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  1. 15 hours ago, mulletpelini said:

    Zac's a smart mfer.  Got the fuck out of norman when he got the chance.  better hire than KK, not sure how that's even in debate.

    Ehh. his resume is much worse. He was a grad assistant at aggy under father-in-law Sherman, followed his father in law to Miami to be the assistant QB coach. Spent 5 meaningless weeks as interim OC (thanks again father in law) in which the Dolphins O actually got worse, then was the University of Cincinnati's OC for a year and in that year Cincinnatti's O had a major regression from the year before, then spent a year as assistant WR coach for teh Rams and now is their QB coach this year. So, that's one year as an OC of a non P5 program (where he did poorly) and one year as QB coach for McVay. Every other position was basically the equivalent of a GA for an NFL team.  Maybe Zac is some football savant, but he has a terrible resume and bad results, albeit a small sample size. I don't think either was a great hire, but Zac's lack of almost any meaningful experience is pretty absurd to justify a HC position.

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  2. 1 minute ago, ImissWallyPryor said:

    I need advice on where to go for the best rankings/commit lists (both current and past) since 247 seems to have blocked much of their content from non-subscribers.  I used Rivals in the past, but their ranking system seemed... suspect.

    247 composite is still the best even though the ratings that make up the composite seem to be getting more and more suspect. None of their rankings or commit lists are blocked. Just their CBs and other inside info, most of which is a complete dumpster fire anyways.

    Edit: What Fud and Mach said, just in more words.

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  3. 9 hours ago, 2inDaPink1inDaStink said:

    If we keep smart another year, we set this program up on a path that will take 10 years to fix. I said the same thing about the football program when Mack stopped trying in 2010. 

    I actually completely disagree with this part. Shaka’s last two recruiting classes have actually been really good and while I want him gone, he’s not tearing down the program from a skill standpoint like smack was. He took 7 guys who looked to be guys who spend at last two years on campus (Hayes is the unexpected exception) and can easily form a very solid core for this team moving forward. A new coach in 2020-2021 could have a roster of:

    Seniors: Coleman, Sims (maybe a new coach could at least get him back to being a plus contributor like he was his FR year)

    Juniors: Hepa, Ramey, Lidell

    Soph: Baker, Jones, Williams, Cunningham (RS).

    a good coach could win with that roster plus whoever we get in the 2020 class and it’s pretty balanced moving forward. 

    Don’t get me wrong, I want Shaka gone,  but he’s bringing in enough talent for an actually good coach to come in and win right away.

  4. 17 minutes ago, Post Oak said:

    Y'all are crazy.

    I still want him. The guy is really talented.  Apparently, he's reshaped his body so that shows a willingness to work and a level of discipline. Plus he can play G/T.

    I don't care that he's flakey.  Most 18-year-olds are.  

    He's the exact type of clay we need to give to Yancey.  

    I don't know where he'll be 3 years from now.  Whether he's at Texas or somewhere else or if he cant cut it and transfers out.

    But from a talent perspective if he goes somewhere else its a big loss imo.

     

    If flakey was his only issue, this wouldn’t be a conversation. The guy has a plethora of red flags. OL development is all about a guy’s mental makeup and Sheperd’s is About as bad as you can get in that regard.

  5. 2 minutes ago, SDG said:

    Honest question because I know almost nothing about BB.  Do we run plays or have an actual offense or do we just play pick up?  

    Shaka doesn’t run plays but he has a “system.” It ultimately devolves into endless dribble handoffs around the perimeter accomplishing absolutely nothing.

    this team would be better off if they just played pick up. That’s how bad the coaching is.

  6. 23 minutes ago, EZ$ said:

    Being as we’ve never seen him or any of the others play, you have to defer to the recruiting rankings and he was rated higher than anyone except the starters...so yes, guys like Estell, Duvernay, Brown, etc. 

     No we don’t. People all over this board said he sucked and was overrated. He ran a 4.8 in high school for god’s sake. He can’t play corner and we’re loaded at safety and have no need for him. 

    Also, getting washed out at A&M, who has terrible DBs, is another bad data point beyond his recruiting ranking. 

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  7. 23 minutes ago, pacman said:

     If our program is a grade above dog shit, he has improved enough to "contribute" if called upon. 

     

    If our program is a grade above dog shit, then Kyle Porter will never see another carry in a meaningful situation. The only reason Porter would play is because we have done a shitty job of stocking the RB position the last 4 years. There's no coaching that magically makes Porter a good runner all of a sudden.

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  8. 10 minutes ago, Bitterwhiteguy said:

    TCU is in a really weird place right now, they have 3 guys transferring out mid-season (Archie, Alok, & McWilliam) and Fisher's knee isn't quite right and he's missing games intermittently. If they were at full strength they could challenge for a top 2-3 spot in the conference but their depth is minimal (they played 7 guys against Kansas) and Fisher's knee isn't going to get better as the season goes on. This seems to be a very up & down year for TCU.

