Saturday, May 23, 2015

New American Frontier - Houston Recruiting Blows Up

Houston head coach Tom Herman has geared up the #HtownTakeOver campaign.  Herman and his staff are selling The H similar to the Miami Hurricane's The U.  They want to build a fence around Houston and keep the top local talent at the University of Houston.  Catchy slogans like Htown Take Over and Your City Is Calling are rallying cries for the Coogs.

Add in slick videos like this:


Well as of tonight, the campaign has taken root with a few locals.

The first big get for the Cougars was Ed Oliver as he committed to Houston on Thursday

Following Oliver's commitment was another highly rated DT. Four star recruit Jordan Elliot cast his lot with the Cougars yesterday.

Add in three star QB Bowman Sells and the Coogs are building their Fence Around Houston.

Now the question remains....will the recruits remain with Houston? If they do, will they bring more highly ranked recruits with them?

Hopefully, not only do they stay, but other American teams can recruit at a high level and raise the status of the league overall.  What the future holds towards expansion is unknown.  The best bet for our AAC is to build up the league. 

My hope is if we can't join the P5, make enough noise to get three or four top 25 ranked teams and cut into the P5 money.  Maybe Kingmakers ESPN will at least add some money to conference coffers to put some space between the other so called G5 conferences. 

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My Sports Allegiances

My favorite teams are in no particular order: Houston Texans, San Antonio Spurs(NBA champs 99, 03, 05, 07, 14) and the Houston Cougars, Pittsburgh Penguins (Stanley Cups 91, 92, 08, 16, 17)
My secondary teams are: Houston Dynamo(MLS Champs 06, 07), Houston Astros (NL Champs 05), Houston Rockets (NBA Champs 94, 95)
Teams I Hate: Anything out of Dallas
Teams I Enjoy Seeing Lose: Texas Longhorns, Texas A&M Aggies, Baylor Bears football
Teams that are Insignificant: rice owls