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Texas Recruiting Weekly: Austin Seferian-Jenkins Wait Watchers
Posted by Jesus Shuttlesworth on August 11th, 2010 under Football, Recruiting
Somewhere in infomercial hell, Jenny Craig and Richard Simmons are weeping. And somewhere in actual hell, Scipio Tex is maniacally laughing. Keep in mind it was our resident Joe Weider that posited the following theory on this very subject as it pertains to the sasquatch TE OL from the North Country, Austin Seferian-Jenkins:
When you give an ectomorphic 16 year-old three squares a day, some metabolic maturity, and a college weight lifting program, significant pounds are going to be added.
In big time Division 1 football (that Dan Hawkins still dreams of participating someday), why wouldn’t you want a kid to get bigger and stronger? If said 16 year-old man cub is starting out at over 260 he’s more likely to end up as the 315 pound gorilla in the room than the 255 tight end version of Kate Moss. Unless GNC starts selling Brian Cushing’s Magical Man Boob Sculpting Estrogen Weight Loss Workout Warrior formula.
Enter Mack Brown and his Jimmy Stewart-like conscience when it comes to telling athletes not what they want to hear, but what they need to hear. Recruiting facepalm or good karma? The ultimate Mack Brown truth-or-dare cautionary tale occurred in the recruitment of current LSU wide receiver Russell Shepard. Had Brown not had the audacity of veracity, to quote Don King, and told Shepard he could compete for the quarterback shot, he’d be catching passes from Garrett Gilbert as we speak. But no one died when Les Miles lied, so to the prevaricator goes the spoils. (Or at least until Miles is fired because he’s a raving lunatic with the diplomatic sense of a Mujahideen and the clock management skills of a Tibetan monk.)
So to rip off the band aid, here’s what went down this past weekend with respect to Austin Seferian-Jenkins. We wanted him as a 260 pound tight end of the future. And he wanted to be our 260 pound tight end of the future. But he stepped on the scales and it read 276 –read: 310 Lb future anchor tackle of the Washington Huskies.
Notice how Austin praises our staff’s honesty in all the subsequent updates? That’s what he’s referring to.
At this point, the travel expense issue is just a rationalization to help him choose Washington. At this point it looks like it’s U Dub all the way. Sarkisian has done a good job closing the gap on the in-state stud and AS-J’s presence at a Huskies practice this week comes as no surprise.
And if you’re keeping tabs on your Jesus RecruitPrediktor Scorecard at home, we’re not counting this as a miss. We’ve said all along that if Texas tells Austin Seferian-Jenkins he’s a tight end, he’d be a Horn. And while he technically may have been offered as one, at some point there was a candid conversation about his future role in the program and you can bet the words “hand on the ground” were mentioned. If his financial advisor had been in the room, he would have be grinning and nodding vigorously. But recruiting decisions are often based on the whims of a 17 yr old kid. And Texas is a long way from Washington…
Malcolm Brown
Odds of Committing: 105% — extra 5% boost to sway the doubters.
This one’s locked and loaded and don’t let anyone tell you differently. Brown notified the staff weeks ago that he’s Austin bound. We’ve had two different sources close the program confirm as such, including the one that gave us the ASJ prediction and the news of Rasco visiting this past weekend, which scooped all other media outlets foreign and domestic. Time to ask for a $10 refund for the month of August from your preferred pay wall site. Seriously, ask them!
We anticipate Brown to commit before school starts and our five years of wandering the desert giving offers to RB mirages hoping they’d bear 6’1 / 210 / 4.4 fruit will finally be over soon.
Jermauria Rasco
Odds of committing: 70% — holding steady
We told you Jermauria was still being heavily recruited by Texas months ago when other services had the talented defensive end pegged as an afterthought as far as the Horns were concerned. We also reported he was visiting Austin this weekend. Not a peep from anyone else. Learn to trust Jesus and we’ll forgive the rest for their lazy transgressions.
This week, there’s not much to report other than Jermauria still has the Longhorns at the top of his list. Additionally, Rasco has ties to the Houston area with multiple friends and family current residing in the Bayou City. We’ve also learned that Rasco’s mother will be moving to Houston in the near future and that has to solidify the Horns position over LSU and FSU. Again, the kid loves Muschamp and he’s coming from the one area of Louisiana that doesn’t fall into the death grip of the Bayou Bengals.
