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  1. 7 minutes ago, Wayne said:

     

    CJ/OTF: 

    Texas will host San Jose State CB Jayvion Cole for a visit Thursday he confirms with OTF.

    Cole tells me the trip to Austin will be his first visit since entering the portal Monday afternoon.

    Auburn is another team that is expected to receive a visit, though no date has been set at the moment. Cole also mentioned he is unsure if he will visit Michigan State, despite receiving an offer from the Spartans this morning.

    Cole saw 672 snaps last year for SJSU where he allowed 22 receptions on 48 targets for a 45.8% completion percentage. The 5-foot-11 cornerback also hauled in three interceptions and allowed just one touchdown on the season.

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  2. 1 hour ago, closetojumping said:

    Yeah, not to sniff our own farts here, but I feel like this forum has a consensus of posters who understand this premise regarding the trenches. It plays well across the board, but the rankings aren't nearly as bad as the positions expand away from the ball. 

    You mention the aggie 2023 class and we all absolutely lampooned what they were doing with the OL during that cycle. I don't know how we could have been more accurate and how Fisher's crew could have been more wrong. The opposite of "trust the coaches", which Liucci and the aggie poster-base were absolutely parroting to each other. 

    -Chase Bisontis: A top 100 recruit from NJ being ignored by regional powers like PSU, OSU, and Michigan. We felt he was slow-footed and bad bodied. ATM talking heads touted him as an OT. We laughed. Also, one of the aggiest looking aggies to have ever aggied. Results so far? Had one of the worst performances at OT in all of D1 last season. People posted clips of his ineptitude on Twitter to drive follower engagement because of the comedic value they created. Tried to transfer immediately, aggies just overpaid to keep him. Elko immediately moved him to guard, where he may or may not ever see the field again.

    -Colton Thomasson: A 6'8" 350 OG prospect that only ATM ever pushed for and the guy committed almost two years ahead of signing day. The classic aggie diehard bust. Shockingly, a 6'8" guard had some issues, the guy never cracked the depth chart and now he's in the portal, probably landing somewhere like Texas State or UTEP. 

    -TJ Shanahan: This guy finished that class ranked as the #19 player in the nation on Rival's list. We laughed hard then and I laugh hard now. Every major program did what they could to avoid taking this guy without alienating the HS staff, UT more than anyone. Early in his recruitment, when all lists had him in the top 100 for some absurd reason, he was telling recruiting media that he was heading out of state to one of the major programs in the southeast, maybe Miami. Cristobal is a starfucker and an imbecile, but he knows OL and, despite Shanahan being really, really interested in committing, wouldn't take his commitment. Shanahan held his nose and committed to ATM. Someone good at it should find the Liucci takes on this recruitment from that cycle because when they took his commitment, the smugness in which that dipshit touted the take was both hilarious and nauseating. Results: per their gurus, the guy is "a few years away". I'm kind of surprised he isn't portaling this cycle. 

    -Naquil Bertrand: An OT prospect that no program within his regional vicinity cared much for, and the aggies took because, hey, they needed some bodies on the OL. Never did anything and subsequently transferred with the coaching change, somehow winding up at Bama. I guess they needed a body too or something. 

    2 transfers, 1 completely lost former starter, and 1 guy buried on a weakly talented OL depth chart. That is the kind of shit that blows a hole through the middle of a roster. If anyone wants to be entertained, they should go back and look at that entire recruiting class. It's not been very long and you can still tell it is going to be an albatross on that program. That cycle's transfers in are also really piss poor. It's glorious.

    Elko seems to have overcorrected from Jimbo's cube approach by only taking 270lb guys, though I imagine that's actually just a result of A&M not having a competitive pitch in recruiting right now. 

