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Bodacious Bevo

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  1. Orlando's ability to quickly install his defenses at all his stops is a good point I hadn't considered. 2017's defense was elite but had a tendency to gave up some big plays. We don't have the same talent at LB as that defense, so our ceiling is lower, but it's definitely still a positive sign. Lately I've been starting to think that Coburn might be the most important non-Sam player on the team next year. If he steps up and starts to command consistent double teams, I think that gives Orlando more freedom to play around with personnel. Put another way: I think Coburn could be the key to having a defense with Overshown/Brown on the field rather than Dele. I'm interested to hear if others agree/disagree.
  2. UH gave up 70 to Army. They'll need a lot more than 40. I'm not counting on them to even keep it close.
  3. Wow, his dad needs to back off. Let the kid go where he wants. I hate when parents get involved in the kids recruitment, unless their last name starts with B or R. Otherwise let the kid make their own choice.
  4. It’ll be interesting to see if we get back in with Eaton. IIRC we were pretty strong favorites back when we offered
  5. The one thing I thought was missing from Bowman's hudl was tackling, but he mentioned in an interview with Suchomel that he's moving from corner to safety this season and he's glad he'll be able to play downhill more often and improve his tackling. I love it when kids have an understanding of things they need to improve on. Also his hudl song choice was a classic so I'm giving him bonus points for that.
  6. The real newest narrative is that they’re scheduling FCS schools in order to supposed lower tier football. They make us sound like charity. Whatever would the FCS schools do without the generous and altruistic Texas A&M Aggies?
  7. I’d been wondering what LV stood for
  8. I knew their run game was bad, I just didn’t realize it was that bad. Also it’s kinda sad that ours improved so much last year and still ranked behind theirs. Part of that was the use of the QB run in short downs and our general ball control style, but still. As for rankings, in my mind JT Daniels wasn’t a good QB on paper. Even though he was highly ranked, a reclassified true freshman screams team weakness. That’s where I’m coming from.
  9. “The Trojans were a better team in paper than LSU” is the part that I disagree with pretty staunchly. As for rushing offenses, they’re pretty similar so an argument could be made there. I looked up their rankings and LSU was a lot worse than I thought. LSU ranked 81st last year in rushing S&P+. USC was 78. We were 98 though so that’s depressing. I know LSU signed two really good backs last year that are supposed to be instant upgrades at the position.
  10. Sorry, must’ve missed it among all the other important discussions /s
  11. Looks like a DT from Willie Tyler's JUCO visited yesterday
  12. His mom told OB they want to decide soon, before his fall practices start. Maybe this weekend.
  13. This might be common knowledge at this point, but the Super Bowl was a perfect example of the impact that this can have. The Pats D waited until the McVay's mic in Goff's helmet cut off with 15 seconds left on the play clock to get set in their defense. Without McVay to help him, Goff was pretty bad and the Rams offense put up 3 points.
  14. I'm sorry but this USC example is awful. Specifically the part about saying they were a better team on paper than LSU. USC sucked last year. It's like comparing our 2016 team to a NY6 bowl winner that year. Talent "on paper" doesn't matter. As Texas fans we should know that better than anybody. Discussion of the upcoming season should be based around the skill levels of the players in 2019, not how they were rated as freshmen. And it's pretty obvious that LSU in 2019 will be significantly better than USC in 2018. Comparing them in that way is pretty disingenuous and I think you know that. I think using USC as a data point of how our defense performs against pro-style offenses is fine, and the rushing yardage is an interesting point. My opinion is that our defense can play the run well, but they don't always do so. USC, UGA, OU2 were elite run defense performances, but the defense didn't perform like that consistently. Maybe they will against LSU, but I don't think that's a given. Coburn could really raise the ceiling of our defense, but replacing Omenihu is going to be tough and Mac is a total question mark. Wheeler was bad but at least we knew he could be ok against USC, UGA, LSU, etc. We can't say that about Adeoye or whoever else wins the spot yet.
  15. This might be one of my favorite takes I've seen on Surly
  16. Ingram/Whittington is a much better depth chart for a JUCO than most other major programs. OU got Stevenson despite Brooks/Sermon being firmly entrenched as starters and being much more productive than Ingram/Whitt. Plus Marcus Majors in the same class and another 4* sophomore. Of course OU recruits skill position guys much more effectively than Drayton and has shown they can have multiple 1k rushers in a season, but my point is just that it can be done. As much as we love Ingram/Whitt, a RB room that consists of 2 guys with 700 total yards between them and no current RBs committed is a better opportunity for JUCOs than most other major programs.
  17. What's the JUCO RB outlook like this year? There's only one ranked on 247 and it's a 3* to Memphis. JUCOs seem to pop up late in the cycle so maybe that's a route we can explore. Maybe someone like Rhamondre Stevenson will pop up. I'd be kind of ok with Jordan/Richardson and a high floor JUCO. It'd be dissappointing but it wouldn't
  18. Hell no. What the fuck is going on in this page? Evans is a top 10 player in the country. He'd be our best RB in like a decade the second he got on campus. Do y'all really think our locker room and coaching staff are so fragile that Evans would hurt us? But he'd be fine anywhere else?
  19. Chris Thompson Jr.
  20. The post was from Suchomel and said 4 in the next week or two. Davis and CTJ are almost guaranteed as 2 He recently put in picks for Brandon Campbell and Latrell Neville, both of whom will be there this weekend, so I'm guessing one of them is the other. Neville is apparently looking to decide in early August now He also said there was one other maybe that he needed to check on
  21. Such says Karic weighed 255 during a visit in June
  22. Gotta read the fine print. Those were the best OTs that camped at A&M. I'm guessing that Byrd and Brockermeyer didn't camp at A&M
  23. When he says "the three" I think he's referring to Princely/Thomas/Jackson not Princely/VB/Collins
  24. He posts in the YT comments of Collin Johnson's vlogs sometimes
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