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Hookem2147

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  1. Doing some quick accounting on my end and came up with this: Out of eligibility (13): Caldwell, Taaffe, Campbell, Hutson, Moore, Burke, Brevard, Shaw, Guilbeau, Landwehr, St. Louis, Bouwmeester and Shipley Very likely NFL draft bound (3): Hill, Muhammad and McDonald Hard to see a path to contributing regularly at Texas, portal? (8, being conservative here, just guys that are top of mind) : Neto, Owens, Stewart, Hills, Santana Wilson, Roberson, Randle and Butler That is a conservative estimate of 24 scholarship guys (potentially) exiting, and right now we have an incoming signing class of 21. It doesn't take too much squinting to see the exit number reach 30+, which opens the door for 10-12 portal guys to come in.
  2. Let's not just bury our heads in the sand and pretend Akina has never coached bad secondaries in his lifetime. He has a history of preferring to do things his way, regardless of larger context within the defensive scheme, and causing friction with the primary defensive playcaller. The timing of Joseph's departure to the Saints (late February) wasn't exactly ideal for conducting an assistant coaching search and Nansen had worked with Akina at Arizona, so I get why there were thoughts that a reunion here could be a good fit. TBD if it will actually play out that way or if this is just the last hurrah for a coach about to turn 70.
  3. It will be interesting to see if they bump Littleton out to corner this offseason. If that is the case, maybe they look for someone in the portal with a little versatility who can play some nickel.
  4. I'm going to assume the money tree isn't endless and someone like Wilson would require a pretty big check. You can be all-in while still being smart about where you allocate your funds. There will be good, proven receivers available who will likely cost half as much as someone like Dallas Wilson.
  5. From a resource allocation standpoint, I don't see how that one makes a lot of sense from our end. I also believe he is represented by Vernell Brown's father, so I would have to think the new Florida coach is going to get every chance to retain him. Not that he isn't a great player, but we have several other glaring holes that need to be filled before we start dreaming about super expensive receivers.
  6. I fail to see how a win over a top 10 team is held against us or hurts us in any way. That would be the committee really grasping at straws. And these aren’t AP voters who just box score watch half the games and fill out their ballot half asleep on Saturday night in a Marriott hotel. I would hope the selection committee for a $1.3 billion playoff were given a Hulu TV login for the weekend to watch all the games.
  7. Michigan and Ohio State played these 6 teams in non conference play their championship years: Akron, Western Michigan, Bowling Green, UNLV, Marshall and East Carolina. We should be playing the Notre Dame/Ohio State types every couple of years, not every year. The other years our fanbase will get by just fine playing Northwestern and going to the marquee road conference games instead.
  8. If we don’t get in at 9-3, cancel every marquee non conference game moving forward and schedule Rutgers instead. Would be ridiculous to penalize a team that actually challenged themselves in addition to their 8 normal SEC games in favor of some of these teams that play total garbage out of conference.
  9. There is zero medical evidence that sitting out extra time after you are cleared from a concussion makes you less likely to suffer another one. Holding him out would pretty much be all optics, which I get, but harsh reality is there is no amount of extra rest that would prevent you from suffering another one if his head slams against the ground in a similar way as last week. It’s football and unfortunately those type of hits happens. Beat Vandy.
  10. IT with some team notes on defense (main note: they don't think Maraad Watson is playing)
  11. It should be that way regardless of the 2026 OL class. We shouldn't be counting on freshman OL to play in what is likely Arch's last year. For Lee, it sucks that Michigan's schedule is so damn easy that Moore likely does enough to stick around another year. They are a 7-5/6-6 type team that will probably go 9-3.
  12. Some team notes from IT
  13. I lost brain cells reading that. Yes, I'm sure A&M is winning over John Meredith and Kennedy Brown is because of good old-fashioned "hard work".
  14. I guess we’ll find out if Robertson is similar or an upgrade over Hutson, or if this is a case of us being intrigued by a player we have limited exposure to because we haven’t seen him screw up as often yet. FWIW, Robertson was our lowest graded OL starter against SHSU per PFF (51.8) and Dunlap on OB. Fingers crossed.
  15. Alex Dunlap's OL grades for OU (full write-up spoiled below)
  16. Yeah, I haven't been the biggest fan of our strategy of taking 2 HS running backs every year up to this point. It has clogged the room with unknowns/JAGs (of course, injuries have played a role as mentioned several times in the thread already). I'm not completely against it some years if you can find guys with 2 different skillsets. Part of the issue we have right now is we don't have a Jaydon Blue or someone with a different skillset to complement the other RBs on the roster. We seem to have a bunch of guys in the room who all kind of offer the same thing.
  17. There needs to be some winter portal cleaning in that room. Carrying 6 scholarship RBs is pointless when half of them are JAGs. They also need to operate with the assumption that CJ Baxter doesn't exist and anything he adds in the future is a bonus. I'm not saying run him off because he seems to be a good leader and value add off the field, but we are in year 3 now, and the dude has been the opposite of durable.
  18. He really isn't that good of a back. He hasn't shown great vision either year he has been here and was still doing JV stuff like trying to bounce runs outside as recently as 3 days ago. He got a lot of mileage out of that one TD run against Michigan. The fumbling issue is just the cherry on top. Good luck to him at his next stop, but you could see this coming from a mile away in August when a guy coming off an Achilles tear passed him on the depth chart.
  19. Bobby posted a few days ago that Quinn was starting to trend towards Ohio State
  20. If I remember right, Kentucky had 3 weeks to prep for us last year (bye week + November FCS opponent), while we had Arkansas the week before and A&M the week after. We handled business pretty easily. Hopefully we get a repeat.
  21. The good coaches still find a way to squeeze every ounce out of what they have even if a unit or two are screwed up. You can’t go back in time and redo offseason mistakes but you can maximize what you have and scheme around weaknesses. That is why you are paid $10 million. To be a problem solver. Interested to see how the rest of this year shakes out.
  22. Bobby made a comment this morning that he is expecting something like 10-15 snaps for Mosley
  23. Full team notes from IT
  24. Nahlin said he’s hearing Muhammad is not likely to play
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