2020 Coaching Staff

EastTexan · December 19, 2019

4 hours ago, Casual Encounter said:

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EastTexan · December 19, 2019

4 hours ago, Casual Encounter said:

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mo better er

Hiphopopotamos · December 19, 2019

For the next to nothing that its worth - Anwar and Ketch are pushing the Major Applewhite for OC thing hard on their podcast today. The thought is that Tom is out there looking for an OC that will do for Tom at Texas what Major did for Tom at Houston - and that eventually Tom's just going to decide Major is his best option again.

Ricky Butler · December 19, 2019

6 minutes ago, Hiphopopotamos said:

For the next to nothing that its worth - Anwar and Ketch are pushing the Major Applewhite for OC thing hard on their podcast today. The thought is that Tom is out there looking for an OC that will do for Tom at Texas what Major did for Tom at Houston - and that eventually Tom's just going to decide Major is his best option again.

Uninspiring to say the least.

Hiphopopotamos · December 19, 2019

Just now, Ricky Butler said:

Uninspiring to say the least.

I agree - Major brings nothing new to this team or offense. I'd take everyone but Courtney Messingham ahead of him.

That said - Major is enough of a dick that I think he could/would stand up to Tom when he's being a fucking idiot.

Wishbone · December 19, 2019

On 12/17/2019 at 8:58 PM, HtownHorn said:

No, I could care less. Right now I put my caring at a 3, it could go to a 1.

Fair enough.

Hiphopopotamos · December 19, 2019

The 2020 season will hinge on what Tom Herman does with the vacant offensive coordinator office. This team has a few cornerstone pieces to build around on offense in QB Sam Ehlinger, LT Sam Cosmi (and two other returning starters on OL), RBs Keaontay Ingram and Roschon Johnson, and a deep collection of young skill talents at receiver of which several could breakthrough with a good offseason.

The defense is facing a retooling in a new scheme with several position changes and techniques to learn. It’ll all need to be mastered in time to deal with a schedule that takes them on the road to Baton Rouge against LSU’s new pro-spread O and includes rematches with a half dozen or more returning QBs across the Big 12. There isn’t much hope of Chris Ash’s defense carrying the Longhorns to a conference championship and saving Tom Herman from the hot seat. Texas will need to be able to win some shootouts.

Graham Harrell was a fantastic candidate for that job. The former Mike Leach gunslinger who mastered “4-verticals” and throwing to Michael Crabtree so completely that he would ruin Texas’ 2008 season has shown a similar mastery in passing the Air Raid principles on to new generations. He helped Seth Littrell build UNT into a team with back-to-back nine-win seasons after a rebuilding year, then left to save Clay Helton at USC while Littrell’s Mean Green collapsed despite returning QB Mason Fine. Evidently Tom Herman wasn’t ready to fully commit to the Air Raid and so the search continues.

Fortunately for Herman, modern offense is much easier than modern defense and there are some other candidates out there that might be able to rescue his program.

Kirk Ciarrocca: PJ Fleck’s Greg Davis

PJ “row the boat” Fleck has been building up a resume as a sort of “CEO” head coach, like Mack Brown with a catchphrase. He’s an effective recruiter who managed to land the Western Michigan head coaching gig very early in life and with little experience as anything more than a WR coach (at the college and NFL level) and former recruiting coordinator. By all accounts, Fleck directs the team’s energy and culture while Kirk Ciarrocca fits the talent together into an offensive system. Ciarrocca doesn’t even have a wikipedia page and has been mostly behind the scenes while Fleck’s big personality is the main show, much like Mack Brown and Greg Davis.

The Ciarrocca (shuh-ROCK-uh) offensive system is an RPO spread that’s similar to what Texas showed at times in 2019 but is perhaps a little further along. The Gophers ran inside zone on a massive percentage of their snaps but QB Tanner Morgan pulled the ball on a much higher percentage of them than did Ehlinger in 2019 and threw a greater variety of routes as pass options. For instance, this play against Penn State:

The Nittany Lions are playing a base, 4-3 Under of the sort Chris Ash has run. The Gophers run the split zone variety of inside zone, the sam linebacker crashes to play the edge, and the QB punishes that with route combination designed to work against the corner and strong safety. Where Texas only just last year started incorporating routes beyond the bubble or hitch such as the slant, Ciarrocca uses things like this rub route to help get the Z receiver open on a dig.

