Texas Recruiting 2011: By the Numbers

by Wescott Eberts (GoBR) on Feb 2, 2011 5:53 PM CST in Texas Longhorns Recruiting

2011 Texas commit Jaxon Shipley (photo by the author).

Number of commits:

David Ash, Belton quarterback*
Malcolm Brown, Cibolo Steele running back
Joe Bergeron, North Mesquite running back/fullback/H-back
Jaxon Shipley, Brownwood wide receiver
Miles Onyegbule, Arlington wide receiver
MJ McFarland, El Paso El Dorado tight end*
Taylor Doyle, Lake Travis offensive lineman
Josh Cochran, Hallsville offensive lineman
Sedrick Flowers, Galena Park North Shore offensive lineman
Marcus Hutchins, DeSoto offensive lineman
Garrett Greenlea, Klein Collins offensive lineman
Desmond Jackson, Houston Westfield defensive tackle
Quincy Russell, SA Sam Houston defensive tackle
Cedric Reed, Cleveland defensive end
Steve Edmond, Daingerfield linebacker
Kendall Thompson, Carthage linebacker
Chet Moss, Cedar Park linebacker*
Josh Turner, Oklahoma City Millwood (OK) defensive back
Leroy Scott, South Houston defensive back
Quandre Diggs, Angleton defensive back*
Sheroid Evans, Sugarland Dulles defensive back
Mykkele Thompson, SA Stevens athlete

*early enrollees

Number of players Texas offered

Percentage of players offered who signed with Texas

Number of de-commits (Christian Westerman and Quincy Russell)

Number of re-commits (Quincy Russell)

356,905

Approximate number of references to the "Mack Brown Curse" after Christian Westerman de-committed

Percentage of players who de-committed after coaching changes

66.7

Percentage of Texas assistant coaches who retired, were fired, or left for other jobs.

100

Turnover rate at the coordinator positions for Texas during the 2010 off-season

Recruits with Texas offers who committed elsewhere:

Aaron Green, SA Madison RB (Nebraska)
Austin Seferian-Jenkins, Gig Harbor (WA) TE (Washington)
Matthew Hegarty, Aztec (NM) OL (Notre Dame)
Marquis Anderson, Cibolo Steele DT (Oklahoma)
Anthony Wallace, Skyline LB (Oregon)
Jermauria Rasco, Shreveport Evangel (LA) DE (LSU)
Brandon Alexander, Brenham DE (Texas A&M)
David Jenkins, Lewisville Hebron DB (LSU) (offer questionable)
Christian Westerman, Hamilton (AZ) OL (Auburn) (de-committed)

Number of Texas signees who de-committed from another school

Number of Texas signees who de-committed from another school in 2010

Number of commits at the first Junior Day

Number of players offered at the first Junior Day

56.5

Percentage of recruits who committed on the spot after receiving offers at the second Junior Day

Number of eventual commitments from recruits offered at first Junior Day

82.6

Percentage of players offered at first Junior Day who eventually committed

Number of commitments at the second Junior Day

Number of players offered at the second Junior Day

Number of players offered at second Junior Day who eventually committed

Number of commitments Texas could take from the second Junior Day offers.

Number of players not offered at a Junior Day: Quandre Diggs, Austin Seferian-Jenkins, David Jenkins, and Brandon Alexander

Commitments from players not offered at a Junior Day: Quandre Diggs

95.6

Percentage of Texas signees who received their offer at a Junior Day

Number of commits by the end of February, a Texas record

Percentage of the final class numbers those 17 represented

Previous Texas high for commitments by end of February, set in 2010

Number of Under Armour All-Americans: Desmond Jackson, Quandre Diggs, Josh Turner

Number of US Army All-Americans: Malcolm Brown, Steve Edmond. Sedrick Flowers, Garrett Greenlea, Quincy Russell, Jaxon Shipley, Kendall Thompson

Number of participants in the Offense/Defense Bowl: David Ash, Leroy Scott, Cedric Reed, Josh Cochran, Sheroid Evans

Number of participants in the Team USA vs the World game: Jaxon Shipley, Josh Turner, Joe Bergeron

Total number of participants in the four post-season All-Star games

Percentage of Texas commits who participated in post-season All-Star games

3.77

Average star ranking of Texas commits by Rivals

Overall class ranking by Rivals

Members of the Rivals100

Members of the Rivals250

Commits ranked in the Top 100 in the state of Texas

Josh Turner's ranking in Oklahoma

Number of five-star recruits by Rivals: Malcolm Brown

Number of four-star recruits by Rivals

Number of three-star recruits by Rivals: David Ash, Joe Bergeron, Miles Onyegbule, Taylor Doyle, Josh Cochran, Leroy Scott

