Wulaw Horn
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I’m not saying it’s preordained and can’t happen. It’s just what I believe is most likely to happen one way or another. I think 2026 is a massive pivot point for the program.
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Need to also talk about Mac 1 and 2 and late stage Mack.
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For sure.
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You were replying while I was editing to say everything you said originally was correct about Williams and who he has been. It doesn’t have to be him but I want a WR #1 for the reasons I said. could we make everything we have work in the secondary? Sure. I just see 26 as national title or bust. If it doesn’t happen next year for sark I don’t think it ever will. The Muschamp hire is awesome. I’m going to trust him completely. If he says we don’t need guys back there I believe him. He’s such a gift taking that job. If we win it all him and Sark could go on a serious run together. We just can’t leave any powder dry this offseason.
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Other then that though what would your problem be with brining him in? (This is my way of saying everything you said about him is accurate). But, there’s another plausible path where he gets his head right in a contract year, becomes a top 5 pick and has the greatest season by a WR in Texas football history (not an absurdly high bar). That’s not exactly implausible. The WR room next year has a very decent floor but I don’t believe in its ceiling as presently constituted. I really want a WR 1 badly if we want to be serious about being favorite to win it all next year as opposed to in the mix. We need 3 OL lineman, a really good RB a decent body at DT, and starters at LB, 1 CB and safety to set the floor of the team as playoff likely, but if you do all that and don’t get a day 1 WR are you laying points in the college semi’s? I think so.
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Yeah. I also watched the middle 1/3 of the season where we won 13 of his starts in a row and the previous 4 years where he reserved cy young votes every year. He shot the bed down the stretch no doubt. I think he got in his own head and isn’t cooked or anything. Lie I said- it’s an offer I would make him that he could take if he felt he had to, but it’s not likely he’d take it.
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Frambers rep is worse with everyone else on here than me. He’s been a TOR guy that pitches a bunch of innings for years. I’d offer him 3/100 or something like that and walk at anything more. 2/70 would be fine with me too. Unless there’s a fair bit of development and draft this teams window ends in 2027. 2 years of Framber would make us legit World Series contenders through 27 and then it’s probably a rebuild. I’m aware that he’s not at all likely to take that- it if they are talking to him that would be my offer.
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Blubaugh and Ullola are going to be good MLB pitchers. If they add JV with this deal as well they are fine. Unless they want to add an actual legit ace/2. But that has to be the deal or don’t bother just for depth. Brown, Burrows, JV, Javier, Arrighetti, blubaugh is absolutely fine for the regular season. That leaves you Ullola, Costanza, Gordon (France/ unless I missed him getting waived or something) and whoever else has helium in the minors as depth pieces, before getting Blanco and Wesneski back at all star break or so). Plus Dana’s dumpster diving over the off season. You can shred 3 of those arms (as long as one isn’t Brown) and still expect to get a MLB caliber start out of any of them. It’s missing a reliable co ace/two. If you aren’t going to do that don’t bother. glad to see the back of Melton. I hated that guy from the minute he was drafted.
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This is the number for what we should always be wanting to retain from a previous roster and take into the next cycle- 40 or so you want to actively keep around headed into the the new roster cycle High School recruiting: Every year- Elite tackle, WR, Edge, CB, RB, Safety Every other year- Elite QB, TE, Guard, LB You should always sign 25 or 30. This would have you paying top dollar for 8 or so guys every year. The other 16-22 should be 3 star or low 4 star development types that you hope to hit on like 3 or 4 keepers and contributors per cycle and tell the other 12-20 to fuck off of or hang around and play for free. If you do that, then every year you should expect to be able to get by from the portal with 3 or so elite day 1 or 2 NFL talents to fill in where you busted and 7-10 rotational guys around the quality of the Purdue DT, or Spence from Arkansas. Guys that can play a role and add depth, but don't need to come in and be awesome they need to smooth out the rough edges of your roster. If they did this it should be a roster of 45 or 50 guys ready to play at all times with 10+ draft picks per cycle. That seems doable for 30M-40M a year on roster spend which is what I’d expect our number to be going forward. You need to enforce a development curve and don’t fuck around with sentimentality. I like telling Baxter and Moore to GTFO as a sign of that happening. We are in MLB territory now with windows, stars and scrubs and you hope you develop the “scrubs” enough to take 16 cracks at it a year and have them fill out 3-5 productive roster spots, while your stars play like stars and you tell them to GTFO if they don't
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Same. My wife made me an office and tv watching room with 4 55 inch TV’s to watch at the same time. I don’t know that I will watch the first round other than to root against aggy.
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Sure they will. But why would we?
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Holy shit you dipshits: 9-3 Texas is probably in the playoffs
Wulaw Horn replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
ESPN paid 9 billion for this and also it’s supposed to be entertainment, so… no what the committee should be tasked with doing is making sure they screw up maximal enjoyment of college football both for this years playoffs while also fucking up fun September games longterm. It was aces dude! -
Holy shit you dipshits: 9-3 Texas is probably in the playoffs
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And 65% likely. I had us as #5 of 5 sec teams in the playoffs. I thought OU getting to 10-2 is what knocked us out. That would have made me correct. But it wasn’t. They literally decided that all that mattered was counting losses so I was wrong. This whole thing was a probabilistic thread and as it turned out we were always never going beyond counting regular season losses regardless of what they said. -
Holy shit you dipshits: 9-3 Texas is probably in the playoffs
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I also thought it would be a good idea to write about my family living on the road out of an RV during Covid!
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