John O'Korn to Texas?

[echeese]

I think WInston is still ticked Mack Brown wouldn't answer his (or his coach's) multiple phone calls

Except he never called TEXAS .. . . .

I sifted through 60+ recruiting articles on Winston. . . never once was TEXAS mentioned. . .

I hope your comment was sarcasm but been told by guys who's business it would be to know. . .never happened.

 

[MikeV73]

Except he never called TEXAS .. . . .

I sifted through 60+ recruiting articles on Winston. . . never once was TEXAS mentioned. . .

I hope your comment was sarcasm but been told by guys who's business it would be to know. . .never happened.

Keeping Texas women, dining halls, and seafood markets safe since 2012! Nice work Mack!

 

[Juan]

 

Except he never called TEXAS .. . . .

If that is true, then a lot of people lied about it, including WInston, his high school coach, Mack Brown and a handful of reporters.

Winston's coach at Hueytown High School was Matt Scott.  At the request of Winston's dad, Scott handled Jameis' recruiting his sophomore and junior years.  

Scott estimates he called Texas at least 5-6 times over the course of a few months after Winston's junior year. He remembers speaking to a specific secretary.
 
"I told them I know you get these calls all the time but I said trust me on this one, you are going to want to relay this message," Scott recalled.  "I told her I had left voice mails on all these assistant coaches' phones and never got a call back.  I told her that this was a message she wanted to get out there to Coach (Mack) Brown."
 
Winston told reporters earlier this year that if Texas had offered him, he would be a Longhorn right now. How might current college football history have changed if Texas had pursued Winston?

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2013/12/texas_coach_mack_browns_fatefu.html
 
 
After those reports came out, Mack Brown was forced to address it.  He went on Jim Rome's CBS TV Show and admitted Texas received the phone calls.  He also implicitly admitted he never personally returned their phone calls.  Instead of talking to Winston or his coach, Mack Brown claims that he called some other unnamed person else to ask about Winston.

Texas was contacted by Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston during the recruiting process, coach Mack Brown told Jim Rome on CBS Sports Network.
 
Brown said Winston, a high school standout at Hueytown, Ala., phoned new co-offensive coordinator Bryan Harsin in early 2011 to express interest in Texas.  After the call, Brown contacted someone he “really, really trusted†with knowledge of the situation. Winston was committed to Florida State with Alabama still in the picture.
 
“I said, ‘Should we bring him in?’†Brown said.  â€œThey said, ‘Absolutely not.  It’s a twohorse race.’â€
 
The process became news after Winston, a redshirt freshman, lit up Pittsburgh for five touchdowns Monday.  An old quote from January 2012 resurfaced on Twitter, with Winston telling ESPN.com: “If I’d gotten the offer from Texas, I’d be going to Texas right now. But I never got offered.â€
 
Brown and Texas have come under criticism for not recruiting Johnny Manziel and Robert Griffin III as quarterbacks and not strongly pursuing Andrew Luck.
 
“Great player.  Loved to have had him . …  But we got in it late,†Brown said.  â€œIt wasn’t a great year for us. We were 5-7 and changing [coaching] staffs.  It was probably a little turmoil that got us behind in the process.â€

http://collegesportsblog.dallasnews.com/2013/09/longhorns-coach-mack-brown-explains-why-he-didnt-offer-freshman-phenom-jameis-winston.html/

Bruce Feldman dug into it pretty extensively in this piece --

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/writer/bruce-feldman/23460445/the-curious-jameis-winston-recruiting-tale

I spoke to Matt Scott, who was Winston's head coach in high school.  He told me he called the UT football staff "four or five" times, and one time even spoke to a woman at UT after he tried the main line to the Longhorns football office.

 
"I said, 'I know you get this call every single day. But lemme tell you, I've got a guy some think is the No. 1 quarterback in the nation. Let me help you.  You're gonna want to get this message to the right folks. He's interested in your school,' " Scott recalled telling her.
 
"She said, 'O.K., I've got it.' "
 
But Winston nor Scott ever heard from Texas.  Scott said it's possible Winston's recruitment got muddled in the transition of Texas going from Greg Davis as UT's outgoing offensive coordinator to Bryan Harsin, who was hired from Boise State in January, 2011.
 
Told that someone at UT said the staff did reach out to Winston's coach but didn't believe the dual-threat quarterback was "seriously interested" in Texas, Scott said he never heard from them.
 
"I can tell you this: They didn't call me, and I was on the front line," Scott said.  "His dad made it clear he wanted Jameis and I to handle it.  I can promise you, they didn't call me and I called them multiple times.   And it's hard for me to believe that one of the nation's top programs is gonna concede, 'Well, we're not going to get this guy."
 
 * * * * 
 
'"I'm telling you they'd have been in the top two or three for sure," the coach said of the Longhorns.  "He knew they had great programs in baseball and football.  The baseball is just important as the football.  He researched it.  He's not a fly-by-the-seat-of-his-pants guy.  He wants to be a podiatrist and when Miami recruited him, he'd look up all this stuff and show me about their medical program.
 
"How'd he end up at Florida State?  They had a great program in baseball and football, and because he knew that Jimbo Fisher and Mike Martin have a great relationship and there wouldn't be a problem playing both.
 
"Bottom line, that [Texas] was the only school that he wanted to check out and they weren't interested in him."