Number of four-star recruits for Texas A&M (not including Floyd Raven and his drama)

48,569

Approximate number of Texas fans laughing at the former statistic

Approximate number of Aggies laughing at the former statistic

Number of Texas commits who won state championships as seniors: Taylor Doyle, Malcolm Brown, Steve Edmond, and Kendall Thompson

Total number of state championships between those four: three for Doyle, Edmond, and Thompson, and one for Brown

3,493

Approximate number of times I wrote "Quincry" when trying to type Quincy Rusell's name during the recruiting process

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Number of minutes advanced notice Mack Brown had to respond to Muschamp leaving before addressing 2011 recruits sitting down in December. Just heard Mack tell that story, I guess it was earlier today. He said he saw it on the ESPN ticker. Pretty amazing class considering and probably says something about Muschamp.

We have a 12th man and he's Bryan Harsin

by SpiritOfTheFedora on Feb 2, 2011 9:08 PM CST reply actions 1 recs

Personally

I can’t blame Muschamp for the decision that he made. Sure, the timing of it sucked, but with the way the news cycle worked, it wasn’t going to stay under the radar long and that’s what happened. As for going to Florida, who can begrudge him for taking a good job when it looked like Mack Brown was going to stick around for a while. Scratch that, not just a good job, a great job.

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by Wescott Eberts (GoBR) on Feb 2, 2011 9:55 PM CST up reply actions

The loop

apparently didn’t include Mack. The way he told it was that he didn’t know Muschamp had even interviewed. That was wrong, at least to me.

We have a 12th man and he's Bryan Harsin

by SpiritOfTheFedora on Feb 2, 2011 10:23 PM CST up reply actions

I don't think Muschamp did a interview...

I think it was just a phone call if I remember correctly

by TowerPower on Feb 3, 2011 12:18 AM CST up reply actions

Not doggin' your opinion

I just think the whole situation goes both ways. Mack did say he wouldn’t do the CIW thing again because the impression was that he wasn’t gonna be around very long and I feel he and Muschamp could have truly had the details hammered out if Mack really wanted to. As much as it seems that Will loves recruiting as well, he was severely hampered in that aspect by the UT CIW NCAA rule. I think Hayzeus over at recruitocosm posted a story once about a source quote or at least a theory about Bob Stoops goading this along by contacting Florida about Muschamp’s probable discontent with the situation. It was good of him I think to leave before what I think was the last big gathering of recruits before signing day. At least Mack got to address them all in one-on-one situations about what happened and would have looked worse imo if Will told them all how much he was looking forward to coaching them and then bolted the next day. Timing was horrible, I admit, but I feel it was more about the timing of the opportunity than Muschamp’s timing for leaving. I don’t think he was necessarily fishing for one at the time.

Two things will never change...Jesus loves us and UT is awesome.

by fotwzyhorn on Feb 3, 2011 1:16 AM CST up reply actions

Admittedly old school about this kind of thing

I just think a phone call right after he accepted the position, or right before, would have been a professional courtesy rather than learning from ESPN as recruits were gathering. It must have been an awkward moment for Mack who always seem to treat others with class and respect.

But enough about this, we got a great class and maybe we’ll get to play them in an MNC game.

We have a 12th man and he's Bryan Harsin

by SpiritOfTheFedora on Feb 3, 2011 1:45 AM CST up reply actions

That would be awesome

to play Coach Boom in the MNC. I do agree with you about the phone call vice ESPN ticker. Also agree about droppin’ it. It worked out for the best me thinks. LaBoomba may leave in 2-3 yrs for a HC job and I can’t blame him, The Jerry Gray hire to me is one of the biggest coups in assistant hiring history. Still can’t believe the awesomeness of the coaching staff hires.
It makes no sense to me (even if it’s all about hype for tv purposes) that UT fell to 5 in the recruiting rankings when their rating avg is only surpassed by Bama’s, barely. Didn’t realize we had 17 ESPN 150 recruits last year. Can’t wait to see how much they (especially Jeffcoat and Hicks) have progressed in one season.
Just for curiosity and being relatively new here, where did the spiritofthefedora name get it’s inspirado?

Two things will never change...Jesus loves us and UT is awesome.

by fotwzyhorn on Feb 3, 2011 2:10 AM CST reply actions

sorry

mis-posted me reply

Two things will never change...Jesus loves us and UT is awesome.

by fotwzyhorn on Feb 3, 2011 2:11 AM CST up reply actions

Given the general lack of decommits

in light of the staff turnover, plus the quality of the staff brought in, Mack could replace David Copperfield at the MGM Grand upon retirement. Mack’s retirement, not Copperfield’s. Copperfield just gets kicked to the curb.

by Burrito Electrico on Feb 3, 2011 9:04 AM CST reply actions