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I wonder if we get Smith when Bama revokes his offer because they get somebody that they want more around signing day.

Exhibit number 1,456 as to why Mack Brown fails to deliver conference championships.

If they spend more than a nano second trying to understand what recruiting sites are saying they are focused on all the wrong sorts of stuff.

We are being invaded now by fake insiders like Orangebloods?

Yep, this.

I'm not saying I believe in Santa, but why do some guys refuse to believe there are insiders?

Mods, is Santa really Jesus?

I'm not saying there are no insiders, but this guy definitely isn't what he wants everyone to believe he is. I've been reading his shit for years. It's always the same... regurgitation.

Just my two cents, there are only 2 top 50 consensus players signed with SEC schools and 1 pending in RSJ depending on what happens with LSU. I am not worried at all at this point about the SEC. In fact, I expected quite a few guys to leave the state with the small classes OU and Texas are signing this year.

This is exactly right.

i think this is to simplistic of a view on CFB. This is not he days of Bear Bryant. Recruiting sites are important to programs. Kids read these sites. Whether or not he was out-recruited is a moot point now. Staff is trying to frame the argument if this is true. Simply they are in damage control mode. Mack has carefully constructed a view of his program and he wants that maintained. To me the interesting dynamic is Mack losing this guy is because he waited to offer. This has been the biggest criticism. Now rewind the last few yrs and the biggest criticism of many Longhorn recruiting fans is that Mack offers too early. Well the SEC is going to push into Texas and they are going to be in Texas early. They have no self-imposed rules on when they will offer. As fans we will have to pick which side we are willing to accept. He offers kids early that occasionally level out as juniors or Texas waits a little on some kids and miss a couple, because of hurt feelings. Recruiting Texas is going to get more difficult and if Texas does not win 10 games and SEC wins another title it will only get worse. An unseemly thing may be forced upon us all this yr. If OU makes the title game vs an SEC school, we may have to root for OU and chant Big 12 (involuntary gag reaction placed here). In the end, the best thing for Texas is an end of the SEC NC streak

i probably come across as an apologist for the current coaches, and if so, that is not EXACTLY correct. Maybe i am just not as insistent on everything working out, all the time.

recently we have had a few awesome recruiting classes, with these coaches doing the work. Everyone was thrilled with how Mack and the new coaches were handling things (and even Sally, joking or not). People saw a real difference in how these coaches were dealing with recruiting vs the last group of coaches over the last 3 or 4 years.

There were a lot of people thrilled that Mack was no longer offering so early. Thrilled that the coaches were studying harder, evaluating longer and more intensively. Wanted us to look at juco, and now we look at juco. Wanted us to look oos more and now we are clearly evaluating oos a lot.

All the things people were saying before that they wanted, Mack and crew seem to be doing lately. And last year it paid off with an awesome class that folks think will help take us to the mountaintop again.

So especially in a class where we have fewer numbers available, i am not upset with losing a Smith to Alabama.With our limited numbers, we are going to lose a number of guys. I am not happy about RSJ, but i am not happy with that for a number of reasons, and basically none have to do with our coaches. We showed him "love", we offered him early on, he committed. He came to camp the day before he decommited and seemed ot have a great time. And it shows that offering early and getting commitments early does not guarantee that you get the prize.

there is more than one way to recruit. Can do it like Saban, a great coach, by offering tons of folks and weeding out later. I genuinely like and respect how Mack does it. I think he does it with class and honesty and i admire that. We honestly want every single player we offer and they know that. We really want them. And we will honor their commitment.

i understand this board is for serious football junkies and all have their ideas of how to do things. I am in no way suggesting you ought not to complain or argue or discuss the way you want it. That's how these boards work and why they are here, and i love that too. Just take this as my vote that, Smith or RSJ included, I am thrilled with these coaches and how they are going about recruiting. I have great faith that come Feb 2013, we will , most of us anyway, be thrilled with the final class.

now if we win 5 or 6 or 7 games next year, forget i posted this, ok.