QB recruiting has to change

[Lord Vader]

Knight was not ready back then, hes grown a lot. There is a word for that...... um...

....eh.....

Oh yeah.. he was "developed".....

 

[tshirtfan12]

The tears oh the tears

 

[echeese]

Water under the dam.

Over the bridge. ..

Conner Brewer was our guy. . .I remember many calling for us to take Knight as well. . .

Wish we hadn't let Brewer get away. ..

 

[echeese]

Good Lord. This is getting so ridiculous. My son's a QB. He's a HS Soph. He wants to go to Texas. If, at some point we are lucky enough for him to play somewhere in college, then of course we'd love for him to go to Texas. Odds are it ain't happening. If you took a survey of HS QBs and asked if they'd like to go to Texas to play QB, I bet that at least 75% of them in the state of Texas would say YES. Probably 40-50% or more nationally would say a resounding YES. Texas cannot recruit every QB out there. Texas has missed on some QB prospects, no doubt. But to continually hear kids that are playing in college say, "yeah, I would have gone to Texas but I wasn't recruited," is just plain silly. If you were not recruited to Texas, there likely was a reason. For all of Mack's faults, recruiting QBs hasn't really been his problem. Developing them once they got here, and developing their backups, has been his problem. If anything, Mack over-recruited the QB position and often put all of his eggs in one basket. Unfortunately that basket sometimes wasn't very durable.

OK,

calling it now. . .I know JoeWa. . .money pouring out of his pockets. . .I'm expecting your son to walk on. . .come on dude. . take one for the team. ..

 

[86MEHorn]

Mack has failed to find a good QB his whole career at Texas. ???? While at Texas he did get some studs like Simms.

Mack's 9-yr run was built around good quarterbacks.

If anything, Mack over-recruited the QB position and often put all of his eggs in one basket

I think he under-recruited, did not like QB controversy, and 2010 - 2013 was the result.

 

[pianoboe]

I remember in 08 and 09, seeing Colt pull a number of wins out of nowhere (Ok St, in particular), wondering how long it would be before our lack of running game and flimsy O-line would catch up to us. It seemed to be all Colt winning those games. Well, running game is back, and without a qb, Texas is in worse shape. If David Ash had not gotten hurt this year, MB would still be the coach. Are we better off?

 

[echeese]

No doubt, i agree with those numbers but you can not use that as an excuse for the piss poor coaching and recruiting that Mack Brown and his staff have been doing for over 5-7 years. I know RP "holla" was a 5 star but even he sucked. Mack has failed to find a good QB his whole career at Texas. Mack got lucky to have Major already here when he came. Mack had to be persuaded into recruiting VY and got luck late with Colt, when RP, thankfully, went to Lsu. Mack has not recruited many many QB who went to other places and did well. While at Texas he did get some studs like Simms. Sure many QBs want to come to Texas but its the coaches that have to identify the talented ones for their system and Mack failed much more than he succeeded.

FYI,

RP didn't bail till the last minute in January of '05 . . .Colt had been committed since May of 2004 http://texas.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=297671

I'd argue that Colt was the best "find" of GD/Mack's recruiting. ..

Another thing we saw from the TEXAS staff. ..each of the 4 named QBs was developed by GD/Mack while at TEXAS. . .

I still maintain the mistakes started when they fell in love with John Chiles as the "next Vince" instead of GJ Kinne and the mistakes compounded from there . .

 

[JerrySandusky'sCellmate]

Trevor may not have been ready earlier in the year, but he was still a whole lot better than what we trotted out there. Texas passing on him was just another in a long line of mistakes, he was obviously every bit the prospect that Brewer was.

His teammate, Austin Hays, should have been a Horn, too. Played a lot as a true freshman at Okie State.