Junior Day Part Deux
This junior day will be interesting on three levels:
1. In its immediate wake, we’ll have effectively filled at least half of our 2008 class. We’ll have 10-12 commitments by March 1st.
2. We’ll learn how inoculated we are against camp fever. Steady, Mack. Steady.
3. We’ll see the degree of influence from Muschamp in how we recruit DL and LB.
Here’s a list of the guys coming in:
TE - Trey Graham - Waco Midway
TE - Jordan Najvar - Klein Oak
We take a TE this year. It could be one of these two. Both are basketball players. Graham has more stats to date; Najvar is a former QB with a Joe Jon Finley frame - he is a legit 6-6 and he’ll fill out quickly.
RB - Jonathan Miler - Garland Naaman Forest
RB - Rex Burkhead - Plano
RB - Ryan Swope - Austin Westlake
Miller is nice. Check out his film on Rivals. He’s easily a Top 100 prospect. Swope is yet another Westlake RB with great hands, straight line speed and…lots of untouched runs through gaping holes. Burkhead is a stronger, edgier Swope. We probably offer neitherone of them. Deal with it.
OL - Mason Walters - Frenship
OL - Fitiseula Partsch - Baytown Sterling
We want Walters’ fren’ship. That would close out our OL class in style.
Ath - Jeremy Moore - Austin LBJ
I don’t see it.
DT - Calvin Howell - San Antonio Warren
DE - Radermon Scypion - Port Arthur Memorial
DE - Dominique Jones - Kilgore
DE - Michael Brockers - Houston Chavez
DL - Kirby Ennis - Huntsville
Howell has offers from OU & A&M. I think we’ll offer unless he makes fun of Sally’s capri pants. Brockers is from Houston Chavez. Holale vato! He has very solid film. He also just committed to LSU. I want Scypion Radermon for his name alone. He brings to mind a Rastafarian scorpion. No film to be seen on Jones or Ennis, but Ennis is a good basketball player on a good Huntsville team and that speaks to his athleticism.
DB - Daniel Cobb - Killeen Ellison
DB - Roderick Goodlow - Dallas Adamson
DB - Kevin Brent - Dallas South Oak Cliff
Cobb and Goodlow want badly to be Longhorns. Brent is a stud with offers from Miami, LSU, OU, and the Jacksonville Jaguars. Judging by his picture, Brent is 35 years old. I’m thoroughly convinced he’s Ron McKelvey.
LB - Brandon Mahoney - Keller Fossil Ridge
LB - Tariq Allen - Irving MacArthur
LB - Kerry Hyder - Austin LBJ
LB - Chris McAllister - Converse Judson
LB - Austin Moss - South Garland
LB - Patrick Nkwopara - South Grand Prairie
I loved Mahoney in Police Academy. Undersized quickness guy with an OU offer. Tariq Allen is a man-child ILB with offers from A&M & OU. Hyder has rather underwhelming film - I don’t see a way he leaves with an offer. Judson’s McAllister is highly rated - I’d like to see the celluloid. Moss has lots of production and lots of film. Watching that film explains his production: instincts, motor, and a scheme dedicated to keeping blockers out of his zip code. Moss is reportedly an OU lean. Nkwopara is an undersized 5-10 200 speed backer (4.5ish 40) who loves Texas. SMU and Tech are hoping that we don’t reciprocate his amour.
We’ll update as events warrant.
February 21, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Mason Walters’ film:
Austin Moss:
February 21, 2008 at 12:39 pm
So what’s your take on Nkwopara? Am I too scarred by Bobino and the inability of our staff to do anything with Kelson to appreciate this kid? Or is he a reach?
What’s the story with the LB from West Texas? Thought he was going to make it in.
I think Brockers is a heavy LSU lean. LSU. Starting to sound familiar? If we don’t recover our fumble this might be their year to make serious inroads back in to Texas.
February 21, 2008 at 1:21 pm
McLovin:
Nkwopara is much faster than Bobino. He is a reach in the sense that he has no clear college position. However, if you’re going to reach, might as well do it with fast kid.
