Big12recruit.blogspot.com - Finally, Mack Brown was able to top Kevin Sumlin and the Aggies in a premier recruiting battle. As you can see above, Otaro Alaka, one of the top LBs in the state, committed to Texas earlier this evening. The 6'3/205 prospect is a 4-star recruit, a top 200 player overall, a top 20 OLB, and a top 25 player in the state. Alaka took a late visit to College Station over the weekend, but in the end 46 days
Big12recruit.blogspot.com - New Orleans DT Courtney Garnett, a 3-star prospect by both Rivals and 247Sports, filled a need for 'Horns after becoming the 12th commitment in the 2014 class. Besides Texas, the 6'2/285 prospect had Ole Miss and Oklahoma in his top three with other offers from Mississippi State, Texas A&M, Tulane, and Southern Miss. He picked an offer from Texas back on March 5th and was in Austin last week fo 47 days
Big12recruit.blogspot.com - The top need for the Mountaineers is a QB. Although they did sign one last year, Geno Smith is gone making the position the most important one for Holgerson. However, the Mountaineers are in very good position to land 4-star MD QB William Crest. Crest is in both the Top247 (#151) and Rivals250 (#205). 48 days
Big12recruit.blogspot.com - Not really recruiting, well somewhat, but TCU may get the services of former Auburn RB Michael Dyer. Nobody doubts how good Dyer is as he is an NFL-caliber back, but he's got quite the baggage. He transferred to Arkansas State, but was pulled over a year ago with marijuana and a hand gun in the car. Obviously he was dismissed. Also, he was one of many players that had their grades changed at 49 days
Big12recruit.blogspot.com - It seemed inevitable and it finally happened yesterday as Texas City WR Armanti Foreman decommitted from Oklahoma. Foreman committed to the Sooners back in early October but has received interest from other schools since and has attended junior days in both Austin and College Station. Foreman, #134 overall in the Top247 Composite, has expressed desire to play with his brother 3-star RB D'Onta F 52 days
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Texas, right now, may have the best class in the nation. They've already picked up 11 commitments with over 10 months to go before National Signing Day. The class is mostly 4-stars and many of the prospects are in the Top247 Composite. It would too much time to go through and talk a little bit about each, so I'll just list them off (all are from Texas):
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Big12recruit.blogspot.com - TCU has gotten off to a hot start for 2014 with four commitments already including a pair of 4-stars from Texas. Those two are CB Nick Foster and DT Zaycoven Henderson; a prospect at the position that was listed above as a need for TCU. Besides those two, TCU has verbal commitments from 3-star Texans WR Emanuel Porter and QB Grayson Muehlstein. 57 days
Big12recruit.blogspot.com - From what I've seen, Oklahoma State has three positions of need they should focus on this cycle. The first is at safety; a position where they'll have five seniors this year and no juniors or seniors. Second is linebacker where they only signed one last cycle. 58 days