     

  3. Here are Alex Dunlap's deep digs for the spring game

    Offense

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    OL Grades (Spring Game)

    LT Kelvin Banks - 28 snaps

    No disruption allowed
    DEEP DIG GRADE: 81

    LT Trevor Goosby - 31 snaps

    1 sack, 1 TFL allowed
    DEEP DIG GRADE: 77.58

    LT Jayden Chatman - 27 snaps

    No disruption allowed
    DEEP DIG GRADE: 77.85

    LG/C Hayden Conner - 47 snaps

    2 run-stuffs allowed
    1 false start penalty
    1 knockdown
    DEEP DIG GRADE: 76.28

    LG Cole Hutson - 23 snaps

    1 run-stuff, 1 TFL allowed
    DEEP DIG GRADE: 73.83

    LG Malik Agbo - 21 snaps

    1 QB hit, 1 run-stuff allowed
    DEEP DIG GRADE: 74.05

    C Jake Majors - 28 snaps

    No disruption allowed
    DEEP DIG GRADE: 78.5

    C Conner Roberston - 34 snaps

    1 QB hit, 1 pressure, 1 TFL allowed
    DEEP DIG GRADE: 74.41

    C Daniel Cruz - 17 snaps

    No disruption allowed
    DEEP DIG GRADE: N/A

    RG DJ Campbell - 44 snaps

    No disruption allowed
    DEEP DIG GRADE: 79.18

    RG Neto Umeozulu - 23 snaps

    2 TFLs, 1 run-stuff, 1 QB hit, 1 sack allowed
    DEEP DIG GRADE: 70.22

    RG/LG Connor Stroh - 15 snaps

    1 TFL allowed
    DEEP DIG GRADE: N/A

    RT Cam Williams - 46 snaps

    1 sack allowed
    1 knockdown, 1 pin
    DEEP DIG GRADE: 79.57

    RT/RG Andre Cojoe - 44 snaps

    1 sack, 1 TFL, 1 pressure allowed
    DEEP DIG GRADE: 75.68

    RT Brandon Baker - 36 snaps

    No disruption allowed
    DEEP DIG GRADE: 79.89

    Hayden Conner played in this game about like he played in the 2023 season, which isn't exactly encouraging. 2023 was a down year for Conner because of the constant run-stuffs allowed (18 allowed in the 2023 regular season versus only 5 allowed for the entirety of 2022). The hope is that 2023 was a one-year-type of outlier for Conner who could have been playing hurt or simply ended up on the wrong side of variance. That could still be the case, but he'll need to play better this fall than he did in the spring game in order to match the level of play we'll see from the other four guys. It's pretty clear at this point that Conner is the weakest link of the Texas starting OL.

    You can take that however you'd like, but we'd suggest that it should be encouraging that a player of Conner's level (who scored perfectly fine in the Deep Dig grading) is the weak link of the Texas OL. Heck, in recent years, scoring a 76-ish score on the week might have landed a guy at the top of that week's best-graded players. Things were bad and Texas didn't get back to the position it is currently in by playing at that level. Clearly the OL has come a long way.

    And as Texas fans, you wonder how it can be improved even further and you'll ask about Neto Umeozulu who worked in with the first group at LG during some of spring ball. To that we'd say that Neto seems to be working (based on the spring game) exclusively at RG for now. And that shouldn't matter if a player needed to step in and replace Conner for any reason -- guards can easily move from side to side. That's the least of any issues anyone might have with Neto entering into the starting lineup any time soon. The biggest issue is that he doesn't look ready and never has. He had trouble moving laterally in the spring game, gave up leverage in the run game constantly, got his body weight out over the balls of his feet in pass protection and he still needs to really work on his punch placement.

    There are some things to really like about Neto, but he doesn't look that much different in the spring of 2024 than he did in the fall of 2023 where he played 47 snaps in mop-up duty and allowed four run stuffs and committed one penalty. That's disruption allowed at a once-per-every-9.4-snap clip. Over the course of an entire season, that would be the most disruption allowed per snap ever charted in the Deep Dig out of 76 total Texas OL who played at least 100 snaps in a season. It would have been nice to see a spring game out of Neto that led you to believe he had worked his way through a lot of that stuff, but it isn't the case. We're going to have to keep waiting on him to come around, and if anything were to happen to one of the starting guards, Cole Hutson, at this time, would likely be the better option to step in.

