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  1. None of us really know whether proper due diligence on Johnson was done or not... And yes he was "ranked highly" with many offers etc. etc.... What I recall though is he was quite an easy bag for where he was ranked. Texas didn't really fight anyone for his commitment and seeing as how many of his higher end offers have serious bag game and we didnt/don't then we can fill in some blanks. Herman probably did know about the lack of passion but probably took him anyway because 1) makes the class look good, and 2) thought he and Yancy could force *ahem* corch him up to be a good player.
  2. Just as an fyi, some posts up stream mentioning BJ are in reference to Brian Jones.
  3. Rising went to Utah knowing full well he would have to wait a couple of years and then perform to start, same as here at UT. Our coaches could have put their efforts into securing one and not the other, rather they went with the "try to keep both" approach while not seeing the Thompson play for what it was, a fucking play. Like you said, Thompson didn't have the pick of a better situation, Rising had more variety of options. Assuring him of a post-Ehlinger future and letting Thompson go and maybe even calling the bluff was something they could have done, but for whatever reason, didn't execute on it. QB room management is one of the most important things in football, and now we're left with 2 shitty QBs competing for losses and mediocrity with the more tenured guy emptying lockers, threatening portal action and generally just throwing shit fits when he doesn't get his way . Beating OU probably was the thing ol' Chucky and Casey wanted most, and I'm not surprised the offense and rest of the team have been in freefall since the choke job. Now they're in all out fuck it mode and we're left with race card bullshit accusations involving donors, coaches and team "leaders" during a 6/7ish losing streak Card seems to have his own stans with some influence lurking around too, not that it fucking matters now. It's all a shit show
  4. Rising and C Thompson entered the portal within a week of each other, and one of them rescinded after the other took off. There was plenty of staff interaction during that time and if you think the coaches didn't have some sway on the end result then there's another dull knife in the drawer
  5. Casey and his dad treating the entirety of the college athletics experience like Game of fucking Thrones has been such a beating. Allowing this guy to play politics with the QB room over the years is inexplicable ineptitude. Grateful Sark has the balls that Herman never had to cut bait on them both, although I suspect things will only get uglier from here before he's fully kicked out. Out of Rising, Jackson, and Thompson, we let the better ones go for a locker room cancer that is nowhere near good enough on the field to outweigh the trouble. Being a self absorbed little bitch is what brings out the race baiting, not that there's any specific truth to it. Losers that start to struggle will go to any lengths to save some face. Stooping that low out of self interest has to have a damaging effect on the rest of the team, especially those that have deeper connections with the guy... Several upperclassmen come to mind
  6. Yes To'oto'o is leagues better and was the real prize in the portal last cycle, doesn't matter though because we never had a chance there
  7. He's slow but then again, we're using Brockermeyer. Would you like Brockermeyer or Gaoteote?
  8. I don't know anything from anyone in the know, but isn't this what most thought? we the fans wanted Herman gone for football reasons but I always believed the University did the canning pretty much solely due to the negative PR from all that mess. Largely the same group of players that became apparently really invested in off the field advocacy is now being expected to forget it all and focus on football? Their give a fuck meter is just so low, I would be curious to know what else you heard
  9. Right, if we're not careful the transfer portal will worsen the state of affairs and render us a permanent early retirement school with nice weather and good food
  10. We seem to be agreeing on many points. There's no reason why a coaching staff at Texas can't evaluate for love of the game and resiliency on top of whether they also run track or not. Herman's recruiting office pushed life after football and JMBLYA concerts harder than any serious football school has any business doing. National consensus about the team being soft now is a really fucking obvious consequence of self selecting for anything other than excellence in football. Yes the AD probably looves taking a few kids from St Louis and Louisiana every year that they can turn into feel good stories like a benevolent charitable social worker, whose parents will tweet out to the ether about how their kids were saved by the University. Our rivals are selling SEC and NFL, it makes little surprise the filtering for softness occurs before the guys even get on campus.
