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  1. SI article on 4 game Red shirt Rule

     

    https://www.si.com/college-football/2018/09/25/ncaa-redshirt-rule-jalen-hurts-kelly-bryant

     

    The Week 5 Redshirt Watch: College Football's Newest Annual Tradition

    Putting a select few upperclassmen on transfer watch in late September is an acceptable consequence of new redshirt rules that benefit both coaches and players.

    By ANDY STAPLES 

    September 25, 2018

    Mike Gundy had the greatest incentive to rip the new rule and the side effect that has emerged the past few weeks. The Oklahoma State coach had just lost a significant contributor in receiver Jalen McCleskey to the new redshirt rule, which allows players to redshirt as long as they’ve played four or fewer games. McCleskey, a senior, played in the Cowboys’ first four games and then—after catching 15 passes for 155 yards and two touchdowns—decided to leave the team so he can redshirt this season and play somewhere else next season as a graduate transfer.

    Yet Gundy didn’t blast the player, and he offered only constructive criticism of the rule.

    “He’s been awesome. Great young man. Great family,” Gundy told reporters Monday. “He just didn’t feel like he was getting the ball enough and wants to save his year and sit to transfer to another school. If that’s what guys on the team want to do, then that’s what we’re going to allow them to do.”

    Asked if this was an unintended consequence of a rule designed to give coaches flexibility so they didn’t have to burn players’ redshirts late in a season, Gundy pointed out a few potential tweaks going forward. It would be nice, he said, if such departures weren’t a threat to count against a team’s Academic Performance Rate—a measure used by the NCAA to ensure athletes are making satisfactory academic progress that also includes scholarship penalties for programs when the numbers dip too low—if a player leaves in the middle of a season to take advantage of this rule. And Gundy is correct about that. His program shouldn’t be penalized because a player wanted a better opportunity elsewhere.

    But neither Gundy nor any of the other coaches came out strong against this particular consequence of the rule for two reasons:

    • They all wanted this rule passed.

    • It will benefit their teams far more than it will hurt their teams.

    American Football Coaches Association president Todd Berry, who began working in 2001—when he was the head coach at Army—on changing the redshirt rule and finally succeeded in June, pointed out that coaches discussed this rule for years before it actually passed. And each time they discussed the rule, those coaches did a cost/benefit analysis. They were aware that some players might leave midseason and pushed for the rule to be passed anyway. “This number was going to be so minimal in relation to the benefit as a whole,” Berry said Tuesday.

    That’s probably why Oregon coach Mario Cristobal didn’t get too upset when he learned this week that senior tailback Taj Griffin planned to leave and play his final season elsewhere. “It’s playing time oriented,” Cristobal told reporters. “Anytime a student-athlete has a decision to make that’s in the best interest of himself, we support it 100%, so we do.”

    Coaches probably don’t need to worry too much about losing players to the rule because it offers the biggest benefit to players who have either graduated or are a few classes away from graduation. The graduate transfer rule allows them to play immediately after transferring, which means the redshirt rule now allows seniors who haven’t redshirted to dip a toe in their senior season and decide if the role they have is the one they want in their final college seasons. Most seniors who play aren’t going to be unhappy with their roles, so most won’t leave. But on rare occasions, they will. (And since they aren’t playing or aren’t getting as many touches as they’d like, their departures probably won’t sting that much.)

    What coaches will keep an eye on is whether the undergraduate transfers who leave in midseason—such as receiver Nate Craig-Myers, who left Auburn last week—receive waivers from the NCAA to play right away. At the moment, such players have little incentive to leave midseason because while they may get a redshirt for this season, they still would have to sit out all or part of next season. (Remember, quarterback Blake Barnett left Alabama during the 2016 season and enrolled quickly at Arizona State so that he’d be eligible midseason in 2017.) If the NCAA grants more waivers, then players might be more likely in later years to leave as undergraduates in midseason to preserve that year of eligibility. If the NCAA is stingy with the waivers, then only graduates and potential graduates would benefit from using the redshirt rule.

