This is one of the most baffling coaching games I’ve ever seen in sports. Genuinely fireable IMO. There’s really no excuse to lose in the supers this year.
Justin Wells, two blunts in after driving from East Texas to Alabama: "Alright Vodney, need you to stand by your locker and strike a crucifixion pose. Excellent, that's perfect, I've got a long drive back so gotta run, cool if I just say you have a good relationship with Kenny Baker?"
God damn they added 21 portal guys and those are the six best? That’s legitimately impressive, I started reading about the McNeese WR and was expecting them to say he put up 1300 yards and 10 touchdowns. 500 yards and 3 TDs at the FCS level? That’s a walk on level player. The likes of Baylor and Iowa State aren’t taking players like that. Insane.
Love when they go on about how they fit in better in the SEC than sippy as if that’s a badge of honor. The A&M fanbase and athletic department are full of stupid, servile people with simultaneous superiority/victim complexes. So, yes, they are a better fit in the SEC.
When I encounter this, which is sadly frequent, I usually just go along with it and hit em with aggie slop like “Man you think Taurean York ends up going in the first round? Probably second round latest” and “Realistically, how many teams on the schedule are actually more talented than the Ags?” This usually results in them essentially speaking TexAgs out loud to me and hopefully increases the height of the rollercoaster and makes the October setback hurt even more.
This and the omission of Lefau jumped out to me (aside from this being a terrible list generally). I’m not a draft scout by any means, but Lefau was really impressive for a true sophomore imo. The other thing that stands out is how many of our very best players won’t even enter next year. Manning and Simmons, for instance, would probably be top 5/10 picks this year. Hard to believe that ~5 years ago, I was looking at the roster and thinking about whether Lil’Jordan Humphrey would get drafted.
Pretty excited about the blocking across the offense. Personnel on the OL to take a step forward in the run game, I think Endries could be an improvement on Helm there and Mosley/Wingo/Moore should be pretty stout. Goes without saying that Parker Livingstone is gonna be tossing fools around.
1. Chip Kelly literally stopped recruiting years before he left. 2. UCLA does not have competitive NIL funds, lost its starting QB to graduation and backup to Maryland, was going into this season looking to start an inaccurate former App State QB. 3. DeShaun Foster looks to be on a fast track to a short tenure, if the UCLA admin cares enough to fire him in a few years, and he needs talent. The roster is very very poor.
I think it would have to come from a lack of competitive offers elsewhere. He'd be a massive upgrade over Aguilar. Would be a bizarre move coming from the other school that was recently burned by the Imaleavea family, but it would be a massive talent upgrade for UCLA (and I don't even think Nico is particularly good).
I think they're going to be significantly worse than last year? If I'm being extremely generous, the offense might be slightly improved with QB (who is bad), RB (tbd if Moss is the same) and OL coming back and second year with the OC. On defense, they took heavy losses on a pretty good DL and the only guy who jumps out as an above average SEC starter is Will Lee. Nonetheless, the schedule is an absolute cakewalk and the Elk should probably receive capital punishment if he doesn't hit 8-4.
A bit off topic, but does anyone know the story on Keisean Henderson (not as it relates to us as we have our QB)? I haven’t heard much about his recruitment for a QB that’s currently the consensus #1 prospect in Texas. Seemed like he was all UH from early on, hard to imagine that sticks unless there’s some sort of family connection.
UCLA 247 mod says that his ask is about 4x what they're able to come up with. Bodes well for us, as we might be the happy medium with UCLA being poor and Texas Tech being exclusively for illiterates with severe learning disabilities.
Right and I think he's good enough that he'd very much improve a position group that's already stellar. Kind of reminds me of going after Silas Bolden when we already had Bond/Golden/Cook/Moore/Wingo.
This guy is a stud and would be very happy to have him, but not a position of need at all? Wonder if there's some concern that Vasek will just never be healthy.
I love how 3/5 guys mentioned get the caveat that they don’t have NFL athleticism/measurables, but Tarp concludes that these are the guys that could be NFL ready next season. What ever happened to DJ Hicks, wouldn’t he be the natural guy to mention here since he’ll be draft eligible? Do they have a single defensive player who’s definitively better than say, Liona Lefau?