Burt Macklin

Duane Akina posts on Surly under the handle LtTxFan

This was the fascinating thing about the DeBoer hire. From strictly a coaching standpoint, he might be the best football coach in the country. He’s won everywhere he’s been with elite offenses, well-coached defenses, and routinely overcome talent disadvantages. The guy’s 101-9 for his career if you take out the Covid year with Fresno State, and he’s 34-6 his last 3 years at a D1 without coaching stacked programs. But his recruiting abilities and program management are massive question marks. He’s never shown he can operate a D1 program successfully long term. UW was in for a huge step back next year, and he didn’t do a good job of restocking the cupboard for Year 3 before he left. Now he’s tearing down one of the best rosters in the country so he can restart it the same way he did at 4-8 Fresno State and 4-8 UW. Maybe it will work because he’s a great coach, but he’s essentially lighting on fire every advantage that came with taking the Bama job after Saban. Whether or not he wins there, I’m all for DeBoer turning Bama into a well-coached but less talented team, a la Oklahoma State with Gundy. Maybe we should send him some nice OAN fishing shirts while we’re at it.

Even that number is absurd for a one year rental for a good, not elite, WR. I’m sure Bama dropped out at a number that was drastically lower than that, and now they’re inflating the number to save face for being a poor.

They also showed bad vision and failed to maximize plays while fumbling twice and losing us the game. I’m not saying they’re terrible, but they’re a clear step back from Brooks, who was probably the best RB in the country this year. No way you can say the RB room is equal to last year’s.

RB: I don’t think you watched the bowl game if you think there’s no drop off from Brooks. He’s significantly better than what we have returning. DE: no chance it’s same. We added one of the top edges in the portal with Trey Moore and we have 5 star Collin Simmons coming in while returning everyone from last year. DB: DB is significantly improved. Mukuba is a huge addition that will let us play 2 safeties with speed, and Williams, Muhammad, and Brooks will all be developing. We’re also adding 2 freshman who were ranked top 50 nationally.

Just automatically assuming Giles is a good coach while being skeptical of guys like Wright and Okam because they don’t have a 30 year history of never getting promoted past DL coach, like Giles, is a fascinating way to look at coaches. I bet you’re a big fan of this guy’s podcast

I don’t think there’s many people out there who actually think he’s a good TP. People just like him as a personality. It’s impossible to know if Guenther was good at his role or not. Haas is massively underfunded and understaffed. They could only bring updates once per year. No TP could have success there without convincing Haas to majorly increase the budget, which won’t happen. Gene Haas promoted someone from within so he could keep running the team the way he wants, which is putting as little of his money as possible into it and being a total drag on the sport.

obviously swapping Haas for Andretti or even anyone who will try to build a competitive car will be a big improvement, but Haas has reportedly gotten multiple competitive offers and refused to sell, so while it would be great, there’s not much that can be done about it. If they’re going to turn this thing into a closed franchise model and have a spending cap, they need to implement a spending floor. Otherwise, you’ll get a Haas investing minimal money while netting profit off the backs of other teams every year. Claiming Andretti will dilute payouts while letting Haas do nothing for the sport and just freeload makes no sense.

I guess that’s why he went 15-17 in the NFL, right?

This is a real gem. Surly just wouldnt be the same without satya’s myopic, irrational hysteria.

It’s pretty crazy to think his transfer altered two CFP spots. We don’t make the CFP without him, and UGA probably makes it if he stays there.

He’s got some of the best passing offenses in the country after him, but we have posters on here saying he’s not even worth a scholarship.

It’s pretty wild how many things you got wrong in this post. For one, we base out of 11 personnel and ran that package a majority of our plays, so it’s not true he only designs plays for 2 WRs. You also said it was rare our 3rd target would get more than a single catch. Our 3rd WR averaged 4 catches per game and that was with an elite receiving TE who averaged 4 catches per game. So the targets and catches for our top 4 receiving options were very high. It’s not at all surprising that Sark can get 3-4 WRs to commit every year when his top 4 receiving options put up good numbers every single year. Waiting around for a year or two when cracking the rotation more or less guarantees you’ll put up good numbers and likely get drafted makes plenty of sense.

Literally anyone > 6th Street

And I hate you for getting this song stuck in my head for the next 24 hours. Gonna have to play the Cars 3 sound track for my kids on the way home just to get a less annoying Disney song stuck in my head.

JFC man. Our WR room is weak next year. Rotating a bunch of guys would be a very stupid idea. We’re not talented from top to bottom at WR. There just aren’t 3 guys fans know will be good next year. Sark will use the offseason to determine the 3-4 best guys and give them the lion’s share of the snaps just like he has for two decades now.

That would be good news. Could be great news if he really commits himself and makes a jump like Sweat and Coburn did the past two years. Still want Caldwell tho.

-Ideally Gbenda would stay through Spring ball and only transfer to Nevada if he loses the starting job to Lefau. -Thompson’s getting processed and it’s easy to see why. Just watch that long ball to Polk from the CFP. -Watts moving to safety would be amazing. That could very well strengthen 2 positions in our secondary. Mukuba was recruited to play Star. Guilbeau has been bad whenever he plays. I think the staff knew they couldn’t have him as the starter next year. JJR is perfect for Star. I believe Bobby said JJR will start at Star, but he can also play safety.

Can confirm. He does not.

Yep. There were a good number of plays where Brooks or Watts were in decent position, but they were trailing. You can’t look back while trailing, and asking them to be in a position to look back while 1 on 1 with UW’s receivers would be completely unrealistic. Playing Quarters, especially at the college level, means your DBs won’t be able to turn and find the ball very often, because they don’t have safety help over the top. Penix made perfect throw after perfect throw to NFL WRs. Not much we could do about that part. Like you said, the real issue was coverage/alignment busts or getting beat by Grubbs before the snap.

He’s not an elite run defender, but he holds up well at edge for his size. He’s very likely going to start at Buck (weak side edge who tends to drop into coverage more than Jack). If he proves to be an Ovie Oghufo-level liability in the run game, then he’ll be limited to pass rush specialist, but I doubt that. He had us, Bama, tOSU pushing extremely hard for him. Those 3 schools wouldn’t do that if they thought he couldn’t hold up at edge.

People were also saying Brooks might be our best CB at this time last year, so Muhammad and Williams’ progress will be a key point to watch next year. Charlie and Tom both had very talented true freshman DBs flash and then they regressed the next year. Williams and Muhammad have to keep improving for our secondary to have a chance.

Watts is what he is at this point. He has improved and developed since he got to Texas, but he’s more of a safety than a CB. He’s got inherent agility/quickness limitations that really show themselves against future NFL WRs. The coaches did a good job of making him work at boundary CB the last two years. He’s not a point against our DB coaching. I’m not convinced anybody could develop Crawford. He probably just doesn’t have it mentally to be a good DB. With that said, CB and S coaches are definitely the weak spot on the coaching staff, and I’d like to see at least one fo them replaced. I doubt that happens. The silver lining is we’re bringing in enough talent this year to remove the talent excuse and know for sure whether Gideon or Joseph can develop/coach their positions. My expectation is they can’t, but hopefully at least one of them will surprise us next year.

Yes, you fucking muppet. If those are our only two losses, that is a guaranteed CFP appearance.