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Illinois is a great landing spot for Brooks. Look at their schedule. Kansas, Central MI, Nebraska, Penn St (decent team but fairly awful offense), Purdue, Michigan (again a great team but they barely pass and don't have crazy speed at WR), Oregon, Minnesota, Michigan St, Rutgers and finally Northwestern. Pretty damned ideal if you are trying to hide the fact that you suck complete ass against anyone with above average speed. He is going to likely be another of these BIG 10 cbs that grades highly because they only faced one guy all season long who could run faster than a 4.5 forty. That Oregon game could be rough but the rest of that schedule is full of the kind of slow mediocre WRs that he tended to look decent against at Texas. Their DC is proven at developing DBs as well so maybe he will finally learn to turn his fucking head around. Not sure that ultimately matters much though as his bigger issues are simply physical limitations.

On the one hand those individual commitment threads are pointless and pretty gross. Just a bunch of the thirsty weirdos on here spamming and reacting with drooling to the same tired memes and sex gifs they've seen posted by the same people a hundred times before... but I'd still prefer that happen THERE as opposed to in the actual relevant recruitment threads. So I guess if nothing else they serve the purpose of quarantining the creeper spam a bit.

Based on your scale I would say he has currently been an 8 with the upside of possibly becoming a 9 by the end of next season. Really just a question of where his ceiling is and how maximized he already is as a player. Either way he immediately would be our best DT if he came here. There seems to be a difference of opinion as to whether he will turn that corner and become a surefire first round pick type player or just stay where he is which is still very damn good but probably not "lets pay this guy 1M+" good.

Go rewatch Holmes allowing every single pass thrown his way against OU to be a completion last year. Or the exact same thing in any other game in which we faced a competent QB. He is trash. He hasn't improved this Spring either. As for the "Sark was praising him and the others!" bullshit I would point out Sark made similar comments about Catalon, Taafe, Thompson, and every other useless JAG we've had come through here in our secondary in recent years. It means nothing.

Gavin fucking Holmes is currently one of our starting corners. There is no such thing as worrying too much about CB until someone is actually here and enrolled.

Not talking about this past season. Talking about our current roster and what it needs to be more well rounded exactly so that we do NOT see a return to the cancer that was Shaka ball. Honestly with the size of these guards it may not really be an issue anyway.

Hopefully we can bring in one of these forwards with actual scoring ability. I can't stomach another year of bullshit where we can do absolutely nothing but run down and brick a three on offense. Need some versatility. Absolutely must get at least one true center type though. Shedrick is injury prone and Onyema is one of the worst players to wear a Texas bball uni in a long time.

I'm not doubting you but curious what you are basing this on? He was a low tier recruit that barely got into a handful of games after they became blowouts. Was he getting a lot of praise from Michigan insiders and practice reports or something?

I meant Mack when I said Ward (had a brain fart) but you got to it before I could edit it. For some reason I always want to think Wardell Mack's last name is Ward instead. Probably because I am regarded.

100% agree. Who has Joseph actually helped us secure from Louisiana? We keep hearing that fucking narrative and it is usually in the context of "Joseph is helping with player X due to his ties to the state!" followed by that player never actually landing at Texas. Derek Williams was 100% a financial decision. I don't care how certain people try to spin it. That was an NIL war and we won. Be proud. No shame in it. Thank those who opened their wallets. We could have ritually sacrificed both Gideon and Joseph at midfield to Bevo three hours before his announcement and it wouldn't have changed a thing with Williams. Only other notable player I can think of from Louisiana is Mack and Joseph's great contribution was finishing well behind both LSU and Florida. He ended up not being a take at LSU and it took Florida both completely imploding AND firing Mack's primary recruiters (both of them) including his position coach with no replacement plan in place. I'm glad to have the kid but it isn't like Joseph did anything impressive in that recruitment. Am I forgetting someone? We haven't even brought in any notable non DBs from Louisiana except Manning and if anyone tries to give Joseph an ounce of credit there they should be laughed off this site. I'm by no means saying Joseph is not overall a very solid recruiter. I know he is. The specific "he helps in Louisiana!" bullshit however hasn't seemed to actually matter at all. Sure as hell no reason to factor it into his ongoing employment.

