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  1. Our coaches have to reload and win with inexperienced guys if we ever want to be a power. OU has done and continues to do it and we have to get past them to matter on the national stage. There is no team in the Big 12 outside of OU that should have as potent an offense as we should have. We have more on-paper talent on D than anyone else. If we are losing games because all our other positions can't blow out our opponents to overcome a mediocre LB corp, then we are in for a long run of 'almost'.

  2. 10 hours ago, Mdhorn said:

    The NCAA has been done.  They are a joke.  The only thing people learned in regards to Cam Newton is how to better cover their tracks and that in the end, the methods they were using were fine.  

    The NCAA is just a reflection of its membership. It isn't an independent organization. I don't know why the majority of schools that don't want to aggressively cheat, don't accept the costs that come with that and stand up for their own rules. I guess they get paid too no matter how much some schools cheat and no one wants to upset the apple cart. But in the end the cheating will lead to changes that the member schools don't want, like players getting paid. All it will take is a few players who got paid big bucks by their SEC handlers to set the market and the courts aren't likely going to side with the bungling NCAA turning a blind eye to the fact that the market already exists.

  3. 1 hour ago, SwanderedTalent said:

    a lot of fans would-- they don't think so, and they wouldn't go into a hire with that explicit quid pro quo, but if you asked them ten years later if it was worth it, I think you would be unpleasantly surprised how many would say "ayup"

    If your program gets nuked a la SMU, no, obviously not, but the NCAA doesn't do that anymore. USC's recent problems on the football field are USC-created. Strictly in terms of whether or not Carroll was worth it, I think a lot of USC fans would say yes

    Fucking Penn State can bring in Top 5 classes and their fan base still thinks aiding and abetting child rape was worth having Joe Pa put them on the map, so that their current rape-cover-up coach can lead them to Big 10 titles. I imagine a majority of their fan base would even say it to the face of one of Sandusky's victims.

  4. 26 minutes ago, Machinator said:

    They're still paying $2.2M/year for Mike Young. I think Buzz was getting $2.6M. It makes no sense at all.

    And we are probably going to pay a Mike Young equivalent $3.2M or more in a year or two...If VT wants to stay under $3M, then they are smart to pay the next guy something closer to his experience rather than just saying the VT coach gets $2.6M+ because that what VT pays for its coach.

  5. 4 minutes ago, Machinator said:

    Here's the ever-useful link to the grad transfer tracker: https://gradtransfertracker.com/

    Thanks. There have already been a few P5-to-P5 LB transfers, so perhaps there is some value there. The potential transfer list has several P5 guys listed, but I don't know who is actually decent. The only name I recognized was USC's Betiku, but I don't really follow teams outside of Texas and the Big 12.

  6. Clemson Spring Game Today. While it sounds like the coaches are happy with the RB room, I am guessing we still chase Feaster should he decide to portal, right? Not sure Orlando had penciled Floyd in for major playing time, but any background on what LB grad transfers generally look like? Is it all JAGs or is there value? 

  7. 6 hours ago, Burt Macklin said:

     

    I’m no fan of Giles, Mehrhime, or Drayton but thesetwo takes are some pretty absurd overreactions. Herman’s largely running this program at a high level. He definitely has a few blind spots that need to be addressed, but saying things like we’ll get stuck hovering around 10 wins or saying Herman is mediocre and were not in a good place is pretty ridiculous.

    We just won 10 games with a team that was largely full of players recruited and developed by the worst coach in program history. We had talent issues, depth issues, fit issues, and a true sophomore QB and we won 10 games, including the Sugar Bowl. A ton of the guys Herman’s recruited look like absolute studs so far, and the talent level of this team rises every year and will take a massive jump up in 2020. In no world does it look like we’ll be stuck around 10 wins for the foreseeable future, nor does it look like Herman is mediocre and we’re not in a good place. 

     

    So why do you think some people have decided to defend Giles to such extremes? I am merely positing that some may want to think Herman infallible and therefore are inclined to think Giles is serving some role in an elite fashion to warrant his place on the staff. I am not sure what else motivates them. The on-field coaching staff is probably the most glaring issues at this point in his UT tenure (hopefully he stops coughing up games to shitty teams as he has done in each of his 4 seasons as an HC).

    The program is trending in the right direction, but let's see where it goes first and whether his blind spots, especially on the coaching staff, prove to be his undoing or not. The conference is still owned by OU, though to me perhaps the best thing that can be said of Herman thus far is that it is unlikely his teams will ever lay down to OU like too many of Mack's teams did. However, Herman's brief record shows some of Mack's inability to navigate the full conference slate necessary to winning a conference consistently. I want to see him lock down a conference title this season.

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