J.Peterman

1.Because kids are dumb, 2. anything that happened more than 4 years ago may as well have happened in the cretaceous age, 3. aggy will endlessly pump up Durkin to be the greatest defensive mastermind of the 21st century. 4. See #1 Hopefully Durkin recruits against himself. Some of those high end players they just bought are likely going to have issues being coached by him (on top of realizing they're stuck in College Station), so hopefully they'll become malcontents, openly talk about how much of an ass he is, and then portal out. Short of that, if we get Patterson on staff, he can teach the other coaches/staff how to negatively recruit. He's the expert at that it seems.

Having a decent QB that can move the chains helps our defense considerably. The defense typically played like crap much more-so in the 2nd half of games. Better QB play forces defenses to play us straight up and not stack the box. Therefore giving our RB more room and we don't have as many 3 and outs. And if our coaches have faith that we can score points they won't take as many chances on 4th down at midfield. I don't know how many times we just gave up the ball to the other team at midfield because Sark felt like he had to risk it because he didn't know if we'd be able to move the ball at all over the remainder of the game. Even if he still played all gas, no brakes and went for it, we likely convert at a much higher rate. Not to mention the impact of cutting down the turnovers. Even having average QB play last year would have made a big difference for our defense. Nothing I saw tells me that we still wouldn't have been a below average defense. But not nearly as shitastic as we were.

The talent at OSU and Bama is so much better than ours. Quinn won't have the time to get to his 3rd read before being sacked. And he can't throw it to any of 3 WR that can catch a slant and take it 60 yards for a TD or win a 50/50 ball vs the DB. Plus Quinn didn't exactly have a regular RS freshman season and likely got way fewer reps than those other guys did. Maybe I'm mistaken, but it almost seemed like the OSU staff thought of him as an afterthought once he unexpectedly forced his way onto campus before they wanted him there. Not to mention his RS year was spent leaning a different offense than what he will be asked to run next year.

Spoiler: Quinn's not going to be elite next year. Maybe in the future, but I'm not trying to get too far ahead of myself. We just need the right the ship at this point. I don't anticipate going full Michigan and getting into the playoffs next season. But not losing by 50 to Bama and winning 9 regular season games is a darn good step in the right direction and should be attainable. Anything better than that next season is gravy.

Think you mean Choice, not Coleman. But point taken. It's been a much better offseason than any of us could have anticipated given how badly we crapped the bed. I think having above average qb play will be a huge factor for us next year. It'll help our defense out as well because we can't possibly have as many 3 and outs and/or turn the ball over on downs at midfield nearly as often I wouldn't think. OU and West Virginia getting decimated in the portal. Iowa State losing their upperclassmen. Can't fathom losing to Kansas again (course I couldn't fathom it this season either). But has to be better next year I'd think.

I'm not much for westerns, but there is one that I am fond of.

https://theathletic.com/news/texas-am-zeroes-in-on-ole-miss-dj-durkin-for-defensive-coordinator-job-source/FqricYKl7Squ/ Aggie Portal is gonna truly be lit in a few years if this comes to pass. Good move by a&m to not finalize this before signing day though, because it would have cost them a lot more to keep their class together to play under Durkin.

Can you imagine how strong Coleman would be if he did 5 pushups along with the players for every drop last year.

Wrong. . Worthy and Addison will finish 3rd and forth behind Omeire and Whittington after Marion coaches them not to get injured.

Easier for him to get an on field coaching opportunity at Temple at some point down the road as well. It doesn't seem likely that will ever happen here.

The biggest benefit of hiring Sark is that he is a great offensive mind. He can watch film and figure out the benefits of the offense this guy has been running and incorporate it into our offense where applicable. We need to hire the best combination of a teacher and a recruiter for our next WR coach. Choice seems like a huge win at RB. Do something similar for WR and we'll be in good shape.

Quick. Ask for a new WR coach.

#SperminHerman

I'm sure there are lots of examples but a couple from UT I can think of off the top of my head: Quan Cosby came from Mart. Not sure if they even have a stoplight. And Shipley wouldn't exactly qualify as "big" either I don't think.

