Heard a lot of good things about Marcus Johnson and that he has a really high ceiling. .. but yeah, he was hardly an A&M commit.
Bralon fits exactly what they do at UO. Amazing player who carried a middling team to the championship game.
So how did the recruiting class end up? Does it appear that the move to the SEC helped A&M land any top kids? No jokes....serious question.
Looks like it's going to end up in the mid to low teens for national ranking. Couple of the new commits said SEC did play a factor. Off the top of my head I recall reading an article where Pope's coach said it was a big factor in his decision. Also, when Polo made his announcement he started by saying, "I'm going to the SEC" and also said he wanted to "compete with the best". I don't think you'll start seeing the affect until the 2013 class with coach Sumlin actively selling the SEC to the junior visitors.
not really, word is that when we got Thomas Johnson who is the best wide receiver in the state, he probably wouldn't be getting much playing time so he chose Oregon.... the reason he provided was "academics" were stronger at Oregon which is ranked in the 100's:grin::grin:
Yes he was absolutely stolen at the last second but the pickup of TJ softened the blow considerably. It would've been incredible to have gotten both...
haha I would love to make a thread for Alabama here but I'm pretty sure only two posters would consistently post there. Just out of curiosity, will anybody from A&M be making the trip up to Bama in November? I'll probably be working in Birmingham so I'll have a tailgate set up for the game and we could all have some fun tailgating bama style.
He never thought about texas at all. When we used to talk about it, I told him a&m would be best for him. When he 1st talked to sherman, sherman never said he would play wr so he started to like tech more.When he started to think about being 500 miles from home,sherman got back in the picture. I was at the ut/tamu with him and his dad and that's when he thought about texas. Coach gets fired, it took tamu awhile to get a new one and the jones kid decommitted from ut. Major applewhite and mack swooped in. This isn't a 3rd person account. This is what I know 1st hand. Been knowing the kid since birth. His father and I have been good friends since 87 and played high school ball together.
I think this is pretty far from the truth ... He and Johnson are different types of recievers and Addison would have been more in the Swope role as a receiver. Supposedly Oregon got into his ear about potentially playing some QB in a "Slash" type of role. That, combined with the fact that they gave a scholly to his best friend made it a tough decision for him (that other kid doesn't deserve a scholly at all and would never get an offer from A&M). For him, he wanted to do a Journalism degree, which A&M does not have, so it is definitely possible that Academics played a role.
he wrote on twitter that his decision will be based on academics first and football second.... which makes no sense because A&M is a tier one school, and Oregon is a winning football program with jaw dropping facilities
Did you see his last sentence? Kinda hard to major in a field that doesn't exist at that particular university.
Am I reading this right? Not 1...but 2 FCS teams for the Ags next season? Weak sauce at its finest. Oh what I would give for my Bearkats to beat the ags.
