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  1. You're seeing it now, Florida isn't going to have an appetite to hire a lower-tier coach at this point because they nicknamed their last guy "Sun Belt Billy". Even so, he had the Saban association working for him, or he may not have gotten the look in the first place.
  2. Texas is now a retroactive SEC rival dating back over 100 years, what are you talking about???
  3. Nearly exactly this. JJF and Murray are stealing paychecks at this point. Tough to get rid of "family", but sentimentality should not be part of the decision. Jones, I need to see big wins either in development or recruiting to justify keeping him. Doesn't look like there's anyone in '27 in the top 300 that he leads for. Bedenbaugh I'm still in on, for reasons outlined above. You'd have to think Nagy or BV would have options in mind. RBs and TEs should be dead simple to project, recruit, and develop.
  4. It's absolutely the OL, but I don't know if letting Bill go is the answer. Now that he's finally had the NIL stuff and closing out recruitment put onto people who love doing it, he's back to competing for top talent. If there's a criticism I'd level at him now, it's that he's allowed the line to become far too passive to match the scheme. He needs to be an advocate for what makes a successful run game, not just someone who implements the things he's told to.
  5. He did hit 1300 in '23, but it's not working this year. I don't know how much of it is his fault. I don't think Ikard's plan is for the whole slate of offensive position coaches to go, but they've got to get on the same page. Bedenbaugh doesn't want to coach his line to set the same way for every play (to accommodate the RPO), but that's what he's having to do right now. That means no push in the run game, no blocking support by TEs that can't do it, and no space for the WRs to get clear because of the aforementioned. The plan to abandon the run for this year is that he doesn't think you can re-install a package in the middle of the year that fixes the set issues, so you abandon the RPO and just use short passes in place of the run to backs who can catch a little. You hope it pulls people up off of the deeper zones and then you get Mateer a little time with a slower rush and more space downfield. You also hope it stops OLs from getting rolled up on, which has been the source of half of the OL injuries this year. It would require a LOT of humility from the staff and you probably still need to get rid of JJF for not finding a single TE who can block worth a damn and Murray for not being able to identify, land, and develop a RB with any vision.
  6. I've never been to a campus with as much visible money. Everything was either brand new or under construction. I know Harvard's money is buried in supercolliders and mutual funds, but Oregon's is in steel, wood, and glass.
  7. This was a full hour of Ikard tearing apart the dumb decisions made by everyone on the offense, up to and including Venables' game management. I think the most common phrase was "Why that is, I'm not sure."
  8. Best case scenario for OU is to keep it close or pull out a miracle with Hawkins, then try to get a second shot in the SEC championship or in the playoff if they can make it through. I think the goodwill is high enough with Venables right now that he doesn't need the excuse directly to save his job. That could obviously change based on the rest of the year.
  9. Either a separated shoulder or collarbone, I can't remember which.
  10. I have no way of knowing if the pre-game conversation happened that way, but if so, then this is pretty clearly the conference putting the blame on the crew in a poorly managed game. Semi-related, the side judge that made the no-catch call on Sategna that got overturned was chopping it up with the cheerleaders while they were reviewing his decision. Bold play to try to get laid while being evaluated on national TV and in front of that many people who hate you for five minutes.
  11. In person it was tough to tell, and the in-stadium replays weren't handled well. The first one (potential fumble and return for TD) appeared that the ball was being held against the receiver by the DB, not the WR. There's an angle that shows the glove colors pretty well and the receiver's hand and arm is fully above and outside the DB's hand. Second one was a pretty clear catch, two steps, punched out a step or two out of bounds.
  12. It was a 2 for 1, same as they did for Tulane. Maybe he just likes visiting larger cities with "T" schools?
  13. I think it's both this coaching staff's defining win, and something people are overreacting to compared to what it means for the season as a whole. They found a way to win against a talented (unprepared) team even though there were a ton of mistakes. There were something like 75 recruits in attendance, so this was very much a push all in situation that could have cratered their ability to even compete for the next couple of years. Also true is that the run game was uninspiring, zero turnovers caused, and there were receivers free that better offenses would have found.
  14. He's always been someone very keyed into the shifts and calls from the opposing offenses. The debate is whether he's getting that information from in-game and game tape study, or if there's some other extraordinary method ala a Connor Stallions.
  15. I have a cousin that worked with Fay Jones for a while and we got to tour the studio and see the initial drawings for the chapel. It made a huge impression and when my dad got remarried, he did it at Thorncrown.
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