In the very least you would hope we get seriously involved. USC may think they have this one basically in the bag but we've seen how that goes on our end often enough to know things can change.

Don't even get your hopes up. It is USC. They almost had him in the Winter portal but he wanted to see how that new defensive staff would come together first. Apparently he liked what he was hearing from people he knows on that roster. Unless something really crazy happens I doubt he even takes other visits. Maybe he will use it as an excuse to get some free travel in but USC came in way over market value to make sure this one doesn't turn into a bidding war with others. Obviously something could change but I've been expecting this one for weeks. This info per one of the bigger contributors to USC's NIL efforts.

I sometimes forget what a complete fucking retard you are.

I am assuming all the Arkansas players hitting the portal are just planning to follow Muss to USC.

Nope. That is what makes the NCAA such a laughing stock right now. The heart of the Tennessee investigation comes down to them flying a QB in for a meeting with their collective on a private jet owned by a booster. No one from the school itself was involved and this literally predated the national NCAA NIL guidelines anyway. It was during that wild west period. So even if the NCAA wanted to claim it would be a violation to do such a thing now it certainly was not then. The whole thing is a complete joke. You have kids being outright taken advantage of with predatory contracts that piss all over both the spirit and letter of the NIL regulations (state and NCAA both) not being investigated because then the NCAA might actually have to hand out a real punishment. Instead they are doing this smoke screen horseshit chasing after impermissible travel with both Tennessee and Florida State.

It is a fairly meaningless distinction at this point but I'd argue Blue is RB1 going into Spring. He simply looked consistently better and more productive than Baxter when getting the ball. He didn't even seem appreciably worse at making it through contact than Baxter. It really doesn't matter though because both will feast if they stay healthy.

At this point I really want us to circle back to Roach and just throw outrageous money at him. Like highest position coach in the country type money. Watch their heads explode even more.

My understanding is Nansen is already under contract and the buyout for him to leave Texas is ~500K. That is what the Arizona side was saying during the HC buzz anyway.

Eagles just finished getting anally ravaged to the extent they might actually fire that HC. Either way if the hire is Rocker we should find out tomorrow. No reason for the announcement to be delayed with their elimination.

Yes. Every team can take players from the portal at any time. The only 'deadline' really would be the end of January which is the final point when kids can enroll in classes (so you need them on campus and enrolled by then if you want them to participate for the Spring). Bama could go out right now and the raid the roster of Washington or Arizona if they wanted. They can also still add players who were in the portal before it closed and have yet to find other landing spots. Losing their coach after the portal closed does hurt their ability to find replacements and it might end up decimating Arizona if their top kids follow Fisch to Washington but that is just unavoidable. There is also the Spring window (opens April ~15th) so its not like these schools making late coaching changes do not still have plenty of opportunities to fill holes that are created by the transition.

With the way this fucking Cowboys game is going he might be gettable after today (/s)

I think it is more likely Blackwell that would hit the portal in April than having any real issues with Gbenda. Good chance Gbenda won't be starting anyway if we move Hill to MIKE as some seem to think is likely. Both guys on the two deep at MIKE and WILL are going to play roughly the same snap count anyway. You add Manu into that mix and the one pushed out is most likely Blackwell since I would expect Manu / Gbenda is your MIKE and Hill would then stay at Will with Leafu / Blackwell competing for backup spot (with Blackwell probably hitting the portal if it doesn't look good for him). I have no idea if we will even make a real effort for Manu so not worth worrying about (yet). Would be as big an upgrade or perhaps even bigger than the addition of adding Mukuba though.

Nansen is hopefully already on the phone with Jacob Manu. Exactly the kind of LB addition our room needs and a monstrous upgrade over Gbenda. I get it might push a couple of guys out in the Spring portal if we add him but it is worth it. Bring that mother fucker over here. He took massive steps forward in 2023 and was first team All-PAC.