With these sorts of route combinations, the Gophers regularly ran up against the limits of the “ineligible receiver downfield” on their RPOs. They also mixed in a lot of play-action and did it all from 10 personnel, 11 personnel, and 12 personnel. Tyler Johnson was their Devin Duvernay at H and he caught 74 balls for 1114 yards and 11 TDs. Rashod Bateman played the X as their Collin Johnson and he caught 57 for 1170 and another 11 TDs.

Ciarrocha passed an important test in their game with Iowa this year, in which the Hawkeyes accepted the smashmouth spread terms and had their defensive backfield sit on the pass options while daring the Gophers to try and work their way down the field with the run game. The Gophers mixed in some double moves and rub routes to try and get receivers open anyways and Tanner Morgan threw for 368 yards in a narrow 23-19 defeat.

Hiring Ciarrocha would essentially take Texas down the same offensive path that the departing Larry Fedora put them on, incorporating more aggressive RPOs and play-action to make the Longhorns into more of a smashmouth spread team that attacks teams down the field rather than being a power-spread, ball-control team. His system would very easily mesh with what Herman is already doing and he’d have little difficulty plugging in the existing skill talents into his own playbook. The main challenges would be developing the TE position (still) as he calls the same tight zone run game, and also pulling him away from Fleck in the first place. He may rather stay attached to that rising star rather than risk it all for a year with hot seat Herman.

David Yost: Raid-bro adjacent

Back in the late 2000s the spread offense really took off with Big 12 North schools like Kansas (Mark Mangino) and Missouri (Gary Pinkel) downloading the Todd Dodge playbook and even recruiting his QB (Chase Daniel) to execute that offense and give those programs a chance to keep up with the more talented programs in the Big 12 South.

At that time, Yost was the OC and QB coach under Pinkel at Missouri who built some Air Raid-ish offenses that produced a few big and impressive seasons. Some of their most notable accomplishments occurred in the Chase Daniel era where they won the North division twice in a row and went 22-6 for Daniel’s junior and senior seasons. Daniel threw for over 4000 yards twice working with star receiver Jeremy Maclin and flex tight ends Martin Rucker and Chase Coffman. The Tigers even had back to back 1000-yard rushers.

After a few more years and the switch to the SEC, Yost quit the Missouri program in search of better work/life balance and took a job coaching receivers for Mike Leach out at Washington State. A couple more brief stints at Oregon and Utah and he went to Utah State and bailed Matt Wells out of a hole he’d dug by installing a HUNH spread offense that catapulted them to 10-2 in the second season. Wells parlayed that into the Texas Tech gig and Yost came with him.

Yost isn’t a pure Raid bro, he believes in two principles for offense that keep him grounded to something more similar to Tom Herman’s preferences. For starters, he loves using TEs and believes in playing in 11 personnel ALL the time, if possible. Keeping a TE on the field allows Yost to run the ball on a nickel/six-man front when they need to (five OL plus a TE means hat on hat) and he advocates a hurry-up pace that is beyond that of most other practitioners. Yost wants to catch you in bad personnel and fumbling to get play-calls in to your defenders while his TEs move in and out of the formation. Texas was effective in that same game in 2018 when they had Andrew Beck, Yost would take that approach back up a few notches and find it easy with a QB like Ehlinger at the helm.

His track record of developing QBs within this system and adjusting to his personnel is quite strong. The 2019 Red Raiders perhaps didn’t overawe anyone but Yost got Jett Duffey throwing for 2840 yards in 10 games with 18 TDs to just five INT while adjusting for a TE roster that was comparable to the 2017 Longhorns when he initially arrived. Yost would be able to add additional creativity and flexibility to some of the best dimensions of the existing Longhorn offense, the HUNH spread from 11 personnel that can move fast, create matchups, and is aggressive about putting points on the board.

He called a slot fade into the boundary on 3rd and 2 against Texas that set up a Red Raider TD so Yost clearly understands the Big 12 more deeply than Herman. The fact that he looks like Harry Dunne from Dumb and Dumber and would inevitably spawn some viral memes could either be a source of great consternation to the fans or great joy.

