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Professor Chesney

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  1. All the more impressive when you realize: 1) UT played #10 Michigan 2) Miami played FCS Florida A&M 3) Clemson played Aggie nemesis App State 4) UF played FCS Samford 5) A&M played FCS Mcneese state
  2. While I’d love you to be right, I’d tap the brakes a little bit on these results. From what I understand this staff heavily dedicates practice time and game planning to future significant opponents with the thought that their basic offensive and defensive systems will get them past lesser opponents. Last year they were allegedly using a portion of every other practice to prepare for the Texas game. I’d be shocked if they weren’t doing the same thing this year to some extent (although they probably should be spending time prepping for Tennessee). Pushing out Gabriel for Arnold is still laughable and completely indefensible.
  3. I mean, Lagway committed to Florida without any proof they can both train and utilize a QB in some meaningful way. It is not a stretch to think he’d go to A&M for seven figures a year.
  4. Those picks (from the LSU mods and then Fong) appear to be from early-mid August, before Texas and other teams began emerging and applying pressure, and his recent quotes seem to show he is open to taking visits in the fall. LSU, fwiw, has already used their OV. https://www.on3.com/db/walter-mathis-jr-158154/
  5. Neither of those hold a candle to one of the most hallowed SEC rivalries of the last decade: Texas A&M vs South Carolina. If it wasn’t so important, why would TexAgs insist that annual game be protected and continued? it just means more.
  6. This is the most amazing part: he had every opportunity to succeed, ostensibly gave it his best effort, and still busted purely through his own merits. At least some busts can point to off the field shenanigans, not taking the game seriously enough, or coaching turmoil. None of that applies here, dude just sucks and wasted the hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on him by Clemson/FSU. You couldn’t ask for a better situation to develop, either. Clemson had developed two first round QBs in row (Watson & Lawrence) and was as stable and talented an environment as anywhere in CFB. He couldn’t hack it there, and then was fortunate enough to land at a phenomenal situation at OSU. Even with all of that, he stayed a below-average college QB. There’s no “what if” for DJU. If you randomly played out his career 10 times, this is probably the best version of himself.
  7. That is particularly interesting because a favorite compensation to average or tired D-Line play is to blitz, a tendency we are all too unfortunately familiar with during the Todd Orlando years. And Martindale has a fetish for blitzing. Martindale historically called blitzes at the highest rate in the NFL, with some years as high as >50%! For context, the average NFL blitz rate is typically in the 20s, which is probably why John Harbaugh gave him the boot. Even when you have a franchise with a stellar front office like the Ravens, who can acquire and develop talent better than most, that high of a blitz rate just doesn’t make sense. Michigan shouldn’t need to blitz week 1 to win. If they do, then you know Martindale can’t help himself and Quinn will be seeing 5-6 coming at him every other play in week 2.
  8. If you have to piggyback off of someone’s early evaluations, Matt Rhule is a pretty good choice. Still, 255lbs is far lighter than the other prospects we’ve been looking at. Would be interested to see the DL board after all of these offers.
  9. But for real, is it possible or do I have to log into a pc browser to do it? This Spyder2Y spam is unbearable
  10. If anyone else was curious, these are indeed true freshmen and true sophomores. Not a great recipe for success, but they did beat out more senior backups.
  11. Maybe Miami can use some of that NIL to pay more fans to attend their games.
  12. This will be interesting because each of the LSU, A&M and Texas sites frame themselves in the top two, if not the slight outright favorite (with A&M $9.95ers being the most egregious). I think the LSU and A&M sites have a habit of this in general—LSU out of arrogance born from historical success and A&M for some unknown reason, maybe fear of letting down their masses? But for Williams it seems like each group legitimately believes they will win out. I wonder if the family is telling each camp what they want to hear.
  13. What’s more important: (A) giving the Tuscaloosa Times reporter one of the best seats in the stadium, or (B) generating tens of millions of new dollars that help fund scholarships for outstanding academic students, pay professor salaries, and IMPROVE THE ACTUAL FOOTBALL PROGRAM YOU ARE WATCHING? Come on man.
  14. I’m optimistically taking this to mean that Guillette is developing nicely at LB and they don’t want to stunt that development unless they truly have to.
  15. Is it possible to put posters on ignore from a mobile? Can’t for the life of me figure out how
  16. I think you picked up on something but might be reaching the wrong conclusion. It looks to be more of a 50/50 than last month, but Gerry might not think that is ultimately a good thing for Texas. Reading between the lines, it sounds like there are some concerns about Fasusi’s work ethic/mindset that Gerry cannot come out and say in the open because (a) his business requires maintaining positive relationships and (b) it would look really bad if he does indeed commit to Texas. He compared Fasusi to Laremy Tunsil, but followed with something along the lines of “without the same can’t miss frame and athletic ability.” Which makes it an interesting comparison. or I could be reading into it too much.
  17. Everything seems to be going in A&M’s favor to get the rollercoaster started with a win over Notre Dame. Early in the season so the team is healthy and Weigman is concussion-free. Home game advantage. Notre Dame overrated at 6th in the coaches poll, as is tradition at this point. Curious what folks think about the matchup because it looks to me like advantage aggy. I don’t have the same faith in A&M’s OL that the media does, but don’t think that ND has the front seven to take advantage, and the entire team will be healthy and bought in this early in the season. Maybe it boils down to whether you believe Riley Leonard will be a first round pick, but Elko knows exactly how to attack him and A&M has the DL talent to make it happen.
  18. Yeah, not exactly a surprise. Wouldn’t feel too bad for him, he’s going to be fine.
  19. Baker will eventually be fine if given adequate NIL support and time to build relationships. While undoubtedly a questionable hire, early returns on the most important part of his job—coaching and development—have been positive. What is truly inexcusable is hiring a 28-year old with minimal experience to be the general manager of a program more valuable than several professional sports franchises. Apologies to any gen z reading this thread, but I can barely trust my juniors not to accidentally choke themselves to death with a laptop cord if left unsupervised. I can’t imagine letting one be responsible for overseeing all aspects of a professional organization and going head-to-head with grown men at rival institutions. I really like Sark. But he has made several “wtf” decisions off the field where it is easy to question whether he actually considers the full scope of potential consequences.
  20. And after Nike talked us out of that Under Armor deal…
  21. This insipid take got buried during the OV weekend news, so I wanted to bump to emphasize how disingenuous this really is. I had thought the emergence of NIL would finally loosen up the media and let them acknowledge the rampant bag game behavior of the last 15 years. Clearly that is not the case for whatever reason. To oversimplify, NIL is an expanded, sanitized evolution of the under-the-table player compensation that a handful of shady programs utilized for years with impunity. Case in point, I unearthed this legendary post detailing what Alabama football players drove over the years during their time in Tuscaloosa. Anyone with half a brain cell can see what is going on here, and it is impossible to credibly how this is different from the status quo, much less that it is a better/fairer practice. https://247sports.com/college/usc/board/29/contents/alabamas-recruiting-dominance-continues-wow-50860219/ It is impossible for someone with as much industry insight as Terry to argue in good faith that the pre-NIL days were a nobler, cleaner time that was better for the players and the spirit of competition. They’re just mad that Lambos > Dodge Challengers.
  22. I wonder if these developments permitting direct school-athlete monetary payments will let us revisit the policy of the school rewarding loyalty points in exchange for TOF donations.
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