There's a certain little trophy being handed out on Saturday evening that get's lots of attention. Couldn't hurt to have "Ewers transferring to Texas" scrolling at the bottom of the screen all evening long. That lines up with the timing of what others have said as to when the news drops. Plus it'll create excitement for recruits on the campus visiting and maybe create some momentum with those in attendance. As for Recruiting. If we are all correct and he is dialed in, the coaches have told him who to reach out to and target and he is already recruiting behind the scenes. Having it Drop Saturday seems the most likely to me.

I think the visit and don't visit bag will always exist. I think the hope is that by getting the true high end players the real ability to make $500k to $1MM in NIL per year legally, maybe that extra 300k that they get up front to sign with Aggie to attend a school that has no WR passing offense and won't utilize you and end up costing you money in the long run won't be such an incentive to sign with them. It hopefully levels the playing field by bringing up the floor income these guys make to such a level that they player will then actually pick the school based on the real desire to attend driven by the merits of the coaching staff, scheme, the town, the academics (to those few that really care about that type of thing) etc. instead of just making a pure financial decision and going to a school that they otherwise would never in a million year pick and were literally making fun of 3 months prior. Over the course of 4 years if Stewart truly believed could make $1.8MM and go to aggie or make $1.5MM and go to UT, he probably never commits to them. And this simple illustration assumes he can make as much through NIL in College Station as he can in Austin....which he can't. There is always going to be time value of money, tax free impact, guaranteed up front is better because of injury risk etc.... but as NIL progresses and is proven out over the next few years, I think the narrative that UT can sell will be accepted more readily by the recruits and up front bags should not be as big of a deciding factor on where these guys choose to go.

Don't think it matters because surely Ewers doesn't believe he'd have any more success getting kids to follow him to Lubbock. And from everything written, those are his two schools that he's narrowed it down to. If the staff feels he needs an ego boost from being a pied piper, they can let Winfield back in the class. Then hopefully Ewers and the offense perform well enough on the field to naturally impact the 2023 kids.

Elko to Duke would be huge for us I'd think, not just for this year's close but in future years as well. Man, I hope things continue to trend that way and it comes to fruition.

Honestly, the closer Ewers commits to the dead period the better. If Ewers can swing Stewart last minute, and Aggie can't get in touch with him to try to re-bid....then that is likely the best chance we have of getting him to Austin as well. We only have a few guys left we are targeting. Ewers can and likely is talking to them all behind the scenes right now. In fact, I think it is likely that his interest in Tech is a diversion tactic so that aggies don't pre-emptively bring more bags over to Stewart right now.

I don't think Ewers should be counted in recruiting rankings for us if he did come here. But for giggles I wish that he did, because I remember aggie fanbase losing their mind when we got credit for Bru in the final rankings.

I'm sure he got backlash when he flipped to OSU. I get it. He probably feels a lot of pressure to be the savior if he comes to UT. Truth is, a lot of expectations will be on his shoulders. But honestly, if for whatever reason he doesn't lead us to an immediate revival, we are still no worse off than we are today. There literally is no where to go but up. At the very least, he gives us hope and can hopefully bring some other recruits with him. And taking on this challenge and pressure has to be beneficial to his football career moving forward I'd think. It's not like the NFL fans won't put expectations on him, so this is preparing him for the next level.

Agree. Especially since he already has bags of money. And maybe this gives Stewart something to reconsider too. Oh boy. We can haz nice things????

Would not be hilarious if he picked a&m. Growing up a UT Fan, he couldn't possibly.....could he? Please Please Please Baby Jesus.

Football Scoop reporting Miami about to push for Cristobal. And that he has a sick mother in Miami that might even play into it (first I'd heard of that angle). Should help with some OL flips hopefully if it really happens.

Hopefully the rest of the SEC takes offense and starts talking a little and stuff starts coming out like it did on Ole Miss. There was always a gentlemen's agreement on how much you could pay I thought. Not that the NCAA will do anything anyway, but it might cause a few headaches for them and buy us more time to catch up or have our NIL come to full fruition.