Everything posted by Magus Ossis
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2019 RB Derrian Brown
He looks great. Helmet might just be a precaution based on what he's been through but implies some continued concern about seizures. Gait belt could be out of same concern, because he is still a little weak, or standard protocol in that rehab unit for when he is up without an assistive device otherwise. Standing on his own, moving his neck, both arms, both legs = VERY GOOD SIGNS.
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2019 Transfer & Grad-Transfer Available Players
Morris is gunning for aggy.
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Texas O-line talk
So guys available by year (and on roster but still first year) are: 19: Shack, Braun, Oak, Kerstetter, Imade, Cosmi, Angilau, Ghirmai, Jones, Moore, (Hookfin, Johnson, Shepherd, Tyler) 20: Oak, Kerstetter, Imade, Cosmi, Angilau, Ghirmai, Jones, Moore, Hookfin, Johnson, Shepherd, Tyler, (Majors, Parr, Garth, ?Lind, ?George) 21: Angilau, Ghirmai, Jones, Moore, Hookfin, Johnson, Shepherd, Tyler, Garth, Majors, Parr, ?Lind, ?George, (?Brock) Depending on maturation and hit rates, we might not want/need a GT next year. We look like we will be turning over a lot of starting positions in 21. If Brock is already arguably better than the guys in the year ahead of him, might he play some as a true freshman in 21 despite having a lot of guys on the roster? This chart assumes everybody but Urquidez (chaff) and Cosmi (NFL) stay.
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Non-Texas recruiting: 2020
Baylor might be one of those non-blue-bloods that gets a whack on the head to help the NCAA assuage its brief moments of guilt from being so epically deficient and corrupt.
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JUCO OL Willie Tyler
It is a little early for confident pronouncements, but I am impressed so far with the Herman's regime's evaluations.
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GT OL Parker Braun
I may be restating the obvious here, but I would like to see us work hard to get this guy on the field full-time this year, and I expect it to happen. He may be able by redshirting to have a better 2020 than he would have 2019, but that is not the main point IMO. I think he can show enough in 2019 to get himself closer to his second contract a year earlier by playing right away. The team benefits because, I expect, we will have big games against LSU, OU x 2, and at least one big bowl contest. We would be ill-advised to try to shuffle our line specifically for big games. We want as much continuity as reasonably possible. And there will be another GT in 2020. Win now, help Braun look good along the way, and we set ourselves up to get next year's version of Braun. I like the idea of having him at RG to pull toward Cosmi/Oak push.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2020
We need to try to get the AZ and CA guys in the boat and recruiting themselves teammates here before Helton’s replacement is hired. There is always a chance they fire Swann and Helton and bring in Urban in time to salvage a 2019 class.
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Lil’Jordan Humphrey
Very late pick by Pats or UFA imo.
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Tell Me About Texas a&m
He had a meniscus tear. Some of them are not fixable-- the surgery is just to trim out the flap. Some are amenable to being sewed back together. If there is no repair to protect (i.e. the torn flap was trimmed out), players can return very quickly. If the meniscus is repaired, most surgeons will restrict even from bearing weight for 4-6 weeks.
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6figs/"Trust the Hamm" greatest hits
I'd say it's a coin flip whether they do as well as she predicts. Heads-no, tails- no, edge- yes.
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Brandon Jones
Probably so. He may not have let on how much it was bothering him in-season so his “clock” of non operative care may not have started until late. If the MRI isn’t impressive, his surgeon may not have felt going straight to surgery was wise. Even the smallest surgery can go horribly wrong, unlikely as that is.
