
Rod Babers and Gerry Hamilton react to five-star wide receiver Monshun Sales choosing Indiana over Texas and break down why the Longhorns are not expected to completely walk away from the recruitment. The guys discuss Texas’ “recruit to the whistle” approach, whether the staff will pivot to another high school receiver, the ongoing battle to keep Easton Royal in the class, and how the 2027 wide receiver board could still shift before signing day. The show also dives into key Texas roster storylines, including Nick Townsend’s development at tight end, the latest “Top 40” player rankings, why Ian Geffrard could be a major portal addition on the defensive line, and how Arch Manning’s legs should factor into Steve Sarkisian’s offense. Plus, Gerry shares basketball recruiting notes on Beckham Black’s upcoming official visit and Marcus Spears Jr.’s early work inside the Texas program.
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Hey, what's up folks? Welcome back to our Friday live stream here at All In Texas Football. I'm Lifetime Longhorn Rod Babies. Pleased to be joined by the estimable Jerry Hamilton. Lots to get into on the show. Shout out to our friends over at Garage Beer Hay City Stores, Zen AI Prize Picks. We'll tell you more about them coming up later on. But thanks enough for sponsoring this edition of On Texas Football. Lots to get into, of course, the Munshan sales announcement, which did not go the way of Texas. We'll break it break it down and talk about it a little bit more in the aftermath here. But of course, the show belongs to you. Whatever you guys want to talk about, throw it out there. Questions? Comments? We'll try to address as many of them as we can. Super chats always jump to the front of the line. You can interrupt the short anytime. What's up, cb? Good to hear from you. So throw it out there, guys. Remember, it's a little bit of a truncated edition, a shorter version of our live streams. So if you got some questions, throw them out there. We'll try to be. We'll try to be as diligent as we can with that. All right, Jerry, let's not waste any time. You know what the people want to talk about. They assume that even though some Longhorn fans who have seen that the success Texas had On the Pat McAfee show, they were feeling very optimistic potentially about this recruitment. But I think toward the end, you as well as Bobby and some others I trust, felt like, I think the, the phrase you said was it's Indiana until he says it ain't.
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Yeah, yeah, that's kind of where I was at, you know, on any of the prediction stuff or kind of looking. I do fun with percentages type thing added at 57, 43 in that area, 59, 41 in that area code. So look, I mean, I, I, somebody asked on the chat. This is the thing I want to say. Chris GB 2000 says, is the sales pitch over? Does this go to December? I've been told that Texas will continue to recruit sales. So look, I, Texas doesn't generally give up on their top guys. You know, Facato will get, it will get calls from Texas. Right. I mean, we've seen all this before DJ Jacobs committed to Ohio State in contact with Texas. So there's, there's going to be a few guys where Texas are going to stay on because they, they value those guys that much. Honorful Ave Johnson, the safety of the usc. If something happens with the usc, if it's not the situation he likes anymore, if Lincoln Riley gets shown the Malibu door, I mean, you know, you never know what happens. So there's going to be a select few guys that Texas will hang around the rim on and see what happens. And Sales will be one of those. And I'm not saying they're going to call him tomorrow and start engaging him then, but there's going to become a point in time during the season. The, the communication will open up again.
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Yeah. Like you always say, Jerry, recruit to the whistle, baby.
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If we act our, if we ask our players to play through the whistle, we also ask our coaches to recruit through the whistle. And Sark does, has done that ever since. He's got tall.
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Yeah, no, I like that there are some. Antoine, here is a good question. Does Texas pivot to another high school wide receiver? Even obviously still communicating with Munch on sales and recruiting to the whistle. Do they pivot to someone else?
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I don't think so. Look, I think that, I think the thought was, okay, you gotta, you know, you're in a battle to keep Eastern Royal. You really like Bryson Thor, you really like what Kyron Brown showed you to get the offer. So I think Sales was over here. Kind of like Texas wasn't sure until the OV how if they had a real shot. Okay. Oh, we have a real shot. So he became part of that group at that point in time because the moment in the campus. So I think they'll, I think they'll just continue to chip away fight for Eastern Royal do the same thing with sales and see where it all takes them. But I, I'm not going to say never because coaching changes happen. Right. Things happen in recruiting. But I, I think right now I'd be surprised if they went to another high school wide receiver.
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Okay.
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They like the two they got and they like the three they got with Royal. They're just in a battle to keep that third.
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Yeah. Yeah. No doubt. Other teams also recruiting your guys to the whistle too. You're doing it with other 100 but it's also. Yeah. Happening on the other end as well. Juan here with a super chat. Thank you Juan. We appreciate the super chat very much. It says the sales take a visit to Texas for Ohio State game.
