[fullmetal]

Texas wasn't smart enough to grab the guys we got from Houston in 2008. I'll take those over anybody. In 2009, Josh Mauro had Texas in his final list.

Texas has made some recruiting blunders as evidenced by their on-field performance (helped by a healthy dollop of bad coaching in some regards--see Mad Dog Madden), but they're changing their ways.  Juco recruits are now an option for Texas, for example, which hasn't been the case in a long while iirc.  I wouldn't be surprised if some of those changed ways include actually recruiting smarter.  Texas is starting to target more non-Texas recruits as well.

[fullmetal]

Texas wasn't smart enough to grab the guys we got from Houston in 2008. I'll take those over anybody. In 2009, Josh Mauro had Texas in his final list.

Texas has made some recruiting blunders as evidenced by their on-field performance (helped by a healthy dollop of bad coaching in some regards--see Mad Dog Madden), but they're changing their ways.  Juco recruits are now an option for Texas, for example, which hasn't been the case in a long while iirc.  I wouldn't be surprised if some of those changed ways include actually recruiting smarter.  Texas is starting to target more non-Texas recruits as well.