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DL seems to be the position where you really have to land the elite guys. There's just not many people on the planet with the requisite size and athleticism to be dominant DL. I agree that our current class can keep us ahead of pretty much all of our in-conference competition, except for OU. OU had a dominant DL class last year. Riley has picked up their recruiting, and while it's still not on par with teams like tOSU, Bama, and UGA, 2018 and 2019 are looking to be better than anything Stoops did in a long time. We'll need to pick up our DL recruiting to not be at a talent disadvantage with them moving forward.

The staff seems to only have one more CB spot open. If things are really heating up with Carter, I wouldn't be surprised if we slow play Caldwell. I like Caldwell well enough, but he's very replaceable.

Regarding Cine's coverage skills, here's a good video. He gets beat a decent amount here, but he wont' be lining up outside against 5 star WRs in college. Notice his feet and how effortlessly he flips his hips. He'd be a better CB prospect than Bobby Wolfe can ever hope to be. He might as well already be an LSU verbal. Let's see what happens when Coach O stokes the flames on the dumpster fire by having a bad year on the field with an upset loss or two a la Troy and a couple blowouts while generally looking like a mess at every aspect of the game Aranda doesn't control, loses some assistants after the year including Aranda, and then gets to come back for another year anyways because LSU can't afford a new coach.

Good stuff. Unsurprisingly, this is a very comprehensive and thorough list. The only name I'd add is Zach Williams as a target at DL. Things have been quiet with him. We offered him early and he visited in April. After the visit, we were considered his leader but he's gotten a lot of offers taken some OVs since then. Looks like he's OV'd to Louisville, Oregon State, and TCU. I like that he's using up his OVs before some of the big programs come after him hard. Hopefully one of those two remaining OVs is for us. Looks like he visited TCU on 6/15 and liked it. Maybe @angelos's frog knows something about him. Looks like the highlight of the trip was Mrs. P's tour of the Fort Worth Zoo. lulz. (https://247sports.com/college/tcu/Article/Four-star-defensive-end-Zach-Williams-recaps-his-official-visit-to-TCU-119127913/ ). The article says he could be deciding soon. If we get Williams, he'd immediately be my favorite DL prospect by a good bit. He's got a high upside similar to Mpagi but he's about two years ahead on the development curve. Neonmoon got me thinking more about the DL recruiting (so you can blame him) and the more I think about it, the more underwhelmed I am. Sweat, Mpagi, and Carter are probably all takes but they seem like they should all be the last guy in a 4 man DL class. Mpagi has a high ceiling and could become a high NFL pick but someone with that much development needed always represents a higher bust rate because you can't just assume that the development is a given. I've liked Carter for a while, but he doesn't have a very high ceiling. He seems to have a small frame. He's 6'3, 260 with some not great weight and I'm not sure if he'll be able to add enough good weight to be a real force inside and I don't think he has the explosiveness for weakside DE. He could probably man the SDE spot, but that's also what Sweat is, so a little redundant and neither guy projects to be a game changer right now. Elite teams aren't taking classes like this, just look at the 2018 DL recruiting of the schools that made it to the CFP or any program that is routinely an elite program, like tOSU. I get that we need to get to 8, 9, 10 wins before worrying about the playoffs, but these are the guys who will be making up our DL in 4 years, not the next two. Anyways, there's still time, and landing Zach Williams and/or a late bloomer who shows up after senior film plus a big fish (like Leal, Hawaiian, or Johnson) would do a ton to change this class, and I'll happily eat crow if we can pull that off but it's not seeming likely. Maybe this staff can continuously identify and develop guys like TCU does year in and year out, but that's not a sustainable model for 99% of college programs and while Giles did well coaching up our guys last year, assuming he can accomplish this yearly is quite a jump. Tl;dr DL recruiting still not great and I'm sure people don't want to hear it, but at least I'm not talking about Giles' recruiting or the 2018 DL class. Same on Gbenda. Regarding Cine, I'm not sure he has the kind of frame. I think he'll be like Deshon Elliott, but with better coverage skills. In two years, I see him being a 6'2 200+ lb guy who can play centerfield, drop in the box for run support or go man up the slot. Cine has really good coverage skills for a S his size. The idea of him coming in a year after we got Foster, Sterns and Overshown is insane. Our options at Rover for 2019 will be Overshown and an EE De'Gabriel Floyd. Overshown coming at 215 is huge and I hope we dont' waste much time playing him at regular S. He needs to be training at the Jason Hall spot or just flat out as a Rover right away. No. PSU is still leading. The longer he gets established in Texas and stays uncommitted, the better for us. He can drive to our campus a hell of a lot more times than he can fly to PSU over the next 8 months. It's the same type of thing that's working against us in the Rian Davis recruitment.

My problem with Porter is he’s not ever shown to be anything besides a scorer. Not great on defense, not a great rebounder or passer. He’s reallly going to need to develop other aspects of his game to become a great player and his ability to do that is a complete unknown. That combined with the injury stuff makes him very risky, IMO.

