Originally published at: https://pistolsfiringblog.com/sawyer-goram-welch-withdraws-osu-commitment-following-texas-offer/
Sawyer Goram-Welch decommits from the Pokes.
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Awesome! It’d be great if Gundy could make an effort to relate to 17-18 year olds instead of acting like an old man that couldn’t give a sh!t less. It bothers me so much that he just fart noises anything he doesn’t care to learn about. Get with the times if you want to be in a profession that revolves around 16-24 year old males.
Good luck to him if he thinks he will actually be playing for Tom Herman for his whole 4-5 years. If things don’t turn around next year in Austin, I doubt he will even be playing for him past his RS Freshman year.
Staff is getting canned like crazy there. Defensive coordinator just fired last week. Not sure why anyone would go to such a fragile situation. How would he even know if he’s a good system fit since he doesn’t even know who the coach will be? Not to mention that Herman’s seat is burning hot.
This has no nothing to do with Gundy and everything to do with kids wanting to play for the blue bloods of college football. Right or wrong, if you want to play for national championships, you need to play for a traditional powerhouse b/c they get the benefit of the doubt when picking teams to include in the playoffs. OU and Texas are the only Big 12 teams that get that “pass.” If any other Big 12 team wins the conference championship, that means the conference is weak and had a down year (hate that narrative). But it is also tied to revenue and the traditional powerhouses having larger fan bases. Kids understand that point of view. What teams do they see on TV playing for all the marbles? Not the OSUs of the world - most only tune in to watch our annual loss to OU. Also, most of our recruits are from Texas.
It is a massive cycle that will be hard for Gundy, or anyone, to overcome. You need recruits to win, yet you have to beat the big boys to get recruits, which requires top recruits. It is what it is.
He wants to play with the decade’ s perennial loser that just shows his character when he has a chance to play here.
I sincerely think this a bad decision for Welch. OSU has been a superior program than Texas for the past 10 years. We’ll see but he would be better off staying with OSU.
No one seems to be interested in the “Myles Price” perspective mentioned in the article. Price was told not to take any official visits while he was committed and got his offer pulled when he took an official visit to Texas Tech. If SG-W is interested in Texas, or just wants to take advantage of all of the available trips, he may have had to de-commit to do so.
The way I see it is that he is interested in OSU. The only way to keep from burning that bridge while also checking out his other options, namely Texas, is to decommit. Nothing prevents him from re-committing to OSU after all. Andrew Raym did just that with OU.
That isn’t what happened here. It’s the same exact situation as Brynden Walker.
Myles Price situation was a very clear conversation that if they were going to take his commitment (literally 6-7 days before the summer dead period) and he would not take other visits and he agreed, and this was confirmed in August.
I can assure you they would take Goram-Welch back with open arms.
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Is that something that is standard for OSU or was that a special case for Myles Price?
A Texas kid playing at UT sets him up for life
More of a timing thing. Price had a visit scheduled for the next week to Texas Tech, which was 2 days before a ~3 month dead period began. So if he commits, OSU will stop trying to fill his spot, and if he decommits let’s say a few weeks later OSU is unable to get anyone else on campus or coach visits for 3 months.
In general this isn’t something that OSU does, more of a result of the timing and situation.
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And SG-W commits to Texas. I was never saying that couldn’t happen. Just sharing an alternate perspective.
Kids in Texas want to go to Texas…for some reason.