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  1. 25 minutes ago, Fud said:

    Walker Little's dad told reporters that Warehime did a good job on his visit and they just liked Stanford more, when on reality his. Is it was a disaster), or maybe they don't want to burn the bridge in the event that they decide to flip to Texas after the season and after Mehringer has been jettisoned, idk 

    I get that, but we're talking Wilson. He's came out public with a negative quote about the program. I don't see this guy fluffing up two coaches he doesn't like. (and it also doesn't mean he really really loves him. Just could be they were the lesser of all of the evils in his mind).

     

    I could be wrong, though, but I don't know any of you or them personally, but someone has the wrong info or is bullshitting. 

  2. 18 minutes ago, Fud said:

    I mean, it's possible that he was looking for a reason to drop Texas and pick Ohio State, but this story wasn't made up out of thin air 

    Whatever about all of that, I just don't understand why a kid like Wilson, who hasn't shied away from throwing some honest shade, is going to voluntarily offer up some BS about two coaches being his favorite dudes on a staff if it's the exact opposite. Now, I do understand why people #OnThisSite would not wanna believe it. Narratives. Forum's trusted insider sauce maybe getting something wrong. 

     

    It'll be ok

  3. 21 minutes ago, Fud said:

    Yeah, they're going to give a reporter a quote like "we dropped Texas because their WR coach is a jackass"

    Yah, I agree. They're also not going to go "yah those dudes were my favorite guys", either. And if there's one thing we've learned about Wilson, he'll give his opinion on something.  

     

    I wanna believe Wilson hates Meh, that's the easier thing to fix,  but maybe, just maybe it really DOES boil down to Texas being a bowl of ass the past seven years on the field and in the draft. 

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  4. 1 hour ago, Stampeder said:

    Paraphrasing, TFB is saying they spoke to Wilson directly and he emphatically stated Mehringer was not an issue and he and Beck were his two faves on the staff.  Also sounded like unless there's a complete implosion in Columbus, meaning both Meyer and Ryan Day are not retained, he's sticking.  If he does eventually look around they expect Texas, OU and the new staff at Ohio St to be the main players.  No mention of A&M.

    That goes against some things I've heard.... on here. 

     

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  5. 19 minutes ago, Jacob McCandles said:

    ^^^^ cute window dressing because the coaches knew they couldn't overpower f'ing Maryland!!! Same thing with Tech in the last game. Same thing with OkState in OT. They didn't "try to get cute," they "had to get cute" because that was the only option. 

    Tech. My god. I thought I would have loved watching a Longhorns game where Connor Williams was your lowest graded offensive lineman by the stat geeks. That was straight trash. 

  6. 17 minutes ago, BrazilHorn said:

    I agree was rebuild BUT Herman also lost two games because he and staff completely overlooked opponent: Maryland - no film study, lots of terrible formations, play calls etc & TT - that goofy ass play on the 1 yd line where Sam faked around and stuff instead of just smash mouthing the ball (shit hand it to Poona if you want to get cute like that)

    Herman needs to take every opponent seriously and realize he cannot sleep on anyone. I don't think he was prepared for how hated UT is by teams that play them and how teams get up for them. No one hates UH, it's just another game.

    Mistakes were made. There is no denying that. A lot of them. A lot inexcusable. 

  7. 21 minutes ago, Jacob McCandles said:

    ^^^^ this right here.

    There are really only seven plays in football:  inside run; off-tackle run; sweep; misdirection (counter, boot, reverse); play action pass; roll out pass; drop back pass. Everything else (formation, personnel groupings, blocking scheme, option plays, RPO, route combos) are window dressing. If your talent on O is greater than the talent on the opposing D, the less window dressing you need. Bama beats most teams because they overpower them with talent. Same with Clemson. Same with OhState. Same with the 2006 NC team for us.

    Texas should always have enough talent to beat nine/ten of the teams on its schedule without "window dressing." It has not been in that position lately.   

