Everything posted by Askew
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CFP expansion discussion
Couple of thoughts: 1) Big12 currently has the most ideal path to get one team into the CFP (1st and 2nd best team always play in CCG--winner will almost always go to CFP with that big win). In 2-division leagues, a weak division winner can win the CCG and knock out the #1 team; or a tough division can cannibalize itself (Pac 12). 2) But Big 12 has the worst ability to have multiple top-12 teams. Round robin play is zero sum. Cross-divisional wins can really bump up the resumes of teams--think of a year where Bama and LSU both play eg Vandy. Bama and LSU both get an extra win, and none of the other SEC West teams take a loss. Relative rankings bump for all involved. 3) If 12-team playoff goes through, BIG 12 needs to immediately expand to get increase the available wins in conference, 10 wins looks like the magic number. Big 12 maxes out at about 3 10-win teams. The 14-team conferences max out at about 5 10-win teams. 4) The first-round hosting/2nd-round bowls is actually a great way to quasi-punish the top teams. All of the lower seeds get some amazing program exposure, top teams get a bye but no exposure. Kind of like the NFL draft. Here's a slight variation to 12-team I would really want to see: -First round is the NY6 Bowls. The 6 conference winners get the same bowl every year for tradition (Rose Bowl for Pac 12, Sugar for SEC, Cotton at Jerryworld for Big 12, Orange for ACC, etc). Conference winners play the six at-large. -NY 6 determines the seeding. Makes for interesting debate. Top-2 teams have a bye. Next 4 teams play the quarterfinals. 2 highest seeds host. This would eliminate any chance a Cincinnati ever hosts a game, unless it's a cinderella story which would make it awesome atmosphere. -The 2 previous Bye teams host the semis. -Championship at a neutral site. BUT hosting will work best in the first round when students are on campus, so this won't really work that well in practice.
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Its happening (stadium renovations)
Wonder what the presentation to recruits is for the SEZ while it's still under construction. These athlete facilities and offices have to be getting close to finished if CDC is saying August is still the target completion date. Can't wait to see the finished product and hear the reaction from recruits/players.
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2021 transfer RB Keilan Robinson
Absolutely huge. Could easily be our RB2 and add a consistent explosive element our offense lacks. Good. If Roschon keeps his spot, KR will push him, raise the level of competition, and still add a change of pace back. Great. No longer have to hold our breath that Watson or Young might have to play. Strong 3-man rotation. Amazing.
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2021 Texas Offseason: Sark Attacks Austin
What would your expectation of Herman have been for this upcoming year if he was retained? My expectation was nothing short of 10 wins and CCG appearance. No excuses. That was assuming the same NFL draft departures. We didn't lose any our core to the transfer portal. Very little attrition. My expectation hasn't really changed with the new coach. Roster has 9+ wins in it.
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2022 RB Jaydon Blue
Assuming the public reason for Blue's opt out is true (save his body), isn't it the case that a lot of peoples' worries on here would be mitigated if the underlying problem was fixed? I.e., the NCAA being greedy twats? A lot of people are concerned that Blue opting out is a me-first mindset that will lead to him opting out of bowl games or even his entire junior year, to get to the NFL. But isnt this purely a money problem? If NIL goes through: at the broadest level, a player's overall career will factor heavily into their immediate earnings from NIL. So if youre a guy who is good enough to make opting out of senior year sound beneficial, you'd probably be earning enough from NIL to balance those incentives out. At a more particular level, this would remove the incentive to opt out of bowl games as well. Think about how much Sam Ehlinger could make off selling an NFT of one of his rushing TDs in the Sugar Bowl? Hell, Vince could easily have made a couple million off NIL if he came back for a fourth year. Boosters would just funnel money into his NIL ventures. Once those income streams start getting developed, it starts to make a lot more sense for a player to bask in the placid waters of college and rake in that passive income.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2022 - Idiotic Slapfights Unrelated To 2022 Recruiting
I think you have this kind of right, but also wrong. I'll call it the Herman Corollary: If your top target is gone, then you need a strong contingency. BUT if your strong contingency is gone, then NEVER reach for bodies. This means that we dont have much dead weight, but also holes in the roster at RB (refused to reach in 2019, 2020 after TY Jordan decommitted), LB (refused to reach in 2018, or 2020 other than Ford), DE/Edge (refused to reach in 2019, 2020 after Van F decommitted), TE (refused to reach in 2018 only offered 6 and got Epps, 2020 only offer 4 got none).
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Jimbo 2022: Balls To The Face
I believe CTJ has a great writeup on Clemson's decade of OL adequacy on here somewhere.
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Its happening (stadium renovations)
Ladies and gentleman suffering from OCD, they finally did it--took out the goalposts for our viewing pleasure. They're probably getting ready to replace the turf.
