Bodacious Bevo

It'll be interesting to see how the visit dates shake out. The last weekend for OVs is the 31st and he's doing Mizzou and Bama the two weekends prior. He has said UGA will get the last visit and Such made it sound like our visit will also be in the last week. Also Rakestraw has said he might just commit on the spot during a visit if it feels right so getting the last one may not be as important here.

This CTJ/Harvdog bullshit is exhausting, but I'm so interested to see where it goes. Really raises the stakes on a recruitment I'd otherwise not care much about.

Based on the Athletic on the Baylor DL this year, it sounds like Okam is the teacher and the other DL coach is the personable one. That would lead me to believe the other guy is the recruiter, but it doesn't talk about recruiting in the article. So, Okam sounds like another Giles. Which is fine, imo. I'm a fan of bringing him on. I just don't know if he's the rainmaker DL recruiter we've been discussing for the last couple of years.

Anwar is also hinting Valai as of about an hour ago

Brian Davis said it first so Wescott probably just saw it on his TL and wrote up an article for clicks

Member when Looch said that they might land 4 RBs including 2 of the Smith/Ngata/Evans trio?

If he was never interested he wouldn’t have interviewed and they wouldn’t have waited several weeks to announce it. USC benefited from resolving that situation as quickly as possible. I find it hard to believe that Harrell turns down an 800k raise and proximity to home to stay at USC

Harrell’s new contract is only 1.2MM/year. I can’t find what his old contract was, but this link says it was over 1MM. https://www.google.com/amp/s/syndication.bleacherreport.com/amp/2818138-report-north-texas-oc-graham-harrell-to-be-uscs-next-offensive-coordinator.amp.html To me that says we backed off otherwise USC would have had to offer a lot more. Or Harrell is really bad at negotiating lol

Bucknuts one week ago: "Day said last Monday that he would 'be surprised' if any other coaches left the program. 'I think we're in pretty good shape, pretty solid. I've not heard of anything otherwise.'" https://247sports.com/college/ohio-state/Article/Ohio-State-Buckeyes-football-coaching-changes-Ryan-Day-Jeff-Hafley-Mike-Yurcich-Corey-Dennis-141006352/ But yeah, sure, I'm sure that Day spent the week before the CFP thinking about staff changes and telling Yurcich to look elsewhere.

"Had Texas taken care of business this year, X would probably be committed already" is going to be infuriating to read over and over again for the next 6 months

I assume this is what the TFB article was about

Now that Jordan has flipped do y'all think we have a chance with Evans as our RB2?

I was wondering if Watson Sr. was involved in our late interest in Georgia guys (Gibbs, Battle, I think there was another CB that signed with someone else yesterday). It would make sense if the staff is looking for new targets.

He's told the story multiple times before. Just never included the double bird when telling it publicly. https://www.si.com/college/texas/football/texas-football-tom-herman-talks-red-river-rivalry/

Give me Ossai at WDE if he can handle another 10-20 pounds. Juwan would probably be good at that role though.

Well, we've had 6 decommits since the midpoint of the season. More than a quarter of the class. That's really bad. Granted, we've recruited well enough the two previous cycles that we don't need this one to be successful in 2020 and 2021, if we have a great class next year. That 'if' is the reason everyone is freaking out. Win the conference and we're off to the races, but that isn't looking likely. Herman has shown no capacity for self-evaluation. Without the changes we need, we win 7-9 next year and waste an outrageously talented 2021 recruiting class in Texas. I don't think I've seen you on the recruiting board, but it's a mistake to be so casual about recruiting losses. College football is an arms race. The elite prospects we lose next year will go to LSU, OU, Baylor, etc. and bite us in the ass later. And the guys from the 18 and 19 classes leave us. That's how you get stuck in mediocrity. Even just looking at the 6 guys we lost this cycle, statistically, would have turned out to be something like 1 star, 1 solid starter, and a couple solid rotation guys. Some of them were unavoidable, but Johnston wasn't. Herman just needed to make a hire in two weeks and we probably hang on. Instead, we're literally at square one for our offensive staff, 16 days later, except now the pool of available coaches has shrunk significantly because every other school has approached their vacancies with the sense of urgency that should be expected.

There are so many great options for the WR coach too. It's going to be near impossible for Herman to fuck it up. But we're waiting so long. JFC Tom.

Already hired at Auburn

IT is also saying Harrell is unlikely

Agreed. This is a case where the stats lie. Our offense was good statistically, but we averaged 19.3 points against conference defenses with a pulse (i.e. top 50 by defensive FEI). We lost more games because of our offense than our defense. I think we can count on defensive improvement next year due to talent and experience, but that can't be said about the offense. Tom will need to make changes or our offense will struggle again next year. We averaged less than 30ppg in conference play. We're not going to contend for the conference like that.

Herman and his staff came dangerously close to losing the locker room last year. So yeah, I wanted Herman to go outside his circle and hire someone that would be able to help assuage the significant interpersonal issues that are everywhere in our program right now. Instead we got Ash, whose history as it pertains to player relationships is questionable. His past with Herman makes me skeptical that he will ever take the side of the players. I have other concerns too, but I wanted to explain why I don't like the comfort hire aspect specifically.

He also said offensive game planning is taking up too much of his time, but it sounds like he wants to remain intimately involved with the offense

Funny that you're hearing the same thing Nahlin is hearing minutes after he posts it