Texas puts its best foot forward once again with strong OV weekend
During official visits teams lay out the red carpet and really try to win over a recruit and his family. As we saw, Texas had Lamborghinis lined up outside the entranceway of the Moncrief-Neuhaus athletic facility. The schedule is set on these trips from the time recruits get picked up from the airport to when they leave the facilities for their return trip home. It’s hard for a recruit not to have a good time on an official visit but how do you determine if the hype is real or temporary?
Kids will often want to commit, or wonder if they should move up their timeline, after their official visit if it goes off without a hitch. They see all the wonderful things the school has to offer outside of football. Parents might feel like their kid is in the best place possible and part of the family. Official visits showcase the best a school has to offer. A post-visit high surrounding the hype of the OV weekend is to be expected.
But with Texas and its staff, the OV hype is real. Coaches have spent months getting to know these prospects and their families. This staff does a wonderful job really connecting and building relationships, and that is often seen in the positive views of weekends in Austin given by recruits. Look at Javion Hilson and his reaction to his visit, for example.
For kids coming from out of state, it’s a chance to see if Austin is a place they can actually live and thrive in away from football. It’s often a place the parents feel like they might want to call home as well. UT provides an opportunity of a lifetime, one of many in front of these prospects, but especially so when combining all the strong academic and social aspects UT offers. Plus, Texas now can offer access to championship football that may not be readily available from other schools or wherever they hail from. UT offers a great education with a chance to win a national title and be developed for the NFL in one of the best cities in the country. That has national appeal.
For the in-state kids, a trip to UT is the opportunity to confirm what they’ve seen and heard about Austin and the 40 Acres growing up, along with the previously mentioned football, social, and scholastic attributes.
The feeling after the first round of official visits for many prospects is that Steve Sarkisian and staff put themselves in a really strong position to land top targets no matter where else they visit. The standard for visits is often set in Austin. Why else would so many be upset at Lambos on the walk into the facility?
Great official visit weekends put on by Sark and his staff continue to show why the program is steadily trending upward on and off the field. Time will likely tell that the post-visit high for many of these prospects was not hype, but reality.
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