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Boko Bevo

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  1. That pep talk was painful to watch. Cringe worthy. Looked like coach didn't want to be doing it, and only half believed in it. Had the smile pasted on his face, all while knowing there was a fairly good chance Bert would go full Bert right there. I'm sure Sark didn't know WTF to do at that time though - was worth a shot, I guess.
  2. Special Teams and clock management (which go hand in hand). Team can't afford to fall asleep in "punt safe" situations and give up big first downs on a fake during an obvious fake situation. Had a critical punt block whiff and penalty to prolong a drive in the playoffs also. Play was made going balls out, so it's understandable, but the margin of victory gets tight against good clubs. Need to be able to trust a punter to flip the field. Most importantly IMO need to be able to trust that Shipley can get you three reliably from 48 or so in. Sark gets to call third down differently when he's calling it to get past the chains, rather than to get into 4th and makeable. Shipley's made a ton of kicks, but never in an environment like Columbus. You guys pointed out the obvious concerns re: time under tension for the OL and even Arch. For whatever reason, I just believe they'll be good enough this year. But this defense... This defense is set up to wreck shit and I'm really excited to see it. I try to be objective and not a prisoner of the moment, but this group should be markedly better than last year. If so, it'll be one of the great units in this era of CFB. In short, all the hype is justified for the team as a whole. National Championship level team. I want to call in every favor just to watch them work at practice - this camp will be legendary if they're wired correctly (which everyone says they are).
  3. They list Kruel at 6’1 230 - so somewhere between 5’10 and 6’1. Not saying it won’t work, only that his athleticism would have to be elite to play with a hand down, even as a DPR (I really hate that coneptually, for whatever that’s worth).
  4. Kruel looks to have really good get off, but his body composition is a real departure from what Texas seems to like on the outside. Would help the recruiting rankings and cause some ou heartburn, but probably goes the way of 2024 Justice Finkley on the field for the foreseeable future. That EDGE room is salty right now.
  5. Texas is set to sign the composite #1 players in California and Georgia to go along with 1 & 2 in Florida. Great time to be a fan, this run is going to be special.
  6. I’m telling you, this was some Mafioso style shit.
  7. Hotdamn a bear. I really like defense, so I just came a lil' bit. All this while Sark is at SEC media days like a mob boss calling a hit while he's out of town somewhere. I like ball, and I like to talk ball, so I always knew disrupting the passer and speeding up his clock was important. Cause a few errant/early throws, and just fuck with him in general. But then I watched the David Ash interview on 3rd and Longhorn - he said that there were times he got so shook that he couldn't see or process anything. His mind just went blank. If you look at D Line/EDGE/OLB recruiting the last three cycles, there's gonna be a lot of QB's who go blank in the coming years. Fuck em' all very much and cheers to the 50 sack & 25 interception seasons this defense will be putting up. This would be a dream defense to play DB in.
  8. Took my kids to work out with a group that included Chris yesterday. I'm trying to remain objective, but I do think he's much better than that ranking. What really shocked me was Carter (his brother). Kid has been working and is looking like a player. Actually looks better than Cobey Sellers did at this time last year. After the Yaheim Riley take, I doubt he could play himself into an offer, but I wouldn't be shocked if the season shook out that way.
  9. I’m gonna bow out. As much as I wanted to play Division 1 football, I didn’t. This is the first time I’ve had an attempt made to convince me otherwise 😂
  10. This is a football thread. For years Villanova has been a great basketball school with a 1-AA football team. That isn't anything new conceptually. About me: I'm a third generation Bobcat, and pretty proud of that fact. My Mom was the first African American appointed to the SWT Development Foundation Board, and is a Distinguished Alumnus. My Dad is a 2005 Hall of Honor inductee in Football and Track. My first job out of school was working for Dave Bailiff. I happen to know Coach Chisum, and if she left you feeling all warm an fuzzy that's wonderful champ. Continue to say whatever makes you feel good.
  11. Just found this thread. Coach Bailiff put together a T Association mixer at Schoebel's last Sunday, and the plan is to travel well for this one. He had the guys from he and my dad's teams pretty lathered up about the new conference affiliation and prospects for this year. As for us being D-1 for 40 years, I got there in July 97 and played 1-AA, which is a pretty big departure from "D-1". The move to the WAC is what I'd use as an identifier where that's concerned. I don't really care, but it'd be like stolen valor to tell someone I played D-1 ball, and the reality is we were in the Southland riding a bus to Thibodaux to play the Battle for the Paddle. In any event, Eat em' Up and I hope to see y'all out there this year.
