wrote up the D Scott recruitment a year ago. Apparently their sports department is as biased as their political department. What a load of shit.

so he chose OU because of better academics and because they dont party as hard?

Maybe sour grapes… he seems like a good kid but there is so much double talk and back and forth in this article it’s ridiculous. They don’t like Texas because they didn’t contact him enough, then they almost didn’t visit because they were contacting him too much.

He is uncomfortable with the parties of excess in Dallas, yet almost commits to USC after the overt display of excess there.

The strength program at Texas isn’t very good and isn’t the best way to do it…. really?? O-r-a-k-p-o?

Anyone think Mack’s comment about his house was to be taken seriously?? I mean really folks come on.

And I’m sure he’ll have less trouble with race issues in Norman than in Austin right?

Again the kid seems like he has his head on straight but cut the cord. It doesn’t appear he made this decision – his mom and grandmother did.

On a side note I’m sure Bob Stoops has Beauty Shop in his Top 10 list.

I really wanted him to come to Texas BUT after reading that NY TImes article, I’m not so sure. I guess could just be sour grapes for me but there is something about that article that just doesn’t sit right. In the end, sounds like the kid really wanted to come to Texas but was influenced by his family…good for him and I hope he is successful except when play one specific team on a particiular Saturday each October. In the end though, he could have played for and been coached by Will Muschamp…might end up being one of the best defensive coachs in a long time.

pervert, but if i was 18 or 19 years old again and was invited to parties with overly attractive girls taking off their tops and bottoms while being “friendly with each other” I would say “Sign me up” strange how perspectives change…and sometimes they stay the same.

get out, and stay there. I will always wish well for Russel Shepard, I even wished well for Adrian Peterson. I’m a big Sam Bradford fan. But, this Jamarcus McFarland and his mom has shown to be piece of sh&t.

“girls romancing each other”

Rivals just confirmed it. He is off to OU…I didn’t really see any surprises there..especially after his mom’s complete 180..

they actually do catch some dirty dealing between OU recruiting and his mom. they tried hard not to get sued for slander in the article.

And if we can sober the sonofabitch up, we’ll get to the bottom of this.

Is I hope he has a very disappointing college career and is forced to make due with that fabulous OU degree.

dude if his mom talk to the press like that you can imagine how his career in texas and. How it would have been with her always talking to the press

Fuck McFarland who needs him anyways. Yeah yeah yeah I know he was the states best DT, but who says he was going to be that great at the college level fuck him and his family!

Damn i sure hope he can pop his moms tit outta his mouth and cut the cord. What kinda bitch crys to his momma cause he has a tough choice to make. Pretty sure thats not the kind of player i want on this team.

Some of the details in the NYT article, when combined with the “informed source” account in the Barking Carnival, suggest an interesting and ironic scenario. It seems the informed source was only partially informed, although the bottom line (we backed off McFarland’s recruitment) was right.

Everybody will form their own impression and mine is that a bright, hard working kid is getting manipulated and pushed in a direction he doesn’t want to go. Aside from the second hand comments in the paper he supposedly wrote for a class, all the information is coming from the mother. It is obvious (to me at least) that she is the real story here.

Other than a couple of points there isn’t really anything disturbing or earth shattering here. This isn’t the first time a high profile recruit or one of his family members hasn’t connected with our program and it won’t be the last. This sad situation certainly doesn’t call for a post mortum re-evaluation of our recruiting system.

personally i think the only thing i’m concerned with is perhaps the laissez-faire approach taken with mcfarland’s recruitment. it seems to me when you have a 5* recruit, no matter how much he wants to come to your school, you should still be putting in time and effort into recruiting both the player and the family, in this case the mother and grandmother. if texas had taken the time to woo them over, we wouldn’t have just gotten cockblocked by clearly the two biggest influences in his life…

i understand mack brown’s “i want players who want to play at texas.” he doesn’t think that people need to be convinced.. but this is likely why we land a 5* out of state prospect once every 5 years, we don’t take the time and effort into the recruitment process other than leaning on kids to commit at the beginning.

i wonder what darrell scott has to say on the article and how close it resembles his own decision.

45-35. OU sucks. McFarland, as of this announcement, has made the decision to put himself in that suckitude as well.

Mobilehoma is a fucken joke, without Texas next door their team wouldn’t be shit. They should just rename the team the North Texas Sooners. Yeah and fuck you McFarland didn’t know you swung the other way, I know I sure wouldn’t be complaining if their was some nice titties in my face in Dallas. Go choke you son of a bitch!

As physically gifted and talented as McFarland is, when athletes move up the tiers from HS to College, then the Pros they play against other athletes who have very similar physical capabilities. The biggest difference between all-stars and pro-bowlers becomes the differences in the gray matter between their ears. It sounds like this JM kid will be quite challenged there, and Texas is better off not having him for that reason.