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You know we'll have to check on that. I would say it's probably premature to for any of us to really comment on but what if we'd have to check on that. I, I think things move later in the year if things are going to move.
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Okay. Yeah. After kind of have seen some things. Maybe Texas is already showing proof of concept for that 2026 season. That could be the case. All right. Thank you for that super chat one. We appreciate it. You did say you did report earlier this week that Texas basketball's got a big recruit coming in for that's a
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huge visit weekend, right? Yeah. It's Beckham Black who's currently ranked number one, who was number two. He moves up to number one because Spears enrolled early. By the way, his first workout with the team, Spears Jr. Was Thursday. It was aggressive from the start, which is exactly what you want to see. No 17 year old 3 month timidness at all. That guy went right in and competed from the first time he got on the court. But that's Marcus Spears Jr. I'll have more on that tomorrow here on otf.com on the site. But yeah, Beckham Black, the point guard, the younger brother of Anthony Black for the Orlando Magic was a lottery pick out of Duncanville High, went to Arkansas and then into the NBA. Beckham Black will make his ov. We broke that news Tuesday. I think he'll make his OV to Texas for the Ohio State game. He will not be the only Matt was all originally Marcus Spears OV date too before enrolling early and committing, getting his academic work done to where he could go that one had been in the works for a while. So I think Justin Wise, the shooting guard out of Georgia, out of the Peach State's possibility that weekend as well.
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Yeah, Nil and Revs has Black. Was it Wobbington and Wise?
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Wobbington is the big center out of the Phoenix Sunny Slope. It'll be interesting to see what Texas does do they what they do with that big man spot because you know, you have Marcus Spears two years and the chances are either one of vocatitis or punch will be back. I mean, like all five of your starters aren't going to go in the NBA draft. It's not going to work out that way. So a lot's going to come down that they take Wobblington, I think, but a lot's going to come down to one, can they get him away from Arizona? But two, then do they as this thing gets closer to November and they're in the practice a little bit and they've been through summer workouts and NBA scouts are coming through and they're kind of looking at things. Do they plan more for Portal if modest, if modest goes pro so they get a impact player or do they go high school?
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All right. All right. Thanks for the breakdown, Jerry. See how Jerry can seamlessly just flow from football to basketball? Boom. It's just very, very smooth. All right, guys are professional. All right, super chats here. We got a super chat from Coach Scott. Thank you. Coach Scott throwing out a super chat. We appreciate it. Super chats always jump to the front line no matter what the, the content is or no matter what the question's about. We'll prioritize it. Thank you. Coach Scott says how's Townsend looking as a receiver? That's an interesting question because he's put on some, some, some armor, right? He's put on some mass 20 pounds
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since his senior, since senior spring track season and he was 238 and he's 2, 457 to 260 right now. So he's 20 pounds. Rod, what do you think is a receiver? I think, I think he's had a drop or two. There were low balls in the spring showcase. Right or below his kneecaps, Right? Yeah. Catch. You want to see a guy go to the ground and make instead of trying to catch it on the move all the time. Look, I, I think, I think Nick Townsend, the more he's involved, the better he's gonna get. And that's just where I, I don't think hands are an issue with him necessarily. I think getting comfortable as more of a true tight end is, is still part of his growth process. But I'll be surprised if hands are an issue for him.
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Yeah, I agree with that. And I'll be interested to see how he carries that extra armor, that extra mass. Because he, he moves so well for, for a big man. I don't want him to start lumbering that way and I don't think he is because, you know, shout out to the strength and conditioning staff. They do a really good job of adding really good weight and mass to guys. You probably had your best. You might be, it's possible you have your kind of best combination of physical blocking tight ends. Right. I agree with Massunas and Nick Townsend, but to the point of the question for coach guys like, hey, yeah, we, I think we know that those are some, some things that everybody's really positive about, optimistic about. But how's he looking as a receiver? I think what will help him this year is that you have so many weapons that Sark can almost, you know, use those guys as, you know, fifth sixth options in the offense and design really cool concepts. When he knows the defense is going to be taking away Coleman Wingo and focus on the other weapons, you can really do some creative, sneaky things with your tight ends. So who's going to be the number one pass receiving threat at tight end is interesting because it's been a very lopsided target share in Sark's tenure here. Whoever that number one titan is as a receiver, Sark pretty much builds all of his tight end past concepts around that player. The others, the other tight end usually doesn't see a lot of target share. Right. That was the case when JT was here and then was that other guy, Gunner Helm came up. It was him then, you know, since then I'm even obviously last year with injuries, you know, you didn't see much of the other tight end, whoever that other tight end may be. So it's going to be interesting to see who, if it's Masonas or it's Nick Townsend. And I know they like the athleticism of Townsend. He gives him a lot of options. Put him up as an H bag. Put him in fullback row. Line them up, you know, in line. Put it. Put them out in the. In the slot as well. So we'll see. I. I like Nick Townsend though, man. He's got some freaky rod.