Chris Williams won’t make it in, but we finally decided to start recruiting him in earnest. I really like Chris Williams and think he’s underrated right now. But then I have a bias for angry linebackers who dominate games and injure people. Grades might be an issue.
I’ve heard that about Brockers as well, but the fact that he’s tripping in pleases me. LSU is a bigger problem for A&M than for us, but yeah, those crooked fuckers have great appeal to any high school kid within 500 miles of their campus. Maybe a Perriloux explosion helps our cause.
February 21, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Judson High School… Representin’!
February 21, 2008 at 1:40 pm
I heart Jim Rackley. He’s what Texas high school football is all about.
February 21, 2008 at 1:54 pm
I love that Rackley clip.
Mason Walters is an animal at the point of attack and he runs extremely well. 6-6 playing center? Shades of Rex Tucker.
He could be an All-Big 12 guy at any of the OL positions. Not many guys you can say that about.
February 21, 2008 at 2:33 pm
So we’d be giddy with committments from Walters and Brent this Sunday. Anyone else would just be some 3 star maybe low 4 star. Is Vaccarro coming back to campus or is his rumor of committing just supposed to happen this weekend from his home?
February 21, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Unbiased:
We’d be giddy to get commitments from Brent and Walters, however it’s way too early to think we know all of the best prospects. There’s a lot of fluidity in the rankings as film gets out and more guys get known. That’s the value of having some restraint. There are several kids up there that we could get on late and still get their commitment. Why get a handjob from a fat girl now when Minka Kelly said she may be coming over at midnight?
Miller is a solid guy at RB and several of the DL and LBs are absolute takes.
Vaccaro may be tripping to TCU, if I recall correctly. I’d like his commitment. I think he has a nice upside.
February 21, 2008 at 4:21 pm
Emily Jones if freakin hot. Get out the way, crusty coach, I need to see me some more EJ.
February 21, 2008 at 5:08 pm
If I had played for Jim Rackley I would have been afraid to suck as much as I did. Wow.
February 21, 2008 at 7:21 pm
“I have a bias for angry linebackers who dominate games and injure people. ”
Ha ha. It’s a strange dichotomy - Mack, the charmer, and Mack the dude that surely realizes the national champ each year is usually the team with the most badass gangsta dudes who can fuck you up.
February 22, 2008 at 5:40 am
Who do you predict will be the Fitzhenry and Gideon of this weekend?
February 22, 2008 at 6:21 am
Ryan Swope
February 22, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Brockers committed to LSU today. Scratch him off the list.
February 22, 2008 at 2:22 pm
“Moss has lots of production and lots of film. Watching that film explains his production: instincts, motor, and a scheme dedicated to keeping blockers out of his zip code.”
Read: Curtis Lofton, II.
February 22, 2008 at 2:41 pm
That’s a very good comparison, though it does not obey the internet fan rule that white players must always be compared to other white players, irrespective of their actual similarity.
February 22, 2008 at 4:33 pm
You better not be talking about me, cracker. I am the king of comparing white kids to black kids.
February 22, 2008 at 5:00 pm
You’re a true progressive.
February 22, 2008 at 8:30 pm
You’re like a skinny Al Roker.
February 23, 2008 at 10:37 am
HenryJames is like RuPaul with eyebrows.
February 23, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Dominique Jones and Patrick Nkwopara have committed.
February 23, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Kyle Kriegel now as well.
Kyle who? Exactly.
Caaaammmmppppppp Feeeeeeeeeeeeeeevvuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhh! Catch it!
February 23, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Calvin Howell has been offered.
Thurston and Lovie will be so proud.
February 23, 2008 at 4:13 pm
I want to see Mack Brown on Deal or No Deal. I suspect that he would quit after the second briefcase for about $800.
February 23, 2008 at 4:36 pm
that made me laugh, matt. I think you’ll enjoy my camp fever post on the main board.
February 23, 2008 at 5:44 pm
HenryJames, thanks for the Rackley clip!