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Hookem2147

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  1. Ben McCollum is going to turn this around!
  2. That’s impossible to do in the portal era of college basketball. We all thought Shaka did this and 2 years later were playing in the Elite Eight.
  3. Yes, because coaches aren’t allowed to adapt or get better at other jobs. Not like we currently employ a football coach who was a mediocre coach at other stops before evolving into what he is today.
  4. At the end, his current players were telling recruits not to come here. The program was stagnant and the results on the court were regressing. 1 tournament win in his last 4 seasons. Same thing with Shaka. It was time. Just because they are succeeding elsewhere doesn’t mean they should have been retained or given more time at Texas.
  5. A&M is just like those Beard Texas Tech teams. Good defense and just lower your head and bully your way into the lane on offense.
  6. Allowed over 30 pressures this year, per PFF.
  7. Opening 3rd quarter TD’s against UTSA, ULM and Florida. First Georgia game had one as well but it just missed the cutoff (10:58 left in the quarter).
  8. Just read a stat that was hard to believe but it appears to be true. We are #2 nationally in scoring margin in the middle 8 (last 4 minutes of the first half, first 4 minutes of the second half). +68 for the season. Have not allowed a touchdown in the middle 8 all year.
  9. Was on campus yesterday, per IT https://www.espn.com/college-football/player/_/id/4685551/travis-shaw
  10. Wow, I didn’t realize the ground the backside corner covered. Quinn definitely threw one of his patented popups.
  11. For as often as he plays, Juan Davis gives us almost nothing as a receiver and mainly serves as just a warm body as a blocker. PFF has him as one of the worst run-blocking TE’s in the country as of a few weeks ago and I’m assuming that hasn’t changed the last two games.
  12. Daniel Jeremiah (NFL draft analyst) was on a podcast I was listening to yesterday and mentioned he heard the oblique injury was much more severe than the team/Ewers camp let on. He said he heard there was a tear. It's going to be frustrating to read and see, but I'm sure once the season is over, there is going to be a lot of pushing from the Ewers camp to let people know how unhealthy he was to try to justify some of his poor play. I guess that is why these guys hire agents/PR teams.
  13. Just look back at all the commentary after the Rice game last year. Or Houston. Or TCU. We responded pretty well after each of those games. We thought we would never have a complete game again after TCU, only to go on to suffocate Iowa State, blow out Tech, and whip Oklahoma State to end the season. If a team plays a 16-game season, I would say you get their overall 'A' or 'B+' performance maybe half the time? Sometimes the opponent is so bad (CSU, UTSA, ULM level) that you barely even notice you may have played your 'B' game. Just like a pitcher in baseball who doesn't have his stuff, sometimes you just have to gut through and find a way.
  14. Branch brothers are visiting Texas in the "coming days", per OTF
  15. Kelly realizing after Michigan he is allowed to throw to the best receiver room in the country
  16. It's pretty funny how knee-jerky talking heads get in a week-to-week sport like football that is so matchup-dependent and never includes consistent play throughout what is now a 15-16-week season. How many times in a 16-game season is a team going to realistically play their 'A' game? Remember halfway through October when A&M beat Missouri, Mississippi State, and LSU in a row? Suddenly, no one remembered they had beaten Bowling Green by 6 points less than a month earlier, and they were being hyped up as the best team in Texas. Ohio State is a good team. They also lost to a Michigan team who could barely throw a forward pass a month ago and had to squeak out a 4-point win against Nebraska at home. Tennessee was one of the most overrated teams in the country and the Oregon defense has gotten pantsed against most offenses with a pulse. Styles make fights.
  17. Broughton is out of eligibility. 2020- Free redshirt 2021 RS freshman- played in 11 games 2022 RS sophomore- played in 12 games 2023 RS junior- played in 14 games 2024 RS senior- This season
  18. He also added this morning on Coffee & Football that he expects visitors on campus this weekend.
  19. Good sign. Same guy who said Ben Simmons was the face of the NBA a few years ago and Lebron could take a back seat.
  20. The OL is tricky because it's one of the few positions on the field you rarely rotate at outside of injury, so when you are replacing a starter heading into a season, unless you are shuffling the OL and moving another starter into their spot, someone with quite a bit of unknown is usually next up. It's why we are pretty fortunate to have someone like Cole Hutson who started an entire season in 2022 but has been a backup the last two years. He isn't a great player right now but he offers a relatively solid floor that someone like Baker or Neto may not have because we just haven't seen them much (at all?) against frontline competition. I wouldn't hate the idea to explore the portal for some depth at OT, but that is easier said than done in the OL portal market. The ones worth pursuing usually aren't going places to compete for jobs. We let Neto bake in the oven for 3 years, is it worth it to potentially throw that out and go get a portal guard? If you bring in an OT does that push out a younger guy on campus? It's a tough balancing act, especially when we haven't had much attrition along the OL the last few years.
  21. Maybe. Doesn't feel like the type of guy with a depth piece asking price or playing time requirement if he bouncing to his 3rd school in 3 years.
  22. Looks like Tarzan, plays like Jane. Pretty much half his production this year came in one game against Cal. It was a red flag when Kirby let him walk last year and Norvell happily took the bait. Georgia rarely lets the good ones walk away.
  23. I guess we'll never know. We are the only team with back-to-back playoff appearances, our two biggest rivals are stuck somewhere between inept and mediocrity, we just signed the #1 recruiting class in the country and we have Arch Manning waiting in the wings next year. If that sort of positive momentum can be erased in one game then there wasn't that much momentum to begin with.
  24. In the moment, yeah it would have been. Because that’s how we always are after big losses. Would it have been irrecoverable from for a coach? That feels a bit dramatic. Tony Bennett was the first coach to ever lose to a 16 seed in the NCAA tournament and won his only national title the next season.
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