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What in the fuck are you trying to do with this post? Instill hope through logic and data? You're a heartless bastard.
I’m not sure I can answer that question. I’m fully aware it will do nothing to lessen the whining of some. Maybe it makes me feel better. The data does provide interest. To me anyway.
But damnit I’m hopeful. That’s the path I’ve chosen.-
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I’m not arguing those CFB projections, but you ignore pretty much all stats/information that is positive.
There’s really no reason to believe we’ll regress on the Oline. In almost any year, you get at least one guy who has improved or plays better than anticipated and beyond expectations. It seems that if Banks comes in at LT and can be average, that is a huge upgrade in most peoples minds.
We played teams that defensively created chaos. On a per game basis, we played 3 of the top 17 in average TFLs per game. All 3 in consecutive weeks, the last two had Bye weeks prior to playing us. The third we screwed up by jacking our lineup due to injury. Take out G5 teams it was 3 of top 11. Six conference foes were top 38. There were 5 SEC teams in the top 38. 7 from the ACC. 2 Big 10.
Now let’s take the Stuff Rate. Texas was best in the Big 12 on the Oline with the lowest rate. Obviously there are sacks allowed. We were tied at 61st in the country in sacks allowed.
You can argue Bijan saved some here. Probably but he wasn’t far and away the broken tackles leader either. I’d also counter that our QBs didn’t save us much either.
But the point is that our opponents didn’t sit back and play passively. They attacked. And they were good at it. Not just against us but every team they played.
So I’ll ask simply this. Do you expect our Oline to be better next year? Even incrementally. Year 2. Good coaching. Additional year of maturity. Great incoming talent.-
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LL team won tonight 4-2 to move into first place after five games. My youngest had a great game with a double and an in the park homer. He is on a tear this season.
Through five games here are his stats hitting:
14 plate appearances
.857 AVG
,857 OBP
2.357 OPS
1.50 SLG
12 Hits
5 singles, 3 doubles & 3 triples
Been fun coaching him, watching him get after it.
Little punk needs to learn to take some pitches and draw a walk every now and then. Young, undisciped hitters are the worst.-
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Tigers. But man, looking back on it. That 2020 season would’ve been a blast with who we had on staff. Add Zubia, Faltine, Kennedy, Silas, Ellis, healthy DJ, Hodo, Williams, Powell and even lance Ford could’ve given us some solid innings. That’s the real tragedy of Covid…..
You went back in time for this one. I had to go back to reread.
I don’t think 14-3 or whatever it was was luck.
Pierce annoys me some, but he’s proven quite a bit. And I think some of his annoying decisions are because he’s trying different things in an attempt to find what works.-
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Texas is 3-2 in its last five vs Kansas with only one win by more than a TD. No one on this roster has a career point differential of more than +8 vs Jayhawks.
It’s a more competitive series than OU. Put some respek on that name.
Yeah, not surprising.
Sark and Strong may have lost to Kansas, but Mack and Tom got bailed out by late QB heroics to win too. Case McCoy did what Beuchele couldn’t. And well Sam had the ball last whereas Casey did not. Those too showed flaws in where we are/were as a program. All within the past 10 years. Strong blew them out once. Herman won in less than impressive fashion once. I don’t even remember the rest. -
Is Sark familiar with the Streisand effect? His response just got Ojomo's comments much more attention than they otherwise would have gotten.
Also LOL at the two most obvious sunshine pumpers here immediately falling over themselves to agree with Sark. Never change.
Dang. I need to try harder.
10 WINS
-Improved QB play.
-2nd year in the system. But also, the most consistency in the same system in a long time. I think this helps the D more than other people do. It’ll help the Oline as well.
- We’ve added talent at places that needed it - QB, WR to help now. And lots of young talent that may help some now at OL and DL.
- our Big 12 competitors lost quite a bit
- we always whip Kansas the year after they scare/beat us (I don’t really know that but maybe).
- Ovie gets it together. He won’t be a pass rusher extraordinaire, but his consistency on the edge in the run game improves a great deal.
- The DBs make half their tackles/sacks when put in position to make plays in the backfield as opposed to 10% last year.
- Bert Auburns hair.
There’s some sunshine. I can come up with more, if needed.-
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This Mims guy. It was mentioned up thread that he came from a small school, one that ran it a lot.
Read an article or two from the Georgia perspective. He only played 8 games last year. In January there was some question about whether he might move inside for playing time. Ironically another 5 star olineman from Georgia hit the portal per one of these articles highlighting the point that not all 5 stars hit sooner rather than later.
How much further along is he than Kelvin Banks at this point? And more specifically in the pass game. -
Missed the entire game and just watched a recap. Did we really not sell out our home opener? There were so many empty seats.
