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  1. Yeah kind of a weird situation where I don't hate Elko or Venables. Might be projecting, but I feel like Elko really gets how ludicrous the whole aggie thing is and he helps keep multiple diners and liquor stores in our state in business. In Venables' case, I love the guy. He's a complete lunatic and presents no threat to Texas. You can nitpick, but I don't think he's a terrible person by P5 head coach standards. He's clearly suffering from severe CTE, holds hilarious press conferences and is sabotaging our chief rival to the point where they'll need years to recover.
  2. If Mosley is as good as Wingo and Moore like Gerry suggests that would be something... we just need the OL to be solid in pass pro and this offense will be elite.
  3. Probably pretty fuckin significant because he’d need a team of 6000 scouts to compete with our current roster building by identifying under recruited three stars.
  4. What’s so funny about the “money ball” approach is that it’s what literally every school that’s not Texas, Ohio State, Georgia, Bama, Miami, etc. already does and has been doing for years. Credit to Nagy for thinking up the “what if we just recruited three stars but only ones that are are good” strategy. Can’t wait to see how that turns out.
  5. 13,000 posts on surlyhorns.com is the hallmark of a guy who's just too busy to tune into commitment ceremonies.
  6. Agree with all this, but I'd go a step further and say he might not be playing with better talent on offense. WSU had a really nice receiving corp last year, easily better than what OU is rolling out in 25. I have no recollection of their TEs, but I genuinely can't imagine a TE room that's worse than OU's. I do think Mateer is a good quarterback, but also think it's substantially more likely that he has a rough year than an all-conference year.
  7. This is so true, you'll see guys like Crowell or Rueben Owens playing like Reggie Bush in their HS tape. Certainly a good thing to show speed and elusiveness, but if going lateral and bouncing outside is your first instinct against Colin Simmons and Ant Hill instead of future fraternity intramural players, you're going to get blown up. Both guys have terrific film and I'm just happy we got one.
  8. Could honestly be the title of this whole thread.
  9. Presumably the staff has evaluated the running backs that they're after. I don't really understand your concern. What about our recruiting the last few years gives you the idea that this is as zero sum as you describe it and that we are potentially landing Cooper at the expense of a top-tier prospect at another position? In any case, I think you're really overstating the issue with blue chip running backs. Take a look at the draft the last ten years and the top picks at the position are littered with former 5 stars/high 4 stars, particularly the very top level guys.
  10. Something I was thinking about this weekend is depth on our defense. We're loaded with playable depth, but there's also numerous guys not projected to start that I would be pretty comfortable with starting a CFP game. Vasek, Derek Williams, Tyanthony Smith and Trey Moore are guys that would be penciled in on a lot of really good teams. Then you've got the freshman class coming in behind, which is probably the most talented group I can remember. PK and his staff have been a god send.
  11. The implication from the poster above was that it's not worth recruiting top of the line backs out of the high school ranks and Jeanty was cited. I would agree with the sentiment if the staff was doing so at the expense of higher leverage positions (they're not), but if you look at the top backs in the NFL like Barkley, Bijan, Gibbs, Henry, CMC, there are a lot of blue chip, top 10 rated recruits. In any case, this staff has also gone after under recruited players like Brooks, Wisner and Rickey Stewart, so I don't think they're star chasing.
  12. I love the take that because Ashton Jeanty, 90th ranked RB in the 2022 composite, is better than Jam Miller, we should not want a top 5 RB recruit. Should we flip the current 90th ranked RB from Old Dominion? I bet everyone here would be thrilled.
  13. You replied to a guy saying they'll likely go 8-4 and then conclude that they will go 8-4.
  14. Patricia was a really curious hire given he's essentially been in a multi-year flameout since he left the Belichick/Brady bubble. I remember him having issues with players when he coached the Lions because he was such an asshole hardo, which you would think may not go well with college kids. He's a total wildcard like you said, but my baseline expectation is that he's a sizable downgrade from Knowles and he's working with less experience and talent on defense.
  15. The funny thing about Tech’s transfer class is they spent an obscene amount and ended up adding 3, maybe 4, guys that I view as real impact players to a roster that was otherwise fairly mediocre. For the most part, these guys are closer to Jermayne Lole level players than Mukuba/Golden. The strategy doesn’t make sense to me, it’s not like they had an existing roster ready for a playoff run and just needed a few pieces. They’ll get tagged a few times in B12 play because it’s a random number generator conference and they go on the road to Utah, ASU and KSU. More than anything, they set themselves up to be national laughingstocks.
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