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QB recruiting has to change

MBHORNSFAN

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This sucks Geoff Ketchum @gkketch

Trevor Knight to Orangebloods (7/4/10): "My dad went to Texas, I've grown up going to their games & that's every kid's dream to play there."

And...GO!

We never offered him

 
How I feel about Texas' recruiting the last few years: ThsefoiwaeweoignweginweiiWENGIOEWRNGQOIRWENGERKJ

Hopefully Heard will be the end of the drought at that position.

 
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.

 
There were a couple of kids off that HS team - all UT legacies - that we declined to recruit. The issue with Knight was never his physical ability. Looks like he took a big step tonight on a big stage.

 
This sucks Geoff Ketchum @gkketchTrevor Knight to Orangebloods (7/4/10): "My dad went to Texas, I've grown up going to their games & that's every kid's dream to play there."

And...GO!

We never offered him
FYI, Mack is gone:)

 
Everything needs changing...from QB recruiting to strength and conditioning.

 
For all of Mack's faults, recruiting QBs hasn't really been his problem.
Joey,

We haven't recruited a QB since Colt in 2005. Not having a QB has been THE biggest problem Texas has had. We were good to great when we had Major, Sims, Vince and Colt. Since then we have been average.

 
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.
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.

 
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