Perhaps the most telling aspect of Friday’s abject recruiting failure for the Texas Longhorns was its long-time virtual inevitability — when Fort Worth All Saints offensive tackle Tommy Brockermeyer and his twin brother James, projected as a center in college, committed to the Alabama Crimson Tide, there was no surprise.
The Crimson Tide led for the twins at least throughout the late spring and into the summer as Texas head coach Tom Herman and offensive line coach Herb Hand tried to salvage those two key recruitments.
They failed.
Missing on the Brockermeyer twins was not only the biggest recruiting catastrophe since Herman arrived in Austin in late 2016, it also put into perspective the program’s lack of linear progress to compete in recruiting with college football behemoths like Alabama or Clemson or LSU.