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  1. Moore almost certainly is the "would be parting without any bad blood from either side" WR. Has to be right? He is going to be at best the third or fourth option in our passing game next year and that is assuming Bishop (or Eason is he reclassifies) don't also leap up into the top of that WR rotation in year one. Then you have the clear need to add a WR with more speed and playmaking ability to the mix in the portal. Not someone we would push out the door but also not someone we should be putting any money towards keeping. I will be a bit shocked if Lockett and Ffrench both return but it sounds like both might.
  2. My understanding is that he did that after getting assurances Baker was still going to be there under the new coach. If Baker is now leaving to take over Tulane.. might open the door again. You are probably right though that he just sticks with them and whatever financial agreement they already have in place. Either way it is good news for us because Baker is an excellent DC and almost certainly much better than anyone Kiffin will find to replace him.
  3. LSU DC is interviewing today with Tulane. Seeing some buzz he is probably the favorite for the job and they might move quick to lock him down. Would certainly go a long way towards helping us flip that five star DT if something happens fast enough. In the very least have to think it might cause some of their defensive recruits to not sign right away on Wednesday.
  4. Do some of you watch these games with the sound off and your eyes closed? Robertson spent the entire first half getting ruthlessly ass fucked by the Aggie DL and nearly got Arch killed a handful of times. The only reason it looked better in the second half is because in one of the more inexplicable moments of coaching malpractice the Aggies almost entirely abandoned the blitz at halftime. Yes they had some nice blocks in the run game. Doesn't mean he isn't a massive liability or that we shouldn't do all in our power to upgrade from him in the portal.
  5. The best solution is to find someone who has played competent OT but knows their NFL future is at guard. It used to be you were better off just staying at tackle the entire time and moving inside at the next level but unless you are a high draft pick caliber guy that narrative has shifted a bit for the draft in recent years. They now like to see at least a little film of you having actually played at guard. It is why you have seen some pretty decent (but not NFL good) OTs the past few portal cycles enter with the intention of moving inside at their new program. Get one of those no matter the cost since it provides an emergency option if something bad happens with Baker or Goosby as well. OT/OG and then tamper in the best center you can find. I get some people like Gerry keep trying to bring up Cruz and that fucking retard Flood (who should be getting replaced either way) would fight it but Cruz has shown jack fucking shit in practice to suggest he is remotely close to being a viable starting center of the level we should demand. That is per players on our team and staff in our program just in the past few weeks.
  6. Knowing people who have kids on their team. Also their skin color (/s)
  7. The SEC just announced it is increasing the football scholarship limit to 105 to match what everyone has done following the NCAA limits change (part of their walk on rule changes). Probably safe to assume we knew this was coming and that it played a role in some of our recent takes. That RB and OL guy are great culture fits who might in a few years manage to contribute. Not guys you would typically waste a spot on if you are tight up against a limit but now that it is basically a former walk on spot? Absolutely. edit: I jumped the gun a bit in that I guess technically it has only been announced that the SEC will vote on the limit but it is overwhelmingly expected to be a unanimous vote to bump the cap.
  8. Some of you are continuing to make this way more complicated than it actually is. Just ask yourself the following question: Do you think the next five years of Texas football will be better under Sark or one of a handful of elite alternatives? That is all that matters right now. That is the discussion happening high up around the program. We have what we need to unquestionably burn Sark's career probably forever to the ground and fire him for cause if we want to pull that lever. Doesn't mean we should or that we want to.. but it gives us options. It gives people who have put tens of millions into the program and will be asked to do more of the same some very difficult but intriguing options to consider. If we knew the next few years of Texas football were going to be as good as the past few this wouldn't be a debate. Unfortunately we have an addict running our program who cannot keep his dick in his pants. He is a walking red flag. The specifics of what has happened are mostly irrelevant and people should probably just shut the fuck up about it. It doesn't benefit anyone to put it out all out there. Not unless the decision is made to move on and that certainly hasn't been decided yet. I'm not even saying it is likely. Only that it is being considered. At basically any point some things that are outside our control could derail the program and turn it into a radioactive situation. At the same time if Sark stays and does make another deep playoff run the chances of him immediately bolting to the NFL are extremely high no matter how much he rants at the media. So the debate isn't even really "Next five years of Sark vs five years under alternative". It is that but with the caveat that if Sark has the kind of seasons we believe he SHOULD at Texas... he is probably gone anyway. There just is no easy answer. Making all this more complicated is how fucking great the timing would be to make a coaching change. I've seen some just truly clueless fans say the opposite. That they think this cycle is a circus and would be a bad time to replace Sark. Those people couldn't be more wrong. There are maybe three coaches in the entire sport that we could not get right now (assuming we handled Sark's dismissal cleanly enough). We are in a surreal situation where just about everyone out there is open to moving. Even guys you would think are absolutely off the table are privately open to new opportunities. You think Day is suddenly happy at Ohio State after they literally tried to fire him this time last year? If Vraebal had given them a yes Day would have been out before their playoff run even began. He knows it. His agent knows it. His family knows it. That shit doesn't get better just because some boosters who were trying to bury you suddenly start talking a bit nicer. Guys like that look at Texas where 1-2 conference championships a decade is basically all you need to keep fans mostly happy, where just relevancy rather than titles is the expectation.... TLDR Stop getting caught up in the bullshit drama. It is irrelevant beyond the fact that it gives us the option of replacing Sark and not owing him a penny. It would give us more than enough justification to make any change we wanted to make without public backlash. The only thing that matters is whether certain people ultimately decide that we would be better off with someone other than Sark and if they do.. he is gone. Doesn't really matter what he thinks. THAT is the reality that Desmond Howard was speaking about when he made his comments.
