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BurntOrange&White

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  1. Humidor:

     

    RECRUITING

    *Arch Manning played golf with Charles Wright on Thursday. No word on if it got out of hand like @UTortho’s 40th.

    *It’s possible 2023 linebacker Derion Gullette will be in College Station late Saturday evening. Texas A&M is clearly UT's main competitor for the four-star edge-backer. Inside Texas continues to hear that Texas is Gullette’s personal favorite. Where does the recruitment stand within Gullette’s circle is the question? We will likely learn more on that after the weekend if they show up in College Station.

    *2023 Baton Rouge (La. ) Woodlawn cornerback Jordan Matthews pulled into his home at 1:30am late, last night after spending time in Austin. He tells Inside Texas he had a great time as usual, and reiterated to @JoeCook he's looking at a decision before his senior season begins. A decision is possible in the next 7-10 days but nothing is locked in.

    *2023 Longview (Texas) WR Jalen Hale popped into College Station on Thursday. The Aggies staff has been pushing Hale to return but it was a short visit. He's headed to Alabama on Friday morning after staying overnight in DFW. Hale has three remaining official visits, but is only scheduled for two; Alabama (9/3) and Texas (9/10). A&M will push for that third visit before his scheduled September 22nd announcement.

    *2023 Garland (Texas) Naaman Forest OL/DL Markis Deal and his father made the one-day trip to Austin Thursday. There is a feeling that TCU and Texas are the likely top two in the prospects’ mind. Barring a change, it doesn't seem like there will be a commitment until after two fall official visits. Texas and Georgia are still expected to receive those. USC is the sleeper, if the On3 Consensus four-star ventures far from home.

    *2023 Moss Point (Miss.) DL Jamarious Brown and family remain on campus in Austin today. The No. 102 ranked prospect in the On300 is not a player that has been to camps to receive official measurements. A key takeaway after seeing Brown in person is that he is likely closer to 6-1.5 without shoes than his listed height of 6-3. That doesn't change the level of prospect Brown is as an interior DL. Texas is in the mix with Ole Miss, and possibly Alabama or Tennessee. The Rebels are fighting hard to keep Brown in state.

    *2023 Shreveport (La.) Woodlawn DL TaDerius Collins wasn't as big as the listed 6-foot-5 and 250 pounds in person. Inside Texas has him at 6-foot-4 and closer to 230 pounds. He has the frame of an EDGE prospect, but would only be recruited as a DL by the Texas staff. The Longhorns are expected to take another look on senior video. Baylor, and possibly TCU are more likely destinations should Collins decide prior to senior season. Collins did have a good visit.

  2. Humidor:

     

    By: Justin, Gerry, and Eric

    Inside Texas dives into team news days away from the start of fall camp, profile the latest on UT targets and more, Inside the Humidor.

    TEAM

    *Summer school ends: Texas wrapped up summer workouts on Thursday. The team will return next Tuesday and begin practice the following day.

    *The 110 rule will be enforced in 2022 - you can only take 110 players to fall camp. Players who don’t make that cut can't practice or attend meetings until the first week of the season.

    *Hudson Card and Quinn Ewers have a healthy relationship that benefits both on the field. Each has a team-first mentality. Each is widely liked. The team will rally around the winner of the competition and support the backup.

    *The biggest difference in pre-camp last year and pre-camp this year? "It’s player-led. The players are way more bought in. The players are upholding a standard. New faces, new talent. That’s a big difference, too.”

    *Biggest surprise from spring ball to the end of summer workouts? "The receiver room, including tight end. Absolutely stacked. (Isaiah) Neyor is a freak, (Ja’Tavion) Sanders is a stud, but the sleeper is Tarique Milton. He can go. Really go." You would think with Milton’s size he’d be a pure slot, but they’re moving him around.

    On defense, Jaylon Guilbeau is another one under the radar. He's instinctive. Two more surprises mentioned were Diamonte Tucker-Dorsey and Michael Taaffe. “Tuck” is setting a good example for the linebackers. He’s adding leadership. Taaffe will likely see the field this year at Star behind Jahdae Barron and Guilbeau.

    *He’s not often mentioned (or at least not enough) as a leader, but Jordan Whittington is a calming influence on the wide receiver room. If you have a question about anything he has an answer. The players are rallied around him and view him as being in a big contract year.

    *The players are on a break until Tuesday. The coaches are off until Monday.

    *It’s almost go time.

  3. 1 minute ago, 'stache said:

    We're not in the PAC. The XII is not dead and will not die, it'll just make significantly less than the BIG and SEC. It is what it is.

    subpar conference. full of have nots....k bye

  4. 16 hours ago, LTbear said:

    All of ND's "shamrock series" uniforms have been awful 

    Yup.....those uniforms look like some Georgia Tech knock offs.

  5. Bobby:

     

    - I continue to hear positive remarks on Brenen Thompson behind the scenes. I’m not there yet on saying he’s getting the same reviews as Xavier Worthy a year ago. But I know part of that is the receiver room itself, and the expectations of it, have changed so drastically in just one year. Worthy himself probably wouldn’t stand out as much a year ago given guys like Isaiah Neyor and Agiye Hall being added to the mix from a sheer talent perspective. Keep an eye on Thompson as practice begins next week.

    For what it’s worth, one 7on7 onlooker described the way Hall gets downfield as “he runs like a deer”. Those are words you like to hear about a major downfield threat.