     

    Yes and No. But in support of this, I DO think we over-complicate things sometimes when talking about offensive play-calling/scheming in the NFL and the Power 5 D1 level. You want good, great coordinators and minds, but if you don't have the right QB, or the right pigs and horses around the "ehh ok" QB etc... (and etc... and etc...), even the good coordinators are going to be made to look like a fool sometimes. 

     

    I think people underestimated how big of a total rebuild this was that Herman walked into, and how, outside of WR, poor of shape this offensive roster was left in. 

  8. 21 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

    I am no football expert but I do not have much confidence that you guys actually know what 'horrific play calling' looks like. Again we are going on decades now where that has been the reason the offense has not been dominant every year. If that was actually the reason surely at some point the play calling would just be adequate or mediocre but there were other problems. But Beck might indeed suck. I don't know.

    But I am skeptical that every single non-dominant offense just needs to call different plays.

    To be fair, the playcalling WAS pretty horrific at times. But again, that wasn't the full-blown offensive system these guys plan on running.  That was some Frankenstein offense of all sorts of different parts trying to get creative with what they had a lot of the time, after abandoning what they really wanted to do because, well, they didn't have the talent to do it. I wanna see how things are ran within the actual offense. We'll have a better idea this season. 

     

    There are reasons to be concerned, obviously.

     

     

     

  9. 17 minutes ago, Bobby_Batronic said:

    Not having the talent to do what you want to do on offense isn’t carte blanche to use that talent stupidly, ask that talent to do what it cannot and or fail to adjust your preferred method for the method that best works. 

     

    The question isn’t why didn’t the offensive staff do well. No one expected the 2005 offenseive production. It’s looking at the game and asking WTF are they thinking asking certain players to do that again when it’s failed every time it’s tried. Or calling plays irrespective of the personnel on the field. Or admitting that they don’t know who’s on the field. 

     

    I didnt and dont expect every play to work. I do expect to look at most plays and think the concept is defensible and we just dorked up the execution most of the time. 

     

    And it bacame apparent as the year went on that our toolbox was limited, but that some things were executed reasonably well when compared to others, and still we refused to feature and built constraint off those things. Grab baggish playcalling is something the UT fan base is all too well aware of when we see it. And we saw it. 

    This wasn't just a case of "not having the talent", they literally didn't even have a whole POSITION that they needed/want on the field in TE. They just hoped Gray could block ok and didn't rely on Brewer too much, he didn't seem too ready.

    Your mistakes are going to show up bigger and more often when you're that limited. 

    It doesn't excuse the mistakes, they happened. I can just give a bit on based on what they had to work with, or didn't have. 

     

  10. 16 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

    During Chuck's tenure somebody on Shaggy informed me that you can usually tell a coach by his second year and proceeded to produce data that proved that point pretty persuasively. So I agree, this year is the big one.

    Yah, the arrow needs to trend up on the offense this year. The OL is still ehhh, but that's why they brought in Hand, and Calvin Anderson. It should improve enough, along with a full stable of TEs, to where you can start showing some direction of this offense, and some improvement. They were just throwing shit up against the wall last year with that group. It was tough to watch.

  11. 47 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

    It's not the case that we either have a shitty OC or we have a shitty OL. We could have both, you know.

    That worries me, but that deck was stacked pretty heavily against the offense last year with not just the OL, but the TEs. I'd have liked to have seen more creativity (positive creativity), but there was no way they were going to be able to do anything close to what they want to do with their offense with that group as a whole. So I can hang back a bit on any final judgement until this year. This is a big one. 

  12. 18 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

    Huh? I mean we lost to Kansas in 2016. I am not sure what everybody was expecting in 2017 but I don't think too many of us were feeling ripped off.

    I mean it was a frustrating year but frustrating in the normal sort of frustrating we have become accustomed to.

    I have not put too much stock into blaming Offensive Coordinator #763. At some point people have accept the fact that that Offensive Line has been horrible for more than a decade.

    That, and going into the season with that TE situation didn't help, either. Not excuses, it was just the reality of the situation.