Phil Longo: Power Raid bro

Phil Longo is technically an Air Raid coach but his coaching career, which really took off at Sam Houston State, veers a little more into smashmouth spread territory. Much like Dana Holgorsen, Longo really enjoys using the run game to create opportunities to throw down the field on RPOs and play-action. In particular, he’s big into the power game:

A difference between Longo and the Herman offense, which has also made use of power concepts, is the aggressiveness of Longo in pushing the ball down the field and the use of adjustable routes attached to the runs. RPOs are most effective when receivers are running adjustables somewhere, like the X in this diagram, and the QB can make a quick scan and throw guys open against 1-on-1 coverage created by the run blocking. There are some Art Briles-ish dimensions to Longo’s approach which is simple in some regards and amounts to having receivers run a lot of “get open” routes with a few options based on the coverage.

Longo has also made heavy use of QB draw RPOs, which are a no brainer with Sam Ehlinger. If the next OC of Texas doesn’t make lead draw RPOs a major facet of the offense that will be a colossal waste. That’s not a mistake Longo would make as he loves that concept.

Much of his current scheme, much like the schemes of these other guys, would be best served by having a couple of good blocking TE’s on the roster. 12 personnel is a typical bastion for spread teams looking to run the ball in short-yardage and having a back-up to your FB/TE in the event that he’s injured is generally a must or you risk something akin to the 2017 and 2019 seasons in Austin.

There’s a few solutions here. Maybe Luke Brockermeyer or another defender has the size and grit to try and root out DEs on power and tight zone along with the skill to catch a pop pass now and again. Perhaps Texas could find a JUCO or grad transfer. Or maybe Jared Wiley, Cade Brewer, and Brayden Liebrock just need another offseason and they’ll get there.

Mike Yurcich: Sith apprentice

Mike Gundy famously found Mike Yurcich on YouTube explaining some of the spread concepts they ran at FCS school Shippensburg up in Pennsylvania. He called him up, offered him a six-figure contract of the sort typical to B12 coordinators and that was that. Yurcich then spent six years with Gundy at OSU, learning how to execute that variety of Air Raid and Air Coryell influenced spread offense while adding his own option flairs here and there.

This last year Ryan Day called him up to work at THE OSU and he was able to bring some spread-option understanding to their mix as they adjusted their own Air Raid and pro-style influenced playbook to maximize transfer QB Justin Fields.

Heading into the playoffs, Fields has thrown for 2943 yards at 8.3 ypa with 40 TDs to one INT and added 647 rushing yards and 10 more TDs on the ground. Ohio State has been able to maximize Fields’ current blend of elite physical tools with limited ability to scan through progressions and read defenses. As for Yurcich, he now has some added expertise in the NFL’s favorite run play “duo” (comparable to Herman’s tight zone, really), and some of Day’s passing schemes.

Now what does a Yurcich offense look like without a spread guru like Gundy or Day looking over his shoulder? How big a role did he have to play in an offensive staff room that also included Kevin Wilson as the true OC with Day hanging around as well? It’d be hard to know the answers to those questions but at the very least it’s plain enough to see that he has a creative offensive mind and has been exposed to the processes, systems, and ideas of some of the best in the business.

Sean Gleeson: The padawan

After Day stole Yurcich from JV OSU, Mike Gundy went back to the well and plucked another creative young mind from the lower levels, this time nabbing Sean Gleeson from the Ivy League (Princeton). Gleeson has experimented with double TE (and double QB) shotgun spread formations in the past and this last year at Oklahoma State helped build an offense to feature Spencer Sanders.

Sanders is similar to Fields in that he has some exceptional physical tools but a limited mastery of the art of reading defenses and making progressions. They tried to keep things simple for him early on and set up opportunities to find Tylan Wallace on screens and double moves while creating an expansive zone-read game that absolutely chewed up the defenses on the schedule that didn’t have good answers.

If Gleeson has a deep and nuanced understanding of how to wield a modern passing game we haven’t seen it yet, his teams in the past have been more run-centric spread Os that used the passing game to maximize from a foundation built with the run. Another interesting feature to Gleeson’s resume is how short it is, he’s a young up and comer that has impressed some people along the way but would be in a big pond coaching at Texas under the undoubtedly super watchful eye of Tom Herman.