Aaron Green
Odds of Committing: 5% — still a long shot.
If Brown chooses the Horns, the percentages are virtually nil for a Green commitment. The Horns have needs at other positions even if ASJ opens up another ship. We’re guessing Green’s spot goes to a corner like Charles Jackson, a player that emerges late in the process with a huge senior year, or an OOS five star caliber player that has contacted the staff to get an indication of interest. Yes, that’s happened. Do they end up in Austin? No. But we’ll generally flirt back.
Another thing the staff is cognizant of is depth chart concerns for the super blue running back prospects in the 2012 class. Jonathan Gray and Barry Sanders, Jr. are high on the staff’s priority lists for next season and they feel that both of these players are better all around backs than Green.
So let’s recap where things stand.
We’re sitting at 22 commitments with Malcolm Brown expecting to join the fold by the end of the month. We’ll save a spot for Rasco, but I don’t expect us to sign more than 25. There is always talk about Texas offering a greyshirt to a player, but since Mack Brown has been here we’ve done that exactly once. So that leaves us with one scholarship to play with (two if we don’t get Rasco).
Who gets the last scholarship? Or will the coaches save it for next year? Charles Jackson has offers from OU and Florida but is still not committed to either. He would commit on the spot to Texas if we offered, but do we have room for another corner? That’s for the coaches to figure out, and they don’t have to figure it out now. Same goes for David Jenkins. Yes he’s committed to LSU, but how committed can someone be to Les Miles? Dogs and recruits can smell fear, and Miles stinks of desperation right now.
And finally, as mentioned earlier there is the player who blows up late in the process or who Texas decides to recruit late in the game for whatever reason. Last year it was William Russ. The year before it was Tevin Mims and before that DJ Grant. There is always someone. Maybe we’ll just take one of the Round Rock guys from OU.
Why? Because we can.
Finally, some definitive Cayleb Jones news. One of the Austin TV guys visited Austin High this week and Jones told him Texas was number one. Big news! Not really. Of course he likes Texas. He also likes Miami. Should we worry? No. Will people worry anyway? Yes. Who was the last player from Austin that Mack Brown wanted, and he didn’t get?
A Recruitocosm totebag to the winner. And we’ll throw in a Koozie used by Jesus himself.
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WeAreVince said:
August 11th, 2010 at 1:58 pm
That’s diet coke. What a rip.
Thanks for the update…..but now I’m all emo about ASJ.
Max Fischer said:
August 11th, 2010 at 2:12 pm
So if Shepard was the penultimate instance and now Mack has been honest with ASJ, does that mean that Mack is through with being honest to recruits??
maninblack said:
August 11th, 2010 at 2:12 pm
I wouldn’t classify AS-J as an ectomorph. That would actually make it more difficult for him to gain weight.
Jesus Shuttlesworth said:
August 11th, 2010 at 2:17 pm
ectomorph at 16, endomorph at 18 w/ 3 squares.
magnusbleuveigner said:
August 11th, 2010 at 2:17 pm
We don’t need 4 OT’s in this class or any other.
I have a feeling we end up with Charles Jackson. There’s just been too much interaction between he and UT to discount.
Jesus Shuttlesworth said:
August 11th, 2010 at 2:22 pm
Touche Max. It’s fixed. Now go forth and sin no more.
Gman said:
August 11th, 2010 at 2:24 pm
Recruiting…Art? Science? Mystery? If Mack told RS he’d never be a college QB (obviously he was right on that one), what did he tell John Chiles while recruiting him?
Don’t read anything into that, ’cause like JC said, he’s where he’s supposed to be…it just took him a little long to realize it.
What I’m so obliquely referring to is there’s some debate going on over in BC about why Whaley was recruited as the only back in ’09 when it appeared so obvious (gaffaw) to so many people (double-gaffaw) that he’d never start a game at RB for Texas (I love me some revisionist historians).
fear_the_cow said:
August 11th, 2010 at 2:25 pm
Yea, 276 just isn’t going to work. Any hints on that 5 star OOS? Was it the SE TE, that lit up the 7 on 7 anybody? Than
Reginald Doomsday said:
August 11th, 2010 at 2:25 pm
I wonder how much Whaley’s position move and weight trouble influenced the staff’s willingness to play the same game with ASJ.
magnusbleuveigner said:
August 11th, 2010 at 2:30 pm
G-man, when we recruited Chiles, we were still running spread option. When we recruited Shepard, AND Gilbert, we were transitioning.