  9. I don't entirely disagree with this but I would point out two things. There is an ocean of difference between reasonable expected regression after losing four starters vs what we have had. We have been the worst OL in the conference and arguably one of the worst in the entirety of the power conferences. There is no context in which that is even remotely acceptable for a program like Texas. That isn't arrogance or delusion. Just the simple reality given our resources. Also you mention the importance of continuity with the OL and you are absolutely right.. but we are losing Hutson and Campbell. No matter how things shake out in the portal we are going to have two new tackle-guard tandems and highly likely a different starting center as well (whether that comes from the portal or Cruz being ready). If continuity was a core cause of the problems this year then it will be so again in 2026.
  10. No one is dismissing Brooks' future. He has been objectively as bad as any Texas OL player has looked in a decade in his limited time, mostly out of position, which doesn't mean he won't turn into an absolute stud but does mean counting on him for next year would just be silly. I didn't say we need to process out these guys and start over at RT but adding in an experienced starter to at least compete makes sense unless you really enjoy losing to shit teams. Baker has shown improvement but he still isn't good in both phases and is likely to go back to looking like he is playing on rollerskates when we face Georgia and Texas A&M. It would be lovely if he could show that it hasn't just been a drop in competition level but I'm skeptical. Raising the floor of that tackle group with a more proven player who can come in and compete is an obvious move, as of now, if you don't want to see another season torpedoed by a singular position group. Hopefully Baker continues to look better and we won't have to. I've only ever heard great things about the kid personally so him thriving at Texas would be great. No one is rooting against that. Continuing to just hope that the kids recruited and developed by Flood will turn into productive above average starters though is an exercise in both futility and pure stupidity given the track record of the last five years.
  11. IT just put out an update about Berrymon:
  12. We need at least three starting caliber OL in the portal and maybe four. Sounds extreme but think about it.. who the fuck is a viable starting caliber guard on this entire roster next year? Turntine as an true freshman? Hutson and Campbell will both be gone and the guys who have gotten snaps like Stroh and Brooks have been historically bad. RT is no better. Baker absolutely fucking sucks and Brooks, while playing mostly out of position, has looked even worse. In the very least adding one starting caliber RT and OG are musts. We miss on that and the 2026 season is going to be fucked before it even begins. I'd argue we also need a center because while Robertson isn't the worst option he is still below average and you can usually find very good experienced centers in the portal without having to break the bank. A change of pace RB is also a priority but not something we need to go anywhere near top of the market for. We will have a decent RB group but they all kind of do the same thing. None of them really have dangerous burst. Ideally we won't need to rely on always running around the tackles if we adequately upgrade the OL. On defense I think you just throw a wide net and see what is out there. We could certainly use a safety given how bad we look when McDonald and Taaffe aren't playing. Corner is also a major question mark as no one seems to want to step up. Lots of former high rated recruits that get out there and look like clowns even against lower tier offenses. WR I feel is kind of a "replace what you lose" situation. Lockett and Ffrench may both transfer out for fresh starts elsewhere and I'm not sure at this point I'd consider it a loss. You would feel pretty good about the 2026 WR group if we have Moore, Livingstone, Wingo, McCutcheon all returning and then maybe add a lower tier portal guy with proven production kind of like we did with Bolden just to raise the floor.