    - As a reminder, The Pancake Factory is set to begin on August 1. There are some other things I know are in the works that I will share with IT members soon. - @RGBIII spill the beans

    - This is a crucial next few days in recruiting. Not only is Texas hosting key recruits this week, but so too are A&M and Oklahoma. Texas has been on an absurd roll the last two months. The Sooners have been on a good one, too. The Aggies have been stuck in the mud, don’t expect that to last forever.

    - I’m hearing the three annual rivals for Texas in the SEC would be Arkansas, A&M and OU. That should surprise no one. Interestingly, I am told that some folks in the SEC office want to see Texas-LSU over Texas-Arkansas. Apparently, that matchup whets the appetite of the TV folks much more.

  6. Bobby:

     

    Some Longhorn thoughts along with items I’ve picked up elsewhere in talking with folks around college football…

    - The PAC-12 reportedly received a lowball offer from ESPN, reducing a team’s financial package by $12mm per year from its previous number. At the same time, Big 10 commissioner Kevin Warren said the Big 10 was not finished with expansion. Stanford, Cal, Washington and Oregon are all possibilities, as well as Miami and Florida State, along with Notre Dame.

    Noticeably absent are the “four corners” schools of Colorado, Utah, Arizona and Arizona State. We all know the Big 12 is trying to jump on the four corners schools while also hoping they can grab other PAC-12 schools, too, those not named Oregon State and Washington State.

    Yet the mere announcement by the Big 10 puts a kibosh on the Big 12’s thought of going beyond the four corners schools because the others will undoubtedly wait on the Big 10.

    So what is the Big 12 looking at from a rights deal if they add those four schools?

    According to two industry people I spoke with yesterday, the numbers would not increase by much at all for Big 12 teams.

    What would change is that it would relatively assure the long-term survival of the conference. The Big 12 still would not be on par with the SEC and Big 10, nowhere near it in fact, but they would be closer to the ACC at least.

  7. On 5/30/2022 at 4:56 PM, WinningIsHard said:

    I believe that’s where shit gets a little hairy, foster may have actually had some solid support from the team. He was a former 5 star, played a lot and well as a freshman, injuries slowed him down a lot, and he seemed to be pretty damn vocal. The staff may have feared a full mutiny if they benched a senior leader? Kids are finicky as tuck nowadays and with the portal the way it is maybe they did what they thought was best. In hindsight I’m sure they regret it lol. 

    Yeah well turn on the film and you see no effort. So fuck him. Good riddance. 

  8. 4 minutes ago, Rickylovesweed said:

    The defense looked good enough for NFL teams to want PK's DL and edge players. 

    Isn't that what recruits want based on scheme?  This isn't even about success in the Pac 12. If PK's scheme for DL was terrible they wouldn't be getting drafted at the rate they were. This should be a very easy sell to counteract negative recruiting about scheme. 

    Pk sucks. He will be fired this year. 

  9. 32 minutes ago, Beantown Express 2.0 said:

    I would think for a good sales person/recruiter it wouldn’t be that hard if you show them the tape of guys like Foster, Schooler and Brock and how it wasn’t scheme but it was that they just sucked and all we need is “fill in this years recruit” to come in and start over that level of player I would think it could be sold pretty easily.  It’s not like he had a bunch of NFL talent on that D (pretty much none) and I would argue guys like Schooler and Brock wouldn’t start at most top end D1 schools.  Hell, they may not start at most bottom D1 schools.  Not saying Pete K is the best out there but you put those 3 guys I mentioned on a lot of good defenses at others schools and I guarantee those defenses would get much, much worst immediately.  

    Scheme is shit. Rugby tackling is shit. Pac 12 doesn’t play defense and is a shit conference. Don’t care. Hire next DC from sec country. 

  10. 1 hour ago, closetojumping said:

    Well, it’s pretty fucking simple. That’s what recruits and their people are telling folks. That’s what other programs are using against us. See how that works? This isn’t Washington and the defense last year looked beyond inept. Resumé reading about what someone did at a Pac 12 school isn’t going to get it done. 

    Didn’t you hear? The defense did well vs Mike Leach!!!!!

  11. BobbyBurton



    That’s the countdown until the Longhorns officially enter football season mode.

    That means practices. It means vetting the young players. It means seeing which older ones are getting better (or not).

    It also will tell us who the starting QB is likely to be.

    All the things we’ve been discussing and contemplating here on Inside Texas are going to start to be answered in one week.

    **

    Some have asked me to compare this coming year to a previous one. I’ve wracked my brain, but I can’t recall a year like this one.

    Never, except for maybe 2005, have I been as anxious to see a Texas offense as this season.

    Save 2005, I think the combination of talent and play-calling is possibly unmatched in modern Texas football history. But will they produce on the field?

    That’s not to say this offense should be as explosive as VY’s final year in Austin or as precision-like at it was in Colt’s junior campaign. But so many of the pieces are there, it’s almost unbelievable. Every single skill position has a five-star talent on the roster.

    Has Texas EVER had a better collection of skill talent on offense? I think that’s a legitimate question.

    I know the Horns have never had this level and depth of wide receiver talent. Texas was really only one deep with Jordan Shipley and Quan Cosby by comparison. But with Worthy, Neyor, Whittington and even someone like Hall off the bench, Texas is extraordinarily deep and talented. For example, Hall literally would be the highest rated receiver recruit at every other Big 12 school.

    To add to all of that, I’m fairly confident Steve Sarkisian is as good at scheming and play-calling on offense as any previous Texas coach, if not better.

    While I don’t know where this season is headed, I know the offense has it in them to create some “wow” moments. How many of those they create and the timing of them will likely tell us the tale of the 2022 season.

    And I can’t wait to see what’s in store. It really all starts next week.

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