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I keep seeing we had good YPC, and the o'line was improving as the season went on.
That's good but I think the most important thing for an offensive line is being able to get the 1 or 2 yards needed for a 1st down when the opponent knows you are going to run.
Don't think we've been very good at that.
I don't have any stats to back that up other than my drunken memory of many failures trying to make short yardage first downs.

Ranked #43 in Power Success Rate, which is 3rd/4th downs less with 2 yards or less to go resulting in 1st or TD.-
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The upside of the starting staff is this teams biggest potential weakness. No power arms in the starting staff. With that there’s always the potential for needing to go deep in the pen. That’s not a recipe for success of any staff. The positive is that we have an ace. The other two have shown capable of some good starts.
The bullpen has plenty of potential, but no one knows their role. Last year in ideal situations we could go Witt, Q and Nixon. If they settle in, it could go Stehle/Harrison, Southard and Nixon. Then you have Cobb, Morehouse and Olivarez who have had good outings. And Duplantier, Eckhardt and Johnson with potential. I’d like to see us quit extending the guys beyond 1 inning and allow guys to settle into roles. The more mature guys like Cobb and Olivarez are fine extending but others could benefit from getting in and out. We can take Nixon as an example. Once versus Tech, he was in his 3rd inning. The next weekend he came in a game that would have required 3 innings to close out. Both of those cases were outside what he’s used to doing. If you need to work out kinks, I’d say let him start the inning fresh and work one inning per outing.
On offense, we just need to be consistent. From top to bottom, we hit it as hard as any Texas team I’ve seen. We’ve had at least 4 guys reach base 4 times in a game. Three with double digit homers. Three were hitting above .365. We are pretty disciplined except for Faltine. Even with that, he’s still a threat when he steps to the plate. We’ve got good speed and play some very solid defense.
In the conference, we control all but Tech. We’re in good shape for a top 8 seed. From a roster construction standpoint, we are reasonably well suited for a regional or super regional in that we’ll have as many capable arms as anyone and the opponents staff will need to bring it. Then we have capable hitters that have the ability to pick each other up if one is not hitting well. And our schedule will have us tested.-
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Pretty crappy hitting effort save Campbell.
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Move him up in the lineup.
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Shon Mitchell was a much more polished and better RB than K Rob. Just stop
Was he? But go ahead and quote me how Mitchell had over 1,000 yards more than Robinson has to date. Almost 200 yards were against 1995 SMU. Another 100+ was when we scored 71 versus OSU. He played Rice once. 14-44. Pretty sure his best year was against SWC defenses. Wow.
I do/did like Mitchell. FYI, my comment had some lighthearted intent. As was my original post. At the same time, it’s certainly consideration for being reasonable. When your top 4 rushers average 5.8 or better, with a supposedly a terrible Oline then the backs must be doing something good.
Robinson was recruited by current day Alabama. That says something. If you think Mitchell would, then ok.
Perhaps Mitchell’s best attribute was his speed/quickness. Robinson’s best attribute is his speed. I would put money on Robinson to be faster.
Mitchell’s role, if he were on this team, would be similar to Robinsons. He’s not taking carries from Bijan and probably not Roschon. In that role, yes, I’d take Keilan.
Keilan is our #3 back that largely serves a role. He is as talented as anyone we’ve had for that role except for maybe a Ramonce Taylor. -
I’ll take production. So for our current group only one has produced here. He only produced for a year. Too. This group has not touched several other groups in production. My statement on production in no way conflicts with my initial statement on talent of the current 3.
There was never a definitive statement from me stating they were the most talented 3-some. Only that they could/might be.
But Worthy is awfully talented. Only Roy Williams is a definitely a more gifted talent than him. Neyor is somewhat TBD, but he checks the boxes. Whittington is damn talented too as a #3.
There’s certainly several groups historically that can be discussed in a top tier, and this is one of them.
In looking back at my statement, I did not intend to mean top 3 talents ever but rather the collective talents of the top 3 WR corp on any given team. If that was not the direction others took it. -
yeah I’ll take ricky williams and priest holmes. though bijan and rojo can compete for 2nd place.
Just wait til RoJo adds a little passing to his repertoire this year.
And I’d consider Rickey and Priest a pair not a group. I did like Shon Mitchell, but he’s a poor man’s Keilan Robinson.
We’ve been fortunate to have a lot of greatness at that position.
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Whittington has more upside than the #1 overall WR recruit in the nation in his class?

Did he produce to that ranking in college? Post college? From Day 1, Roy was better. And what collection of geniuses rated him higher than a 10.5, 25 foot long jump, large WR? If guys were retailed after college, I’m not sure BJ was top 50.
