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kilroydos

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  1. Texas is now a retroactive SEC rival dating back over 100 years, what are you talking about???
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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."
  7. 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.
  8. Either a separated shoulder or collarbone, I can't remember which.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. It was a 2 for 1, same as they did for Tulane. Maybe he just likes visiting larger cities with "T" schools?
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. Also the mushroom powder, I believe. Same effect.
  16. I've seen some fans out there speculating about what it would take to get some of the PIF money from the Saudis. Maybe we let one of their failsons run the show?
  17. You're right though, this is all as meaningful as any other public press announcement.
  18. Technically they do address this: "said if the coaches aren’t fully on board, the player will not be recruited because his staff will not force any players onto the coaching staff who they don’t buy into fully." Whether that's going to be successful in practice...who knows? It certainly isn't successful everywhere in the NFL, and you only have to look for the Cowboys notes in this thread to see how it could go poorly.
  19. Phantom Island just did an episode about this, but coming from the angle of asking if the days of the workaholic coach are falling into the past. With the context we have, it does seem relatively easier to find people who are good at eval, people who are good at gameplan/scheme, people who are good at talent acquisition, and people who are good at talent maximization versus finding 11-15 unicorns who are great at all areas. I'd still pay good money to hear the unvarnished truth about what happend with Thad Turnipseed and the AD's office. It can't have been as simple as "he wanted to build a new basketball arena and they refocused fundraising on NIL."
  20. — Nagy noted that Jaydn Ott is continuing to put on more and more weight, and currently weighs more than he ever has... but he's also faster than he's ever been as well, and the sports science department has helped Ott immensely in packing on that weight while maintaining the burst "And, and he's four inches taller, and his uncle works for Nintendo and he can play the new Mario whenever he wants"
  21. I really need to know what this means: "Just a team that the junk yard has in their peanut right now."
  22. God, I wish. I'm hoping one day to see Brent win a title and say on mic "Who wants to suck an old man's dick?"
  23. This is exactly the issue. OU's staff haven't shown much of an ability to attract top-flight talent at some key positions, and so they're constantly scrambling and overpaying for what they have. This means they're overleveraged on talent with no margin for error.
  24. Oh I never said he was great, just that I don't think he quit on the team. I think once the other WRs started to leave/get more seriously injured, Burks became a higher retention priority than he would have been otherwise. In an ideal roster situation, you're exactly right that he's a depth piece with speed and above average hands that can be a change of pace. Given the reality of the room, he's been treated like a #1, for better or worse. No idea what he's going to look like this year.
  25. This is the only piece I might take slight exception to. He fought to get back on the field after missing seven calendar weeks and got a really nasty concussion near the end of the game he returned. He may or may not be any good this year, but prior to the injuries, he was getting open in front of two QBs that were psychically incapable of staying in the pocket to find an option later in the play.
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