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  1. 3 left-handed starters would be something after not having a lefty who threw harder than 87 MPH last year.
  2. D1Baseball's projected starting lineup and rotation. Kendall Rogers and Schloss are pretty close so my guess is he is getting pretty good info.
  3. The QB sneak is definitely in the playbook with him. Ran (or tried to run it) it 4 or 5 times this year with him under center (CSU, Miss State a couple of times, Clemson). Ewers sucked at it (the few times we tried it last year) and was so fragile this year that they didn't trust him to take hits. It should also probably be noted that you need a good center when executing a QB sneak. Majors was only in there for a few of the attempts, so it's tough to know if he was good at it or not, but we need to hope his replacement is.
  4. Jim Rome is still around? The surprise of the year.
  5. It seems some on here are banking on Arch running around and saving us like Klubnik or Leavitt and I think they are in store for disappointment. Wasn’t the thought during his recruitment that they ruled out places like Clemson and Ole Miss because they didn’t want Arch to be a battering ram or hero ball QB? The Manning’s didn’t send him here to be Sam Ehlinger and I was honestly pretty surprised we used him in the role we did this year but that probably speaks volumes to the short yardage/redzone issues and it was such a specialty role. Some of the stuff he did against Georgia the first time was him just being a young QB facing Georgia running around like a chicken with his head cut off. Now that he is the full time guy it is going to be hammered in his head to avoid big hits and scramble to throw. His mobility will be nice and likely open up the playbook a little bit more and I’m sure we will mix in some QB run more often than we ever did with Ewers, but those expecting him to regularly register 10 carries a game are probably going to be screaming after games about why we “didn’t run Arch more??”
  6. Looks like Flood, Baker, Banks and Nansen. Sark and PK were in Temple this morning.
  7. I don't know if any of the 9.95 sites have put out an updated list but it seems like the junior day next Saturday is going to be loaded. Lots of priority OL/DL confirming with OTF that they are likely to attend.
  8. Would only be 4 Q1 wins if using current NET rankings. I think we'd be in but it wouldn't be a slam dunk. The fact we have moved up the NET rankings with a 1-3 start to conference play probably bodes well if we do get to 8 wins. IIRC we finished around 30th in NET last year with 5 Q1 wins in the regular season. Got us a 7-seed.
  9. This team has good players. Top to bottom probably a more talented team than last year. Makes it all the more frustrating. Maybe they find a way to string together some wins when the schedule gets a tad easier in a few weeks. Won’t be holding my breath.
  10. Trey Moore trending positively for a return to Texas, per Bobby 15 minutes ago
  11. Just for comparison, these were the notable losses between the Washington game and end of the spring last year: Xavier Worthy (NFL), AD Mitchell (NFL), Keilan Robinson (NFL), Johnathan Brooks (NFL), JT Sanders (NFL), Jaylan Ford (NFL), Christian Jones (NFL), T'Vondre Sweat (NFL), Byron Murphy (NFL), Ryan Watts (NFL), Jordan Whittington (NFL), Ryan Sanborn (NFL/desk job), Kitan Crawford (portal), Jerrin Thompson (portal), Trill Carter (portal), Austin Jordan (portal), Maalik Murphy (portal), Terrance Brooks (portal), Isaiah Neyor (portal), Caey Cain (portal), Jalen Catalon (portal). The starters we brought in from the portal were Bond, Golden, Trey Moore and Mukuba. Lole, Norton and Bolden as role guys. 4 portal starters (3.5 considering what Bond gave us) and 3 role players to replace all of that production. Everything else was filled internally or through the 2024 recruiting class. We are losing a lot this year but we've done this before.
