CDub06 said:

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Am I the only one surprised this many players signed to a program without a head coach or any indication as to where the program is headed? Especially the out of staters.

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We provide full scholarship. That's worth a bunch

Most of them will enroll midterm, so they can evaluate if they like the new coach and their style, too.

And another:

Bound for College Station! Welcome, Ireland 👍#GigEm pic.twitter.com/p13L5RZ8We

— Texas A&M Soccer (@AggieSoccer) November 14, 2025

Many of these Cali girls can play, though. It's a solid class.

Churchill, Lacher, and Ruiz are all excellent. So is Nguyen ('27).
We may be losing most of the big Texas recruiting battles, but we are winning some big names from out West for kids who should become genuine impact players.

Thanks for posting the tweet about Ireland. It makes it 7 out of 7. I think this is incredible with the coaching change.

Just guessing, of course, but some of it might be that it was too late to change to another large school whilst a lot of it was that it is a full scholarship at a large SEC school, they want to play in the SEC, they liked Aggieland so at least give it a shot and, perhaps, their faith that all will work out with a new coach (and possibly an entirely new staff).

I think it will be really good motivation for the players. In part because they will want to prove to the new coach that they are really good and that's why they were recruited. The returning players will have the same motivation, too, and this should be a good thing for the program.

I am from Texas and like to see Texas players recruited but I say go after the best players wherever they are from.

Although they are months away I am really excited for the Spring matches !!

Gig 'Em !!!

It's not working out well for Texas, but they have one of the worst coaches in the country. It is working out quite well for UNC, Virginia, TCU, Stanford, Duke, Notre Dame, Florida State, etc and everyone else who routinely lands the consensus best freshman recruits in the country (including NTX).
Pretending that we are getting our fair share of the elite players from our own Texas backyard is silly. It's pretty obvious that hasn't been happening the past decade. Also silly to pretend that we are purposefully passing on those players to instead bring in better ones with less hype. We have had limited success in recruiting top Texas for the better part of a decade now, but the good news for the next few years is it looks like our out-of-state efforts have born some promising fruit.

jessexy said:

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It also says "assistant coach Strader" in the article instead of interim head coach.

His comments on the single Texas player in the class state she played for FC Dallas while the article states she played for Solar SC. This has to be the prime example of why we can't recruit DFW. Can't even get the recruits club correct in the announcement of their signing. At least make it match.

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Would it blow your mind that both are correct. She played for Solar up until this ECNL season.....and now she is playing with FC Dallas. Half the Solar '08 team went to FCD this season. It's Dallas - it happens more than you'd think.

I don't know why this matters and it has nothing to do with recruiting. From what I can tell the article is not inaccurate. She played at Solar and she IS on the Current FCD Roster. As mentioned by another post, many do the Solar 08 team departed for FCD last season. They went from amazing to ok because they had a gazillion unfortunate injuries in a very short timeframe. Happens all the time. I can send you the roster if needed.

You're the one who brought the article here. In the article it says Played: Solar Soccer Club which is technically correct. She played for Solar soccer club the entire time she was being recruited and up to her verbal. Strader correctly points out that she plays for FC Dallas. One is past tense and the other is present tense. Arguing about this is about as silly as trying to say the article is the reason why we can't recruit DFW kids. Some intern or manager probably put the article together from boiler plate write-ups done last year and added the current quotes form Strader. It has nothing to do with the lack of recruitment in the DFW area. The lack of recruitment has more to do with the style of play and product put on the field the last ten years. There were probably 10-12 former FCE and Solar players on the field when Baylor and TCU matched up earlier this year and both teams played a better style of soccer than A&M. If you throw in Tech, you probably had 10-12 all Big-12 first or second team selections from DFW. But all three of those teams are playing a better style (and having more success) than A&M the last few years. Kids who are soccer players want to go somewhere they can enjoy playing soccer and win. There is a style of soccer played (or attempted to be played) in much of DFW and most of the teams in the SEC (with the exception of Vandy and Georgia) are more concerned with big and fast than soccer skills and understanding of the game.