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Bodacious Bevo

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  1. It's pretty lazy to not read the article and shit on it, even if it is Ian Boyd. His premise isn't that Majors is the problem. The title isn't declarative. It's a question - one that's pretty common in the Texas message board space. And his answer is that the issues were more about assignments and propped up when we were playing defenses that did a lot of slanting and post-snap movement: "In none of those games was Majors’ inability to bully big defensive tackles the issue. Problems always centered around “who’s got who” execution when D-linemen would move after the snap and slant across gaps. In a related story, Texas was using first-year starter and true sophomore Hayden Conner as the left guard and true freshmen Cole Hutson and D.J. Campbell at right guard."
  2. I think y'all are reading way too much into this DL depth chart stuff
  3. I'd say it's pretty easy. Bama's the only guaranteed top 25 team. We get the 3 and 4 teams in the conference by odds at home. Bama and ISU are the only games outside the state. The Big 12 will have a couple teams that are better than expected but it's generally a down year.
  4. Nah man, they didn't have bad culture, just a bad case of the flu
  5. I propose that all discussion of C personnel should be banned forever, effective immediately.
  6. Have they put out anything on how the freshmen linebackers are looking? I'm very curious to see if they managed to find something in either.
  7. FTFY Not that I'm arguing against you. I'm indifferent. Let's just not make this into a bigger deal than it needs to be.
  8. Also I haven't seen this posted here
  9. I guess the copium take is that this staff has flipped a lot of DBs. Jaylon Guilbeau, Terrance Brooks, Warren Roberson, and Xavion Brice were all straight flips. Jelani McDonald had also previously been committed to another school.
  10. Y'all I'm pretty sure we just got beat for Mack. Gerry has been saying UF was Mack's personal favorite. Which makes their confidence a little weird IT's info seems industry average when it's not an NIL recruitment
  11. Santana Wilson is turning out to be a huge get now that we've missed on Gipson and Mack. DB class is somewhat disappointing but neither Warren Roberson nor Jelani McDonald had offers at this point last year so there's some time.
  12. I think the info from last year was good, especially considering that things were extremely murky after 5-7. I just remember the old post and think the phrasing is funny. I'm hoping that the analogy holds. 8-4 : '22 floor :: conference champs : '23 floor
  13. Sorrell and Ford whose hypothetical injuries could lead us towards the shitter, but I generally agree it wouldn't get that bad. If Sorrell goes down I think that we can pivot to more three man fronts. The DL room is deep and flexible. We already heard about Collins at DE in the first scrimmage. There's also a couple guys that might be able to unexpectedly step up into that spot (Finkley, Bledsoe). If Ford goes down it would really depend on our opponents during his absence. We should be good enough to tread water against most of the schedule. I also think pretty highly of Bush and reports on Lefau are positive. A couple of our opponents could abuse Bush's limitations and Lefau's inexperience though.
  14. Bobby had this to say about 5 stars under Sark so far I went to fact check and hit him with an "akshually..." but those are actually all the guys that were 5 stars either by the On3 rankings or the On3 composite. All have played and shown promise. Let's take out Ewers and only look at Worthy, Sanders, Banks, Campbell, and Brooks since those are the guys that signed with us out of high school and entered the program as freshmen. Sanders is the only one that didn't play notable non-ST snaps as a freshman. 2/5 were immediate starters (one each season) and another 2/5 were in the two-deep their first year. 5/5 will start this year and at least 3/5 will be all-conference. Those three will be early NFL draft picks after their third years. Campbell and Brooks could conceivably join them. Through his first three cycles, Sark has increased the number of 5 stars he signed by one each year: two in '21, three in '22, four in '23. Let's look at the '23 class. 3/4 are likely contributors while Manning's snap count is TBD and Hill is a likely starter (imo). The rate of early contributors remains high. Meanwhile, there is again one starter even though the total number of 5 stars increases (1/2 started in '21, 1/3 in '22, 1/4 in '23). That's also a good sign. Those that are drinking the crootin koolaid will say that Sark might continue the +1 trend in the '24 class. Simmons, Baker, McKinley, Wingo, and Black currently qualify and Mack will earn his fifth star in the On3 rankings if he holdings onto his #19 spot with them. It's premature to believe that we will land five of those, but four would be a good haul. The hit rate on five stars being early contributors, stars, NFL guys, etc. at this level isn't sustainable; Sark is quite literally batting 1.000 (if I might be a bit presumptuous on Arch Manning's behalf - but also he's a three star with a different last name so we don't have to count him anyway). The hit rate for five stars should be high, of course, but not having a single miss our of nine is impressive. That speaks to the mental evals, at least in part. If Sark does ultimately get this thing turned around in the next couple years, this staff's ability to land enough top talent early on and maximize that talent will be a big reason why. A couple lucky bounces on the trail helps of course. But once you've got the ball rolling, you don't need luck anymore.