If the goal is to get an OC that can be trusted to handle more of the offensive planning so that Herman can focus more on big picture issues, Gleeson is a curious pick. The current Cowboy OC noted last offseason that Gundy gave him the office next to his and he originally thought it was a great honor before realizing that it served to make it easy for Gundy to walk into his office and yell at him all the time. Gleeson also has little expertise in mazimizing a QB with Sam Ehlinger’s acumen and skill level. To go from holding Spencer Sanders’ hand with gameplans and formationing teams into tough spots to stop him on the zone-read to then coaching Ehlinger is a significant change.

On the other hand, hiring Gleeson would serve to get some fresh ideas and creativity into the Texas offensive meeting room and he might have considerably more to him than he’s shown thus far in his career.

Chip Long: Power-spread 2.0

Notre Dame has run interesting varieties of spread offense ever since Brian Kelly landed there from Cincinnati. Kelly’s offenses previously were more akin to the types of units that David Yost was running at Missouri, with tons of passing and the run game something you turned to after getting the defense to vacate the box. At Notre Dame he’s swung in the opposite direction, taking advantage of the Irish ability to recruit NFL OL and TE and keeping them lined up in a three-point stance to mash teams downhill.

The Irish were having some struggles a few years back after that infamous “Texas is back!” season which ended with Notre Dame going 4-8 and he had to cash in his “what if I made changes at coordinator?” chips. He then hired Mike Elko from Wake Forest, who was quickly poached after a good 2017, and Chip Long who’d been working for multiple years with Mike Norvell at Arizona State and Memphis. Long had some early success, maintaining much of the previous approach but mixed in more more power/sweep run game designed to take advantage of their depth at tight end and QB Brandon Wimbush. Then in year two they bumped Wimbush to the bench despite starting the year with a big victory over Michigan in order to promote Ian Book, a scrappy and mobile QB of the sort you see annually in the Big 12. Think Charlie Brewer.

With Book at the helm they were able to mix in more RPOs and better play-action to make the most of a receiving corps similar to Texas’ in its deployment of several big bodied targets. A Chip Long hire would basically be one that infused the existing offense with some new ideas (such as sweeps and motion) and upgraded the quality of TE coaching. That position has been Long’s particular area of expertise and he’d no doubt enjoy working to develop Cade Brewer, Jared Wiley, and especially Brayden Liebrock. With Long at the helm Texas could also retain Tim Beck and retain his knack for recruiting and for developing better footwork and mechanics from smart and promising athletes at QB (Taylor Martinez, Tommy Armstrong, Sam Ehlinger, Ja’Quinden Jackson? Jalen Milroe?).

It wouldn’t be the sexiest hire given the overlap with Texas’ existing structure and Long comes with some baggage, he left Notre Dame on terms that remind of how Matt Canada keeps moving around from job to job. However, like Canada, Long has generated results at his previous stops and he managed to successfully work alongside similarly unpleasant Brian Kelly for three 10-win seasons and a playoff berth.

There’s a lot of options out there for Tom Herman. Some are iffy, some are solid, some are very promising and most of them seem to more closely match Herman’s preferences for how to build the unit. The consistent theme with all of them is that Texas needs to get their TE depth chart together this offseason either with fantastic coaching and development, position changes, or transfers.

LTtxfan · December 19, 2019

23 minutes ago, Hiphopopotamos said:

For the next to nothing that its worth - Anwar and Ketch are pushing the Major Applewhite for OC thing hard on their podcast today. The thought is that Tom is out there looking for an OC that will do for Tom at Texas what Major did for Tom at Houston - and that eventually Tom's just going to decide Major is his best option again.

In case yah dare to listen to Anwar & Ketch podcast...

https://theyakk.com/podcast/episode-105-breaking-down-ash-saying-goodbye-to-harrell/

LTtxfan · December 19, 2019

Feels like 9.95ers are just fed lazy bad info sometime:

Kirk Ciarrocca: PJ Fleck’s Greg Davis
David Yost: Raid-bro adjacent
Phil Longo: Power Raid bro
Mike Yurcich: Sith apprentice
Sean Gleeson: The padawan
Chip Long: Power-spread 2.0

Could just be agents stirring shit up to get their clients raises...

Hiphopopotamos · December 19, 2019

Major is one of three finalists for the Arkansas OC job (along with Finger-tape Briles and Chip Long).

https://www.arkansasfight.com/2019/12/19/21030479/richard-davenport-predicts-major-applewhite-as-hogs-offensive-coordinator

Hiphopopotamos · December 19, 2019

Just now, LTtxfan said:

Feels like 9.95ers are just fed lazy bad info sometime:

Kirk Ciarrocca: PJ Fleck’s Greg Davis

David Yost: Raid-bro adjacent

Phil Longo: Power Raid bro

Mike Yurcich: Sith apprentice

Sean Gleeson: The padawan

Chip Long: Power-spread 2.0

Could just be agents stirring shit up to get their clients raises...