  13. Sort of? That whole situation was weird. We knew we were back channeling with Meyer but when that failed it became a much bigger debate over whether Herman would get another year. There weren't really any obvious candidates out there which was certainly part of it. Then you had Casey Thompson look like a god in the bowl game and it would have given CDC all the justification he needed to actually give Herman a final season. Those more in touch with what was happening behind closed doors all knew that the situation was not salvageable and that half our roster was seriously going to quit on the team and leave if Herman had been kept. That wasn't known as much publicly, even on boards like Surly, until after Herman was let go though. TLDR It went from "Herman is definitely gone" -> "Herman is maybe gone..?" -> "Well Thompson does look really good so maybe another year?" -> RIP Herman
  14. Add Akina to the chopping block honestly. The defense has been really good in a few games sure but most of the time that secondary is as easy for WRs to penetrate as Sark's wife.
  15. You just mentally blocking out that arguably the worst game our OL and QB have had... was at home? Against UTEP? "You can't expect year three players to perform well in a hostile environment like their home stadium against a satellite school!" Seriously. Stop stop trying to make excuses for what has been horrible OL play for basically six years now. People losing their minds saying the program is about to completely implode do need to be slapped back into reality a bit but offensive scheme, QB development and OL development have been objectively awful for years now and a direct roadblock to our success. We are building a level of talent around the program that we can consistently have great seasons in spite of all of this but most of that was serious overachievement by specific units on the field that cannot be asked to replicate that every season.
  16. How do we gaslight Penn State into hiring Sark? (mostly kidding. Mostly)
  17. Definitely what it feels like watching these games. Extremely frustrating. I've been trying very hard to be objective and always keep in mind just how bad things were for awhile under the past two regimes but I mean holy fuck we shouldn't be happy with 'bad' just because it isn't as bad as before.
  18. Flood better be a dead man walking at this point. The OL is just completely indefensibly terrible yet again under him. I get it is awkward to bitch about our OL because as a whole we've been much improved compared to the dark days under Strong and Herman but this year's OL might be as bad as any of those units were. The IOL has been putrid and near the bottom of our conference ranks every season under him. Really the only bright spot has been natural talents like Banks who were just already great from the day they arrived.
  19. We probably need to hit up the portal for a starting top end LT this Winter anyway. If Goosby does what most of us expect him to do that guy is off to the first round of the NFL after this season. You going to trust Manning's blind side in his final season at Texas to Chatman? Brooks? Baker hasn't exactly wowed people so far on campus anyway but is more suited to RT. Not a lot there at LT to inspire confidence though Brooks was getting great reviews at one point from the staff iirc. If this were a Banks 2.0 situation and either Turntine or Ojo were projectible day one starters then sure maybe you consider going way above market rate. That isn't how people view these two.
  20. "Trust me bro I totally have a cousin whose best friend trims the lawn for the Griffin family and the real reason he picked Bama is their fly ass social media influencer house"
  21. I didn't mean actually making the sweet 16 every season. I mean having that level of expectations for the team. Going into the year thinking "okay this is a top 15 caliber roster". I'll take being excited about the potential of the roster every year over the bullshit we've mostly had where you are thinking even in December that at best you may win a game with a favorable draw before being bounced.
  22. Sean Miller wouldn't be a bad hire. You could realistically expect to make the Sweet 16 every couple of years. That would be a level of consistent success we haven't had since that first phase under Barnes. Is he going to realistically contend for SEC titles or final fours though? Doubt it. But will he consistently get your kids to produce to the level they are capable of? Sure. Considering we have enough NIL firepower to consistently give him (or whoever is our next coach) a top 15-20 caliber roster every season that should result in a solid if not jaw dropping basketball program. If that is the ceiling of our expectations we should all be gruntled if he is indeed the hire. Personally I think Will Wade has more upside but also more risk. That is who I have wanted us to pursue because I think the chances of him catching fire and becoming one of the top 5-10 coaches in the sport is pretty damn high. Lloyd would be a similar hire in that he has showed some growing pains since taking over at Arizona but also shown signs he might quickly become one of the best in the sport. Going to be interesting to see whether CDC focuses on high ceiling or high floor.
  23. I just looked up Neal Brown's wiki to refresh myself on where all he coached and someone has already put in 2025 - Present Texas ( Assistant Coach) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Brown
  24. He will be told to leave... by other teams and likely his family and friends after they see the kind of money I expect gets thrown his way if he stays productive. Especially if Baxter is on pace to come back healthy and is showing no setbacks in his rehab this Spring. Eh whatever I'm done arguing this stupid shit. It makes no sense whatsoever to suggest that Texas would process out a quality RB when we are shallow there but if it for some reason satisfies some weird need of yours to believe that was my intent then by my guest. I corrected that misconception about a minute after my post in the first place.
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