    And we've already seen one player who's showing he's the better option at a key position on the two-deep: Brandon Baker. He wasn't the second-team RT behind Cam Williams to start the spring game (he was working at RT3 all spring), but through the game, it felt like Baker simply morphed into the primary backup at right tackle. Andre Cojoe moved inside to right guard early in the scrimmage, and that's likely where he'll stay, taking over the role of Payton Kirkland who has transferred to Colorado. Cojoe's foot speed is better suited to play at guard for now. Once he moved inside, he didn't allow any more disruption -- and coupled with Baker over there (who played a very clean game and really looked the part technique-wise for a player who some thought was a little "raw" to start spring ball), it made for a much more stable unit.

    It's going to be tough losing Kelvin Banks after the 2024 season, but with guys like Trevor Goosby and Brandon Baker looking like they are taking the kinds of steps forward that they are, the offensive line should continue to have bedrock pieces to lean on, even in a time coming soon when guys like Kelvin Banks and DJ Campbell are playing in the NFL.

    Defense

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    Quick Hits and Thoughts

    - When Alfred Collins scores a pick-six on one of his 4 defensive snaps in the ball game, of course he's likely to be the team leader in production and his snaps-per-production caused is going to be absolutely wild, being such a small sample, there's not much we can take from it except that Collins was Johnny on the Spot and capitalized on a monster play during his limited playing time.

    - The opposite side of variance can be applied to Barryn Sorrell, who also didn't play much in the game, but in so doing, had a missed tackle to pair with one assist which left him in the negative-production tier. Sorrell is one of the best players on the Texas defense, of course, so his bad score here in the system should be taken with a grain of salt. Anthony Hill didn't play much, either nor David Gbenda. Through the course of a real game, we know that Hill, and to a lesser degree, Gbenda, will be more productive and efficient than what we saw in the scrimmage.

    - The real story of the spring game was the edge-rush play across both squads, even in the absence of stud transfer Trey Moore, who did not play. Collin Simmons (who was technically on the white team at the BUCK end, but played virtually all his snaps with the ones) and Colton Vasek (who played the JACK DE role for the white team more than any other player) were major standouts both volume and efficiency wise. Simmons was slightly better efficiency-wise and proved to be a guy who looks like he'll simply have to play this year, and possibly a lot. Simmons had a sack on Cam Williams with a speed rush as well as two separate QB "hits" that could have fairly easily been called as sacks as well as an additional QB pressure to tack on to one run-stuff, one solo tackle and two assists. He was everywhere, and it wasn't always against backup OLs. Vasek had his own coming out party with two sacks (he was only credited with one by the staff, but definitely did touch the QB before the ball left his hands on another play), 2 TFLs and one additional solo tackle.

    - On top of this, Tausili Akana is a name we don't mention much, but he showed some real zip off the edge getting one sack on his own and getting in on another played blown dead with Wardell Mack in the backfield. Zina Omeozulu (who played at both the JACK and the BUCK through the scrimmage) had a TFL, a run-stuff, a PBU and an assisted tackle on just 28 snaps and would have been more in the total production tier of Akana had he not committed two penalties (one illegal hands to the face against Trevor Goosby on the Thatcher Milton TD and one facemask deep in the second half).

    - Jelani McDonald had one horrible open-field whiff on Ky Woods that you may remember, but was largely solid and downright impressive at times other than that. He tattooed Amari Niblack on one play and had three solo tackles in total as well as the game-ending INT which, admittedly, did juice his score a good bit.

