarily an all-or-nothing proposition. Somehow I just find it odd that we're not even really the favorites in our own backyard.
Ultimately though, I suppose it doesn't matter where you get your talent from.
January 29th, 2010 at 1:41 PM ^
For how much talent is in Texas and the way they dominate Texas recruiting, I am surprised UT hasn't won more MNC's.
January 29th, 2010 at 1:47 PM ^
The answer may be Mack Brown. Sure he is an incredible recruiter, but he is not a good x's and o's guy. I've heard that he leaves that up to most of his assistants.
It was definitely not suprising when Mack was outclassed against Saban, scheme wise, in the National Championship.
January 29th, 2010 at 1:58 PM ^
I don't think Texas was outschemed at all. May have had something to do with 2-time Heisman finalist being injured in the first series and Texas forced to play a true freshman for the first time in the biggest stage possible.
January 29th, 2010 at 2:05 PM ^
are you saying that the shovel pass at the end of the first half, with your true freshman quarterback in the game, was a bright call?
hell no!
*edit*: Isn't it interesting that Texas usually gets the number 1 or 2 recruiting class in the nation, yet only has 1 mnc to show for it??
January 29th, 2010 at 2:26 PM ^
What exactly made that a bad call? The result was terrible, but that was a pretty safe call in that situation. 99 times out of 100 the worst possible result from that play is a one or two yard loss.
January 29th, 2010 at 2:58 PM ^
They recruit well, too, and don't have a ton of hardware to show for it.
January 29th, 2010 at 2:04 PM ^
Yeah, Nick Saban really drew up an unstoppable game plan of taking out Colt McCoy on their first series and grinding it out for the next 45 minutes.
Mack Brown is a ratard.
January 29th, 2010 at 6:20 PM ^
It's Ritard, ok? Or moran, their the same for all intensive puposes.
January 29th, 2010 at 3:53 PM ^
I do think most recruiting services overrate talent in the south and Texas for a variety of reasons, from the extra practice time due to the weather, the culture, and probably a fair bit of bias. That said, Texas always brings in top classes, and Mack Brown is a better coach than people thing. Unfortunately, they have had a run of bad luck (2 years ago with the logjam for the MNC spot, this year with Colt being injured).
January 29th, 2010 at 1:41 PM ^
Thank you, Jordan Hicks, for choosing UT over TUoOS.
January 29th, 2010 at 1:45 PM ^
Texas kept Jordan Hicks from OSU, now lets just hope Seantrel decides to go somewhere else
January 29th, 2010 at 1:44 PM ^
I would love to be Texas, if it weren't for the fact that I'd also have to be a Texan.
January 29th, 2010 at 2:44 PM ^
BOO. ... EDIT: on second thought, just boo.
January 29th, 2010 at 2:58 PM ^
Believe it or not... The rest of the state is much more "Texan" than Austin. It's a techie place with a lot of arts and is the self proclaimed live music capital of the world. Plus there's 6th street.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:16 PM ^
Austin IS NOT more liberal than AA. Sure, it's the most liberal place in the state and could be relatively described as liberal overall, but it is not as liberal as AA. Not even close.
January 29th, 2010 at 1:48 PM ^
Call me a sentimental homer...
But I'd rather be Michigan with an entire team of walk-ons than Texas with five-stars across the board.
January 29th, 2010 at 2:10 PM ^
punch. I have exactly the same sentiment.
I can understand why some kids would want to play football in Texas. I lived there for a while, and nowhere is football, at all levels, held in the same regard as it is in Texas. But no school in the country can compete with Michigan as leader and best.
January 29th, 2010 at 1:48 PM ^
I'd like to be Texas more than Mississippi but less than than California.
January 29th, 2010 at 1:53 PM ^
I could get a good look at a blue chipper's legs if I stuck my head down his pants, but I'd rather take a Michigan Man's word for it.
January 29th, 2010 at 2:30 PM ^
i used to live in austin for a yr and i can honestly say that ive never seen so many hot chicks in one place in my life. thats where i met my wife. i mean look at colt mccoy kinda goofy looking cat,but his wife is amazing just because hes a star down there.
January 29th, 2010 at 3:14 PM ^
Famous jocks get hot chicks no matter where they are. Except for Clausen. I would post the pick but I am sure everyone has seen it.
January 29th, 2010 at 3:04 PM ^
I'd still rather wake up a Wolverine.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:00 PM ^
i would let that wolverine sleep. i don't want it to rip my face off.