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I was gonna say, I think this is the best year in the Sark era to be an unknown tight end going into the year as a. A unknown tight end or somebody that doesn't have to be game planned for. Yeah, because of what you just said. You got Cam, you got Ryan, you got Mosley, you got the two backs who came in. Right. And it's a part. And the backs are going to be used more in the passing game this year. It is the perfect season for a tight end to come in under the radar because you're going to have opportunities, you're going to have some matchups that this Sark's really going to like. Great year to come in as a tight end. That is not part of the defensive game plan.
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Yeah, I feel like that was the case in almost in 2024 with Gunner Helm. Yeah, you had golden and when Bond was. He had golden and Bond and you know, you had the running backs you used in the passing game a lot with Blue and. And Wisner and almost felt like at times teams were by default, they would just, hey, we're gonna leave Gunner Helm to whoever our linebacker is or our third or fourth best defensive back. And he ate. So maybe it'll be that case too. I can't wait to see how much targets. How many targets. How much target share the tight end position gets this season with all the weapons they have. A good question, coach. We appreciate that. All right, getting back to super chats here. One's up next. Juan says at Jerry, if Arch has left this season to the NFL, do you think we get Coleman on all the guys from the portal? I think we can get Coleman. Oh.
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As he's saying, if R2 left after this year, this past season for the NFL, do you think we'd have got.
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Oh, okay.
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That's a great question.
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That's a great question. That is a good question.
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I mean, look, Cam, Coleman wasn't going to usc. Alabama would have had an unproven quarterback and Tech had a gambler quarterback. So maybe he still would have been at Texas. So I'm not like what other quarterback situation was better?
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It's good question.
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In his agents in Austin. Rod, if we want to be real, there's some protective.
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That's fair. Yeah. Yeah. And Sarge has been good at recruiting wide receivers out of the portal. Like, really?
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Yeah.
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Top tier wide receivers out of the portal. Yeah, he's been good at that.
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So the great thing about Cam Coleman and I don't think it's talked about enough, Rod, the great thing about Cam Coleman, he was once committed to Texas A M. If he is the difference in the Texas season, truly, if he is on the offensive side of the ball, if he had a big game at College Station that would rip the hearts out one more time. Former former A M commit at a high school until he flipped Auburn. There could be some fun with that later in the year. I'm just gonna throw that out there.
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Oh, yeah, I didn't realize that either, actually. That's a good one. All right. Thank you for that, Juan. We appreciate that. Super chat. Justin's got a super chat here. Another one. Thank you very much. Justin says ready for fall camp to get going. I guess we'll have to settle for SEC media days. What yalls favorite thing about the media days? Or is it overrated? Not overrated. Because just like you right now, it's one of those kind of. It's one of those road kind of signs on the path on the road to the season starting. Like, it's one of those landmarks where you're like, oh, no. SC media days means there's so many, like less like a month basically, before the season gets ready to start. Right close to it. So I think that's why it's always a lot of excitement from every fan base during the media days, especially if you got some drama. Not a lot of drama right now. Usually there's more drama, but I guarantee around that time, Ole Miss, LSU's got a lot of drama going on. Texas has been involved with a lot of drama this offseason, too, but I don't think it's overrated. I think it's pretty good.
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No, I. Look, I would say this the thing, the thing the SEC media days does for me now, years into this business, it really gets my juices flowing for football. You know, look, we've been in the B. You played it. We've been in the business a long time. The longer you're in the business, the closer to the season, where you get really excited about a season. You feel like the off seasons are a little longer the longer you've been in the business. SEC media days gets me going. I will Say that the last two years it's really got me going as far as what's going to be, what could come out of this. Look, I'm not trying to be an ass here. I'm really not. But the whole Joey McGuire Soresby thing and I was hard on Joey and I, and I, and I think I was justified in it. What he said as a coach about Brandon Sorsby and was getting behind him playing the one thing. I kind of wonder if it's going to happen and I kind of hope it does happen. I hope there's one reporter that's doing a story that asks every single head coach with what would they do different in that situation? I think everybody needs to be on record because it's going to happen again in college athletics. So what happens if it's your guy? How would you have handled things? I, I don't think it'll be asked, but I kind of hope it is. So everybody is, is on record because part of it, part of the thing that hurt that situation is, is look, Joey's paid really well to be the head head football coach at Texas Tech. That doesn't mean he's the boss. And I think you know that if he had spoken out, if he had been asked about that two or three years before in a what if scenario, I'm guessing his answer wouldn't have been what transpired. So I think if the all these guys are on the record, I actually think that would help them long term so they don't get boxed in.
