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1 hour ago, Red Five said:

IT note. Good lord we're loaded at edge. And LB. 

IT has reported junior transfer Brad Spence from Arkansas was working with the Edges this summer but we did not say it was a full time move. Now, we've learned that it is a full time move.

Interesting, and it tells us that Trey Moore is going to get his share of snaps playing off-ball linebacker. We can deduce that because there's no way they'd feel comfortable with a room consisting of Anthony Hill, Liona Lefau, a still-young Tyanthony Smith, and true freshman Elijah Barnes. They love Smith, but he hasn't played much. That will change over time this season. Barnes is coming along but that's a difficult position for a true freshman to play.

PK mentioned today that Zina U. was at Jack. That pinged my radar because he's too good to be a third-teamer. Spence at Buck full time offered clarity on that.

Spence is a natural pass rusher who played defensive end in high school. He'll be good for Texas at Buck. Colin might spell his last name with the 'S' from Superman but he'll still need a breather from time to time.

100% true. The options this presents could be so fun.

I'd love to see some creative double mug looks with Burke, Simmons, Hill, Spence, Moore, and Zina U/Vasek on obvious passing downs. You don't even need to commit to cover 0 and rush six, but there's credible threat with six outstanding options to sack the QB.   

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1 hour ago, Getafix said:

 

Given all the talk about the Texas defense ... here's a guy who knows something about that. 🙂

(From the coordinator's talk with the media, today.)

 

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"Do you have buy-in??  Do you have want-to??"

"Yes, coach!  I also have stick-to-itiveness!!" 😂  😂  😂 

 

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(If they have nothing to do with football ... then why ... I know, I know.)

 

 

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We have the Hero we need! 

Kanu be another Hero?

I'll stop.

 

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This one (below) made me lulz :-)))

 

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Taaffe being able to fix calls is a big deal

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3 hours ago, Codaxx said:

One of the knocks on his scouting report is he lacks burst. He is 6'6" so that stride will make up ground later. That makes sense given he didnt run the 100m in HS, 200m is not very good, and the 400m is solid. More of a possession/jump ball guy, than an explosive WR. Again, that is something Georgia needed. I just dont see that profile as a 1st round potential guy. Perhaps my read on him is wrong, we will find out. 

That makes sense regarding the burst given his height.  Some time ago, I looked at 200m times and what one could expect as a 400 time.  From what I gathered a 22 second 200 would lead to an expected 400 of roughly 48. His 400 is almost exactly double the 200 and that 400 would lead to a 22, which is quite good too.  Certainly one of those is either wrong or from a year or two prior.  But perhaps not.

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3 hours ago, Codaxx said:

You are going to have Taffee making the calls during the season.

I'm just excited to finally re-start the "How the hell do you spell it?" counter to keep track of the creative ways our fanbase will spell Taaffe.

2022: Tafee

2023: Taafee

2024: Mix of both, with a few correct spellings.

2025: And here we go ...

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5 hours ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:

Anybody else slightly concerned about DT? We've gotten very spoiled there the last three years. I know there are a lot of new bodies and highly rated transfers to throw at the position and the future looks really bright, but I can't imagine we won't see a little step back there. The only guy we've actually seen play is January, and he's a true sophomore. 

Yes.  But I was concerned about DT prior to 2023 and 2024.  Preseason 2023 we had not idea that Murphy and Sweatt would do what they did.  Same with Collins and Broughton last year.

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What to Know From Coordinators/Coaches Availabilities (Tuesday PM) - CJ Vogel

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OTF Premium What to Know From Coordinators/Coaches Availabilities (Tuesday PM)

By CJ Vogel

27 minutes ago

Coaches/Coordinators Speak on Fall Camp Expectations and Preview the 2025 Season

We are now just one day away from the 2025 start of fall camp. Exciting times in Austin, Texas.

Expectations remain sky high, as they should be. Obviously over the next couple of days, we will have plenty of updates on position battles and updates on individual players, but I wanted to piece together the biggest notes from Tuesday's availibility for a quick primer for the season.

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3 Return Men Mentioned

Special Teams Coordinator Jeff Banks named three Longhorns who will begin fall camp receiving the first looks on punt and kickoff return. RB Tre Wisner, WR Ryan Niblett and WR DeAndre Moore.

