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Everyone is Terrible and Incredible: Scouting recruits through Youtube

Basketball season is drawing near, and I'm trying to get familiar with the incoming freshmen. In previous years, this process generally consisted of me watching a Youtube clip or two and texting friends who pay attention to players before they actually set foot on campus. I relied on their input and the fact that Longhorn fans don't realize there's a basketball team until January as a chance to ramp up on my own. (One of the perks of being a guy writing about a team that gets a minority of the fan attention is there are less people around to notice how incredibly wrong you are about a new player.