At least they're all good choices - unlike that Messingham bullshit we got earlier this week.

LTtxfan · December 19, 2019

1 minute ago, Hiphopopotamos said:

At least they're all good choices - unlike that Messingham bullshit we got earlier this week.

HtownHorn · December 19, 2019

3 minutes ago, LTtxfan said:

You have to adjust your baseline. We are coming from pure shit. It would not take much to see improvement across the board from Orlando and whoever the fuck was calling the offense.

Burt Macklin · December 19, 2019

38 minutes ago, Hiphopopotamos said:

For the next to nothing that its worth - Anwar and Ketch are pushing the Major Applewhite for OC thing hard on their podcast today. The thought is that Tom is out there looking for an OC that will do for Tom at Texas what Major did for Tom at Houston - and that eventually Tom's just going to decide Major is his best option again.

People realize UH’s offenses under Major weren’t that great, right? Ive seen a lot of comments or articles acting like UH had a good offense under Herman, but it didn’t really. It was inconsistent and basically just relied on Ward to pull off a bunch of hero ball.
You know, kind of like very successful drive we had against ISU.

9 minutes ago, LTtxfan said:

Feels like 9.95ers are just fed lazy bad info sometime:

Kirk Ciarrocca: PJ Fleck’s Greg Davis

David Yost: Raid-bro adjacent

Phil Longo: Power Raid bro

Mike Yurcich: Sith apprentice

Sean Gleeson: The padawan

Chip Long: Power-spread 2.0

Could just be agents stirring shit up to get their clients raises...

I don’t like what I’ve heard about Chip Long’s personality, or really his offense in general at ND, but that’s not a bad list at all. I’d probably take all those guys, except Long, over Major (if he were even a real option).

Modessit · December 19, 2019

Well, if we want a coach that can really get an offense moving down the field, maybe we should put Todd Orlando in the OC position.

LTtxfan · December 19, 2019

10 minutes ago, Hiphopopotamos said:

Major is one of three finalists for the Arkansas OC job (along with Finger-tape Briles and Chip Long).

https://www.arkansasfight.com/2019/12/19/21030479/richard-davenport-predicts-major-applewhite-as-hogs-offensive-coordinator

Thx Hipho...

Major at Arky would be a trip... But he does have great insight into Bama info. My Arky buddy still thinks Chip Long is the favorite FWIW...

LTtxfan · December 19, 2019

3 minutes ago, Burt Macklin said:

I don’t like what I’ve heard about Chip Long’s personality, or really his offense in general at ND, but that’s not a bad list at all. I’d probably take all those guys, except Long, over Major (if he were even a real option).

Gleeson is overrated big-time -- ask Okie Lite folks. Agree that Chip Long is ND's version of Drew Mehringer (DO NOT WANT AT TEXAS). No way Yost is even a candidate for OC at Texas. Longo won't leave Mack for Herman because that's coaching suicide. Ciarrocca won't trade in "Row-the-Boat" for " 2 Flying Birds". Mike Yurich is the only candidate in that list that makes a little sense so that means it won't happen either... 😂

gmr548 · December 19, 2019

Feels like 9.95ers are just fed lazy bad info sometime:
Kirk Ciarrocca: PJ Fleck’s Greg Davis

David Yost: Raid-bro adjacent

Phil Longo: Power Raid bro

Mike Yurcich: Sith apprentice

Sean Gleeson: The padawan

Chip Long: Power-spread 2.0
Could just be agents stirring shit up to get their clients raises...

They didn't even bother to reference a single source in that write up. They're not being fed bad info, they're being fed none. They're speculating the same as the rest of us.

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UncleBuck · December 19, 2019

7 minutes ago, gmr548 said:

They didn't even bother to reference a single source in that write up. They're not being fed bad info, they're being fed non. They're speculating the same as the rest of us.

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I mean, I don't wanna play Defender of the 995 or anything, but I didn't get one hint, whether in the headline or the introduction to that article, that the article was going to be about some insider information on which coaches they know Herman is targeting and where talks stand etc... Seemed pretty obvious to me the purpose was to take the names we've already heard floated around and to put some faces to them.

