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Kayakyakr, I made a list of 2009 Texas Tech Football commits.

I wanted to see who competes with Tech for recruits. 

                                                                                                                          

Tech recruiting commits and the schools that also offered athletic scholarships:

 

Emory Blake/W. Receiver--Boston College(1), Colorado, Kansas(1), Missouri(1), Nebraska(1), Oregon(1), Tulsa(2), Vanderbilt(2)

Terrance Bullitt/Safety-- Arizona, Kansas, Louisville(1), Notre Dame, Oklahoma St., Wisconsin

Romario Cathey/Def. Tackle--Louisville(1), Memphis(1), Middle Tenn.(1)

E.J. Celestie/W. Receiver-- Louisiana (2), Louisiana Tech(1), McNeese St.(1), Southern Miss(1), Tulane(1), Tulsa(1)

Dion Chidozie/Out. Linebacker--Air Force(1), Army, Louisiana Tech, Iowa St.(1), Northwestern(1), Stanford(2)

Kyle Clark/Off. Tackle--Arizona, Georgia(2), Louisville(1), LSU(2), Nebraska, Tennessee(2),Tulsa(1)

Daniel Cobb/Safety--Arkansas(2), Georgia Tech, Houston(1), Nebraska(1)

Aaron Fisher/W. Receiver--Arizona, Boise St.(2), Iowa(1), Kansas, Louisiana Tech(2), Missouri(1), Northwestern(1), Purdue(1), Vanderbilt

Will Ford/Safety--Baylor, Oklahoma, SMU(2), TCU

Joel Gray/Off. Tackle-- Arizona(1), Kansas(1), Kansas St.(1), Louisville,

Nebraska, Ole Miss, Oregon(1), SMU(1), Stanford, UCLA, Vanderbilt, Virginia(1), Wake Forest(1)

Kerry Hyder/Def. End--Cincinnati(1), Iowa St.(1), Minnesota, New Mexico(1), Toledo(1), Utah(1)

D.J. Johnson/Athlete--Marshall(1)

Jacob Karam/QB--Arizona, Houston, Iowa St.(2), Louisville(1), Missouri, Oklahoma, South Florida(1), Stanford, Vanderbilt(1)

Trevor Reilly/Def. End--(3)

James Scott/In. Linebacker--(3)

Eric Stephens/Running Back--Boise St., Buffalo, Duke, Houston, Minnesota, Vanderbilt(1)

LaAdrian Waddle/Off. Guard--Houston, Ole Miss, Rice(1), SMU(1), TCU(1), Tulane(1)

Yahshua Williams/Safety--Arizona, Kansas, Nebraska, Southern Miss, Utah, Wake Forest(1)

 

Notes-

All info taken from Rivals and Scout websites.

(1)-Listed on Rivals Profile only

(2)-Listed on Scout Profile only

(3)-Offered by Texas Tech only, according to Rivals and Scout

Number of offers:

6-Arizona

5-Kansas, Louisville, Nebraska, Vanderbilt

4-Houston

3-Iowa St., Louisiana Tech, Missouri, SMU, Stanford, Tulsa

2-Boise St., Minnesota, Northwestern, Ole Miss, Oklahoma, Oregon, Southern Miss, TCU, Tulane, Utah, Wake Forest

0-Texas, Texas A&M

This is a FanPost and does not necessarily reflect the views of Double-T Nation's writers or editors. It does reflect the views of this particular fan though, which is as important as the views of Double-T Nation's writers or editors.

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how about UT and OU commits that we offered?

by kayakyakr on Jan 13, 2009 5:57 PM CST reply actions  

Yea, you really want me to work, don’t you…

:-/

Wes Welker can't be stopped.

by 10forTech on Jan 13, 2009 7:07 PM CST reply actions  

well of course i do. that’s my job round here ;)

by kayakyakr on Jan 13, 2009 8:24 PM CST up reply actions  

10

I’m intersted in Jacob Karam. Did Oklahoma offer him as QB or as athlete? If they offered him QB and he chose us….wow.

by Plano Jeff on Jan 13, 2009 9:16 PM CST reply actions  

Texas

Number of offers:
9-Oklahoma, Texas A&M, Texas Tech
7-Nebraska
6-Oklahoma St.
5-Baylor, TCU
4-Arizona, Stanford
2-Florida, Florida St., Houston, Notre Dame

