From a source in Tucson, I am told that Texas is the "clear favorite" to land Tiaoalii Savea , the 6-foot-4, 305-pound defensive tackle transfer from Arizona. Savea visited Texas over the weekend and has a very strong bond with Texas linebackers coach Johnny Nansen, who joined the Longhorn staff from Arizona this off-season.

Savea is expected to be a mid-term enrollee. All mid-term enrollees at Texas must enroll by Jan. 30 at the very latest.

Texas has already added seven players from the NCAA's transfer portal. Besides Savea, Texas also continues to recruit Washington cornerback Jabbar Muhammad. Muhammad visited Texas with his parents on Wednesday and Thursday and visited Alabama over the weekend. He is expected to return to Washington to collect his belongings this week and visit Oregon while in the Pacific Northwest.

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Do you still view Texas as the favorite for Muhammad?

Congrats on the new site Bobby and team! Stoked to support!

Awesome site

Hopefully we get the young man. We really need the depth. 

Does that mean Muhammad won’t be a midterm?

Maybe Tiaoalii will make a decision before to long. Excited as to hear Muhammad’s decision as well.

11 minutes ago, K. Baughman said:

Maybe Tiaoalii will make a decision before to long. Excited as to hear Muhammad’s decision as well.

Really intrigued by the Muhammad decision, would be a huge pickup! 

I'm probably higher on the returning DTs than most, but I'm definitely not opposed to taking a proven guy to add to that room. With the way that PK likes to rotate the DL another experienced body is never a bad thing.

I’m assuming no but did the Stanford TE make his scheduled visit this past weekend?

9 minutes ago, THookem said:

I’m assuming no but did the Stanford TE make his scheduled visit this past weekend?

I was wondering the same thing THookem.

36 minutes ago, THookem said:

I’m assuming no but did the Stanford TE make his scheduled visit this past weekend?

He did not.

So CJ are we thinking he is out of the conversation at this point?

1 hour ago, ElCafetero said:

Does that mean Muhammad won’t be a midterm?

He can be. Add/drop is the 30th of January so he can choose texas and still be a mid term if he chooses before then. 

2 hours ago, ChoateTheGoat said:

Do you still view Texas as the favorite for Muhammad?

As of Saturday morning, yes. I do not have newer info, however.

2 hours ago, Dawnpatrol75 said:

Congrats on the new site Bobby and team! Stoked to support!

Thanks. Much appreciated!

35 minutes ago, K. Baughman said:

So CJ are we thinking he is out of the conversation at this point?

I've got a call into his marketing rep to make sure.

Loving the new site, Bobby. Thanks for doing this. 

 

Just my two cents, but it would be ideal to add Savea and one more DT, either after Harbaugh leaves for the NFL or in the Spring. 

 

Muhammad would be huge, no two ways about it. The more bodies the better in the secondary. Not sure I buy the "clear path to starting" stuff. J. Muhammad and M. Muhammad would be the clear starters, no? 

We need meat in the middle. Save that money on the CB.

13 minutes ago, Deadhead_Horn said:

Loving the new site, Bobby. Thanks for doing this. 

 

Just my two cents, but it would be ideal to add Savea and one more DT, either after Harbaugh leaves for the NFL or in the Spring. 

 

Muhammad would be huge, no two ways about it. The more bodies the better in the secondary. Not sure I buy the "clear path to starting" stuff. J. Muhammad and M. Muhammad would be the clear starters, no? 

1. Agree with you on the DL. They're looking for fits. And this Arizona DL is the only one in the portal currently that has been greenlit.

2. With Muhammad, I don't know exactly how they're looking at it. They rotated a lot of players on D and in the secondary this year. They're probably thinking about doing the same thing again next year.

Bobby - 

You guys have been mentioning the Texas class add/drop deadline a bunch.  Would Texas not take a player if he committed after the deadline to add/drop at all? Or, if the player were important enough, would they allow him to enroll for the summer?  Wondering how that would play out if Harbaugh left Michigan and some of their players entered the portal after the deadline?

Congrats on the new site!

Just now, field said:

Bobby - 

You guys have been mentioning the Texas class add/drop deadline a bunch.  Would Texas not take a player if he committed after the deadline to add/drop at all? Or, if the player were important enough, would they allow him to enroll for the summer?  Wondering how that would play out if Harbaugh left Michigan and some of their players entered the portal after the deadline?

Congrats on the new site!

Yes. They would allow that and recruit them with the knowledge of it.

With Michigan players, they are already enrolled for this semester and on scholarship. So they would likely be summer enrollees unless Harbaugh did something immediate.

Do you think Harbaugh is dragging his feet to stay past the final 2024 signing day?  Or, would he need to take the NFL job ASAP to prepare for the draft?  Or, maybe his "dream" NFL job isn't open..............yet.

This would be a good depth piece at DL. Bobby do you think PK will rotate as much on D as he did last year. Also do you think this helps with bringing in guys like Savea and Muhammad?

 

Love the site Keep up the great work

Arizona just fired the AD, maybe the new AD will want his own football coach?