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  1. Know folks did not like some of my questions about what Stan Drayton has helped with on recruiting.  So I'm eating some crow, and glad to do it...... Drayton along with Carrington helped land Washington...... (See below) 

    "Texas and particularly Stan Drayton have been putting in a lot of work to get their foot in the door in the St. Louis area, and their efforts may finally be paying dividends. The Longhorns managed to land linebacker Ayodele Adeoye during the last recruiting cycle, and went a little further out and landed defensive end Daniel Carson as well. Drayton also dropped off a stack of offers at local powerhouse Trinity Catholic — the home of new Longhorn commit Marcus Washington.

    Washington was one of four players at Trinity Catholic to be extended an offer from Texas last year along Mookie Cooper, Shammond Cooper, and Isaiah Williams. While Williams is committed to Illinois and never really considered Texas, both Mookie and Shammond are still heavily considering Texas. Washington recently took an official visit to Texas for the USC game, and both he and his father came away raving about the Longhorns.

    At one point it looked like Washington was going to stay zzcloser to home and side with either Ohio State or the home team Missouri Tigers, but the Longhorns did a great job recruiting him and managed to seal the deal when they got him on campus."

    Player Information

    Name: Marcus Washington

    Position: WR, SS

    High School: Trinity Catholic

    City & State: St. Louis, MO

    Measurables

    Height: 6’2

    Weight:  191

    40-yard: 4.75

    Shuttle: 4.28

    Vertical: 32"

    Statistics

    2015: 35 rec, 583 yards (16.6 YPC), 8 TDs

    201633 rec, 676 yards (20.48 YPC), 13 TDs, 6 INTs

    2017: N/A

    (Not sure why no 2017 or 2018 numbers included)

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  2. 3 hours ago, ShowmeyourTDs said:

    I agree.  One shouldn’t judge  an entire people based on their ethnicity.  Especially a people that brought us Scotch whiskey, kelts, golf, fat bastard, and red headed women with buttery nipples.

     

    Just watch out for red heads who like fire.....

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  3. Love how Ga Tech stuck it to Louisville earlier this Season.... 66-31

    Paul Johnson wanted to ‘beat the hell out of Brian VanGorder,’ and he finally did

    Revenge is served, more than a decade later.

    By Morgan Moriarty@Morgan_Moriarty  Oct 6, 2018, 7:25am EDT
     

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    Georgia Tech defeated Louisville 66-31 on Friday night. Along with the Yellow Jacket victory, Tech head coach Paul Johnson finally settled some beef with Brian VanGorder, Louisville’s current defensive coordinator. First, just look at this:

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    Johnson’s had an issue with VanGorder for more than a decade.

    It all started in 2006, when VanGorder was named the head coach at Georgia Southern. In Statesboro, Johnson had successfully installed and ran the triple option in the ‘80s as a coordinator, and as head coach from 1997-2001. Instead of sticking with that scheme, VanGorder decided to ditch it completely.

    He didn’t exactly think highly of the offense, to say the least.

    He wanted to bring the program “into the 21st century”. He felt that the system would be impossible to recruit to, and just wouldn’t work at a high level of football. (And with only 6 national titles since the program’s first varsity season in 1984, what reason did he have to think that it was a possibility?)

    Before season began, VanGorder made a point that he wouldn’t be running Johnson’s flexbone option. From the Statesboro Herald:

    In the advertisement, Georgia Southern’s marketing department promoted the 2006 season with a series of video clips that ended with VanGorder pointing at the camera and proclaiming “There is no option.” The school later chose to edit out the coach’s comment. The four words drew criticism, became a catch phrase for the season and spawned t-shirts reading “Win Coach. There is no option.”

    Well, word of VanGorder’s overhaul made its way to Johnson, the head coach at Navy at the time.

    ”VanGorder had made some comments that he didn’t think too highly of the offense,” longtime Georgia Southern administrator Robert Inman said via USA Today. “And Paul called me up and said, ‘I need to talk to (athletics director) Sam (Baker) and get Georgia Southern on the schedule,’” Inman said. “I said, ‘Why do you want to play us?’ And he said, ‘Because I want to beat the hell out of Brian VanGorder.’ “

    VanGorder’s “no option” team went 3-8, and his offense averaged 21 points per points per game. It was the worst record in the 25 years of the program at the time. After the season, VanGorder attempted to clarify his stance on the option.

    “I never said, ever, a negative word about an offense that I have great respect for,” VanGorder said via the Herald. “But (the media) kind of created a lot of that situation because there were comments that I must have made about the option, which I never did,” he said. “I had nothing but respect for that offense, and I’ve said that over and over.”

    Twelve years later, and Johnson’s still using the same offense.

