Texas Football Top 500

[Stallion]

41. Alan Ali
57. Matthew Huhn
76. Elijah McQueen
139. Delano Robinson
141. Hayden Howerton
146 Kayce Medlock
152. Toby Ndukwe
162. Armani Johnson
194. Austin Upshaw
202. Justin Guy Robinson
206. Jordan Gipson
207. Shaine Hailey
220. Judah Bell
225. Harrison Loveless
227. Tyler Page

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Other-Decommits*
25. Charlie Brewer-Baylor
68. Tristen Ebner-Baylor
110. Noah Jones-Houston
127. Cade Brewer-Texas
209. Tyquez Hampton-Utah
226. Will McBride-Tennessee
358. Carson Green-Texas A&M

* All Decommits have made a major Texas Top 100

There will likely be approximately 385+ Texas High School Seniors that sign in this Class

This is actually closer to where Ali and Huhn were rated during most of the recruiting year until they committed to G5 schools and started dropping. We'll take them anyway

http://www.texasfootball.com/dave-campb ... exas-2017/

[smusic 00]

It's like Christmas Eve.

[mrydel]

Did we lose Ali? I notice the teary eyed guy.

[smupony94]

Did we lose Ali? I notice the teary eyed guy.

[mrydel]

Yay

[Charleston Pony]

Did we lose Ali? I notice the teary eyed guy.

3rd guy to get his paperwork in today. Appears he was solid from day one!

[mrydel]

Teary eyed guy went away

[JoeKidd]

Really like the O-line and I think we will find some players in the DB signees. Was really disappointed about not filling the LB need better....we have to find a couple of transfers/juco guys here still.

[Pony81]

This question is for Stallion:
Given our 5-7 season, does this class meet your expectations?

I'm frankly disappointed we didn't have a top 2 AAC class. Great staff, great recruiting area, great academics ....... Horrible fan support.

You follow this closer than anyone on this board so your thoughts are much appreciated .

[sbsmith]

I'm frankly disappointed we didn't have a top 2 AAC class. Great staff, great recruiting area, great academics ....... Horrible fan support.

Other schools in the conference have great staffs and great recruiting areas plus most of them have better fan support. It shouldn't be that surprising that we finished mid-pack.

[Dwan]

This is an ok class. No bad, not good. On field product hurt, but the real issue was the trickle down effect of top Texas players leaving the big 12 and Texas and Baylor looking to fill their classes quickly resulted in some guys getting offers to Big 12 schools that in years past we could have hung onto. Without question this is our most impressive list of decommits since the DP. Progress

[gostangs]

we have been poor or average for 30 years. We will get better fan support when we do better.

[Stallion]

actually the history of SMU Football shows we'll get better players when we get better fans

SMU fans make this job twice as hard

Mustang Mania came BEFORE Dickerson/James-BEFORE winning at all. SMU has never in its history built a conference football championship before first having strong fan support. That's a little fantasy that people that don't understand SMU football- keep throwing out there

[Charleston Pony]

actually the history of SMU Football shows we'll get better players when we get better fans

SMU fans make this job twice as hard

Mustang Mania came BEFORE Dickerson/James-BEFORE winning at all. SMU has never in its history built a conference football championship before first having strong fan support. That's a little fantasy that people that don't understand SMU football keep throwing out there

and coach Morris alluded to that by pleading with those in attendance to come out and watch Courtland Sutton play next year while mentioning how important it is for players to have fan support

[SoCal_Pony]

actually the history of SMU Football shows we'll get better players when we get better fans

SMU fans make this job twice as hard

Mustang Mania came BEFORE Dickerson/James-BEFORE winning at all. SMU has never in its history built a conference football championship before first having strong fan support. That's a little fantasy that people that don't understand SMU football- keep throwing out there

I was there and agree.

I've always felt it was a waste of funds to do another Mustang Mania campaign if your end-product stunk. This is not the case now. Team should be entertaining and competitive.

Now is the perfect time to launch MM2. SMU desperately needs it given its weak home schedule. To do nothing means a team that probably goes bowling, has anemic crowds (I can see securing a bowl bid at a home game with 15k in the stands), and then a year from now recruit a class only slightly better than this one.