Jump to content

William Bludworth

Burnt Ends
  • Posts

    26105
  • Joined

  • Days Won

    4

Everything posted by William Bludworth

  1. I do agree with you, but thus far Simon runs more into his o-line than he gets yards. He's speedy and quick, but he's trying to do too much, which is resulting in him running into the wrong holes. I think long-term he'll be great, but right now he and Clark are still freshmen trying to catch up to the speed of the game. Just like Clark has great cutting ability, but unfortunate he's cutting into the wrong team. Here's to hoping they figure it out quickly because we can't keep beating Wisner to shit.
  2. Here's our O-Line recruiting under Flood with rankings since 2022 2022: Kelvin Banks (5*) fell into our laps when Cristobal left for Miami. Absolute stud. Top 10 pick ❌ Cam Williams (3*) see above, expect for the stud part. He was a penalty machine, yet still drafted in the 6th rd to Philly after Gerry/Bobby hyping 1st-2nd rd bs ❌ DJ Campbell (5*) - Seinor - above average Neto Umeozulu (4* top 200) - RSJR - can't get out of his own way, or Flood is a moron who can't develop Malik Agbo (4*) was a jumbo TE who saw the field and did nothing ❌ Cole Hutson (3*) senior should be a 2* he's horrible Connor Robertson (3*) RS-JR - We're about to find out. He has to be better than that blowup pussy Hutson. 2023: Jaydon Chatman (4*) - RS-SO - still has time and apparently has shown promise Payton Kirkland (4*) now at his fourth school, UAB ❌ Trevor Goosby (3*) - RS-SO worth every penny. Will be a high draft pick if he comes back for another season Connor Stroh - (3*) RS-SO - easily the worst eval ever. Andre Cojoe - (3*) - actually showed real promise before injury 2024: Brandon Baker - (5*) - starter. Showing he's getting it, but young Daniel Cruz - (3*) - no fucking clue. Gerry sucks him off, so unless Robertson fails miserably and Hutson loses both legs, don't expect to see him for another 2 years Nate Kibble - (3*) - I fully believe he'll be a star. He's from Atascocita, an o-line factory 2025: Nick Brooks (4*) - getting PT now, so we'll see how fast he can pick up the offense, but he can move people. The inverse of Stroh Jordan Coleman - (3*) - No idea. I expect JAG Devin Coleman - (3*) - see above Jackson Christian - (3*) - who knows? Ten 3* recruits still on the team Three 4* recruits still on the team Two 5* still on the team That's some lazy fucking recruiting if I've ever seen it. TEN 3*??????????? We should have TEN 4* AT THE VERY LEAST! Flood is a liability, a shitty recruiter, and a shitty teacher. It's beyond time for Sark to give his buddy the pink slip and actually go get someone who can recruit and develop. Easier said than done, but FFS we're Texas. We should never be in this position. This group is grim to look at. I almost can't stomach it or process it.
  3. Terry has the size, toughness, and speed to be a force of nature in the back field. We cannot keep using Wisner and expect to go anywhere north of 7 wins. He played RB in HS, and this is a good way to keep him motivated. I look forward to him pounding Kentucky's DL, because Wisner isn't.
  4. Playing Mateer after surgery 17 days prior I will never understand. I hoped they would, but I also said if they want to win some games, they might as well let him heal and just accept defeat from us again. But nope.
  5. God. Fucking. Christ. I made a long fucking list and I stepped away from my office and my phone refreshed and I lost all of my data. Here's a summary: The top 3 RB rooms in the country in order (1 is objective, the other two subjective) 1. Tenn - overwhelming favorites. Balanced. 3 of their RBs share carries. Dylan Bishop 63/481/5 TD's ; Slar Thomas 62/328/4 TD's,and Peyton Lewis 40/200/5 TD's 4.7 ypc have the ball distributed almost evenly, and their yac is incredible. Sark/Scott should look into that. It looks like it might just work. - objective based on data 2a. l put Ohio State here because they also share the ball between Bo Jackson 58/(407/2 TDs 7.0 ypc. DNP against UT), CJ Donaldson 58/237/6 TD's 4.1 ypc, and James People's. - 40/202/0 5.1 yac. Balanced. Subjective on position 2b. Georgia - They're here due to how they use their backs. Chauncey Bowens 60/315/4 TD's 5.3 ypc; Nate Frazier 60/277/2 TDs 4.6 ypc.Josh McCray is used primarily to punish defensive fronts if they don't have depth. Balanced. Subjective on position TEX - We are the living embodiment of Shantytownies. Poverty. Destitute. Our leading rusher is Arch. Help me, I'm poor is our RB room motto now. Choice fucked us. Our "lead back" has 185 yards with 1 rushing TD and 1 receiving TD. OU. DOA. Cannot be resuscitated. But for comedy Tory Blaylock - 68/290/3 TD's. That's it. He did nothing against us other than go 11/33/0 at a Rueben Owens special of 3 ypc. UF - Baugh is literally all they have. He's all they used against us and we still lost. Pathetic. Auburn - Cobb. Lol Aggy - Moss. Absolute stud 70/389/6 TD's 5.6 ypc. Owens is absolute dog shit swarming in parvo. Take away his games against the poor Miss St and USU, and he averages between 1.7-3 ypc. I can't make myself look at them again. LSU - Caden Durham 67/283/2 TDs 4.2 ypc. He's all they have unless they continue to get Harlem Berry more involved Ole Miss - Kewan Lacy 126/587/8 TDs 4.7 ypc; Trinidad Chambliss (all-name team) 61/281/3 TD's 4.6 ypc Bama - nothing even touching 200 yards Oregon - Jadarian Limar 42/249/3 TD's 5.9 ypc Now here are sone outliers: Michigan - Justice Haynes 95/705/8 TDs 7.4 ypc (force of nature); Jordan Marshall 59/301/3 5.