    We may learn of more players who plan to transfer in the next few weeks. Some teams won’t play their fourth game until this weekend, and some players may have missed games and haven’t hit the four-game threshold yet. Still, the focus of transfer watch this week will be on two quarterbacks whose teams have already played four games and who don’t appear to be headed anywhere.

    We spent much of the offseason debating whether Jalen Hurts would leave Alabama if it became apparent that Tua Tagovailoa was the Crimson Tide’s quarterback of the future. Tagovailoa has unquestionably proven that—and then some—but Hurts seems to have given us his answer by the way he’s handled himself in the three games since Tagovailoa was named the starter. Nothing about Hurts’s play or his body language suggests he’s thinking about doing anything except playing the rest of the season for Alabama. Alabama coach Nick Saban told ESPN’s Chris Low last week that he intends to play Hurts the rest of the season, and there has been no indication that Hurts feels otherwise.

    The situation that seems more intriguing—but may not be—is the one at Clemson. On Monday, Clemson coach Dabo Swinney named freshman Trevor Lawrence the starting quarterback for the Tigers’ game against Syracuse on Saturday. Lawrence supplanted senior Kelly Bryant, who has gone 16–2 as Clemson’s starter since last season. On Tuesday, Swinney said his Monday meeting with Bryant was very emotional. Swinney also said he gave Bryant the day off practice—which prompted more questions about whether Bryant might leave.

    And if Bryant decided he wanted to leave, Swinney would understand. “Certainly if he walked in here today and said, ‘Hey Coach, I don’t want to play the rest of the year unless you’ve got to have me,’ well O.K., if that’s what you want to do I’m all for it. I love Kelly,” Swinney told reporters Tuesday. “I would be disappointed in that because we need him. But I wouldn’t judge him for that.”

    But Swinney doesn’t think Bryant will leave. “If I was worried about that or if I was deceitful in some way, I could have held the coaches up and said, ‘Let’s make sure we start him for Syracuse. That way he’s got no option,’” Swinney told reporters. “I don’t think like that. I don’t operate that way.”

    Until Bryant enters another game or announces his intention to stay, the questions will linger. And this kind of Week 5 personnel intrigue might become a new annual tradition.

  2. 24 minutes ago, Schulz2.0 said:

    Deng is a B-backer. Johnson, Lee, and Williams are 4i DEs.

    I think TEXAS missed out on Deng's Top 5 right??

    Starting to believe 3-4 grad transfers may be needed to fill holes for 2019 Season..... Got to Close strong on the 2019 Class.....

  3. 12 hours ago, LTtxfan said:

    After helping with approval of a higher salary for Coach Orlando last spring, CDC has to be a little ticked about  such poor Defensive results against Maryland, Okie Lite and West Virginia.  

    On a good note.... With so many assistant coach's contracts expiring in March 2019, CDC will have a great chance to help HERMAN evaluate his current staff.  I also hope Herman really beefs up the support staff of Analysts and Quality Control group with a few more experienced folks to improve the Staff's Efforts for gameplanning and opponent analysis...

    Guess the Beaty talk as assistant for Herman will heat up..... was Beaty at Rice when CDC was there?

  4. After helping with approval of a higher salary for Coach Orlando last spring, CDC has to be a little ticked about  such poor Defensive results against Maryland, Okie Lite and West Virginia.  

    On a good note.... With so many assistant coach's contracts expiring in March 2019, CDC will have a great chance to help HERMAN evaluate his current staff.  I also hope Herman really beefs up the support staff of Analysts and Quality Control group with a few more experienced folks to improve the Staff's Efforts for gameplanning and opponent analysis...

  5. Orlando needs to simplify this Defense for Tech.  Too many mistakes from Players not knowing what their responsibilities are in a complex defense.

     

    Scipio Tex crushed Texas Defense in write-up...

    Here's part of it:

    "Once you factor in WVU's efficiency and our pathetic display of tackling, angles and overall coordination, in my opinion, this was one of the most futile defensive efforts I've ever seen at Texas. And I've seen a lot. Here, I typically break down positions. There's no value in that when the entire defense is broken."