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2021 Texas Offseason: Sark Attacks Austin
Does anyone know why this is happening? If I recall FCB put out a story first week of spring that the players were "soft." But dont know of any other particular reason, other than FCB's general ineptitude/stupidity, that Sark would repeatedly ice him out like this. Also, I kind of like the idea of FCB getting emasculated, but I feel that at some point it gets disrespectful to the fans to be shooting the messenger like this. I want to hear the answers to these questions. It's not like FCB's questions have been totally obtuse.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2022 - Idiotic Slapfights Unrelated To 2022 Recruiting
You're not a realist, you're a whiny halfwit. Even worse, you're lazy. Since giving an informed opinion is too difficult for you, I'm going to have to take some of my life attempting to fill your black hole of ignorance. As TARS can probably tell you better than me, trying to fill a black hole is a complete waste of time. That's an Interstellar joke, try to keep up. Anywho...can you tell me the first kid to commit to Herman? I'll assume not. That would be Byron Vaughns on April 7, 2017. Can you tell me what Herman's class looked like on April 25, 2017 (at which point new coaches worth their salt are experiencing an astounding level of momentum)? Casey Thompson, Cam Rising, Reese Moore, Byron Vaughns.That's good for a .90 average. Highest rated guy wouldn't even break the top-5 in our current class. 2nd-highest rated guy would only beat out 3-star Trevell Johnson. Earthshattering levels of momentum for Mensa. If you want to argue it's better to have a shitty class (as then-rated) all commit in April, rather than a good class all commit in February, be my guest, but that's a dumb argument.
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2021 Texas spring football thread
What Vito said. He's leaner. His waist is smaller so it makes him look bigger. He may have gained a few pounds of muscle, but he's 4 pounds lighter overall. 227 --> 224 I believe.
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2021 Texas spring football thread
Looking more and more like we are going to start 4 of the 5 staters from last year. Kerstetter, Angilau, Okafor, Jones. Which means that coaching and scheme was the problem last year. If the OL can learn to pick up stunts at merely an average level, the unit as a whole will be exponentially better. Last year, I picture the OL asking Hand, "coach, how do we handle a stunt?" And Hand probably hearing: "coach, how do we handle a steak?" and then excitedly going into grilling methods and his possible invention of the 'Grill Hands' for the right grip (tm). I'm sure Hand was extra hungry during OU week, during which our OL play reached crisis levels.
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2021 Texas spring football thread
It's not really about the pads/gear. It's about game situation vs track situation. Some guys just loosen up and run faster in a game. So the poster above who said the mph gauges will be the new normal, rather than the 40, is the most correct. Take the measurements from game situations, combine with 40 times, profit.
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2021 Texas spring football thread
Tin foil hat time: multiple sites are quoting Okafor in his media availability, saying that 'Casey is getting most of the reps with the 1's.' The media availability video is edited at 1:31 and that quote is cut out...
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2021 Texas spring football thread
Tyler Owens really auditioning for the LB role with that gem of an arm tackle.
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2021 Texas spring football thread
Bijan is a specimen. Really nice throw by Casey at the end.
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2021 Texas spring football thread
I also like Cliff Curtis because--setting aside Training Day being a top-10 movie--I like to think of the bathroom scene as a tidy little metaphor for Sark running Herman out of town.
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2021 Texas spring football thread
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2021 Texas spring football thread
Yeah I am pretty much operating under the assumption that Whit has gotten the correct medical help, and S&C is putting him in the right place to avoid further injury and compete next year (both body composition and conditioning). With that assumption, my main point is just that Whit needs live reps to get his athleticism and confidence back. Judging by how he looked last year, his body has either not gotten its full athleticism back, or he's in self-protection mode and is holding himself back to avoid further injury. So to overcome these things, he just needs to be out there playing full speed. If he needs bubble wrap just to survive an offseason where he's not dealing with any type of nagging injury, then he might be too snake bit to be a football player.
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2021 Texas spring football thread
I can agree with Bijan (although sounds like his vision is getting better and better). But it's pretty clear now that Whit has been on a longer timeline in regaining his HS athleticism after the multiple hernia surgeries and the meniscus tear last year. Pretty stiff last year. He needs every live rep he can get at this point just to keep recovering his fast-twitch muscle and his instinctual athleticism when people are flying around. Offseason conditioning cant really replicate that.
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2021 Texas spring football thread
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2021 Texas spring football thread
DMO proved that he doesn't need any extra weight to be effective and durable in the BIG 12. He already gained the ~10 extra pounds he needed to play LB. He was listed at 210 in 2019. They aren't going to size him up just so that he can be a larger body. They want his explosion from last year, with better play recognition. No need to change his body composition for that. So yeah, maybe DMO puts on the arbitrary three pounds to get to the 220's, but the point remains that TO is currently really undersized to pair with DMO. We also have seen what it looks like when guys put on too much weight in the offseason (Adimora, Keaontay). So anything more than 10 pounds on TO's frame would likely not be healthy. I could live with DMO at 217 and TO at 214. But they'd have to prove it works on the field. Juwan did a lot of the dirty work last year.
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2021 Texas spring football thread
TO is at 204. He's not going to play in the 220's. DMO is at 217, he's not going to play in the 220's. So the plan was you take the undersized guy and play him with a Gbenda or Ford who will play in the 220's. That is still traditionally undersized, but it made sense when you have the larger 4-down front with two big DTs. I don't know how that works if TO plays at less than 210. Adimora was playing Nickel at 214.
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2021 Texas spring football thread
I still have doubts whether TO has the tackling instincts to play in the box, but that will get resolved soon enough. Assuming TO is capable, real question is can TO and DMO play at the same time, or are they too similar and need a Mike to help fill gaps and stop the run? I was excited to pair DMO with Ford or Gbenda. But I guess you could put TO and DMO out there against spread teams and then see how they hold up against the run.
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2021 Texas spring football thread