    “Just executing the offense, just running,” he said on Friday night when asked how his team piled up 542 rushing yards on the road.

    This is actually VanGorder’s second straight loss to Johnson, in a way.

    In 2015, when he was defensive coordinator at Notre Dame, the Irish beat Johnson’s Jackets.

    But in November 2016, Georgia hired him as a consultant. His role was to lend UGA his experience with the triple option to prepare for the Bulldogs’ game against Georgia Tech. The Bulldogs lost 28-27, sealed by two unanswered touchdowns in the fourth.

  4. On 10/16/2018 at 9:50 AM, Machinator said:

    Here's the player tracker through Baylor. It only lists those who have not already redshirted. Players with the red "NO RS" designation have played in at least five games and thus cannot redshirt this season.

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    Dang Josh Moore is not eligible to Redshirt for 2018 Season and he just hurt his shoulder.....

  5. SB Nation (not a fan of TEXAS)

     

    If College Football Playoff rankings arrived 1 week early, they’d look like this

    The committee’s first top-25 will release Oct. 30, but we have a pretty good idea how they’d look right now and who’d be maddest about them.

    By Jason Kirk  Oct 23, 2018

    Though we don’t have College Football Playoff rankings to go on just yet, the committee isn’t that big of a mystery. We can make solid guesses on how they’d have teams stacked up at this point, if it were to release a top-25 before Oct. 30.

    (I mean, it’s kind of a mystery by design, just because it barely explains any of its decisions, but if you’ve followed it for a few years, you can start to see its thinking, whether you agree or not.)

    It’s time to bring back an annual exercise, which has previously done a solid job at predicting teams the committee’s high on (Penn State’s big jump in 2016 and Georgia taking No. 1 from Bama in 2017, for example). After studying numbers that’ve tended to line up well with CFP rankings, here’s how I’d guess these teams would rank. Several are in groups for now.

    1: Alabama

    Simple. And since Bama’s on a bye before the first rankings reveal, you can go ahead and lock in the initial No. 1 team.

    Quibble over strength of schedule if it makes you feel better, but Bama’s is happily comparable to any other unbeaten team’s, per the metric that goes into Resume S&P+:

    SOS rankings for college football’s unbeaten teams:

    47. Notre Dame

    59. Alabama

    68. Clemson

    124. UCF

    129. USF

    Beyond that, the Tide have thoroughly humbled everything placed in front of them, something you can’t say about any other team in FBS.

    2: Clemson

    The committee will partially excuse the Tigers’ struggle with Syracuse, chalking it up to a third-string QB having to win the game. That’s not really even speculation, because the committee said it factored Clemson’s QB injuries against Cuse last year, too.

    Otherwise, the Tigers have smoked everything, other than a tough trip to Texas A&M, which will count as a top-25 road win.

    CPI, a sort of football version of basketball’s RPI, ranks Clemson’s accomplishments No. 1 in the country so far. And the Tigers are No. 2 in almost every other ranking, including the Massey Composite, which collects allthe rankings.

    3: Notre Dame

    The only other Power 5-ish unbeaten should be dinged for close calls against Ball State, Vanderbilt, and Pitt.

    It should also get a ton of credit for arguably having beaten a better team than anybody else in the country has (Michigan).

    The numbers don’t have a better answer for that dichotomy than I do. ESPN’s Strength of Record, which seeks to guess how the average top-25 team would’ve handled a schedule, ranks them No. 1. CPI has them No. 3. Aaaand Resume S&P+, which tries to guess how a Playoff team would’ve handled a schedule, has them all the way down at No. 17.

    The uptake: the Irish have beaten an impressive list of teams, but have rarely played all that impressively in doing so.

    4 and 5, in some order: Michigan and LSU

    Do you prefer to go by who you’ve played or how you’ve played?

    LSU’s gone 4-1 against teams that were ranked at kickoff. The committee does not care about where a team used to be ranked, but still, the Tigers rank No. 2 in CPI and Strength of Record.

    Going by how they’ve played, though? LSU is No. 15 in S&P+, meaning that system — which tends to beat Vegas — would pick 14 other teams to beat the Tigers on a neutral field right now.

    Michigan, meanwhile, is No. 4 in S&P+ and no lower than No. 7 in any other metric cited here.

    In the past, the committee’s made surprising calls in each direction, so I could see this either way. If I had to bet, I’d guess Michigan at No. 4.

    6 through 12: Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Texas, and possibly somebody else

    Excuse the vagueness, but we have a log jam. There’s a case to put this bunch in almost any order.

    Florida’s beaten LSU, but should it rank ahead of Kentucky, due to head-to-head?

    The computers still like Georgia, Ohio State, and Oklahoma, but the first two have lost blowouts, and the third lost to ...

