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Re: Big time recruiting battles: Texas - Oklahoma

NMLSooner — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:15:08 -0000

TE, I'm pretty sure I read a quote on here from you being excited about the possibility of getting this kid to LSU when Bent Venables was being interviewed for the Clemson job. I just wonder if you'd be bringing up his brother if he was coming to LSU.

Re: Big time recruiting battles: Texas - Oklahoma

Porcine — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 02:14:27 -0000

Or maybe Mustain's mama wasn't quite what people thought.

Re: Big time recruiting battles: Texas - Oklahoma

1Tomcat — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:19:36 -0000

WEA that's purty funny right there-I don't care who you are. When I was that age many moons ago- Think I woulda chose the winning program with the free alcohol, naked women etc etc.
To each there own?? LOL

Re: Big time recruiting battles: Texas - Oklahoma

War_Eagle_Atlanta — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:46:35 -0000

Perhaps bring in the Chippendale's guys for him?

Re: Big time recruiting battles: Texas - Oklahoma

Jason — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:34:25 -0000

The article only states that Texas backed off. Mack Brown backing off does not imply LSU or USC doing so.

Re: Big time recruiting battles: Texas - Oklahoma

-TE- — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:03:00 -0000

The part where Mack Brown said they were backing off via e-mail, perhaps, Ron?

Re: Big time recruiting battles: Texas - Oklahoma

1Tomcat — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 13:38:54 -0000

Na man, they have installed a timeclock now-

Re: Big time recruiting battles: Texas - Oklahoma

1Tomcat — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 13:34:40 -0000

WEA He made his choice and momma's happy right.
The last time we heard this much stuff about a recruit choosing between Texas & other schools the recruit chose LSU and LSU has since cut the guy. Maybe your right a bunch of fuss over nothing, they are afterall just kids and maybe Mamma knows best.
Although he will probably regret his decision after Texas beats OU repeatedly year after year-LOL
Hookem-Horns
PS maybe he doesnt like girls sitting in his lap??or free alcohol and victory parties with topless & bottomless hotties
He chose the team that needs him the most, after all the Sooners are going to need all the help they can get .

Re: Big time recruiting battles: Texas - Oklahoma

OU_Ron — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 21:02:32 -0000

TE, show me in the article where it said the other coaches backed off, it said Texas backed off because of implied wrong doing by Texas on the internet....and only then so they could document their recruiting process...where at in the article ???

Re: Big time recruiting battles: Texas - Oklahoma

-TE- — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 20:28:16 -0000

The other three coaches backed off, according to the article itself...

The same cannot be said...at all.

Re: Big time recruiting battles: Texas - Oklahoma

OU_Ron — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:53:38 -0000

You could be right, but the same thing could be said about the other 3 coaches, they were all after him like a dog in heat..right ?

Re: Big time recruiting battles: Texas - Oklahoma

hrposon — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:20:05 -0000

No one is going mistake this kid for Myron Rolle.
He needs to talk to someone that can give him some good advice. Apparently Stoops didn't think of that or he didn't listen.
He just put himself under the microscope. Time will tell.

Re: Big time recruiting battles: Texas - Oklahoma

OU_Ron — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 15:42:34 -0000

Just personal preference, between hostess lap sitting, offer to be on the presidents leadership class, taking a tour in a stretch limo, or partying down with topless and bottomless girls, I'd probably be a Longhorn ;-)

Re: Big time recruiting battles: Texas - Oklahoma

War_Eagle_Atlanta — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 15:13:56 -0000

She's only got one last shot at straightening out her brood, even if it is a Hail Mary with JaMarcus...

But, we will have no part of girls sitting in laps. That could lead to dancing...

Anyone else get a giggle over Stoops setting the table, finishing off a plate of ribs, then enjoying a screeening of Beauty Shop? I guess for $4M a year, that's part of the deal...

It's disturbing how much attention is laid on these 18 year olds. Guess they better enjoy it while they can...

Re: Big time recruiting battles: Texas - Oklahoma

OU_Ron — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 15:03:56 -0000

Spoken like a true Texan...

Re: Big time recruiting battles: Texas - Oklahoma

-TE- — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 14:49:35 -0000

You don't talk out of school, Ron...

Like I said earlier...You've got a son in jail for conspiracy to commit murder, but you're telling folks LSU had hostesses sitting in recruits' laps (I'm SURE that doesn't happen anywhere else, LOL) offended you and gave you the wrong impression?

Ron, that's pure idiocy on your part if you're the mother, and it tells you a lot about the person giving the quotes, as well as what level of credence you can give to the advice she gives...

Look, congrats on getting JaMarcus...Be careful what you ask for, though, Ron...

Re: Big time recruiting battles: Texas - Oklahoma

hrposon — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 14:01:30 -0000

Sounds like he's already been to Big Red Sports / Imports...

Re: Big time recruiting battles: Texas - Oklahoma

OU_Ron — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 13:37:20 -0000

" Lord hope he never faces LSU..."
Why TE, because he said recruiting hostesses was sitting in recruits laps, a little extreme, don't you think.......sure there's not another reason...

