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Akina was an odd choice. I was not here so no idea if there was discussion regarding the whys of bringing him back. I thought he and Nansen were familiar with each other and was likely a positive in bringing Akina back. For much of 2024, the schedule had offensive incompetence on the opposite sideline. There’s a reason Clemson, ASU and OSU had some success. We also were relatively healthy in 2024. Good health, simplistic offenses, limited offenses generally make for easier defense. UTSA, Colo State, ULM were all in the 100s in OFEI. Michigan was 61. OU was 80. Florida was 49, but that was built on Lagway. The Ivy League transfer likely has them worse. Kentucky was 73. Mississippi State was 31, but they did have a backup QB making his first start. Georgia was 13 so that was for a decent offense. Vandy was 27, Arkansas 48. A&M 29th. So those first 5 P5 teams were either unsettled at QB or had injured QBs when we played. in 2025, the non-P5s were in the 100s. Vandy 1st. Ohio State 8th. Georgia 9th. a&M 15th. Arkansas 16th. MSU 42nd. OU 54th. UF 61st. Kentucky 84th. So the P4 teams that got worse in OFEI were home games in 2024 and road games in 2025. Two of those were also the 3rd and 4th games in a row away from home. Also two of the 3 started backup QBs in 2024.

Somebody needs to explain the whole extra time thing, from how it’s determined to how the extra time is kept. It sure looks like a mechanism for the officials to keep their thumbs on the scale.

Gentlemen I got HOSED yesterday on some world cup action 😞

Watched more than i ever have. One thing I have learned, refs suck in soccer too.

I think whoever gets him first will have a much easier time holding him than getting him to flip. It's not impossible to flip someone, especially of that caliber, but improbable unless IU has a disaster season or some other reason.

You have the olympics in between the world cup as well

124-15, which excludes national championships in the seasons preceding and succeeding the decade. Insane.

Fun look back... https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/greatest-college-football-team-decade/

Is it more likely we get Sales to commit to us the next couple weeks (first time through/round 1) or as a late flip (round 2/3)?

If you mean every 2 years instead of 4, I mentioned earlier that Copa America and the EUROs happen every 4 years as well but it's situated 2 years from the World Cup. So every 2 years there's some type of international soccer competition that happens during the summer whether it's strictly Europe or South America or the World Cup. It's a little better than nothing for 3 years in between but you're still bored out of your mind for those 2 summers in between each competition.

I would say possible, but not probable.

Scott Henderso

When you're a boxing champion, a wrestling champion, a football All-American and a five time Pro-Bowl selection... you're a grade A, certified bad ass.

We’re 61 days away from Texas football, so today’s countdown features one of the greatest linemen to ever wear the Burnt Orange. Bud McFadin headlines No. 61 after earning two All-America honors, winning SWC MVP in 1950, and later being inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. Paul Jetton also deserves recognition after becoming a two-time All-SWC selection, team captain and NFL Draft pick. Who gets your vote as the best Longhorn to ever wear No. 61?

Texas has the coaches, has the education, is in a world class city, has the post football support, has the QB, has the professional scheme and hopefully has the NIL package. Sales is smart and requested Texas to recruit him. Excelsior!! 🏈🤘🏻🏈🤘🏼🏈🤘🏈🤘🏽🏈🤘🏾🏈🤘🏿🏈

It's still soccer. There's not any time of the year that football, basketball or baseball isn't happening.

The woman’s World Cup is set 2 years off from the men’s.

I don’t know why they decided to do it that way, but that is how it has always been done. I don’t think it would make it any more exciting.

I agree with the overall tenet of this post. Texas has an uphill battle. Not insurmountable but it’s uphill.

If you can keep this RB room together. Next year is going to be crazy. Derrick Cooper, James Simon, Noah Roberts, LWC. Hell, Smothers still has eligibility doesn't he? Lol.

This is true, they got on board really well in '24. Nansen seem to bring some ideas to PK and PK did listen. Seemed like t hings got disjointed in '25 for whatever reason.

Nansen seems like a good dude, solid LB coach and recruiter. Has DC experience. I know the question wasn't about recruiting (even though people went that route) but as Jeff pointed out he seems to mesh more with what Muschamp wants to do than what PK wanted to do. Wonder if Sark was telling PK he wanted to be more aggressive and it just never sunk in or what? I love PK and I think he was great at Texas. But it was clear he lacked aggressiveness and teams would just dink and dunk on us. I go back to that 2022 Tech game where Donovan Smith (who is not a good QB and had very little experience at the time) basically dinked and dunked Tech to victory. He ironically did the same thing in 2023 at Houston against us, too. Cutter Boley was the same with Kentucky. His refusal to command the whole D was also pretty weird but anyway, back to Nansen. If Muschamp doesn't feel he fits with what he wants to do defensively, I'm assuming he'll bring it up with Sark after the season and they'll assess from there. Otherwise let's see how they work together this year. Lots of good LB talent around both from the portal and HS ranks.

I don't understand this Nansen talk. The first year of Nansen/PK worked incredibly well (2024). The Longhorns had one of the best defenses in the their history and the best in the nation along with Ohio State. We heard all season long how Nansen had married the back and front of the defense, which PK had trouble doing on his own. Enter Akina in 2025 and the back end of the defense went south really fast: poor communication, blown coverages and general dysfunction in the secondary.

Nansen is high IQ type that is creative. If anything I think Muschamps style will enhance what Nansen does thus making it significantly easier moving forward to recruit both hs and portal players. I also beleive Nansens style will allow Muschamp to move more pieces around the board to create more havoc not just at the LB position but also on the D line and by extention the 2ndary.