Quick-Hitters | Cali Recruiting & Jake Garcia

– Super K

Went by Narbonne High School (CA), recently and saw, among other highly recruited players, 2021 QB Jake Garcia.

4-Star 2021 CA QB, Jake Garcia (Narbonne HS) says he’s hoping to visit #HookEm for the game against West Virginia. Don’t let the pro-style description fool you. Jake is a good athlete. And, being only his 3rd yr at QB, he isnt overdeveloped like many top prospects. pic.twitter.com/EuDnpMyBmW — Super K (@SuperK_TFB) October 16, 2018

Garcia is the son of former Nebraska QB, Randy Garcia. I didn’t get a chance to see him throw. The team ran and lifted yesterday.

Garcia said that he hasn’t had much direct contact with Texas, yet. He’s young. But there has been some third party contact and I’ve heard through the grapevine that Texas is interested.

Garcia did say that he plans on being at the Texas vs West Virginia game.

Narbonne has like four or five 2020 players that are ranked in the California top 100. A very good school to build connections to.

In fact, one of the things I learned on this trip is that Texas needs to continue to have a presence in Cali. The recruiting just isn’t as intense in California as it is in TX. I think it would be fairly easy to really build a brand identity in the area. Many of the top kids are connected and USC can’t take them all.

Wednesday Morning ‘Shh”

– Charlie S

Wednesday morning ‘feel good’ moment…

🤫 — Bryan Carrington (@BCarringtonUT) October 17, 2018

What I can tell you is that the ‘Shh’ is for a 2019 kid you are familiar with, but not necessarily expecting with the timing of the ‘shh’…

Kennedy Lewis Talks Recruiting

– Super K

Yesterday, I spoke with 2019 wide receiver Kennedy Lewis (Melissa, TX). This past weekend, Lewis visited Texas for the Baylor game. Shortly thereafter, he decommitted from TCU.

Lewis is a big wide receiver who can move. He has the pedigree of an elite athlete. He said both his mother and his father were athletes. In fact, his father played basketball for the University of Hawaii.

Texas sees Lewis as a guy who can come in and take over where Collin Johnson leaves off, “I originally thought that Texas had a lot of guys but the coaches told me they feel I can come in and be playing as a freshman. They see me playing behind Collin Johnson”.

Although Johnson has visited Texas, previously, for camps, this was the first visit where he had a chance to really see what Texas has to offer, “The facilities are second to none. I really like the coaches. Everyone is a family and that’s what coach Herman preaches…family”.

Despite his summer time commitment to TCU, Texas was a school Lewis has long been interested in, “I’ve been thinking about Texas for a while. It was a hard decision even when I committed to TCU. I wanted to decommit because I feel like it’s best that I see more schools and I don’t want to do that while I’m committed”.

While some may have thought Lewis would pull the trigger this past weekend, Lewis says he’d like to wait until November to make his final decision. So far he’s taken official visits to TCU and Texas. With three remaining official visits, Lewis says he will likely take officials to Notre Dame and Florida. He’s still undecided about the last visit.

Kennedy’s mid-season highlights look a lot like a Collin Johnson type outside wide receiver. Lewis is loose and he runs well. At the high school level, you’re just not going to see many defensive backs, however, that can put their hands on Lewis to give us a sense of how physical he can be. But the physical attributes are obvious and he’s a mature young man.

Injury Update on Jeffrey McCulloch

– Will Baizer

Junior LB Jeffrey McCulloch has been evaluated after he lost control of his car and ran into a pole. He has been diagnosed with a minor neck strain.

He continues to be treated and his return to action is day-to-day.

Bru McCoy & Texas | Update

– Super K

While in California, I had a chance to speak with Horace McCoy, the father of 5-star ATH, Bru McCoy. We spoke on the record and off the record. I’ll give you what I can here.

First, an interesting little tidbit from an on-the-record interview where I asked Horace what sparked the family’s initial interest in Texas.

I imagine this is why Herman made keeping #HookEm Director of Recruiting, Bryan Carrington, a priority. The father of of 5-Star ATH, Bru McCoy (@buhbuhbru) on what initially triggered their interest in #Texas. pic.twitter.com/eVV2QF0pMR — Super K (@SuperK_TFB) October 13, 2018

Secondly, with the recent decommittment of Chris Steele and his interest in OU, it’s looking like the image below could be replicated in Dallas. Many of the top 2019 Mater Dei kids are committed to Oregon and it’s looking less and less likely that either of the top 2019 St. John Bosco kids will end up at USC either (Steele and McDuffie). So, that community pressure on Bru from the USC crowd has to be waning.

Bru McCoy vs Chris Steele. Superman vs. Batman. pic.twitter.com/HEAjyJMn07 — Super K (@SuperK_TFB) October 14, 2018

In terms of where Texas stands much of what Horace said was off-the-record but I can tell you Texas is a real contender here. That probably won’t come as a surprise. But how much of a contender Texas is, even surprised Horace, “Texas closed the gap in a way that I didn’t really think anyone could”. He went on, “We would actually love to take a return trip to Texas but the scheduling is really tight for the rest of the season and Bru is a mid-year guy so he’s going to need to make a decision pretty quick”.

McCoy recently took a Washington visit and will visit Oklahoma in November. Horace says that they will have a final decision “immediately after the final visit”.

The original plan was to announce at the All America game but Horace says, because of Bru’s early enrollee status, they may do a special signing day announcement, instead. McCoy will obviously sign early.

Noah Cain | Visit Plans + More

– Andrew King

Texas plans to take two RB’s in the 2019 class. They already have one committed in Buford (GA) RB Derrian Brown. And the big name Texas fans are talking about adding has been IMG Academy (FL) 5-star RB Trey Sanders. While one name has somewhat fallen under the radar.

Sanders teammate, IMG Academy (FL) RB Noah Cain.

Texas is right in the thick of it for Cain, even though some have him trending towards LSU. Cain has a final five of LSU, Texas, Auburn, Penn State, and Ohio State. He’s taken his first two official visits to the SEC schools in LSU and Auburn. I confirmed that he has set his Texas official visit for November 3rd when Texas takes on West Virginia. There were some reports out of this earlier this week. I took some time to confirm because I was told awhile back that Texas was trying to get Cain in after the season.

Right now the plan is to take his last three official visits to Texas, Penn State, and Ohio State in November. Then make his commitment on December 21st, a date he has had set for awhile.

LSU is his hometown school as his family is from Baton Rouge, and I think LSU has the edge right now. I think Auburn and Texas are second in the running right now. Remember, Auburn cooled on now Texas commit Derrian Brown because they wanted to go all in on Cain. Both Texas and LSU have 2019 RB’s committed already. Auburn is selling Cain on being the lone RB in their class. So don’t count out Auburn either, even though they aren’t winning like LSU and Texas on the field this year.

Peyton Powell | Trending

– Super K

Had a quick chat with recent Texas visit, 2019 ATH Peyton Powell (Permian).

This one is trending strongly towards Texas.

He wouldn’t provide a timeline for his commitment but said it’ll be soon. I would guess it’ll happen after this upcoming Texas Tech official visit.

It does sound like he’s a take for Texas and as I said, on his end, it seems to be trending Texas’ way.