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Burt Macklin

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  1. 7 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

    Interesting that the 247 composite has 35 5-star players now. Apparently they know about some sort of NFL expansion coming in the next few years.

    I was confused by this too. 247 in their own rankings only gives out 32 5 stars, but for the composite, it looks like a grade of .9833 is the 5 star cutoff based on the last few years, so the composite can have more or less than 32 5 stars.

    i have no clue how or why they make .9833 the cutoff for the composite.

  2. Looks like they put Whittington at a 96 grade which moved him from #136 in the top247 to #59, jumping him to 34th in the composite. Idk how 34th in the composite gets him to 5 star.

    smith went from 157 to 77 on 247, resulting in a 28 spot jump in composite to #49 overall. 

    Warren went from 463 to 171 in 247, jumping him from 464 to 297 in composite.

     

     

  3. 7 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    The point about a 4 decimal ranking system is also big. 

    How do they arrive at such numbers?  What makes a prospect a .9132 vs a .9146 or .9098?

    2 decimals would probably be the most to be used to differentiate. So basically a 0-100. 

    It’s a result of the formula they use to create the composite. All the sites individually grade on a scale of 100, except Rivals, which uses possibly the dumbest grade ranking system you could think of for a recruiting site. 

  4. On 1/21/2019 at 8:33 AM, Bitterwhiteguy said:

    All over the place. There is a significant (or at least significantly loud) portion of the Texas fanbase who thinks the best 6-year run from Barnes should be the norm rather than the apex of the program.

    I get that a top 15 program is pretty damn high to expect.Do you think it’s unreaonable to expect a top 25 type-program moving forward? I understand that’s not the History of the program and we will always be a football school, but based on our facilities (KD’s gift + new stadium), proximity to elite talent, exposure, and UT’s reputation as a school, I don’t see any reason why we can’t be a team that routinely is in the top 25 and when we have a year where all the right guys come together, be in the top 15 and other rebuilding years be outside the top 25.

    Ultimately, I don’t see any reason why over the next ten years, we couldn’t be in the top 25 teams in the country in terms of average finish in the AP top 25, or Kenpom, or whatever metric you want to use. Based on recruiting rankings since Barnes through current and the salary we’re willing to pay a coach, like we did with shaka, I don’t see why fans shouldn’t expect a top 25 program.

  5. 1 hour ago, Elmer_Fudd said:

    I'm surprised Auburn hasn't gone after a QB.  They are a decent QB away from being pretty good next year.  No idea what they have on roster.

    They have one of the top QB recruits in the country coming in. Maybe they were worried about pissing him off. It does seem like they should have looked for a transfer who was ready to play this year. I’d have to think they could’ve at least gotten someone like Kelly Bryant. 

  6. 2 minutes ago, Elmer_Fudd said:

    Doesn't look like they've been released yet?

    It’s hard to tell if they’ve all happened or if the ratings are getting rolled out incrementally. Marcus Washington was moved by 247 from #493 to 416. lulz. Barton will never get over that slow 40 time he ran while injured at the camp where he won WR MVP. 

  7. 1 hour ago, Bevo14 said:

    Doesn't  247 love Shepherd? He might get a bump.

    Terry tweeted that a shepherd could be a top 10 pick or something like that when watching his film but they have to balance that with his high chance of being a complete and total bust. Low 4 star is usually where they put guys like that. I wouldn’t have been shocked if they bump him a bit but it looks like all their ratings have gone through so he’s probably not getting one.

    52 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    I'm pretty sure Burton doesn't even participate in rankings anymore. I could be wrong. Of course, if he doesn't, then that just is further proof to aggy that he is behind the scenes pulling the strings on all the experts that work for him. See, in took me 5 seconds to figure out how aTm will discount this new feature completely out of hand. BURTON MADE PERRONI DO IT.

    He doesn’t but the ags have been whining about Burton, either himself or via EJ and Howe, etc forcing 247 to change certain UT commits for years, which is funny because Perroni actually has the most input out of any team-specific guy in Texas. They have him go to a lot of national and Texas-wide events to give input. Not to mention the whole Elko-Fong thing they have going.

    10 minutes ago, satyanash said:

    or, you know, releasing an absolutely dominating reel of senior film and winning Gatorade National Player of the Year for it...

    His junior film was just as incredible. The senior film really didn’t move the needle at all. Everyone knows he can dominate short, slow white kids in AZ. His only chance for a bump was showing that he can do the same thing against the nation’s Best athletes. 

    I realize this advice will be wasted on you, but don’t be a bitch. 

  8. 4 hours ago, DaysOff said:

    I'm so confused. NSD2 is anticlimactic now. These bumps won't change anyone's class rankings so why do they care so much? You'd think they'd want Herman to take shitty overrated players.

     

    1 hour ago, DaysOff said:
    4 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:
    In the words of the Virgin Mary, come again? Thats exactly what they will do. 