Banks mentioned Texas took all running backs off of teams a year ago out due to depth, but the added depth entering the season, they can now afford to put Wisner in return situations. 

Terry/Jackson to See Time in EDGE and DL Rooms

I spoke with Kenny Baker for a bit about the two freshmen standouts on the defensive front. Baker said he and LaAllen Clark will be working together in practice situations to get both Longhorns some burn on the interior and the edge positions.

Baker mentioned Lance Jackson came in at 270 pounds, dropped all the way down to around 250, and has since built back up to allow himself the opportunity to play either position for the Texas front. 

Cornerback Opposite of Manny Muhammad

Texas corners coach Mark Orphey listed four names battling it out for time at cornerback opposite of Manny Muhammad: Jaylon Guilbeau, Kobe Black, Warren Roberson and Kade Phillips.

Orphey also said he has always been a 4-5 CB rotation guy at previous stops and knows the depth of the position is essential to a strong secondary. 

Michael Taaffe at STAR

Our @John Burrows picked up on All-American safety Michael Taaffe getting some burn at STAR during the offseason. If there is one thing about Duane Akina and his secondary, it is he will find a way for the five best to see the field at any given time. Taaffe moving down to STAR keeps the physicality at a required level near the LOS, while allowing Jelani McDonald and Derek Williams Jr. to work the back end of the secondary.

Also! Keynodo Hudson mentioned having freshman DB Jonah Williams in the nickel group in the summer when he first arrived.  

Immediate Impact Freshmen

The names I heard the most from the freshman class continue to be those mentioned throughout the summer: Graceson Littleton, Kade Phillips, Lance Jackson, Justus Terry and Bo Barnes on special teams.

Nick Townsend

On that same note, it was not difficult to see the glimmer in the eye of Jeff Banks when speaking on Nick Townsend. There was plenty of (CJ must have missed copy here)

Cole Brevard Moving Around the DL?

Kenny Baker had an interesting quote when speaking about the Purdue transfer. "There is nothing wrong with this, so hear me out. But Cole viewed himself as a nose (tackle) or a nose (tackle) (also an OP mistake). He wanted to be right over the center, or he couldn't function. So, yes, that is a strength of his. And we plan on utilizing that piece of it this year. On the flip side of it, and having come from the league, how do you maximize your earning potential?"

Baker mentioned spinning Brevard out to a 2i, or 3-tech or even a 4i in certain instances to get him different looks on the line and also add to his NFL Draft value.

“There’s Definitely Going to be a Camp Battle”

Kyle Flood spoke on the right tackle position and the upcoming battle, saying no one has earned that position yet. Brandon Baker enters camp as the favorite for the position, but Andre Cojoe is going to be giving him all that he can handle in the next two weeks according to the Texas offensive coordinator and line coach.

More Aggression on Punt Block

This was a big takeaway for me and I hate that I am just including it.

But it came off to me that Texas does not view their returnmen in the same light as a Keilan Robinson, Xavier Worthy or Silas Bolden. That could just be how things are to start the season, but Jeff Banks made an interesting comment about wanting to be more aggressive with punt blocking opportunities, rather than always setting up for a return.

Often times a year ago, Texas was quick to press at the LOS and get into position for a designed return in punt situations. Based off of the comments made today, I expect the Longhorns to be pretty aggressive with their punt block and seldomly use the traditional punt return setups of previous seasons. We will see how that evolves, but for now it appears to me that the special teams staff would prefer to test their luck with blocked punts than the home run return based off of who might be back deep.

Chad Scott Quote on Jerrick Gibson

"I think Jerrick Gibson has taken his game to another level based on his ability to not just be a downhill runner, but someone who can hit on the outside zone. But he can also catch the football."

