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Isn’t Smalls the guy that was an Oregon/Washington battle and had drama about one of the schools (I think Oregon) negative recruiting the other as racist?

please stop quoting

Josh Henson (the OL coach that many of them signed to play for) is now at USC That really is a crazy coincidence though lol. Your program is one of the most vulnerable to poaching and your old OL coach just happen to leave for the most aggressive tampering team

trill committed to the good guys

Scipio's post mortem. Here's the text version.

UGA On3 updated and said Hudson will not be visiting

Just for context, Sark was asked about players that have made the most progress this spring as pass rushers, not who the best pass rushers are. So not holding it against Sorrell.

Well, we’ve got the three freshmen, two attrition candidates (Cain and Alexis), and two guys hoping to go to the league (Neyor and Mitchell). We probably return five. Not great but adding a guy like Micah Hudson helps obviously. We’ll be an attractive spot for transfers but impact players are expensive and we’ll have other holes to fill.

that was probably just me or someone else forgetting to take him off

Agree with this assessment. He's fast and he plays physically for his size. Track may slow down his development, but that was part of it from the start. Would people complain if Duce came then followed through on playing baseball? Staggering development curves isn't a bad thing regardless. We could end up a bit thin in 2024 but it's too early to start worrying about that. At least we won't have to face him if he goes to a TCU/OSU/Tech/etc. Also, I've updated the sticky with the latest developments.

On Texas is IT They can push the buttons without it meaning a maturity or mental issue. It just means they're creating competition and pushing him.

Chad Simmons had this in an article: 2025 4-star RB Jordon Davison The buzz: It is very early for Jordon Davison, yet the elite 2025 running back is already a national recruit with options across the country. The school trending early for him is Texas. He has visited Austin multiple times and has bonded with running backs coach Tashard Choice. Davison is very high on Texas’ board and based on intel, the feelings are mutual. Davison is not close to a decision, but the Longhorns are in a good position and I have put a pick in for Texas on the On3 Recruiting Prediction Machine. He followed up with this in the comments: Everything I hear about Jordon Davison tells me Texas is the early favorite. I know he is HIGH on Choice, he likes Austin and he and Jerrick Gibson have been in communication as well. Gerry had this in a separate article on Gibson: In continuing to speak with a source close to Sunshine State recruiting in the Southwest part of the state, the Longhorns’ January lead for Gibson has continued to increase ahead of the June official visits. With that said, I’m entering an On3 Recruiting Prediction pick at 80% for Texas to eventually land one of the nation’s top prospects in the 2024 cycle. He's also said in some of the IT videos that a Gibson source has said they would be shocked if he didn't pick the good guys.

Look man, the two categories (lock vs. should be lock) were splitting hairs from the start. It was just my attempt to distinguish from guys who are definitely going to the NFL next year (mostly upperclassmen) from underclassmen that could conceivably entertain returning with a bad year, hence the Rattler example. I'm high on both guys and not really interested a pedantic argument. Not sure why you're so offended. I'll leave this at saying I'm expecting Quinn, X, and the rest of the team to ball out this year. Conference chip here we come. PS I appreciate that you tag me whenever you insult me. I would have missed the quote notifications.

Well fuck me for trying to start a substantive discussion, I guess. Let me rename the categories and move Watts and Collins. I'll also throw Gbenda and Crawford in there. Re: Ewers, I think he's a first round pick next year, but I didn't have him in the locks category because there are conceivable scenarios where he returns. What if he tears his ACL in the fall? Another year could significantly improve his grade. Spencer Rattler went from projected first overall to undrafted in a year, so it's always possible, hence my hedging. Worthy would be a case of improving stock, but again, I think he's 99% gone next year. The third category was my bad. I meant guys that are seniors+, hence locks to go pro, but that they might not be drafted. I think Watts has his COVID year though. Locks: Sweat, Ford, Jones, Barron, Collins, Sanders Should be locks Will go pro barring disaster: Worthy, Ewers I'd say locks but they might be UDFA Out of eligibility and probably UDFA: Robinson, Whittington, Watts Theoretically could happen: Murphy, Sorrell, Brooks, Crawford, Gbenda I think they'll have eligibility and questionable pro prospects: Majors, Thompson ?s: Catalon, Mitchell, Holmes

