Ohio State commit absolutely buries Texas when asked why he didn't join Longhorns
Tunmise Adeleye is a 4-star defensive end in the class of 2021. Per the 247Sports composite rankings, he’s the No. 33 prospect in the nation and the No. 4 overall strong-side defensive end.
Adeleye committed to Ohio State last month and is part of the nation’s No. 1 recruiting class. However, before that, he took a couple of visits to Texas during the 2018 and 2019 seasons.
Below, you can see that he was asked about why he didn’t commit to the Longhorns on Instagram on Tuesday. And, he had a great answer, citing Texas’s failure to develop 4- and 5-star prospects into NFL Draft picks the past 5 years. (Make sure you scroll right on the Instagram post to show a screenshot of Adeleye’s story.)
To be fair to the current Texas coaching staff, Tom Herman has only been in Austin for 3 seasons. Thus, this year, his first recruiting class will be seniors.
Can Herman and his staff start reversing this worrying trend that is apparently hurting them on the recruiting trails? We’ll find out starting with the 2021 NFL Draft.
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If that was his reasoning, he should have went to Clemson.
I can’t stand OSU but they have put their last 3 edge rushers in the NFL. Chase Young #2, Joey Bosa #3, Nick Bosa #2. Hard to argue with his reasoning.
to be fair darth, even butch jones could have put those 3 in the NFL.
Woa Fuzz, Butch Jones was good at turning 4 star players into 2 star players.
I’m just showing that OSU has put more edge rushers in the league recently than Clemson. That would make the players reasoning a sound business decision and that the posters assertion that Clemson would be better than OSU was wrong. Ha! I also don’t disagree with your assessment that all 3 were are supremely gifted athletes and would have thrived under even the worse of coaches.
Two of those three were recruited by Urban Meyer from St. Thomas Aquinas in Fort Lauderdale.
The larger point is probably that you have a better chance of playing on a good defense at Ohio State or on a top SEC team. No matter how talented you are, playing on a bad defense does not help your draft prospects.
Texas ranked seventh last year in the Big 12 in team defense, which is pretty amazing when you consider that defense is not exactly the Big 12’s strong suit.
Yeah, but is this kid on the level of Young & the Bosas? If they all went to Texas, they still would have gone in the top 5.
I don’t know if he is on the same level nor do I know if the others would have been top #5 if they had went to Texas. I think they would have but the scheme at Texas is different so they may not have been the focal point of the defense. The perception of the player is understandable since the last 3 edge rushers went top 5 while Texas hasn’t come close to that production in ???. I honestly don’t know who was last Texas defender of any position to go top 5.
Texas truly earns about 10x the bad opinions people form about them, but if you say no to the SEC, and you say the super obvious things about Texas and everyone in the big 12 except maybe Iowa State, Kansas State, and Oklahoma State…but you decide to try to play football at the most obnoxious institution in america, sorry your ideas just arn’t worth much.
What are the odds OSU pounded that stat in his head?
I’d say that would be a tool in their box they used for that purpose. 18 yr. olds are so impressionable, and go with trends. Jerry Rice went to Miss. St. Valley U, and he didn’t have any problem getting to the NFL. It’s not so much the name on the school, but what you accomplish when you get there.
Yeah but it’s still very easy to work around bad NFL stats when you are crootin’. Look at Mr. Potatohead. Tennessee is on one of the hottest recruiting streaks the past 2 weeks that we’ve seen in some time, but all of that is despite the fact that he put zero players into the NFL in the 2019 draft, and then in his 2nd, the 2 senior WR’s he had which were arguably 1st round talent barely got drafted in the late rounds. 2 players in 2 seasons with all of that 4 and 5 star talent on that roster? That’s got to be one of the worst pipelines to the NFL in the entire country, but it’s not slowing their recruiting down one bit. Still pulling the kids in there and he’s sitting on the current #2 recruiting class in the country atm.
There are always ways you can spin those numbers to a young kid. It’s real easy to say, “I want you to be the guy that turns this program around and paves the path to the NFL for the guys that come behind you.” or some such nonsense.
OSU is just full of dirty tricks every which way. They will not hesitate to use any method to get what they need to compete. Can’t out coach the best teams in post season, then they have to try to out-athlete them.
What a stupid argument about Pruitt. Not one kid that he recruited has been draft eligible. Each of the wideouts went close to the rounds that were projected for them and each had weak points. Pruitt has recruited and developed plenty of players who went to the NFL. I really can’t stand either team but to say their pitches are nonsense or dirty is outright ridiculous. Pointing out early playing time or the hard facts like huge #s of players going into the NFL is called selling points, not dirty tactics. I haven’t read all the articles and posts today but you are definitely in the running for the dumbest post of the day award.
This isn’t the Texas of Darrel Royal, where he could shanghai stars like Jim Bertelsen away from Murray Warmath and Minnesota through unscrupulous means.