2015 Texas Longhorns Recruiting Thread

[TFloss32]

I was at that Tivy/Lake Travis game in 2010 and it was awesome.

If Brewer was hurt, he was still ridiculous. 250 in the air and 190 on the ground.

Only 15 of Tivy's yards weren't from Manziel.

[Needs More Bourbon]

Non-moronic perspective for a moment: Locksley was the second QB offered by Texas (after Gentry), and we pursued him at QB throughout. He didn't pass for a lot of yards/TDs because he was in a shotgun Wing-T offense. He played WR at the Under-Armour game because that's where FSU was going to put him. People think he can play WR — and he can — because he's a phenomenal athlete, not because he can't play QB.

Aggies are grasping at anything they can right now. None of our recruits are going to qualify; we can't recruit a QB so we're taking WRs; Kris Boyd's fax never came and Malik never enrolled so they can go to A&M; Merrick's dad was paying recruits to come to Texas (until they suddenly didn't come). They're scared and they're lashing out.

[The Reckoning]

Locksley had 6 passing touchdowns and 14 rushing touchdowns his senior year in high school. Locksley passed for a total of 950 yards.

Manziel passed for 3,559 yards with 44 passing touchdowns and 5 interceptions his senior year in HS. He also ran for 1,695 yards for 30 touchdowns putting him at 74 total touchdowns his senior year.

I would say there is a little bit of a difference there.

Now Locksley is Manziel . Locksley is a fine athlete as I have said but he isn't a QB. Good luck with that.

Yes there's no statistical comparison but I'm just letting you know that the shoe is on the other foot now. Texas was recruiting Manziel as a wideout and Aggies wanted him as QB. Now that Texas is recruiting a QB, you say he's a wideout. Why are you even concerned? Are you scared or something? I say give him a chance if the coaches really think he'll be that good. If the kid wants to play QB and thinks he can do it, then let him try out.

Also I watched Manziel in high school at Tivy and it was the Manziel show. He was their entire team. Locksley had more of a supporting cast IMO.

If we throw high school stats out the window for a second and just look at it from a pure development standpoint just for lolz....locksley has nearly identical specs as bridgewater out of high school.

[Blake]

You think schools passed on him because a pay site only gave him 3 stars?

Besides since when is a measly three star having a moderate college career considered a reach? You'd think only 4 or 5 stars see the field the way you make it sound.

No they passed on him because they were looking at the same thing that rivals and scout were looking at.

I never said that second sentence.

[Blake]

but muh stars

even five star guys get hurt bruh. Why is this hard for you? Aren't you an engineer?

[FkLA]

even five star guys get hurt bruh. Why is this hard for you? Aren't you an engineer?

Are you saying Brewer would've been the better player if he had stayed healthy?

Your posts suggests the way you evaluate players is to blindly go off of how many stars the sites gives a guy. There's really no reason why you should've thought Brewer was a sure bet to be better than Football. They were both great HS players.

[Blake]

Are you saying Brewer would've been the better player if he had stayed healthy?

No. Like the rest, it's an educated guess on potential. Do you understand how stars work?

Your posts suggests the way you evaluate players is to blindly go off of how many stars the sites gives a guy. There's really no reason why you should've thought Brewer was a sure bet to be better than Football. They were both great HS players.

lol I was just talking , tbh. And Brewer actually got dropped down to 3 stars tbh.

[rjv]

"If" Locksley has the work ethic he can compete to be a starting QB with 1-2 years of development - watch his film, it's not like RSJ being QB at Sealy where it is just best athlete at QB. The problem is Texas needs a guy that can compete for starting job as true frosh and the prospect that can come in at QB in year one and contribute like Murray or Allen is very rare. No scenario do I see Locksley being ready to step in and play on day 1 like Murray could.

Will be interesting to watch A&M QB situation if Murray passes on MLB as Allen looked good at end of year and as good as Murray is it will be hard to pass a guy like that with a year head start and two spring sessions under their belt. I agree with some of the A&M posters I just don't see him passing Allen as good of a player as he is it is just too much of a compe ive disadvantage and Allen is no slouch.

i prefer allen, of course. but it is nice to have murray as the back up, assuming he does not go MLB.