     

    Sure, I hoped for some magic, but it really wasn't realistic to expect much. 

  13. 22 minutes ago, rickyspub said:

    when things went south.

    What exactly has gone South? Those people just had their expectations too high. Most realistic fans I know thought 7-8 wins was likely. I'm more worried about what's coming up this season and beyond. Some recent recruiting losses have been a bummer, but we'll see how it finishes. I'm now convinced Mehmeh has to be shown out, though, and am 50/50 on Giles. 

  14. 57 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    Drew Mehringer decided to make an example of Collin Johnson last year because he apparently, in Mehringer's world, got too full of himself and wasn't "aligned". Being buddies with Foreman didn't help him. The WR unit got the worst of the 2017 coaching premise that they were going to beat the shit out of the team until the entitlement wore away. The side effects of that approach included Hemphill-Mapps getting completely disenfranchised and randomly suspended on multiple occasions to the point where he checked out from attending classes by November; Devin Duvernay negging the program to recruits on official visits; and Collin Johnson losing track of which way was up and not knowing where the next kick to his crotch was coming from by the staff. The near total team revolt ahead of the Texas Bowl was a wake up to many on the staff, including Herman. 

    Some lessons were learned, but not all of them. During film session with WR recruits and their dads this spring, allegedly, Mehringer made a point of talking shit about the existing talent, including Johnson, to the tune of turning the families off completely, or damn near so. 

    I'm interested in seeing whether the coaches have improved on their personnel choices on offense this year. Last year was a fucking joke in term of selecting personnel. The number of empty sets in which we slotted out a non-functioning TE instead of rotating in another WR was astonishing. The amount of carries and snaps Kyle Porter received because he had "the right attitude" sent the message to everyone, fans included, that the best players won't often play. Naashon Hughes doing nothing for hours on the field while others rode pine. Taking forever to get Gary Johnson steadily on the field. The WR rotation overall was a fucking joke. I keep waiting to see Kyle Porter start creeping up the depth chart due to some amorphous notion associated to team spirit or "picking up the rush", which were used last year, even as he often failed to pick up the rush. If that dude remains 5th on the depth chart, and we hear about freshman getting 1st and 2nd team snaps on offense all over the field right up to Maryland, I'll start to think maybe we turned a corner.

    All you ever do is bring me down. The Mavericks or something

  15. 16 minutes ago, irishtexan said:

    Why? A fuckton of other recruits are. Do you think he's interested in Texas? Certainly doesn't seem like it when you consider his quote about our history of signing top recruits and regularly seeing them underperform and fail to develop and get drafted early. Those aren't the words of a guy who wants to come to Texas.  

    Yah, he's all about going to Texas A&M so he can be the next Ricky Seals-Jones!!!

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  16. 19 minutes ago, RadiologyHorn said:

    Not buying for a second that Garrett Wilson is enamored with aggy. 

    Why are people so quick to jump on board and believe EJ just hours after he proved he is completely out of the loop this cycle. He has no clue what is going on. But the second he reports something outlandish and negative for us it’s taken as the gospel.

    Fuck that guy and fuck aggy. 

    It's not just an EJ thing, it's the fact that Wilson's first follow on the Twitters since this whole Meyer thing has gone down was the A&M WR coach, who apparently is some WR recruiting whisperer. 

  17. 24 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

     

    On the other hand, I'm hoping Beck hopping into the recruitment is the final signal that Herman realizes FauxHawk is a bad fit for what this program needs to succeed. 

    Yah, doesn't seem like a positive development for Merhinger.

     

    Herman also needs to deploy The Carrington. Fuel that puppy up and go on tour. 

  18. 1 hour ago, satyanash said:

    — Last but not least, I don’t feel like Texas is a real option for Garrett Wilson. At least not right now. Despite the situation at Ohio State, he seems pretty solid to the Buckeyes. And we’ve been told if he does open things up, Texas A&M would actually have the inside track.

    "And we've been told" = "we also saw that he has recently followed the A&M WR coach"

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