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Hookem2147

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  1. West Coast recruiting guy for On3 on Rocky Cummings Great visit for Cummings and safe to say Texas is in a VERY good spot. He still needs to talk with Cal coaches and wants to wait until after his Championship game on Tuesday to put anything out so look for an announcement from him sometime Wednesday.
  2. You are giving the committee too much credit in how deep they actually analyze this stuff.
  3. Is Alabama going to get in at 10-2 with a loss just as bad as Texas’? If the answer is yes, then don’t blame the Florida loss for Texas not getting in at 9-3.
  4. There seems to be this assumption that every team in the playoff must be a quality team. We watched the lower seeded teams get the crap kicked out of them last year. In a 12 team playoff, you are still going to have only 4-5 teams who actually have a realistic shot at winning the title. Will be same if they expand to 16. No #11 or #12 seed “deserves” to be in the playoff. They are ranked in that range for a reason.
  5. We demand our coach lead us to the playoff every year, then voluntarily make that path more difficult despite the fact the committee tells us all they care about is the number of losses. We played 5 top 10 teams this year, yet want to blame our playoff positioning on Florida, a team who led Georgia in the 4th quarter, and treat it as if we lost to some FCS opponent. All this while we watch Texas Tech, Ole Miss, Oregon and Indiana play complete creampuffs out conference. We played more top 10 opponents than those 4 teams combined. The double standard is insane. Texas is apparently required to win 3 games against top 10 opponents and not slip up in any other game in order to make the playoff, while other programs play 1 or 2 games a year they could realistically lose.
  6. If they actually cared about stuff like strength of schedule, non-conference scheduling and who you beat, OU wouldn’t be behind teams like Oregon and Texas Tech. All the committee cares about is the number in the loss column. If you aren’t doing everything in your power in your scheduling to ensure that number can be as low as possible, you are putting your program at a disadvantage.
  7. Lol what? We’d be top 10 easily. 9-2 OU, who we killed on a neutral field, is #8.
  8. Visiting tomorrow, per On3 https://247sports.com/player/rocky-cummings-46155040/
  9. Toughest non-conference game he's played in 6 seasons at Ole Miss is against Tulane. 20-0 out of conference
  10. Great coordinators don’t require specific position coaches in order to succeed. It is your job to coordinate the defense. You are being paid $2 million. Front 7, back end, blitz packages, everything. It’s ridiculous PK has coached football for almost 40 years yet apparently needs some special voice in the secondary in order to properly function.
  11. Well now I’m not sure I want that to be my opinion
  12. Thinking out loud here, but I wonder if we are going to see more programs doing a 'stars and scrubs' like recruiting approach when building out their HS classes. For example, I see Alabama has 23 total commits and 9 players ranked inside the top 100. They also have 10 3-stars. That is over 80% of their class. Texas has 18 commits, excluding specialists. 6 players in the top 60 and 5 3-stars. That represents a good chunk of the class. There might be value in devoting almost all your resources towards the top-end of the class and filling out the rest with more developmental guys who won't command much NIL vs trying to navigate the mid/low 4-star range, where guys are likely to command more money but also likely to require some of the same development time as a 3-star would.
  13. He is a college kicker at the P4 level. He should be putting the ball through the uprights at a 75+% clip on pretty much anything under 50 yards. You shouldn't need a vote of confidence from your coach to do that. Trying to blame that on anyone other than himself is just excuse-making.
  14. Or was he continually going for it on 4th down because his kicker wasn't good? 6-14 from 40+ yards....I'd be going for it more too. Did Mario Cristobal also mindfuck him? Is that why Auburn went to Miami and then lost the kicking battle to a FAU transfer that went 2 for 7 in 2024?
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
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