OT: non-mich recruiting
I just saw that Texas received commit no. 19 for 2009-2010. Is this unprecedented? In addition, is there any merit to the argument that offering too early can be bad because they could have bad senior years/camps or whatever?
Other news, Florida got a good safety in Jon Dowling so that might help with Marvin Robinson, though I don't know how serious he was about Florida. It really seems like OSU is getting back on his radar.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/recruiting/onthetrail
The longhorns are doing horrible with in-state recruiting. (sarcasm)
Is that they can't recruit outside their own state. How pathetic is that?
True, but there's more than enough talent in Texas. Besides, it's hard for any big 12 team to pull kids from SEC country. Other than California and Oklahoma, where else would Texas look?
TX, just like FL and CA, can virtually fill its roster with home-grown talent. Every year they'll have a kid listed in top 5, often more, for virtually every position on the field. If they take care of TX, they'll be fine, and they've been doing that lately. Wish we had the same problem.
D'Antonio hasn't set up shop at A & M, or he wouldn't get jack...
i hope texas likes the guys they have right now cuz they don't have much room for anyone else
question: can you commit to a school before you get to middle school?
http://texas.rivals.com/viewprospect.asp?Sport=1&pr_key=84292
lmao i almost choked on my sandwich.
I have a feeling that if any commit has a really bad year, his verbal committment will be worth as much as the paper it is written on, at least on Texas' end.
verbal things are written?
Yes, they can be. Do you know what verbal means?
your question seems to contradict your response
The thing is almost everyone talking about recruiting, and most of the population in general, uses the term verbal incorrectly. Verbal does not mean spoken, but rather anything with words in it. Oral on the other hand indicates something that is spoken.
So a letter of intent, and a recruit saying months before signing day that he is committed to X school, are both verbal commitments. The latter is also an oral commitment.
While you're right that it's often used incorrectly for oral, I think we're better off sticking with "verbal" commitment. In the Catalogue of Words and Phrases used Incorrectly by Americans on a Daily Basis, this one is harmless and only slightly inaccurate, not entirely wrong. Most importantly, it confuses no one when used in the context of recruiting.
An "oral committment" on the other hand seems an awkward phrase, and lends itself to sophomoric humor ala "State U. gets oral from Texas QB" or Coach Rod talking about "soft orals." This we can't have.
I strongly disagree with pragraph 2.
P.S. you joined on my birthday ;)
That is a great birthday, isn't it?
OMG is that your birthday too? You just jumped up a few pegs, wile. Joan of Arc was born on that day as well. Let's hope our fate is better than hers.
Mine is January 7th!!!!
Then it's settled. Next year we are having a combined wile_08-baleedat-WolvinLA birthday party. I'll make my potato salad.
I can make macaroni and cheese from the box.
Do the velveeta shells and cheese. Bomb Ass.
Pastrami on Jewish rye, provolone, mustard, mayonnaise, and kettle cooked salt & vinegar potato chips.
WOW. Wow. OK, so we'll have Velveeta shells and cheese, Pastrami sandwiches and potato salad. I have a few friends out here who are alcohol distributors, so they can hook that up. Baleedat, I'm putting you in charge of paper plates, plasticware and maybe a couple festive table clothes, but just the cheap disposable ones. Wile_e8 you can bring some plastic cups (preferably Dart brand since it is a Michigan company and I was good buddies with Will Dart in college) and ping pong balls.
I'll whip up a cool playlist on my iPod. That should probably do it.
Uh, guest list?
Working on it. You'll definitely be on there, but if you want to stay over you'll have to fight Chrisgocomment for the couch. Can I put you in charge of the RRerabeginsin2009 shaped pinata?
Dex said he'd fashion a bat from a fallen redwood.
By "cool playlist" do you mean Alanis Morissette: The Collection? Better throw in some Jewel...and maybe a little Lisa Lobe.
Sorry, I thought I was being clear. By cool, I meant Jagged Little Pill on loop.
well, i guess i didn't know what verbal meant
Texas has been doing that for a few years now. They usually have most of their class filled for the following year by the time summer rolls around.
I sit next to an Aggie and I was asking him about how UT seems to pull that off and he said when they commit to UT they make them stop taking visits. They have such a strangle hold on the state they can demand that. So every single one of those kids has agreed they will no longer take any visits.
Must be nice...
Hell, if I grew up in Texas where everything is about Texas and Mack Brown is a god and Vince Young is a god and everything is burnt orange-colored, I'd commit to Texas as soon as I got an offer, too. It's a great school with a ton of tradition, quality coaching, hot girls, and a pipeline to the NFL.
As much as we all wish that Michigan had a stranglehold on the State of Michigan's heart, the allegiance in Michigan is shared pretty equally between MSU and UM (and the smaller schools). There are a lot of schools in Texas (A & M, Tech, Rice, Baylor, UT, Houston, SMU, etc.), but they're all secondary or...thirdary...or fourthary...to the Longhorns.
I'm not sure Mack Brown is a god is Texas. Fans there pretty much expect a national title game appearance every year and he can't deliver that. The other things you said are true, though.
2nd winningest school as of last year.
Suck it ND.
I'm pretty sure you're joking, but it's "tertiary."
"On November 27, 2008, the Longhorns passed Notre Dame as the second winningest college football team, having won 832 games to Notre Dame's 831."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Longhorns_football#cite_note-0
http://www.statesman.com/sports/content/sports/stories/longhorns/12/23/…
I wasn't commenting on that, I was referring to his use of the word "thirdary."
My bad. I didn't pay attention to the "indent format" to see where your post fell.
Sorry about that.
I can assure you I was joking.