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??? About throwing out 200+ offers to football recruits

  • While I must admit I like the slower, more focused pace UT seems to be using with the new coaching staff, I wonder if we would not have as much or more success, especially with bigtime OOS prospects if we didnt just send out 200 or more offers like Alabama or Tennessee or Oklahoma or USC or Florida seems to each year. At least to get UT into the forefront of some of the harder to reach prospects.
    16-17 year old kids will love the attention if nothing else. I cant help but think that this method might have given us a better shot with Jadeveon Clowney, who said after he signed elsewhere that he loved UT but we never recruited him. Or Jamies Winston this year who said right before he signed with FSU that he would be a Longhorn right now if we had offered.
    UT will always get the pick of the Texas talent, but I have to think sending out a bunch of offers to all the top 50 or so prospects in the country would at least up our chances of being a more successful national, and thus complete recruiting powerhouse. Thoughts, opinions?????hookem

    This post was edited by ROACHCLIP on 2/22/2012 at 7:24 AM

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  • OU currently has 45 offers out. If Texas threw out 45 offers this soon we would be full already.

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  • Think Mack really values tossing out the high hit rate in terms of offers/commits. He uses it in the Signing Day presser every year. While 27 offers and 25 signees is really about semantics, it's apparently very important to the head coach.

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  • papa horn said...

    OU currently has 45 offers out. If Texas threw out 45 offers this soon we would be full already.

    Agreed completely with the prestige that currently comes with a UT offer. We would be full by the end of JD2. I wonder why it is so much different for other power programs, specifically bama. But offering so many would inevitably lead us to pulling schollies like the soulless coach of the tide. Why do so many kids still go for programs that would pull an offered and accepted scholarship in favor of someone with more apparent upside?

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  • The problem with throwing out those offers out of state is that you can't show the in state players the same amount of respect by offering them as well, otherwise Texas would be full as others say.

    Mack Brown's not going to thumb his nose at Texas high school football players and coaches.

    And scarcity is not necessarily a bad thing when you're recruiting players.

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  • BobbyBurton said...

    The problem with throwing out those offers out of state is that you can't show the in state players the same amount of respect by offering them as well, otherwise Texas would be full as others say.

    Mack Brown's not going to thumb his nose at Texas high school football players and coaches.

    And scarcity is not necessarily a bad thing when you're recruiting players.

    True, just always stings a little bit more when a bigtime prospect says he woulda loved to play for UT if only we had offered

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  • All of those schools mentioned in the original post, with the possible exception of USC, have no choice but to take the carpet bomb approach. Regionally there aren't enough d1 quality players for most teams. The carpet bomb approach gets their name out there.

    In a lot of ways it is like mass mailings in sales. You might send out a ton of stuff that is going to get trashed but if you get a 2-3% hit rate, it's a success.

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  • htownhorns said...

    True, just always stings a little bit more when a bigtime prospect says he woulda loved to play for UT if only we had offered

    I have a problem believing a top recruit saying, "he woulda loved to play for UT if only we had offered."
    If he had a genuine interest in attending and playing for the University of Texas, his coach could have or should have contacted the right people.

    This post was edited by sportsfanatic on 2/22/2012 at 11:29 PM

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  • sportsfanatic said...

    I have a problem believing a top recruit saying, "he woulda loved to play for UT if only we had offered." If the had a genuine interest in attending and playing for the University of Texas, his coach could or should have contacted the right people.

    Supposedly Winston had his coach do that, send video that is

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  • BobbyBurton said...

    The problem with throwing out those offers out of state is that you can't show the in state players the same amount of respect by offering them as well, otherwise Texas would be full as others say.

    Mack Brown's not going to thumb his nose at Texas high school football players and coaches.

    And scarcity is not necessarily a bad thing when you're recruiting players.

    Maybe you delay the blanket approach until after the 2nd junior day.

    That would mean all the Texas recruits get 1st shot at the available slots.

    It would also mean that if a Texas recruit really wanted Texas, he better sh*t or realize the pot is leaving.

    We might be surprised by the OOS guys we get.

    I like the plan with the one caveat that the offers don't go out until after the 2nd junior day.

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