2023 Transfer Thread - Texas Capitalized, ATM Victimized

21 minutes ago, Hiphopopotamos said:

Texas ADOPP JM Jones just started following this Ball St RB who committed to UCLA today:

 

I watched Ball State a couple times in midweek games this season and Carson Steele is the truth. Dude looks like Peyton Hillis

 

4 minutes ago, Wayne said:

 

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

6 minutes ago, Wayne said:

 

Go ahead and get in the motherfucker, Evan….

6 minutes ago, Wayne said:

 

He gone…?

6 minutes ago, Wayne said:

 

Posted from Southlake, eh?

2 minutes ago, Wayne said:

 

8 minutes ago, Wayne said:

 

They playing catch in Southlake?

 

 

45 minutes ago, Hiphopopotamos said:

Texas ADOPP JM Jones just started following this Ball St RB who committed to UCLA today:

 

 

There's just no way to avoid an Aggie misery OD if Stewart bailed right after the OC hire the Aggies are trying to rationalize. It's not even healthy even to be thinking about it.

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

They playing catch in Southlake?

 

 

Is the mullet gone?

Just now, Vertuzzi said:

Is the mullet gone?

8/21/20

Just now, Vertuzzi said:

Is the mullet gone?

That pic is 2.5 years ago.

Dammit Ricky….

Appears Blue is already having 2nd thoughts, or would be third thoughts.

3 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

Appears Blue is already having 2nd thoughts, or would be third thoughts.

This musing come with a link?

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

They playing catch in Southlake?

 

 

Winfield had no stats for Baylor this year

Phaizon Wilson had 10 catches for 93 yards and 1 TD over 10 games this year for Grambling State.

 

1 minute ago, SydneyCarton said:

This musing come with a link?

Also, updated his twitter bio to include RB@texasfootball.

Just now, Hiphopopotamos said:

 

oh my god, his most recent like...2 hours ago lol

Golden football shitting is back on the menu boys

These kids man

Stick around Blue. We don’t have another roschon at QB that can convert if brooks or Baxter need rest 

Turns out our portal RB is....Jaydon Blue!

8 minutes ago, Hiphopopotamos said:

 

I'm very much  good with that. He's definitely a really talented kid. Hope he makes the most of it because he could wind up being important for us next year

6 minutes ago, Sgt Hulk said:

Stick around Blue. We don’t have another roschon at QB that can convert if brooks or Baxter need rest 

Idk I hear Sir Charles is sneaky athletic 

1 minute ago, tokamak said:

Turns out our portal RB is....Jaydon Blue!

Really talented, was a big time recruit out of HS (where he was recruited by Sark so there is a relationship there). Lots of upside but needs to get his head on straight. Worth the risk to pick him up imo. 

IT poster on Blue's senior year of high school

Sounds like golden trophies are back on the menu guys.

@closetojumping does Bobby petrino move the needle for Evan Stewart and his people?

4 minutes ago, Happy Gilmore said:

Idk I hear Sir Charles is sneaky athletic 

Christian mcaffrey starter kit

1 minute ago, BurntOrange&White said:

@closetojumping does Bobby petrino move the needle for Evan Stewart and his people?

What do you mean by “his people”

 

Guess she needs to be replaced with a sheep, now.

7 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

@closetojumping does Bobby petrino move the needle for Evan Stewart and his people?

what do you think?

do you think a 60 year old who spent 13 games with the falcons then quit to go to Arkansas, was at Arkansas then got fired for the motorcycle incident, spent 1 year at Western Kentucky before leaving for Lousiville, got fired from Louisville, didnt have a job for 2 years, then took an FCS job, then left for UNLV for like a month then quit there to go to A&M.

oh yeah and the last time he was a relevant offensive mind was in 2011 at Arkansas when Evan Stewart was like 11 years old. 

Edited January 4, 2023 by NoName

13 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

@closetojumping does Bobby petrino move the needle for Evan Stewart and his people?

....

18 minutes ago, campcrunk said:

I'm very much  good with that. He's definitely a really talented kid. Hope he makes the most of it because he could wind up being important for us next year

I don't know man...it takes a while for these transfers to pick up the system.  Especially on offense.  We'll see.  Fingers crossed.

15 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

@closetojumping does Bobby petrino move the needle for Evan Stewart and his people?

More importantly, does Ex-lax move a golden football?

12 minutes ago, Bevo said:

 

Guess she needs to be replaced with a sheep, now.

Can someone photoshop Evan on the bike with Petrino?

Petrino will pitch a DaVante Parker role to Stewart. Unlikely that resonates.

SIAP, but this is an incredible, scathing take on Petrino to aggy

https://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/sec-football/first-and-10-bobby-petrino-jimbo-fisher-disaster-waiting-to-happen/

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1. I don’t want to get on a soapbox, but …
Of all the moves Jimbo Fisher could make this offseason, this is the most dangerous.

