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ATLLonghorn

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  1. 16 minutes ago, ztejas said:

    I watched SMU get its ass beat in the Frisco bowl by La Tech right after Chad Morris left for Arkansas. Good times. My buddy and I at least took it as a good opportunity to get hammered.

    I guess that would have been what is now the Tropical Smoothie version. 

    It's hilarious they still have the branding for the other one on the field. Toyota actually isn't a bad low cap football venue. I feel like most MLS stadiums actually lend themselves fairly well to that purpose. 

    Yeah, that was the real Frisco Bowl. There was one more bowl eligible team than there were available bowl slots this year (before A&M had to opt out) so they bumped Hawaii up to bowl eligibility because they had six wins (they went 6-7) so right before the bowl season they created the game being played right now so everyone could to go a bowl and I guess Frisco was like, "sure why not, come play here." 

    You're right about it being hilarious they didn't paint over all the branding from the Frisco Bowl. They did at midfield, but left the Tropical Smoothie Cafe logos on the field.

    I think MLS soccer specific stadiums would make for much better venues than football stadiums would for some of these games. There was nobody at the Potato Bowl in Boise and that's just 16,000 more seats than Toyota Stadium but the difference is noticeable. 

  2. This is a good read on Brennan Marion's rise through the coaching ranks. I think it's interesting that he developed his offense at a high school for billionaires' kids so nobody cared if they were good and he got to do what he wanted. After reading it, I'm more convinced that he'd take the Temple OC job than I was before (he seems aspirational which you'd hope a young coach would be) but nevertheless, it's a good read.

    https://ftw.usatoday.com/2020/09/gogo-offense-brennan-marion-hawaii-innovation-scheme-analysis

  3. Marion is a big time up-and-comer in the coaching industry, a high volume recruiter who is well respected in the industry and beloved by his players. It would be a big time hire. I also wonder if it happens if he'd be able to convince Jordan Addison to come with him. Pittsburgh would be replacing a first round pick QB, it's OC and the WR coach a lot of people thought might get that OC job. It's maybe a pipe dream, but nice to think about.

  4. 2 minutes ago, Spider2YBanana said:

    Fuck if, I'm gonna hope ESPN shows a game so I can see this kid play. He's already got me and others curious. I'll definitely never forget his name, for good or bad  

    They were really the only FCS team that was on linear ESPN networks this Spring and had one game and the SWAC title game on ESPN networks this Fall. I'm sure ESPN is going to move some games to ESPN2 or ESPNU in the Fall depending on the TV contracts.

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  5. I have two takeaways from this.

    1) Barstool Sports just became one of the biggest power brokers in college athletics.

    2) Jackson State is going to (once again?) be ruined because of this. The NCAA is too chickenshit to go after big fish, but Jackson State is the perfect target for them. They'll start sniffing around and come up with something. As soon as they put the tiniest bit of heat on, Deion is out of there and honestly after this recruitment he's probably going to get another job anyway, and the NCAA will drop the hammer on Jackson State because they're a bunch of cowards.

  6. It's absolutely wild that none of the bad shit that happened to Texas football this season isn't going to end up mattering. The OU collapse, the other collapses, the Kansas game, the monkey (which I maintain wasn't a big deal), the Bo Davis bus thing (which is really just a poor reflection on whoever released it). None of it even matters a little bit. Throwing around some major NIL cash coupled with the coaching carousel royally fucking some teams, particularly Oregon and Oklahoma, and Texas just inked a recruiting class that legitimately has potential to get the program moving in a positive direction. Lord knows they have to develop those players and we know how much of a problem that has been, but damn, none of the bad shit that happened this season ended up mattering. It's establishing an extremely low bar, but after the previous two coaching staffs we'll take what we can get, but kudos to this staff for realizing that things in the trenches, especially on the o-line, were a complete disaster and needed to be fixed. Kudos to whomever it was, probably CDC, who got the boosters all working together for once to come up with the NIL programs we needed to make this happen. Who the fuck knows if it's going anywhere positive, but just the fact that we signed this class after thing that happened this year is absolutely bonkers.

  7. 4 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

    Skeptics of Flood looked at his work at Bama and said “of course they’re dominant, look at the talent they brought in.”

    Well, on paper, this OL class is just as strong as the ones he was coaching over there. ELITE shit.

    In 2020 Alabama replaced three starting offensive linemen and had one of the best offenses in college football history behind and offensive line that won the Joe Moore Award for best offensive line unit.

    In 2021 Alabama replaced three starting offensive linemen and their offensive line was massively up and down all year.

    2020 Alabama OL: 14th in average line yards, 7th in sack rate

    2021 Alabama OL: 46th in average line yards, 67th in sack rate

    (average line yards is a metric that gives the OL credit for rush yards between 0-3 yards and 50 percent credit for 4-8 yard runs)

    I don't know how the talent they replaced compares to the talent that played this year, but it's fucking Alabama so I'm guessing it's pretty good. 

     

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  8. 1 minute ago, texasstrong12 said:

    Yeah, but none of those guys were coming here prior to the NIL deal. Now there was also a lot of luck involved with Oregon changing coaches but I think there’s a good chance Banks is at aggy if not for NIL. 

    I don't disagree, but I also think the chances of them coming to Texas even with the NIL would be pretty low if Herb Hand was still the OL coach. I think having a good OL coach, plus the option to peace out into the portal if it isn't working out, just makes it a much easier decision. 

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