Current Recruiting Update

[JasonB]

Feel free to add more information if you have it .

Right now, these are the scholarships (we only have 18 to give, 12 are taken):

Jared Romo
QB
6-2, 210
Antelope Valley Calf, JUCO

Jessie Henderson Jr.
RB
5'8, 165. 4.4
Rivals 2 star
Rivals ranking 5.4
All purpose back
Number 93 in Rivals Texas top 100
Number 89 in Insiders Texas top 100
No other offers - recruited early

Foy Munlin
RB
5'11, 236
Aggieland Bench Press top 100.
Very good RB/FB, transfer from TT

DeMyron Martin
RB
6'1, 195, 4.5
Rivals 2 star, 5.1 rating.
Tore it up this year after injury Junior.
Offers from NM St, SMU, Tulsa

Andrew McKinney
FB
6'3, 230, 4.5
Rivals 2 star
Rivals rating 5.3
No other offers, committed in July.

Bobby Chase
WR
6'4, 195, 4.6
Brother of Vincent Chase.
JUCO recruit.

Devin Lowery
WR
5'11, 170
JUCO recruit.
All-state in HS.

Vincent Chase
TE
Rivals 3 star
Rivals rating 5.6
6'5, 243, 4.7
Rivals 13th best tight end in the country
Number 50 in Rivals texas top 100
Number 69 in Insiders Texas top 100
Offers from Florida, K State, LSU,
Nebraska, Oklahoma, Syracuse,
Wisconsin

Dominic Pryor
DE, FR
6-4, 240
Walk-on put on scholarship this year.

Jonathan Lindley
CB
Rivals 2 star
Rivals Rank 5.4
5'10, 170, 4.42
Insiders #40 in Texas
Offered by Baylor, UTEP.
Committed early, in June.

Charles Akinyemi
CB
5'8, 195, JR
Transfer from air force.
Expected to push for starting position

Wilton McCray
Athelete
6-1, 185, 4.5
Rivals 2 star
Rivals 5.0 Rating
No offers other than SMU.
Played LB in high school; probably saftey.

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Good recruits (future starters):
Henderson
Munlin
Lindley
Vincent Chase
Solid recruits:
McKinney
Unknowns:
Romo
Bobby Chase
Lowery
Pryor
Akenyemi
Less regarded:
McCray
Martin

Ships left: 1 WR, 1 OG, 1 C, 1 DE, 1 DT,
1 S/CB/Ath

JUCOs/Transfers: 5 (must be a record)

Rating: There are some solid players, but a whole lot of unknowns could turn into gold or absolutely nothing. This is a class that could produce anywhere from 4 future starters to 9 or 10. The fact that no offense or defensive linemen have committed yet has to be dissappointing, but at least on the defensive side of the line we are after some solid players.

[Dooby]

I'd probably put Martin in the "Unknown" category. Had close to 2,000 rushing yards in 4A. Injury last season is what dampened his recruiting because he was an unknown. He does have a visit scheduled to A&M. There was supposed interest from TCU.

[Stallion]

Martin could well be the jewel of the Class-he played in 5A not 4A and had about 1995 yards (the DMN was not up to date) and averaged 9.5 ypc. The recent reports on him have him perhaps sneaking into the Texas Top 100-the only reason for the low ratings was because he was hurt last year. BTW according to a quote of Martin on the Insiders Martin was offered by TCU and the Aggies set up an official visit. Martin's Head Coach indicated the week before his final game that he was being bombarded by inquires about Martin from across the country-and Martin did nothing to dissuade that in his final game with 188 yards on only 22 carries. He ranks with the better RB recruits we've committed since the DP.

<small>[ 12-16-2003, 01:06 PM: Message edited by: Stallion ]</small>

[JasonB]

Okay, sounds like he is more of a solid recruit. I was just trying to play things on the conservative side.

We still have a ton of unknowns in the class. I don't think this class measures up to last year, but it might measure up to be about the same as the first class Bennett had.

Getting the WR and TE help is a real plus. What remains to be seen is if we can close on some good linemen.

[crazy horse]

Thanks for posting the list.

I have a question regarding Lowery. Where did he play JUCO ball? I thought I had read that he hadn't played anywhere this past year.

Thanks in advance for the info.

[Stallion]

he never played JUCO-he sat out last year to qualify.

[Dooby]

Originally posted by Stallion:
he never played JUCO-he sat out last year to qualify.

Does this make him a "grey shirt"-is that the term?

[GoRedGoBlue]

Gray shirt is when they enroll in January but count on this years allotment, not next.

I could be wrong.

Seems to me that Texas signed 27 on Feb 15th, but only had 25 to give, so two guys enrolled the following January...hmm. That would count against the following year's class (and you'd hope for attrition from your sucky players to get back to 25).

Could be like backdating a check... say if in 2003 signing day we only had 22 available, but then the following year 27 graduated...well we can only give out 25, but we are then 2 under the 85 limit, so we can gray shirt them back against that year's allotment.

Seems to me it would work more like post-dating a check, not backdating it...

ANYONE?

[McAndless]

I think Martin is similar to Merrill at TCU, which if he is, we have ourselves a very good RB. To me, he is the most intriguing commitment yet. Pure speculation, but I just hope we can keep him down the stretch.

[Stallion]

he could count on last years but it really doesn't matter because we are only 18-19 under the 85 man limit. So we can't take more than 25 anyway.

[Dooby]

Add Blackmon to the list. That gives us 5 scholarships remaining. One will be a QB. I don't know about the other four.

[JasonB]

Picking up the new corner to me says we will not pick up another saftey.

I see us as 1 WR/QB, 1 C/OG, 1 OT, 1 DE, 1 DT. The rest of the focus should be on linemen. With the JUCO pickup, I don't see the need for another QB. He might not be the strongest recruit, but the experience is important and the young QBs are going to be good.

[Dooby]

My understanding was that we will be recruiting another QB. Bennett doesn't want what's happened at the QB position over the last 2 years to ever happen again.

[k pony]

Tony Eckert