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Let's go. It's quickly, it's. We've moved on pretty quick. It's almost scary how quickly we've moved on from the Texas Tech scandal, controversy, whatever you want to call it as a college football kind of fandom. I don't hear much discussion about it at all. Those, those, those 24, seven news cycles, man.
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Yes.
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Like I said, they can bury some scandals pretty quick.
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Once the NFL and CFL shut down source be the story kind of went away.
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It did. It died out pretty quick.
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I come back with Cincinnati if something happens up with Cincinnati. But I think once the NFL and CFL shut him down, it pretty. What? It pretty much went away at that point.
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You're right. Which is probably good for him. He needs to go away. He needs it to go away so people aren't talking about it and just go back to being a prospect for the league at that point. What was that little jab at Bread Venables there about? Speaking of Boston's Navy Lettables, tag along to SEC media days. Oh, man. Listen, the belief is that if something, if they have a down season, that who's gonna be doing Jim. Nate Nakey's gonna be doing the firing. Yeah. That he's hiring. Yeah, man. Venable saved his job though, last season. I mean, he was on the hot seat before the season. So I remember having this conversation and did a great job of being able to make the College Football Playoff and save his gig. I don't know how much time that buys you. You would think it'd buy you at least another season or two, but when
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It's. Well, it is smart because it's brilliant marketing is what it is. Just calling it, that's like, that's like
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I mean, look, I. Not speaking for him, I'm speaking for an opinion here. I would love to see him not coach again. I mean, like that guy's. He's done a lot and he did it at one school. He pulled something off that's really hard to do. School he played at. He spent his whole career there as a head coach. I'll tell you where I think he actually might be really good if he'll let all of his personality out, because he does have personality. His pregame shows.
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Oh, that's good.
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Mike Gundy's funny.
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Yes.
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He has the mullet. He has a little stick to him. There you go. Rex St. Charles. I would love. I would love to see him give TV a shot and see what happens because he's a tremendous offensive mind and a tremendous coaching brain. And if he'll let that personality, if he can let that personality out when Doc goes red and live tv, I think he could be really good at it.
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I agree with you. That's a good one. I agree with you on that because he's. He's pretty funny. If you watch his press conferences. Oh, yeah, I used to always watch his. Texas was in the Big 12. I'd watch him. Don't count him out. He's a. He's 40 in the. Man. He's probably 50, almost 60 something. I don't know how long, how old he is, but yeah, he is. He actually is really funny. And I know sometimes he's politically incorrect for some folks out there. I get that too. But I think, honestly, we're in a time where you can be politically incorrect these days. We. We're not as sensitive as we used to be about some of those things. I think Mike Gundy actually would fit right in on the, on the stage to be a media, a member of the media. So I like that. It's good stuff. And remember Tom Her. Tom Herman and Mike Gundy had the thing.
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Oh, yeah.
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At midfield. Remember that?
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Oh, yeah.
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And tell him. Had one later with the South Florida coach. He had one of those in the post game, I believe, with the South Florida coach. Too many of those exchanges.
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Missouri, Missouri.
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He had too many. As a coach, you're allowed like one or two of those. You say you shouldn't have like three or four like Tom Herman has had in his short career, short years ahead coach. So I wonder if.
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Yeah, we'll see if he's trying to bring this, the scalpel with him. The Tallahassee. But Tom Robbins, listen, that's a yes.
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I would say Tom Herman, just as a offensive mind, he was one of the better offensive minds in college football at the time. But then adding all the responsibilities of being a head coach, as we know that can, that can really distort things for and I think it distorted things for Tom Herman. So we'll see if that gets him back on track. Being the assistant to the head coach.
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I believe I, I, I will feel very badly for producer Matt if Tom Herman ever ended up being the next FSU head coach.
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No way.
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It won't happen. But I'd feel so bad for man.
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No, he might be an interim if something happens. You know, they fired Norville and interim for a while. That could be Herman. But no, they're not gonna do that. Yeah. All right. Thank you for that super chat, Juan. We appreciate that one. Okay, before we, because I know we're gonna get out of here probably around like 4. But if you got questions, throw them out there. We'll get to a few of them later. But I want to talk about the top 40 lists because on Texas football, we all, all the members of the OTF family, we picked our top 40 players on the Texas football roster. My man Matthew, I believe, assembled that into a composite. Not sure how he did it. I'm sure maybe use AI or something like that. But the composite is what we revealed to you guys. And I believe now we're on numbers 11 through 20 in our top 40 rankings. And here you go. All right. Grayson loads in that number 11. Relig Brown, running back at number 12. You got Ty Anthony Smith, linebacker at 13. Hollywood Smothers, other starting running back. All right, 1A, 1B. Here is number 14, Ian Jaffraud. Andrew Fridge, as he is affectionately here at OTF. He has number 15 on this list. You got Marad Watson, another d tackle, also 16 on this list. Jermaine Bishop. How about that Walking on campus, probably
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where we're going to start in a second.
