squeegeedegg

I go back and forth between WR and LB. Safety 3rd worst

Brian Hartline

Blippi exploring museums, how things are made, and showcasing all kinds of machinery and vehicles beats the pants off of cocomelon or the inane Paw Patrol type animation shows. Bluey is on another level though, has a ton of heart and really explores healthy family dynamics

Sounds like a guy that has been elevated simply because of handshakes, smiles, and conversation, not unlike a politician of local government or other second rate public office. Probably just a dumb guy tbh, anything even remotely technical is avoided like the plague to cover for his mental deficiencies

Agreed here, S&C is something that can be judged in many ways relatively quickly, and our guys fail the eye test just in general physique and in strength upon contact, pretty much across the board

I think you're mixing up a few classes. The Florida guys were in his transition class and not really highly rated, Cherry was the flake but we got a few solid years out of Davante Davis, his run support from the corner spot was something Herman should thank Charlie for. Regardless, the 2016 errrbody signing day flurry madness class was the highlight of Strong recruiting. Brandon Jones, Dev Duv, LJH, Collin Johnson, Chris Brown, Malcolm Roach... Shack (I guess he counts too) all those guys willed out wins at various points despite Herman. What Herman himself brought in and signed absolutely pales in comparison (both under his tutelage and now) The alarm bells for me started ringing in 2018, away at OSU. They punch us in the mouth and slowly the team inches back with Ehlinger throwing dimes to Ingram on a wheel route and a neat pop pass to Beck. Then OSU drives down into the red zone. A good season and a good record on the road, controlling one's own destiny, top 10 ranking, conference championship nearly in sight. Then Gundy gets Taylor "Corndog" Cornelius on a design run and we've got our "5 star DB" 1 on 1 with him, and the result is... absolutely pathetic. Piss poor effort is what hits you first, but then I had the realization that actual functional athleticism wasn't there either. Corndog was the better athlete on that play. Corndog. I can't even think about that play for too long before my blood boils. I said, oh fuck, this is what Herman thought was good... And here we are. On the coaching front, both of these schemes on O and D are low floor/high ceiling schemes obviously. Many many coaches could get better results this year but I want a chicken salad that tastes like chicken with tarragon rather than a chicken shit salad sprinkled with parsley. The development discussion will frankly take a few years to judge properly, regardless of who is doing the coaching Correction Dev Duv fell in Charlie's lap and probably shouldn't be credited as his achievement but I think the greater point still stands

These are the most competitive bidding wars though, so if that's what you want we still need some serious overhauling to do. OU has made some really good moves nationally, securing takes from the likes of Mater Dei, Bishop Gorman, St. Frances Academy, etc. Aggy is doing similarly with more SEC stink to it but the point is neither of these rivals are talking up BEASTexas or the pride of the Rio Grande Valley Throw in the yearly JAGs from LT and Westlake to keep the west Austin suburban mafia placated

Just off the top of my head, there was a cycle when Herman and the Texas program were in a position to sell a positive future and yet we spent a significant amount of time entertaining prospects like Peyton Powell and Demariyon Houston, no doubt propping up their rankings in the process. Texas doing this while in a position to improve the roster without significant obstacles in their way and instead going dumpster diving casts the entire talent acquisition side of things in doubt.

The lack of depth kills most hard coaching methods for year one staffs. You guys are checked out incumbents way too comfortable with continued starts in front of 100k fans while the product is abysmal? Well shit who else can we play instead... They've chosen a mixed bag of playing shitty walk ons that are practice warriors and yelling at knuckleheads at practice whom should know better by now That's all part of the evaluation, recruitment, development path. The coaches that can make chicken shit out of chicken salad ala Orlando, according to one self-serving Herman, get used to starting off with an ingredient no one wants to ingest in the first place. Choate and PK might be similar although we know less about that part of their philosophies at this point. I know Sark wants the Cornish hens at least before he makes his chicken salad. Anyway, our current coaches have schemes that don't even get off the ground when there's insufficient talent, so true, there's loads of guys we could have hired that would have kept us closer in many of our losses, but that's all missing the forest for the trees.

Football as we know, is about matchups. We're not losing because teams are testing the corners for example. Case in point the TD play to Kolar (or the other TE I don't recall of the top of my head). Hall (who absolutely out talents most if not all of our D personnel) squirts out to the flat and draws Adimora to crash down on him while the TE (who out talents our TE room and most of the LBs) runs upfield. Now it's up to Luke Brockermeyer to cover him and he's physically not able to get within 10 yards of the guy. Backside help is one of the other spares at Safety, which neither schooler or foster (one of the most blatantly overrated players on the field) or Thompson have the athleticism to make it even contested. We have eyes. There's athletic liabilities up and down the field and I believe Herman's operation didn't know left from right when evaluating. The little blurb they show is lazy ass narrative. MacDonald IV would be an absolute godsend, as would eisworth and young. They're coached well no doubt, but they have program stability and riddled with overachieving senior leaders much like OSU and to a lesser extent Baylor, and we're just none of those things. This is what Herman and his buddies left us and the Texas recruiting industry will polish turds because we cream our pants at finishing top 10 in recruiting as copium for what we really are and there's lots of money to be made there. Not to mention the stats don't reflect the reality of the 2018, 2019, or 2020 classes and where the talent actually is, because a ton of that isn't even on the field or on the roster. I'm not even mentioning Arkansas, which is a team with hardly any talent holes and thus can play their brand of ball confidently. Card, the scrub we all just watched, was rated a fucking .97 or some shit. Questions have to be asked about talent evaluation around our program for the last few years. I'm leaving Sark out of this aspect of the discussion until we see what he brings in, or rather what our prepubescent infrastructure allows him to bring in

