Bodacious Bevo

2024 Texas Transfer Tracker (Updated 12/17/23 4:15pm)

Plan 2024! You know how Sark has talked about Pete Carroll telling him that he could come in and do it his way and deal with the growing pains, or do it the last guy's way and get the same results? Aggies really misunderstood the lesson.

Yeah, I was typing up another response - I agree with you that Quinn was clearly a more developed prospect than Maalik two games into their career. My original point was just about comparing their game 2 performances. Quinn never got past the script against Alabama. We don't know what would have happened there (I think he would've continued to ball). I just hope Maalik's performance this year - which helped us reach the CFP - isn't going to cost him opportunities.

People forget how good Murphy looked in the first half of K-State. Yes, he made some mistakes and was a massive liability in the 4th. But he started strong. He played well enough to give us a cushion, at least. Lots of teams wouldn't get that from their backup. Hell, many won't even get that from their starter. Ewers that game against Alabama: 9/12, 134 yards Maalik's first 12 throws against KSU: 8/12, 159 yards, 1 TD As a prospect, Maalik has some very clear issues. But I think anybody that thinks significantly differently about him now compared to August got caught up in the spring game koolaid.

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I agree. That said, the staff has been really good at evaluating what they have on campus and planning for the portal. Trust the corches. '22 cycle: Passed on OL when many (ahem @JFKFC)called for it. Passed on EDGE (except Drew Sanders IIRC) when it was the perceived biggest need. WR is probably the position you can criticize, but they did take three (Neyor, Hall, Milton) and we didn't have near as much to sell coming off 5-7. '23 cycle: Passed on LB when many called for it. Passed on TE when many called for it. S is probably where you can poke holes. They got Catalon, but he's injury-prone and redundant with our good safeties. I would guess they expected Crawford to be playable. He got a lot of hype in the spring. FWIW, Ja'had Carter (the other safety we went after) totaled 5 tackles for tOSU this year. The vision for internal development is pretty clear by now. The staff has a good record of knowing which positions are actual needs and which can be filled with guys already in the program. There may have been some opportunities to add guys in '22 that would have jump-started us a bit, but I'd say it's all worked out.

Really avoiding work rn, so I found Penix's career long. Interestingly, it came on a throw back to the QB. Actually a pretty solid scamper. And it turns out he had a second rushing TD on the next drive, on a zone read. So personally I still don't view him as a running threat, but he does command some discipline from the defense.

ESPN has season-long sack yardage stats. So if you remove sacks and yardage lost from their rushing stats: '23 Penix: 19/53/2.8/3 '23 Ewers: 26/159/6.1/5 I think Ewers is a bigger threat with his legs but it's not going to be part of either team's offensive gameplan. Either guy is mobile enough to pick up first downs with his legs when needed. Quinn is more likely to belt off a random 25 yarder. In the first five games Quinn was running quite a bit and doing so effectively even if he looked a newborn foal taking its first steps. He just hasn't done it hardly at all since his injury.

Not sure it was a surprise. Any given conversation on surly has a decent chance to end in BOW shit talk. Like our own Godwin's law. Also not sure the turrets turned. He usually just walks in front of them and sits down.

Not to say anything about Nolen, but Scruggs said the visitor would be on campus tomorrow, not this weekend

I agree but he's also the first guy off the field in a lot of our subpackages, so it'll be interesting to see. As an aside, that's something that I really like about this team and the way that Sark/PK run things. There are a lot of guys with specialized roles. It's not just rotations that get non-starters reps. Helm, Agbo, Blackwell, Bush, Collins, and Robinson are all guys that are engaged and play legitimately important roles that wouldn't under coordinators that are married to a particular base package. Not to mention special teamers.

Right, I didn't mean that any of the three were NCAA, just that all three were horrible and they were all starting next to each other

oh my god I forgot Cuney/McMillon/Nickelson starting trio

Alex Dunlap - Remember the Alamo Bowl His point about Ovie reminds me: Burke is one of the guys recovering from injury. There may be a bump in play coming from him between that and rest to recover from being tired as a first year starter. If we get Bama Burke that would be huge. Though it's also possible he doesn't even play much if we end up in the Blackwell dime a bunch. Someone that knows more about scheme can answer this: what impact does EDGE play have on OL shifts? It's been discussed that UW will shift the OL and roll Penix out but I would think that can be countered if a DE can get upfield and set the edge. I also wonder if we see some return of the nickel and corner blitz (not that we ever really abandoned them) for a similar reason. In which case I wonder if we see some Burke in the Blackwell package since he can drop.

I admire that Elko has seemingly accepted their place in the transfer portal hierarchy

- Maryland 2 was the angriest I've ever been as a fan - Related: Malcom Roach middle linebacker hype - Taysom Hill - Nick Rose extra point - Arkansas bowl game - Mike Yurcich QB room fiasco - 2020 Duggan scramble -> Keaontay fumble

A couple notes from Suchomel/OB (I'm sorry) - As of this morning, Tyanthony Smith is unlikely to visit this weekend. But who really knows. - Hunter Andrews told them this morning that he is unlikely to visit this weekend. Had quotes from the coach about being loyal to Utah but also being interested in everything Texas has to offer - Kobe Black's recruitment seems to have had a late twist and they now believe A&M will be the pick (jk I made that one up)

Coming soon to cstat. He'll need to print more pages to fit the whole roster tho.

You only have two years of data, one of which was 2020. An article saying a bunch of guys are banged up means nothing. Pretty sure a bunch of them played the entire year anyways. The important guys certainly did. And your argument would really need a deeper dive of the injuries to be applicable. I have no opinion of the guy, but the drill sergeant shtick is a bigger red flag to me.

I have no horse in this race, but it's weird to place all blame for injuries on the S&C coach, especially when one of the years you're citing was the fucky COVID year that would have thrown all S&C routines into whack. I don't think injuries in two years with one being an asterisk is a good way to judge a multi-decade career.

2024 Texas Transfer Tracker (Updated 12/12/23 6:64pm) 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, WR Isaiah Neyor, OL Sawyer Goram-Welch Defense S BJ Allen, S Jalen Catalon, CB X'Avion Brice (North Texas), S Larry Turner-Gooden In: Offense Defense Targets (Estimated Needs): Italics indicate message board speculation only TE (0-1) WR (1-2) Antwane "Juice" Wells Jr. (South Carolina); Deion Burks (Purdue); Matthew Golden (Houston) DE (0-1) Trey Moore (UTSA; visited 12/9) DL (0-1) Jamaree Caldwell (Houston) S (1-2) Andrew Mukuba (Clemson) K/P (1)

Agreed. IMO Worthy will climb up draft boards from here because he brings a unique gravity to an offense that demands attention in the defensive gameplan

"I've actually met Evan Stewart" In hindsight, big harvdog vibes with that one

Seems premature to say DeBoer is a level up of Peterson

Yes, they should do that. Sure, such provisions might be illegal under Texas NIL, law but what matters more is the court of public opinion and A&M will surely win there. Future recruits will love it.