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WR Josh Reynolds, WR Ricky Seals-Jones and DE Daeshon Hall of A&M have announced they will NOT enter the NFL Draft.
I'm thinking Florida State or Ohio State here.
Highly doubtful UT is even in the conversation.
WR Josh Reynolds, WR Ricky Seals-Jones and DE Daeshon Hall of A&M have announced they will NOT enter the NFL Draft.
Man I hope they don't get Doug Meacham. It's been so fun watching the aggie meltdown over the past couple weeks but if they get meacham and finish strong in recruiting they actually could be better off then they were before all the qb transfers went down. Ironically, they are probably better off now at the QB spot and eliminated a lot of the drama there. The AD seems like he was a problem from what I was reading. Still not sure Sumlin can perform well enough in that league though.
Out of those, only Reynolds was a question I believe. It would've been dumb for the other two to leave.
24/7 reporting UT has offered DE Alton Robinson of Converse Judson.
He's been committed to A&M since June.
http://247sports.com/Player/Alton-Robinson-77877
http://www.hudl.com/athlete/3893268/alton-robinson
A&M 24/7 is saying it's done.
man i hope that isn't true. arguably landed the best two coordinators in football back to back years. I wouldn't trust that website though. Really hope they don't get him............... a&m = new powerhouse in texas get used to it................a&m just landed arguably the best oc in ncaa while he wouldn't even give texas the time of day........
Texas didn't offer Meacham.
But I'm glad we know where your allegiance lies.
Home run hire. Definitely scary. I thought the same of Chavis and he has been awful this year. Great hire nonetheless. Aggy sometimes has to be fight against something stronger than mediocre coaches and that's their culture.
2017 p.j. washington
http://www.scout.com/college/ucla/st...3dc67c5b7692f7"Texas, Cal and UCLA," Washington said, before discussing what he likes about each of those programs.
Texas: "I like how coach (Shaka) Smart is coaching everybody. They're looking nice right now."
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Maybe their AD will fly to Fort Worth to convince him? Oh wait...
Per 24/7, DE Malcolm Roach of Baton Rouge, LA will be in Austin this weekend for his official visit.
Welp...so much for the new p
I knew the name sounded familiar so I looked him up. He was on Mack's staff from 98 to 2k. I have no idea what he coached but it looks like he is a defensive minded coach.
Good luck to him and thank you TSU for not touching Traylor.
Please convince him to switch......Please......I do not know if any of you got to see Judson play the last two years, but this kid lived in the backfield. If you were at the games, #9 was consistently beating his man off the line, sometimes double teams. He was also held more, even though the refs never threw the flag, than any HS DE I have ever seen. Listening on the radio, all game long, you hear his name for a sack, tackle for loss, QB hurry, pass deflection, etc.
Now, he does need to hit the weight room, as he is slender, but he should be able to add some good muscle to that frame. One thing, he does get some stupid unsportsmanlike penalties.........but IMO, many of those stem from the fact that he is being held play after play and the refs won't make a call, so he gets frustrated.
I would love to steal Robinson and that Steele kid from A&M
Whoop Whoop Judson Rockets
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Amazing how TCU & CGP have been able to hold this staff together. Lots of money offered up to Meach & bie yet both stayed.
The asian Gilbert Gottfried
WHAT’S REALLY GOING ON AT TEXAS A&M?
Some of you have wondered why I have been reporting on developments at Texas A&M recently, and I have some source relationships connected to TAMU System chancellor John Sharp and former Gov. Rick Perry from when I covered them as statewide office holders as a news reporter for The Associated Press in Austin (1992-98).
A little more background before we get into whether Texas A&M coach Kevin Sumlin ever wanted QB Kyler Murray or was forced to take the legacy of A&M record-setting QB Kevin Murray by A&M strong arms so Kyler wouldn’t go to Texas.
Perry and Sharp were roommates at Texas A&M.
Both obviously went on to win election to statewide office – Sharp as comptroller and Perry as the longest-tenured governor in state history.
In 2011, Perry-controlled regents at A&M appointed Sharp as chancellor of the 19-member TAMU System.
And pretty much ever since, Sharp, an incredibly savvy and power-hungry politician, has been orchestrating maneuvers to make sure he is the most feared and listened-to leader connected to the A&M campus in College Station (even though Sharp oversees all 19 members of the A&M System).
When A&M celebrated the re-opening of Kyle Field after a $450 million renovation (that I’m told actually cost $520 million because of $70 million in overruns), it was Sharp front-and-center kicking off the festivities.
Not A&M president Michael Young or then-athletic director Eric Hyman.
Sharp.
To friends, Sharp referred to the renovated Kyle Field as “The House That Johnny Built” – as in Johnny Sharp.
But paying for The House That Johnny Built is going to be a different story. The $450 million price tag (and $70 million in cost overruns) is being financed by student fees, ticket sales, suite revenue, A&M’s SEC TV revenue, pledges to the 12th Man Foundation and $25 million from Bryan-College Station.
