2012 Texas Longhorn Recruiting Class Is Signed, Sealed, Delivered

Looking forward to the breakdowns. Any hints on who may achieve beyond expectation?

I’ll trade a DGB for a Torshiro.

WOW! Great class and Davis was a nice surprise! Any regrets for Cottrell?

I have a request or suggestion for Longhorn Scott if I may so presume.

The film breakdowns were outstanding during the season. I hunger for more. I don’t know if LHS has any plans for more film study, but I had a few thoughts:

1. Pick a few players, maybe OL, and show how they may have progressed over the year.

2. Select a series of plays over the course of the season that built upon each other from game to game to illustrate how HarsinWhite may have anticipated what the opponent may have been anticipating from prior game film

3. The defensive front seven formations were fascinating to see for my unskilled eyes. In passing situations where we had maybe only a single player with his hand down and the rest standing in a group at the time of the snap comes to mind. A rundown of these looks would be great.

4. Similar to the OL play, the DT play would be interesting to isolate. Even though I played the position a thousand years ago, my foundational knowledge of “hit the guy in front of you and chase the ball” isn’t terribly helpful in appreciating modern defenses. DTs are just about invisible to me during the game unless they make a spectacular play.

5. Now that the offense has a year under the new system and there are new players coming to campus, what possible changes do you see for next season?

Of course, reading ScipioTex and the other fine writers here on these subjects would also be a treat. LonghornScott’s efforts has enabled me to better visualize what is being written about.

Sorry to choose this thread to write this, I just had a few ideas and wanted to share them.

Roma -
 
Colbert and Santos are both front of my mind. Overstreet has position switch potential and Norman could be very good if he has fire in his belly.
 
Magnitude -
 
I’m very happy with Torshiro-san, but I’d be shocked if DGB isn’t college elite.
 
Pounds -
 
Regrets for Cottrell? For us or him? He’s a good take.

Dam this was a good year. I dont follow recruiting closely, but chris simms is the last big time recruit i remember us steeling. Particularly from out of state.

I really like the class. Looking at the lower stars that are going to impact the team and soon: Colbert and Santos were on the top of my list too. Next would be Norman and Bluiett (fabulous athlete that will get training and focus). And don’t under estimate the impacts of kick offs consistently in the end zone and a live leg punting.

A lot of very nice pieces. And just wait until you combine the last 2 classes with the guys coming in a couple of weeks from now at Jr Day.

A lot of athletes!

Colbert is a bigger Earl Thomas minus the elite hands (still he has pretty good hands already) and Earl’s nose for the ball. If he develops Earl’s work ethic he’ll mitigate those decencies and be an All-Conf safety.

Can we get Mack “2 Sandwiches” Brown and Bo Davis some coffee? Out-fucking-standing!

http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2010/1/29/1283466/mack-brown-wants-your-sandwich-for

Magnitude -
 
I don’t know that Colbert has Earl’s quicks - I mean lateral quickness, not speed - but I hear you. When a guy with good size that can really run also likes the physical aspects of the game, you’ve got a potential player.

Scipio I agree with both of your assertions, and I raise you that whoever Mizzou lines up at slot will need to sign over part of his probable future NFL paycheck over to DGB. That player and Yost’s jobs just became a whole hell of a lot easier today.

Magnitude I am all for decency mitigation. We need killers.

Grammar nazi silliness aside love how we finished. And DGB is an object lesson of how hard it can be to pull out of state talent. I would have said Arkansas was a far superior bet over Mizzou.

Love how the Horns closed the last couple weeks. Huge.

Dont remember what this board has to say about the 2010 class so is this two or three elite classes in a row?

First of all, fantastic coverage, Scipio and crew. You guys make this fun, since every second post is not adoration of your own ability to break news or wind.

Second of all, this was a great day to be a Longhorn fan. Great class, that is filled to the gills with the two things I felt like we needed most: speed and help in the trenches.

It will be fun watching a bunch of these kids next year. Hearing that we may get the first 2013 commitment as soon as tomorrow.

It’s nice to have Scipio around this year. Last year he was “nursing an eye injury” and sucking down cocktails on the coast, I imagine.

It feels like we traded Thomas for Marcus and each school got the guy that best fits their scheme.
Torshiro was a real pleasant surprise, Santos and Jinkens definitely placate me at LB. I see Colbert ending up somewhere between Kenny Vaccaro and Christian Scott. Hopefully closer to the former.
At 3 stars he is rated too low.

