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  1. 2 hours ago, NorLa Horns said:

    Bleacher Report on what Fucko left at FSU, LSU in the news for probable NCAA rules violations, with money to a recruits dad. And the usual Lincoln Riley to the Cowboys news. 

    Our main regional competition has some big, timely negatives in the news right now. If we cant capitalize on that, then CDC needs to go in and force changes. 

    Good news for us is recruiting is so cutthroat in the SEC there's 0% chance that article isn't being routed directly to kids A$M is recruiting.  Any of those kids serious about education or culture will take notice, as will the adults in their lives.

  2. On the RB front, was there ever any legit interest from our side in Tavien Feaster?  He hasn't made a decision yet, although it looks like he's down to VaTech or the other USC.  Just curious if we showed no interest or if he wasn't interested. 

  3. 4 minutes ago, Burt Macklin said:

    Even if we have a good season, using 3 spots on Warehime, Meekins, Mehringer to coach WRs and TEs is a horrible use of assistant positions.

    I would tend to agree, but on-field results matter.  If we take the next step, win the B12 and we're squarely in the hunt for the CFP it'll be hard to fault TH for those decisions.  If we don't take the next step it'll be hard for him to justify standing pat.  One way or the other things should shake out by the end of the year.  Good news is, unless we completely crap the bed this season we're going to sleep walk to another top 10 class.  That'll be three consecutive top 5-10 classes and we'll be setup nicely for the ensuing years even if some coaching changes end up being made.

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  4. 5 minutes ago, Burt Macklin said:

     

    You have to do both at a high level if you want to win a title, which I think we’d all agree is the goal. It can’t be an either/or. If Herman has too many guys who can’t do both (and he does right now), then he needs to increase the talent level on his staff, because the schools that win titles aren’t picking one or the other. Saying he just prioritizes development is just an excuse. 

    Ideally, you do both at a very high level.  There are only two teams doing that right now--Bama/Clemson.  UGA is recruiting at a high level, but I wouldn't concede they're developing or coaching at the same level as Bama/Clemson.  TH clearly feels the Clemson approach of staff continuity is the best one and he's shown very clearly he's going to do it his way, right or wrong.  It's going to lead to some very frustrating days, but it's his program.  So far, the trajectory is headed in the right direction.  Having said that, we need to win the B12 this year or his argument for keeping some of the coaches on staff loses all credibility.

  5. 9 minutes ago, Bevo said:

    Don't confuse good recruiters like Washington with guys who just throw money around.

    I didn't say anything about tossing money around and I'm aware of the rep UGA has at this point.  Just saying I think most would prefer recruiting ability first and foremost and that's clearly not Herman's priority.

  6. 7 hours ago, golfclap said:

    That's a Saban Special. I think it's on his office door or some shit, but he basically talks about thinking of college as a 40 year decision not just 4 years. It's kinda funny from a guy at Alabama of all schools, but you know how it is - anything that fucker says is gospel. 

     

    It's not unique to Saban.  We've used the same pitch to recruits as well (i.e. Forever Texas program)

  7. Pretty obvious Herman has decided his plan to win (the program itself) and the culture he's working to establish trumps everything else, to include individual recruitments.  If he has to choose, he's more comfortable with keeping good coaches on staff he believes support the culture 100%.  If that costs us a recruit here and there, so be it.

    I think most on this recruiting board want to see more of a UGA approach with recruiting wizards all over the staff and more reliance on talent acquisition as opposed to pure coaching.  Ideally, we'd have both but very few outside of Bama (and now Clemson) are pulling that off.  While TH is an Urban disciple, it would appear he's modeling the program more along the lines of Clemson.  Program, culture, stability, stability, stability.

    It's a longer path.  We'll see if TH can stay the course for the long haul and deliver on a similar trajectory.  

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  8. We already have help on the staff in the form of BC and Samples.  Giles can coach.  If we're going to make a change we need to find a DL coach who can do both.  Where we need an additional coach on D is at LB given TOs larger responsibilities and his own recruiting challenges.

  9. 5 minutes ago, Machinator said:

    The first Clemson team that lost to Bama in the title game had five four-stars on their defensive line two-deep, including one top-100 player.

    Sidenote, the Houston Texans really like drafting Clemson players.

    Roughly what we have right now as well, believe it or not.  T. Graham, Coburn, Ossai, M. Warren and J. Jones all composite 4-stars.

  10. 8 minutes ago, Thiefery said:

    It was mentioned previously, now is the time the staff has to nail evaluations on who they do bring along the DL if they miss on VB.  Was Clemson recruiting high 4 star DL for the past 8 years? Or did they nail the evaluations and some of those kids turned into high draft picks?

    Dabo took over in 2008.  It was 2015 before they started really nailing the DL/DE position in recruiting with Christian Wilkins and Clelin Ferrell.  They had the occasional highly rated DL before that, but they've only started taking off on their recruiting in the last 4 years or so.

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  11. 1 minute ago, Burt Macklin said:

    Next year probably wont be a whole lot better than the previous two years. 2021 will be a different story, but there's a lot of recruiting that will happen between now and then. 

