Texas Longhorns recruiting is primed for an exciting finish
You follow football recruiting professionally long enough, and you get a sense of when the dam is about to break.
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Well, yesterday’s decommitment of Denton Ryan linebacker Anthony Hill from Texas A&M is one of those moments.
On the heels of a Texas win in Manhattan combined with a blowout Aggie loss at home in Jimbo Fisher’s fifth year in College Station, the worm appears to be turning. Recruits have seen enough.
Whether that’s Hill or any other Aggie recruit, or a player like Colton Vasek who the Horns have worked overtime trying to get into the fold and away from Oklahoma, Texas is starting to break through.
And while doing so, Texas is once again garnering momentum as we head into the final month before December’s national signing day.
I don’t know all of what the next month holds for Texas. Some of that will depend on how this week of news transpires and this weekend of official and unofficial visits plays out. But I get the distinct feeling that Texas is going to finish recruiting stronger than you may have reasonably expected just a couple of weeks ago.
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Texas needs difference makers. There’s no other way to put it.
Whether that’s at linebacker, edge or any other position, it doesn’t matter.
But that’s not all the Horns need.
Texas also must continue to improve team depth.
With the freshman class that just signed, stacking another class on top of it will start to give Texas the elite depth they have lacked for far too long (since the late oughts, really).
The lack of depth has been a real issue at Texas this year in the secondary. In previous years, it’s been an issue on the OL, at LB, etc.
Keep in mind, even a good recruiting class may not immediately improve a team’s depth because they are freshman; those guys need experience to create valuable depth. But this is all part of the process of building a better team and program over the long haul.
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With three-quarters of the regular season complete, which Longhorn players do you think deserve all-conference accolades?
Here’s my list:
1st team
RB Bijan Robinson
TE JT Sanders
DL Keondre Coburn
LB Jaylan Ford
2nd team
WR Xavier Worthy
OL Kelvin Banks
CB Ryan Watts
In the conference overall, you have to think TCU QB Max Duggan would be a near shoe-in for player of the year if the voting occurred today.
