Mannie Netherly

With a 27-man recruiting class in the books at Texas A&M, it's time to take a final, all-encompassing look at how the Aggies fared on National Signing Day. Billy Liucci breaks down the class Kevin Sumlin's staff inked and the way forward in the first piece of this two-part series.

As the football regular season turns toward its final weeks, TexAgs brings you the developing news and updates on the most coveted high school players in Texas.

Jason and I responded to a thread on the question, but I figured I'd start a new thread for clarity and eyeball purposes. Let's start with the biggest news on the day which is the firing of Les Miles in Baton Rouge. What guys will this affect? Well, I think it's obvious that the Ags' top Tiger target was, and still is, Jhamon Ausbon. It had already felt like A&M was gaining momentum here, and I think today only adds fuel to that fire. After Ausbon, I'd look at a guy like giant CyFair OL Austin Deculus. Kevin Sumlin and Jeff Banks were just saw him play live last Thursday. The general feeling with Deculus was that should he ever start shopping around, A&M would be where he would start. According to Twitter, he's being "patient" with everything. Continuing on, it'll be interesting to see if A&M reaches out to Livonia (LA) OLB Patrick Queen. This is a name Jason has brought up several times as a legitimate out of state option at LB should A&M look that way. Miles' departure could also have an impact on some of A&M's top remaining targets who had LSU on their leaderboards, most notably Marvin Wilson. Marv is a signing day decision so there's still a lot of time there. So much can happen in that time frame that it's too difficult to say at this point whether LSU is out of that sweepstakes. Terry Price was out to see North Shore DE K'Lavon Chaisson a couple weeks ago, but the Aggies had a lot of ground to make up there. Port Arthur Memorial CB Kary Vincent already tweeted that he wasn't going anywhere (I know that doesn't always mean it's a lock). I'd bet Crosby WR Mannie Netherly and IMG S Grant Delpit will be fielding quite a few phone calls from schools around the region and country, too. A few 2018 A&M targets that had LSU amidst their top schools are Houston Heights corner Jalen Green, CyCreek WR Miles Battle, Yoakum WR Joshua Moore, and Ridge Point TE Mustapha Muhammad.It's important to remember that A&M won't be the only school after some of these guys both in 2017 and 2018. I saw one tweet that referenced "open season" to all schools in terms of raiding the Bayou Bengals' class. We'll see how much movement actually happens. Lastly, could Hutto's Ondario Robinson be adding his name to the Ags' commit list this coming week? I'm hearing that's a great possibility. Definitely something to watch there.