    Damn. Didn't realize it was getting that bad for them. Well, we'll take all the help we can get right now.  Thanks for the info.

  9. 13 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

    How about this prediction. One of the reasons (besides Whittington) we aren’t moving forward with Glass is that Porter stays. And.......he not only plays significant snaps next fall........he actually becomes a solid contributor.

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  10. It cracks me up how many ags think their program is on a perfectly linear upward trajectory.  They lose almost all of their best players off this year's roster. The 2015 class was their best recruiting class in the last 4 years.  All those guys are gone. All the best guys from their #18 2016 class have declared early, leaving them with the least talented parts of a poor 2016 class plus their 2017 class (#13) and 2018 class (#17), along with hoping and praying that as many guys from 2019 can play early as possible. Plain and simple, next year's team is going to be a hell of a lot less talented than this year's and their schedule gets harder. 

    It's gonna be fun to watch the ags struggle to comprehend this all next year. 

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  11. 11 minutes ago, sushihorn said:

    Dungy is the only guy out of that group that was clearly a good coach.  The rest are basically Jeff Fisher, now available in black.

    Dungy was fired because TB kept making early exits in the playoffs, basically the same reason Tony Romo lost his job.  Dungy's subsequent performance at Indy makes the decision look stupid in hindsight but that data was obviously not available at the time and it's also hard to argue that replacing him with Gruden was a bad decision.

    I'd also add that the Glazers are notorious for having a short leash with coaches. They're morons who fire coaches too early all the time regardless of race. 

  12. 11 minutes ago, ClubWhatever said:

    Georgia seems pretty bad as does TCU, but yeah it’s quite possible. 

    Georgia is bad. They're like 94 in Kenpom, but TCU is ahead of us by like 4 spots. A lot will depend on TCU's health when we face them, but if they're fully healthy or close to it, they're definitely the better team. The only game in this stretch that we'll be clearly favored is UGA. If we can win that one and even go 2-4 in our next 6 conference games, it'll be a huge success for this team. 

  13. 37 minutes ago, Katfid54 said:

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    It's always nice to see you return to your roots. Sometimes you wander by trying to post an intellectual scheme analysis to the Football Board or give an actual eval of a recruit on here, but then you post something like this

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  14. 9 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    It’s crazy that Derrian Brown would end up being the wizard who would shine the light for me on the level of absolute dumbfuckery that some hillbillies on this board are capable of achieving.

    Well SpiderY2Banana did say yesterday that Zach Evans is to Texas as Bru McCoy is to USC, so at least for him the topics that expose his dumbassery are certainly not limited to Derrian Brown. 

  15. 1 minute ago, Cameltoe said:

    Current national Pomeroy ranking: #29

    Last year's final ranking: #36

     

    Current talent level: 8.4 

    Last year's talent level: 7.6

     

    If we hadn't lost in Stillwater, none of you would be making all these negative posts. Instead you would be saying "wow, i'm cautiously optimistic" and things that. But the difference between winning and losing in Stillwater is a couple of coinflips, you insufferable morons... why should your opinion of his entire tenure be based on a couple coinflips? That's what makes you a moron--that instead of looking at longterm arcs, you look at one loss and lose your shit.

    This is idiotic. Plenty of us pointed out that the KSU win was based on unsustainable shooting and the eye test shows no progressive improvement in the team or the offense this entire season.  Every once in a while our shots fall and we win, but the offense produces the same poor quality of shots regardless. Most of us with a problem with Shaka have a problem with his process irrespective of individual results.

     You on the other hand, look at the results and act like the process has changed. Every time we win or shoot well, you act like things are fine. You did this exact thing after the KSU game. 

    It's an embarrassment to all of us on the Basketball board that this dumbass hasn't been fatwa'd by now.

  16. 4 minutes ago, TexasPride10 said:

    Well apparently now Martell is in the portal. So Hurts starts at tOSU next year, and then Fields the next?  

    Fields is likely going to play next year. He already has the attorney that represented Shea Patterson last year. 

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  17. 12 minutes ago, Cameltoe said:

    It don't make a shit.

    The team is on an upward arc, overall, and that is what is asked of Shaka right now. No one likes losing in Stillwater, but the season goes on. We are still throwing out a substantial force of talent on the floor (though I wish they'd get better at shooting) and we are facing nothing other than the same adversities that all teams face during the middle of the season.

    The panicky nature of many of y'all's evaluations of Shaka is stupid and uncalled-for.

    This team is not on an upward arc at all. We're 3-2 in our last 5 games with the highest ranked team in that span being Pomeroy #48 KSU. We're about to face Tech (#9), KU twice (#10), OU (#22), TCU (#26), and Iowa State (#14) in 5 of our next 6 games. We could easily and likely go 1-5 in those games, leaving us at 11-10 (assuming we beat UGA) and 3-6 in conference by the end of that stretch.

    This team has "faced adversity" in the easy part of its schedule.  Things are about to get much uglier. 

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