    I meant team rankings. We probably stay around 7. aggy stays at 3. Who cares.

    We’ve literally moved up an down the team rankings between 6 and 8 every time a service updates their rankings. 

    But I am with you on the not giving a shit. It does crack me up how much people react to rankings updates, esepecially after NSd1 now. I don’t view Jordan Whittington, Tyler Owens or any aggy commit any differently now than I did before rankings updates.

  9. 13 minutes ago, satyanash said:

    So neither Jake Smith nor Jordan Whittington got a bump? Lame.

    The only way Smith was going to get a bump was going to an all star game and lighting up better competition. 

    Whittington not getting one is weird. By all reports, he had a great week of practice and obviously put up some incredible senior film. You’d think the state championship game alone would get him a bump.

    Rivals has him at 33 and espn at 40 with 247 as the clear outlier at 134. 

    But I really don’t care if he gets a bump or not, it’ll just make 247 look dumb next year when he’s killing it lining up all over the field for us.

     

  10. 23 minutes ago, TexasMan said:

    Speaking of which... 

     

     

    “Seeing the unbias” 

    JFC aggy. It’s unbiased! I literally had to go back and undo autocorrect just to type that quote out 

    You’re an embarrassment to our state. If you really want to be SEC so bad, why don’t you relocate your shithole of a school to the Southeast?

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  11. Overall, the biggest issue with S&P+ as it applies to UT is that it seems our coaches actively tried to bleed clocks in exchange for our team playing worse. Anytime we got a two score lead or more in the second half, the offense seemed to go into a shell where it would go RB run 1st and 2nd, then incomplete pass. Our OL was not a good run blocking unit, so when a defense could expect run, they usually shut us down, until roughly the last drive of the game, we'd get creative again and also run Sam and viola, we'd pull out a 6 minute drive and ice the game. On defense, Orlando would quit blitzing, start dropping a bunch of guys and offenses would start to carve us up. Look at the UGA game, when we went into prevent-type defenses, they tore us up, but the one late drive we stayed aggressive, we forced a 3 and out. 

    Anyways, I think it's a flaw by the coaches and I hope they quit doing it, but I also think S&P+ overpenalized us for it because it doesn't take into account the idea that coaches might actively sacrifice team performance for bleeding the clock. Conversely, when we needed to show up/didn't have a huge lead, we outplayed almost every team, including OU in the Cotton Bowl and Georgia. I realize it doesn't work this way, but if you could filter out stretches of games where our coaches got uber-conservative on both sides of the ball with a big lead, our S&P+ would likely be more accurate. Also, this is different then just saying, eliminate all our bad stretches of play, because you'd still leave games like Maryland and OSU in the data.

  12. 10 hours ago, Braff Zacklin said:

    Best thing Kirk Bohls ever wrote was when he described Sonny Alvarado thusly: he never threw an elbow he didn't intend.

    Can't believe it's been more than two decades since he played. Furk.

    I thought you were gonna say "can't believe it's been more than two decades since Kurt Bohsl wrote something decent."

  13. 1 minute ago, Bodacious Bevo said:

    The 2017 class was pretty good. 18 signees, 7 starters next year (Sam, Graham, Thompson, Bimage, Kerstetter, Brewer, Cosmi) + 3 in the two deep (Leitao, Young, Boyce) + 3 no longer on scholarship (Carter, Johnson, Miller). If a third of the guys in any class end up starters then it's pretty good. 2017 was small but the hit rate was good. Not really comparable to 2016. Plus it was a transition class so it's at a disadvantage from the start. 

    10 minutes ago, Bodacious Bevo said:

    The 2017 class was pretty good. 18 signees, 7 starters next year (Sam, Graham, Thompson, Bimage, Kerstetter, Brewer, Cosmi) + 3 in the two deep (Leitao, Young, Boyce) + 3 no longer on scholarship (Carter, Johnson, Miller). If a third of the guys in any class end up starters then it's pretty good. 2017 was small but the hit rate was good. Not really comparable to 2016. Plus it was a transition class so it's at a disadvantage from the start. 

    It was decent for what it was: a desperately thrown together attrition class. The hit rate is decent but the quality of those guys leaves some to be desired. So far, Sam and Cosmi are the only above average starters in that whole group. Maybe Graham develops into a stud, but so far he has gotten rave reviews every off season and been just ok on the field. At least half the guys you listed as starters or in the two deep are only in there as a function of our poor depth. On a better team, Bimage, Thompson, and Brewer would likely all be bumped down to two deep and guys like Young and Boyce wouldn't even be expected to play much unless they took a huge step forward in the off season. 

    Ultimately, it was an extremely small class that didn't provide much above average talent and when combined with 2016 to serve as your uppperclassmen for next year, it leaves a ton to be desired. Herman and co. have done a good job of mitigating this through Jucos, grad transfers, and an incredible 2018 class full of guys who look to be great, but we'll still have some issues next year due to the 2016 and 2017 classes. 