Also, Diaz just got a bunch of brand new toys.

bullzak, I believe it is 3 in a row. 2010 was Jeffcoat and Hicks.

RomaV,

Thanks for the request. I definitely have had a number of projects on my mind in terms of review and preview that I’d like to do. Fortunately for me (but not so much for my football pieces), my girlfriend and I just bought our first house in December (hence my disappearance). It’s a 1930s house and restoring it has been consuming all of my spare time. At some point that will calm down, but I’m not sure when.

I hope that I get a chance to put some stuff together this offseason though and a lot of the things you are requesting are at the forefront of what I want to look at but packaged slightly differently.

LS,

I hear ya. I’ve been doing remodeling on my 30s house so much lately that I didn’t even know who a few of our gets were!

Dont remember what this board has to say about the 2010 class so is this two or three elite classes in a row?

IMO 2010 is close to elite. There’s already been a lot of attrition from that class, but the core of a defense that should be top 5 nationally next year is mainly 2010 guys: Jeffcoat, Dorsey, Hicks, Cobbs, Byndom, and Phillips. All of those guys could be plus players next year. On offense Hopkins could be a quality guard, Davis will hopefully get his head straight, and Harris will contribute. Espinosa needs to add a lot of strength but he was only a freshman. To get that many solid or better contributors from one class three years out is rather good.

Big- agereed, but no offensive difference makers unless Davis gets his head straight.

Shocking that Greg Davis side of the ball hasn’t shown while WM did. Who’d have thought?

Would love to have gotten DGB, but I applaud any kid that chooses to stay in state. Nothing wrong with sticking with your home loyalty. It is the mercenary traitors that sell out and take the dirty money from OU, Oregon, Bama, LSU, Auburn, etc that I hate.

Hey Scipio

If I remember correctly you did a run down 2 years ago about the recruiting class that was just hilarious. You went through each signee and I remember it being one of my favorite reads on a Longhorn Blog. Pretty much ever.

I think I read a shorter, less hilarious version last year.

Will you be doing one for this class?

There are only really five players on that entire list that I have a hard time seeing in a two deep at Texas. 23 legit players with a chance to start or have an impact in playing time. As much as I bitched about those few, having 20+ players that I could see as legit Big 12 starting caliber is just simply amazing.

If Adrian Colbert was rated as a 3-star by someone stop paying for their services immediately. My first reaction in watching his film was “Ahmad Dixon?”. He runs well and destroys people. A nice compliment to whichever track freak starts next to him at safety.

24/7 had Colbert as a top 100 player in their final rankings, as they actually took the time to go scout him and give him a legit evaluation. He’s a 95 4-star I believe.

First of all, fantastic coverage, Scipio and crew. You guys make this fun, since every second post is not adoration of your own ability to break news or wind.

BigErn ForTheWin (spelled out for effect). I miss blog-type things.

The one thing that stands out in this class is the late to the party guy, Colbert; is nearly a sure thing. They’ve already told him that they think it’s a short transition from Vaccaro to him.

Safeties: Evans and Thompson, with Colbert going full metal jacket.

Sick class and I look forward to Scipio’s breakdowns. But not bigdukesix’s.

“as they actually took the time to go scout him and give him a legit evaluation.”

Not really tho.

Who is your top 5?

K. Estelle, J. Gray, M. Brown, K. Sanders, T. Davis?

Quick question on Colbert…maybe he becomes another “Machete”, maybe not…but can he at least achieve “switch blade” status? I’ll hang up and listen.

…By the way Tipsy…I’d love an answer from you on my question, as long as I don’t have to pay $9.95 for it…

“Quick question on Colbert…maybe he becomes another "Machete", maybe not…but can he at least achieve "switch blade" status? I’ll hang up and listen.”

A: Absolutely, have you seen the film, the size, the violence, the speed…high ceiling player hands down. (Hope Tips agrees, think he will)

I haven’t seen his video…if somebody has it, post a link please.

Does anyone have the real reason why Howell is leaving? I’ve seen the standard mutterings: grades, rule violation, and so forth. The incoming competition? Did he piss someone off? Did someone piss him off?

He got pinched for weed per the police blotter. Apparently not his first team rule violation.

Thanks. Although I’d like to see him stay, it’s better than ending up with a Ramonce Taylor “backpack full of weed to sell” situation.