The biggest problem facing A&M as it pays off roughly $350 million bonded to the university is that most of the pledges made to help finance a big chunk of the renovation costs were made back when oil was between $80 and $107 a barrel.
Oil is now hovering around $35 a barrel.
“When did things get desperate?” one high-powered A&M source said to me. “When the price of oil went below $50 a barrel.”
Whether he was carried away with his power or overly concerned about keeping interest high in A&M football, Sharp started to micromanage Kevin Sumlin and the football program, starting a year ago at this time, sources told HD.
According to those sources, Sumlin wasn’t concerned about Kyler Murray’s flickering allegiance to A&M and growing interest in committing to the University of Texas. Why? Because Sumlin and OC Jake Spavital were excited about the future of 5-star QB Kyle Allen.
Kevin Murray wasn’t crazy about Sumlin (based on a tweet he made about A&M’s lack of defense during the 2014 season) and probably preferred Texas’ Charlie Strong.
But A&M’s strong arms – led by Sharp – weren’t OK with the idea of Kyler Murray ending up at Texas, the sources said.
The sources said Sumlin was forced to make promises of playing time to the Murray family. Ultimately, those promises and Kyler’s mother saying, “I didn’t name you ‘Kyler,’ after ‘Kyle Field’ for nothing,” helped sway Kyler Murray to sign with the Aggies.
The season – and perhaps the funding of The House That Johnny Built - turned in a home game against Alabama.
That’s when Kyle Allen threw three pick-sixes and was ultimately replaced by Kyler Murray. After Murray threw one interception (not returned for a TD), Murray was replaced by Allen. Murray was irate. Let Spavital have it, and then Murray was benched for the next game against Mississippi.
But the sources said Sharp was blowing up the phones of Sumlin and Spavital starting in the middle of the Alabama game to get Kyler Murray more involved. So when Murray was benched for the Ole Miss game – a 23-3 loss - and the following week, the A&M strong arms told Sumlin to start Murray against South Carolina the following week.
A&M won. Murray started again against Auburn (a loss) and again against Western Carolina (a win).
Kyle Allen, who didn’t play at all against South Carolina or Auburn, then started the last two games of the season against Vanderbilt and LSU as Murray failed to play a single snap in either game.
By that time, sources said, all the relationships were broken - the relationships between the QBs and coaches and between Sharp, Sumlin and Spavital.
Basically, Sumlin contends he was forced to take Kyler Murray and promise playing time, which messed things up with Allen, sources said. And then when Sharp and his strong arms didn’t like the result, they were ready to be done Sumlin and Spavital, sources said.
“The only thing that saved Kevin Sumlin was a $20 million buyout and oil at $36 a barrel,” one source told HD. “Eric Hyman was fired because he didn’t share the view of firing Sumlin.”
I reported on Dec. 17 that Sharp was exploring the possibility of terminating Sumlin’s contract – possibly even having Sumlin fired for cause. I reported then that if Hyman wasn’t on board, he could be fired, too.
But an attorney for Sumlin indicated to A&M officials if Sumlin was fired for cause, the school would be facing a discrimination lawsuit in the neighborhood of $40 million, sources said.
Sharp told San Antonio Express-News reporter Brent Zwernamen my report was a “fairy tale.”
Sharp indicated to me that A&M had a clear chain of command – that Sharp hired and fired presidents, the president hired and fired athletic directors and the AD hired and fired coaches.
But Hyman didn’t want to fire Sumlin and didn’t believe Sumlin needed to fire Spavital.
Sharp and his strong arms, however, needed a scapegoat for A&M’s 71st-ranked scoring offense (27.8 ppg) and for the QB transfers that probably never would have happened if Sumlin wasn’t forced to take Murray, sources said.
For Sharp and his strong arms it’s all about keeping the money flowing to pay off the Kyle Field renovation, which means keeping the big money at A&M happy with football and in the giving mood. So on Wednesday HD reported that Hyman's replacement as AD would be Washington athletic director Scott Woodward and that Spavital's replacement would be UCLA OC Noel Mazzone at more than $1 million per year for three guaranteed years.
The question is if Sharp and the strong arms would have been better off never getting involved in the Kyler Murray recruitment, sources said.
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Very interesting. I find the overall power structure and $ situation much more interesting than Murray.
Lets hope Sharp continues to stick his nose in everything. Now we get a better view of Sumlin's allegiance to the school if the above is true. And the lesson for UT fans is to try to hire the best man available and then step out of the way of the football end. Evaluations should not be knee jerk Djohn tirades 5 minutes after we lose a game. ( I am also guilty) Furthermore, evaluations should not only be centered around the ability to recruit a squirrelly teenager that some site has put asterisk-stars by. (And then proceeds to follow the prospect's goofy lists which change by the second on Twitter.)
Realizing this is a recruiting thread, please keep up the good work of following these squirrels... so I have stepped in it a bit ... carry on please.
* removes poop from new shoes*
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