Every summer, Texas A&M’s annual recruiting pool party—during the last weekend in July— takes center stage for every fan and media member ahead of each impending football season.
This year, the 2024 and 2025 recruiting cycles are well represented in College Station for the next two days, as the Aggies Top 15-ranked 2024 recruiting class with 18 verbal commitments, including five wide receivers consisting of Cameron Coleman (five-star), Drelon Miller (four-star), Jaylan Hornsby (four-star), Debron Gatling (four-star), and Earnest Campbell (three-star).
Keeping the focus on the position, one of the hands-down best players in the cycle, five-star wide receiver Micah Hudson, will attend the pool party this weekend. A consistent favorite to land with Texas Tech for quite some time, Hudson’s long-term program flirtation mirrors for five-star wide receiver and current Aggie Evan Stewarts’ flip from the Texas Longhorns just two short years ago, whose attendance at the pool party that summer essentially sealed the deal, and the rest is history.
On Thursday, Rivals’ National Recruiting Director Adam Gorney’s “Fact or Fiction” debate with recruiting analyst Cole Patterson touched on Hudson’s collegiate future, explicitly asking the question, “Is Texas A&M becoming a serious threat to Texas Tech for five-star WR Micah Hudson?” Like myself, Gorney believes that the Aggies are serious contenders for Hudson, who will also visit Texas Tech this weekend.
“There now seems to be a debate whether Micah Hudson will visit Texas Tech or Texas A&M this weekend and that makes this whole thing so much more interesting.
It almost felt like an inevitability that at some point over the last five weeks or so that Hudson was going to commit to Texas Tech. Even behind the scenes, all the necessary steps were taken to break the news and get content out there. But then we waited, and waited, and waited and nothing happened. It’s as if Hudson planned to make his announcement for the Red Raiders and then was convinced to hold off.And that’s what sources now say happened. It was not Texas that caused the delay mainly but Texas A&M making another run at him and trying to convince him to be in College Station this weekend. If that happens, recruiting momentum can be an interesting thing. Texas Tech still looks great here but until Hudson commits – and then signs – this one might not be over.”
Adam Gorney is one of the best recruiting insiders our industry has to offer, so I take this with much more than a grain of salt, and as I’ve reminded our readers throughout the week leading up to the pool party, a bulk of Texas A&M’s 2024 commits will also be on campus this weekend to aid Jimbo Fisher and his staff in courting players like Hudson, who may just be one selling point away from shocking all of us in the best way possible.
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