Horns247 Board

It's amazing that people with zero information on a subject can be so viceral.

How do you know one single thing about how the man can coach?

Where were all you talent experts when the kids signed? Were you howling then, or only now?

Anybody follow Texas football long enough to remember the wild happiness when he was hired and his first couple of years?

You guys need some sort of anger management.

Yep, and that was especially true back in the 2006-2009 time frame before the recruiting services had caught up to the early junior day offers and commits....something that has only really happened in the last year or two.

All of which means NOTHING.

Class rankings and the Star system are jokes.

The only way to judge the talent you signed is 4 years after the signing date.

Those that can coach - those that can't work for Rivals or Scout.

The problem isn't necessarily that he likes to smoke pot and drink... most college kids and athletes do that stuff... it's that he prioritizes those things over playing football. Not anywhere close to being a talent maximizer, and when you're short on natural talent and you don't maximize what you have it's a bad combo.

Some folks lump all Westlake and Lake Travis kids into the same bucket the same ignorant way they tended to lump all inner city kids years and years ago.

The issue I have is the "good player from a good program" approach, and that can be both a predominantly white school (like Lake Travis/Katy/Southlake Carroll) and black school (like Dallas Skyline/DeSoto/Cedar Hill).

Sometimes it works. However, too often it's a crutch for not evaluating every school and every player thoroughly, at least it was for several years at Texas.

I think the recruiting from '07-'09 continues to hurt the program and may effect Mack's legacy to some degree if he doesn't right the ship completely.

Skyline has little in common with Desoto or Cedar Hill.

Skyline is innner city/DISD

DeSoto/Cedar Hill are suburban schools with far better coaching and development.

Katy/Southlake Carroll, like DeSoto/Cedar Hill has produced top flight talent.

Skyline/Travis, all hat (hype) no cattle (playas)

White black ain't got squat to do with it.

Damn! Offensive linemen are usually the smartest people on the team, I still rememberer that the average GPA on my high school OL was about 3.7. The RG has a master's in wine brewing, the LT as a degree in business finance, the C is working on his PhD in biological chemistry, the RT is in law school and the LG is an English teacher.

I'm not sure Westlake has produced a solid prospect since Schroeder left.