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On 7/27/2025 at 6:20 PM, Boko Bevo said:

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.

we did not have playoff-caliber special teams

bert, blocks, bananas in tailpipes, you name it, we tried to lose games any way possible

we must restore the program's legacy of clutch kickers

it would be nice to have a ray guy for a change

and thank you for the clock management shoutout

someone has to keep track of the timeouts and when we have a surplus USE ONE

saving them for the last 30 seconds or last set of downs often sees them unused

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29 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

we did not have playoff-caliber special teams

bert, blocks, bananas in tailpipes, you name it, we tried to lose games any way possible

we must restore the program's legacy of clutch kickers

it would be nice to have a ray guy for a change

and thank you for the clock management shoutout

someone has to keep track of the timeouts and when we have a surplus USE ONE

saving them for the last 30 seconds or last set of downs often sees them unused

I think Bouwmeester is a huge pick up for Texas. Punting game was terrible last year. Texas finished 15th in Punt average with 40.78 (https://cfbstats.com/2024/leader/911/team/offense/split01/category06/sort01.html). Kern was 115th in the nation (https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/years/2024-punting.html).

Georgia Game 1: 

Georgia: 4 punts 216 yards (54 per) vs 5 for 219 (43.8 per).. 10 yards a punt Texas lost. 

Game 2: 

Georgia: 4 for 214 (53.5) vs 2 for 78 (39). 23.5 yard difference and that does not factor in the fake punt

Overall in 2 games

Georgia 8 punts for 430 vs 7 punts for 297 for Texas... 

lot of hidden yards in those games in special teams. 

 

 

 

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Listening back to the interviews on the LHN app and Banks wasn't sugarcoating much in the kicking game. Paraphrasing a bit, but he basically said:

"We were looking for leg talent. Let's face it, the kicks that Bert was missing, for the most part, were over 45 yards. We need to be able to make kicks between that 45-55 yard range and that was not something Bert was strong at."

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10 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

Listening back to the interviews on the LHN app and Banks wasn't sugarcoating much in the kicking game. Paraphrasing a bit, but he basically said:

"We were looking for leg talent. Let's face it, the kicks that Bert was missing, for the most part, were over 45 yards. We need to be able to make kicks between that 45-55 yard range and that was not something Bert was strong at."

Or get better in the redzone. 

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25 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

Listening back to the interviews on the LHN app and Banks wasn't sugarcoating much in the kicking game. Paraphrasing a bit, but he basically said:

"We were looking for leg talent. Let's face it, the kicks that Bert was missing, for the most part, were over 45 yards. We need to be able to make kicks between that 45-55 yard range and that was not something Bert was strong at."

I'd love to know what happened prior to last year with Bert. Injury? Lost it mentally?

His first two seasons, he hit 78% and 69% from 40+, best long range kicker we'd had since Tucker by far. Then last year dropped to 43%. WTF...

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3 minutes ago, Redneck Mutha said:

I'd love to know what happened prior to last year with Bert. Injury? Lost it mentally?

His first two seasons, he hit 78% and 69% from 40+, best long range kicker we'd had since Tucker by far. Then last year dropped to 43%. WTF...

He just needed more Sark pep talks right before the kick. That's what we were missing. 

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20 minutes ago, Codaxx said:

Or get better in the redzone. 

Drives ending in kicks from 40+ yards aren't stalling out in the red zone. 

I can think of several end-of-half/end-of-game kicks (OU, A&M, ASU come to mind) where the offense did more than enough to get him in range.

@MirrOlure beat me to it as I was typing

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On 7/28/2025 at 2:19 PM, 6th Street said:

There was a stretch there where our offense used to totally shut down for the entire 2H.  Vanderbilt, Kentucky, A&M, and I think Arkansas. I think they also went on a long scoreless drought against ASU in the playoffs. 
 

Texas offense - 2H points 

Vandy 6

Kentucky 7

Arkansas 10

Texas A&M 0

ASU 7

 

This is giving me PTSD from Sark's early years where he would give up leads in the 2nd half.  Obviously that didn't happen this time around because our defense was stout as shit.

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28 minutes ago, SL Xpress said:

He just needed more Sark pep talks right before the kick. That's what we were missing. 

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. 

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There's a reason why it's traditional not to talk to kickers. Never was a kicker, but was a goaltender. Same thing.

In short, you don't know shit about my position. You can't tell me what to look for, what to adjust, or how to help. It's specialized by design. I've got a goalkeeping coach, and he might have a tip or two. Everyone else is wasting my time.

