How Do We Miss Out On This Type Of Transfer?

MeanGreenMailbox aka TFLF · April 27, 2016

Texas Tech redshirt freshman Jakari Dillard announced Monday that he was transferring from Texas Tech to Central Arkansas.

https://twitter.com/JakariDillard?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author

His dad played football at OU and is the head coach at Princeton High. Presumably, Littrell and Dillard's paths may have crossed with his at some point because both are former OU players. He was at Texas Tech for two, the school of new offensive coordinator Graham Harrell.

You look at this kid's twitter, look at his high school offers and rankings...what's not to like? So, how does he go from Texas Tech to Central Arkansas with his family living in the region and probably some ties to the new head coach and offensive coordinator? Rivals lists an offer from us a couple of years ago: https://n.rivals.com/content/prospects/maple/131864

We need receivers. Unless the kid was just a total bust at Tech, hard to see how he wasn't on the radar of someone in our football office. If we are giving preferred walk-on status to kids from small Oklahoma towns who had no Division I offers, hard to see how much more of a flyer we'd have been taking on a kid like this.

Edited April 27, 2016 by MeanGreenMailbox

GangGreen · April 27, 2016

No room under the cap?

MeanGreenTexan · April 27, 2016

Maybe he didn't want to sit a year? Who knows?

All About UNT · April 27, 2016

https://www.scout.com/college/texas-tech/forums/1650-football/14696410-wr-jakari-dillard-leaving

untjim1995 · April 27, 2016

This may have been the kid that chose Tech over Central Arkansas a couple of years ago at his recruiting announcement...I'm serious, this actually happened.