  11. Yeah the veiled CR is just personal bias on your part. Austin has tons of things to do, and things that young people want to do for fun. Texas PR and coaches in the past regime spent a hell of a lot of time and effort selling Austin as an adventurous fun-loving city, rather than anything at all to do with football. Cue Carrington tweet and his celebrity attire on the sidelines. What type of guy do you think responded to the pitch? Austin didn't corrupt anyone, we've been recruiting guys to come here and have fun
  12. Not trying to dog your idea because it's just a fun thought, but where do you see the blocking coming from while Roschon processes all of these pretty difficult decisions? Brewer? Wiley? C Jones? If we can't play straight up on basic plays let's just forget the fancy stuff
  13. I go back and forth between WR and LB. Safety 3rd worst
  14. Blippi exploring museums, how things are made, and showcasing all kinds of machinery and vehicles beats the pants off of cocomelon or the inane Paw Patrol type animation shows. Bluey is on another level though, has a ton of heart and really explores healthy family dynamics
  15. Sounds like a guy that has been elevated simply because of handshakes, smiles, and conversation, not unlike a politician of local government or other second rate public office. Probably just a dumb guy tbh, anything even remotely technical is avoided like the plague to cover for his mental deficiencies
  16. Agreed here, S&C is something that can be judged in many ways relatively quickly, and our guys fail the eye test just in general physique and in strength upon contact, pretty much across the board
  17. I think you're mixing up a few classes. The Florida guys were in his transition class and not really highly rated, Cherry was the flake but we got a few solid years out of Davante Davis, his run support from the corner spot was something Herman should thank Charlie for. Regardless, the 2016 errrbody signing day flurry madness class was the highlight of Strong recruiting. Brandon Jones, Dev Duv, LJH, Collin Johnson, Chris Brown, Malcolm Roach... Shack (I guess he counts too) all those guys willed out wins at various points despite Herman. What Herman himself brought in and signed absolutely pales in comparison (both under his tutelage and now) The alarm bells for me started ringing in 2018, away at OSU. They punch us in the mouth and slowly the team inches back with Ehlinger throwing dimes to Ingram on a wheel route and a neat pop pass to Beck. Then OSU drives down into the red zone. A good season and a good record on the road, controlling one's own destiny, top 10 ranking, conference championship nearly in sight. Then Gundy gets Taylor "Corndog" Cornelius on a design run and we've got our "5 star DB" 1 on 1 with him, and the result is... absolutely pathetic. Piss poor effort is what hits you first, but then I had the realization that actual functional athleticism wasn't there either. Corndog was the better athlete on that play. Corndog. I can't even think about that play for too long before my blood boils. I said, oh fuck, this is what Herman thought was good... And here we are. On the coaching front, both of these schemes on O and D are low floor/high ceiling schemes obviously. Many many coaches could get better results this year but I want a chicken salad that tastes like chicken with tarragon rather than a chicken shit salad sprinkled with parsley. The development discussion will frankly take a few years to judge properly, regardless of who is doing the coaching Correction Dev Duv fell in Charlie's lap and probably shouldn't be credited as his achievement but I think the greater point still stands
  18. These are the most competitive bidding wars though, so if that's what you want we still need some serious overhauling to do. OU has made some really good moves nationally, securing takes from the likes of Mater Dei, Bishop Gorman, St. Frances Academy, etc. Aggy is doing similarly with more SEC stink to it but the point is neither of these rivals are talking up BEASTexas or the pride of the Rio Grande Valley Throw in the yearly JAGs from LT and Westlake to keep the west Austin suburban mafia placated
  19. Just off the top of my head, there was a cycle when Herman and the Texas program were in a position to sell a positive future and yet we spent a significant amount of time entertaining prospects like Peyton Powell and Demariyon Houston, no doubt propping up their rankings in the process. Texas doing this while in a position to improve the roster without significant obstacles in their way and instead going dumpster diving casts the entire talent acquisition side of things in doubt.
  20. The lack of depth kills most hard coaching methods for year one staffs. You guys are checked out incumbents way too comfortable with continued starts in front of 100k fans while the product is abysmal? Well shit who else can we play instead... They've chosen a mixed bag of playing shitty walk ons that are practice warriors and yelling at knuckleheads at practice whom should know better by now That's all part of the evaluation, recruitment, development path. The coaches that can make chicken shit out of chicken salad ala Orlando, according to one self-serving Herman, get used to starting off with an ingredient no one wants to ingest in the first place. Choate and PK might be similar although we know less about that part of their philosophies at this point. I know Sark wants the Cornish hens at least before he makes his chicken salad. Anyway, our current coaches have schemes that don't even get off the ground when there's insufficient talent, so true, there's loads of guys we could have hired that would have kept us closer in many of our losses, but that's all missing the forest for the trees.
  21. Football as we know, is about matchups. We're not losing because teams are testing the corners for example. Case in point the TD play to Kolar (or the other TE I don't recall of the top of my head). Hall (who absolutely out talents most if not all of our D personnel) squirts out to the flat and draws Adimora to crash down on him while the TE (who out talents our TE room and most of the LBs) runs upfield. Now it's up to Luke Brockermeyer to cover him and he's physically not able to get within 10 yards of the guy. Backside help is one of the other spares at Safety, which neither schooler or foster (one of the most blatantly overrated players on the field) or Thompson have the athleticism to make it even contested. We have eyes. There's athletic liabilities up and down the field and I believe Herman's operation didn't know left from right when evaluating. The little blurb they show is lazy ass narrative. MacDonald IV would be an absolute godsend, as would eisworth and young. They're coached well no doubt, but they have program stability and riddled with overachieving senior leaders much like OSU and to a lesser extent Baylor, and we're just none of those things. This is what Herman and his buddies left us and the Texas recruiting industry will polish turds because we cream our pants at finishing top 10 in recruiting as copium for what we really are and there's lots of money to be made there. Not to mention the stats don't reflect the reality of the 2018, 2019, or 2020 classes and where the talent actually is, because a ton of that isn't even on the field or on the roster. I'm not even mentioning Arkansas, which is a team with hardly any talent holes and thus can play their brand of ball confidently. Card, the scrub we all just watched, was rated a fucking .97 or some shit. Questions have to be asked about talent evaluation around our program for the last few years. I'm leaving Sark out of this aspect of the discussion until we see what he brings in, or rather what our prepubescent infrastructure allows him to bring in
  22. No, the immediate playing time pitch has to be blasted daily to the 22 and 23 guys, because no one is winning shit with the guys currently on the team. In the background pull as many pieces as possible from the portal. There's single digit quality players on the team, and even fewer that give a shit about losing and playing poorly, and those few are underclassmen
  23. Doing what they're doing is literally how to prove otherwise. Why does past history matter one bit? Blind homerism is stupid as fuck and you should feel bad. If we can't bring ourselves to be motivated to compete on the terms of modern college football when our biggest rival is all in then we will continue to fall to doormat status and things will never improve, and it will be fully deserved
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