Don’t know how you took offense to it. This kid’s gonna be a suckin’ sooner and will lose to UT in four consecutive October RRR games. The Texas staff found a better prospect at TE, period. If a kid doesn’t get on board with a terrific program like UT and want to win games, that’s fine. It also shows how much state pride he has in joining up with a team outside of the state. I hope he has a good & healthy career up there – just not against the Longhorns. He made his choice.

just because somebody commits to OU, Aggie, Baylor, USC or anybody else.

It’s interesting to look at the comments sometimes. Nobody was squawking about getting commitments from Cobbs, D-Money and Mike Davis late in the game this fall and winter — giving us 6 or 7 potential wideouts. But folks squawked because we didn’t take enough offensive linemen.

Scholarships is a zero-sum game, meaning if you take too many at one position, another area is going to be left thin. You can only take so many, and if you get who you target (and Mack Brown and staff are among the best at that), why worry about those we don’t even make offers to?

Kids want one thing above all else — field time. For many, field time very soon.

All those high-grade signings Mack made can be seen as a message to the class or two that come behind — you’re probably looking at a lot of reserve-status time.

That’s not what a lot of kids want to hear. Some are willing to come and pay the price — redshirt, play in blowouts, get some field time with a special-teams unit or two. Start in the fourth or fifth year. Many are not that patient. That’s the price we pay for recruiting so strongly. (Check out the 2003, 2004, 2005 recruiting classes after what UT signed in 2002.)

Glad we could brighten your day. Let’s see . . . 45-12, 28-10, 45-35, 16-13 . . .

What say you?

Because UT wasn’t interested anyway. If UT wasn’t interested, it means they weren’t going to end up at UT anyway. So it’s no big deal.

Obviously, we can’t take every great player from Texas. Pure logistics confirms that. We can take people we need. Logically, some will hit and some will miss. Yours don’t always pan out either. Obviously, some 5 stars are going to leave Texas to play for OU, like Peterson. I can finally say I’m cool with that because he never got his Heisman or National Championship. But throwing Bradford in our face is just plain ignorant. He’s an Oklahoma boy, born and raised. I doubt he wanted to play anywhere else. And why wouldn’t he? He’s from a small state, population-wise, with a very good flagship program. So don’t act like we missed out. Do you think Stoops would’ve taken a flyer on a small-town kid like Colt McCoy who loved UT so much? So get off your high horse before it tosses you under your “schooner.”