    - Michael Taaffe, Xavier Filsaime, Wardell Mack, Gavin Holmes and Terrence Brooks all had coverage burns. Anyone who watched the spring game was thrilled with the QB play of Arch Manning and Trey Owens, but it came with some trouble on the back end. But it wasn't all miscommunications and screw-ups like we saw with Brooks early on in the Manning bomb to Deandre Moore or the Wardell Mack botched assignment with Jordon Johnson-Rubell on the red-zone TD to Ryan Wingo out of the slot (BTW-WINGO IN THE SLOT, GUYS?!) Sometimes guys just got run by and burned the old-fashioned way.

    - Kobe Black was a definite bright spot. He was targeted in coverage 4 times and only allowed one completion while also getting a nice pick. We should be on the lookout for Black to get on a Manny Muhammad-like path to heavy run during his freshman season. Terrence Brooks was not horrible in the spring game, but the same issues we saw in 2023 continue: he's good until he's not. In this game, he was bad at first and then pretty good the rest of the way. He, as usual, had one of the more impressive completion percentages allowed when clearly targeted in the spring game (25% - tied for best among outside CBs with Black) just like he did in the 2023 regular season (41% - team-best among outside CBs). But it's the coverage burns that got him last year and he needs to be more consistent in 2024 about giving up these huge chunk plays. He was burned once every 81 snaps in the 2023 season which was second-worst only behind Ryan Watts (74) among outside CBs, whereas Manny Muhammad (362) and Gavin Holmes (281) were much less prone to the big blowups.

    - With the addition of Trey Moore and the emergence of pass-rushers of all stripes and positions on the depth chart (along with a full summer and fall camp to get things cleaned up on the back end - including time to develop for guys like Black), one lesson the spring game may have taught us on defense is that we may actually see pressure on the opposing QB that acts as a crutch in helping out the secondary in its coverage schemes. It's been a while since we could say something like that about the edge-rush at Texas.

    Onward to the offense.

    I like the OL notes and the commentary on Terrance Brooks, which was written before he entered the portal. 

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  4. 1 hour ago, closetojumping said:

    So on the aggie 247 site, they're having a discussion about the staff changes within the AD. Some guys come on and start talking negatively about the changes that actually need to be made in order for their culture to grow out of the dark ages it has been stuck in since forever. In the spoiler, I did not change to plain text so that you can get the payoff of the image.

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    GWALLEY said... (original post) Most players and coaches like JMo but I could give a ***** about that guy. He was a yes man. Kinda worried about the NIL guy because we were finall...
    Does UT have one of these siphoning money off their fund and stopping anyone banned on his site from contributing? Some of you guys spill his money out of your glass on game days. Maybe stop placating the db and run his **** out of AU. Might be surprised how many more will contribute.
     
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    We've discussed this previously, but it is becoming clear to me as I get a feel for the various posters that there is a real undercurrent of disdain for Liucci in some aggie booster corners. @Tex Pete and I, among others but us very loudly, have been complaining and pointing to the Texags/12thMF/Aggie AD connections for years. These fuckers are intertwined and Texags is used in a number of ways by the school. Texags was allegedly involved with the money laundering going on in order to pay players during the bag game run, but I don't know if that is true or not. The problem is that I could see it happening, which speak to the incestual corruption. 

    Here are other guys with some added thoughts. These quoted posters seem like they're at least functioning adults with less myopia than others around them.

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    TAAJ79

    GWALLEY said... (original post) Most players and coaches like JMo but I could give a ***** about that guy. He was a yes man. Kinda worried about the NIL guy because we were finall...

    "Then make a secondary or preferred way to donate without TA. Duh. They will have to eventually, because otherwise they will never get some or all the money they could except for being stupid, stubborn, and myopic. Good grief."

     

    GWALLEY

    "I get it guys and I don’t like muff chin and he knows it. I truly don’t believe he makes any money off hosting the site other than the sponsorship. @rayray can hopefully clarify. I know we are behind UT by a bit and just don’t see BL being a reason to not to donate."

