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  1. 2 hours ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

    Seems like he’s have to be.  I don't think the analysis considers whether he wanted to be public person. Just that he was one.  Kid of the President alone would have to be enough. 

    Hunter has a sister whom most people couldn't identify without googling her.  How close of a relationship to the president is necessary to make them a public figure? I didnt know President Biden had a brother until repubs lopped him into their investigations. Hunter could've been just as anonymous as his sister had the conservative echo sphere not set its sites on him.  

  2. 32 minutes ago, Pancho said:

    Happy Good News GIF by grown-ish

    I'm curious about whether he'd be considered a public person.  He only really gained notoriety because of Trump's and conservative media's fixation on him.  

  3. 11 hours ago, Had Enough said:

    If he were to come out next year, I’m going with the assumption that Baxter will get a 50% share and a stronger majority of short yardage/goalline reps.

    The first round RBs of late fit a bit different profile than Blue.  And obviously there are not many in the first place.  I view him more in the Pollard, CEH profile (but more upside) than McCaffrey, Saquan, Bijan, Breece Hall type.

    I am not one to limit the possibility of Blue being a 3 down guy so it’s as much about having the opportunities to prove he can do it for an extended period of time to warrant a 1st round pick.  I do believe some at the NFL level  do see that limitation and his opportunities next year won’t be as such to convince others differently. 

    Blue profiles similarly to the usage of Jahmyr Gibbs during his final college season.  I fully expect as the year goes on Blue's number of carries will ultimately fall just a tick below that of Baxter's with something around 145 to 150 carries to Baxter's 160 to 170. And Blue will have more receptions.  

  4. 13 hours ago, Wulaw Horn said:

    Gerry has 11 getting drafted, Blue not coming out and none of the portal guys going. He sits down to pee. He and Bobby were like “maybe we get 7 or 8 guys drafted all pre season- which was pretty laughable when you consider they had Quin  and Barron gone for sure. 
    for him to have 12 guys shows you just how stacked it’s going to be. 
    also- my guess is we have 2 more drafted guys coming in this round of the portal still that haven’t yet been identified. 

    Not to mention that at the beginning of the season they thought there was a good chance that Byron Murphy would come back and didn't view him as even a potential mid round pick.  

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  5. On 4/19/2024 at 9:48 PM, Rickylovesweed said:

    Avila reminds me a lot of Tanner Groves at OU a couple years ago. 

    A guy that's really skilled and put up decent numbers at OU but got exposed athletically in a power conference. 

    I was about to mention the very same guy. Groves and Avila are definitely more skilled than most BIg 12 and SEC bigs, but there's a risk of getting the destroyed on the boards for both of them. And with so much ball screen action in these leagues they either force their teams to play an inordinate amount of zone or risk getting killed on ball screen actions repeatedly throughout the game. That being said, they typically excel in tournaments and one off games because they're not scouted to death like they are in conference games.  Although he's much more athletic than both Groves and Avila, Grant Nelson struggled in a similar fashion this past season in the SEC. His rebounding #s were essentially cut in a half where he went from a DR% of 26.7% in 22-23 to 17.3% this past season in the Big 12. And much like I mentioned above about skilled bigs like these guys excelling in the tourney, Nelson was arguably Bama's best player as the importance of the tourney games increased. 

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  6. Hate to say it but Rod Babers routinely questions what the DBs are looking at and diagnosing out in the 2ndary. He questions their basic understanding of fundamental aspects of the position which leads me to believe that he questions the coaching their receiving. Someone like Brooks, whose Dad is a DB coach himself, would be just the player to bolt if his Dad feels he's receiving inadequate or conflicting directions. 

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  7. 1 hour ago, HookEm said:

    Boom...

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    The main guy I wanted to check out was Dalton Knecht and I swear that both Rivals and 24-7 changed their rankings because they were more inline with Sports Grid and On3 when I looked it up earlier this season. Even The Athletic had him in the lower teens if not the 20s. 

  8. 29 minutes ago, Rickylovesweed said:

    The big thing Kent provides is he's excellent at moving off-the-ball/back door cuts. We had a major issue  at getting to and finishing at the rim this past season. 

    Kent scored on 37/41 dunks and 149/193 close shots. He's very efficient at the rim and he gets to the rim much more than any player we had on last year's roster. Now we will see how that translates at the P5 level but he's a type player we definitely need on the roster. 

    A lot of the time the guy on the receiving end of those backdoor cuts this past season was Brock and he was unwilling to even attempted contested layups when he was down there. 

