Herman offered 3 UH commits over a 6 day period and 1 has decommitted since the dead period started.
Daniel Young - Dec 8 (decommit)
Marqez Bimage - Dec 11
Bryson Smith - Dec 6
The most interesting part of the Bryson Smith offer was that UT already had a much higher dual threat QB committed. Three days later that QB (Sam Ehlinger) went for his first official visit to UT since June. I’m curious the B.S. Herman landed on him when explaining why he offered another QB.
Now it’s officially 2 out of 3. I would understand if it was after an official visit, but two down during the dead period tells me that they are still being actively recruited.
For the ones that say “decommits happen” during a coaching change, where are UT’s decommits? LSU hasn’t had a decommit since the dead period started. Neither has UCF had that problem.
Can someone please give me an example this year of another school losing 3 commits since the dead period started on the 14th?
During a coaching transition, you should expect decommitments. The one time it didn’t happen much was when Levine took over in '11-'12, but then Sumlin didn’t go after any of our commits. We lost a 5-9 DB from California, a DB from Fort Bend who had been talking about decommitting for a month or two, an offensive lineman with whom we wanted to part ways, a linebacker who has never been solid, and a RB. That’s very typical. If we were looking to replace them with no-names it may be worrisome, but actually the players we have coming in for visits and feel good about signing, (e.g., this guy) http://247sports.com/Player/Bryan-Jones-87295
are very good prospects.
247 is ALWAYS going to favor the P5 program. I have been told we feel good about our chances. Doesn’t mean we’ll get him, but we might. The warm and cool stuff can change overnight, and the other guys are really good prospects.But we don’t have 10 open slots, only about six or so.
Well it’s definitely taking a hit. You can’t go from that clown Herman to Applewhite and not lose some ground. Even if Herman stayed I believe the recruiting would not have been as strong as last year. That’s why I really hope Major does a great job and some consistency can be established. Every year won’t be amazing, but you won’t have your former coach leaving and going after recruits to your school. Yes, it has and will take a hit and lose some ground. But I believe we will still have a very good year.
I think we lose at least two more recruits out of our remaining commits - Sanogo and Ogbonnaya. Since the coaching change, Sanogo hasn’t really had anything to do with UH on his twitter account and it probably wasn’t a good sign when he retweeted Daniel Young’s UT announcement yesterday. He’s got an Ole Miss offer, but I think he really wants that UT offer that they haven’t given him yet.
Ogbonnaya is another one that hasn’t had anything to do with UH since the staff left and he laughed at someone that tried to get him to pump the Coogs just the other day. His offers aren’t fantastic, so he may stay, but I think he’ll probably leave.
I think we have a good chance at keeping the rest of the class beyond those two.