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I will say that it's not every day that your HUDL features 2 plays where you get called for pass interference as well as a muffed kick-off. So kudos for Bobby being an original. http://www.hudl.com/v/2Efp8y also, live look at Taylor's dad ::

Gerry's about the only 9.95er to trust when it comes to actually evaluating guys. I know several people that saw him at Pylon up in Dallas were impressed with his frame and hands but if he struggles to separate ... WR is a DEEEEEEEEEEEEEP class for 2022.

I'm amped to see how that recruitment plays out. His dad played basketball at Bama and he played at Mater Dei with Bryce Young, but they love Sark's offense and Sark's kid currently plays with Williams at Mater Dei.

ahh, that's right.

No. Dancing on the fresh graves of several 20-somethings is not my bag.

yeah, Piperi is just crushing the field.

Dear Mrs. Foster, You are a moron. WHOOOOOOP! Signed, Me.

This was the list in Feb of 2020 (from their previous 3 classes 2018/2019/2020) and it's grown since with Sermon, Rambo, Mordecai, Calcaterra, Conyers, Pledger, Morris :: Gone/Retired/Portal : TatumDraperJacksonMooreRobersonRobinsonEdwardsBaldwinTaylorPerkinsGreenDeArmanHurtsProctor

Not at all. Texas was simply working from behind already and now working through unforced errors with less ammo. It's early, the season is long - yada yada

Do you know how many former Saban coaches have said they are going to build a front office "in the Bama model"? All of them. How many have succeeded or built a comparable model? Hell, does anyone remember when Charlie Strong hired Patrick Suddes to implement the "Bama model"? At some point it's going to be more than plans and talk. This isn't about Sarkisian as much as it's about Hughes. Chang and several of his very capable guys are gone. There has been one person (Hughes) hired. Those other guys were a direct pipeline to the coaches/trainers/high school coaches/etc ... and remained in constant contact with all of them. Some of them have enormous value beyond the daily grind. Keeping some of the previous staff is all good and well, but if you are going to "double your staff" and want to reach out to the high school coaches, etc ... you don't start by firing guys who actually good at the harder parts (evaluating talent), and/or who have multi-generational ties to high school coaches and/or guys who do it for fucking peanuts because this is their dream job. Some of these guys they let go had continued working throughout the process, some of the guys they kept not so much. The rhyme or reason to each seems to be around who was likable or vibed, not who has done the heavy lifting nor who has shown a level of dedication. You guys keep talking specifically about talking to recruits, but that is a TINY portion of the work involved. It's not just kids and those conversations but coaches and trainers who are conduits to the recruit excitement levels. Speaking with each recruit has a good impact, if you can get a guy that coaches 14 teams from 10u to 18u to buy in and be excited you've made a much bigger impact. etc... this is why teams like Bama and Clemson (and Texas) have these large front office orgs because there is a mountain of work to do, a million relationships to maintain, and the ones with the 75 or so highly prized recruits (per class) that the staff directly interacts with are a fraction of the communication and even that undertaking is massive. Hughes absolutely should have had people already hired at this point and honestly should have come with 3-4 people in tow. There's really no reason to not have made several hires by now, especially if the goal is doubling the size of the team. It's what ~9 days to NSD and how many JR days (or whatever takes their place during COVID) are happening almost immediately after that? There are massive 7on7 events going on every single weekend and Texas is invisible, which is a negative presence. These events should be absolutely buzzing right now with news of the Sark's offense, Kwiatkowski's schemes, etc... they are not. At all. It's been more than 3 weeks since the Sarkisian hire and based on the recent donor call, he expected Hughes would need 2-3 weeks to get more people in place. That is simply unacceptable. Each recruiting class is a fight and if you go 6 or more weeks fighting with on arm behind your back you are going to take damage, even if you are the bigger stronger fighter. it's been poorly executed to this point. Not dire - but really it's an unforced error.

Jimbo and staff have handled this extremely well. Took a page out of the Mack Brown recruiting playbook by limiting the perception of Texas momentum and limit Sark’s new coach bump by trickling out commitments, and they’ve got 3 more cards to play right now. Sarkisian’s slow hiring process, esp with player personnel, has played directly into that and now you’ve gone a long time since that national title game - all but eliminating the early returns around the explosive offense and gameplanning excitement. Jimbo is obviously listening to his player personnel people more because he took a spare in Garza to help ensure that he would get a Sylla and Taylor, not unlike Mack and Giles did with Jinkens/Brown years ago. Ditto leveraging other guys in Green’s circle as built in relationships — atop the TE successes that they’ve had — to bulk recruit. He also allowed Henson to take several non-cube OTs with tremendous upside.

It was insane how much better OU looked when Robinson was out. Raym seems like an ideal C candidate to me.

This is the outcome when HC and OL coach favor different types of OL guys. BB never took guys like Walker and Simpson before Riley and those guys aren’t playing or developing. Harrison and Raym look damn good though and with these 3 additions they should be damn good and this keeps from having to dip into the FR class. they must be up against the numbers though. Does anyone have a clear breakdown of what they have for 2022?

this was no surprise as he’s been all but committed since USC hired Donte Williams, and as long as Donte Williams stays as CB coach Jackson will be at USC

I also enjoyed this quote from Artis ::

I am really excited to see he and Jaylan Ford at LB in this defense, but Jaden Hullaby would probably be a load at FB/H-Back with his physicality and athleticism.

This is pretty accurate. He has a lack of top end speed which limits his ceiling but I don't think he has stiff hips - he has a 4.01 shuttle - he was just out of position a lot in a poorly schemed Todd Orlando defense that led to confidence issues that he couldn't seem to get over here. He's not an island guy but he is good getting into a WRs body and using his long reach and strength to his advantage. I think he'll probably do well in Arnett's scheme opposite Emerson.

Arizona State

Abor does have an uncle that is a huge Sooner fan and has been pushing him that way, Byrd will get in on it as well. Texas will have to work hard on that one.

Banks is like the final boss version of a Gary Patterson fever dream recruit (if only he had played QB in an RPO offense at a smaller school he would reach his final form). He's one of those guys that could play 6 or 8 positions in college at a really high level. I don't think his body is that far off - yeah he's got a little boiler working but really he's just big densely muscled guy. It seems like it'd be easier for him to put 10 pounds of muscle on his frame and play LB with an elite athleticism than to take 15 off to play WR.

I absolutely agree that he is a football player and could play several spots but have you seen Banks as a SR? He's a good 35+ pounds heavier than Smith was coming out of high school, no hyperbole. Maybe they put him at WR and maybe he does well, he is a damn good football player, but he's not going to get smaller with a college S&C program and diet. He has NFL potential as a spread killing OLB.

I think Colombi is returning but he'd have to hold off Maverick McIvor and possibly Behren Morton.