With spring practice in the rearview mirror and the spring semester finished following finals, the Texas Longhorns have entered the transition period in May, the longest break of the season for players as assistants make spring recruiting visits to high schools.
“Obviously, the month of May for us is a unique month with all of our coaches hitting the road recruiting. I get an opportunity to do things like this, the players wrap up school and finals, and have a little time off before we come back in June. So it’s kind of the seasons, right? We kind of go with the season. So we’re in the transitional phase right now,” Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian said at the Houston Touchdown Club last week.
Sarkisian called the new timelines a “balancing act” for assistants that has changed dramatically in recent years.
“A lot of what you used to do back in the day was you spring recruit to invite the seniors to get them to camp, and then get them to come to a game in the fall, and get them to take an official visit in the winter time — December, January,” Sarkisian said.
“That is all sped all the way up where Signing Day is now in early December. Now, so many of the players have been on our campus last year to come to a game, they’ve been on our campus this spring to come to practice to some degree, and now the assistant coaches are going out in the spring, really, to home visit the kids now, which is an incredible thing.”
Assistant coaches out recruiting have produced a flurry of new offers this week capped by those in-person evaluations. Most of the offers have gone out to prospects in the 2027 recruiting class to begin building those relationships to land the unofficial visits for games in the fall and recruiting events and practices during the spring before their key summer official visits start…
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