Toby Weathersby decommits

[LongviewLobo01]

Breaking on Twitter.

[UTK66]

This sucks.

[dillohorn]

Wonder what the reason is...if true. Horns need OL and a lot of them.

[joeywa]

He's been on record as saying he wanted to take some more visits.  Not sure to what schools, though.

[MikeV73]

At least it wasn't on signing day. Leaves the staff time to continue recruiting to fill the spot. Any word on LSU commit Tehuma coming for a visit as rumored? Any renewed interest in Moore, or has wickline moved on from him?

[NWAHorn]

It hurts anytime a player who was committed to you decides to decommit. But the reality is that if players are not 100 percent sold on your program, you're best to each move on. Charlie and WIckline run a tough program. It's not for everybody. Only the Strong survive, so to speak.

[LongviewLobo01]

The best thing is that it's a position that I'm not worried about. Wickline is a coach that has proven he can take OL and turn them into players whether they were highly recruited or not.

[doc longhorn]

OU lean

[Chitownhorn]

The best thing is that it's a position that I'm not worried about. Wickline is a coach that has proven he can take OL and turn them into players whether they were highly recruited or not.

I agree and I also believe UT still has 6 OL commits. 

[Randolph Duke]

Now keep a close watch on Lampkin. He would logically be the next to decommit. 

[DMAC]

Well this blows.  I don't see how landing some relatively unknown OL JUCO, like Hodges, makes up for talented players like Toby.  We already lost out on Kirkland and probably MJ.  

 

While I am a firm believer in CS, today has been full of disappointing news.

 

Our offer list isnt exactly breaking down the barriers when it comes to ESPN 300 commits.  Vahe is the only top 300 OL on the list now.  

 

http://espn.go.com/colleges/texas/football/recruiting/offers

[Hiphopopotamos]

This one hurts. Weathers to was a big time talent and can't see any way that this is a positive.

 

If Burt also de commits... This class will be lucky to finish top 20.

[HornEsch]

It hurts (bad), but he has been flaky for a while.

[primal defense]

I felt bad about losing out on Weathersby when I heard about this, but then I thought about Wickline. Mack Brown constantly had a higher rated OL over Oklahoma State every year, but Wickline had much better results than UT. While our OL usually struggled, the Cowboys OL was in the top 20 practically every year.

 

I checked some of Wickline's recruiting ratings from 2006-2009. Either he picked the right players or he coached them up, but they were successful. I figured 2009 was his last class at OK ST that he coached till their senior year.

 

2006

 

4- 3 stars

1- 2 stars

 

2007

 

3 - 3 stars

1 - 2 stars

 

2008

 

1 - 3 stars

2-  2 stars

 

2009

 

2- 4 stars

1- 3 stars

1- 2 stars 

[utisdabomb12]

He's apparently looking at Arkansas, LSU and Ole Miss. How weird.  

 

I thought it would have been OU or aggy. Recruiting is a crazy animal. 

[MikeV73]

 

He's apparently looking at Arkansas, LSU and Ole Miss. How weird.

 

I thought it would have been OU or aggy. Recruiting is a crazy animal.

Must be the top notch education provided at those schools compared to UT.

[bcherry168]

!7 year old kid. Academics too tough? Or the competition?

 

We will be fine.

[utisdabomb12]

http://www.sbnation.com/college-football-recruiting/2014/12/15/7399501/toby-weathersby-arkansas-lsu-ole-misss-recruiting

 

It's like Weathersby woke up one day and said screw all the schools I was once interested in. The link confirms that the schools he's looking at are Arkansas, Ole Miss and LSU. One of the weirdest things I've seen. If it wasn't the Horns I thought for sure it would have been the Sooners or Aggies. 

 

[MikeV73]

Are we recruiting that JP Uriquez (spelling?) kid? Is he 2015 or 2016?

[Sirhornsalot]

Must be the top notch education provided at those schools compared to UT.

 

 

I had heard a few months back that there might be an issue with this guy. I think he saw something on the horizon he didn't think would be successful for him. So he's changed direction.

 

I'm concerned about Lampkin. Commits visiting in January is usually not a good sign as there's not as much excitement going on then which means they're a bit more serious about what they're doing.

 

I've heard some compare him favorably to Mack, at least in ceiling and potential.

[MikeV73]

I had heard a few months back that there might be an issue with this guy. I think he saw something on the horizon he didn't think would be successful for him. So he's changed direction.

 

I'm concerned about Lampkin. Commits visiting in January is usually not a good sign as there's not as much excitement going on then which means they're a bit more serious about what they're doing.

 

I've heard some compare him favorably to Mack, at least in ceiling and potential.

I asked on another thread, but figured I would here as well since you brought up Lampkin. Is he our only DT commit for 2015? Other targets aside from Mack? Lack of DT recruits looks like a problem to me. I'm not a coach or Mel Kiper, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

[Hiphopopotamos]

Weathersby mentioned 'academics' as one of the reasons he was de-committing from Texas.  Given that and his new school choices (LSU, Ole Miss, and Arkansas) - would it be reasonable to think he wasn't going to qualify at UT?

[utisdabomb12]

Weathersby mentioned 'academics' as one of the reasons he was de-committing from Texas.  Given that and his new school choices (LSU, Ole Miss, and Arkansas) - would it be reasonable to think he wasn't going to qualify at UT?

Something isn't right.