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  1. Are you aware of how fantastic of a malapropism this is?
  2. Also just the momentum of coming off a year where he actually played football. The guy balled out after having his senior season cancelled and being a summer enrollee with a new staff. Incredible. He now gets an entire offseason being WR1 in the same system. Exciting.
  3. It can bit more nuanced as far as best 5 vs best overall unit. Assume best 6 in order is Angilau, Banks, Campbell, Jones, Majors, Conner. I may decide that Campbell plays RT better than Jones, and Conner plays G better than Jones, so Jones becomes my sixth man. Banks - Angilau - Majors - Conner - Campbell. The "best 5" mentality might have hurt us in 2020, when Kerstetter moved to C. Inserting Majors theoretically could have produced a better unit. Hindsight, tho.
  4. Yancy would never allow this. He demanded cleats on at all times, even in the showers.
  5. I wonder how sustainable it is for Saban to continue this trend of bringing in sure-fire starters from the portal and pushing out young studs. Seems faustian, but if anyone can make it work it's him.
  6. To be clear--in addition to Ewers, Watts, Billingsly, Neyor, Mathis, Brini, Moody--in the portal you would like to add: OT, OT, C, Edge, ILB, TE, DL, DL, DL. 16 total transfers. Am I missing anyone?
  7. 1. Your "taking reps" idea is colored a lot by hindsight. The main mission going into the season was to win enough games to positively impact recruiting. Looking back, we should have been focused on playing young guys and developing for 2022. Given the mission, the best guys needed to play until a 'plausibly spinnable' season (7-5) was out of reach, which was the loss to Kansas. Also needed to foster a meritocracy, so if Dunn was better to start the year, you play him. Barron became the starter at the end of the year anyway. Pretty sure Crawford was hampered by injury all year. 2. I agree with portal needing to be definitive upgrades, but only once the roster construction has normalized. Were not in the emergency 'there are literally no EDGE players' situation from last year that necessitated taking 3 JAGs just to fill a room with bodies. But, for positions where depth is still an issue it does make sense to take guys that may not be definitive upgrades, but who will for sure impact the 2-deep. And OU only would have had 1 RB without Gray, so they were definitely in better shape with him. I agree with your general portal sentiments, but right now portal is a really effective tool to normalize and upgrade the roster.
  8. The first rule of the Transfer Portal is you dont worry about numbers. The second rule of the Transfer Portal is you dont talk about numbers. The third rule of the Transfer Portal is if you do worry and talk about numbers, don't be a fucking idiot and have a fucking clue. See rule 3, above. To reiterate: don't be a fucking idiot and have a fucking clue.
  9. Never is a strong word. And him still being here in that case is not exactly a ringing endorsement. To me--and although I have no evidence for this I'm sure the coaches must feel the same way--the thing that currently makes me most doubtful of Card's future is his mixture of great athleticism and piss-poor scrambling running ability. Even if he's taking sacks and missing throws, I would have a bunch more confidence is he's torching teams for 10 yards at a time running and showing off some athleticism. His ability to turn wide-open 10 yard running lanes into nail biting 2-yard gains was flabbergasting. Sees defender 10 yards away and turns straight into the sideline, no pump fakes, no jukes, no COD, no head fakes, no cuts. Never seen anything like it from a "dual threat" QB with viable traits.
  10. Defensive end was clearly the weakest position on the defense this year. That made the rest of the defense look terrible. 2020 Ossai and Jones made first-year-LB DMO and Juwan fuckface Mitchell look above average. The drop-off in EDGE production in 2021 was astronomical. Thornton would consistently do nothing. Ovie would sometimes make a play, bust most other times get blown off the ball so bad an entire side of the defense would get compromised. The defense managed to play average football when Jones was healthy. The rest of the time, hapless.
  11. Your take isnt lazy, it's nonsensical. By your logic: Texas has "lottery-type odds" to land multiple 5-star OL, because Texas has never landed multiple 5-star OL. So if Devon Campbell commits to Texas, then we should automatically have doubts about his ability and rate him as a 4-star, because a 5-star OL is already committed. Nonsensical.