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  9. 12 hours ago, HookEm said:

    I took the top 40 players in each of the major sites to build something of a consensus portal rank.  So, if someone was in the top-40 they made my list and then I filled in their respective rank for the rest of the sites.  Here is how it shakes out...

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    Here are some additional players plus our signees:

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    This would be interesting to compare to last year's list of the same range of rankings. 

  10. On 4/17/2024 at 8:34 AM, HookEm said:

    Like I said, if a player was a contributor on a winning program, that is also a positive sign.  Tramon Mark checks a lot of boxes and he is exactly the kind of player we have been missing.  I would rather he had some accolades, but it isn't a deal breaker.

    And the portal rankings are always imperfect.  Some sites do a better job than others.  Max Abmas was the #2 portal player last year (On3). Kadin Shedrick was #43.  Tramon Mark was #78 player. Weaver was #272.  Onyema was unranked.  

    At some point, I'll put together a comparison of the top-35 portal players from last year and we can see who did the best job.

    Go check out where Dalton Knecht was rated in last year's portal. I believe he was in the mid 30s and he turned out to be easily the best transfer this past season. Also we were in on arguably the 2nd best transfer last season, Cam Spencer, but he waited so long to jump into the portal that we had no chance of getting him due to Hunter coming back.

  11. 5 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

    I see that as careful handling of a guy with tremendous upside. He may never achieve that level but you want to give him every chance within reason to get there 

    That's definitely what it is, as well as managing relationships in a new recruiting terroritory we don't have much history in. Nonetheless the point remains that Brooks was the better player from the jump.  And I believe Blue is as well, but I'm admittedly making this judgement off of what I saw from an injured Baxter last season. So we'll see. 

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  12. On 4/9/2024 at 12:10 PM, NoName said:

    so just to be clear, you have a situation where a guy quits his HS team, then his his freshman year gets 15 total carries and averages 2.2 yards, then says he's going to enter the portal, then decides not to when Texas tells him goodby, then gets so outclassed by a true freshman RB that he is a very distant third on the depth chart (for comparison Keilan Robinson had 3 rushes vs Bama and X and Mitchell both had the same # of carries as Blue in that game), then ends up only getting snaps for the year because the starter tears his ACL and it moves him to 2nd on the depth chart.

    ...does Blue have really nice wiggle? absolutely. but his stats are bumped up a ton by the fact he had 26% of his yardage for the year on 2 carries (3% of his total carries) - that is not sustainable nor is it a real perception of his skill.

    if you drop the one 69 yard carry it drops his YPC an entire yard per carry (6.12 to 5.14)

    this isn't that complex. the imbalance in usage between the two is because of skill and skillset differences between the two. even now, how many articles have been written about how Blue is expected to be the starter for 24 (i haven't seen any) - maybe he takes a huge jump forward, and i hope he does. but the reason for the imbalance is clear if you pay any attention

    again, Texas saw fit to start a true Freshman against Alabama, give him the most touches on the team in that game 15 touches (same as Brooks) and give you guy 1 and you are confused as to why the imbalance exists? clearly they and everyone else under the sun think one guy is significantly better than the other.

     

    Say what you want, but despite starting Baxter over Brooks it was clear as day that Brooks was the more impactful RB. And once again this offseason Baxter is getting outshined by the RB who will surely back him up to start the season.  

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  13. On 4/9/2024 at 2:34 PM, HookEm said:

    I think it is entirely possible that RT will end up being the 2nd most successful coach we have ever had, in terms of what he accomplishes.  But....

    That is incredibly misleading because the environment is now set up for winning in a way that hasn't existed in our entire history.  NIL, the transfer portal, an awesome new arena, the move to the SEC, favorable Texas high school talent improvements, increasingly rich alumni and media deals, etc. are all set up for us to dominate, not just win at the old rates.  If he simply holds serve, then that is a major failing in my view.

    This is a great point.  People truly don't understand how much Texas high school basketball and the overall infrastructure for building and developing talent has changed over the course of the last 30 years.  As a state we essentially went from Steve Jobs amd Wozniak in a garage to 2010 Apple. When it comes to high school basketball talent, the state of Texas is easily the best in the nation.  Now add in NIL, the transfer portal, Moody, and the changing paradigm of removing pro options for high school talent and we couldn't be more suited to actually win a national championship.

    Within the last 10 years damn near every worthwhile university in the state sans us and A&M has found some level near their peak success in college basketball. The right coach would have us approximating  what Connecticut has accomplished over the last 25 years.   

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