re: Longhorn Network helped UT land Torshiro Davis?

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what are the coaches supposed to think?

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They shouldn't have to think - they should know. We have a maximum of 25 recruits in a typical year. In the case of TD, having committed early on he was in the barn with a far smaller (and therefore more manageable) number of commits for a long time. They should know what time of day these guys take a dump, when they burp, whether they put on shoe, sock, shoe, sock, or sock, sock, shoe, shoe. Not a lot of moving parts and if they are ours they are ours to keep. If they are lost, its our bad. These things are going to happen. Still, every time it does - its on us. Just part of the job.

It's one thing to keep quiet or insinuate that you are thinking things through a little harder. It's a whole different thing to tell LSU on the phone you are committed and looking forward to coming to BR, your mother saying the same thing, doing a local interview the night before saying it on local TV, and then never calling LSU to let them know and having them find out on NSD. It's disrespectful and immature. If he would've called the LSU coaches that morning or the night before and told them he had a change of heart, this situation would be more forgiveable, but to have a realtionship for over a year with a group and then to show no respect like he did will eventually come back to haunt him. It always does. There is a business way in which people handle themselves and Davis, his mother, his head coach, and Texas all botched it in this situation.

I don't care about his decision to goto Texas, I care about how he disrespected our coahcing staff and how he straight-faced lied.

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Thoughts?

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I'd also like thoughts on what the LSU staff could have done different to land Torshiro.

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I'd also like thoughts on what the LSU staff could have done different to land Torshiro.

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1. Planted a spy within his household.
2. Use the Cam Newton tactics $$$
3. Hire someone with ESP.
4. Ankle bracelet.
5. Brainwash.

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to have a realtionship for over a year with a group and then to show no respect like he did

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But what does it say about the quality of that relationship? I know our coaches get glowing reviews from most recruits, but if we are being constructively critical of what happened here I would suggest that the relationship was not fully developed - else I would expect a tad bit more respect shown to the LSU recruiting team when the change occurred.

And I totally agree with this:

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I don't care about his decision to goto Texas

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What could they have done differently? Intel on the ground which might give them an additional barometer to sense something going awry. Coaches, other commits, local resources (parents, girlfriends?). You know what you know what you know. You don't know what you don't know - and that's what will hurt you.

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RR2 knew he was going pro before the UGA game. Everyone expected him to declare this year. THe only reason some thought he might not was becasue of the QB play late in the year and the potential with Mett coming in next year.

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I agree everyone expected him to leave but I think it was because he had no faith in the offensive gameplan long before the georgia game.

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Had LSU won the NC and the passing game been fine, he was going to the NFL, so why is everyone surprised he chose to go eventhough we lost.

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I would think him being successful against one of the best secondaries in the nation would have propelled him into the first round in most scout's eyes.

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He's 6'4, 4.4 speed, prototype build for WR in the NFL, great hands, good deep threat and coming across the middle, good blocker, good route-runner. After his pro days he will probably projected as low first-mid 2nd rounder. Going to the NFL was the right decision for him, reguardless of whether we won the NC or not.

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Most of this is just speculation on your part because most scout's are saying low 2nd at best.

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2. Should the Tx//ESPN relationship be reviewed by NCAA - Plays an obvious role in recruiting.

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obviously yes

it is an extra benefit and an incentive for kids to come to Texas

but the NCAA tend to act like whores and are reluctant to enforce a ruling that costs a member school money

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broadcasting major

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Same excuse Landon said I believe at first until we found out he was just following the poon.

programs that recruit well, like Texas, have no guarantees on playing time. He still should have been up front with the coaches especially when they were expecting ur sig on feb 1.