I imagine that’s why, plus the Longhorns have trouble getting players to come to Texas from Skyline, so maybe that has something to do with it as well — he could talk to White about how he ended up at Texas even though he probably had people around him who wanted him to go somewhere else, perhaps most notably his coaches, who are rumored to dislike the Longhorns for some reason. Whatever the thinking of the staff, it seems to have worked.

So here’s what went down at the spring game with Darius White — after showing up with his high school teammates Rashod Favors and Dominique Sanders, Favors received a handwritten nametag that identified him as White’s guest rather than a “prospect,” as the namategs identified nearly every other potential recruit. Epic fail on the part of the coaching staff — failing to print out a nametag for Favors and listing him as a guest of White makes little sense. An invitation to the spring game isn’t exactly the same as receiving a Longhorn offer, so why wouldn’t Texas take more time to at least respect White’s friend and teammates and friends as the solid football players that they are? Not having name tags for them and generally acting like they’re second-rate guests is inexplicable and inexcusable. White is and has been one of the most important targets in the whole class — treat him like it.

For a program known for supposedly getting the little details right, Texas clearly didn’t in an extremely important recruitment. It’s fine not to give White a great deal more attention than the other targeted players, but it wasn’t exactly a secret that his teammates matter to him and wasn’t exactly surprising that they came down with him. The coaches should spoken with him before the spring game and explicitly asked about his friends. Acknowledging them is a long way from actually offering them just to make a good impression on White. Acknowledgement should be the absolute minimum. No wonder White doesn’t feel comfortable with the Texas program right now — the coaches preach about “family” all the time and creating that homey atmosphere, something that didn’t happen with White because of the disrespect of White’s Dunbar family.

And that isn’t to say that such treatment is a larger problem plaguing the program — just an unfortunate, isolated incident that may cost Texas one of the top players in the country.

from GoBr here