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Look at how he's locked in for next year. Already carbo-loading for week 1.

I think they usually sign a memorandum of understanding so that the coach can start working while the contract details are worked out and approved by the BOR. IIRC that's why A&M announced Adazzio getting an extension in like October of this past year when his previous contract had expired 10 months before. They had a MOU in place in between.

The 2023 Texas Longhorns football season was awesome. Let's relive and appreciate it in this thread. Each Monday, I'm going to post the highlights, every play, and broadcast replay for our games this year. We can take the week to watch and discuss, book club style. If I did my math right, the last game will be posted the week leading up to the spring game. Here are some guiding questions for discussion: What are your general thoughts on the game? What were your thoughts back when the game was played? Did you see anything on rewatch that you missed during the season? What players were underappreciated for their performance? In hindsight, how did the team's performance fit in with season trends? Did you see anything from young guys that will be stepping into larger roles in 2024? Game 1 was against the Rice Owls, of course. Highlights Every Play Broadcast

Boyd's not wrong. Sark is going to run the ball. Our offense is still going to be multiple with 12 personnel , 21, and jumbo sets mixed in to base. We've got great RBs too.

Why is everyone questioning my inclusion of Rutgers in Tier 2!?

FSU already agreed to the deal

just checking to see if anybody would read it or if everyone else also just scrolls past all this stuff like I do Hopefully we see some dominoes in the secondary

Criteria (in order): prestige/history, access to talent (location is biggest but not only factor), NIL capabilities, in-state competition (if access to talent is predicated on that) Tier 1 (no particular order within tiers): Texas, Alabama, Georgia, Ohio State, Michigan, USC Tier 2: A&M, Notre Dame, Florida, Florida State, LSU, Rutgers, Penn State, Oklahoma, Oregon, Penn State, Tennessee Tier 3: Miami, Washington, Clemson, Nebraska, Michigan State

Jackson was an upgrade over Marion if only for his ability to manage the WR room

Read the first page before Christmas and just caught up. Apologies in advance for the length and multi-quote. Background: I joined surly when the new site started. I was never on shaggy, HF, etc. I used to be more active on the LonghornNation subreddit and am still friends with some of their mods but I rarely go there much anymore. My internet consumption is mostly surly, youtube, some reddit, and a little bit of twitter (mostly Longhornfrenzy when those sweet, sweet aggy tears are flowing). I was on a Texas podcast for a couple years Anyways here's a couple ideas I've liked in the thread and also some stuff that I'm willing to take the mantle on at the end I'd love to have a dedicated chalk talk thread. No spam or mundane shit. Maybe restricted posting access to only people that have demonstrated some knowledge. I think that earned flair for well-known members and some threads or a board where they can post would be a good idea on a larger scale. Hell, maybe some of the TEs could join for some video chalk talk content in lieu of podcast appearances Somewhat related - I'd love a game thread restricted to good posters or maybe a slow mode where you can only post once every x minutes. I'm not sure what you've done before, but I've looked into this before and here's the information I came across on creating an organization account and posting internships: https://careerengagement.utexas.edu/employers/recruit-ut/employer-recruiting-guidelines-procedures/ I like this idea. Message Board Geniuses is a similar model. Lots of novelty accounts operate this way I think Bump to shoutout the podcast but that has been discussed already. Only thing to add is having a network or something where you can let other people put out shows under the Surly Cinematic Universe or something while you and imma hold down the main podcast and put that out when you can I think that some of these goals are going to ultimately take some formal organizing, for better and worse Two things I can do to contribute: A 2023 season offseason book club. I can post the highlights, every play, and broadcast replay for a game each week. Everyone can relive the season, discuss, review, pick up on missed stuff, etc A post or series of posts on culture. Brining in academic concepts like leader-member exchange but write it up in a way that's interesting. Might be a single long post or a series. If either of those things are the type that can be sponsored concept for a business I'd be open to that. I mention that only because I saw some of the other discussions on bringing in corporate sponsorships

Guess we’ll find out who’s better come November

Thamel has ins pretty much everywhere. He’s not getting all his Texas news from Ewers The wording of this tweet makes me think it came from the Diaz/Duke side

I refuse to have this conversation again I refuse to have this conversation again I refuse to have this conversation again What did Moore even do though? Take two visits? Not make a decision on your preferred timeline?