Edited December 19, 2019 by UncleBuck

FloridaHorn · December 19, 2019

36 minutes ago, Modessit said:

Well, if we want a coach that can really get an offense moving down the field, maybe we should put Todd Orlando in the OC position.

And tell him to call plays like it’s always 3rd and long.

snap14 · December 19, 2019

Been following along for a while now and thought I would chime in. Since it seems as though Herman likes to make comfort hires and that the top candidate is probably still coaching, the next OC will be ..............

Will Stein - offensive coordinator and QBs coach at Lake Travis High School

Played QB at Louisville, grad assistant under Strong at Louisville, QC at UT under Strong, retained by Herman in 2017 working with QBs and has been the OC at Lake Travis for the past 2 years coaching up recent signee Hudson Card. Travis plays for a state championship this weekend and Lake Travis currently has the position for OC posted on their website.

That will be $9.95

gmr548 · December 19, 2019

Travis plays for a state championship this weekend

O rly?

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Bobby_Batronic · December 19, 2019

1 hour ago, Hiphopopotamos said:

For the next to nothing that its worth - Anwar and Ketch are pushing the Major Applewhite for OC thing hard on their podcast today. The thought is that Tom is out there looking for an OC that will do for Tom at Texas what Major did for Tom at Houston - and that eventually Tom's just going to decide Major is his best option again.

Yeah, I bet Mack pines for GDGD at UNC so long as he brings VY with him.

Spawn of Cthulhu · December 19, 2019

1 hour ago, Hiphopopotamos said:

For the next to nothing that its worth - Anwar and Ketch are pushing the Major Applewhite for OC thing hard on their podcast today. The thought is that Tom is out there looking for an OC that will do for Tom at Texas what Major did for Tom at Houston - and that eventually Tom's just going to decide Major is his best option again.

Competition for Vic Mackey?

Hookah Horns · December 19, 2019

1 hour ago, LTtxfan said:

Feels like 9.95ers are just fed lazy bad info sometime:

Kirk Ciarrocca: PJ Fleck’s Greg Davis

David Yost: Raid-bro adjacent

Phil Longo: Power Raid bro

Mike Yurcich: Sith apprentice

Sean Gleeson: The padawan

Chip Long: Power-spread 2.0

Could just be agents stirring shit up to get their clients raises...

Boyd wasn't reporting that those guys are known candidates under consideration. He was just naming guys who might be good fits.

Edited December 19, 2019 by Hookah Horns

Lerka Lerka · December 19, 2019

9 minutes ago, gmr548 said:

O rly?

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Right? North Shore would like a word with you. No longer sending my $9.95.

Hiphopopotamos · December 19, 2019

48 minutes ago, LTtxfan said:

Gleeson is overrated big-time -- ask Okie Lite folks. Agree that Chip Long is ND's version of Drew Mehringer (DO NOT WANT AT TEXAS). No way Yost is even a candidate for OC at Texas. Longo won't leave Mack for Herman because that's coaching suicide. Ciarrocca won't trade in "Row-the-Boat" for " 2 Flying Birds". Mike Yurich is the only candidate in that list that makes a little sense so that means it won't happen either... 😂

You've posted this at least twice - and gets dumber each time you write it. Long has had a successful career as both a position coach and a Offensive Coordinator. He's never coordinated the worst offense in FBS and despite his supposed dickish personality has never had it reported that his entire position group was about to mutiny.

Its fine if you were less than thrilled with ND's occasional offensive collapses and thats why you'd prefer Chip stay off the 40 acres - but comparing him to Mehringer is ridiculous and makes your opinions on the other candidates worthless.

Hiphopopotamos · December 19, 2019

3 minutes ago, Hookah Horns said:

Boyd wasn't reporting that those guys are known candidates under consideration. He was just naming guys who might be good fits.

To be fair - I think he used names of guys that Nahlin had reported a couple of days ago as guys he had heard Texas people mention. Nahlin specifically mentioned Ciarrocca, Yost, and Gleeson as guys he had heard from his 'sources'.

Longo was someone Nahlin thought Herman should look at.

Yurcich was someone Nahlin assumed Herman was already considering.