    "might be the worst performance I've ever seen from a Longhorn linebacker. "

    "From a coaching perspective, Todd Orlando is embracing sunk cost fallacy at several positions and in his overall scheme, he has several talented and capable guys playing slow and tentatively, it's glaringly apparent that we're sacrificing practice time for practicing "looks" at the expense of fundamental football, and our DC is in the Manny Diaz Year 2 mode of thinking he can play call his way out of bad position coaching, bad scheme, bad football. He can't. And it was written all over the scoreboard. Hell, the scoreboard was deceiving and generous - 42 points doesn't adequately capture how thoroughly WVU's offense dominated Texas. "

  6. 5 hours ago, satyanash said:

    (Scipio Tex) Texas-West Virginia Post-Mortem: Defense

     

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    The defensive debacle you saw live on Saturday in Austin was even worse in review. I enjoy writing for all of you and relish my decades of connection to the Longhorn community, but you all owe me a Go Fund Me page to pay for my psychiatric care after being forced to watch this Longhorn defense play football again. A Texas defense down three starters and a reserve failed in every phase of the game. Starters down isn't a good thing for any defense, but the truth is that Anthony Cook played at replacement level in lieu of Davante Davis, Roach and Graham were largely passable and probably duplicated what Hager gives us and Josh Thompson failed at the nickel position in ways that we are accustomed (he surrendered a long TD pass) and novel (he was constantly bullied at the point of attack and had a couple of no mas surrenders, as opposed to PJ Locke's propensity for aggressively whiffing tackles). It's unknown what effect Brandon Jones might have had on the game, but what is crystal clear is that West Virginia targeted our scheme and old familiar faces in ways so identical to what Oklahoma State did (with 'neer upgraded personnel) such that the injury excuse rings hollow. 

    Tom Herman will lean into the injury excuse, but it's only one of my several contributing factors. And if we're playing the bad luck card, West Virginia lost their best offensive tackle early on an arguably over officious call on the push/punch by Rodney Cajuste and somehow overcame 14 penalties for 120 yards. A lot of those penalty yards were deserved, but we repeatedly turned winning down and distance into abject failure. 

    Generally, in a shootout where both offenses dominate (1098 yards of combined offense), the final score is decided by a last second two point conversion, and the scoreboard reads 42-41, you would expect that both teams needed anywhere from 14-16 possessions to create those points. West Virginia only had ten possessions.They scored points on 7 of those 10 possessions. Their three "failed" possessions totaled 16 plays for 82 yards - so not exactly shutdown D even when we guessed right or WVU self-destructed with penalties All five of their touchdowns covered 75 yards. So no short fields. The hard truth is that had the Texas offense not performed very well, ran clock and reduced WVU possessions by 30%-40%, West Virginia would have very easily put 50+ points. It certainly felt that way at halftime. 

    Like Oklahoma State, West Virginia banked about 300 yards and 21 points in the film room before they even flew to Austin. It's now familiar: show pass personnel, get a five man box, run football at will. Want to convert 3rd down? Hunt for Wheeler, Locke, whoever we line up at nickel. Or just hand it off on 3rd and 5 or less. The Mountaineers were 7 of 12 on 3rd down. A sizzling 58.3%. Worried about pressure or turnovers? Don't be. If Texas blitzes, it will be at a halting half jog from depth where you can simply throw to the area vacated by the safety of linebacker. Zero sacks and few pressures against a quarterback who showed some pocket insecurity the few moments we came near him. West Virginia routed us and I actually came away slightly less impressed with Grier. 

    In the first half, they gained 348 yards at 7.9 yards per play and scored 27 points. While some might contend that our defense "buckled down" in the second half and "held" them to 15 points and 230 yards, reality is that they only had four second half possessions and averaged 7.2 yards per play, while scoring on back-to-back 75 yard touchdown drives and consecutive game winning two point conversions (the first was canceled by a Tom Herman timeout when they realized WVU had Sills singled up on our true freshman cornerback) to end the game. So let's pump the brakes on any notion of improvement or halftime adjustments (though we did play more four man fronts in 2H). 

