Austin area recruit?

[Cooley]

Not good with posting tweets but Mike Canalas is on his way back from a good house visit in Austin.

[Harry]

Good to hear!

[BillySee58]

Good day recruiting in Austin. Home visit went well, time to head home. #Hit9

— Coach Mike Canales (@coachcanales)

December 11, 2013

[unt37]

Maybe Coppa. http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/recruiting/player-Will-Copa-149179

[BillySee58]

Maybe Coppa. http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/recruiting/player-Will-Copa-149179

I wonder if Copa is our number 1 target over Christian Beard. I also wonder if we would take both of them with only a few scholarships left and some pressing needs on the d-line.

[GrayEagle]

I imagine that both will be invited to the bowl game along with several more than the number of scholarships left. This is the part of recruiting that I hate...more good players that are interested than scholarships available.

[Green Crazy]

Baker Mayfield is from Austin. *ninja face*

[BillySee58]

Baker Mayfield is from Austin. *ninja face*

Coaches can't contact him yet. He also is probably still in Lubbock right now, finishing the semester.

[BillySee58]

I imagine that both will be invited to the bowl game along with several more than the number of scholarships left. This is the part of recruiting that I hate...more good players that are interested than scholarships available.

If we only sign 5 more than we can grayshirt, or even blueshirt another guy. Blueshirting would work because we have scholarships available after signing 22 guys.

Here's how this works. If we sign 25 guys, with 3 being current scholarship guys who were former walkons (Buyers, Kirby, Macek) we will add 22 scholarship guys, but we are losing 17 scholarship guys and only have 77 guys on scholarship right now. We have 25 open spots for next year, but we can only bring in 22 new scholarship guys.

We will have at least 3 open spots, so if a kid would be willing to blueshirt than he would have a scholarship spot assured to him.

Here are some explanations of blueshirting. I've put this here before, but what it means is that a kid can come into fall camp as a walkon and get awarded a scholarship before school starts. He would then count towards the next year's signing class. The catch is that he can't have gone on an official visit to the school or have had an in-home visit with a coach.

http://www.presnapread.com/whats-a-blue-shirt-anyway/

http://knoxblogs.com/evanseleven/2013/12/05/has-butch-jones-found-a-recruiting-loophole-vols-could-use-complex-stragegies-to-manage-brimming-class/

[GOMG2013]

Coaches can't contact him yet. He also is probably still in Lubbock right now, finishing the semester.

All he needs tech to do is give him is permission to contact form that he can send to schools. Since they have already told him he would not be on scholarship, the least they could do is give him that permission. Even though he is a walk on, he still needs that. His 5 year clock has already started, so he will have to sit out a year.

[ntmeangreen11]

Copa's older brother plays TE for Tulsa, I wonder why they haven't offered. Still, I want both him & Beard as both are in the top 100 of their positions and 3* on ESPN.