UncleBuck · December 19, 2019

13 minutes ago, Hiphopopotamos said:

To be fair - I think he used names of guys that Nahlin had reported a couple of days ago as guys he had heard Texas people mention. Nahlin specifically mentioned Ciarrocca, Yost, and Gleeson as guys he had heard from his 'sources'.

Longo was someone Nahlin thought Herman should look at.

Yurcich was someone Nahlin assumed Herman was already considering.

Most of these names we've seen mentioned multiple places for a while now, which is kinda the point. Just some information on all of the names we've heard. Didn't take it as them trying to break any news or anything.

Dbeasy · December 19, 2019

I would like for CTJ to weigh in here on whether he’s heard anything as of yesterday. I heard the OC is identified and wrapped up. No idea who.

DanTheHorn · December 19, 2019

2 hours ago, Hiphopopotamos said:

I agree - Major brings nothing new to this team or offense. I'd take everyone but Courtney Messingham ahead of him.

That said - Major is enough of a dick that I think he could/would stand up to Tom when he's being a fucking idiot.

Major is not a popular choice and I believe there has to be better. Yet, lets not massacre Applewhite because Tom wants him. All that shows us is that Tom is inadequate. Major did a great job holding together some semblance of a class for Charlie after Mack told all the recruits to go elsewhere. He did OK when he called the plays the one year he was here on his own. Also, if Charlie was smart and had kept Major around he would have gotten a good recruiter that could introduce him on how to play nice with Texas High School coaches. In addition, Charlie I think would have gotten a competent offense to go along with that first year defense. I know some of us thought that getting rid of Major in favor of Watson was the first nail in the coffin even before Charlie's rein started here at Texas. I think Major is going to work out somewhere, I just hope it is not here at this time. Maybe in the future.

stork642 · December 19, 2019

2 hours ago, Hiphopopotamos said:

For the next to nothing that its worth - Anwar and Ketch are pushing the Major Applewhite for OC thing hard on their podcast today. The thought is that Tom is out there looking for an OC that will do for Tom at Texas what Major did for Tom at Houston - and that eventually Tom's just going to decide Major is his best option again.

I’m thinking UT’s attorneys will say this is not a muy bueno idea.

Edited December 19, 2019 by stork642

Ricky's one-hitter · December 19, 2019

I couldn't find Wisconsin position coaches, but here are guys Ash coached with:
Arkansas 2013
Charlie Partridge, Defensive Line Coach (AHC/DL Pitt, coached with him at Wisconsin as well)
Randy Shannon, Linebackers Coach, (LBs UCF?)
Taver Johnson, Cornerbacks Coach (DBs Oak Raiders)
Ohio State 2014
Larry Johnson, DL (OSU)
Kerry Coombs, Secondary coach, special teams coordinator (DBs Tenn Titans)
Luke Fickell, LB (HC Cincy)

He’s not going to pull any of the osu guys, but I’ve seen Partridge floated as a d ends coach if they allocate 2 to the line. Giles probably needs help considering he’s got 12 dudes there next year

Vertigo · December 19, 2019

2 hours ago, LTtxfan said:

In case yah dare to listen to Anwar & Ketch podcast...

https://theyakk.com/podcast/episode-105-breaking-down-ash-saying-goodbye-to-harrell/

JBJ · December 19, 2019

Mack's got Longo and Bateman over there at UNC. He must be serious about this return to coaching thing.

austintx · December 19, 2019

1 hour ago, snap14 said:

Will Stein - offensive coordinator and QBs coach at Lake Travis High School

Played QB at Louisville, grad assistant under Strong at Louisville, QC at UT under Strong, retained by Herman in 2017 working with QBs and has been the OC at Lake Travis for the past 2 years coaching up recent signee Hudson Card. Travis plays for a state championship this weekend and Lake Travis currently has the position for OC posted on their website.

That will be $9.95

I find this interesting and he is probably going to coach somewhere at a collegiate level, but there is no way in hell that he magically becomes our OC.