When we first signed Whaley I stated he would never get 100 carries in a UT uniform. In fact more were upset with him being the only take than happy with it. What I’m getting at is, there isn’t any revisionist history going on over there.
Check the archives. There was a big majority wondering why nobody was listening to Applewhite about Christine Michael.
In fact, I’m with Applewhite in that we should have offered Brandon Williams.
maninblack said:
August 11th, 2010 at 2:38 pm
Who was the last player from Austin that Mack Brown wanted, and he didn’t get?
Earl Anderson. Give me my damn tote bag and koozie.
Vasherized said:
August 11th, 2010 at 2:51 pm
You can expect delivery in 2013.
Texastough said:
August 11th, 2010 at 2:53 pm
Who was the last player from Austin that Mack Brown wanted, and he didn’t get?
Does Burnet count? If so I’ll go with Shipley’s former best friend and would-be roommate, but now maroon-blooded Dallas Cowboy backup QB, Stephen McGee. Damn I’m glad we don’t compete with Aggie on the recruiting front anymore.
Texastough said:
August 11th, 2010 at 2:55 pm
And if San Marcos counts, Burnet damn sure counts. Eat it maninblack
e said:
August 11th, 2010 at 2:55 pm
Keeping with his honesty policy, Mack should have intimated to ASJ that he is destined to be a tackle for U Dub as well in that case. If this is actually how his recruitment goes down, Mack will essentially have lost a five star recruit by doing him a favor and painting this picture of his career to him first.
Shame a kid who seemingly had such a good head on his shoulders has to go and shoot the messenger like this.
Question said:
August 11th, 2010 at 3:11 pm
I think it is more that we don’t want another O-lineman in this class, and rightly so. The weight tells the story. The kid isn’t shooting the messenger, he’s following the message.
Glad to hear we might be interested in Jackson or Jenkins now. Anyone care to compare the two CBs?
Texastough said:
August 11th, 2010 at 3:23 pm
“Glad to hear we might be interested in Jackson or Jenkins now. Anyone care to compare the two CBs?”
GhostofBigRoy nails that kind of thing:
http://www.burntorangenation.com/2010/6/21/1525765/afternoon-brewsky-jenkins-over
theords said:
August 11th, 2010 at 3:35 pm
Earl Anderson robbed in Eckerds with San Marcos’ starting QB and had his scholarship taken away.
theords said:
August 11th, 2010 at 3:35 pm
Earl Anderson robbed an Eckerds with San Marcos’ starting QB and had his scholarship taken away.
theords said:
August 11th, 2010 at 3:36 pm
Does that count as losing a recruit?
dante said:
August 11th, 2010 at 4:11 pm
Beelzebub just reported that ASJ weighs 252 today…..
Question said:
August 11th, 2010 at 4:31 pm
Let the battle of the scales begin….
maninblack said:
August 11th, 2010 at 4:37 pm
theords said:
August 11th, 2010 at 3:36 pm
Does that count as losing a recruit?
Details…..pffffft I want a damn tote!
Hookah said:
August 11th, 2010 at 4:45 pm
So the obvious question is: if Brown has informed the coaches, why keep the rest of us in the dark for a while longer? Is he planning some sort of special announcement, e.g., after the game against Green?
Newy25 said:
August 11th, 2010 at 4:45 pm
276?
Uh…yeah that is not going to work at TE for a 16 year old. I say we offer Brandon Williams that scholarship like yesterday.
Buzzard Lips said:
August 11th, 2010 at 4:57 pm
What’s with slapping around the pay boards? Let your work make the statement…
Whether he gets bigger or stays the same, I’d take a TE/OT with his athleticism every day of the week and twice on Sundays. The ave. NFL TE is 6’4″ 265. I’ve wanted a hoss that big at UT for decades… if nothing else, tackling him will wear out all the little DBs defending the spread nowadays.
hornin hong kong said:
August 11th, 2010 at 5:05 pm
OB shitting themselves because ASJ just texted Ketch that he’s 252. A lot of “I trust ASJ like he was my own son because I read on OB that he’s a good guy” type posts.
theords said:
August 11th, 2010 at 5:06 pm
maninblack it happened 6 or 7 years ago. At one time Anderson was a Texas commit when they revoked his scholarship he committed to TCU. He never made it at TCU and ended up at Navarro Junior College.
