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2026 Derrek Cooper 5* RB/ATH from Chaminade Commits to Texas

nycane said:
both us and UGA like him at LB too. We have 3 very talented RB's not including brown. UT told him hes the only rb they are recruiting and hes walking into a starting rb job next year. this one hurts from perception but we are find at RB, its not like losing JJ.
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He has a better shot at playing early in Miami than Texas.
 
It’s not about losing this particular player. It’s that we can’t keep losing players like this if we’re ever going to be a real program again.

Cristobal is not keeping the top talent at home. Wouldn’t matter as much if he was able to get top talent from out of state but he’s not doing that either. Mediocre recruiting will result in a mediocre team since he doesn’t have the coaching acumen to get the most out of the roster. There is the hope
he can surround himself with smarter people. Hopefully this season will finally be the year where he doesn’t have to replace a coordinator on either side of the ball due to gross incompetence.
 
If cooper is being promised the starting role; I back channel Texas RBs. Like they think you’re not it fam come to the U. If cooper doesn’t in fact get it, I circle back and portal him. Also using it to negative recruit against Texas for future south fl RBs
 
Whats the point in having Mario as head coach if he cant win these big recruiting battles consistently going into year 4? Recruiting elite players was supposed to be his superpower. If Mario was a good in game coach we could get away with misses like this but thats not the case smh
 
b caned said:
I mean…. Man did just up and disappear when his “locks” went south.

At least cue up the “well we had these guys in the bag but Mario and staff ****ed up the recruitments - they refused to listen to me.”

🙄. Can’t face the music. Owell.
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I’m not here to defend his absence even though he himself said he’d “self-ban” if he was wrong…

Having said that he didn’t lose any credibility with me because I for one understand the ebbs and flows of recruiting and the temperament of 17/18 year olds.

Dude was a real one for the U and brought a lot of value to this board and I’ll take one of him over the few negative, **** slinging others that never brought anything but their phuckery and tom foolery.

Hopefully some of those calling him out begin filling the info vacuum…
 
All money for Keys/Cooper/and honestly I might even say Kolojay too needs to all be distributed to two DTs, an Edge, and a Safety.

If we can flip two 5star DLineman and a top Safety I think this is a really good to great class… landing Cooper doesn’t make or break this class like the DL/S do
 
He needs to recruit top tier talent at DT-I would rather have an outstanding DT rotation something we haven’t had in years-

There are plenty of talented RB’s-
 
bdcane4eva said:
Carrying Red Star GIF by FK Crvena zvezda
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@TRick72 - moving the goal posts - is that what this is???
 
joeB954 said:
Is day 1 starter a good thing for a RB in the grand scheme of things? They have a short playing life. That’s gonna be a lot of wear and tear. 3 years of being the main back. Increases chances of injury tremendously and a shorter NFL career.
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true, but they get paid millions in college now so ig that makes up for it
 
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