Defenses nowadays can switch guys onto him that can all stay in front of him. He can still be effective with his passing and step backs, but whether or not he learns moves to reliably get penetration (like I have with Your Mom) will determine if he becomes the type of player OP talked about. I think he’ll figure it out and I’d take him #1 overall, but I can see a scenario where he can’t figure that stuff out and it limits his effectiveness.

So wait, why are we just automatically believeing him when he says his cancelled workout is no big deal? Wouldn’t it make more sense that his hip was seriously messed up to the point he couldn’t workout, but he tells people it’s no big deal so he doesn’t drop? If porter wants to drop or control where he’s taken, he just limits who gets to see his entire medical records. He doesn’t need to play games with workouts in order to select where he goes; he actually has a more accurate tool to accomplish that.

Weird name for your sheep but to each his own.

So you're saying if we land a guy we already swung and missed on and 2 huge longshots, then we'd be happy with our DL class? Good to know. To be fair, "I aint goin to no damn TCU."

Where would you like me to send my $9.95?

I like Doncic a lot and think he'll be really good. But I have some definite reservations about him ever being able to be the #1 option on an offense. While Euroleague is better overall than college, there's no arguing there's a lot less athleticisim on the floor than college. There's potential for long, athletic wings to give him a lot of trouble. He' struggled some in Euro play when a long wing with NBA athleticism guards him. Now, he could develop and overcome that or always struggle against those types of defenders and need to be more of a second option. Either way, I have trouble seeing his floor as anything lower than a productive NBA player with a long career. I will say that he'll be a bit of a liability on defensive switches on smaller guys, so his offense needs to be really good to make up for that because he'll absolutely get picked on some on defense.

Here's a clip of him at a camp. He's got a crazy physique but no clue how to play. His feet look a little plodding, but I think that may just be due to him having no clue what to do in a pass drop. Would be nice to see him do some agility workouts to measure foot speed and mobility. Edit: Here's the link to his hudl: https://www.hudl.com/video/3/7556060/599901d2b534c122dc729380 He shows some pretty quick feet on plays in there. I'm thinking the slowness in the camp video is more due to not knowing technique. Seems like a no brainer take if we can get him. Will be really interesting to see how much his technique improves after a whole year of training at IMG.

Character/grades. I've never seen/heard exactly what it is, but for how talented he is, enough big programs have been hot and cold with him over the last year to believe something's going on. Supposedly, some $9.95ers have been saying he's starting to clean up his act, thus UT's renewed interest.

"Texas really needed to catch the Golden Snitch this weekend and the caramel swirls in my frappe tell me they did just that." /EJ "Der BeanerSchnitzel" Holland

Whatever it takes to win. Florida is stackedand they can hit, but i feel decently optimistic with us being able to throw both those guys at them. Both have been pitching well of late and they might be enough to get a full 9 without using other arms.

Good analysis. I think that 3rd Guard/wing spot will be really interesting to monitor. I agree with you that Febres will likely get the first crack, since he has the best potential to be solid on O and D. Long seems to be a huge question mark. He won't be great defensively and we'll need our perimeter D to be strong so we don't get Sims into too much foul trouble, but he has potential to be a dynamic shooter and creator on offense. I could see him being a better version of senior Javan Felix and manning the second unit. How good Long is will probably determine if we try to make Roach the de facto backup pg (something I'm not in favor of. I want him off ball the whole year) or give Ramey a chance to grow into that role over the year. We've obviously had a lot of talk about Hepa, but IMO Ramey probably has the best chance to play significant minutes out of all the freshman. However, if Long is an effective offensive weapon, Ramey probably wont' get much time. Idk much about Liddell, but Pretend We're Football seemed to all agree that he can't shoot (even though I think Tim Preston really liked him and thought he could play this year), which will probably limit his minutes quite a bit. It will be hard for us to have 2 non-shooters (Liddell and Sims) plus a below-average shooter in DO on the floor at the same time and the 2 returning guys are likely to play a lot of minutes this year. Maybe Liddell can come in if Sims is out and we play small.

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Just dont let your junk fall out otherwise you might get in trouble, except in College Station, of course.

I'd be surprised if any school, including UGA or Bama, had enough other guys to prioritize at LB over Davis. If we get him, it'll likely be a straight up win over Georgia.

I don't think you could do that. If they didn't use their RS in their first four years, I believe they'd be out of eligibility at that point because they'd already played four. Now a guy like Okafor this year who could play in four games and then come back for another offseason of development in hopes of getting drafted after playing a full fifth year would be a different story.

Lulz ok. Don't stop now.

I like the way you think. This rule will really change things. 4 games seems like a lot, and I'm surprised they started with such a high number, but it'll be fun to watch how coaches utilize the new rule.

You are literally the worst.

1. Could you move the goalposts any further? Literally, yes. Realistically, no. This is a stupid way to look at how many players from a school have been successful considering only 4 different teams have won a title in the last 7 years and most of Cal's players have barely hit their primes. Anthony Davis was the second best player in the league this year and could easily be the #1 player on a title team. 2. I would take a roster of AD, Cousins, KAT, Rondo, Wall, Booker, De'Aaron Fox, Jamal Murray, Adebayo, Julius Randle, Willey Cauley Stein, and Trey Lyles over like 90% of NBA rosters right now.