Recruiting wars are rarely decided in the trenches. They're decided on car rides home from Friday night lights, in living rooms where the sweet tea's gone lukewarm on the coffee table, and in the fourteen seconds between a text sent and a text answered. This September, with the leaves nowhere close to turning in North Texas but the calendar very much bending toward another Signing Day, Willie Fritz and his staff have decided there's still time to win a recruiting battle they were supposedly late walking into. The target is Jason Wooden—6-foot-2, 200 pounds, a do-it-all wideout out of Frisco…
A Coogs Coup in the Making? Houston's Late Charge for Iowa State Commit Jason Wooden

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