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Roach offers unparalleled insights into the recruiting on the 40 acres. Each week, he crisscrosses the state watching and talking to Blue Chip recruits.

And I'm Bobby Burton, a 1992 Texas alum and one of the recruiting industry's founding fathers.

I played a formative role in the creation of both 24-7 sports and Rivals.com.

The state of recruiting is taped each and every Wednesday during football and recruiting season.

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Hook them.

Mike, how you doing this week, man?

It's been a crazy week.

This is, I guess, what it feels like to be in the midst of some coaching turmoil,

working for a big network.

And this is my first introduction to it.

It's very interesting because, you know, the thing about working, and I found this out 20-something years ago,

but the amount of information you get is not just from one side of the fence.

So you may hear the Texas view of it, but then you also have a USC view of it in the sense of a guy like Graham Harrell, who Texas seems to be targeting it at office coordinator, when you're within a network.

And I really think that that tends to bring a greater understanding of the entire picture and also greater insights into all of the

machinations going on behind the scenes.

So without further ado, I want to get into some recruiting as it relates to these latest moves

because obviously it's going to affect this recruiting class.

To think it won't is ridiculous.

So where Texas sits right now, Texas has 17 commitments, Mike.

They're ranked number seven nationally.

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