    ... Texas, a team that’s very rarely looked top-10-worthy and will likely be exposed again, but has that dubious win over OU (the Sooners outgained UT by 3 yards per play).

    I think the committee should rank Oklahoma No. 6 and Texas No. 11, then not look at social media for a week. S&P+ has OU at No. 3 and Texas at No. 38. These teams have played too many games this year to base the entire decision on just one close result.

    But I have no clue what the committee would actually do with this group.

    After that:

    You can mostly just use some combo of the rankings cited in here for a loose estimate. The Massey Composite is probably the best single number for that purpose.

    Team whose fans would be happiest: Iowa

    The same as last week. The AP Poll is still underrating the Hawkeyes (No. 18), despite them adding a 23-0 demolition of Maryland (the mediocre team that beat Texas, icymi). They’re No. 9 in the Massey Composite and No. 11 in Resume S&P+.

    A win over Penn State next weekend would finally catch the pollsters’ attention, but if the committee were ranking teams this week, I promise Iowa would be higher than No. 18.

    Team whose fans would be maddest, besides UCF’s: A few contenders

    Last week, I had Oregon in this spot. The Ducks then lost to a lower-ranked team by two touchdowns.

    There’s a case for ranking the Longhorns basically anywhere, though I don’t see any way the committee would have them up at No. 6, like the AP does. The Massey consensus has them down at No. 13.

    West Virginia would also likely drop a few spots from their AP perch of No. 13. The Eers average a No. 20 ranking in every other metric in this post.

    I could see Kentucky getting snubbed. They aren’t exactly the kind of “balanced” team the committee says it likes to go for, with a subpar offense and terrible passing game, and the computers are suspicious.

    As for UCF, they’re not quite as impressive as they were a year ago, when this site might’ve been the first national voice to authoritatively call them drastically underrated. They’d deserve a Backup QB Mulligan for their comfortable win over ECU in Week 8, but a starting ranking in the mid-teens would be more defensible than it was last time. The Knights are No. 16 in the Massey Composite.

    I largely agree with Kirk Herbstreit, who made a case on GameDay (partially using S&P+) that the 2018 New Year’s Six race shouldn’t yet be considered The UCF Story: A Story Entirely About UCF.

    We’ll see in one week how the actual committee ranks ‘em.

    https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2018/10/23/18008650/playoff-rankings-predictions-2018

  6. On 10/22/2018 at 12:03 PM, LTtxfan said:

    Keepin It Real.... Texas 6-1

    So how good is this 2018 Longhorn FB Team really??

    Wins: Tulsa, USC, TCU, KState, BlowU and Baylor.      Loss: Maryland

    Before the Season, seemed like most predicted 8-4 or 9-3.......Remaining Games:  At Okie Lite, WVa, At Tech, Iowa St, At Kansas

    Watching Baylor suck so far tonight, means HORNS really need to play well on National TV Saturday night.  Except for the BlowU win, none of the other victories for TEXAS this year are impressive since TCU & USC are struggling.......

  7. 5 hours ago, UTEX_ME said:

    Friday Nov. 30:

    6:00 ESPN 2 - MAC Championship game - Detriot, MI

    7:00 PM FOX - PAC12 Championship Game - Santa Clara, CA

    Saturday Dec. 1:

    11:00 AM ABC - Big 12 Championship Game - Arlington, TX

    11:00 AM ESPN - Sun Belt Championship Game - Site of highest CFP rankings if applicable, otherwise old BCS computers will determine who hosts (not kidding). 

    2:30 PM ABC - AAC Championship Game - Site of highest ranked of the division winners

    3:00 PM CBS - SEC Championship Game - Atlanta, GA

    6:45 PM ESPN - MWC Championship Game - Site of highest ranked of the division winners

    7:00 PM ABC - ACC Championship Game - Charlotte, NC

    7:00 PM  Big 10 FOX Indianapolis, IN

  8. 24 minutes ago, TtomTerrific said:

    A cheetah, Usain Bolt, Tyreek Hill and Ben Rothlesberger in a hundred yard race based off of 40 times extrapolated -

     

     

    A priest,  a rabbi and a minister walk into a Bar....... 

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  9. 40 minutes ago, Machinator said:

    We don't have anyone else. Green is too raw, Thompson is the backup nickel and honestly did not look great against Tulsa, and there is no way Donovan Duvernay is our best option.

    Also, Thompson hyper-extended his knee in practice last week.......

  10. 1 hour ago, ousux said:

    At this point he's just trolling longhorns who give him shit for his awful takes, nothing to see here.

    Might be right..... plus anything helping A&M recruiting hurts Texas.  Herbie probably quietly blames the Herman family for the entire ohio state cesspool created by the Zach Smith scandal.

