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Texas National Signing Day Lotto

I once mocked a friend who walked out of a gas station with a lottery ticket. I explained the odds and asked him why he would just throw money away. He calmly looked at me and said, "I’m not buying a lottery ticket. I’m buying thirty minutes of daydreaming what I would do with that amount of money."

He won the argument right then and there.

So as we approach National Signing Day and Longhorn fans are becoming increasingly giddy at the prospect of a massive recruiting swing, it’s probably time to step back a bit. I think our thirty minutes are about up.

There is no question closing with Boyd, Hill, Mack, Soso, Warren, Brosette, Kyler, Lodge, Kai or a strong combination of the above would mark a shift. It would be the end of the regrettable #WRTS. We can start turning off some of the talk about the SEC. The recruiting wars would be swinging back to our favor. Perhaps some of our A&M friends would go back to being more bearable versions of themselves.

It would probably jump start our on field success as well. I still wouldn't predict much more than a game bump over the next year as a new offense is installed, the line continues to develop and the new recruits grow into the program, but there is no doubt about a raised expectation and potential for success.

Unfortunately Friday, the lotto numbers come in and the likelihood is they won't be ours. After cancelling his announcement, Boyd has seemed to go deeper and deeper into College Station. The question now is, does he drag Hill with him. Seeing those two cornerbacks commit might be all the ammunition Mack needs to follow Chavis back to A&M. It’s been fun tweaking the Aggies about Kyler, but it truly would be shocking to see him in a Longhorn uniform. I mean could you imagine a next generation Young or McCoy going to the Sooners? The Murrays are smartly weighing all of their options, but at the end of the day it’s hard to ignore what the heart wants. Lodge is only potentially available based on Kyler. That leaves Kai, Soso, Warren, and Brosette. Of that list it’s possible we get a couple, but they all have reasons to not choose UT.

So what do we do if we bust out of the lottery? Do we curse and vex the kids who lead us on this chase? Cast aspersions on SEC bagmen ghost stories? Give up to our new Aggie overlords?

Yeah, not so much. The truth is, we’ll be fine. Strong and team have demonstrated an incredible work ethic to do things the right way. Their relentlessness on the recruiting trail only strengthens the coaching messages and discipline they’ve been instilling on the 40. I’m excited about the future and the next steps we get to watch unfold in the Strong era at Texas.

So we probably won’t see the lotto numbers go our way. While it was fun dreaming about it, it’s just time to shrug our shoulders and get back to work.


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