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Brandon Jones
Yeah, the surgery for a high ankle (syndesmosis) sprain (ligament tear) is typically a "tightrope." Through a small incision, a cable is passed to tether the two lower ends of the bones of the lower leg as the syndesmosis should do naturally. Over time, the body heals the torn ligament well enough that the stresses of athletic participation are not too much for the (now no longer unaided) cable. There is a wide range of degrees of injury and rates of healing. Some surgeons are returning guys to sport as early as 2 months. TLDR: Summer is certainly a reasonable goal for return
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Realignment talk not going away
1. A conference should try to have more wins, ceteris paribus, to get into more bowls and look better on paper. Paper isn't real, except that perception often is, or at least influences, reality. 2. A conference sacrifices, to an extent, its marketable TV inventory by playing too many OOC patsies, especially at the expense of conference games. Here is where careful planning comes in. The goal isn't to have 50 marquee games; it is to have enough reliably to fill the time slots allocated with attractive offerings. Moving some of the OOC games later into the season helps smooth out the distribution, in addition to the obvious advantage of a quasi-bye in November. 3. CCG is money and occasionally credibility; this is set off by the risk of knocking a contender out of the playoffs and of repeat games. One eliminates the risk of back-to-back rematches by not putting inter-division games in November. 4. The 5 + 5 alignment allows the OU game (as well as 4 other, by comparison, trivial) rivalries to remain interrupted, allows all teams to be played fairly frequently (see SEC, e.g., aggy-UGA for a contrast) while allowing more OOC games. 5. Just because KSU will schedule another trash game to pump up its record does not mean that we have to do so-- Texas can use the flexibility of one more OOC slot to combine interesting matchups with playing enough and interesting-enough home games. 6. If we really wanted to put our fingers close to the third rail in addressing "trash games" and TV inventory, we could include some asymmetric distribution of part of the next TV contract based on a formula that includes OOC viewership. 7. The clear path to the playoffs in the B12 should not be overlooked. The current conference superstructure more or less guarantees that Texas and OU, unless one is down, are one of the four super-regionals unto themselves.
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Brandon Jones
Here's hoping for a speedy and uncomplicated recovery and for a 2019 that doesn't involve playing hurt.
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Realignment talk not going away
You are right that the times they are a changing. I think two significant distinctions in the case of the OU game are that (1) we have long played it as OOC, and (2) it is a big part of their identity: they matter in Dallas in part because they are the other football pole opposed to the one to the south. And they would need a new hand-sign if they quit playing us. Also, that game makes TV money. Some network would surely try to get that to continue so as to get a cut of it.
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Realignment talk not going away
We played OU before there was a SWC. We played them when we were conference-mates in SWC. We played them after they left the SWC. We play them as conference-mates in the B12. I would be surprised to see our series with them end, even should we head for different conferences (again).
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Realignment talk not going away
Having a bifurcated conference in that it has a football arm and an other-sports arm could make a great deal of sense from an economic standpoint if travel were too expensive for some more remote schools and from a religious standpoint should BYU, e.g., need to keep Sunday free of athletic commitments. The best numbers for the football side would seem to be 12 or 9, depending on whether one prized playing all opponents annually versus having divisions and a title game. Texas, OU, Tech, and OSU are the core football schools, and Kansas is probably worth keeping in that arm for the money they get and the one win every team needs . KSU is hard to separate from Kansas, and that makes six. If it were a "Southwestern Conference" we build or join, the AZ schools are the obvious numbers 7 and 8. BYU would probably make sense for a football conference even if not for everything, and that is 9. No Baylor. To add more Texas (the state) flavor and permit a championship game, one could bring along a few more teams such as TCU, ISU, and Rice. The last one obviously would not carry its weight on TV ratings but has some other arguments in its favor. Who is #12 is a discussion I wouldn't try to settle in one message board post, clearly. All of this presupposes convincing Fenves/CDC to contemplate a divorce from the current arrangement and the leadership in AZ to do the same-- unlikely in my mind, but not impossible.
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Texas recruiting notes 2019
Maybe lock it and start a new one when we hit 999, then. Or better yet when we are on some forgettable number even earlier.
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Peanut Tillman got a new job. He's now an FBI agent.
Patriotic former NFL player named Tillman? Good for him!
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Tell Me About Texas a&m
OK, aggy, you win. We give up and agree not to play you. Why don’t we put this series on hold at least 500 years after this GOR/conference expires or is extended. That will be, let me see, about the year 2527.
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Jimbo 2020: Strangers with Candi
WHY DID THE T-SIP SAY MAKE LIKE A TREE AND SHOVE OFF? CUZ HE WAS SO DARN STUPID!
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Texas recruiting notes 2019
Ecce nimis senex est
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Jimbo 2020: Strangers with Candi
I like #ATX21
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Texas recruiting notes 2019
μακάριος, ἀναπείρετε αὐτούς
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2020
Vīctus and victus have very different meanings, coming from different etymologies. The former is from a root relating to living and means living or nourishing. The latter is from a root relating to conquest and means conquered. If you are looking for a version of Roma Victa that means “Defeated Rome,” you already have it.