- ypc Mizzou - Ahmad Hardy 115/782/9 TD's 6.8 ypc (freak); Jamal Roberts 53/400/3 TD's 7.5 ypc You get the point. I'm not doing the math again regarding Smith/Tate, but I took the average of Smith's catches per game, added them up and they came to 40, so I divided by 6, and he gets 6 per game. They went against an elite defense (not my words, but I agree. It says we are elite at DL, LB, a balanced unit, positional versatility., elite pass rushers, veteran transfers, exceptional depth, talented corners, talented secondary, versatile safeties, diverse coverages, etc). We held him to his mean and Tate to below his average, but we did allow that one TD. Without it, he would have been 2/9, but he ended up with 2/49/1. What happened, happened. It is what it is. Smith got 6/43/0. He was covered by true freshman Graceon Littleton, who is already getting praised and named as a top 25 ESPN freshman, and is being considered for freshman All-American honors right now. Last year Smith had Barron on him, Thorpe winner, and he went 2/3/0, so that's what is expected. Maybe Smith just once again met his match with an equal on the opposite side of the ball in Littleton and got shut down. Game 1 or 15 it doesn't matter, just like a win is a win regardless if it's week 0 or week 10. Now recruiting (we'll just do 5* kids on rosters) currently on the rosters Texas - 10 (back to the norm or else we would be where aggy is) Bama - 11 (the norm and still benefitting from Saban) Georgia - 11 (the norm) Oregon - 5 (Unsure, but I imagine it's a boost from Lanning. ungodly amount of 4* players) Aggy - 5 (batting well above average since Elk last year. The Jimbos have all either transferred or drafted) LSU- 4 (They are a shell of what they once were) The point is, anyone who is butt hurt over tech buying players (I don't know if it's just Campbell shelling out the cash, or his former partner John Sellers also helping with football? We know he donates to softball) needs to get a grip. We both know tech's ceiling is the playoffs. You and I and everyone here knows you aren't winning a NC or even making it. It's just not going to happen. Take a look at the top 10 in recruiting and tell me Tech can match all of what those teams offer (prestige, money, NC's, NC appearances (aggy is the outlier, and they aren't winning shit, either), helmet schools, blue bloods, new blue bloods, etc will always take front and center no matter how much money whomever is shelling out). A blue blood/new blue blood will win it every year. People keep saying there's parity in football now. No there isn't. Recruiting shows that. Just take a look at our class this year alone. You bought a project tackle for stupid money, but you did get a really good player in Guyton, but you better hope he works out better than your last 5*, Micah Hudson. You also have just four 4* recruits for this cycle. 2025 you have one 4* and all 3* with 18 commits. 2024 Micah Hudson (bust) and four 4* recruits with 22 commits. 2023 Five 4* and the rest 3* with 28 commits. 2022 One low 4* and the rest 3*with 18 commits. That ain't going to work, son. When we have more 5* kids in 2025 class than you have 4* kids (One) there's a problem.
  6. Those same tears could fix the water in Flint, MI and make it drinkable again.
  7. How dare you assume their gender/sex! God's plan
  8. My pain is being healed slowly. Give up the name Just seeing that typed out makes me want to cry, but I don't want anyone in any surrounding offices to hear me wail.
  9. Yeah, that kid isn't flipping. Didn't he sign some contract or something, or is rhat illegal? I remember, albeit vaguely, something happening. Maybe promises?
  10. It was more hyperbolic, but it felt like it. Being down by anything more than 3 pts to Luddite Napier might as well be 4 scores.
  11. They at least have more than one RB that can tote the rock, in Durham and Berry. If nothing else, they can lean on the run game. I do concur about the passing game, and Nuss is not good. He's never been and I'll never understand why he ever got hyped up. Dude has thrown for a paltry 9 TD's with 5 INT'S, which makes Arch Manning look like Peyton in comparison. The only difference being Manning has thrown only 162 passes with a comp % of 66.1, for 1,317 yds, while Nuss has thrown 204 for 1 417 with a comp % of 68.1. A whole 100 yards more, exactly. Totally separate tangent here - I'm as big of a Wisner homer as there is, but he simply cannot keep taking a pounding. He's quite literally our only RB right now. Clark and Simon are both frosh and haven't adjusted to the game, Gibson is gone, and Baxter may be dead for all we know. We literally need Manning to do both our passing and be our second RB.