  12. Burke is a weird case as far as rankings. Skewed data set. Flew totally under the radar until late this year, expected to play a different sport. Started stacking offers mid-season. The kid didn't even get ranked until December 3, 2021. He's a consensus 3-star, but On3 has him as 4-star. Gerry says he will be in an On3 top-150 player. Absolutely dominated in the playoffs, consistently. I wouldn't view him as 'just another 3-star' when making predictions about him.
  13. When was the last time one of our coaches got poached/took a better job elsewhere? Honestly cant remember a single one from Herman.
  14. Meanwhile highly acclaimed OL coach and recruiting witch Mario Cristobal sees Williams as having a higher ceiling than Banks. You drop 40 lbs of fat and offset with 10 lbs of added muscle. Speed and agility magically increase. All of a sudden you have a nimble 6'7 340 tackle prospect with massive wingspan and hands big enough to palm a football helmet. Definition of a high ceiling.
  15. I agree. Although it's gonna be such a crazy close to this thing that he might commit and sign on Wednesday before the class is fully decided. Sark clearly wants that RB2 , so Red is benefitting from demand.
  16. Does it look like he lost weight?
  17. I'm excited to be proven wrong on this ongoing debate of whether "numbers matter," but we don't have the numbers for this. Based on 33 counters. We sit at 22 HS recruits. We take: Agbo Campbell Red S (Mathews/LTG) CB (Harris/Brice) WR (Winfield) That's 28 HS recruits. We would take Brooks. We would take Stewart. We would take Perkins. But call it 28. That leaves 5 spots for transfers. 4 after Ewers. I want WR, OL, LB, DB. Sounds like DB (Watts) and OL (Dunlap) are in the bag. So 2 open spots. However you slice it, it looks like were taking 2-5 transfers. We also need to process out 8 more current schollies to open those spots, but thats a separate debate.
  18. Re: replacing Kobie: Red has too good of hands and route running to be an LB. His value is APB. He is the Jamarion Miller replacement. He also has value as a wildcat if Sark starts seeing that as an ongoing wrinkle. I like the idea of 210-pounders who can do standing backflips on offense. TJ Dudley would be ideal. Tea leaves, I could see the Terrance Gibbs offer being the staff front-running the Kobie de-commitment. Gibbs has LB snaps on tape, his coach has said he plays D and O, and looks like he's around 210-215, if not more. Let him develop as an LB while he heals from the injury. Still don't like the take. I think we take also take an LB portal. I loved the UNLV guy's tape. Staff will probably be patient until after NSD2. Longshots would be Jacoby Mathews or Perkins, both tweeners. Not holding my breath.
  19. I don't necessarily disagree. However, for this class in particular I would lean away from taking flyers on injured guys with long recovery timelines. We need contributors all throughout the depth chart, ASAP. I could see keeping this guy warm until NSD2, but even then I would rather look to the portal. Also need more durability on the roster.
  20. Gibbs had a season ending injury his junior year. The decline in his tape from sophomore to senior is horrifying. He's a jag at RB, at best. Hopefully this is an LB developmental take. Even then I don't get it.
  21. I'm not disagreeing with your first point. But having a certain mantra before OU doesn't mean that that's the same mantra now. I think the coaches clearly misjudged the state of the roster last summer. So going into what they thought was going to be a 9-3/10-2 season, their plan could very well have been to focus more on transfers this cycle and plug any remaining holes. But after the, as you so aptly describe, "4th or 5th buttfucking in a row," I would assume their mindset changed to needing to tear this thing down to the studs and rebuild from the ground up. If I'm a coach, that means shifting to a focus on HS recruiting to get as many fresh-faced dudes in here as possible--I'm not sure you can do a full teardown/rebuild with transfers. And as you point out, I can't think of any good reason for keeping transfer announcements under wraps, except for their focusing being on landing HS recruits--at the risk of losing transfer commitments. To your second point, the basis of my post was on a 33-man counter. If roster rules are no longer relevant--which I have not seen any evidence for that being the case--then yes, anything is possible. Otherwise, I'm working off 25-man counter, 7-man transfer surplus, and limited EE count-backs. I would love to be shown evidence that roster rules no longer matter.
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