Reply With Quote
Interesting tweet out of Killeen:
KDH Pressbox @KDHsports Reply Retweeted Favorite · Open
Despite no official offer yet, Harker Heights OLB/S Naashon Hughes (@NaaNaaB_D1) committed to Texas HC Mack Brown this morning as an ATH.
Quotes from Perkins:
"Coach Brown really made me decide for Texas because he asked me some questions I really needed to hear," Perkins said. "He asked me a lot about academics and other parts of college life."
"I liked the tempo of the practice and how hard the guys worked," said the 6-foot-5, 285-pound Perkins. "And Coach Searels is a funny, funny guy. He seems like a nice guy to be around. All the players were smiling and laughing in the film study, and it was good I got to see how he coaches his players."
Interesting tweet out of Killeen:
KDH Pressbox @KDHsports Reply Retweeted Favorite · Open
Despite no official offer yet, Harker Heights OLB/S Naashon Hughes (@NaaNaaB_D1) committed to Texas HC Mack Brown this morning as an ATH.
#11 is in. ATH Naashon Hughes has agreed to a grayshirt with UT.
So you can commit before being officially offered!?
Damn.. he could easily get a full scholarship from a quality school. Guess this shows his strong desire to play for Texas along with his brother.
That's a five-star pick-up as far as grayshirts go; a talented prospect that doesn't count against your 2013 numbers. I know a lot of people that follow UT recruiting were upset that Naashon wasn't offered initially, but you had to think he would somehow make his way into this class. Hopefully that's the last big push that OL Darius James needs to pull the trigger.
Last edited by TFloss32; 02-28-2012 at 10:39 AM.
Definitely an interesting tweet, TFloss. Word is that its a grayshirt. The kid definitely want to be at Texas with his bro...seems we could be at a dozen recruits pretty soon with D. James being the next in line. Great news if true.
OL Kent Perkins
Quotes from OL Kent Perkins and his high school coaches:
"As an eighth grader playing football at Lake Highlands Junior High, I felt sorry for the little kids he was having to play against. That's the basic truth," Lake Highlands head coach Scott Smith said. "As an eighth grader he was probably a little bit bigger than he is now because he had a lot more baby weight on him. He was about 6-6, maybe 315-320. So he was stepping out on that field playing football against a bunch of eighth graders. There aren't a lot of eighth graders that are that size. It was a humorous deal."
"Basically what the eighth grade coach would do is walk Kent out for the coin flip and from that point the game was pretty much over. You can imagine what that looked like with the officials looking up to him and three other eighth graders from the other team looking at him."
"The eighth graders play on Tuesday night down at the stadium here and when I watched him as an eighth grader I made sure I was there every Tuesday night to ensure he was going to be at Lake Highlands as a freshman," Urbantke said. "When I saw him as an eighth grader I was like 'Oh goodness, we're going to have us one here.'"
"Actually, as a seventh and eighth grader and even as a ninth grader, he played basketball. And to see a body that large run up and down the court at the pace and quickness he was doing it you knew there were some skills there that the average guy doesn't have," coach Smith said. "So coming in as a freshman we knew that."
"We knew we wanted him to have the opportunity to compete against guys that maybe weren't physically bigger than him but were maybe smarter in the game or more advanced in their techniques and skills and probably physically stronger than him," Smith said. "So when he lined up in practice against them he had to really challenge himself to get better. As the year went on you saw those things start to develop and saw his mindset changing a little."
"We're a spread option team and everyone who plays us knows we run to the right 70-percent of the time," coach Urbantke said. "When he moved into a starting position the guy we had at left tackle was a returning starter, and we're right handed dominated and we run the ball 65 - 70-percent of the time and it's to the right side. And when we run left we're running counter left and we're pulling him. That's the reason he's been on the right side. I haven't ever moved him back because we've had a right-handed quarterback that when we run option we liked to pitch it with his right hand."
"Football-wise I've been working on run blocking, pass protection, cutting linebackers, taking that right angle, getting my stamina up so I can last through the fourth quarter, stuff like that," Perkins said.
"Last year I started seeing the leadership come out in him," coach Urbantke said. "Being a sop re and a freshman he would kind of sit back. He still got in there and mixed it up but his leadership was the big deal that came along last year as a junior. And his pass pro, just getting comfortable. We don't throw the ball a ton but we're about 60-40 and he played some of the better defensive ends against the Skyline's and he didn't give up a sack last year."
"I'm not sure he'll ever be that loud outspoken guy," coach Smith said. "He'll be the guy who shows up every day and challenges everyone on the field in the weight room and in the classroom to be the best he can be."
"He's very coachable, very respectful, never been in trouble, never been a grade problem. He's very reliable," coach Urbantke said. "He's going to do exactly what I ask of him and that's been the aspect of Kent. You don't have to worry about his behavior anywhere. He's huge, he's fast, he's strong, but just to go along with his personality he's a great student athlete. He's going to be a good one."