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  14. 2 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

    True, but try telling a JUCO he needs more summer school. 

    I didn't mean he'd actually take it, just that it would appear on his transcript.

    Also, I'm a little confused about this Henry thing, are we sure he's a math credit short? He's not an EE, so why wouldn't he just take that math credit this spring? 

  15. 37 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

    We'll get the last visit nice, but why he is visiting Ole Miss or another other SEC school at all? I thought he needed a math requirement. 

    If any team can get him that last math requirement, it’s Ole Miss. 

  16. 7 hours ago, closetojumping said:

    When Majors commits this week, that’s 2 of 5 OL targets for the class. I don’t know when Garth will go public, probably later in the spring but that’s 3. Then you wind up focusing heavily on Lindberg and George. That would be a damned good group to sign. They look damned good with this group.

    4 DLs in Unmailienalienalien, Collins, Dorbah and Broughton, if Broughton can avoid Will fucking Lyles. They look good with this crew. 

    Omeire is in the mold of Collin Johnson. Mookie Cooper is as explosive as the two slots from this past class. Let’s say they can close both for a 2 man WR crew. They look good with these targets. 

    Card. Eh, there’s the qb. 

    Evans and Jordan at TB. McGowan leaves the state and McLellan goes to okie? I’d take that. McLellan is an Aledo TB. He’s terrific, but they take a lot of bullets before getting to college. Looking strong here.

    Go hard after the Bishop Dunne guy and one other? Cy Creek guy would have to get offered first before he’d be on the list but I assume they take two. Lots of work to do here.

    Ringo at CB. Jones at NB. Thompson at S. Three studs in the secondary. Looking good.

    Jackson will be the number one athlete in the country. 

    Obviously it’s a long way off and a lot will change. Still that would be a hell of a 20 player class. No one is expected to be an early NFL guy after next season and they like their roster, so attrition looks like it could be low. Right now they’re not thinking they’ll sign 20. More like 16. I still think they get to 21/22.

     

    Definitely like where we’re at. If we get anywhere near this type of class, the staff sure as hell better start pushing some dudes off the team so we can get in the 23-25 range. If we land a good amount of the priority targets you mentioned above, between some OOS guys who show interest and some late risers, we could easily push 25 guys in a really, really quality class, like 92+ avg on the composite. That’s be worth moving some guys on like JP, Porter (if he doesn’t this year), Hudson (if he has more health issues), Christmas, Chris Brown, Estell, Pouncey, etc. almost all those guys would be ready to grad transfer or medically retire. There’s no reason we can’t easily start upping our numbers of the class stays on this type of trajectory.

    also, good Lord, that 2016 class. Of 28 guys, 16 of the 28 have done basically nothing. 3 were absolutely great. And the other 9 have been just solid. 

    Attrition: Fowler, Delaney, Elliott, Daniels, Fitzgerald, cuffee, Southlake, RHM, Demarco, Curtis, Aucoin

    Busts: Urquidez, Porter, Donovan Duvernay, Christmas (barring a Gaskamp) 

    hits: Dev Duv (could jump up), McCulloch, Shane, Chris Brown, Shack, Okafor, Wilson, Roach

    Studs: Johnson, LJH, Jones

    TBD: Hudson, Imade

    Our 2016 class and 2017 will be weights on the program next year and explain why we have so many depth issues. Really, it’s impressive Herman did what he did this year with those two classes making up a core of the roster. If Herman can find a way to get to 10 wins and a NY6 game again next year and Bridge the gap to 2020, where our 2018 class are juniors plus a senior Sam combined with hitting it big in 2020, this team will Be ready to compete on a national stage for the foreseeable future. 

  17. 1 hour ago, MountainHorn said:

    Fucking sheep.

    As if we needed any more evidence he was an aggy troll.

    47 minutes ago, golfclap said:

    Remember when I said we need one of the regulars to have the power to banhammer people from this sub-forum and/or delete stupid shit? 

     

    Free market, bruh. He got the people’s banhammer soon enough.

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  18. 50 minutes ago, SwanderedTalent said:

    When has any Aggie, ever, contemporaneously believed and/or admitted Texas was out-recruiting them? They'll look back and say "well we was gettin out-recruited when <last coach> was coach because <bullshit reasons> but <new coach>, <new coach> ain't gonna let that happen no more!" but in the moment, every class no matter how bready and reprobrate is better than our BOMC-overrated recruits.

    Seriously, find me one year when Cocksucker Liucci ever said "Texas had a better class than A&M this year". Just going off gut feel, I bet he said A&M's class signed in the spring of 2006 was better than the one we signed coming off a national championship. I will bet he said A&M's class signed in the spring of 2002 was better than ours (the one with Vince Young in it).

    Is it Liucci’s fault that none of the recruiting services take into account how much a recruit wants to be an ag and just gets what means to be an ag when rating recruits? 

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