TE Lake McRae from Lake Travis - Has offers from Arizona, Arizona State, Arkansas, Baylor, Purdue, TCU, Texas, Tulsa, North Texas, and UTSA
https://twitter.com/lake_mcree/status/1124708222391205888
https://247sports.com/Player/Lake-McRee-46076726/
OT Matthew Wykoff from Magnolia - Has offers from SMU and Tulsa
https://twitter.com/WykoffMatthew/status/1128430394376884236
https://247sports.com/player/matthew-wykoff-46080998/
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4* WR Billy Bowman Jr from Denton - Has 18 other offers already
https://twitter.com/Billy2Bowman/status/1128781973663756290
https://247sports.com/Player/Billy-Bowman-46048695/
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4* DE JaāTavion Sanders from Denton - Offers from Arkansas, Baylor, Florida, FSU, Georgia, LSU, Mizzou, Notre Dame, Ohio State, OU, Oklahoma State, Purdue, TCU, Texas, A&M, Texas Tech, Washington, and SMU
https://twitter.com/Jatavionsanders/status/1129825059319762944
https://247sports.com/Player/JaTavion-Sanders-46058800/
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WR Isaiah Brevard from Southaven, MS - Has offers from Ole Miss, Arkansas, Duke, Georgia Tech, Georgia, Indiana, Louisville, Mississippi St, Memphis, Tulane and Southern Miss
https://twitter.com/BrevardIsaiah/status/1136369108168126465
https://247sports.com/Player/Isaiah-Brevard-46079432/
4* OG Bryce Foster from Katy Taylor - Has 22 other offers from a variety of P5 programs.
https://twitter.com/brycefoster2021/status/1138809966641451008
https://247sports.com/Player/Bryce-Foster-46037122/
Got oneā¦trying to get another
WR Landen King from Atascocita - Has an offer from TSU
https://twitter.com/Landen_King3/status/1137485015900721152
https://247sports.com/Player/Landen-King-46057581/
Athlete Brandon Epton Jr from Dallas - Offer from Illinois
https://twitter.com/beptonjr/status/1139727760404942848
https://247sports.com/Player/Brandon-Epton-Jr-46079105/
Jerand Bradley of JPII in Plano received an offer yesterday at a camp.
6ā5ā 190 WR with offers from Colorado, Nebraska and Arkansas. My nephew is a junior OT at JPII blocking for Jerand.
I like that size!
Itās nice to see us offering all these kids who already have tons of offers from teams like LSU, Bama, Ou, Notre Dame, Georgia, Ohio State, etc. But how many of them have any interest in UH other than piling up offers to stroke their own egos?
Part of the casting a wide net I guess. Offers are a no lose proposition, throw them out and if one of those big fish strikes on the hook thatās awesome. If not thereās no loss.
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https://twitter.com/jbradley_9/status/1142576128252497920
https://247sports.com/player/jerand-bradley-46059409/
Dual Threat QB Lucas Coley from Converse Judson - offers from ULL and SHSU
https://twitter.com/LucasColeyQB/status/1142510865016639490
https://247sports.com/Player/Lucas-Coley-46058299/
Another Friday Night Tyke.
The broad net we are casting for bigger fish excites me after all the years of fishing for the big schoolās culls. I remember many years looking at the Chronicle Top 100 and seeing few players committed to UH. Weāve done well coaching up our talent but talent makes a huge difference. If we want to be a ābigger programā we need to be fishing for better quality players. No one knows what leads a player to decide to come or when those higher quality players may make a decision to come to UH. But, landing a couple may well make all the difference in our program over their years at UH. Having 4-5* players with 4-3* depth behind greatly increases our chances on the field. This also leads to it being more acceptable for other high quality players to come to the UH.
Specifically, Iāve often wondered why we didnāt seem to recruit my old high school North Shore. I worked in the district for years and kept up with the high school even later through family who attended and played there. Few UH coaches evidently ever made a play for the top NS players or even came by on a regular basis. Meanwhile, the cow college, the farmers and even LSU raided the top players.
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Herman was working on North Shoreā¦then he left. Hologrsen has already made it a point to hit North Shore heavily.
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It seems to be all about confidence, something neither Herman nor Holgerson are lacking. Thereās such a strong pitch to be made about staying home and playing in front of your friends and family that the only reason I can think of that other coaches didnāt try was fear of failure/rejection.
I remember when Tom Penders refused to recruit Yates high school. I could never figure out why, other than that he was from the northeast and thatās where his contacts were. James Dickey (of all people) came in and immediately got Joe Young (if I recall that timeline correctly). Sometimes you just need to try.
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Penders did go after Joe Young, but wouldnāt accept the Michael Young part of the deal so Joe went to Providence if I remember right. As soon as Penders was let go, Dickey brought on Michael and Joe came home. Penders just wouldnāt play around with deals like that; the famous Deandre Jordan episode with Byron Smith ended up in Pendersā bookā¦Jordan wanted to play for Houston, but only if Penders brougth Byron Smith alongā¦Penders said no so they went to A&M instead.
But, football is a different game. I agree, I think thereās an expectation on how to recruit Houston and Iām not sure some of our head coaches were very good at doing that. Helton was awful at itā¦ended up turning a lot of local coaches off to UH. Briles was able to come in and at least mend some of those fences, Sumlin did a good job as well as he wasnāt afraid. Levine did a pretty good job as well, but the losses ended up turning folks offā¦even still, he brought in a lot of underrated talent. Herman made it his calling cardā¦Applewhite wasnāt into it that much and tried to focus on finding guys all over Texas instead.
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