And impulsive. And short-sighted. And reckless.

And reeking of desperation.

Bobby Petrino is a helluva offensive coordinator, and quarterbacks coach and play-caller. Bobby Petrino is a horrible assistant coach.

It will end at some point for Fisher at Texas A&M, and it will more than likely end badly. The history of failed coaches in College Station is the ultimate roadmap.

The end will come quicker with Petrino by his side.

We’re 5 years into the Fisher experiment at Texas A&M, and 247Sports is reporting that Fisher will interview Missouri State coach — and longtime coaching mercenary (I say mercenary, you say conman) — Bobby Petrino for the Aggies’ vacant offensive coordinator position.

The idea of Fisher and Petrino — two of the biggest egos in the coaching fraternity (and I say that with no malice, it’s who most coaches are) — standing side by side trying to win SEC games is frightening. Not because of the potential impact on the game, or the Aggies or the SEC.

But because of the inevitable implosion, simmering from the moment they sit at the same table for the first staff meeting to introduce Petrino to an already combustible situation. The only thing lacking is ignition.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the match to set the thing ablaze: the quarterback position.

Fisher believes he knows a thing or two about the quarterback spot. He’s coached 2 No. 1 overall NFL Draft picks (JaMarcus Russell, Jameis Winston), has 4 first-round NFL Draft picks at the position (Christian Ponder, EJ Manuel) and he’d just as soon keep his unofficial title of head ball coach/offense — but no one is hiring a guy who got pushed out of a dream job with a $95 million parachute.

Fisher has to make this work.

But instead of hiring a young, charismatic offensive coordinator with new ideas and the ability to recruit quarterbacks and skill players, the first move is apparently Petrino. The one guy who will absolutely make sure it doesn’t work.

It’s unthinkable, really. Petrino doesn’t have the temperament to be an assistant coach. Hasn’t since he was a quarterbacks coach/OC with NFL’s Jaguars in the early 2000s, when then Jaguars coach Tom Coughlin called him the best play-caller he’d ever been around.

Petrino wanted bigger, better things and instead of waiting and working his way through the NFL, he jumped for the offensive coordinator job at Auburn in 2002, and a year after that, the head coach job at Louisville.

He hasn’t been an assistant since, but between then and now, his massive ego and need for control of all things football, led him to:

— Be part of a failed coup in the early 2000s to unseat Auburn coach Tommy Tuberville. Auburn officials wanted Tubs replaced, and flew clandestinely to Louisville to interview Petrino in the middle of the season.

The coup was exposed, and Louisville officials were furious. They stuck with Petrino, who rebuilt the program over the next 2 years and won big.

— After getting a massive raise from Louisville and declaring he’s a lifer there, Petrino left soon after to coach the NFL’s Falcons.

— Before his first season with the Falcons ended, he walked out on his team to accept the head coaching job at Arkansas.

— After leading Arkansas to a top 3 ranking and the Sugar Bowl, he later lied about a relationship with a subordinate, and was fired despite his successful run.

— He resurfaced 2 years later at Western Kentucky, trying to reboot his career and proclaiming he was there for the long haul. After 1 season, he left to return to Louisville.

— Coached Heisman Trophy winner Lamar Jackson, before it eventually all unraveled and he was fired after 5 seasons.

— Two years later in 2020, in yet another reboot, he agreed to coach FCS Missouri State.

This is the guy who is going to play well with Fisher? The same Fisher whose own legendary ego dates back to his days as the coach-in-waiting at Florida State, where he forced the university’s hand to push iconic coach Bobby Bowden out 1 year early — or Fisher would walk.

That move took unthinkable stones.

This move would top that — and eventually collapse the whole thing he’s trying to put together in College Station.

2. A bold, bad move
Years ago I wrote a profile of Bret Bielema arriving at Arkansas and cleaning up the mess Petrino left behind.

It wasn’t just the inappropriate relationship with a subordinate or lying about it to his superiors or the infamous motorcycle crash that unearthed the unseemly events.

It was how Petrino’s management of the program had worn down all involved. Yep, they were top 3 at one point under Petrino — but there were cracks everywhere.

One Arkansas staffer told me, “He was an ass—-, but he was our ass—-.”

Last week, I reached out to an assistant coach on that staff of more than a decade ago, and asked him about the idea of Fisher hiring Petrino.

“I can’t begin to imagine what that’s going to look like,” the former Petrino assistant told me. “I’ve never been around a more dysfunctional and demeaning environment than what we had (at Arkansas). I thought, well, he’s just coaching hard. No, it was humiliation at times — for players and coaches.”

Bobby Petrino is not an assistant coach. There will be power struggles between he and Fisher, and there will be a winner and a loser.

Understand this: Petrino is a terrific coach. He will whip the offense into shape, and they will score points — but the interaction between 2 mega personalities won’t work, and will eventually bleed over into the locker room and on the field.