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Yeah, man. Ranked ahead of Emmet Mosley, who is our considered the third ride receiver. The third starting wide receiver for Texas. He's at 18. Melvin Ciani, he's at 19. And Alex January of the D tackle. He rounds out that 11 through 20. He's at number 24. All right, Jerry, you said you wanted to start right there.
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Yeah, we gotta start. We gotta start with the slap in the face ranking right there.
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There.
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Look, I think. I think with him at Mosley, it's because he's. He's been injured both of his years in college, and he is really, really good if he's healthy. And right now he looks really, really good to the point of in the building. They're saying some really singing, some high praise for Mosley this season. I think the whole keys. He's got to stay healthy. You know, I think all. Everybody was at the Spring Showcase and they watched Jermaine Bishop move around the football field and say, that looked really different. That looked different than anything else we might have seen that day, how easy and effortless that was. But obviously, starting the season, Emmett Mosley is going to be ahead of Jermaine Bishop. And Jermaine Bishop, I've. One thing I've said about him is once he. He's one of those guys that once he gets a few reps and he makes that first big play or two, then it becomes hard to keep the guy off the field. Right. Because he just has an electric gear ability, and I'm not sure anybody else really has in that the way he does it. Right wingo has his. You throw him the screen, man, and block. You get one block and off he goes. And he looks amazing running down the sideline at 6:2,210 bishop is. When you're drawing flags on Grayson Littleton in the Spring Showcase and Grayson Littleton struggles to cover you, you're gonna. You're gonna come out of there and people are gonna have some high praise for you. So that one's interesting to me, Rod. You know, look, I look at. For this team, 2016 and 15 are so interested. We had three interior defensive linemen in the top 23 guys. And I can tell you the staff's really excited about Murad Watson if he can have a healthy season. And let's see. Let's see where that goes because he was so good as a freshman at Syracuse and he was just banged up the last half of the year. See, it'd be interesting to see where that goes.
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Yeah. Because essentially you're gonna end up having. I'm assuming Condu is going to be in the top 10. I can't. Yeah, exactly. But. So that'll be. Yeah. You have four D tackles in the top 15. Sorry. Yeah. In your top 20. I mean four 20 tackles in your top 23 end up being what in your top 16 players. That's, you know, that's saying that's a really talented room. We haven't been talking about the talent and the upside of that room. We talk about the edges and how talented and deep they are on the edge. We've talked about receiver and I, I think this list actually is a, it shows you. And I'll go back and look at like the top 40 likes. I think the, the lower like 40 through 30 ranking. But I believe you had a couple of receivers that were also ranked in the like 40 through 20 ranking as well. So just showing how deep that wide receiver room is. We know Cam Colingo will be be among your top 10 players. Now you're saying you also got Jermaine Bishop and Mosley in that category and then you'll have some other guys. So that that wide receiver room is considered by, at least by us to be extremely deep and D tackle maybe a little bit deeper than most people realize if that group can reach its, its ceiling. And I think Rod Watson's a big part of that, as you said.
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And for a lot of people on here, they're going to say number 19. Number 19, the right tackle. Siani did allow Brandon Baker to kick inside the right guard. How important he is to this team this year and how important that Baker that allowed that Baker the kick in the guard move could potentially be for this team this year. So it, I, I like this list. I mean look, there's a lot of people say hey, Jermaine Bishop shouldn't be that high. I think Jermaine Bishop's pretty special player. I'll say that. I think he's a pretty special player. I think he's gonna end up getting on the field. I've been saying around 500 all purpose yards this season is kind of what I'm projecting for him. We'll see if it.
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way off or a little off or a little low. But we're getting to the point in this list, Rod, where these are guys who, you know, you have your role players that make some really big plays over the course of a season where. Oh man, that play that Jordan Whittington chasing down the TCU player. Right?
B
Yeah.
D
Recovered fumble in the end zone against Oklahoma by. What was the name? A little fast receiver. Those plays when you. They just so important over the course of a season. But now on this list we're getting to the guys who game in, game out or expected to be difference makers. That's where we're getting to in the list right now. Guys who are expected to make a major difference on this team. And how many of these guys you know, Ciani, Mosley, Watson, Jaffar, Smothers, Brown were all portal guys in the last two classes?
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Yeah, it's a good point. Good point. Texas.