Re: confidence: Kickers / 'keepers don't think about missing (at least, the good ones don't). It isn't in their head. A kicker who remembers the last miss will quickly be an ex-kicker. They go to sleep dreaming about drilling it betwixt the uprights from 70+ in a snow-driven cross wind. Sure, call your times-out since you can't take it with you (Brother Bill, Brother John), but you're not icing shit. It'll either be a good kick or it won't.

It's an awkward repetitive body movement, like a golf swing. Do it consistently, and you're a millionaire since so few can. Was Bert better than that and had a bad year? Was he regressing to the mean? Who knows, and who cares. Others do what he does, so if he's not hitting kicks in the era of transfer, we'll find someone who can.

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The position group that worries me the most is the OL.  4th year Neto who couldnt beat out Conner is finally making the jump? Also brand new RT so definitely some degree of uncertainty.  Hopefully the backs are much improved and can make magic happen.

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1 minute ago, GoldAppleCorps said:

There's a reason why it's traditional not to talk to kickers. Never was a kicker, but was a goaltender. Same thing.

In short, you don't know shit about my position. You can't tell me what to look for, what to adjust, or how to help. It's specialized by design. I've got a goalkeeping coach, and he might have a tip or two. Everyone else is wasting my time.

Re: confidence: Kickers / 'keepers don't think about missing (at least, the good ones don't). It isn't in their head. A kicker who remembers the last miss will quickly be an ex-kicker. They go to sleep dreaming about drilling it betwixt the uprights from 70+ in a snow-driven cross wind. Sure, call your times-out since you can't take it with you (Brother Bill, Brother John), but you're not icing shit. It'll either be a good kick or it won't.

It's an awkward repetitive body movement, like a golf swing. Do it consistently, and you're a millionaire since so few can. Was Bert better than that and had a bad year? Was he regressing to the mean? Who knows, and who cares. Others do what he does, so if he's not hitting kicks in the era of transfer, we'll find someone who can.

Mack Brown was a field goal kicker whisperer. I'll always give him credit for that. Whatever magic fairy dust he sprinkled on kickers, we never seemed to miss late game field goals when he was head coach. Never. 

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33 minutes ago, westexhorn said:

This is giving me PTSD from Sark's early years where he would give up leads in the 2nd half.  Obviously that didn't happen this time around because our defense was stout as shit.

I don't say this to excuse some of those performances because they were poor, but there is some game context that needs to be applied to a few of those situations.

Arkansas- Our second half drives went FG, Punt, TD, ran out the clock to end the game. Very limited possessions.

A&M- We had 190 second-half yards and moved the ball plenty. Two Ewers brain farts prevented a 31-0 laugher.

Kentucky- We barely touched the ball in the second half until our final few drives. 3 play punt, 2 play Blue fumble, 3 play Ewers pick 6. Then we drove 49 yards and Auburn missed a field goal, and the final 15-play drive all runs for 86 yards and a TD.

And against ASU our final 4 drives in regulation went TD, Ewers brain fart INT, missed FG and missed FG. And we again barely touched the ball til the 4th quarter because we had that 1 play safety and ASU held the ball for 13 minutes in the 3rd quarter. Although the offense was discombobulated for long stretches in that one, so I wouldn't put it in the same category as the other ones. 

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1 hour ago, GoldAppleCorps said:

There's a reason why it's traditional not to talk to kickers. Never was a kicker, but was a goaltender. Same thing.

In short, you don't know shit about my position. You can't tell me what to look for, what to adjust, or how to help. It's specialized by design. I've got a goalkeeping coach, and he might have a tip or two. Everyone else is wasting my time.

 

I like this.  Soccer reference on a football board.  A little piss and vinegar.  But, hey, next time just knock it down.  Is that too much to ask?

 

1 hour ago, westexhorn said:

The position group that worries me the most is the OL.  4th year Neto who couldnt beat out Conner is finally making the jump? Also brand new RT so definitely some degree of uncertainty.  Hopefully the backs are much improved and can make magic happen.

I am sure the Cardinals drafted him to simply throw away a 6th round pick.  PFF had him graded around 20th in pass pro at G, which would equate to top 10-ish of P4 programs.  He graded higher than some of those above him in the run game.  Keep in mind, the RG was the worst pass protector on the line so that increased the likelihood that Conners pass pro was critical, particularly in light of the QB.  Neto may not be good.  He might not even be the guy, but your rationale may be a bit short sighted.