  12. Just go take a gander at our freshmen IOL and tell me with a straight face they will be good and not below average or even worse, like Stroh, who is a Soph he "evaluated". I wrote a post about our recruits Flood recruited for the interior and almost all of them had offers from the likes of Colorado State, Colorado, USF, Nevada, etc. Not from Bama, Auburn, Michigan, Georgia, Penn State (I think one did from here, but I don't know if it was commitable), etc. It's deeply concerning and saddening.
  13. Yep, I remember. I'm just giving LSU a pass and hope they learn from their mistakes simply because Reed is basically the same player he was last year with better WR's, but he himself hasn't changed. If they can't make adjustments, then Kelly needs to be fired, and so does Baker (I think that's their D coordinator name).
  14. I couldn't agree more. It's annoying af. But yeah, I just can't see Indiana pulling that big of an upset, especially twice in a season. One? Sure, OK. It happens. They're not FCS and they have a dude as a coach. Twice? Eh...not against those jort wearing douche tunnels.
  15. I had to remove UF because it triggers me. Just all of that stupidity on display, I'm not yet ready to get to acceptance. I'm still in the anger and bargaining stages. I can absolutely see them lose to Mizzou. LSU, I dunno. It's Brain Kelly coaching them, and their offense is almost as dire as ours looks. Nuss is so overrated it's astounding. The defense can roll, tho. If Moss is out for LSU, they might be cooked, regardless of Craver/Concepcion. Reed is average, and LSU'S defense is pretty good. They can get to the QB, same with Missouri.
  16. The difference between Moss and Owens is the difference between reading Homer's The Odyssey and Illiad and reading an obituary. Owens is worse than dog shit infected with parvo. I imagine he tried sitting down on a toilet for the first time without being pushed and he pulled his myometrium.
  17. This is where I'm at when seeing him. It looks like (as you pointed out) he's seeing more of the field. It looks as though he's getting more and more comfortable, and/or adjusting to what his o-line is giving him (which is shoveled shit, but we'll see how Robertson does and Brooks continues to do), which hopefully means we get better play for him to go through all of his reads, rather than just his first. That was a huge issue early on.
  18. Agreed. His improv is weirdly a strength, which I'm totally fine with as long as he can keep it up, or we find gold and our line gels and gives him time.
  19. More like Connor Strohng, amirite?
  20. If they even tried this, that field house better watch it's back.
  21. Yeah, me too. Their 1 sack still pisses me off.
  22. Ah, OK. That's where my brain went after you post, but then I started to second guess myself. But yeah, it absolutely could be Ohio State/Indiana, which would be the weirdest fucking CCG I can remember. I think Cignetti is a fantastic coach, but, and again, jmo, Ohio State would beat them, too. The talent-gap is just too wide, unless Cignetti has just some unfathomable game plan with luck introduced. But remember, Oregon beat Ohio State last year, and we saw what happened when they met again. That was with Dillon Gabriel, 1.2k rusher Jordan James, Tez Johnson, a healthy Evan Stewart, Traeshon Holden, TE Terrance Ferguson, 1st rd OL Josh Conerly, Jr., 1st rd DT/DL Derrick Harmon, DL Jamaree Caldwell, S Jeffrey Bassa, DE Jordan Burch, etc. That was an absolute 20 pt beating in Eugene again. Just looking at talent recruiting rankings disparity, fOSU has double the amount of 5* talent than the second leader, which is Oregon at #2 and Penn State at #3. 4* talent it's Penn State, fOSU, Oregon. My point being is that 5*/4* talent makes all the difference (unless your name happens to be James Franklin, which if that's the case, CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR NEW $50M LOTTERY WINNINGS), which is why even if the Buckeye play Indiana, I don't think it will be some blowout because of Cignetti, but fOSU will win by 2 TDs. ------------------------------------------- Texas, for whatever reason, is the only team to have held both Jeremiah Smith (6-43), and Carnell Tate (2-59) in check (aside from a blown assignment which gave Tate most of his 2 catches for 59 yards all game with his 40 yd TD. Credit is due where it's due). I don't know if it's just talent meets similar/comparable talent (which I believe Littleton is) regardless of recruiting rankings (we did have Thorpe winner Barron in 2024), but it was Muhammad/frosh Littleton (absolute stud) covering Smith this year, and Kobe Black/Taaffe tasked with covering Tate, scheme, whatever the case. If you haven't gotten to watch Longhorns football, tuck away the name Gaceon Littleton. He'll be our next Thorpe winner before he heads to the first rd.
  23. I was just addressing the sacks, I didn't want to do any more digging on the others, but appreciate you did it for me. Pos rep Well now we know you aren't a Vic sock
  24. Well they don't play each other in conference, so why not? Am I having a brain fart?
  25. Well, you were sort of right, except we were the ones who got the 5 sacks, so...
×
×
  • Create New...