D
Sorry, I forgot. I always. I forgot Size. Silas Bold in the play he made against Oklahoma, he didn't have as many catches, any as many yards as people thought he would during that season he was at Texas. But he'll always be remembered for that play against Oklahoma.
B
Always just right about that.
D
I mean that was a big play against asu.
B
Yep. Changing the tide. He did. I want. Yeah. I never kept up with Silas bowling, so I need to go try to keep up with.
D
I think he's in the chat. Is he in the cfl? I think he's in the cfl.
B
I feel like he was just too good of a football player not to get a shot with somebody now. You have different leagues. He should be bowed and free drinks for life. Hey, there you go cb. You make plays in Texas OU game, you should get free drinks for life. Yeah, and I was. The receivers I was thinking about was Kaliq Lockin and Sterling Burkhalter in our top 40 rankings. I believe they are. They were 39 and 38.
D
Yeah.
B
Throwing it out there. So those were the guys kind of at the bottom of the depth chart in the wide receiver room, but still considered some of the better players on the team. And of course now you got Jermaine Bishop and even most in that conversation. That wirelessly room could be considered the deepest position room on the team in that conversation. So there you go. That's our top 40. If you agree disagree, let us know how you feel about it. I also like the fact that both of the running backs there made it and I will say I did have Eminem and Mosley I think ahead of Jermaine Bishop in my rankings more out of respect than anything else. But I believe I did have that just in case. Full disclosure here to find out why we how we voted And I'm with coach Ship. I think at the end of the season we should all be forced to do it again. 100 based on the actual performance and production from the season, I think that would be pretty cool.
D
Hey Rod, I got a question before we move on from this chat. You're including this question. Of the guys who were on the team last year on this list, who's going to be the most improved player? So again, essentially we're talking Alex January, Mosley Watson, Ty Anthony Smith and Grayson Littleton. Of the guys who are returning players on this list, who's going to be the most improved? It's going to be Mosley or Watson if they have healthy seasons. More than likely I was gonna go
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with Mosley just because the way the offense is structured now with all the weapons. But the Watson one can make sense too because you know I said you need more disruption on the interior. You only had 50 or so pressures from your D tackle position.
D
Agree, Rod. That's a big number this year.
B
Yeah, and he's. He actually is pretty disruptive. You watch Watson, he's a pretty disruptive cat on the inside. So I could see that him just getting and being fresh because you'll have a now a true good rotation at D tackle. You got Kano, you your fridge, you'll have Watson, got Alex January, who knows about Terry and Sharma and some of the other youngsters. You may have a five to six man rotation. Remember that's where you were in what, 20, 22. I think Texas had that. You had like six NFL guys in your detail rotation. I wonder if they could, you know, be at least four to five, five deep. They're definitely 40, but five to six deep this season.
D
Hey Rod, how much will you Love being a A3 tech lined up next to Jeffridge because he's going to take two easy. That's going to help the disruption this year.
B
You're right.
D
Is Jeffridge taking two over the ball
B
that's a great point. Yep. I agree with you on that too. That. That's. I didn't think about it being that simple. But you're right because if you put one guy on him, he's just gonna. He's gonna maul that dude. He's just his size alone.
D
He'll just disrupt the pocket.
B
Yeah. He's gonna push that guy back. He's just. Because he's that massive.
D
And in the run game, how much better does he make the linebacker, the downhill backer in the A gaps? Because Jafar, again, Jafridge has two. He's got to be double. So yeah, he makes a couple of guys jobs easier on this team. I think he's underrated how big of a recruit out of the portal he was. He wasn't going to get the fan fair. He wasn't going to be the highest ranked guy. But when you talk about bringing a scheme together, that guy's extremely important.