     

    Aggie Orgy

    GWALLEY said... (original post) I get it guys and I don’t like muff chin and he knows it. I truly don’t believe he makes any money off hosting the site other than the sponsorship. ...

    "TexAgs is a microcosm of the issues that have plagued our AD and our university. Running the NIL through their site just further entrenches that.

    It is ironic given the fact that many on this site are celebrating the changes."

     

    Wait, I never knew that their collective is run by/through TexAgs, but it's true. That's incredible.

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    And the part about all the people Liucci bans not being able to contribute is hilarious. 

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  5. As best I can tell, Davis entered the portal in January with a do-not-contact tag, but has never released a top schools list or anything. I'm not even sure he's taken visits. He practiced with the team during the spring but there hasn't been any news that he withdrew from the portal. 

    PFF has him as the #4 returning corner in the country, two spots above Jabbar Muhammad. 

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  6. 1 hour ago, Getafix said:

     

     

    Shotput, I believe.

    As for being really good, well ... this post from Aggie 247 puts that in perspective.

    Brutal.

     

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    I don't pretend to know anything about shot put or discus but according to Foster's T&F bio, he threw 71'1" (21.7 meters) as a senior in high school. Gatorade player of the year and #1 prospect in the country. His best throw at A&M was 64'9" (19.7m) to make NCAA championship honorable mention in 2022. It makes sense he would stall out by trying to play both sports, but that still seems kinda brutal. At least John Burt was winning conference championships and All-American awards in track. 

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  7. 6 minutes ago, Frank Drebin said:

    I will make sure to bump this thread and the one on Maalik in December.  We will see who is right.  I am not expecting much out of our 6th string running back who is 5'10" and 240 pounds with a fat gut.  Or the quarterback who makes Garrett Gilbert look accurate and poised in the pocket.  But for some weird reason you are a big fan boy of JAGs who transfer.

    But let me check to make sure I understand you.  You think Maalik is going to be good at Duke.  I don't.

    I also think Wisner is much, much better than Red.  You don't.

    Is that right?  Or is there some other point you were making here?

    he was saying that your Red take is obvious

    Edit: I think. Or maybe not. Maybe there's other context

  8. Alright well I went ahead and subbed to OTF

    @immamac their premium posts are showing on the home page feed but not on the individual forums like football and 9.95

    also if there could be a way to get back to surly from OTF that would be dope but I can see why that might be a nonstarter. Maybe a header button that only shows up for treefiddy members? 

  9. 1 hour ago, Burt Macklin said:

    Why is it shocking? He came in super raw, and he’s only in his second year. Guys like him take time, and he has a bunch of 4th year guys ahead of him.
     

    He wouldn’t be if Broughton was at practice. He’s also one of two true NTs on the roster, so that probably has something to do with it. He’s likely going to get pushed down when we add another guy who can play NT in the coming weeks. 

    Not to nitpick but Bledsoe is a third year now

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  10. 27 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    This notion of "need" regarding DT has gotten out of hand across the longhorn netdom and the media it follows. We "need" oxygen. The football team "needs" depth and a standout QB. It would be nice to have another anchor at DT for this season. I hope the plans for one come together and Texas has another excellent option on the roster by the summertime.

    That said, all aspects of the defense are going to be better around these spots, and that lessens the urgency that many are espousing. Texas has better depth across the board, better experience at every other spot, and better talent everywhere else. There's also quality talent at the DT positions and that talent can be realized. Texas isn't trotting out Alex Norman and Gerald Wilbon on the interior DL this year irrespective of whether they bring another guy in from the portal or not.

    To this point, yesterday I was thinking about how the current DT group could compare to recent years. Sure they won't match last year, but could they match the 2022 rotation of Coburn/Ojomo and younger Sweat/Murphy? I think so. And I think that would be perfectly adequate. 

    ETA this is counting on someone like Bill Norton joining and being an acceptable nose. 

