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Hookem2147

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  1. I am pretty bullish on this secondary, but I expect our pass defense stats to dip a bit based solely on the fact that we are about to face a better group of QB's than we saw last year. -Davis Warren pretending to play D1 football for Michigan -Van Buren in his first career start for Miss State -Hawkins who couldn't throw a forward pass for OU -Florida's third stringer -Brock Vandagriff for a half before Stoops yanked him You would think one or two of Reed, Pavia or Green will take some steps forward as returning starters. I also think we are going to see a lot of teams try to dink and dunk against our pass rush so we will need to try our best to avoid getting dragged into the mud by some of these teams who want to control time of possession and shorten games. We fell victim to that in a few second halves last year where it felt like we barely touched the ball (although some of that blame falls on our own offense).
  2. The committee let us and OU in last year with 6-12 conference records and horrible non conference schedules. We played the 3 worst KenPom teams in the country in non con play. #362, #363 and #364. Teams with that resume should never be in the field of 68 but the committee allowed it.
  3. A lot of his production seemed to be schemed up stuff where all he had to do was catch the ball. Also needs to quit the volleyball sets on bullet passed that hit him in the hands. Very few probably remember this but the play before 4th and 13th against ASU, he caught a check down pass with 1 guy in front of him and ran out of bounds like he was trying to stop the clock. Small stuff like that pissed me off with him.
  4. Looking through his stats in the Cape Cod league and his batting average is .245 but he is slugging an awful .306. 2 extra base hits in 60 plate appearances and he is still striking out at an extremely high rate. Maybe the step down in competition will help but he seems to not be in a good place with his swing/approach/whatever.
  5. OU on3 site with some notes from an event Nagy spoke at (again, it's interesting that the GM is the one making all these public appearances)
  6. Anytime I come across an OU interview on Twitter or whatnot, it always seems to be Nagy talking. He was the only GM to attend SEC media days. Venables has basically been pushed to the side and is the defensive coordinator who will have to answer questions from the media after every game. I'd be interested to know how much actual input Venables has in recruiting because my guess is that it is very minimal.
  7. The overall schedule is better, but I think the problem people continue to have is that the "marquee games" are too often being played at neutral sites/tournaments or away. Season ticket holders don't get excited to watch us play UConn and Duke on TV. We hosted UConn last year and Gonzaga/Creighton like 3 years ago. Outside of that, the marquee non-con games at Moody have been pretty much non-existent. I also wonder what would get people excited when you have 13 non-con games. You are going to have creampuffs on there. Every team does and those are always at home. If we swapped out Southern for Michigan State, would that one game get people that much more excited? Or are they expecting like 3-4 notable home opponents?
  8. Yeah, last year they had UNC/Michigan State/Memphis/Auburn/Iowa State.
  9. I guess a home schedule like this was somewhat predictable once the 3 games in Maui, at UConn and at Duke were announced.
  10. Cam Williams was either 1st or 2nd nationally in penalties last year and we know Majors was good for 1 snap infraction a game. I'll knock on some wood, but I'm not sure it can get worse than that.
  11. The thought seems to be Neto is a run blocker and needs work in pass protection. Bobby brought up a good point a few weeks ago and I agree with him. Being a good run blocker is awesome, but the coaches aren't going to feel super comfortable putting you out there if there is an increased risk of their QB getting pummeled by a free blitzer or rusher.
  12. We can hope this, but we don't know. His snaps have been very limited.
  13. Perhaps, although Brandon Baker doesn't really strike me as a guard. Didn't really think much about it at the time when he opted to head to Oregon, but we could have really used Emmanuel Pregnon. Would have me feeling a lot better about the interior of the OL. He's only been here a year, but I wouldn't say we've heard super glowing reports about Baker to get us excited about the prospect of him starting at tackle as a redshirt freshman.
  14. This is going to be an interesting month for the OL. I think we know who the top 7-8 guys are but fitting on the puzzle pieces together will be the #1 storyline of camp for me. There seems to be guys in 3 groups: Proven with experience (Campbell, Hutson, Goosby), old but very little game experience (Neto, Robertson) and young with basically no game experience (Baker, Kibble, Brooks) It's kind of weird in this era to see guys like Neto in their 4th year in the program, but we have basically no idea what we are going to get.
  15. https://sports.yahoo.com/college-football/article/college-sports-leaders-house-settlement-attorneys-in-talks-over-whether-to-permit-booster-collective-deals-010341870.html
  16. What is inaccurate about either of those statements? Both obviously had strong desires to sign and take the professional payday now instead of the NIL payday and being no leverage seniors. Neither was taken in the top 10 rounds where the higher paydays are so they weren’t prioritized. Freeman was a 16th round pick accepting a signing bonus that doesn’t even force his team to dip into their bonus pool allotment.
  17. That would need to pretty much be the only reason, because from what I understand, he was going to be well taken care of from a NIL standpoint. Oh well, I think we will end up okay. There are some interesting JUCO/portal options still out there I know we are kicking the tires on.
  18. Not a good decision. I heard Moroknek is signing for more than this.
  19. It’s July 15th and our biggest recruiting needs appear to be RB and filling in spots at positions where studs are already committed (OL, LB, EDGE, DB). Pretty damn good position to be in for a staff that historically does some of their best work late in the cycle.
  20. The guy with the mom who got mad that Schloss yelled at her son is back at A&M (somehow, I’m assuming it’s the juco ruling thing)
  21. He will be part of the equation, but he has to come back to baseball healthy, and there is going to be a ramp-up period. He probably isn't just going to walk across I-35 in late January after not doing baseball for 4-5 months and be ready to start a few weeks later in the opener at San Diego. There are just a lot of moving parts with him that it probably is safer to make him a luxury more than a necessity in terms of roster building/projection.
  22. His Tuesday morning update: Tuesday morning update Let me paint the picture for you: Tyler Atkinson's dad has said Tyler is likely to make a decision around 11:15 a.m. ET on the Pat McAfee Show. There's no telling that will happen exactly at that time with TV time windows and the typical delays to commitment decision moments. But in the event it happens at that time, Atkinson will be announcing a decision at the same time Kirby Smart is doing an SEC Radio appearance and at the time all the Georgia football players will be in the main media room at SEC Media Days. Whether it's Georgia or Texas, diabolical move by whoever planned the timing of the decision — on the same day both teams are at Media Days. Much like the Monday night update, there's a lot of surprise and uncertainty in Athens. The predictions that started to trickle in surprised the folks at Georgia as much as anyone. I've still been getting feedback on the verge of disbelief that it could be playing out this way. But it does look as though it's going the wrong way here. There will be a lot of discourse about this today, so let's try to act like we've been there before. Yes, I'm told the Texas offer is notably higher than Georgia's, but that was the case when Georgia still had confidence it would land Atkinson.
  23. I don't think many teams are walking around with great depth at catcher. I do like the JUCO kid we got there and the freshman from Louisiana is going to require some seasoning but is supposed to be pretty polished.
  24. Freeman and Moroknek are signing. Jayden Duplantier is not starting next year. They are already pushing for a new OF from the portal. It will all work out.
  25. It isn't under $100k based on what I heard, but it's not enough for me to believe he is making a smart decision. After taxes and agent fees, they are taking home a check that is significantly less than the number that is dangled in front of them the entire time.
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