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  1. 3 hours ago, satyanash said:

    E.J. Holland: Why this weekend could make or break Texas on recruiting trail

     

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    The biggest recruiting weekend of the Tom Herman era is here. Texas will take on USC in a battle of two storied programs that met for a national championship a dozen years ago. The visitors list is stacked with several elite prospects, and the atmosphere in Austin is guaranteed to be electric. While this was viewed as a monster recruiting weekend in the offseason, the importance of it has grown exponentially. Texas has struggled on the field out of the gates, and recruiting rival Texas A&M has used that, and its marquee game against Clemson to build momentum.

    There is no way around it. Texas needs to win this game. The ramifications of a loss — and more losses in the next few weeks — could be extremely detrimental to the 2019 class and more so the 2020 class. It’s put up or shut up time for the Longhorns. You can’t keep selling the future. That pitch can go in trashcans around the recruiting offices at Moncrief. Recruits are tired of mild progress. They want to see results. 

    A win against USC would set the tone for a strong close this cycle, early momentum in 2020 and slow down what could be a dangerous storm brewing in College Station. Texas A&M gave Clemson all it could handle and walked away with a five-star recruit in 2020. It’s UT’s turn to counter and prevent another subpar year of in-state recruiting. The Longhorns are set to host 2020 targets like Prince Dorbah, Jaylon Jones, Dwight McGlothern, Bryson Washington, Darius Snow and Michael Henderson as well as national recruits Justin Rogers and Mookie Cooper.

    Win and suddenly that Texas A&M-Clemson game becomes more of a memory than the hot topic of the day for underclassmen. For the 2019 class, this is a chance for Texas to gain some much-needed commitments. Four-star running back Derrian Brown and intriguing Plano East safety Tyler Owens definitely come to mind when talking potential pull the trigger candidates. It’s also an opportunity to wow key targets like Bru McCoy, Marcus Washington, Elijah Higgins and Lewis Cine and keep those like Javonne Shepherd, who is looking at A&M again, in the fold.

    While things have certinaly looked bleak on the recruiting trail since the Longhorns’ black eye of a loss to Maryland in the season opener, all the negativity can be washed away this weekend. Just win, baby.

     

    Now that's some first class reporting right there.  

    I never would have thought of any of that had I not read that article.  

  2. 1 hour ago, kevwun said:

    Herman will be gone after next season if he has a losing record this year and next.  That shit isn't even up for debate.

    I agree with this.

    Maybe after this year if we start 2-6.

    Maryland was the most important game on the schedule given what happened last year,  and he failed miserably.  Needed that win to set some kind of positive tone for the year.  

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  3. On 9/1/2018 at 4:56 PM, Knoxtnhorn said:

    The ball is spread too much to the receivers as well.  I mean, if we were a team like Tech, I'd understand it.  As it is, there is no reason that a combo of Duvernay, CJ, and LJH shouldn't be getting 95% of all the passes past the line of scrimmage.

    But if they show double team,  we can't throw it to them.

    Don't you know there is no way to beat a double team.

    Football is really, really,  really hard.  

  4. 3 minutes ago, South Austin said:

    This may seem like a bold concept, but hear me out.  What if we send our university president and athletic director on a private jet to Tampa and be Gilbert to be our offensive coordinator for $1 million?

    No school in their right mind would ever do anything like that.

  5. 11 hours ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

    Man, funny you should mention that. My son wants to be a journalist when he gets out of the real army...And while my heart is all for it, my head is 100 percent against him following in my footsteps, with the things are in this trade nowadays. Anyway I was telling him just yesterday if he wants to get the most out of that GI Bill money in a journalism school he needed to go to Missouri or Columbia. (Shit, it occurs to me now I forgot about Northwestern.) He won't listen, and he will go to journalism school somewhere in Texas, but I made the effort and will continue doing so.)

     

    He won't have much competition,  there aren't many good journalists around nowadays.  

  6. 10 hours ago, Rockethorn1978 said:

    Listening to cdc I am more than confident this guy will be the one that will fly out to Clemson at seasons end and convince a guy like dabo to come here. Not having a competent AD in place years ago is why we hired Charlie and Herman and not someone that can handle the pressure of being the head coach at Texas. 

    CDC sounded monotone and defeated during the game tonight compared to how upbeat he was on lhn pregame show, of this continues there is no way he won’t make a change at seasons end.

    I got the same read from CDC.

    He didn't seem happy at all.

  7. Don't imagine CDC spends any time on Surly Bevo,  but I think it's interesting the the top 3 threads by number on the 1st page of the football board are:

    1.  Tell me about tex A&M

    2.  Urban Meyer suspended

    3.  Fire Tom Herman

    Not sure what that says about our program but pretty sure it's not real positive.  

  8. 23 hours ago, RowdyVic said:

    Doesnt matter how bad we beat them or how good we perform, we will try to be perfect and shit the bed against better competition.

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    The team "trying to be to perfect" is the most asinine thing I have ever heard a coach say.  

  9. 13 hours ago, AustinMT said:

    Going back a few years...

    The admin let Dodd run his fiefdom without interference.  Dodd allowed Mack to do whatever he wanted to do, and Mack’s last few years were a total shit show, both in terms of hiring and on-field performances.  He screwed up on coaching hires (and decisions like not letting Harsin actually run the offense).

    When things finally hit bottom, the admin allowed the circus that was Patterson’s hiring and Mack’s firing (he deserved the firing, but as you recall it was handled poorly).  Patterson was an awful hire who created more issues, including making a bad decision hiring Strong.  Nice guy, in over his head, and another run like Mack’s last few years of hiring bad assistants.

    Then the admin fired Patterson, and put in Perrin.  Perrin would have been fine for a 3-4 month stopgap but, instead, they let someone who had no clue of how to run a large, modern athletic department stay on as AD.  We would up with the embarrassing trip to try to convince a second-level OC to come to Texas, a poorly-run baseball coaching search (from which we somehow, with pure luck, wound up with a good coach), and a complete lack of a true coaching search, winding up with someone who, like his predecessor, seems to be in over his head.

    Hopefully CDC can get this moving in the right direction.   If the admin allows it.

    Pretty much agree with what you said,  but I haven't seen anything to indicate mensa Tom isn't getting everything he needs.  

  10. 4 hours ago, Enchubben said:

    That’s because our genius coaches split out Kyle fucking Porter and Andrew Beck out wide instead of wide receivers. 

    Add on a nice slow tempo with no urgency and inaccurate passing and voila.  

    It was just so painfully obvious that once we started to run Watson and Ingram and play with tempo that things started to open up. So what do we do? We completely abandon both. Fuck Tom Herman’s offense.

    According to Tom,  defensive formation is all that's needed to shut down our most potent weapons.  

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