These dudes know how to market.

One of the good guys was recently invited to The Opening.

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Your man John Kocurek has already told you why Tyrone Swoopes is the best QB prospect in the state of Texas. Now ESPN's Horns Nation has some video for you after the jump.

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Good recruiter.

Jake Raulerson is a coach's wet dream. You watch the tape and you say "yep, that's how you play football. Keep doing that. OK, see you later." You don't need to wear yourself out yelling, or get on his case, because wanting to crush anything you put in front of him is in his DNA already. Nobody needs to motivate a lion to maul an antelope.

He was identified early as a must have, not only by Texas but by 40 or so other schools, and treated as such. He's clearly a very talented prospect, but is he in the same stratosphere as the Cameron Hughes and Kent Perkins type player?

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Both 2013 recruits were offered at the Spring game. They're generally well-regarded: Hookem 247 ranks Smith 31st in the state; Davis a puzzling 57th; Rivals has Davis at 14th in the state; Smith 23rd - and boast excellent offer lists, but based on my very incomplete viewing, I love Antwuan Davis and like Maurice Smith.

First, Maurice Smith.

Sorry, not that Maurice Smith. Though I'd like to have him.

I was looking for this guy:

Good frame, willing tackler, long arms, adept at rerouting receivers in press man and instinctive when the ball is in the air. His hands are good enough to get him play on offense. However, I don't see great speed or elite quickness. At least not in pads. Do you? However his performance at a recent combine disagrees with that assessment and earned him an invitation to the The Opening event. Am I getting thrown off by a long strider?

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The Dallas Nike Football Training Camp just went down and there were several 2013 Longhorn recruits in attendance. Including this guy:

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Quick notes and then some video breakdowns:

• Longhorn commit Tyrone Swoopes was named QB MVP and and received an invitation to the Elite 11 Camp. Word is that he showed quite a bit of improvement from the Elite 11 Camp and measured out at 6-4.5, 224
• Highly sought after DE recruit Torrodney Prevot was selected as DL MVP and also made Scipio's All-Name Team. But there's always an uncle...
• 2013 prospect Ra'shaad Samples of Dallas Skyline was injured during drills, but had already turned some heads with his quickness and hands
• Here's one ESPN recruiting writer's take on the All-Camp Team, featuring Longhorn commits Jake Raulerson, Jake Oliver, A'Shawn Robinson

Make the jump....

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There are three kinds of OL you can recruit:

- Giant bowling balls

- Savvy technicians

- Terrible

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The finely re-calibrated Texas recruiting machine rolls on with the Longhorns grabbing elite interior line prospect Darius James from Killeen's Harker Heights. CenTex will not be denied. He's widely considered the top ranked center prospect in the nation, a Top 100 national recruit, a Top 10 recruit in-state, and he's athletic enough to be a high level nose tackle recruit as well.

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For the last two years, part of my job has been to watch a young man's YouTube highlights and assess his ability to play college football. I'm far from the hardened, white-haired veteran, two days from retirement, but it still takes a lot to lift my eyebrow.

It takes something like a 6'5, 220 pound QB taking a shotgun snap, then ending up two yards past the line of scrimmage in four steps (1st play in the video over at Recruitocosm).

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