Hicks fails to qualify
Athlete Antoine Hicks of Mansfield Timberview won’t be enrolling at Texas this fall. He came up short on his qualifying ACT score.
Although he played quarterback in high school, he was going to play wide receiver at Texas. His commitment was a bit of a head scratcher because he wasn’t really recruited by anyone else and had only sparingly played receiver before.
The opportunity cost on this was high. The top receiver in Texas last year was Darryl Stonum of Fort Bend Dulles. He had offers from all the big boys, and his dad wanted him to hold out for a offer from Texas. Because of track he never was able to make it to the Texas campus to meet the coaches during the spring, and the Texas coaches hardly even contacted him.
He was a mid term enrollee at Michigan.
July 9, 2008 at 6:44 am
If we were going to sign a grade risk, I wish it would have been Calhoun.
July 9, 2008 at 6:47 am
At least we have playmakers like Blake Gideon to back him up.
July 9, 2008 at 6:59 am
Here’s what I don’t understand. We’re supposed to be only recruiting good students, yet Hicks’ grades were not good (I won’t post them here). They were not even really close to being good. So why did we offer him when there were better players, both physically and academically?
July 9, 2008 at 7:07 am
If Antoine Hicks had taken Vince Youngs wonderlick test he would have been the top pick in the draft.
July 9, 2008 at 7:52 am
I don’t really know much of Stonum’s backstory, but as a Dulles alum, I’ve never seen Coach Creech send a recruit to Texas. In the ‘07 class, Creech sent two decent recruits (Woolfolk and the other one, I forget) to Ann Arbor. Whether that played a role in Stonum’s decision, I’m not quite sure.
July 9, 2008 at 7:57 am
That could be the case, but Stonum’s father liked Texas. That’s going to trump the coach.
The two guys who signed in 2006, one of whom’s father played for Michigan, weren’t recruited by Texas. I do think that having two teammates already on campus certainly made Michigan more attractive than most of the other schools.
And of course Michigan is big time football.
July 9, 2008 at 8:26 am
This is really a shame. I think y’all would have really been happy with Antoine - that kid has a lot of upside - Timberview needed him as a QB, which hurt his recruitment, but he did what his team needed of him.
July 14, 2008 at 7:06 am
Community College and Okla. St. I assume?