[FkLA]

More like a crapshoot aside from the extremely obvious, can't miss guys IMO. The star system is re ed and meant for dumb s that don't watch hudls.

If a HS guy puts up crazy production vs quality compe ion and has multiple upper-tier P5 offers like Manziel did, then he has just as much potential as anyone.

[rjv]

the point is there was no assumption anywhere that Johnny was even going to have a moderate college football career.......let alone play QB.

Pointing out Johnny's high school stats is irrelevant to what scouts believed his potential was.

If you were to put Johnny in this class, very few would believe he'd be better than Kai.

that tells me how much we overrate the scouts. i saw manziel play in high school and he was better than a three star at that time but his lack of size and disrespect the SA greater has in terms of the football talent here affected his rating. the same can be said of justin stockton. i still, to this day, have not seen any high school football player in person with the speed stockton has, and yet he was only a three star as well. had stockton or manziel gone to a houston school or dallas area school they would have been rated at four stars.

[DMX7]

that tells me how much we overrate the scouts. i saw manziel play in high school and he was better than a three star at that time but his lack of size and disrespect the SA greater has in terms of the football talent here affected his rating.

You're right about that. A lot of people knew it. And by that time, it felt like Mack was going strictly off of what Rivals thought which is probably why he passed him up.

[FkLA]

This doesn't even have anything to do with Locksley.

I just hate the star guy in recruiting threads tbh.

[DesignatedT]

Coach Rumph to Florida. Their guy from the Raiders fell through:

http://www.si.com/college-football/2...ch-chris-rumph

waiting til the recruits are signed to announce this news. I guess lying to/misleading recruits isn't apart of the core values.

[Clipper Nation]

waiting til the recruits are signed to announce this news. I guess lying to/misleading recruits isn't apart of the core values.

And Chavis was telling recruits' parents that he was staying at LSU days before he left to go cash checks at Aggy for a few years. So much for Aggy not lying or tolerating those who do.

[djohn2oo8]

waiting til the recruits are signed to announce this news. I guess lying to/misleading recruits isn't apart of the core values.

He didn't take the job.

[benefactor]

waiting til the recruits are signed to announce this news. I guess lying to/misleading recruits isn't apart of the core values.

He's was merely offered the job and he's not taking it. The reports jumped the gun.

[djohn2oo8]

[QUOTE=Clipper Nation;7817841]And Chavis was telling recruits' parents that he was staying at LSU days before he left to go cash checks at Aggy for a few years. So much for Aggy not lying or tolerating those who do.[/QUOTE]

[The Reckoning]

And Chavis was telling recruits' parents that he was staying at LSU days before he left to go cash checks at Aggy for a few years. So much for Aggy not lying or tolerating those who do.

[DesignatedT]

[Hook Em 88]

@ ChipBrownHD: I caught up with 2015 #Texas QB signee Kai Locksley (@LOCKSnLOADED_3) and learned he's a man on a mission (FREE).
http://t.co/Q8Y9Hu9ZSR

Great read on Locksley.

[DMX7]

LOL, that was a bad sequence of posts for DesignatedT.

[pgardn]

Coach Rumph to Florida. Their guy from the Raiders fell through:

http://www.si.com/college-football/2...ch-chris-rumph

defibrillator engaged and almost used...

This would have been really awful.

[benefactor]

Let's not forget that Locksley was at the Under the Lights camp with Gentry back in July. The staff has had a chance to get a good look at him in person as a passer. If they thought then that he was just a WR that stands behind the center, they would not have offered him at QB or pushed so hard to get him when Murray fell through.

[TFloss32]

CB Keivon Ramsey ended up signing with West Texas A&M.

[Blake]

More like a crapshoot aside from the extremely obvious, can't miss guys IMO. The star system is re ed and meant for dumb s that don't watch hudls.

If a HS guy puts up crazy production vs quality compe ion and has multiple upper-tier P5 offers like Manziel did, then he has just as much potential as anyone.

in your opinion, why do you think so many schools passed on Johnny and Mariota?