Oof, good catch. Somehow I had Crawford grouped with the Tulane guys.
So yes you’re correct with hs commits:
5 carryovers
2 Tulane flips
5 new recruits
At the debut press conference CWF said that we’d see an uptick in hs recruiting based on what we were doing under the last guy, but I’m not sure what ratio he has in mind.
C’mon now, I can see a truly “great” class at UH being rated somewhere in the top 35-40 range unless & until UH is able to fund a highly competitive NIL program and has won 10+ games in the Big 12.
Truthfully with UT & OU leaving, a top 20-25 class is not likely for anyone in the new Big 12 next year, or anytime soon, unless maybe Colorado or Utah can really step it up.
So Texas Tech with a 25 year head start (over UH) in the Big 12 (with an extra $500 million for athletics funding) and a far superior NIL program (compared to UH) is still barely clinging to the #25 spot this year.
And so it remains to be seen what happens to them in the post UT & OU world. And it will take several more years for UH to try to close our huge athletics funding gap. Our first full distribution of media rights is still 2 years away and our athletic ticket sales revenues lags far behind schools like Texas Tech and Oklahoma State.