Re: Big time recruiting battles: Texas - Oklahoma

-TE- — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:35:25 -0000

Let me say this...He will be a marked man in the state of Texas, as will his parents.

The Red River Shootout is going to be a terrible game for him, yearly...

Lord hope he never faces LSU...

There's some things you just don't do, lest someone accuse of not having good sense...

There's an old Italian proverb that says, "The fish either swims-or rots-from the head."

Much like my Gump brethren's namesake, "That's all I have to say about that."

Re: Big time recruiting battles: Texas - Oklahoma

Tommy_Trojan — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 01:52:30 -0000

OU_Ron:

That's it - Oklahoma is gonna have several other good DT's wanting that job. It's not gonna be any cakewalk getting a starting position at Oklahoma. Either way Oklahoma is gonna be just fine also. We had the #1 Tight End (Morrell Pressley) verbally commited and he changed his mind and went with UCLA. Claimed that Norm Chow was gonna lead him to the promised land. Problem is: UCLA doesn't have any QB's and haven't had one since Cade McNown left. The fact is: he really doesn't want to compete with the other Tight Ends and would rather have a job handed to him. If I were a TE, I think I'd rather have guys like Sanchez, Mustain, Corp and Barkley heavin' the rock at me than whatever UCLA is gonna put on the field. Again, it doesn't matter at all, and the guy will become a non-entity in the PAC 10. Oh, he might make the Pro's, but he'll never have an impact on a USC-UCLA game. In fact, no matter who our TE is, he'll always make more grabs than the UCLA TE ever will.

Re: Big time recruiting battles: Texas - Oklahoma

OU_Ron — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 23:02:50 -0000

Tommy, no one knows how much of that story is real, it might be all true, half true, or none at all........the fact remains that there was some pretty damn good schools that was after him...if it works out...great, if it don't, I bet we still field a good team, as I said before, time will tell.....

Re: Big time recruiting battles: Texas - Oklahoma

Tommy_Trojan — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 22:20:29 -0000

OU_Ron:

I probably would think that it was okay. But, the momma thing has me a little leary. We took Mustain and he has worked out though. Hazelton's daddy was a joke. Vidal Hazelton caught fifty balls as a soph (in 2006) - but could not get open deep. Ronald Johnson came in and his speed was very apparent. He did stretch the defense. Going into 2007 Hazelton was still a starter, but got injured (badly sprained ankle), and Johnson emerged as a spectacular deep threat. Hazelton wasn't healing fast enough, Damian Williams emerged as a 3rd recieving threat, and Hazelton's daddy started blaming the trainer's for not getting his boy healed up fast enough. He actually portrayed it as if we kept him hurt so that he couldn't get to play. Eventually Hazelton asked to redshirt because he could not get his job back. Coach Carroll refused and I don't blame him. Had he relented, we would have lost all three of the top recievers after the 2010 season (Damian Williams, Ronald Johnson and Vidal Hazelton), and that had just happened after the 2006 campaign and was just too much to overcome. Hazelton's daddy talked him into transferring, rather than fighting to get his job back, and now Hazelton is considering Missouri and Illinois I believe. The guy could not get open as a 2nd and 3rd reciever here - and now he thinks that he's gonna go and be a # 1 somewhere else. He'll draw all the double teams and never be open. It was a real bad move on his daddy's part.

Ron, I was seventeen years old and wanted to join the Army, and although my parents did not think it was a smooth move - they signed the paperwork. A year later I was in Viet Nam. I learned everything in those three years. To hear about how these guys momma's are cryin' because they can't decide what "life of luxury" they want for their boy to have - just kinda rubs me the wrong way. There are some real tough decisions in life. These young men need to start deciding some things for themselves. I'm glad that Oklahoma got a good recruit and I'm not envious in the least. It just spells trouble when the parents are actually trying to control where a young man needs to carve out his own way. Don't be too surprised if there aren't problems here, when Shipp and Stoops, actually expect for this young man to work for his job. We all know the drill here. Once these guys are all signed up - it gets real different out there on that practice field. There isn't gonna be any cryin' to momma on that day. And coach Shipp isn't gonna be e-mailing momma everyday either.

Re: Big time recruiting battles: Texas - Oklahoma

OU_Ron — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 21:34:43 -0000

You can bet if he would have chose USC, Texas, or LSU, They would all be talking about what a stud this guy is and what a great catch he is...

Re: Big time recruiting battles: Texas - Oklahoma

Tommy_Trojan — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 21:27:15 -0000

Kevin:

I have no doubt that Southern Cal has seen his potential. All we're really doing right now is judging what the upside might be. He's rated # 1 because his upside could be spectacular. Doesn't mean that he's gonna achieve it though. Many others will excede expectations. It's all a crapshoot right now. It's hard for us to get kids out of Texas anyway. We've gotten a couple - but generally they are going to Texas or Oklahoma anyway. Sounded like he might have wanted to come and play with the best - but momma knows otherwise.

Re: Big time recruiting battles: Texas - Oklahoma

Kevin @ Fanblogs — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 21:09:42 -0000

There's all kinds of talk any time a school loses a big recruit to a rival. 99.995% of the time there's nothing to it. Time will tell, I suppose.