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  1. 23 minutes ago, texasstrong12 said:

    LSU's offensive line couldn't block him in the Spring game. Chaisson is the player I'm most upset about missing on in recent years. NFL written all over him. 

    In terms of ranking our misses in recent years, Walker Little was a much bigger miss. But yeah, sucks whiffing on Chaisson in the 25th hour. 

  2. The way aggy, Stoops, Sweaterson, et al, bagged on Strong's losing seasons coming off of the waning lean years of Mack's recruiting is about to happen to Fisher.  Imagine if Fisher doesn't win 8 games?  What about only winning 6 games and sneaking into a shitty bowl?  After Sumlin consistently won 8 games?  It'll be a fascinating year for fans in the region.

  3. 31 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

     

    Here are some updates for those interested. These are worth what you're paying for them and recruiting is fluid, so keep such in mind.

    -Marcus Stripling was at the Houston UA camp this weekend or whenever it was and was getting repeatedly whipped by some C/G type out of Manvel. The Manvel guy is good enough to get a D-1 scholarship somewhere but he's not a major recruit or talent. It got so bad that Stripling literally quit during the workout, likely with a UA AA Game invite on the line. Took his cleats off and started watching practice in flip flops.

    -Mowry is the opposite of that. He's going to be a badass player at ATM.

    -K Green has a wing span around 82 inches. He can play tackle in college and that's how he's being recruited. Project him to RT and he can be an all-world guard if RT doesn't work out. This recruitment has the potential to get weird, but this guy is worthy of his ranking.

    -Banks is good, but he's a Kobe Boyce level talent, vs guys taken last year who were freaking excellent across the board. Nothing wrong with the take for whoever gets him, which is likely going to be Texas, but here's some feedback on the relative sizing of his importance/talent level with a class.

    -Card is not a college QB. Stud athlete, but if he's taken as someone's QB, it won't be as THE QB in a class, unless they're stupid, desperate, or Longhorn94 has taken over the reins of running their program. He's the 2nd QB in a recruiting class who will end up at WR somewhere.

    -Bragg is the opposite of Marcus Stripling. Just a fucking stud and, continues to be, IMO, the most important uncommitted recruit in this class for UT. 

     

    Where do you see Bragg currently leaning, ctj? 

  4. Count me in the minority, but I came away from the spring game impressed with the overall physicality and improvement on both sides of the ball.  I think the offensive line improves enough to really highlight the skills of LJH and CJ, and we get a surprising amount of production from Duvernay, the TE position and Carter/Young/Ingram catching the ball out of the backfield. It's not going to take much improvement on offense to win those "coin flip" matchups like KSU, WVU, and Okla St with these fucking blood-thirsty unsparing wolves we have on defense. 

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  5. 32 minutes ago, Chad said:

    The only position with a clear advantage that Colt had was WR and that is because of Jordan Shipley. Both rosters had abysmal back fields, terrible lines and play callers, are you going to argue that James Kirkendoll, Dan Bucker and Malcolm Williams were world beaters? Tre Newton, Vondrell McGee and Cody Johnson just scared opposing defenses. Colt succeeded in 2009 because he was experienced and had the ability to make quick reads, something Sam lacks the ability to do. I'm not claiming that Colt would've repeated the results of 2009 last season because it's nothing more than speculation, but he would've been significantly better than the poor play at QB we witnessed last season.

    2006, aka comparing true freshmen seasons.  That comparison had Colt with Selvin (SR) and Jamaal Charles (member him?) behind Studdard and Blalock, and throwing to Cosby, Shipley, Sweed, and Pittman.  I'm not saying Ehlinger is on Colt's level, just that ctj and other's constant railing on Sam may be better served to have a little context and a little fucking perspective. When Studdard and Blalock left, you also saw a drop in efficiency from Colt his SO season, almost as if (bear with me here) OL plays a huge role in QB/RB output. 

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  6. 13 minutes ago, Chooky said:

    When this all ends we're gonna find out about one of Trump's illegitimate sons being named Colludy McObstruction Pee and another named Henry Hugehands. 

    I spit out my cold brew. 

  7. 1 minute ago, closetojumping said:

    The light came on for Colt? When? In high school? He showed up as a redshirt freshman and went like 26 tds and 7 picks or something. He's one of the most accurate quarterbacks in the history of college football. 

    Sam Ehlinger is like the meatheaded moronic second cousin of Shea Morenz. He and Colt McCoy don't belong in the same sentence unless you're demonstrating the concept of antonyms to second graders.

    And how would Sam look with Colt’s OL + skill players from ‘06? 

  8. 1 hour ago, tokamak said:

    I actually do kinda think that the quality of their season is pretty unimportant, unless they totally crater and go 3-9 or something. Our season last year was the definition of mediocre and the only decommits we had were OOS guys that were all flaky from the get-go.

    Our staff doesn't take no for an answer, of course, and if we have a nice season I think it'll turn some heads, but I don't think we'll see an exodus from aggy specifically because they go 7-6 or whatever.

    Context, in this case, matters.  We've been terrible under Strong for three seasons, and Herman at least got us to a bowl and could enjoy the "year two bump" this year. Sumlin consistently won 8 games.  If Jimbo wins 6 or less, it will have an effect against a resurgent Texas. How much effect will be anyone's guess. 

  9. 3 hours ago, EastTexan said:

     

    This is true. Would be one hell of shit storm if somehow Beck gets canned middle season.

    9w's + bowl win.

    Have a sneaking suspicion Herman is waiting on Kingsbury for OC, hence holding onto Beck for another season against all logic. 

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  10. 1 minute ago, billfromlaketravis said:

    There seems to be two school of thoughts in the fanbase regarding Stanford:

    1) Screw Stanford. They can stay the hell out of Texas. 

    2) Good for the young man! Stanford is such a wonderful university, best of luck young fella! You can't fault him for taking a free Stanford education. 

    Last comment I'll make on it: 

    We need the in state recruits going to Stanford to win again. Look at their roster. 

    Paulson Abedo, Obi Eboh, Michael Williams, Kaden Smith, and Walker Little would be playing prominent roles on the team had they picked Texas. 

     

     

    Triggered. 

  11. 10 minutes ago, Bobby_Batronic said:

    I recall Kirk Herbstreet and the boys talking about the monster Strong was building in Austin.  Whatever.  I think 2019 is the year things come together for us. Still too many questions for us offensively on the field and under the headsets for me to get overly excited, we’re replacing the best player we had at every level of the defense and we won’t have an all world punter on campus this year.

    I chose to look at it realistically and reserve the right to be pleasantly surprised. 

    Is this true though?  I'd argue Gary Johnson this year will be better than Malik last, in addition to big improvements out of Roach, Hager, Graham, McCulloch, and Charles O to minimize the loss of Poona.  Elliot was nails, but you gotta love the influx of DB talent that can play a ton this year in Sterns, Foster and Cook. *shrugs* 

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