I think you meant to say toke not “tote”
August 11th, 2010 at 5:07 pm
“Time to ask for a $10 refund for the month of August from your preferred pay wall site. Seriously, ask them!”
That is slapping aroung the pay sites? Hmmm.
Princeton Horn said:
August 11th, 2010 at 5:28 pm
He never sounded like he had a “good head” on his shoulders. His ebullience regarding the longhorns showed good taste, but he always sounded a bit flaky.
maninblack said:
August 11th, 2010 at 5:38 pm
theords said:
August 11th, 2010 at 5:06 pm
maninblack it happened 6 or 7 years ago. At one time Anderson was a Texas commit when they revoked his scholarship he committed to TCU. He never made it at TCU and ended up at Navarro Junior College.
I think you meant to say toke not “tote”
I remember what happened but you’re fucking up my chances at a tote bag in 2013 which is really starting to piss me off!
Jesus Shuttlesworth said:
August 11th, 2010 at 5:46 pm
ASJ is a good kid. He just wants to play TE.
wrangler said:
August 11th, 2010 at 6:18 pm
If ASJ picks the Huskies after joining the picture of the committed Horns at the 7-7 he is wack. He knows what he weighs. (And he chose not to weigh in at that event).
magnusbleuveigner said:
August 11th, 2010 at 6:32 pm
“What’s with slapping around the pay boards? Let your work make the statement… ”
It sounded like he was slapping the saps that pay, when you could get everything but the soap opera right here.
AS-J is a good kid (that’s for my BC parlinhall fans). No but seriously, he’s a good dude.
I wonder if Mack knowing the schollie’s were tight, and knowing we don’t need another tackle, well, I wonder if Mack had Mad Dog put his left big toe on the scale when AS-J got on.
Psst, I’m a UDub fan too. I can’t lose. Ha ha ha ha!
Hand Gestures said:
August 11th, 2010 at 6:44 pm
Apparently on Hookem247′s twitter it says that AS-J is 65-45 Texas. Take it for what it’s worth. They apparently have a source in the NW.
Grehorn said:
August 11th, 2010 at 6:52 pm
Thanks for the update and where can I buy the koozie?
thebeeve said:
August 11th, 2010 at 7:54 pm
“Apparently on Hookem247′s twitter it says that AS-J is 65-45 Texas. Take it for what it’s worth. They apparently have a source in the NW.”
You gotta love a kid who gives 110%.
Dexter Clinkscale said:
August 11th, 2010 at 8:05 pm
At the gridiron kings, ASJ told Gerry Hamilton he weighed 264. I seriously question the 252 pound report. Especially from a site that doesn’t break shit.
Hand Gestures said:
August 11th, 2010 at 8:10 pm
“You gotta love a kid who gives 110%.”
Word.
August 11th, 2010 at 10:56 pm
ASJ has never weighed 170 in his life much less 176.
I agree with the rest of the article but that part is complete BS and I can prove it.
hornin hong kong said:
August 12th, 2010 at 2:56 am
so much angst and there’s no one to hold me here in hong kong
Hand Gestures said:
August 12th, 2010 at 7:03 am
Beer + typing = bad. What I meant to type was according to Hookem247, AS-J is 65-35 Texas from their source in the NW.
View From Above (8.6.10 – 8.12.10) « Northwest Roots said:
August 12th, 2010 at 2:01 pm
[...] Looks like UW is on it’s way at grabbing the #1 TE in the nation, Austin Seferian-Jenkins. [...]
Scipio Tex said:
August 12th, 2010 at 2:55 pm
http://blog.thenewstribune.com/preps/2010/08/12/update-on-seferian-jenkins-aug-16-announcement-rumors-addressed/
This confirms what you wrote above.
And yes, I told you so.