B
Yeah. Because you're gonna put them right there in that A gap. You didn't have any D tackle last year that had at least a hundred snaps in the A gap. None of your details were able to do it. You didn't have a true nose. Him being a true nose, he's gonna be. They're gonna put him right there, right? Probably zero technique. One technique right over that center. And like you said, nobody's gonna leave their center out to get mauled that way. That's just to collapse the pocket right from the center. So they're gonna give him some help. You're just gonna be that left guard, that right guard. And like you said, that should open things up tremendously for the linebackers on the second level. But also whoever that other three technique is, whether at in the. In the spring showcase, it was him and kanu, they're. They were there together. So maybe that's your first group of kind of D tackles there. That's rotating. That's a. That's a nice looking D tackle duo. All right. Thank you for that. Thank you, Matthew. All right, we'll get to a couple of questions, but let me thank some of our sponsors really quickly. As we approach the end of our live stream, let me thank our friends over at Hay City Store. I love our friends over at Hay City Store. I'm a big fan of Hay City Store. I've been going there actually for a long time. Me and my wife used to go to dates to Hay City Store way, way back in the day. And now we still go on dates. All right, don't Tell my wife I didn't forgot. We still go on dates, got date nights. We may go to Hay City Store there as well. But it's great folks. It is Texas comfort food. Scratch made Texas comfort food. That's what I love about it. And the best thing about it folks, trust me. They got great drinks. It's great for the kids too. They have their truck stop enchiladas, famous truck stop enchiladas, award winning chicken fried steak as well, homemade desserts, all of it delicious. All of it, like I said, made from scratch. They also have live music six nights a week with 50 beers on tap, ice cold long necks, tasty margaritas as well. There are 11 TVs alone in their ice house. Perfect for game days. They even have brunch surge from 10am to 3pm every Sunday. Hayes City Store is also dog friendly and they have a tree net for our kids. If you bring kids out there, bring the dogs out there, bring everybody out there. You want more information, go to haycity store tx.com that's hey city store tx.com and thank you to our friends over at hey City for sponsoring our Friday live stream. All right, couple of questions and then we'll end our live stream today. How about this one from Nacho Avengers? I like that. That's a great handle. Natural Avenger. In what ways do you think Sock will utilize Arch's legs this year with defenses needing to account for all the weapons on the field? Love this question. First of all, I think Sark will allow him more. I, I don't know if he tried to, you know, advise him against scrambling last season because Sark usually isn't someone that embraces scrambling and scramble joke. He doesn't like, like chaos, right. He likes his offenses to be on schedule. He doesn't like the off schedule, the improvisation. That's not really something that Sark bakes into his offense or plans on. I think he's embracing it more, by the way, because of Arch's style. So he got something that was the most, the most effective play for you last year was actually the scramble throwing the scramble drill. You averaged over 10 yards per rush on the scrambles and you averaged over 10 yards per attempt on scramble drill throws. So Cirque has to embrace that. So I do wonder if he'll obviously, you know, want Arch to be responsible about the way he scrambles, but embrace that and encourage Arch to scramble when he, when it's safe and when he believes he's got green grass. Forcing teams to put a spy on Him. So I, I think scramble number one, let him scramble. All right? Be safe about it. Make good decisions, but let him scramble. And I think in a red zone, red zone. Big games, I can't say big games. And you got a lot of big games. You got, you know, you got Ohio State, you got Tennessee, you got Ole Miss, you got Oklahoma, you got A M. Lsu. So I think in some of those big games, you're going to need that added component of him being a threat with his legs in the red zone.
D
Yeah, I, I, My thoughts on this are the Mannings didn't send them the Texas to run 10 or 12 times a game. They didn't. They did not. That is not part of the plan. So I think that's the first thing to I. What I love about Arch's possibilities this season is it can be more element of surprise if the parts around him do the job they're supposed to.
B
That.
D
That's where I think he's most dangerous. He's most dangerous when it's an element of surprise situation. Like, it's not that people aren't, look, if you're a defensive coordinator, Rod, and you're getting ready to play Texas, you aren't, you aren't going to sit there and say, oh, Sark's going to run this guy 10 or 12 times a game. Because they all know what we know. That's not what the Manning sent him to Texas to do. Go take head shots every game, running the football because he's a tough kid. He's, he has a hard time running out of bounds. He, he just does. He's a tough kid. It's not what the Manning sent him to do. I, I think Sark's in a great spot with him this year. To really bring the element of surprise with him or when you, when you have somebody off balance and they may he, you don't think they're expecting it because, oh, we have it going today. Cam's made these 50, 50 ball catches. Ryan Wingo turned the screen into a touchdown. Our outside zone run games looking really good. Boom. We're going to hit him with a quarterback draw when they're not expecting it. I think that's where, that's where I would love to see Arch used. I, I don't, I, I hate to go into a game say, okay, he's going to carry eight, nine or 10 times because that wasn't the plan when he came to Texas.
B
Yep, I agree. I think that's why I think scrambling is kind of your best bet. Of him running a lot because it'll be unsanctioned, if you will, by start, but in the red zone. I do think Circle uses a weapon. Not that he'll run a lot, but at least have the defense account for it, which.
D
You lost your audio, Rod.
B
I apologize about that. All right, I believe we got a super chat here from Alex Scully. Thank you for the super chat said. Appreciate you guys. Eastern World changed profile picture on Instagram to his Florida visit. Time to worry. He does have a laughing face emoji. So hopefully Alex joking here.
D
But one thing I've learned about one thing I've learned about Easton is he's really street smart about recruiting. He is. He is building his brand in a very good way. I'll say that. I'll say that he's doing a really good job of it. And look, I'm not sitting here saying, oh, he's for sure staying with Texas. That's not what I'm saying. I'm giving him some. I'm giving him his due respect for kind of the way he's brand building through this process. He's done a impressive job, I'll give him that.
