Bodacious Bevo

He hasn't OV'd but he's visited a ton and we started recruiting him long before his other top schools. Timeline could move up because of Arch Madness and Derek Williams Jr's commitment (ie LA momentum)

I feel like people are reading way too much into every tweet. I read that as her saying Billy Walton was one of the Sark After Dark guys the past couple nights ('people wanted a commit to announce, here you are')

According to his 247 timeline, he's taken OVs to A&M, Michigan State, Oregon, and Arkansas Has one scheduled for Florida in October. UF isn't doing too hot though so maybe we can snipe it

Williams gave Suchomel this quote after originally telling him (i.e. right before he left Austin) he was going to wait until the Fall : “A lot of things kind of changed,” Williams said. “I recognized the decision I’d been wanting to make. It felt like right time, knowing Arch (Manning) just committed a few days go. Then with all the other players that just committed from the 23 class coming in.” Never let someone tell you momentum in recruiting isn't real

Suchomel says Markis Deal will visit the last week of July when the dead period lifts. Unsure if it's an OV.

Suchomel had a write up on the weekend And some other info taken from his comments

Roach actually met Evan Stewart too

JFC Mike His big Arch nugget was that he saw his uncles last night. Eli tweeted out a photo of them all together And he ended three sentences in a row with anyway

good news is nothing he told a gaggle of reporters at a media day practice should carry any weight

hahaha he wants to see our performance during the season we're so fucked

I can see how it would read that way. Meant it as through the Tech game.

Tech was game 4, OU was game 6

Not to belabor the point, but after the Tech game I charted all of Casey’s deep balls (20+ air yards past the LOS). Not knowing at the time that would be his best stretch of the season. 1/10, 23 yards, TD, 2 INT, 1 PI (stats don’t include: 1 blatant missed PI; 1 play where Marcus Washington fell down with the ball in the air; and 1 ~25 yard fluke completion where he horribly overthrow his intended receiver, who was ~15 yards downfield)

I don't have a ton of answers for you. I just don't want us to tear each other down when it's not warranted. I've heard the coaches told the freshmen OL that they wouldn't sign any transfers during their recruitments. Which makes sense to me when the options are guys like Curtis Dunlap, who ended up at Rutgers. Could they have gone back on that later in the spring once we had some guys of our own enter the portal and the depth issues are literally being broadcast on national TV? Maybe. On defense I've honestly got no clue what we're doing. Recruiting guys to the portal is messy business. I know I wouldn't want to do it and I don't think the folks that are publicly attached to our big initiatives should be the ones doing it either. Maybe that's the piece we're missing, but I'll also add that none of us would know whether we're doing it unless a we did it poorly or we landed a super big fish (and I guess Quinn Ewers doesn't qualify?). Or maybe we would, I dunno.

This is revisionist history. The only school that got an earlier start than us on NIL was Oregon. Don't conflate what other schools are doing now, almost a year out, to what the guys on this board did in 3-6 months. And also don't conflate issues with direction/organization from the coaching staff to poor effort by fans/donors. I'm not saying there are issues on either side, just that the two are not the same. Also, literally everyone is playing by the rules in NIL. There are no more "traditional rules" or gentleman's agreements in back rooms. The contracts are subject to state laws and can be PIA'd. The rules are the rules and they are clear. You can read them here.

Good news is you can do this on your own without having to go through the facade that is charity. I've done a couple NIL deals with Texas athletes. DM me and I will send you the contracts in mad lib form so that you can just fill in names, amounts, obligations, etc. Looking forward to your contribution.

Here's what Anwar said: I can confirm that Texas receiver Marcus Washington is expected to formally enter the transfer portal. Inside Texas was the first to report the news.Washington is not officially listed in the portal. However, barring a last-minute decision to remain in Austin, Washington will leave the Longhorns.In addition, Texas cornerback Jahdae Barron is considering entering the portal. His decision has not been finalized and there is a chance he will stay at Texas.We will keep you posted.

I generally buy the first part. PK has had plenty of defenses that featured attacking DL. Several of those guys were high draft picks. He also usually featured single high looks very prominently, often as his base defense. But that requires a FS with range. The shit we saw last year does not match PK's usual schemes. That said, even if he was trying to compensate for the back end, he did so poorly. It was an absolute failure.