  15. Well that sucks for Jake. Though I'm not really sure how he hasn't managed to graduate even if transferring messed with his credits.
  16. Voted 10-2 and putting my reasoning for future posterity. It basically boils down to my belief that we'll have at least 8 draft picks next year. I was thinking 9-3 because of Sark's record, but it's hard to put that many guys in the league and not win 10. The offense hinges on Quinn Ewers and DJ Campbell. I have faith in Quinn. Stagnation is a common part of learning. Sark let Quinn struggle down the stretch of last season knowing that it could cost us games, but believing that the reps would help him grow this year. I think the OL will be improved but still have some down games (meaning run blocking struggles at LG/C) while showing general improvement over the course of the year (just as it's improved over time the last 2 years). I'm not buying Gbenda or Crawford, but it's hard to worry about the defense. They'll be good enough and potentially elite. Will and WDE are the obvious points of concern, but they should be good enough. Maybe we see some 3-3 defenses with Hill and Blackwell as SAMs if needed. We've got a lot of pieces that we can move around and I'm a PK truther. Miscellaneous takes: Xavier Worthy eats up a lot of Keilan's snaps, Brooks has 1k rushing yards while Baxter has less than 400, Worthy finally gets 1k in a season, Byron Murphy leads the team in sacks, Jahdae Barron is our highest drafted defensive player
  17. I'm being super avoidant with work so here's a chart on the year 3 record predictions. The surly win poll does show slightly more optimism for 2019 than 2023 with 77% predicting 10+ wins then compared to 72% now. Overall I'd say the expectations were generally pretty similar. In 2019, there was lots of belief in the offense as you mention with Sam emerging, Hand fixing our OL problems, and lots of young skill position talent. The defense was up and down in 2018 but we believed in addition by subtraction, even accounting for youth. No more Kris Boyd tax! I won't rehash all the institutional changes in our favor the last four years, but the end result is that everybody seems much more confident in the current roster than the one in 2019. It's doubt in the head man that's giving us pause. Herman and Sark had differing reputations going into their third years and they're both deserved. For my part, I voted 9-3 in 2019 and 10-2 this year.
  18. Woah man slow your roll. You forgot one of the three ways he misspelled narrative. It's TheNaritiv. The second a should be an i. And he does have a website https://www.thenaritiv.com/ But the website only has one page with twelve total words and no information about the company lol. But hey if you click the email in the bottom right it refreshes the page. That's a feature
  19. First scrimmage. Sark dials up a swing pass. Catalon sees it coming. JWhitt executes a great block, as expected, but Catalon’s pure violence blows him up. Every tendon in JWhitt’s body snaps. Catalon can feel his shoulder tearing but knows to finish the play. Boom, big hit on Brooks. Catalon’s other shoulder tears and Brooks spontaneously develops seven hernias in his thigh. Worthy and Neyor are closest to the action as the two play side receivers. They come over to help. Neyor trips, tearing his ACL. X extends his hand to help Brooks up. It breaks on contact. Amidst the carnage, a loud shrieking erupts. Players and coaches turn towards the noise. Is that a monkey running towards the field?
  20. The better relationship analogy here is that CU and the old big 12 were living the comfy suburban lifestyle. Good careers, successful friend group, boujee couples brunches. But then the friends realize they hate each other and shit blows up. People are cheating, punches are thrown, and the brunches are ruined by squabbles over the bill. Ralphie moves out to the West Coast and meets a new girl. She supports him but the move's tough and he's down on his luck. Life's still good overall -- that is, until he finds out the girl's in massive amounts of debt and her parents are cutting her off. She's stopped taking care of herself, lost her job, and is moving to the tenderloin. CU moves back home. His ex also just went through a breakup. She's left the corporate world to live on a farm. There's no more white picket fences, but she's stable and available. Good enough company and plenty of fields to graze ain't so bad in old age.
  21. I'm thinking Jackson was using tape from Jacksonville's WRs last season since those are the guys he coached
  22. Wow, I can’t believe we let Clemson out-Clemson us
  23. Woah woah guys, let’s not make too much fun. Last year they got Anthony Hill to commit at the pool party
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