B
Yeah, because just your social media alone can be.
D
Look what that post did that got Florida fans re engaged with Eastern Royal where they said we're out.
B
That's fair. It's a good point. Yeah. All right, so yeah, DJ social media man, trying to read the cryptic messages and emojis and stuff on social media for recruits. That can be a full time job. All right. Thank you for the super chat though, Alex. We appreciate it. Jared, would you do us a favor and tell the folks out there about our friends over at Zen AI, please?
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D
Yeah.
B
Unless he's. Unless he let you know otherwise you were going with Indiana for the pick, but you did let us know that this may not be completely over.
D
I don't. Yeah, look, Texas won't walk away.
B
I.
D
That we know. They'll. They'll hang around. They'll hang around the rim. Facato is another one. DJ Jacob, who's committed to Ohio State, is another one. Say sales is another one right now. Now they're going to hang around the rim on. On a few guys, couple of defensive linemen potentially as well. And they'll. They'll hang around the rim there like they always do, kind of see what happens. You know, with some of these seasons, there's going to be a coaching change somewhere. Right? Something's going to happen. A position coach is going to retire. Something's going to happen here to shake loose a couple of guys and Texas has to be in position and keep themselves in position to be a part of that if they want to be. And sales will be one of those guys. I I still believe and nothing's backed me off this I still believe Sales fascination was SEC growing up.
B
Okay. I like that. Yep. Several guys that I remember talking to saying that was a huge factor in their decision. Texas moved to the SEC and playing against sec.
D
The only reason Colin Simmons is playing it too.
B
Texas. Yep. He was one of those guys.
D
Or not if Texas won the Big 12, that dude was not going to Texas. Yep.
B
All right, Good stuff there. Jerry, as always. Thank you for the expertise and the knowledge. Thank you to Matthew. Behind the scenes. He's a real mvp. Nobody does it better. Thanks to all the super chats guys. Really appreciate the kindness. Thanks for all your participation with the great question. Sorry we couldn't get to all of them. We apologize about that. Jerry now will be back actually with a live stream on Sunday night as well. Sunday at 7pm Jerry and I'll be back. So if you had a questions for us that we couldn't get to, please direct them or save them for us Sunday night. Anything breaks, keep it tuned in here to the on Texas YouTube on Texas Football YouTube channel or go to ontexasfootball.com because the whole team is contributing great nuggets over there for Jerry and for Matthew. I'm Lifetime Longhorn Ride babies. Until next time.
Date: July 17, 2026
Host: Rod Babers (B), Jerry Hamilton (D)
This special Friday live stream features Texas Longhorns football recruiting updates, in-depth roster analysis, listener Q&A, and some quick pivots into basketball recruiting. Rod Babers and Jerry Hamilton field questions from the live audience, provide inside perspectives on current hot topics—including the Munshan Sales commitment, the ongoing recruiting battles, and a breakdown of Texas’ Top 40 football players for 2026. They also dive into how the shifting landscape of college football (including NIL and the transfer portal) continues to affect program strategies.
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On “Recruiting to the Whistle:”
“If we ask our players to play through the whistle, we also ask our coaches to recruit through the whistle.” (04:20, D)
On the surprise of Cam Coleman’s story arc:
“If he had a big game at College Station, that would rip the hearts out one more time. Former A&M commit at a high school until he flipped Auburn. There could be some fun with that later in the year.” (14:41, D)
On spring tight end battles and offensive flexibility:
“It is the perfect season for a tight end to come in under the radar because you’re going to have opportunities, you’re going to have some match-ups that Sark’s really going to like.” (12:14, D)
On handling QB runs with Arch Manning:
“The Mannings didn’t send him to Texas to run 10 or 12 times a game. That is not part of the plan. He’s most dangerous when it’s an element of surprise.” (42:42-44:13, D)
On building position group strength:
“You may have a five to six man rotation. Remember that’s where you were in what, 2022...you had like six NFL guys in your D tackle rotation. I wonder if they could, you know, be at least four to five, five deep.” (37:02, B)
Rod and Jerry wrap up by reiterating that Texas football’s recruiting battles (especially for top targets like Sales) continue deep into the season—even after public decisions. The depth across position groups, infusion of portal talent, and anticipation for fall camp all paint a promising picture for Texas heading into 2026. The audience is encouraged to participate in upcoming streams and to follow ongoing roster updates at On Texas Football’s digital channels.
For further questions or ongoing updates, tune in to the next live stream Sunday 7pm and check ontexasfootball.com.