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I don’t hate the idea but agree that logistically it doesn’t make a lot of sense and we wouldn’t get tv revenue because no network would air the game. I think we go into the citrus bowl with the narrative that we’re treating this like a scrimmage or NFL preseason game and our primary goal is to get guys playing experience and not to play our starters and risk major injury for a meaningless bowl game. Would love to see what Caldwell and the 3 freshman receivers can do on offense and what our young guns look like on defense.

And? I'd be perfectly fine with Texas opting out of a bowl entirely. Livestream the game on the Texas youtube channel for all I care (or OTF!). Blake could do the play by play with Bobby as the color commentator. Gerry could be the sideline reporter, The All American Guy! I would personally pay $200 to go to the game and partake in Bevo Blvd, etc one last time for the season. Get some autographs. Texas could very well make more money from this than the bowl game. What's the difference between this exhibition practice and the exhibition practice vs Michigan with many of our starters sitting out?

Certainly fits this staff’s physical profile for a starting corner. Don’t know much else about him though.

Adding women’s sports will be no problem at Texas. They currently have 12. Stanford has 19 women’s varsity sports.

That’s what I’m saying. Why would you leave now????? Hope we can keep him. Would be a big loss.

No national TV coverage. Bad idea. You just described a exhibition spring practice

Max Johnson entering the Transfer Portal for a 4th time at nearly 25 years old isn't being talked about enough. Dude has literally played for Ed O, Jimbo Fisher, and Mack Brown.

Not if BYU wins tomorrow. Which I know is low odds, but I'm holding out hope and rooting for it.

I would rather the talking heads to not have that talking point. First off, I don't want to hear it. Secondly, whether you think so or not (you'd have to have your head buried in sand to not), people have biases against Texas and narratives that they're just waiting to be "proven right" (while ignoring any data that conflicts). Current and future committee members are NOT immune to developing biases. Yeah, past season results are not part of what is explicitly written in the selection criteria. I think you would be a fool to think that they don't look for things like bowl outcomes to justify the decisions they make in rankings. And whether they feel like they made a mistake in a prior year COULD theoretically make them think twice the next year. On top of that, I do think post bowl rankings matter. I would love for Texas to have 10 wins and be ranked in the final top 10 at the end of the season. Which could happen if we play #10 ND or even #11 in a bowl game and beat them. It won't happen by beating #19 Michigan. Every positive data point matters to this program and therefore matters to me. Being able to say "we finished in the top 10 the last three years" sounds a lot better to me than saying "we finished in the top 10 in 2023 and 2024 but not 2025". So yes, I think preserving the possibility of finishing in the top 10 matters, whether you think it does or not.

Sounds like the smoke is real. Although strange to take a lateral move when you’re about to be able to sell a top 5 pick at your position (Simmons).

Just watched a highlight video of Kohen Brown on youtube that Texas Recruits put out. He looks like a 4.3 guy. I do not remember Ffrench or Lockett looking anywhere near this fast on film. I am dying to see what he does in Spring.

Yeah just saw an article on the athletic about how "fearless" of a passer Mateer is. Incoming: 5 INTs vs the first good defense he faces in the CFP.

Corn. Fed.

Agreed. I bet he gets at least 5. PSU doesn't roll through coaches like many others. The portal can help but PSU has to show more commitment to $.

Yeah I'm pretty sure the high end guys will want to go to Oregon, LSU, Ohio State, even Penn State before going to the Aggies.

That NC winning coach is fool's gold. Lucked into Jameis Winston. Did not "develop him"- less than one year of development factored not at all into what Winston was in 2013, which was lightning in a bottle. Fisher ran FSU into the ground and got ran out of town by Dabo Swinney. I do not fault the Aggies for not doing anything with that "NC winning coach". I DO fault them for being idiots for hiring him. And that recruiting class was just an amalgamation of recruiting points. The whole thing was just bolstered by a boatload of highly rated DL. Takes more than a good DL obviously.

With coaching carousel so active, maybe there won’t be a lot of dynamic play callers available

0 snaps this year. Could be a good player, but not one I envision Texas pursuing for immediate play time

It's the aggies...no matter how good they are, they will Aggy it up against us. They literally got a NC winning coach and couldn't do anything with him. Had the best recruiting class ever, couldn't' do anything with it.

Need experience IOL, doubt Texas purses.

Exactly. As long as Reed is there we're good. Remember that this was our down year while it was their best year in more than a decade. A lot of guys that made that team what it is are leaving. Same thing with OU. Maybe Mateer is actually injured but I'll take a guess and say that that "Gamer" s#*t doesn't work in the SEC, unless you're a Caleb Williams type of guy which Mateer will never be, not even in a million years.

ND will be in the CFP. travesty.

Same. Though, as long as they have Marcell "One Read" Reed running the offense I feel fine. Plus, the losses they will have on the OL as well as losing Concepcion and possibly Craver SHOULD negate any advantage getting a better OC would have. We DEFINITELY need to out recruit TAMU on the OL in the portal. It will be a major failure if TAMU is better than us on the LOS on either side next year.

At this point it just feels like our situation with georgia and Kirby. Sark just has elko’s defenses and his teams figured out.

Do you think concessions don't NET Texas money every time they have an event? I think you think Texas gets more money from participating in the Citrus Bowl than they actually do. That is not the benefit. The benefit is the extra practice and playing time for backups, which this scenario could also achieve.