Potentially the biggest detriment to the 2020 Texas football recruiting class thus far during the 2019 college football off-season was the decommitment of four-star St. Louis, MO, athlete Mookie Cooper. He decommitted from the 2020 Texas football recruiting class less than two months after he gave his original pledge to the program.
The original source it seemed that pulled Cooper away from his Texas football commitment was former Chicago Bears head coach Lovie Smith and the Illinois Fighting Illini. The decommitment from Cooper hovered around the same time between as a key visit to Illinois. The Fighting Illini are also present among his five finalist schools that were announced on June 4.