The losses will mount while the offense will be among the SEC’s best. At some point, someone will have to answer.

Take a wild stab in the dark who gets fired? I’ll give you a hint: the guy with $80-something million remaining on his contract.

Not interim Aggies coach Bobby Petrino.

3. The wrong choice, The Epilogue
Fisher can end this before it begins. He can call around and do some reconnaissance and get a better idea of what he’s inviting into an already shaky locker room.

Or he can just hire someone else. Like Toledo coach Jason Candle. Or Washington OC Ryan Grubb. Or Wake Forest OC Warren Ruggiero.

Fisher needs a quarterbacks coach and coordinator and play-caller. The further removed he is from the process — yet can still manage it — the better the Aggies’ offense and program will be.

Hiring Petrino will eventually lead to conflict of egos over how the offense is run, the plays are called and the quarterbacks are coached. That conflict then soils everything.

Fisher needs a coordinator who has the chops to handle full control of the offense, and the humility to allow Fisher to peek under the hood every once in a while and give opinions.

No chance that happens with Petrino.

He can always throw a ridiculous amount of cash (A&M is good for it) at an OC of an SEC rival to weaken its program in the process. Like Kendal Briles at Arkansas, or Charlie Weis Jr. at Ole Miss.

Or he can hire Petrino, and move ahead the clock that’s already ticking on his departure.

 

1 minute ago, Ricky's one-hitter said:

Petrino will pitch a DaVante Parker role to Stewart. Unlikely that resonates.

SIAP, but this is an incredible, scathing take on Petrino to aggy

https://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/sec-football/first-and-10-bobby-petrino-jimbo-fisher-disaster-waiting-to-happen/

 

Pretty sure DeVante Parker played under Strong, not Petrino.

If the drama about Blue is simply related to him being pissed about the bowl game usage of our RBs I hardly blame him. Did we not all watch the same game? Sark went full fucking retard trying to make Keilan work as a feature back and not going to Brookes or Blue in even shorter yardage situations is baffling. I assume this is just the most recent issue among many however with GW and others basically saying the equivalent of good riddance..  if not then fuck them because being pissed about the bowl game RB situation is 100% warranted and he hasn't been half the public drama queen as Worthy or others who GW turns around and sucks off at every opportunity. 

That FSU kid is a stud and would be an excellent addition to the roster regardless of how things play out with Blue.

 

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

and longtime coaching mercenary (I say mercenary, you say conman)

I mean, mercenaries gonna mercenary. Sound like a perfect fit to me...

3 minutes ago, HateYouAndMyself said:

If the drama about Blue is simply related to him being pissed about the bowl game usage of our RBs I hardly blame him. Did we not all watch the same game? Sark went full fucking retard trying to make Keilan work as a feature back and not going to Brookes or Blue in even shorter yardage situations is baffling. I assume this is just the most recent issue among many however with GW and others basically saying the equivalent of good riddance..  if not then fuck them because being pissed about the bowl game RB situation is 100% warranted and he hasn't been half the public drama queen as Worthy or others who GW turns around and sucks off at every opportunity. 

That FSU kid is a stud and would be an excellent addition to the roster regardless of how things play out with Blue.

 

Why do people think Blue is significantly different that KRob? 

6'0" 194 lbs  Freshman vs 5'9" 185 lbs  Senior'

 

2 minutes ago, TheMailBox357 said:

Pretty sure DeVante Parker played under Strong, not Petrino.

They overlapped in 2014 - Parker missed the first 7 games of the season and returned to almost match his highest season yardage total (835 v 885) averaging 142.5 yds/gm and 20 yds/rec. 

9 minutes ago, TheMailBox357 said:

Pretty sure DeVante Parker played under Strong, not Petrino.

Yeah, but still 

These kids man

2 hours ago, Hiphopopotamos said:

Texas ADOPP JM Jones just started following this Ball St RB who committed to UCLA today:

 

 

17 minutes ago, Codaxx said:

Why do people think Blue is significantly different that KRob? 

6'0" 194 lbs  Freshman vs 5'9" 185 lbs  Senior'

 

According to a couple of the IT guys, Blue has much better hands and is effectively a WR if you motion him out of the backfield. Otherwise, about the same running the ball. 

4 minutes ago, Duane Moore said:

According to a couple of the IT guys, Blue has much better hands and is effectively a WR if you motion him out of the backfield. Otherwise, about the same running the ball. 

which is basically KRob. Both are better out of the backfield and using their speed outside. Neither have shown the ability to run between the tackles, which was my point. 

Just now, Codaxx said:

which is basically KRob. Both are better out of the backfield and using their speed outside. Neither have shown the ability to run between the tackles, which was my point. 

They have always said KRob didn’t have good hands, so passes to him had to be dump offs in the flats. Supposedly (this is just what they’ve said) Blue can do damage running intermediate routes further down field.