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Jimmy Two Times

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  1. Guessing they don’t teach them to spend 30 seconds criticizing a successful trick play in commentating school. That was insane.
  2. I've been monitoring Michigan Insider and do think they're pretty levelheaded as far as 9.95ers go. A few things they've highlighted that jump out to me: 1. Donovan Edwards playing at an elite level is a must for this offense; however, Edwards was quietly pretty bad last year. Really poor in explosive plays and yards after contact. 2. As noted above, there does not appear to be any plan B to just running the ball and relying on the defense. They're not confident that any QB on the roster can complete 60% of their passes and the presumptive starter is in a QB battle with a senior walk on who went 0-5 with an INT in limited appearances last year. There's not a WR they can count on as a deep threat to supplement the run game and they've been touting the after catch ability of a bunch of mediocre nobodies - reading between the lines it sounds pretty dire. 3. Even adjusting for 9.95er hype, the defense is going to be elite and physical. They took two G5 guys to beef up the second CB spot across from Will Johnson and neither one is elite or even necessarily good. If Will Johnson goes down they're in trouble (obviously this is the case for most star players across the country). With that said, I'm less sure of victory than I was at Bama last year. The logical side of me cannot really see them keeping pace with us if there's a relatively normal game script, but I do sort of buy the possibility that they suffocate us on offense, force a few turnovers and sneak out a 17-14 win.
  3. There's basically 5 wins built in the schedule. I'm very high on the OU defense, but Tennessee, @Auburn, neutral Texas, @Ole Miss, @Mizzou, Bama, @LSU, is absolutely brutal. I think they probably scrape 3 of those games and hit the over, with the a large caveat that the offense can't be dreadful. I've been hearing a lot of "Bedenbaugh will figure it out" from OU friends and I'm not so sure that will be the case.
  4. The Ags have been doing a lot of complaining about getting more information from Daddy89 than Looch and co. lately, but fortunately Brauny is still there giving them insider info you can't get anywhere else.
  5. I legitimately think they are just mentally passing around TJ Shanahan's 5th star from rivals. Also deeply enjoy them repackaging "multiple years of horrible game tape" to the more palatable "Experienced."
  6. I don't believe anything until kxan reports it. Can't really trust the live feed of the recruit committing.
  7. I like how he points to the secondary as their only potential weakness, but then describes it as a deep unit. How do these wools fall for it every year? Last year, they had absolute swiss cheese on the OL and he was harping on about how our OL was overrated and using that to prop up their unit. He is incapable of any semblance of objectivity.
  8. I can't remember the last time a freshman was being hyped up by Bobby/Gerry the way Wingo is - I guess Kelvin Banks was pretty similar. I'm curious if Cook/Moore get the courtesy start against CSU because it sounds like a combination of Bond, Bolden, Wingo, along with Niblack, would be extremely difficult to defend.
  9. Traveling over 7,000 miles per win is really demoralizing.
  10. 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
  11. Damn Loreal really said it's me or Josiah Sharma and Sark made a business decision.
  12. Don't care got #1 in the 2018 Liuccposite rankings ya stupid sip
  13. No doubt. Herm Edwards comes to mind in recent times.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. Lockett and Terry aren't wiry enough to play for Holmon Wiggins.
  18. Just took a look at the A&M receiver depth chart. Can't say I blame Johnson, it is absolutely BARREN after this year.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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).
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
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