Planning for 2025 is insane. There's plenty of cases that show elite coaches can rebuild programs in 2 years. Talent cycles change so fast in CFB. There's no reason to already have resigned yourself to four years of mediocrity under Sark before maybe competing. Get it together man.

This is a false dichotomy. We already signed the 22 class. We don't need to worry about scholarship numbers or how adding a transfer will affect a high school recruitment. Any holes that we have next year but are covered by a grad transfer this year will be waiting for us regardless. Go get guys that will help win football games. Winning is good for the culture. It's essential for recruiting. More quality guys on the roster improves development of younger pieces. Making a bowl game gives you 15 more practices and an extra game for the team.

Well the potential negative for playing the wrong OL is your QB getting FUBAR'd so I have to disagree. And FWIW I generally agree with how the staff handled the portal/high school numbers back in December when the portal options were much less appealing I feel like you spend enough time on the recruiting board for me to say your takes on this page are baaad. You think Arch is going to come play for a team that misses a second straight bowl under Sark? Johntay Cook? Rueben Owens? Literally everybody wants Sark to build our program with high school recruits. The point is that he's not going to be able to do that unless he can show progress in the win column this year. If he goes in-home in late December while other schools are prepping for their bowl games, no recruit is going to listen to him say, "Well the reason we only won 5 games this year is because I'm developing our OL for 2023 and 2024, trust me bro"

Really? Not a weakness in any way? Even the practice reports during peak koolaid season haven't been particularly positive. Haven't there been several days with a bunch of reported drops? I'll continue to be skeptical of the group until we have more than one guy consistently prove it on the field. Or at least until we move past the point where catching the ball is a major point of interest in practice. X is great. Neyor is probably good, maybe great. JWhitt is good but not great when healthy. Casey Cain and Brennen Thompson might be good but definitely don't factor into my expectations for this year. Nobody else should be seen as a plus player on a conference championship level team. I feel like our standards at WR have really fallen the last couple years.

Surely, this was, an attempt, to be, @Hank Scorpio, (let me, get a, couple, more, commas, for good, measure,,,,,,,,,,,,,,), Also I'm hoping we see additions from the go go no matter who the QB is. Sark won't go for the triple option stuff, but it would be another way for us to scheme away from a weakness (WR) and towards a strength (RB). So far the practice reports have mentioned 12 personnel a lot but I haven't seen anything about the go go. Sark pls.

So, OB gets clowned on, but I actually like Alex Dunlap's work covering the OL. I've pulled some stuff from his final post on the 2021 season. He has a grading scale called Deep Dig that grades each snap. He also tracks disruption allowed. Here are the 2021 stats. Here's some stuff that gives historical context Personally, I think our OL hopes and dreams ride on Kelvin Banks. That's not a great spot to be. The interior should be ok. Angilau is reliably above average. Conner showed some alright stuff that makes me think he can be serviceable. Majors has always done some things really well but been hampered by deficient core strength and weight. Year three or four has always been my timeline for him since his flashes as a freshman, so hopefully Kyle Flood locks him in the weight room with hourly protein shake deliveries. He's probably still a year away though. Shit gets real looking at tackle. Jones and Karic are a bit depressing. We can probably figure something out at RT between those two and someone from Campbell/Neto/Cam. LT is an entirely different story. There's a very specific play where Jones got pantsed that haunted my nightmares for awhile but I've managed to repress that shit deep down. The flashbacks are gone but the sour taste remains every time I take a sip of the koolaid. I don't really see a fix there unless Banks can play there. He doesn't need to be a worldbeater, just freshman Vahe/Williams/Kerstetter level. We had some shitty lines under Herman but at least we had Conner Williams and Sam Cosmi to anchor us at LT. And when we didn't due to injury, it got ugly.

40% by quantity, sure, and it's an incomplete list Sark isn't the first to have a bunch of talented dudes visit. Hell, Herman landed like fifteen 4 stars in 2 months in summer of 2020. That's a lot more impressive than anything Sark has done in recruiting and he was fired within six months. And I'm not bashing Sark. I'd give him a solid B+ (in recruiting) so far. Let's just keep narratives honest