This seems like an appropriate enough time and place for a life update on another aggy 2022 5* legend, Chris Marshall. My brother is on the team at Kilgore Community College, where Marshall ended up after getting kicked from Ole Miss. He says Marshall is really good. They don't throw the ball a ton and he's been injured this year, but he's obviously very talented. That said, he'll show up to practice in street clothes because he's a "saturday only player." Sometimes he'll suit up for team/scrimmage portions and ball out, but generally just doesn't practice. Oh, and he missed their playoff game because he was in jail after getting busted with marijuana. In the article it says he got caught in a traffic stop with a quarter pound, which is dumb and not a big deal, but my brother said he'd been selling out of his dorm room and wasn't particularly discreet about it. 247 has him ranked as the #1 JUCO player but he hasn't signed anywhere this week.

Butler only ran in one meet. I think it's unlikely he took track seriously. For reference here are some other guys' PRs: Matthew Golden 11.25, Xavier Worthy 10.55, Evan Stewart 10.58, Ryan Wingo 10.67, London Humphreys 10.66. Even the guys with faster times have some runs in the 11s early in the season.

His dad has worked there for more than two decades (before the kid was even born) and is fairly high up in th AD. Kid’s a low three star. This isn’t a scandal

His dad is the Assistant Athletic Director for Equipment and Apparel at a&m. So PWO and might get free tuition anyways. Good pickup tbh, though very low impact.

2024 Texas Transfer Tracker (Updated 12/21/23 5:00pm) On3 Transfer Portal Wire: https://www.on3.com/transfer-portal/wire/football/2024/ This is the quick hits for Texas-related transfers only. Out: Offense WR Casey Cain (UNLV), WR Isaiah Neyor, OL Sawyer Goram-Welch, QB Maalik Murphy Defense S BJ Allen (North Texas), S Jalen Catalon, CB X'Avion Brice (North Texas), S Larry Turner-Gooden (San Jose State), DL Kris Ross In: Offense WR Matthew Golden Defense DB Andrew Mukuba Targets (Estimated Needs): TE (0-1) Holden Staes (Notre Dame) WR (1-2) Antwane "Juice" Wells Jr. (South Carolina); Deion Burks (Purdue); Matthew Golden (Houston; visited 12/15) DE (0-1) Trey Moore (UTSA; visited 12/9) DL (0-1) Jamaree Caldwell (Houston) DB (1-2) Andrew Mukuba (Clemson; visited 12/15) K/P (1)

Service academies are also weird because their recruiting is so different. Just hard to take anything away on their coaches.

Texas does have NIL rolling though, to the extent that anyone does. We’re trying to expand the donor base due to exhaustion of some of the heavy lifters so far. Fully unleashed just means that there’s still room for growth.

How would you know if those questions are similar when you say you don't follow recruiting? You're asking a big question without a known answer due to contracts not being public knowledge. It's a complex topic given all the legal changes for NIL and all the other structural changes in college football.

I think the poster you quoted is talking about the aggy in the screenshot saying Elko’s pitch should be “give us your third year and if it doesn’t work transfer for your fourth!”

The answer is Worthy, as others have said, but one thing here is that I think 'doubling' is going to mean different things for Mitchell and Worthy. For Mitchell, you can bracket him and take away the standard route tree. For Worthy, it's going to require more from the game plan, formations, and secondary communication, because Sark is going to move him around. Our goal is to get him the ball in space. He's going to motion a lot and will almost certainly catch several screen passes in the game. He's also good running routes down the field of course. It's like guarding a Steph in basketball - he creates gravity that demands attention all the time, not just a double while he has the ball. TCU this year tried to play Worthy straight up with a future NFL draft pick in Josh Newton and Worthy absolutely abused him. I really trust all four of our top guys, but Whittington and Sanders are the best at finding soft spots on medium-to-long money downs Personally, I view Worthy similarly. I think he'll rise on boards and that our fanbase somewhat underrates him because of some pretty bad moments last year and some NIL shenanigans. I definitely think he'll go ahead of Mitchell. It's still too early for a lot of the draft mocks and analysts to have caught up to the season

2024 Texas Transfer Tracker (Updated 12/17/23 5:40pm)