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Professor Chesney

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  1. To my untrained eye, I agree that the line seemed to improve over the course of the season. Additionally, there were a lot of variables at play beyond Flood’s coaching that affected the unit’s performance. In the beginning of the year, we had QB uncertainty and did not scheme to the unit’s strengths (I.e., insisting on running inside zone compared to outside zone). When we finally began to adapt the scheme to some success, we suffered from OL injuries, qb regression, defensive lapses and motivational problems. Combined with the glowing assessments of Flood from current players and his industry reputation, there are reasons to be optimistic.
  2. This seems appropriately on brand. ULL has roofs that don’t leak and libraries that are structurally sound. This they aren’t committed enough to winning.
  3. Majors is too light to qualify as “entrenched.” More like an ensconced starter.
  4. I know Mike has an article quota, but didn’t Greene already sign during the early period and delay only his announcement? Meaning that the coaches literally cannot talk to him if he signed with Georgia. If Texas isn’t communicating with Greene, there’s nothing “alive” in this recruitment. This isn’t a Schrödinger’s cat situation.
  5. Tough loss. Understand the dislike he has earned with his behavior, but he created some great memories. Legend.
  6. Your point is spot on. There was a lot of cognitive dissonance. Hand waving aside the possibility that a recruit might take the money and bolt with “Well that’s just not how things are done in the game.” Placing your faith in uncles and a “gentleman’s agreement” when we’re moving to an era with free transfers and indirect recruiting of your roster seems like sticking your head in the sand.
  7. I had drinks last night with an Ole Miss alum that participates in the bag game and that conversation left me thinking that programs still aren’t prepared for the potential chaos of the transfer portal. None of the stuff he said will be new or groundbreaking to anyone here: high school players and people around them receive benefits to sign and enroll at a school. But what struck me as interesting was the front loaded structure of the benefits and the weak incentives to remain at the school. There are some benefits that persist throughout the players’ time at a school — employment/housing for relatives, cars where title remains with the booster, bills/planned payments to relatives. But most of the cash bonuses are paid upon signing or when the recruit enrolls (ignoring payments made during the recruiting process). Players get paid during the season but that is true for all schools; there aren’t really any incentives unique to a program to keep a player from leaving to another program. Maybe other schools are smarter about how they structure under-the-table incentives. But with the new portal and NIL rules, it seems incredibly risky to make the bag game the future foundation of your recruiting infrastructure.
  8. Lou Ayeni got mentioned as someone who would be interested in the position. https://nusports.com/sports/football/roster/coaches/lou-ayeni/2887
  9. Geez, reading this thread around signing day is the equivalent of going to the gym after New Year’s.
  10. Recruits are just leaving VY steakhouse. Looked like they had a good time
  11. This is a great idea, and I’ll do my best to raise it with the the McCombs admin / coordinators. There is already a precedent for similar programs where students get credit to provide consulting and other services to businesses and start up projects, such as Texas Venture Labs, Venture Fellows, etc. It’s a win win for everyone. Only hiccup might be getting through compliance whether or not these services constitute payments, but I’m not knowledgeable enough to make a call there.
  12. Amazed they let this happen. I think this puts the final nail in the coffin of the “Oklahoma knew this was coming” theory.
  13. How dare you not give them credit for going on the road to the hostile environment of Arlington, TX to play Arkansas? Typical sip spin
  14. Great pics. How bad was the line when you went?
  15. Is this different from the general slush fund? Whoever makes NIL contributions simple, easy and not sketchy is going to win. Why does Amazon and Walmart have the “Buy Now” button? Because it makes people spend more. Why does Google care so much about speed? Because the longer pages take to load, the less likely people will sit around and keep clicking. Why haven’t you opened limewire in over a decade? Because streaming content legally has never been easier or safer. I am simply regurgitating points that others have made more eloquently, but I don’t think the power of crowdfunding has been taken as seriously as it should.
  16. I don’t know what would be more realistic: (a) trying to court Mickey Joseph after giving his relative Terry the boot or (b) Evan Stewart’s entourage putting together a DCF model to compare bags versus NIL funds.
  17. My ND friends have mixed feelings on Kelly. In terms of impact on UT, it does seem like the least worse option compared to Cristobal, Riley or Rhule. That said, I will never forget a bizarre Kelly story from the final Charlie Strong year. During ND practice, the staff had set up one of the pieces of equipment—that padded alley where the running back pushes through several dummy pads—backwards. Meaning that the running back was essentially running into an immovable padded door. A walk on running back recognized it was backwards and tried to tell Kelly. Kelly, shocked at the audacity of his player to question him, shut the player down and said something along the lines of “it’s not, shut the fuck up and do the drill.” Running back proceeded to try it at a full sprint, bounced off the equipment and ended up in concussion protocol. I hope he brings that kind of attitude to the SEC.
  18. So are you saying this is a bad time to fire up the major everhart discussions again? https://247sports.com/player/major-everhart-46100657/
  19. I’d like to think his unit’s performance at UW merits some optimism, but we (and the league in general) does not have a great track record when it comes to expecting an older coach with a previously successful scheme to actively self critique, acknowledge failings and weakness of their approach, and appropriately tailor his gameplan and scheme to fit the strengths of his personnel rather than continue push a square peg into a star-shaped hole.
  20. The defense looks like they’re thinking less and acting instinctually
  21. Good to see sims get a lot of run so far
  22. Not sure about the current pit master, but you might be thinking of John Lewis, who was the pit master at La BBQ when it first opened. He moved to South Carolina in 2018 and now has the top rated bbq joint in that state. Just further evidence that all those people that won’t stop crowing about how “Carolina cue” is so special and unique are full of it. Central Texas came, saw, and conquered.
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