MikeV73
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2015 Recruiting Season is in full swing
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I agree on Charlie. I read somewhere that Lou Holtz stated that Strong is the type of person that looks way ahead when it comes to having a plan.
After reading all of the potential recruits that are interested in Texas, is it crazy to think that maybe he asks some of these kids to walkon and then give a scholarship next year.
You would think that Locksley's and Fields' parents have the financial means to make this happen. I seriously doubt it but nothing would surprise me.
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In all fairness, I think SFLHgirl threw out the name Kevin Hogan if I'm not mistaken. I think she was the only one who did.
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I was the 1st person to post about Kevin Hogan last night. Check a few pages back. No one responded to my question.
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Roaming the Michigan websites I stumbled upon Kevin Hogan's eligibility. Otherwise, I would never have considered it.
Pretty good article on Hogan and his potential draft status.
http://blogs.mercurynews.com/collegesports/2014/11/19/stanford-football-kevin-hogan-the-nfl-draft-keller-chryst-and-the-looming-non-competition-plus-a-cal-link/
http://blogs.mercurynews.com/collegesports/2014/11/19/stanford-football-kevin-hogan-the-nfl-draft-keller-chryst-and-the-looming-non-competition-plus-a-cal-link/
FWIW -- The most recent CB for Chris Warren from today is to Washington by someone writing for Washington Insider.
Overall, its 79% Texas. And the last 10 in a row before that one were all Texas
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I'll take your word for it, too much effort to check the other pages! You and your PAC 12 leanings!
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His dad did play for the Seahawks for a long time, but I think Chris was actually born in Texas (probably while the dad was playing for the Cowboys)
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After watchig his video interview from Saturday, he kept things close to the vest and didnt project alot of enthusiasm for Texas.
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From Brossette's Twitter page. Longhorns are all over it.
https://twitter.com/NBrossette/status/551935424898564097
https://twitter.com/NBrossette/status/551935424898564097
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That link just takes you to the 247 rankings. I seem to remember that there was a link to a campsite list . 247, rivals, ESPN and whoever, combined or averaged. I've alredy lost the bet. My best bottle of Scotch Dangit. My 25 yr Laphroaig. He's had his eye on it for several years and saw an opportunity to pounce.
From a free board. It is critical that Strong finds a top notch closer for the East Texas area. There is some truth in this article. By the way, if you are in Longview, stop at The Butcher Shop. You will not walk away hungry.
More than a decade ago in an East Texas eatery, I engaged in a fascinating conversation with a friend of mine who just happened to moonlight as an out-of-state college assistant coach working the area during his once-a-year rounds in the spring when he wasn't trying to find the nearest golf course on all of his daily trips around the state.
"If it were up to me, I wouldn't offer a single player from the state of Texas that doesn't live in East Texas," he said between bites of his meal at The Butcher Shop.
Considering that he had spent the previous few days in the Austin area to visit one of his commitments before heading out to East Texas, while also fishing for new targets, I was a little surprised at his comments.
What came next out of his mouth was the first association of a word with the Lone Star State's talent-base that would eventually become synonymous with the Texas Longhorns football culture.
"All of these kids are so damn entitled," he said with a bit of a sneer. "They are treated like gods at their high schools and are household words before they ever play a down of college football. The weight rooms they lift in are better than most of the schools in my conference. All of the big schools have a coach for each position. There is just too much pampering going on and by the time we get them, it's damn near impossible to get them to really get down and dirty. They feel like they've made it by simply being recruited and becoming stars on the Internet."
He wasn't done…
"Take a kid from Florida and his weight room is terrible, he's lucky to have a single full-time coach on the entire team and if he doesn't make it in football, he knows he might never have anything in his life outside of what he already knows, which means that when we get them they are desperate to succeed or that might be it for them … not in football, but in life. Those are the kids I want, not some damn 18-year old that gives me the eyeball because our coaches won't hold his hand when he's in the weight room. I can find the kid I'm looking for in East Texas, but it's not like that in other areas of the state."
Fast-forward more than a decade later and I tell this story not as some sort of indictment on the players hailing from the state of Texas because the data correlated with the NFL Draft shows that in a lot of cases, elite Texas football prospects outperform the national numbers. Instead, I tell the story because it might ...might … give us a look into the window of Texas head coach Charlie's Strong's football soul.
More than a decade ago in an East Texas eatery, I engaged in a fascinating conversation with a friend of mine who just happened to moonlight as an out-of-state college assistant coach working the area during his once-a-year rounds in the spring when he wasn't trying to find the nearest golf course on all of his daily trips around the state.
"If it were up to me, I wouldn't offer a single player from the state of Texas that doesn't live in East Texas," he said between bites of his meal at The Butcher Shop.
Considering that he had spent the previous few days in the Austin area to visit one of his commitments before heading out to East Texas, while also fishing for new targets, I was a little surprised at his comments.
What came next out of his mouth was the first association of a word with the Lone Star State's talent-base that would eventually become synonymous with the Texas Longhorns football culture.
"All of these kids are so damn entitled," he said with a bit of a sneer. "They are treated like gods at their high schools and are household words before they ever play a down of college football. The weight rooms they lift in are better than most of the schools in my conference. All of the big schools have a coach for each position. There is just too much pampering going on and by the time we get them, it's damn near impossible to get them to really get down and dirty. They feel like they've made it by simply being recruited and becoming stars on the Internet."
He wasn't done…
"Take a kid from Florida and his weight room is terrible, he's lucky to have a single full-time coach on the entire team and if he doesn't make it in football, he knows he might never have anything in his life outside of what he already knows, which means that when we get them they are desperate to succeed or that might be it for them … not in football, but in life. Those are the kids I want, not some damn 18-year old that gives me the eyeball because our coaches won't hold his hand when he's in the weight room. I can find the kid I'm looking for in East Texas, but it's not like that in other areas of the state."
Fast-forward more than a decade later and I tell this story not as some sort of indictment on the players hailing from the state of Texas because the data correlated with the NFL Draft shows that in a lot of cases, elite Texas football prospects outperform the national numbers. Instead, I tell the story because it might ...might … give us a look into the window of Texas head coach Charlie's Strong's football soul.
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I did factor in the Seahawks factor, bit while we haven't been relevant in 5 yrs, UW hasn't in about twenty. Forgot dad played in Dallas, interesting he planted roots in Dallas after retiring.
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