Wes Welker can't be stopped.

by 10forTech on Jan 13, 2009 10:07 PM CST reply actions  

Oklahoma

Number of offers:
9-Kansas
6-Nebraska
5-Arizona, Kansas State, Missouri, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech
4- Texas A&M, Tulsa
3-Colorado, Florida, Miami, Notre Dame, Texas, USC
2-Baylor, Iowa, Minnesota, North Carolina, Vanderbilt

Wes Welker can't be stopped.

by 10forTech on Jan 13, 2009 10:08 PM CST reply actions  

Nebraska

Number of offers:
5-Texas Tech
4-Kansas
3-Houston, Texas A&M, Washington St.
2-Arizona, Baylor, California, Colorado, Iowa, Iowa St., Louisville, Michigan, Mississippi St., Missouri, Oklahoma St., Ole Miss, Oregon, Purdue, San Diego St., Stanford, Utah, Wisconsin
1-34 schools including Oklahoma
0-Texas

Wes Welker can't be stopped.

by 10forTech on Jan 13, 2009 11:18 PM CST reply actions  

what I get from those numbers: the big XII usually goes after the same groups of people and we get beaten out by OU and UT most often and split our battles with nebraska.

A&M is an outlier because we are interested in very few of their commits.

by kayakyakr on Jan 14, 2009 8:21 AM CST reply actions  

Is it true

Emory Blake is going to Colorado? That’s a tuff loss if this is true.

by Raider1992 on Jan 14, 2009 9:59 AM CST reply actions  

He hasn't decided that yet

Tech still thinks they can land him – give the coaches a chance to sway him. CU is promising very early playing time so he believes he can stand out there, even in a less pass-happy offense.

by jeffinhouston on Jan 14, 2009 10:20 AM CST up reply actions  

50/50 between Tech and Colorado. He may recommit to Tech, but he didn’t want to lead Tech on until signing day and then suddenly switch commitment. He had been considering this move since November. It’s actually a very honest thing he’s done.

by kayakyakr on Jan 14, 2009 10:46 AM CST up reply actions  

Smart kids?

Chidozie, Fisher, Gray, Karam, and Stephens. I see that those kids were recruited by Vandy, Northwestern, Air Force, Tulsa, Wake, Duke, Stanford. Am I to believe we are going after smarter athletes by the schools going after some of these kids?

I also noticed Mike Stoops is recruiting Texas hard from Tuscon. I wonder if that was one of his selling points to the AZ AD…I been recruiting Texas for 5 years…

by Plano Jeff on Jan 14, 2009 8:59 PM CST reply actions  

Thanks for the Rec's but

I’m disappointed in the results. The information in this fanpost took me a while to compile, but to what end? I was hoping to prove a point to Kayakyakr about recruiting struggles between Texas Tech, Oklahoma, and Texas, but in truth it’s just trash. You just can’t draw any clear conclusions from it.

Wes Welker can't be stopped.

by 10forTech on Jan 24, 2009 11:33 AM CST reply actions  

You’d have to look at not only signees, but guys we talked to that went to other schools. But if you just look at the distribution of where our recruits come from, you’ll get a good idea. Not counting JUCO’s, most of our guys come from Texas with a few from OK and NM. We struggle in the I-35 corridor a little, partly due to proximity, and partly I think due to lack of visibility. Though the visibility is improving by playing games against schools from the DFW and Houston area again. West of I-35 is almost a slam dunk for Tech, though the number of available players is much less (smaller population).

Texas and OU are good for picking up a handful of players from around the country. OU almost has to because the size of Oklahoma just doesn’t support generating enough top notch players. Tech typically has not recruited nationally well. Somehow, we have managed to pick up a couple of guys from TN the past couple of years. One of the coaches must have some roots.

Our biggest issue in competing with schools like OU and Texas is that many of the most elite (at least by the ratings) do not even consider Tech; while they will consider OU and Texas. So there is a group right off the bat that we may want to tap into, but aren’t really “competing” for.

by NM99 on Jan 25, 2009 4:01 PM CST up reply actions  

this is def the case.

oddly, right now we seem to be competing against Auburn the most down the stretch.

by kayakyakr on Jan 24, 2009 11:46 AM CST reply actions  

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