  12. IT with a few notes Things are happening fast for Texas, and Texas fans, right now. There’s certainly a lot to process. While fans might feel like the world is caving it, that’s an illusion stemming from it being the five-day post-semifinal declaration window for both the portal and the NFL Draft. A lot is happening all at once rather than a slow drip many other schools experience. Busy morning Earlier this morning Inside Texas broke the news a couple of important players for 2025 are expected to hit the transfer portal. We’ll let each situation play out organically, though plenty of sleuths have figured out one. Honestly, that one isn’t hard to figure out. IT had hinted about him in October. The other player would have started and is talented. He plays a position that was already a need. On the NFL front, Isaiah Bond declared for the NFL as expected. Cameron Williams also declared. The staff felt that was likely for months but still tried to persuade him to return to get much better prepared for the NFL. Anyone who watched Texas this year understands he’s far from a finished product. NFL Draft, portal, high school recruiting It’s impossible to disconnect what happens with NFL departures, the portal, and high school recruiting. It’s all intertwined because roster management is largely predicated by how money is allocated. Also, money is finite. This is news to AM sports radio callers who think their team’s outfield would consist of Aaron Judge, Juan Soto, and Ronald Acuna if their owner just wanted to win! Texas is forced to live in the real word rather than AM caller world or government spending. That means they need to be measured and patient in their approach. Texas has one of the 2-3 best rosters in football and just landed the No. 1 recruiting class. I’d say Sark and Co. know what they’re doing. Victim of own success Recruiting at such a high level and developing and deploying obvious NFL talents on the field early in their career has schools circling in hopes those players will enter the portal. This forces Texas to fortify its defense and keep the most important players in the fold first. They can’t keep everyone, especially those looking to exert max leverage in search of the biggest payday. Retaining top players creates downward pressure everywhere else. Colin Simmons is one such top player. Is Trey Moore really a major need at this point? It’d be great for him to return, the coaches certainly want him back, but more pressing issues are quickly arising. Edge is a position of depth and talent and certainly keeping Colin Simmons out of the portal wasn’t cheap. (This situation is why I began to fade the Javian Hilson recruitment this past cycle) At this point, Trey Moore is more likely to leave for the NFL than he was a day ago. Texas cannot afford to lose Simmons, Anthony Hill, or Ryan Wingo and Texas won’t lose them. Or Arch Manning if you’re an AM sports radio caller who needs it stated explicitly. The spring portal will be massive Texas has a great roster but retention has not gone nearly as well as it has in years past. I don’t even have Michael Taaffe as a lock to return. Some positions will have gone from looking for luxury takes to a major need. There will need to be a massive fundraising effort for the spring portal window and Texas will need to aggressively wave cash in the air in the general direction of the best agents. ***** We’ll have much more to cover in the coming days on roster management.
  13. Some of y'all still like to think we are in a roster cycle where Donovan Duvernay is our backup safety and Tim Cole is our backup LB.
  14. Interested in hearing the reasoning behind this because I personally like good offensive tackles who are about to go in the top 2 rounds of the draft. Yes, the penalties sucked and weren't ideal, but he also went from backup to one of the top OT's off the board in the NFL draft in the span of 15 games. He shouldn't have played against OSU. That was painful to watch.
  15. Watching Michigan kick their ass again and win the national title is what lit the fire under their asses last year.
  16. I heard about an offensive player yesterday who was apparently thinking hard about the portal. It wasn't one of the notable guys (Wingo, Arch, etc), but still was somewhat surprising. On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being losing Colin Simmons, I would put it at like a 4.
  17. One of the better spin jobs I’ve seen from Liucci
  18. Mississippi State shouldn't be ranked. TCU should be borderline top 15. They had a good portal haul, and Saarloos took back over pitching coach duties, which he never should have given up. I am much higher on Arkansas than Tennessee. I think Tennessee lost too much and should be closer to 10ish. If A&M doesn't make noise in Omaha, Earley should be fired. #1 roster in the country was bought and handed to him on a silver platter. It would be an all-time choke job if they didn't make it out of a Super Regional.
  19. Many forget the first OC he hired was Bill fucking O'Brien and he got bailed out of it when O'Brien left for Boston College after 2 weeks.
  20. We’ve put plenty of teams away. We are 25-5 the last 2 years, including I think 10 or 11 wins against opponents who were ranked at the time of the matchup? It may not be in the manner you like but we won 11 of our 13 games this year by 10+ points, including all 3 of our rivals, and one of the ones that wasn’t was the stupid Vandy pick 6 that got called back. We need to continue to try to get a better level of consistency but that is easier said than done nowadays with what is now turning into a 16-17 game season. How many times is a team realistically going to play their ‘A’ game in a 16 game season? Even Ohio State, who is going to win it all, had to squeak by a bad Nebraska team at home and suffered an inexcusable loss to a Michigan team who can’t throw a forward pass. Lincoln Riley is a soft bitch who doesn’t know what defense or program culture even is. I don’t see that comparison or fear of that comparison becoming reality at all.
  21. We tried to QB sneak against Clemson and fumbled. Alright back to transfers.
  22. Arkansas yes, but I wouldn't call A&M a clunker. We put up 461 yards and moved the ball at will pretty much the entire game, including the second half where we had 222 yards. The two stupid Ewers turnovers inside the 10 and Auburn missing his usual before-half kick prevented that from being a 34-0 laugher.
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