Is Austin Seferian-Jenkins Getting Set to Commit to Washington? « The Mean Green said:
August 12th, 2010 at 4:45 pm
[...] Is Austin Seferian-Jenkins Getting Set to Commit to Washington? Filed under: Sports by David Smith — Leave a comment August 12, 2010 It wasn’t long ago that we were all talking about how Austin Seferian-Jenkins was seemingly a man possessed with leaving the state to pursue his “higher education.” Or how about when it was revealed that he was a “secret verbal” to Rick Neuheisel and the Bruins? Oh, how the times have changed. Now just a few months removed from his apparent exodus from the state of Washington, ASJ has had a renewed interest in staying home, which is definitely a credit to coach Steve Sarkisian’s ability to sell the program, closing the gap with the other out-of-state programs pining for Austin’s services. Just four days from now Austin will be making his intentions known between the University of Texas and our very own Washington Huskies, and all we can do is speculate on his intentions. For someone who might appear to be headed to Texas, I find it odd that he would attend two Huskies’ practices in a row, one in which he brought along a few fellow teammates. Even this article speculates that Seferian-Jenkins is Washington bound: http://recruitocosm.fantake.com/2010/08/11/texas-recruiting-weekly-austin-seferian-jenkins-wait-watc…. [...]
Hornmatic said:
August 13th, 2010 at 2:25 pm
trying to remember…derrick straight is someone we didn’t want, right?
Adoph Menjou said:
August 13th, 2010 at 8:39 pm
Just listened to the radio interview that he did earlier today. It sure does sound to me like he is going to be a Horn. He also said, in direct contradiction to what was posted above, that Texas is the only school recruiting him as a tight end. So who knows? Should be interesting.
UTgrad2006 said:
August 14th, 2010 at 8:19 am
My first post, go easy I’m a virgin (to posting on this blog that is). I’ll make up for some lost time by making this post a narrative:
Lets say for some odd reason that M. Brown commits to Bama. What are our chances getting Green over Nebraska? If we strike out on both M. Brown and Green, will we flirt with Brandon Williams? Decommit OU – > Commit to UT likely?
Also, can someone please explain why we handed out so many offers our first Jr. Day this year? I understand the offers to sure studs (ship, jackson, Evans, Edmond, etc.), but I think should have waited to offer guys such as Doyle and Cochran in order to get a commit from M. Hegarty? The quantity of OL commits was the main reason why Hegarty didn’t commit. If we weren’t able to get an early commit from Hegarty, then we could have offered and received commits later from Doyle and Coachran, bc these two guys have been die hard UT fans their whole life.
Same goes to Onyegbule. Offer to Shipley is a no brainer (best WR. in tx by far), but we could have waited to offer Onyegbule (who is also a life long UT fan, although his bro plays at Neb.), in hopes to land an early commit from Metoyer. If we didn’t get a commit from him by, lets say April or May, then we offer Miles. It is my belief that Metoyer was uninterested in UT after we received two WR commits. Or did the staff rate Onyegbule higher than Metoyer or did the staff believed their chances to land Metoyer was slim to none?
Also, same thing for Moss (another life long UT fan and former UT ball boy). Could we have waited a little while before offering him, in hopes to land Vaughters? Or did Muschamp and staff have Moss rated higher than the other two b/c of his high football IQ?
mjohn713 said:
August 14th, 2010 at 1:19 pm
if AS-J commits to Texas I want a tote and koozie.
zifnab32 said:
August 15th, 2010 at 8:02 am
Adoph, he said Texas is recruiting him only as a TE, not that Texas is the only school recruiting him at TE. His UW offer is also at TE.
Jim said:
August 15th, 2010 at 12:36 pm
With ASJ being a Husky lock, when do we find out if the staff advances on the OOS 5 star that contacted them?
Hand Gestures said:
August 15th, 2010 at 12:48 pm
Hell, i just want to know who the 5-star IS that contacted them. I wanna get my hopes up.
UT09 said:
August 15th, 2010 at 12:49 pm
Austin Seferian-Jenkins = U Dub
Take that to the bank.
llogg said:
August 15th, 2010 at 4:42 pm
This ASJ drama is cool for the tail end of the offseason, but the names that really matter are Malcolm Brown, Brandon Williams, and Aaron Green. Is there any credible evidence (in the loosest of senses, this being the internet and all) that UT has a snowball’s chance in hell of prying Williams away from OU if Brown falls through?
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