    Once you factor in WVU's efficiency and our pathetic display of tackling, angles and overall coordination, in my opinion, this was one of the most futile defensive efforts I've ever seen at Texas. And I've seen a lot. Here, I typically break down positions. There's no value in that when the entire defense is broken. I will point out who played passably to well.

    Kris Boyd can hold his head high. As I predicted in the preview, he matched up on Sills beautifully. Unfortunately, he didn't travel with Sills and West Virginia was able to isolate him on Thompson for an easy TD by formation and then on Sterns for a long TD when they forced a cross switch. That Texas had to call a time out to match Boyd on Sills on the game-deciding two point conversion is revealing. Roach, Omenihu and Graham played OK for long stretches. It's nice to have Malcolm back. Playing at his actual position. Anthony Cook competed out there and I like him as a short side cornerback. He's young and not strong enough to be as physical as he'd like but you can tell he's prideful and takes the game seriously. That's it.

    I'm not interested in picking on the rest, but PJ Locke had five missed tackles and some bizarre reads on 3rd down where he jumped short routes and didn't double a man at the sticks. Anthony Wheeler didn't miss as many tackles because that requires proximity to the ball. I thought Oklahoma State was a new low in his career, but this might be the worst performance I've ever seen from a Longhorn linebacker. He's a walking target. Note that I said walking. Watching him in the second half on the West Virginia 18 yard run on 3rd and 2 and on their TD run (along with #29 getting drive blocked 10 yards play side) that evened the score at 34 is incredible. 

    We now understand why McCulloch doesn't play traditional LB. A lot of brutal stuff playing out of his natural position and he didn't play very well in it. He's good at some stuff and we do none of it. Scheme-f'ed. Josh Thompson, the answer at nickel? Right now, a resounding no. He was slightly better in coverage than Locke (I write this knowing he gave up a TD) but his run support was on life support. Gary Johnson has been neutered by the scheme. I have no idea what he's doing. Neither does he. Watch him on Grier's 2 point conversion draw. Watch him on his jog delay blitzes. Watch him struggle to identify his gap responsibility on a clear running down. Scheme-f'ed. 

    From a coaching perspective, Todd Orlando is embracing sunk cost fallacy at several positions and in his overall scheme, he has several talented and capable guys playing slow and tentatively, it's glaringly apparent that we're sacrificing practice time for practicing "looks" at the expense of fundamental football, and our DC is in the Manny Diaz Year 2 mode of thinking he can play call his way out of bad position coaching, bad scheme, bad football. He can't. And it was written all over the scoreboard. Hell, the scoreboard was deceiving and generous - 42 points doesn't adequately capture how thoroughly WVU's offense dominated Texas. 

    While our head coach has done Orlando no favors in his staff resource allocation, this is a staff that prides itself on big picture optimization and individual player development. Is that happening on the Texas defense?

     

    Dang Scipio's crushing it.....

    "Once you factor in WVU's efficiency and our pathetic display of tackling, angles and overall coordination, in my opinion, this was one of the most futile defensive efforts I've ever seen at Texas. And I've seen a lot. Here, I typically break down positions. There's no value in that when the entire defense is broken."

    "might be the worst performance I've ever seen from a Longhorn linebacker. "

    "We now understand why McCulloch doesn't play traditional LB. A lot of brutal stuff playing out of his natural position and he didn't play very well in it. He's good at some stuff and we do none of it. Scheme-f'ed. Josh Thompson, the answer at nickel? Right now, a resounding no. He was slightly better in coverage than Locke (I write this knowing he gave up a TD) but his run support was on life support. Gary Johnson has been neutered by the scheme. I have no idea what he's doing. Neither does he. Watch him on Grier's 2 point conversion draw. Watch him on his jog delay blitzes. Watch him struggle to identify his gap responsibility on a clear running down. Scheme-f'ed."

