Jimmy Two Times

Notre Dame's schedule is really pathetic because you can't even give them credit for scheduling USC (not that they'll be any good this year). So, you have two teams in the top 20 of pre-season SP+, FSU and A&M (lol), Louisville at #28, then the next highest ranked team is Miami Ohio. You couldn't even schedule a few Maryland, West Virginia, Iowa State types? They've got 8 bona fide cupcakes and then 4 fringe top 25 teams, depending on your feelings about DJ Ukulelele

Damn Loreal really said it's me or Josiah Sharma and Sark made a business decision.

Don't care got #1 in the 2018 Liuccposite rankings ya stupid sip

No doubt. Herm Edwards comes to mind in recent times.

That's basically free money. Hawaii and Indiana are the only games where I think UCLA is a certified favorite (potentially Minnesota if their QB busts) and I wouldn't be surprised by the new Indiana staff coaching circles around Foster. WR and LB are the only position groups that have both talent and depth. Safety, interior DL and RB might be passable at the P4 level and I guess Garbers could be decent? The other position groups are either utterly disastrous or one injury away from utter disaster. There is genuinely no way to undersell the extent to which Chip Kelly burned the program down on his way out. He tossed a live grenade to Foster and waddled his fat ass out of there.

The thing that's a bummer is the fanbase is so beaten down that I don't think 6 wins (which would be a massive overperformance and probably absolute best case scenario in my opinion) would get any traction. I just don't see any way Foster can get the momentum to turn things around. The roster after next year is sickening and it's already in terrible shape this year. Chip Kelly would commit seppuku if he had a shred of decency.

My pops lives 2 minutes away from his high school and swears this guy is the truth. He also guaranteed me that JT Daniels would win at least one Super Bowl, so I rank his player eval credibility one notch above Ketch.

Lockett and Terry aren't wiry enough to play for Holmon Wiggins.

Just took a look at the A&M receiver depth chart. Can't say I blame Johnson, it is absolutely BARREN after this year.

Fair point, Helobious. No way he can pack on on 5-10 lbs to get up to the size of the back-to-back reigning Mackey award winning tight end.

I was not trying to disprove the bust rate - I trust Scipio's research. I was pushing back on the idea that, because of the bust rate, recruiting three and low-four star players is a better strategy. I agree that there's no need for further discussion here.

I knew one of the more myopic people here would jump on the difference between a SDE and a DT. I'm not going to spend my time researching, but do you really think the bust rate is higher for top 200 defensive linemen than lower ranked players? What about the rate of game breaking players in the top 200 v. outside? I'm not arguing that the bust rate for highly ranked DTs isn't high, rather saying that a strategy of recruiting the most physically talented players possible and trusting your development is better than recruiting less talented players and developing. Would be curious to know what your explanation for the ferocious defensive lines that Clemson, Georgia and Alabama have rolled out in the past decade, if it isn't those schools stacking talent.

To push back on this a little bit, I looked up the 247 pages of the players ESPN listed as the top DTs in the NFL: Dexter Lawrence, composite 5 star Jeff Simmons, composite 5 star Chris Jones, composite 5 star Quinnen Williams, composite 4 star and top 200 recruit Justin Madibuike, composite 4 star and top 100 recruit Kenny Clark, composite 4 star Derrick Brown, composite 5 star Christian Wilkins, composite 5 star Deforest Buckner, composite 4 star Javon Hargrave, unranked back in 2012 There's a reason that Georgia, Clemson and Alabama have dominated DT recruiting and also had the best defensive lines for years. Of course, you can build great defensive lines through recruiting and developing lower ranked players, but don't fool yourself into thinking the best strategy is anything other than load up on the biggest bodied freak shows in the country (and proper development).

Feel like a lot of people are forgetting that we got Parker Livingstone in the last cycle aka White Moss. This reminder should allay all your fears.

Recruit didn't pick my school, I'm going to make fun of the city that school is in is loser behavior (this does not apply to College Station). I know a number of people who went to Oregon and it seemed great. Good football and college town, great hiking and winter sports. There are a lot of worse places to spend three years making millions of dollars.

This is a good point, but my concern is we're not getting enough bites at the apple. We're pulling in 1-2 high school recruits per class, so we basically need all of them to hit.

They are so bizarre in their desire to deify anyone related to the program. "Richard Zane School of Journalism" is obviously insane given they're discussing this in the context of him asking their baseball coach if he was leaving, when he was clearly leaving, but even more so given the circumstances surrounding their "journalism" school of late.

Has there been a big shift re: defensive line NIL allocation in the past week? Seems like this all turned on a dime in the past few days and reminds me of 2022 when we just cleaned up on OL recruiting at the end of the cycle.

I think the best part about this post is "You'll be worshipped a fraction as much in Austin." Maybe, just maybe, normal people don't actually want to be worshipped by a bunch of slack-jawed, cultish freaks whose brains collectively stopped developing at the age of 12.

mulch here might need to go into witness protection after posting this. Inevitable Looch ban hammer is the least of his concerns right now.

This is the last I'll say on the topic because I don't want to belabor the point or hijack the thread, but I was clearly being facetious comparing our DL to Texas State. However, I think it's entirely reasonable to (a) question Sark's commitment to defensive line recruiting relative to the efforts he spends on other positions, (b) question the merit of his approach to roster building with respect to the defensive line and (c) question whether Kenny Baker was the right hire for the right time. I'm of the opinion that having a DL like we had last year is incredibly important and that we should be allocating resources to recreate that, even if it's at expense of premium players at other positions. I also think Kenny Baker could end up being a tremendous coach, but the only real data points we have right now are him not landing the premium DT targets out of the portal or in high school. You can rightly say that happened because of his lack of college recruiting contacts/built in relationships and track record, but those are all things Sark knew when he was hired. Not in any way saying I don't think Sark is up for the job, but if you aren't concerned about our DL room and/or don't want to place any blame on the coaching staff you have your head in the clouds.

Because they visited Texas while Kenny Baker was the defensive line coach and they currently play football for teams that are not Texas.

The same Baker that struck out on Damonick Williams and Jay Toia in the spring? If the standard is competing for SEC and national championships, we need to have a defensive line room that stacks up with Georgia, Michigan and Alabama. It's not even necessarily Baker's fault, Sark has landed a grand total of 1 composite top 200 DL in his tenure and a whopping 3 high school DL recruits in the past two recruiting classes. He's had NIL for the past three recruiting classes and we've seen no improvement in DL recruiting.

Sark going with the reverse Jimbo Fisher strategy. Badass team of five stars with the Texas State Bobcats defensive line.

So they are extending a coach that, by my count, is 2-7 against ranked teams in his two years as head coach and 0-2 in bowl games. He was going into year 3 of a 6 year contract, so it's not like this was hanging over his head. His two years are inarguably the worst two OU seasons since 2015 and trending toward the three worst seasons in the past ten years with the schedule they have this year. However, OU fans insist that he's changed the culture from that sissy Lincoln Riley football that resulted in NY6 games basically every year. This is so awesome.