Comments on: Hicks fails to qualify

By: BatesHorn

BatesHorn — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:06:49 +0000

Community College and Okla. St. I assume?

By: Ag_in_TX

Ag_in_TX — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:26:45 +0000

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.

By: HenryJames

HenryJames — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:57:50 +0000

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.

By: jc25

jc25 — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:52:12 +0000

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.

By: echeese

echeese — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:07:23 +0000

If Antoine Hicks had taken Vince Youngs wonderlick test he would have been the top pick in the draft.

By: HenryJames

HenryJames — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:59:28 +0000

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?

By: Viper

Viper — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:47:18 +0000

At least we have playmakers like Blake Gideon to back him up.

By: kevwun

kevwun — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:44:18 +0000

If we were going to sign a grade risk, I wish it would have been Calhoun.