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Bodacious Bevo

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  1. He cried defending Harbaugh in an interview as interim then beat OSU in year one. Agree that he’s got more than two bad years worth of goodwill. Not to mention the investments they’ve made in the roster make a move less likely Sharma is a good call
  2. Bumping this thread to bring back the convo for 2025. I’d give the award to Broughton for 2024 (see my pre-season post upthread for why) This year’s candidates are: - Will Stone. Yeah he’s been our kickoff specialist, but if Shipley gets injured and he hits some big kicks in postseason play, he could become a legend and fit the spirit of the award - Connor Robertson. He played significant snaps once against OU as a RS freshman. He’s pretty much been forgotten about since, so he’s a good candidate, but likely only gets his chance in the case of injuries - Neto Umeozulu. The overwhelming favorite. Despite the many calls for him to replace Hayden Conner, Neto has barely played and not looked particularly good in the limited action we’ve seen. Frankly, he might be the biggest question mark of all projected starters currently (which is not nearly the negative it was a few years ago). A good year for Texas likely means Neto gets to take home this illustrious award The current group of transfers are non-starters in my eyes. Campbell, Hutson, Taaffe, Guilbeau, and Burke have played too much and too well to be eligible. The rest of the 2022 class is either in a NFL training camp or transferred out.
  3. I fully expect the defense to be elite and have never said otherwise. I opted for brevity in my post above but I can go into detail. I don’t think we’ll force as many turnovers. 22 INTs last year was the most we’ve had in 15 years (side note: 25 in 14 games in 2009 is absurd). We had 16 twice since then with a typical number being 10-15 (more games now means a slight uptick in expected number of course). Taaffe is the only DB that has shown similar to instincts to Barron and Mukuba, which can be developed but is also something that will often show immediately in the elite guys (like Barron in 2022). Beyond our personnel, this defense could also be worse statistically without an actual drop in quality due to the step up in QB play we’re likely to see this year. And I don’t mean that to take away anything from last year’s defense. They were awesome. I can’t stress enough that this is not a ‘they ain’t played nobody’ post. We just might not get the same gifts from Sayin and Lagway that we got from literal walk-ons a year ago. Of course there are reasons for optimism. Atticus mentioned McDonald and Williams. I really like both of them. Williams particularly seems like a guy that creates turnovers, including fumbles. I still remember Sark talking him up as a future first rounder in his ‘23 signing day press conference and he’s been great when he’s played. I’d add Hill and Lefau in there as well. Jaylan Ford led the team in INTs in 2022 because he was so good at pass drops. Hill and Lefau had 1 each last year and could easily combine for a couple more due to continued improvements in drops (Hill) and increased playing time (Lefau). Point is, we’re going to develop guys and have an awesome defense but I’m expecting the INT number to drop a bit towards the 1/game number, which is still good. And to the other end of the turnover and field position discussion, our defense stands to benefit from fewer short fields due to our own turnovers, missed field goals, and blocked/fake punts. It was pretty incredible how well the defense held up when put into bad situations last year.
  4. Banks and Williams were pre-Lanning
  5. It’s kind of crazy for this OTF poster to think we’re going to increase that percentage next year. Barron and Mukuba were a big part of that. Paul Waddlington pointed out that Guilbeau and Muhammad have combined for 1 turnover in their careers. Turnovers on both sides of the ball for us will probably go down next year.
  6. Oregon with Lanning doesn’t strike me as a flippable school. Neither would Georgia though, so who knows. I still think we’re more likely to feed on schools with coaching uncertainty or cash problems.