    Don't ever be fooled..... Herbie is a Texas Hater...... loves his Suckeyes....

    No Doubt About It. 🤘

  11. 8 hours ago, Machinator said:

    Our linebacker play was very good last season, especially once Wheeler and Hughes were taken off the field.

    The problem is that the coaches are rather stubborn about sticking with certain entrenched players, even if they've been shown to be ineffective over and over again. Orlando deserves part of the blame for that, but that's not necessarily a development issue.

    +1000

    LBs gonna be an interesting group to watch develop when the 2019 Class shows up.

  12. Just saw Ad on ESPN for TEXAS vs Okie Lite game on Saturday night...Said something like:  "Win to confirm you're back..... or succumb to Stillwater"

    Guess the Tessitore "Texas is Back" phrase gonna continue to hang around for quite awhile.

  13. Heard a discussion on the radio yesterday how SEC might be better off if BAMA would finish with one Loss either to LSU or in the SEC Championship Game thereby assuring the SEC 2 Teams in the playoffs.......smh

    Earlier this week Joel Klatt stated on Rich Eisen's show that he prefers a rule that only Conference Champions qualify for the Playoffs so that all regular season games matter.  He also thinks having one conference champion left out of the playoff each year is good as well. 

    Unfortunately a question about an independent like Notre Dame qualifying for the playoffs did not come up.

  14. 6 hours ago, texifornia said:

    You also clearly don't rate Drayton. Who on the staff do you like?

    Like both Orlando and Drayton..... As a result, I have High Expectations for the two group's that they coach and expect to see more improvement for the LBs & RBs during the 2nd Half of 2018 Season.  🤘

  15. 6 hours ago, Bodacious Bevo said:

    Are people down on our LBs or something? 

    I thought GJ has been pretty good to great with a couple down moments. Shark was a really pleasant surprise imo. Makes me feel a lot better about next year. And Wheeler is a limited player but I still think he's underrated. Our defense has been a lot better with him on the field compared to when he was suspended/injured.

    Malik went from benched under Strong to B12 co-DPOY last year. LB depth is and will be scary but they've been good minus Maryland and OU 

    Agree LBs are better since Orlando arrived.  But Wheeler disappears for long stretches and at times GJ gets out of position because he's too slow in his reads.  Since both are Seniors, I'm sure even TO  has been disappointed with some of their play.  In July 2018  GJ made the preseason Butkis Award Watchlist so expectations for 2018 were high.  

     I'm just hoping to see  LBs improve and play better during the 2nd Half of this Season .  Found this write-up on LBs performances at the BlowU game:

    LB

    "We would have been better replacing Wheeler with a scarecrow wearing a Tommy Nobis Fathead. The Mummy was in full effect. Gary Johnson was mesmerized by OU's play action, backfield movement and kept letting OU's OL get a piece of him on 2nd level releases. When you run a 4.5 at MLB, at least guess somewhere fast. Paralyzation robs you of what makes you special. GJ excels at see-ball, chase-ball and Lincoln Riley excels at making players like Gary see decoy balls all over the field. #33 short-circuited." 

    "I would have also liked to have seen McCulloch more, particularly as legs tired over time. You don't have to put in a nickel to accomplish that. It's not hard devise a dime package, particularly if you sit Wheeler. As I've written before, Shark's best attribute is actually his strength and pop - he can hold up against big boys just fine."

  16. 2 minutes ago, futureman said:

    you’re an idiot.  teddy lehman was clocked at over 30mph in the 2001 red river shootout.  

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    Usain Bolt ran the 2009 World final in 9.58 seconds. That's an average of 23.35 mph or 37.578 km/h. Taking acceleration time to the finish into consideration - his top speed was 27.45 mph or 44.172 km/h according to the biomechanical analysis of his 9.58 record.

  17. 2 minutes ago, Machinator said:

    Our linebacker play was very good last season, especially once Wheeler and Hughes were taken off the field.

    The problem is that the coaches are rather stubborn about sticking with certain entrenched players, even if they've been shown to be ineffective over and over again. Orlando deserves part of the blame for that, but that's not necessarily a development issue.

    Yeah.... ready to see better play from Orlando's LB group that he personally coaches.

    Time to see greatness from TEXAS LBs🤘

  18. 33 minutes ago, pacman said:

    He is a typical Alabama defense take, well advanced past his peers physically.

    Adeoye wasn't exactly small either. Hopefully they both have great LB instincts/recognition because we seem to sorely lack that skillset here, for awhile now.

    I really love Orlando's defenses for the most part. I worry about his ability to coach the LB position.

    Yeah I like Orlando.... but he still has a lot more to prove as Defensive Coordinator if he wants a P5 Head Coaching gig......

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