    Collin Johnson, Brandon Jones, D. Duvernay and Shackleford all should go much earlier than anyone this past year.  Collin has an outside shot at day 1.  I think all the others are day 2 types.  Nowhere near where we need to be, but a definite improvement over the last several years.

  12. 3 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    This is such a load of bullshit. Other big time programs do it fine, and additionally, the NFL is shifting in this direction with linemen with diversity to play all over the line. The fact of the matter is this scheme is more than capable of punching out DL that play in the same college system as many NFL teams would place them. We can't seem to fix the fact that the NFL ignores our players on draft day, but don't blame the fucking scheme fit for these players, unless you want to rationalize how other programs manage to do this just fine.  

    Not sure if this was meant to be an indictment of the current regime or the two previous.  In my view, we'll fare quite a bit better on draft day next year and definitely the ensuing years.  We're on the right track on that front.

  13. 2 minutes ago, Bruh Man said:

    Are you guys really this dense? They put players in the league...1st rd picks, we don't. Aerial views of Lake Austin will never compensate for this weakness in our program right now.

    Agreed.  We'll see what happens with Day (and Riley) 3-4 years down the road when it's their recruits and their culture.  We're already seeing the chinks in Riley's program.  Two years in he's hiring a non-Stoops to run the D.  We'll see if he made the right call and if that program can show some physicality on D.

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  14. 6 minutes ago, Fud said:

    Right. If you're only landing a few of the tough battles for elite targets every year to go with the handful of given elite prospects who are Texas locks, and filling the rest of the class with solid eval prospects, then you're probably closer to the Washington, Michigan, Penn State, LSU, Stanford, etc of the world than the Bama, Georgia, Clemson, Urban's Ohio State, etc. 

    Spot on.

  15. 3 minutes ago, UncleBuck said:

    I've never really looked up the dead period rules until now. I guess I didn't know players can still talk to coaches on the phone etc..., and I didn't see anything that said they can't commit. 

     

    Is this the correct info?

    Players can initiate the contact.  Coaches can't.

  16. 18 minutes ago, Machinator said:

    Bryson Washington is leaning Texas.

    Bijan is having a good time and we've outdone Ohio State, Super K is still wary of USC and wants to talk to Bijan and his mother before offering any more sunshine.

    No word on a Rogers decision but it's almost certainly going to be Texas whenever he announces.

    Wouldn't support Bijan being the latest "shhh" 

  17. 7 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    Until the position fills up. None have yet. 

     

    22 minutes ago, KYHorn said:

    My understanding is that offers for in state players are commitable when the offer is made, but not in perpetuity

    Yep, just responding to a previous poster that supposedly our offers are all committable.  I'm sure that's not in perpetuity, but as PDM points out we're not full up at that position as yet, so the offer should be committable.  We'll find out soon enough as things are definitely heating up over the next 6 weeks or so.

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    4 minutes ago, gmr548 said:

    Logan-Redding wouldn't surprise me if his offer is "committable." (I hate that shit) He's been to campus a bunch and Texas doesn't seem to have a lot of big competition judging by his offer list on 247. Could be that Lindberg was at aggy, not impressed, saw some other OL getting looks, and felt squeezed. Could even be a 2021. Bijan does seem most likely though.

    I think it's already been stated it's a 2020 prospect.  Supposedly we don't do non-committable offers.  Hoping it's Bijan for a million reasons... desperate need at the position and can only help with Ransom.

  19. 59 minutes ago, Machinator said:

    Every staff that isn't Clemson, Bama, or Georgia shoots themselves in the foot to some degree. It just so happens that we follow Texas.

    That said, Tom not getting personally involved in recruitments is a theme repeated from multiple sites and sources now, and I'm not sure why he doesn't.

    He has his style/philosophy about pretty much everything and doesn't deviate.  Positives and negatives to being that locked in on an approach.  Looks like he realized offers needed to go out sooner and a little more broad.  We'll see if this kind of feedback re: Foster leads to some changes because I do believe someone on staff monitors the various boards for intel.

    On the Bryce Foster recruitment itself, I'll chalk it up to the staff wanting to be upfront about how they see it.  Whether that's a good strategy or not depends on individual.  Some would appreciate the honesty and others would be turned off.  Might make sense for Bryce to talk to Burt about it and get his thoughts.  (i.e. Is it workable, how supportive is the staff, etc.)

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  20. 2 minutes ago, achooloco said:

    Didn’t care for mahomes while at tech for obvious reasons, but  I have some KC fam. He seems to be a good dude, enjoys partying, major sports events any normal fan would, and supporting his alma mater. Can’t fault him there. But what’s the connection? Actual Family? Same hs? Anyway, congrats Kitan!

    He's from Whitehouse, which is basically a suburb of Tyler.  Not sure if they're actually related, but it stands to reason he'd know him given the proximity.

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  21. 3 minutes ago, RGBIII said:

    Could we see Jalen Milroe grab the mic, Roschon Johnson style, and commit this weekend. Essentially cucking Preston Stones spot. Basically @futuremans wet dream

    Is the consensus his offer was a message to Stone or was it simply keeping options open along with positive vibes for his teammate?

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