  7. Cubelic is great though. He has us #2 in his DL rankings.
  8. Hager somehow made Bruce Feldman’s 2018 CFB Freaks list. That pretty much ruined the list for me
  9. FWIW adding Kreul would move us to #3 in the rankings behind USC and UGA
  10. I do my absolute best not to pile in on painful loss convos, but for me the what ifs in that game are the screen play to end the half, Gunner Helm getting a taunting penalty for pointing at Caleb Downs, and Wingo blocking the wrong guy on the pitch TFL (I'm pretty sure that's what happened)
  11. So in terms of our gains and losses: 70 2023 Hudson Card QB Texas Purdue 0.93 71 2024 Maalik Murphy QB Texas Duke 0.93 72 2023 Brenen Thompson WR Texas Oklahoma 0.92 73 2024 Terrance Brooks CB Texas Illinois 0.91 74 2023 Junior Angilau IOL Texas Oregon 0.90 1 2022 Quinn Ewers QB Ohio State Texas 1.00 2 2024 Isaiah Bond WR Alabama Texas 0.98 3 2024 Andrew Mukuba S Clemson Texas 0.93 4 2025 Jack Endries TE California Texas 0.91
  12. Here's the top 5ish transfers from each of the schools mentioned in the thread by rating (247 composite I think) Here they are sorted by rating if anyone prefers to look that way
  13. I think it’s pretty bold to lump Deandre Moore in with guys like Harrison, Wayne, or Calvin Johnson
  14. I'm also loving it through my one season of offline dynasty so far. I haven't played a game on the new patch but the game is so much deeper than last year's. I'll withhold full judgement until I do dynasty with a new coach at a small school and RTG with a 7'0" 400lb RB.
  15. She’s also the one that went to TexAgs looking for a lawyer to help him getting eligibility right?
  16. I’ll play Top reason for optimism: Moving away from outside zone improves week-to-week consistency. We averaged less than 40 rushing yards in our losses last year. Top reason for pessimism: Interior guys are unproven in pass pro ability. The OL had two bad weeks in pass pro last year and it was mostly an issue of Cam Williams getting stunted on and our calls being figured out (UGA), and miscommunication/assignment issues (Vandy). As fans, we haven’t had to watch real interior pressure since 2022. I’m a bit worried about the Neto-Hutson-Campbell triumvirate there. Some of that is assignment soundness but there’s also reasons to doubt their (Neto especially) ability to hold up 1 on 1.
  17. I’m not trying to make a specific comparison. Just visualizing and sharing some data about recruiting trends over time. I agree that the OV data would be more interesting. It would just require a lot more effort.
  18. Ok so some of the stuff about how we're in unprecedented times of national recruiting has annoyed me, so I pulled the numbers. Random thoughts: We currently have 7 OOS commits with about half the class in, so we're on pace to probably end up around where we were in 2023 Bijan was the only OOS signee in the 2020 class. I thought the contrast between 2020 having the lowest post-Mack OOS number but highest rating looked funny on the charts Herman signed 4 OOS JUCO players in 2019, so that class would have had the highest number if they were included. Man, recruiting for Herman tanked after 2019 I think official visit data would be more illustrative but that would be harder to access Transition classes are tough Sark signed more OOS high school recruits in his first two full classes than Mack did in this timeframe (2002 - 2013). Hell, he signs more each year (minus transition) than Mack did in the classes that won the national championship combined (02-05). So, I do get that the modern recruiting landscape is very different for people that have been following this for decades.
  19. Is that the reason Harris went from being heralded as a great culture fit at Texas to toxic in the course of like two months? That’s my recollection of the recruitment
  20. It’s so exciting to be in (our third straight year of) a new dawn for Texas recruiting where we are finally becoming a national recruiting power. What a unique approach from Sark (for the third time in a row). Very happy that we are now starting to recruit outside our state borders (after doing so the last two years)! /s
  21. Damn, I haven’t looked at state rankings in awhile. This could rival the 2018 haul (I mean that purely in terms of recruiting rankings)
  22. We're paying $40M for football alone so that seems very reasonable to me /s
  23. Posted this in another thread, but for the purposes of obstruction, a defender is allowed to be in the base path if he’s in the act of fielding, not just if he has possession. The catcher was fine. https://unitedumpires.org/pdf/Feb2018-Interpretation.pdf
  24. Just as a clarification, defender can be there if they are in the act of fielding the ball. They don’t actually need possession https://unitedumpires.org/pdf/Feb2018-Interpretation.pdf
  25. Even better - “they physically annihilated us” https://www.on3.com/teams/texas-longhorns/news/texas-am-head-coach-mike-elko-hats-off-to-them-because-they-physically-annihilated-us/
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