I could never get mad at you bro. Did Texas fans and their beat writer guy not realize how good Thompson was? I certainly had no idea, maybe he kind of snuck up on people with his performance.
Casey Thompson was well known & talked about a lot in Oklahoma when he was being recruited & picked Texas. Maybe the forgot about him in the last couple years, but he was a rivals 250 recruit when he picked Texas.
There’s a TV/radio guy in OKC that went to OU in the 60s & has been covering OU since. They had a 50 year anniversary party for him at a bar, live on the radio during his afternoon show. Switzer got on the mic a few drinks in and started talking about what the coaches had told him around Thompson, Cameron Rising & some other QB recruits before they had signed anywhere. He was a known enough commodity tipsy Switzer was talking about him on the radio in the middle of the afternoon while he was still a recruit.