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Best reason posted as to the no JUCO at Texas. It is a school admission obstacle. The stars have to align perfectly for it to happen:

1. Must be at a position of immediate need.
2. Must have grades to transfer to Texas.
3. Must have courses that will transfer to a degree program at Texas.
4. Must be "Texas good" on the field. As in come in and start.
5. Player needs to have no character issues.

It's just not going to happen.

unless you play basketball or baseball. in which case it's no longer a school admission obstacle.

I played baseball at Blinn for one year in 1990 and transferred to UT in 1991 and all my credits were accepted. I don't think it is accurate to say UT does not accept course credits from Blinn.

I think the top 10% (or whatever it is now) law has changed admission policies since then. A Blinn student could still transfer today, but I don't know if all their credits will any more as well.

It's my understanding that its made to be intentionally easier for transfers from the CAP programs.

I think it has more to do with Mack than admissions. Baseball still and will continue to bring in juco's.

The main problem is academics. Texas is the only school in our conference that does not accept transfer hours in which the student made a "D". All the other schools in the Big 12 will accept those hours.
The fact that they are playing JUCO is indicative that the grades out of high school were not acceptable at UT and in most instances continues in Junior College.

Yup. He might have figured out that going into the season with only Jeffcoat/Okafor/Wilson/Reed at DE is a disaster depth wise.

I put the odds on Texas taking a JC kid in football at a very, very low %.

That's quite the resume of schools that have offered. Is this Denico Autry a solid DE?

Need to post a clarification:

1. I was emailed about a DT recruit, not a DE recruit (see the original post title). Texas is not looking at DT recruits. They're done at the position (save Javonte Magee) unless someone de-commits and they're not planning on that happening.

2. We're following up on the defensive end just to double check.

3. Texas is not recruiting the OL from the school.

4. Finally, I want to say this and say it without coming off the wrong way (because I think the approach the coaches have right now is by far the best Texas has had in years).

Some of the new Texas coaches do not recruit the way Mack Brown staffs have traditionally recruited.

a. "Offers" may not mean what most are accustomed to them meaning - all of these assistants from the SEC are accustomed to offering 100 players early, not having them commit, and then watching them through the spring and fall before recruiting truly commences. Whether or not a true offer materializes is a different discussion. This is how recruiting works in the SEC. Playing the offer game is part of the landscape.

b. Several of the staff also had built a lot of groundwork recruiting players based on their previous jobs, some of them over a very long period of time. By that, I mean it's normal for them to continue to look in on kids, schools or coaches where they had already previously expended energy and to express interest in them. They want to (and should) keep their connections across the country because you never know when that can pay dividends.

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Long story short, I still very much don't see Texas connecting all of the dots on a Juco DE. But we will double check and see where, if anywhere, it goes. I don't count on it amounting to much.

this sheds a lot of light on some of the statements we've seen this spring re: recruits in the se part of the country saying they have texas offers when they've never set foot on campus or spoken to mack.

thanks for the digging, bobby.

OJ Simpson was a JUCO. Case closed.