Ricky Butler · December 19, 2019

52 minutes ago, Ricky's one-hitter said:

He’s not going to pull any of the osu guys, but I’ve seen Partridge floated as a d ends coach if they allocate 2 to the line. Giles probably needs help considering he’s got 12 dudes there next year

I wondered if Coombs is interested in returning to college, maybe you could get him. If Ohio State wants him back, could you make a run at him and Larry Johnson simultaneously?

https://buckeyeswire.usatoday.com/2019/12/15/ohio-state-targeting-kerry-coombs-to-replace-jeff-hafley/

Edited December 19, 2019 by Ricky Butler
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Red Five · December 20, 2019

There is a podcast with Anwar and Ketch, and people listen to it? Voluntarily?

texasdonghorns · December 20, 2019

3 hours ago, LTtxfan said:

In case yah dare to listen to Anwar & Ketch podcast...

https://theyakk.com/podcast/episode-105-breaking-down-ash-saying-goodbye-to-harrell/

I know this point been beaten to death on here but it's still impressive how much of a dipshit Ketch can be. I tried listening to him talk about the average star rating between classes and he doesn't seem to understand how numbers work.

Edited December 20, 2019 by texasdonghorns

Ricky's one-hitter · December 20, 2019

I wondered if Coombs is interested in returning to college, maybe you could get him. If Ohio State wants him back, could you make a run at him and Larry Johnson simultaneously?

https://buckeyeswire.usatoday.com/2019/12/15/ohio-state-targeting-kerry-coombs-to-replace-jeff-hafley/

Yeah, I think Coombs goes to OSU. I don’t know that Larry would leave either. He’s an ahc, recruits well, almost 70, B1G lifer.

closetohumping · December 20, 2019

7 minutes ago, texasdonghorns said:

I know this point been beaten to death on here but it's still impressive how much of a dipshit Ketch can be. I tried listening to him talk about the average star rating between classes and he doesn't seem to understand how numbers work.

Absolute dipshit. But filthy rich because all the other dips hits give him 9.95 per month

Hookah Horns · December 20, 2019

2 hours ago, Hiphopopotamos said:

To be fair - I think he used names of guys that Nahlin had reported a couple of days ago as guys he had heard Texas people mention. Nahlin specifically mentioned Ciarrocca, Yost, and Gleeson as guys he had heard from his 'sources'.

Longo was someone Nahlin thought Herman should look at.

Yurcich was someone Nahlin assumed Herman was already considering.

Didn't see that, thanks.

Nicole44 · December 20, 2019

3 hours ago, gmr548 said:

They didn't even bother to reference a single source in that write up. They're not being fed bad info, they're being fed none. They're speculating the same as the rest of us.

Wait. None of these people know anything? What? They’re just speculating? Why aren’t we making money then? Lol.

JesusSweatDuck · December 20, 2019

1 hour ago, closetohumping said:

Absolute dipshit. But filthy rich because all the other dips hits give him 9.95 per month

I wouldn't call him filthy rich. He eats all of his pay checks

ColeTrickle · December 20, 2019

5 hours ago, Hiphopopotamos said:

Ian Boyd is so much better than any other football writer on the other pay sites.

Rimbo · December 20, 2019

18 hours ago, Tex Pete said:

If you’re Coach Gerald Smith in that picture, it’s not a picture of “I,” it’s a picture of “me.” People struggle with it, but “...and I” is not always correct.

I/we and us/me is how I’ve always kept it straight. “This is a picture of us,” not “this is a picture of we.”

But you've changed the meaning of what he's saying. He's not saying "This is a picture of us." He's saying, "This is we." Or, he is referring to themselves as the subject: "We are in this photo."

In the absence of a verb, "and I" is always correct.

Edited December 20, 2019 by Rimbo

Rimbo · December 20, 2019

12 hours ago, Liquor and Poker said:

Fuck me (I) that this is what we’re left with.

Well shit, we can't have nice things in football; we might as well flex our education.

Ricky Butler · December 20, 2019

16 minutes ago, ColeTrickle said:

Ian Boyd is so much better than any other football writer on the other pay sites.

Ian writes about the nuts and bolts of football where his pedantry is a virtue. Once you get past that, he seems like the least fun person you could ever encounter in real life.

TreatyOak · December 20, 2019

16 hours ago, LTtxfan said:

Feels like 9.95ers are just fed lazy bad info sometime:

Edited December 20, 2019 by TreatyOak

Doc Reeves · December 20, 2019

4 minutes ago, Ricky Butler said:

Ian writes about the nuts and bolts of football where his pedantry is a virtue. Once you get past that, he seems like the least fun person you could ever encounter in real life.

that’s fantastic.

I don’t want to hang out with my accountant because they are boring and on the spectrum. But got damn he’s good at taxes.

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