The same Baker that struck out on Damonick Williams and Jay Toia in the spring? If the standard is competing for SEC and national championships, we need to have a defensive line room that stacks up with Georgia, Michigan and Alabama. It's not even necessarily Baker's fault, Sark has landed a grand total of 1 composite top 200 DL in his tenure and a whopping 3 high school DL recruits in the past two recruiting classes. He's had NIL for the past three recruiting classes and we've seen no improvement in DL recruiting.
So they are extending a coach that, by my count, is 2-7 against ranked teams in his two years as head coach and 0-2 in bowl games. He was going into year 3 of a 6 year contract, so it's not like this was hanging over his head. His two years are inarguably the worst two OU seasons since 2015 and trending toward the three worst seasons in the past ten years with the schedule they have this year. However, OU fans insist that he's changed the culture from that sissy Lincoln Riley football that resulted in NY6 games basically every year. This is so awesome.
Love the "College Ready Build" award. Congratulations on being the closest to physically maximized while winning none of the awards that have anything to do with playing quarterback.
Hell, they'll even talk shit if they just see you wearing longhorn apparel in public. It's happened to me several times while traveling, including in the airport a few weekends ago. I was trying to work at an airport bar and some husky middle-aged Aggie started chirping. I always respond with genuine confusion.
Gerry reporting that Troy Huhn has not received an invite to the July pool party and he and CJ both noted that they'd be surprised if our 2026 QB does not commit prior to the pool party. Doesn't take much reading between the lines to deduce that they expect Dia Bell to be the guy.
Been following this (evidently not closely enough) and keep seeing mention of his brother. Why on earth would we need to set up virtual meetings with him - is he a prospect as well?
I'm not overly concerned about Lacey v. Russell because it appears Sark has his choice of the two and prefers Lacey. That may ultimately prove to be the wrong decision, but given this isn't a make or break QB class for us, I'm not sweating it if Sark has made his evaluation. Particularly since I think we'll get another stud in the 2026 class.
This is shaping up to be like one of those recent Ohio State WR classes where we're basically guaranteed to have multiple 1st round WRs on the roster each year. Dakorien Moore and Jaime Ffrench would be absolutely obscene. Combine with junior Arch and Johntay Cook, sophomore Wingo... holy hell.
I am not saying those are the only games that I'm worried about, I'm saying those are the games where I think our potential weakness in the interior is an elevated level of concern.
Yes, I stand by what i said in context. That's the only game, aside from Georgia which is just concerning generally, where I'm particularly worried about our interior defensive line being exposed. They won the Joe Moore award two years running and had a terrific OL again last year. I'm not quite ready to say their OL will be weak next year, as they've reloaded each year recently, and Donovan Edwards is a very good back.
It only really gives me heartburn in the Michigan matchup, particularly since that's so early in the year. We've seen that team win games without passing the ball, but I'm hoping that's gone out the door with Harbaugh.
Great get for OU at a position of need, but I don't really get breaking the bank like this for a one year rental when this gets you from an 8 win team to a 9 win team, maybe?
Average Aggie Saturday morning: wake up still shaking with rage because biased NFL GMs are ignoring whorns players' BDF film and drafting them in early rounds. Turn on the computer, log on to TexAgs and write a 7 paragraph essay about how the sips cheated their way to recruiting stud players, but also those players suck and weren't developed, except the ones that were developed and if they were developed, it took too long.