"I heard [coach Searels] was jumping up and down and things like that," Perkins said.
"He's a special kid and special football player and special athlete," coach Smith said. "It's not one of those things you see every day."
Quotes from the high school coach of ATH Naashon Hughes:
"He did commit. He just talked to coach Brown. Right now, he's considered to be offered a greyshirt," Harker Heights head coach Mike Mullins said. "From that standpoint, if something happens between now and then, he'll be right there (for an offer towards the 2013 class). Right now, he'll go through and graduate with his class. Then he'll be six month on his own of taking classes, then be first commitment next January for (the recruiting class of) 2014."
"He's always liked them and he said he'd just feel more comfortable doing that. He called me last night and said he wanted to call coach Brown this morning."
"He's an athlete. He can play anything from wide receiver, tight end, outside linebacker, free safety or even be a down defensive lineman on the line," Mullins said. "There's just so much upside to him in different places. He's 6-4, can play in space, which is appealing to a lot of people. And just being such a great kid and hard worker, that combined makes him an excellent young man."
"Just in talking to him, he always liked Texas. It's probably been his first choice all along," Mullins said. "No matter the route to get there, that's what he wanted to do. He entertained offers from LSU, South Carolina and Baylor, but for him, being comfortable there, knowing the people there, it just seemed right for him no matter how he had to make it work."
I agree floss. Thats as good as it gets for a grayshirt guy, especially considering that he wasnt necessarily forced into that option at the end of the recruiting period like some guys at LSU or Alabama have been as a result of over recruitment. The coaches were straight up with Naasshon about the situation and Naashon made this decision on his own. Good note on how big this is on us getting Darius James, that element had slipped my mind. Wont be long now with Darius.
Front page article on Rivals this morning that talks about recruits in the state of Texas. UT has signed 91.3% Texans for the last five years.
http://footballrecruiting.rivals.com...sp?CID=1336773
D-Rob's son getting some love from Rivals:
http://footballrecruiting.rivals.com...sp?CID=1336840
Saw that earlier but don't have access. Anything of note in the article?
My bad, I thought this was free. Just says how he's seeing more and more offers come in; Notre Dame, Navy, North Carolina, Iowa, Kansas. Stanford may offer as well and they'd top the list if that happened.
More trouble for Coach Tuberville:
http://blog.al.com/breaking/2012/02/...ommy_tube.html
Piece of info on DB Cole Luke from a 24/7 article:
"Luke plans to visit Texas and Oklahoma this spring, and a trip up north to Notre Dame and Michigan may follow. He intends to make his final decision after the conclusion of his senior season."
HornsNation asked Darius James today today if he was thinking of committing any time soon and did not give Max Olson a timeline. So it could be a while before we hear anything out of him.
It's unpredictable. I don't think anyone expected Perkins to commit so soon.
We should wait if he shows genuine interest.
I think its sooner than later. If not sooner, its almost inevitable to happen. Come on, he says he wants to go to the same school as Naashon and then Camrhon is already there. I think he just wants people to be on their toes about him committing to build his own hype. I dont mind.
Great day for Naashon and the Hughes Family. This young man wants to be at UT period, and he's willing to do whatever it takes.
I'd like to hear the back story on how the grayshirt offer came down.
Correct me if I'm wrong Floss, but isn't there a third Hughes brother? I believe there's a youngest brother out there.
I know there's at least one more after Naashon. I believe he's only 12 or 13 but is already over 6' tall.
Alabama offered CB Maurice Smith of Fort Bend Dulles today.
Quotes from him after JD2:
"It was great," Smith said. "We got to see them practice. It was the second day of spring practice. We got to see how the coaches interacted with the players and got to go in the film room with them. It was great. Then we got to talk to the academic staff and the tutors and got to see the dorm rooms. I liked it."
"It was a great experience. I've never gotten to see a coach interact with the players like that and how he got into it and showed them," Smith said. "He acted as if we were already part of the team and was basically evaluating the players and showing them what they needed to do on the plays they filmed in practice. It was great."
"I saw some of the coverages they were running in practice today and I picked up on a few things," he said. "They have some similarities with what we run at my school. They run a base 4-3 and I got to pick up on some of the coverages and the checks they do."
"I got to talk to coach Akina, and he was very excited," he said. "He got a good chance to talk to me and we went back and forth on how we felt about it. He said he didn't want to offer anyone so I wasn't hurt by it. We got a chance to talk and he said I was a great athlete. It was great and even though I didn't get offered I still liked the experience."
Texas A&M's Big XII buyout complete:
http://blog.mysanantonio.com/aggies/...-way-its-done/
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Posting Permissions