  12. Bingo. This is a house of the flimsiest cards. I have no idea how the implosion will look, but let's all reconvene around November as some of these payments are supposed to crystalize. Kinda sucks that this is what recruiting has come to, but I've got a purchasing background and many high dollar procurements look similar to this.
  13. Upon further review, nothing to like about this guy 😂
  14. This shit can get crazy if a kid doesn't have a mindset that embraces proving toughness outside the lines. This is the kind of thing coaches can't talk about, and don't normally even know about until the strength coach says something. I've seen Andre Jones and folks of that ilk talked about on this thread - when you're recruiting in the Southeast (namely Louisiana, Georgia and Florida), you will inevitably introduce a good number of kids whose socioeconomics lend to these behaviors. Don't want to CR this thread, but it's a reality, one that the GM and coaches have to be considering. Once you expand that to California, DC, etc - those regional "beefs" are extrapolated. I love what the staff is doing with casting a wider web, but this is a huge consideration in doing so.
  15. Played behind Westbrook and Carruth his first couple years. He played lots his junior and senior years. Ate himself to tight end frame, but didn't love to block. You're right, talked a ton of shit.
  16. To tie this back into Texas recruiting, the 96' summer is for me is a great reminder as to why Sark is doing things the right way. We were there when Ryan Nunez got to CU. It was obvious that the kid was talented enough to be impactful in the return game, even with Rae Carruth and James Kidd being on the roster. What was also evident was that the locker room wasn't conducive to a guy with Nunez' mental makeup lasting there. I saw more criminal shit in that summer than I've seen my entire life. Locker room/Weight room fights were commonplace and even encouraged. There was a legitimate national recruiting footprint, and as a consequence, each region wanted to show they were the toughest. There's a not so fine line between Tebow's Florida and the Florida we see now. Unfortunately, coaches do have to consider who are "Our types of guys", just as much as you look at measurables.
  17. No, but Big Jim (Chris) is why we were there. We also went up for a month in summer 96 - insane collection of football players at CU then. I didn't go to LP, Shaun and I grew up in Bible Way church together, our dads were in camp together in Oakland and maintained a friendship and worked out together. To this day, having played with and against some incredible ballplayers, Chris is one of the best athletes I've ever actually been around. I wish he would've locked in. Neuheisel took the players' coach deal a little too far and had no controls on that team.
  18. I grew up with Shaun. Christmas break of our senior year in high school we visited Colorado together prior to them playing the Holiday Bowl - he weighed around 282 (I remember this vividly because Doc Kreis, who was CU's S&C coach at the time said he could get Shaun to 300 prior to our Freshman year). He didn't hit 300 and stay there until his Sophomore year at Texas. When I saw Carlton he immediately reminded me of Shaun at the same age.
  19. That's good news. He's a special athlete. Plays too high like most high schoolers that are at a physical advantage, but he'll probably be a composite 5 star by end of cycle. I saw him at a couple track meets, huge frame and explosive as hell. Could see him putting on 50 pounds over the next couple years and reminding people of Shaun Rogers.
  20. This is rough. Black frats have an interest meeting, kick your ass for 12-20 weeks and call it a day.
  21. Please don’t put too much (any) credence into yesterday’s post. In fact, take anything I say in the recruiting forum with the largest grain of salt, as I don’t know any of the kids Texas is currently in on. Just wishcasting and hoping y’all give me some good news at some point in the next 60ish days.
  22. Man, I hadn't seen you post in a while and was worried. Your nuanced yet clear takes on all things Texas football is what turned me from lurker to full fledged BMD of the $treefiddy variety. I'm glad you didn't get tangled up in a DEA takedown like I thought. You coming back only reinforces the reality that we getting eeeeryfuckinbody!
  23. I put very little stock into football without pads. 7 on 7 means next to nothing. Pass rush 1v1 even less than that, and is skewed towards the defense unequivocally. Gotdamn, Ojo had a horrible day at the Rivals camp in Indy though. Poor fella looked like he was on a tranquilizer of some sort. Hopefully he's a RS Freshman AA in a couple of years and it's a Landon Jackson bag drill memory.
  24. Kids and parents really like Kirby Smart. They love Travaris Robinson. I'm not sure exactly why on Smart, but even as he's gotten it to a place that recruits itself, people like the guy. Good thing is that families really connect with Sarkisian also. The Georgia talk makes me ask a question that's plagued me the entirety of 2025 - how the fuck did Gunner Stockton hold on to that ball while sleeping soundly?
  25. I lurked the board for a long time, but this is the only handle. I guess there wasn't sufficient focus on my end to figure out who was who from a posting perspective. That said, thanks for the heads up and apologies to the board for shitting on it. Fool me once... 😂
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