A few points about TCU recruiting:
-Anyone who says that Texas' recruiting classes are over rated is insulting Gary Patterson's evaluation skills. He has offered dozens of UT players over the years and have landed very few. Tanner Brock, Jeremy Kerely, *Griffin Gilbert* come to mind. Stop talking about how TCU actually has better tallent than Texas cuz Gary has offered dozens of Horns. Texas doesn't lack talent, it just doesn't know what to do with what it has.
-I don't care how many BCS games we go to, I don't see a scenario where we're all of a sudden getting committments from multiple national top 100 players like Alabama, USC, or Texas. Multiple national championships might move the needle in that direction, but bowl games won't.
-TCU is still a big fish in a small pond. Most blue chip recruits don't want to play in the MWC against the bottom half of college football. The Big East is only a tiny step in the right direction.
-We're building a program not a team and it is a marathon not a sprint. The Rose bowl team was comprised of kids ranked 100 - 200 in the state of Texas. Are current recruits are primarily 50 - 150. We used to recruit against Houston, Rice, and Tulsa. Now we recruit (primarily) against Oklahoma State, Texas Tech, and A&M. Its an improvement, but a slow process.
-TCU has been a big winner in the decommit game. We've lost a few (Josh Huff), but gained many more (Jon Lewis, Brandon Carter, Carter Wall).
-I'll be honest with you guys, I'm worried that we've whiffed on some of our prime targets and no one on our offer list seems to be a sure thing. We're in the Top 3 or so of a bunch of good players but we I can't say that we are the clear leader for any of them. This incudes Devall, Wheeler, Starts, McNeal, Lawry, Fuller, and Vaitai.