Hornlover

"The only thing you can't do is take a sack". So they have a false start. Brilliant.

Yup

It's okay, you also thought Illinois and Miami were the same thing

I assume they're calculating the driving distance of the schools from the new job we're getting McKinley's mom in Austin.

Billy Napier loves Coldplay? I'm sure that'll go over well with the jorts crowd.

2022 Stony Point 53 Austin High 0 2023 Stony Point 24 Austin High 21 Maybe Austin High won't be as shitty as they were last year?

I'm guessing around game 7, after they finally bench Max Johnson for going 3-3.

From Suchomel (yeah OB sucks, but it was a free article). https://247sports.com/player/chad-woodfork-46132836/ Composite top50 player, at a position of importance, and former teammate of.Kelvin Banks. We should be making him a priority.

99.9% of Thamel's tweets don't get posted here. Since this one did get posted here, I'm guessing it was considered noteworthy and of interest.

I'm not writing off either. I'm just pointing out that there are lots more questions surrounding our DL and LBs than there are on offense.

Don't get me wrong. I like Sweat, and hope he has a great year. I think he can be effective. He wasn't better than Ojomo or Coburn last year, and I'd like to see a little more disruption in the backfield, but you're right - he's not as big of a question mark as some of the others.

And two of them are Collins - a fourth year senior who has never shown anything resembling consistency or high effort, and Sweat - a fifth year senior that has trouble shedding blocks and whose main contribution seems to be just being big and clogging up the middle. You're hoping these guys are Gaskamp candidates that turn into this years' version of Ojomo and Coburn, but like @closetojumping likes to say - I'm from Missouri.

This Is just comical. Your questions on offense boil down to "Some of the players on O had poor results last season". Then, you proceed to say "All of these defensive players, that couldn't even start last year, are likely to be better than the person they're replacing". You listed 8 defensive players, only two of which (Ford and Sorrell) were starters last year. The rest were all backups. Yes, they played, but they are mostly unproven. That's why there are so many question marks. The offense returns 9 starters (10 if you want to count Cain). Yes, we lose the best RB in the country, but that's also usually one of the easiest positions for a freshman to play, and we have 4 or 5 excellent choices including the #1 RB recruit in the country. Otherwise, the only question surrounding the offense is basically "Will all of the players from last year be better this year?" Much of that hinges on Ewers, but even that's not some big question mark. Versus the defense, where we don't have any clue if either Edge can generate pressure consistently or hold the edge against the run. How will a new DT stand up in the middle with starters' snaps? (Murphy has enough track record to not be unproven). Will Collins or Vasek or Tapp or Finkley or Walton contribute meaningfully? Who's going to play next to Ford? Gbenda, Bush, Blackwell, and all the freshman have questions surrounding them. The starters in the secondary are likely solid, but we're also expecting lots of contributions from young unproven players. Especially if Catalon gets hurt again.

I disagree. Our offense is littered with playmakers all over the field, and an OL that brings back all five starters. The offense should be great this year. On defense there are tons of questions. We lost two DL and a LB to the NFL, and our Edge play was lackluster last year. Other than Jaylan Ford (and maaaaybe Murphy), the front seven are mostly all new.

Why not just go full @JFKFC and ask over and over why we aren't signing every single OL that enters the portal?

I thought we were gonna have Majors as the Fall Guy?

I'd dominant that body like you wouldn't believe.

I wonder if there's an angle, in which they do the "My Agent is giving me a stipend/loan that's just an advance on future earnings" bit? In cases like those, the agent has a really strong incentive to not fuck over the school if they want to be involved in future deals. So the leverage over the player comes from the agent. And agents can assuredly put language in their contracts that any and all advances/loans must be repaid if certain conditions are not met. It happens already with players preparing for the NFL draft.

"That one time under Mack Brown" ... In 2005 we won the National Championship, with a victory over Kansas 66-14. I don't think a phantom PI call affected that game. He's thinking about our first trip to the Rose Bowl. I can see how Aggy would get confused, since it's hard for them to fathom that a team could go to the Rose Bowl 3 times in 6 years, including playing for 2 titles.

Jackson Arnold seems like he sucks.