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Hookem2147

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  1. Leading freshman receiver this year: Ohio State- Quincy Porter (3 catches) Bama- Lotzeir Brooks (20 catches) Auburn- 0 catches from freshmen receivers USC- DJ Jordan (5 catches) Georgia- Sacovie White-Helton (6 catches) A&M- Ashton Bethel-Roman (12 catches) Should I keep going? Yes, if you have Jeremiah Smith or Dakorien Moore, they will play a lot. I wouldn't consider Kaliq Lockett or Jaime Ffrench either of those guys.
  2. How many top 10 wins did James Franklin have? Because in the last month, we have had 2, and that feels pretty close to the mark he had over his 12 years at Penn State.
  3. Moore, Livingstone, and Wingo (to an extent) all waited their turn and are now starting and having good years. Livingstone redshirted and Moore did not record a single catch his freshman year. Novel concept.
  4. This probably sounded better in your head than on the keyboard. Xavier Worthy and Ryan Wingo own 2 of the top 6 seasons in Texas history for receiving yards by a true freshman. We had 3 NFL draft picks in the room in 2023 and still threw Johntay Cook multiple bones. Those who prove they are ready to play have played. I'll buy the argument that it may not have been the best use of funds to pay for 3 expensive freshman receivers (if you include Michael Terry in that group). I won't buy the argument that they should be playing over anyone who is currently seeing the field, including the lowest-ranked guy in the group, McCutcheon, who was playing in the season opener against Ohio State.
  5. Schools seem much better equipped to play defense nowadays than they were a few years ago, even those that are navigating the waters without a coach. Doesn't mean a few guys won't shake loose, but it doesn't seem to be the avalanche you would expect when LSU, Florida and Auburn are all open at the same time. It seems that whoever gets those jobs is essentially going to be handed a list on the first day from the collective, stating that these are the important individuals (recruits and current roster) we are taking care of; let's make sure they are good to go.
  6. 4/5ths of Ohio State's OL are homegrown guys. They took 2 in the portal last year. One is starting at RT, and the other was the dude from Rice who seems to be a bust.
  7. I think Gerry is operating with the assumption and is getting irritated that some posters over there think we are going to find 4 new starters in the portal along the OL by snapping our fingers. He uses the word retooling. Taking 2 starting caliber interior guys isn’t what I would considering “retooling”. More like plugging a couple of noticeable holes.
  8. It wasn’t a pantsing as you said. It’s a 2 game sample size where we arguably outplayed them in one of the 2. A pantsing is what we have done to Brent Venables.
  9. We are less than a year removed from a game where we outgained Kirby by 100+ yards and would have won with a kicker that wasn’t afraid of his own shadow. There seems to be a lot of misremembering of how that SEC title game played out just because we lost at the end. We were the ones throwing punches early.
  10. I think he's just playing quarterback out of necessity in high school. RB/WR type at the next level. He has over 1,300 rushing yards this year.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. IT with some team notes on defense (main note: they don't think Maraad Watson is playing)
  21. 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.
  22. Some team notes from IT
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