Whether or not he’s a momma’s boy, a self-centered publicity hound, a schizophrenic who can demean OU in one breath and dog UT in the next or enjoy a debaucherous party when he’s in the middle of it, then be offended by it later, JM’s obviously a head case. And UT needs him next season exactly why?

I say don’t let the door hit him on the ass on the way out of Texas. Good riddance. McCoy & Co. will have a lot of fun torching him and the rest of the dirt burglars in 2009. I would say just winning is the best revenge. But that would imply JM was worth being vengeful over, and the insight the NYT’s piece gave shows he clearly ain’t. OU loses more on the field and in their locker room than they win by signing him.

As whills says, some people are sniffing around and critical thinkers have already cast enormous doubt on a lot of details spewed out by his mother. We can be mad about that. However, the mere fact he chose OU shouldn’t make people start cursing him. He’s just 18, and he wants to play football at a good football program. OU, like us, has a good football program. It is what it is.

I’m not mad about him choosing OU; if he feels better at that place, that’s fine. You can’t please everyone. However, the fact that his mother and this moron NY times reporter from OU are trying to smear Texas is just garbage. Yes, the likes of Colt McCoy go to parties like that ALL THE TIME, right? And are they really going to try to make us believe that even if their description of that party is accurate, that these same parties do not occur at Oklahoma? It’s freaking college. You can make a decision to go to these parties or not. I’m still in college and I have chosen not to because it’s not my style. Just don’t go. It’s not that hard.

    Once read that when OU gets away with recruiting violations it is looked at by them as winning. The embarrassment should be by a school/alumi that paid players to not work, star RB drove a Lexus until caught (from the same dealership) and has the university president get directly involved in recruiting. Same president has been known to call off classes after a football win.
   Same school named a building after a coach that once said “it wasn’t a machine gun it was only a hand gun.” when speaking of football players firing guns off their dorm roof. Shortly there after Parks shot his roommate. Ah the pride of Oklahoma. Sure doesn’t take much to be prideful there does it.
   This story reeks of half truths and down right lies.
The ironic thing the last month has been OU, a university where a football stadium is surrounded by crayons, was left to count on an obscure rule to help them advance. A rule that only existed in the Big 12.
   Yes, I am sure that as an OU guest he attended a Texas party. Right. Just after Brown bragged about his house. I am so looking forward to another heart warming story of J-Mac’s brother being released from prison to finally get to watch him play, just like AP’s daddy.

Man, I really liked “J-Mac” until I saw this article. The kid still seems okay, but the mother and grandmother sound like walking hatchet wounds.

Yet he worried what an Oklahoma degree would mean for landing a job in Texas.

Nothing good, kiddo, nothing good at all.

Texas has never recruited well late, we all are aware of this. I live in Atlanta and I’m hearing that Jarvis Jones really likes Muschamp but im sure like kirkpatrick (due to his kid) he will stay in the SEC. The only one of the remaining recruits i could see Texas possibly getting is Kennard (DE from arizona) which with him and Okafor as book ends…. good night opposing big 12 QB’s

Man fuck McFarland, his mind was already made up when he wrote that bulshit paper in his creative writing class slandering Texas with all his lyes.

Damn Andrew, you spend a lot of time thinking about me, and reviewing what I type, you had to count all my post’s up? Sounds like you have a lot of time on your hands big guy why dont you go watch a few girls pleasure each other and get a life!

UT beat OU this year with a new attitude Will Muschamp helped bring in just his first season as DC. With him and the other top coaches (Brown, Davis, Applewhite, and Akina) unlikely to leave anytime soon, I think we’re on course for a good run against OU. I think if this staff is in place for a decade, or even if Muschamp succeeds Brown, this team should be able to top OU every year, but realistically more like seven or eight of the next ten. That, people, will go a lot farther toward keeping the top Texas talent in Texas instead of letting them bolt for OU, Michigan, Colorado, LSU, USC, etc. than, say, stripper parties in Dallas will.

I just don’t understand why he would want to go to Oklahoma? With everything you just stated burntorangehorn, we are favorites right now to be in the Big XII Championship aswell as the National Championship with Colt returning, plus with some of our D line leaving he would of almost guaranteed been a starter next year. And theirs no telling whats going to happen when we get Gilbert in next year. I would predict another championship run or 2 in the next 3-4 years.

I was also at the event after the OU game, and there most definitely were not drugs or topless women making out (as nice of a sight as that might have been). JM embellished his story for some reason unknown to me, but I don’t take kindly to it. JM made a fool of himself that night and I’m assuming he doesn’t remember much of it. It’s irresponsible journalism to insinuate that this excerpt from a high school paper is of any resemblance to what actually happened.

he should get a tattoo that says TEXAS MADE ala Trent Williams in the new SI this week. Truth is these guys go to OU to basically go pro earlier. Why wait for the NFL to take of your family? There’s hardly ever a sure thing in college football. His family wanted the easy way out. I hope Jmac’s balls drop into his sac sooner than later.

“take care of your family”