 

1 hour ago, SL Xpress said:

Mack Brown was a field goal kicker whisperer. I'll always give him credit for that. Whatever magic fairy dust he sprinkled on kickers, we never seemed to miss late game field goals when he was head coach. Never. 

Mack was truly amazing in this regard.  The anti-Bobby Bowden.

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1 hour ago, Hookem2147 said:

I don't say this to excuse some of those performances because they were poor, but there is some game context that needs to be applied to a few of those situations.

Arkansas- Our second half drives went FG, Punt, TD, ran out the clock to end the game. Very limited possessions.

A&M- We had 190 second-half yards and moved the ball plenty. Two Ewers brain farts prevented a 31-0 laugher.

Kentucky- We barely touched the ball in the second half until our final few drives. 3 play punt, 2 play Blue fumble, 3 play Ewers pick 6. Then we drove 49 yards and Auburn missed a field goal, and the final 15-play drive all runs for 86 yards and a TD.

And against ASU our final 4 drives in regulation went TD, Ewers brain fart INT, missed FG and missed FG. And we again barely touched the ball til the 4th quarter because we had that 1 play safety and ASU held the ball for 13 minutes in the 3rd quarter. Although the offense was discombobulated for long stretches in that one, so I wouldn't put it in the same category as the other ones. 

Goddamn that's a lot of shitty QB and special teams play that we got away with thanks to the defense.

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1 hour ago, westexhorn said:

The position group that worries me the most is the OL.  4th year Neto who couldnt beat out Conner is finally making the jump? Also brand new RT so definitely some degree of uncertainty.  Hopefully the backs are much improved and can make magic happen.

Yeah, Neto is my main concern because he is pretty much an unknown. I hope they are putting the best player in that spot. 

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1 hour ago, SL Xpress said:

Mack Brown was a field goal kicker whisperer. I'll always give him credit for that. Whatever magic fairy dust he sprinkled on kickers, we never seemed to miss late game field goals when he was head coach. Never. 

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Some years he would toss in a dash of Ramonce's backpack clippings, but that fell out of favor after Pino missed a short FG attempt in the national championship game. 

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3 hours ago, Hookem2147 said:

Listening back to the interviews on the LHN app and Banks wasn't sugarcoating much in the kicking game. Paraphrasing a bit, but he basically said:

"We were looking for leg talent. Let's face it, the kicks that Bert was missing, for the most part, were over 45 yards. We need to be able to make kicks between that 45-55 yard range and that was not something Bert was strong at."

how about: couldn't hit the broadside of a barn from the right hashmark to save his life

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1 hour ago, SL Xpress said:

Mack Brown was a field goal kicker whisperer. I'll always give him credit for that. Whatever magic fairy dust he sprinkled on kickers, we never seemed to miss late game field goals when he was head coach. Never. 

that's what we do with mack

make him special teams minister of witchdoctoring

the kicker room spends the night before home games in a casita

special rites and incantations are performed

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2 hours ago, Boko Bevo said:
2 hours ago, SL Xpress said:

He just needed more Sark pep talks right before the kick. That's what we were missing. 

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. 

 

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Yeah, kickers are weird by design, I don't know who can be reached by a pep talk and who should be avoided, but Mack had the smooth laughing "you are so gonna get coed tail from this kick" charm that absolutely worked in most cases.  Sark may just be a bit too tactical/cerebral to actually calm the guy down.

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19 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

that's what we do with mack

make him special teams minister of witchdoctoring

the kicker room spends the night before home games in a casita

special rites and incantations are performed

No

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3 hours ago, Redneck Mutha said:

I'd love to know what happened prior to last year with Bert. Injury? Lost it mentally?

His first two seasons, he hit 78% and 69% from 40+, best long range kicker we'd had since Tucker by far. Then last year dropped to 43%. WTF...

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Undefeated 

21 minutes ago, Foosters said:

I was a kicker in HS. Feel free to PM with questions. 

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4 hours ago, GoldAppleCorps said:

There's a reason why it's traditional not to talk to kickers. Never was a kicker, but was a goaltender. Same thing.