No, the immediate playing time pitch has to be blasted daily to the 22 and 23 guys, because no one is winning shit with the guys currently on the team. In the background pull as many pieces as possible from the portal. There's single digit quality players on the team, and even fewer that give a shit about losing and playing poorly, and those few are underclassmen

Doing what they're doing is literally how to prove otherwise. Why does past history matter one bit? Blind homerism is stupid as fuck and you should feel bad. If we can't bring ourselves to be motivated to compete on the terms of modern college football when our biggest rival is all in then we will continue to fall to doormat status and things will never improve, and it will be fully deserved

Can't fault the decision making process too much but the decision itself was a shitty one for Ewers. We'll take him though. Hope he doesn't compound the bad decision through general prolonged indecision on actually portalling. Stroud was one of the highest performing QBs at his Elite 11 among some other really high end players, there's every reason to have expected him to be the starter and he is. Either Ewers severely overestimated himself or he underestimated his opposition especially when the big money would come at a number of other schools with a bigger need for his talents

Pfffft just wait until we digitize consciousness

I cheerlead for Cooks during his recruitment because I was smelling disaster at LB coming and we needed takes. Not because he was some transcendent player. Morice Blackwell has played on special teams and came inches away from a punt block return TD. If Cooks can't put the time in and has momma cheering him to move on then that's the type of player entitlement that isn't doing the team any good

Coburn was the weak link in 2019 on a 3 man front of Roach, Coburn, Graham. LSU 3rd and 17 only works because he's giving up ground and spinning like a top in front of the center. He's been pretty consistent in that regard throughout his time here

Herman would be running Card on QB sweeps to the left side of the OL and we all know it. Mix in some nice Moore blocking for Whittington screens and there you have it. Until the urgent comeback attempt in the 4th and you would see Bijan with his 9th touch of the game on a throwback screen for some nice yardage to give us a little cruel hope. Oh and Hand would still be sitting at home with a deep freezer full of meats and a warm grill waiting to host some JAGS and then dust off his Oakleys for the photo shoot

He's been going for the hurdle this year like it's on his bucket list or something

Let's go ahead and use Brewer and Wiley more in the running game

Is there ever a losing team that wasn't out-coached? It's such a lame fucking phrase... Any team in the country in the top 40 could get a guaranteed 100% td on us in the red zone by asking questions of Brockermeyer, Schooler and/or Foster. Any team in the top 40 could stop us on critical passing downs by covering Worthy and seeing which shitty throw on a shitty read is made by Thompson to a receiver with shitty hands, unless they have a DL with a pulse and then the pass isn't even being thrown in the first place. I guess we out coach every team that we have out rushed in the past. Preparation for Texas at this point is about masking our glaring deficiencies on both sides of the ball, there's hardly enough time in a season to do otherwise. The insider lead up, however bland that information is, mentioned Texas coaches seeing opportunities to turnover Bohannon, and you can see that emphasis more or less. Too bad we turned it over just as much. It was said Baylor just knew they could win by playing hard for 4 quarters. Oh yeah Aranda is a fucking genius by preparing his team to shut down Bijan. Such a monumental task. I'm not trying to say our coaches are performing excellently, it's just the tautology of the out-coached excuse after every loss is grating. When you have a bad team, especially with first year coaches, results are almost always terrible

Top100 is pretty funny. Moore found himself looking for a spot late in the cycle and there we were to take him. Despite the yoakum twins being overrated as hs sophomores, they didn't drop quite enough considering their weak ass competition. They looked meh in camps and most just shrugged and said, put some meat on them bones and he'll be great! The rest of the 2018 and 2019 classes are sprinkled with similar stories, Herman and the first squad of assistants were dogshit evaluators and there's mounting evidence. But yes, Coleman is also ass

Cristobal? Fucking Banks? There's a few that would cause an uproar around here

The We're Texas crowd will experience a pretty rude introduction to the realities of playing in the SEC soon enough. Perhaps after going 0-3 against aggy and these socialites actually feel their status being measured against the insufferable bleats of victorious ags in their own communities they'll feel inclined to suddenly care about the product on the field. Lacking a serious in-state rival has had a neutering effect on Texas football passion over the last decade of mediocrity. I hope this is in some way correlated and not just circumstantial... Time will tell

Shit I would take Gideon in a heart beat and possibly even Haines... Can't believe I'm saying that

Idk but half their team portaled in from elsewhere already.