Alright for the sake of discussion: guys that could be drafted after next year Locks: Sweat, Ford, Jones, Barron, Watts, Sanders Should be locks: Worthy, Ewers I'd say locks but they might be UDFA: Robinson, Whittington Theoretically could happen: Collins, Murphy I think they'll have eligibility and questionable pro prospects: Majors, Thompson ?s: Catalon, Mitchell, Holmes Is it crazy to think we could be looking at 6-10 draftees? The most we've had since the turn of the century is 7 in 2007. Different era with COVID years and transfers, but this really speaks to the amount of talent we've got this year. Of course that cuts both ways with NIL incentivizing some guys to stay. Let's go win the damn thing.

It is Terrell. His evaluations are definitely different than a lot of the sites, sometimes for better and sometimes for worse. I remember he was much higher on Cam Williams than pretty much everyone. He think Muhammad is a safety which is why he says we missed on all our corners.

This Angilau writeup by an Oregon guy is worth reading. It touches on a lot of other parts of the offense (scheme, coaching). https://www.addictedtoquack.com/2023/3/22/23649443/quacking-the-roster-ol-transfer-junior-angilau "But I think Flood had a lot of work to do in reversing poor development done for the previous three years by his predecessor, Herb Hand – within the film reviewer community there’s a list floating around of position coaches whom we can’t believe keep getting work, and his name is at the top." It's beyond me how Ian Boyd gets paid to write about football when there's content like this out there for free

Others have gotten into the issues with line yards. You're right when you say it's an ok metric generally - but Bijan and Rojo are not general backs. They're going to improve any kind of statistical metric. Brooks only got carries in blowouts (ULM, OU, KU). I don't even think he ran behind the starting OL so his stats can't go to support their performance. And there are services that chart every play, as you suggest. PFF and Alex Dunlap. Those all tell the story that the interior OL struggled with run blocking for much of the year but that they did have some good games. Bama was especially impressive to me. And overall, that's understandable for two young guys. The reason the narrative exists is because it's generally true.

Bobby said this morning that Texas is still recruiting Duce, but Gerry reported yesterday that he hosted USC and UGA for in-homes earlier this week but not us. It's probably one of those two.

Is their junior day today or tomorrow?

If we're making predictions: 11 is still the base. Worthy will be the motion man We still see a lot of 12 and a healthy amount of Jumbo TE We won't see much 10 but we will see more empty Mitchell lets Sark run the offense he wants but he's not going to change what that offense is. Sark had 4 1st round receivers at Bama and still ran 11 with a lot of 12.

I get Brian Hartline is a longshot, but there are two other guys you have to call and make them say no: Kyle Shanahan and Dameyune Craig

Incredible I was in the camp of 'well maybe it still works for them because he's a good football mind,' then I looked up his offensive rankings... Almost as many years outside the top 50 in points per game than in the top 25 for his career. Best finish without Lamar in the past decade was 52. Last FBS offense was ranked 122. Significantly worse than I had been thinking.

Y'all need to calm down. Our roster is in a good spot. I've got us for 10 wins next year even if we don't add a transfer. Assuming X stays, the offense depends far more on Quinn's development than a transfer WR. Most discussion seems to be around the defense though. This staff is going to develop players. We've got a lot of options to replace Ovie.. I haven't given up on Crawford at safety either and Holmes gives us a lot of options to move guys to that spot. PK has fielded elite defenses with far less talent than we'll have on campus in a month. It was understandable to doubt him last offseason, but personally, he's earned my trust back. They stood by a far less proven roster last year and it worked out great.

Moore enters at the 30ish with the other guy at the 33ish. Pushes him out at the 12. Angle adds 3.78 (triangle would be 51 yards along sideline and he's about 20 yards inside (if hashes are 18 yards in)). We don't know where the pursuit actually started though. So let's call it 7 yards.