    "From a coaching perspective, Todd Orlando is embracing sunk cost fallacy at several positions and in his overall scheme, he has several talented and capable guys playing slow and tentatively, it's glaringly apparent that we're sacrificing practice time for practicing "looks" at the expense of fundamental football, and our DC is in the Manny Diaz Year 2 mode of thinking he can play call his way out of bad position coaching, bad scheme, bad football. He can't. And it was written all over the scoreboard. Hell, the scoreboard was deceiving and generous - 42 points doesn't adequately capture how thoroughly WVU's offense dominated Texas. "

    While our head coach has done Orlando no favors in his staff resource allocation, this is a staff that prides itself on big picture optimization and individual player development. Is that happening on the Texas defense?

  7. 1 hour ago, Sgt Hulk said:

    For every postitvie step forward the offense has made. The defense has went 2 steps in reverse. Since the 4th quarter of Oklahoma they have just went home.  I feel like every squad can scheme against us because their coaches watch film on us.  I’m not sure our coaches watch any film.  Baylor Ok state and WVU are indiictive of that.  The offense is growing by the minute and the defense is just saying F it.  77 points or whatever by the offense in 2 weeks and almost 1000 yards of offense and 2 losses to show for it 

    Really surprising how poorly Orlando's group is playing.  The tackling has to improve.....

    Kinda wish they could sit Roach the rest of the Season so he could keep another year of eligibility, but with Hager and I think Bimage possibly out for Tech game, Roach probably plays this Saturday.....

  8. Probably not on Longhorns list, but Louisville just lost Top Juco TE commit

     
     The Louisville football program has now lost its highest-rated recruit in the class of 2019.   (3 days ago)
     

    Austin Griffin, the No. 1 junior-college tight end prospect in the country according to 247sports.com's composite rankings, announced on Twitter he will reopen his recruitment.

    Griffin, listed at 6-foot-7 and 250 pounds, is the No. 15 overall junior-college prospect.

    "I’m so thankful for the staff at UofL for the love they showed me," Griffin wrote on Twitter. "I feel I made my decision a little (too) early, and all I ask is that you respect my decision. I will be opening my recruitment back up."

    Griffin posted on Twitter that he visited UCLA last weekend and Boise State the weekend of Oct. 6. He's in his second year at Mt. San Antonio College in the Los Angeles area. He played in high school at Snow Canyon in Utah.

  9. Sorry for asking.... (I'm sure it's somewhere on the 508 page 2019 Recruiting thread)

     What is the expected plan to recruit JUCO and Grad Transfers for 2019 Longhorns?? 

    Thoughts.....

     

    (My guess maybe TEXAS tries to bring in OL/DL help, LB and maybe even another experienced RB & DB if available??)

     

    Candidates:

    Caleb Johnson LB    Fullerton College

    Myron Cunningham OT  Iowa Central CC

    Bamidele Olaseni. OT  Garden City CC

     

     

     

  10. 8 minutes ago, Disco Missile said:

    I agree with all of this. Especially the roster part. We just don't have the raw talent on this team to overcome a lot of setbacks.
    And frankly, I believe we've been outcoached the last couple of game by offensive-minded coaches abusing our weaknesses on defense.

    I am thrilled with Sam's performance this year. We've improved on OL but we don't dominate. Our skill players are above average. I think our offense is going to be rocking next year if avoid injuries.
    Our defense lacks depth. Our DL is below average and gets pushed around by most of the OLs we're facing. Our LBs are a mixed bag, and the lack of depth and dominant playmakers hurts us. Our secondary isn't bad but there's no room for errors because they aren't getting help up front, and they have to watch the run and the pass. I think our defense improves next year but not by much unless something unexpected happens, like a huge GT or we have a D lineman pull a Gaskamp.

    +1

    Especially Agree with being outcoached part in last 2 games....  that's why I posted above the following:

    "Btw....Still expecting to see more experience to be added to the analysts and Quality Control groups for 2019 because gameplanning and opponent preparation have been poor this Season."

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