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That stupid motherfucker needs to keep Earl out of his mouth.

fuck. yes. \m/

Utah WR Bryan Thompson in the portal :: https://247sports.com/player/bryan-thompson-81662/

Meanwhile in another dystopian hellscape (Vancouver) ::

I'll have to tell my best friend that he lives in a hellscape out of a dystopian novel later today. Per his IG, right now he's out at Glen Helen (motocross track) cranking out laps. Poor bastard.

New QB offer out for Jimbo in Ohio:: https://247sports.com/Player/Drew-Allar-46096466/

Via aggy247 poster tricer— Brenan Thompson wouldn’t start at DeSoto.

Yet another year and the number of RBs that we didn’t even bother recruiting, guys that would’ve committed, that are far superior to that fucking OOS spare is fucking the infinite set. To be fair he’s tiny-framed but counters being undersized by being slower than our DEs. Drayton’d once again. What a worthless piece of shit.

He could’ve put that in more than a year ago.

Dr. Micheal Bayer was a national champion under Royal who likely never played much but went on to be an incredible pediatrician. The other doctor at his practice (Jack Lewis, I think) played basketball, if I remember correctly. He was right around 11 feet tall.

Because he’s fucking worthless. Edit * me every time I break down and reply to a Drayton conversation::

I’d love to see a 3 circle Venn diagram with people who are super excited about Sark as the new HC, those who think Leitao was a wasted scholarship. and those who think 16 year old kids don’t deserve second chance. I shouldn’t expect any overlap, right?

Oh, I completely agree with that and there's no doubt that having eyes on him and the increased testing, etc .. helped him keep on the path. Which is a good argument for why so many of these kids need to get second and third chances. I can tell you now that I didn't get in legal trouble for the things I did when I behaved poorly and made incredibly stupid choices but that's sheer dumb luck. Having 20 bars of Xanax wouldn't have scratched the surface of my discretions from 16-23ish. Sheer. Dumb. Luck. I truly hope that he continues to do all of the outreach that he has been tasked with as well, once he isn't forced to do it, because it's super valuable to kids in the community to see that you can overcome.

I don't think scholarship money is really an issue - his dad makes 925k per year... (he's DePaul's HC for basketball). ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yep. Henson was a damn good hire.

Yeah. I ended up watching that UNI game like 3 times because of he and Smith. Dude has incredible agility.

Well, I was talking more their model for evaluation and offering. Closing (re: church bags) and development (re: steroid/high/deer antler spray) — we could deviate from their path and look at the Bama model there.

I understand the idea here but I'm not a buyer in the Alabama model - with a deluge of carpet bombed offers to attend a camp and get an offer. Not because it doesn't work for Bama but because Texas simply isn't going to commit at the level that Bama does. I just don't believe it. Every guy coming from the Saban system says "we are going to do it the Bama way. We are going to build out the same type of team." Not one has done it. Kirby took over much of what Richt already had in place and then when he couldn't replicate the entire Bama org just haphazardly started dropping bags and he's the success story in the scenario. Saban can throw down that many offers because he has that many people working on evals and on communication with these players. Sure, an offer costs nothing but keeping that line of communication open? That takes staff energy, time, and resources. It takes a tremendous amount of work to continue these type of recruitments and to keep the water simmered but bot boiled. Saban simply throws more manpower at the problem because Alabama is willing to do that. They are willing to employ far more people, including skilled experienced (Read: expensive) people. Oregon fucked around and found out. Other teams have tried and failed as well. I think Clemson's style and staff is the better, more reproducible model. Clemson does a fantastic job with evaluations, they do not carpet bomb but they will put an emphasis on a position group and put 15-20 offers out in a group when they see similar evals and then it's first come, first served. They also do a fantastic job at getting out of recruitments. They don't ignore the signs and waste time/effort/experience on a recruit that is unlikely to sign there (maximizing that ROI) and they do an incredible job of determining when to drop the recruit from their end. See the Brockermeyers, they didn't feel like James was worthy of a scholarship, nor that Tommy was worth two and didn't talk around the problem, nor did they stay invested (even in Tommy) once they had made their decision "just in case they change their mind." They trust the evals from non-coaches like Batson. Texas was already on the road to building a system like that and could very well elevate their personnel dept to follow that model and it much more attainable and tenable, imo. Each time you find a great evaluator at a lesser school - you steal him. Your people will grow and move to new bigger roles, so you ensure that you have a few more people than you have need.

I had assumed Chris Marshall would be committing to aggy soon - this would give them two pretty similar players.

This. Also of note, there are roughly 3100 P5 RB recruits in Texas in the 2022 class. Go fart-huff some fucking DL if you're need an OOS fix.

History. Nehlen was hired right after Bowden left for FSU and made a point of making pipeline connections to specific schools in FL and kept that trend running through his tenure. Rich Rod came in after Nehlen and amplified the trend.

That 40/shuttle/vertical combo. Oof.

Another penn state QB to the portal - 3 years left :: https://247sports.com/Player/Will-Levis-92779/high-school-177951/

Good catch @Getafix Rivals - 11th in the state of Michigan 247 - 13th overall in the country Dohn 247 bump perhaps?