BJ was the #2 guy. I’d say the transfer is #2. He could be considered a better athlete. So that’d pit Whittington versus Thomas as #3. I’d choose Whittington, the moron that I am.
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Lol. Roy had about 180 less yards on 20 less catches as a Fr.
And Ship/Quan also had Limas as well.
This isn’t the most talent top 3 WR TEXAS has ever had. It was idiotic hyperbole.
Quan had production and a hell of a resume but didn’t get drafted. We’d all take him on the team every year. Size was a limiting factor. He wasn’t drafted due to his athletic profile. Shipley also would fit on any team we’ve had, but is he more talented than Worthy? Now, M. Williams was the most physically gifted but was sporadic when he played. Limas was gone before those guys got their run. I would take this group over Williams, BJ and Thomas. And I hold Roy in very high regard. -
BJ Johnson and Sloan Thomas (at their collegiate peaks) would be instant starters on this team.
Yeah, I was hyping it up.
But these guys actual play making skills was over rated. Roy was something else.
And not all their fault, but we did only score 3 points versus OU one time with them playing. That may have been the game Johnson had nothing but green pastures with only Matt McCoy to stop him. The tackle was made easily.
Obviously the issue with Whittington is health, but he’s got more upside than either of those guys. -
Is seatgeek ok to buy through third party or has UT required use of StubHub?
Just bought from VividSeats.
Transferred pretty much like a direct transfer. -
It does also look like the majority of the dings come from hits, pressures and sacks, which are all a part of pass blocking which we know is weaker than our run blocking.
Kinda like Football Outsiders referenced, line yards in the run game was a favorable stat for us last year.
Yep, yep.
The Football Outsiders shows our Stuff Rate is favorable in the run game. Our run metrics ranked considerably better than Michigan State. I use them for several reasons - comparable back who broke lots of tackles, a poor defense, and a better record.
Our pass pro struggled more so in early downs. Some of that had to do with pulling guys who didn’t quite get there or simply missed. Codaxx May be on to something too with more RPO and less traditional play action. If we’re truly better at WR, that should help pass pro too with more open options and open sooner too.
We’ll miss Kerstetter more in pass pro than the run game. I’d guess at RT with Jones we’ll be better at the run game but downgrading in the pass. Then Jones is the worst LT ever so no way Banks/Williams could be worse. And you can find help with a TE or RB cause can’t no team cover Worthy/Neyor/Whittington.
QB is the key for the offense. Then health of the Oline and WR group. This may be the best RB group we’ve ever had. It’s quite possibly the most talented top 3 WRs we’ve ever had. TE and QB have as talented of players that we’ve had. I’d expect 3 contributors of the frosh olinemen - as talented a group of olinemen that we’ve had.
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Personally, I think our OL hopes and dreams ride on Kelvin Banks. That's not a great spot to be.
The interior should be ok. Angilau is reliably above average. Conner showed some alright stuff that makes me think he can be serviceable. Majors has always done some things really well but been hampered by deficient core strength and weight. Year three or four has always been my timeline for him since his flashes as a freshman, so hopefully Kyle Flood locks him in the weight room with hourly protein shake deliveries. He's probably still a year away though.
Shit gets real looking at tackle. Jones and Karic are a bit depressing. We can probably figure something out at RT between those two and someone from Campbell/Neto/Cam. LT is an entirely different story. There's a very specific play where Jones got pantsed that haunted my nightmares for awhile but I've managed to repress that shit deep down. The flashbacks are gone but the sour taste remains every time I take a sip of the koolaid. I don't really see a fix there unless Banks can play there. He doesn't need to be a worldbeater, just freshman Vahe/Williams/Kerstetter level.
We had some shitty lines under Herman but at least we had Conner Williams and Sam Cosmi to anchor us at LT. And when we didn't due to injury, it got ugly.
That’s interesting stuff.
I’d say Vahe as a frosh is not a good example as he’s in Jones’s range from last year. Also Jones went from right to left and improved his negative plays percentage all the while playing in a new offense. Unfortunately for him, he never mastered RT so that switch was more difficult.
I will say at quick glance the yearly comparisons probably do not match the Football Outsiders stats. Last years run blocking was top 2 since 2014. The pass blocking stats from last year were comparable to many of the prior years. I’d dare say we played against better defenses last year than many years too.
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I didn’t calculate BABIP, but Faltines has to be the highest so you’d think his average and OBP will come down relative to the guys that aren’t hitting well thus far.
Actually looking at Faltine, his BABIP is .500. That’s unlikely to continue so if that comes down, he needs to be better at putting it in play.
But the lead off guy needs to be most likely to get on base as they’re guaranteed to get the most ABs. And in theory power is less important because they’re least likely to bat with runners on. -
Over how many seasons?
The next 5. 50 total.-
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