  11. 2 hours ago, SimkinsMan said:

    These are dynamically inserted ads. It's up to the podcast creators whether the hosting company inserts them. They are definitely generating additional revenue for OTF. 

    Gotcha. Wasn't sure how it worked but that's good to know. 

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  12. I listen on apple podcasts and the ads are insane there too, but they're uploading the audio without any ads except for their sponsored reads? I don't notice randomly interjected ads on other pods I listen to 

  13. 6 hours ago, immamac said:

    Free only for now would you like the paid stuff to show? I thought that would be frustrating but it may be a good advertising tool with the blurb of the title and premium tag. 

    Personally, I'd be more likely to go get a premium OTF sub if the paid articles were on the feed because I'd be able to access them from here without going to a separate site 

  14. 49 minutes ago, boilerhorn said:

    Tangentially related.

    csb?
    On Sunday, Uber from airport to NW Austin was $75.  WTF?  Tried Lyft: $43.  OK great.  Driver opens trunk to load up my bags and I see he's packing a 9mm - clearly visible.  I proceed to ask about it.  Open carry proponent?  Past incidents?  Nope.  Just finished police academy and is waiting for a position in (formerly rural now a suburb of Austin) ISD for next year.  OK.  Proceeds to tell me about moving from Brooklyn, his family, damn near everything about his life.  I am sure I contributed because I asked a few questions.  "Oh, you drove for a delivery company that delivered to Brooklyn, Staten, and Jersey.  Did you ever drive through Manhattan?"  "I fucking hate Manhattan.  My last GF wanted me to take her on a date there and I refused."  etc.  He moved here to get better work in a better weather environment (as most are, I guess).  I still wonder if $75 might have been a better deal, but I contributed to my own discomfort.
    /csb?

     

    In NOLA for the sugar bowl this past year I ordered an Uber and he had a pistol just sitting in the front passenger seat. Don’t know what make/model/whatever. Panicked for like a split second then just nudged it over to get in and he was like oh whoops and put it away. Normal ride otherwise and can’t say I blame the guy driving around NOLA on new years 

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  15. 29 minutes ago, immamac said:

    They pay NIL for these? 

    Sorry, I don't mean that they're being paid for the appearance. I have no inside info but from my google, Shuley started CFC and has helped with TOF in some way so he's tied in. And the guys they've brought in were Hill, Moore (Shuley talked about starting the food truck), Cook, etc. from the '23 class and now Simmons from '24 plus a number of vets that we know have had at least some kind of NIL support. So my guess is it's TOF-adjacent, not that they're being paid for their appearance itself. 

  16. It's getting too late in the cycle to not have some calculator discussion

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    This isn't meant to be a class prediction. Some of the guys were added as placeholders because I don't know where our board is but I imagine we'll land some guys in the range of their ratings. A class above 300 points is safely top 5 and usually top three. 304.17 would fall in line with Sark's other high school classes like so: 2024< 2022 < 2025 < 2023. 

  17. 1 hour ago, bejezuz said:

    See for yourself:

     

    I thought he handled himself well in the interview.  I'm not worried at all about his commitment to the team.  

    This felt like the first 3&L interview that was just a bunch of softball PR questions for an NIL guy. I mean, I know all the players on there are getting NIL (which is a good data point), but Blue's not as polished as the other guys and there's more off-the-field stuff that just got glossed over. 

  18. 2 hours ago, closetojumping said:

    I feel like weve been as clear as we can since December on a lot of this. There’s been a reserve in case the right few guys entered the portal. 2 DTs. They may not wind up with any, but I think at least one is a better bet. They also know of a punter.

    2-3 guys from the portal, plus Auburn, gets you to 92-93 guys with an 85 man limit and hardly any dead weight. Now some of you dorks can start worrying about the numbers. 

    I wonder if we see Silas Bolden reopen his recruitment at some point 

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