Big 12 Recruiting Roundup: Texas A&M

1 comment so far February 20, 2008 by Steve Hanway

The Aggies made a nice haul on signing day, one that was very competitive with the one by Texas. Eleven of their 24 recruits received a four-star rating from either Rivals.com or Scout.com. The class is balanced and addresses every position on the board. Only a single recruit comes from the junior college ranks.

If you’re going to nitpick, they grabbed a couple of two-star commits late in the recruiting process. But when you consider that they turned over their coaching staff, they did a fabulous job. Coupled with a pair of wins over the Longhorns in recent years and the Aggies could really be building some momentum.

Like Texas, much of this class was assembled by mid-summer. That could mean that the recruits don’t necessarily fit the systems to be employed by new head coach Mike Sherman. Still, as a group you’d have to think these new recruits are likely to be a better fit than any other class on the current roster. In that sense, the class has to improve the roster to some degree.

If a recruit like dual-threat quarterback Tommy Dorman doesn’t fit the new offense, then the Aggies might be a year or more away from fully implementing Sherman’s systems. That’s not to say Dorman can’t be an ideal fit, just the timing of his commitment (i.e before former head coach Dennis Franchione was on the way out) would suggest that there’s some doubt about that.

There are worse problems to have. Regardless of system, don’t think for a second that Kansas State or Iowa State would trade classes in a second with the Aggies. They got their share of athletes from talent-rich Texas, and that can’t be bad no matter what system you run.

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