Texas Football: 3 biggest recruiting disasters under Tom Herman

3) Worst Texas football recruiting disasters for Herman: Losing Rondale Moore

This part of the list of the recruiting disasters for the Longhorns under Herman’s direction is more of a hindsight viewpoint than it was worth panicking when it first happened. When Texas lost the commitment of the former four-star wide receiver recruit Rondale Moore, it looked like a somewhat minor mishap for Herman and his 2018 class.

Moore was a 5-foot-9 and 175 pound skill position product hailing out of Trinity High School in Louisville, KY. He had initially committed to Texas on June 25, 2017, but was still taking some visits to Big Ten schools in the months following. He took visits to competing schools like the Ohio State Buckeyes and Purdue Boilermakers.

It took roughly six months for Moore to decommit from Texas and then flip to Purdue. He wound up choosing Purdue over offers from Texas and more than 30 other schools. The other highlighting schools on his offer sheet included the Alabama Crimson Tide, Georgia Bulldogs, Kentucky Wildcats, Louisville Cardinals, Mizzou Tigers, Ole Miss Rebels, Penn State Nittany Lions, South Carolina Gamecocks, and West Virginia Mountaineers.

Moore ranked as the nation’s No. 229 2018 high school prospect, No. 41 wide receiver, and the top overall prospect out of Kentucky (247Sports Composite). And the Top247 ranked him as the nation’s No. 118 high school prospect, No. 18 wide receiver, and the top prospect out of Kentucky.

What more has produced for Purdue thus far is 1,861 total yards from scrimmage (1,645 receiving) and 18 total touchdowns in just 17 games played. He’s ultra efficient and one of the nation’s biggest weapons when he’s healthy.