In short, you don't know shit about my position. You can't tell me what to look for, what to adjust, or how to help. It's specialized by design. I've got a goalkeeping coach, and he might have a tip or two. Everyone else is wasting my time.

Re: confidence: Kickers / 'keepers don't think about missing (at least, the good ones don't). It isn't in their head. A kicker who remembers the last miss will quickly be an ex-kicker. They go to sleep dreaming about drilling it betwixt the uprights from 70+ in a snow-driven cross wind. Sure, call your times-out since you can't take it with you (Brother Bill, Brother John), but you're not icing shit. It'll either be a good kick or it won't.

It's an awkward repetitive body movement, like a golf swing. Do it consistently, and you're a millionaire since so few can. Was Bert better than that and had a bad year? Was he regressing to the mean? Who knows, and who cares. Others do what he does, so if he's not hitting kicks in the era of transfer, we'll find someone who can.

The assistant for the kickers left for a job at App State in the spring. Sark has an edge to his staff handling. 

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2 hours ago, Hagbard Celine said:

that's what we do with mack

make him special teams minister of witchdoctoring

the kicker room spends the night before home games in a casita

special rites and incantations are performed

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1 hour ago, Biff Tannen said:

Our HS kicker’s last name was Shank. True story. 

Our coaches pulled a guy off the soccer team to be our kicker. A bunch of our guys grew up with him (I didn’t) and largely considered him a complete pussy. I thought they were too hard on him and he was doing fine with FGs early in the year. 

Game 7 or 8, we’re hosting Galveston Ball for our fucking homecoming. This was when they were a football factory that rivaled some of the famous Miami high schools. We’re down 55-7 and our coach decides to kick the field goal from the GB 20 yard line. 

The holder gets a bad snap and the ball bounces up to the kicker. The GBall defenders are coming at him in full force.  He panics and starts running in the opposite direction. At around the 50, he just throws the ball behind his back, while running full speed towards the GBall end zone, at the GBall defenders. One of them picks it and houses it. Funniest shit on a football field I’d scene since earlier in the same game when Casey Hampton threw our center at our QB for a strip sack and fumble TD return. 

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4 hours ago, westexhorn said:

The position group that worries me the most is the OL.  4th year Neto who couldnt beat out Conner is finally making the jump? Also brand new RT so definitely some degree of uncertainty.  Hopefully the backs are much improved and can make magic happen.

Every $9.95er update since like April has been essentially “every single player on the team looks like an All-American”. Yet I don’t remember a single blurb about Baker. Now we’ve got chatter that a true freshman could win that job. They’re clearly not satisfied with the guy. 

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Posted
7 hours ago, Hagbard Celine said:

we did not have playoff-caliber special teams

bert, blocks, bananas in tailpipes, you name it, we tried to lose games any way possible

we must restore the program's legacy of clutch kickers

it would be nice to have a ray guy for a change

and thank you for the clock management shoutout

someone has to keep track of the timeouts and when we have a surplus USE ONE

saving them for the last 30 seconds or last set of downs often sees them unused

I think if we’d have switched special teams with Georgia we’d have won both those games. They just dominated us so thoroughly in game 1 that it led to all sorts of problems that really did us in. Maybe that wouldn’t have been enough to win game 1 but they were awesome and we were terrible. Standard competence on ST and we win the title game. 

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On 7/28/2025 at 9:20 AM, closetojumping said:

I've been sworn to secrecy and haven't even told my core friend group, but what he's alluding to with something big coming for NIL will also just be really fucking big for UT athletics. And it will also be hilarious. 

Regarding the back-up QB battle, there are no doubt multiple posters on this site who are grinding their teeth right now that Trey Owens isn't going to cut it. 

I don't think I've ever seen a preseason where who got the *backup* QB role was controversial.

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On 7/28/2025 at 10:47 AM, Had Enough said:

Oh Bobby, one implosion game won’t keep us from the playoffs.  It could eliminate us in the playoffs though.  But we still have the defense as a backstop.  A big difference in Sark and Greg Davis is that his short/screen game can be very effective.

please do not ever speak those two coaches' names in the same sentence again

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