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That could be true but this was an egregious no call

He can tell some stories of the Darrell Royal days.

This may seem like a homer comment, but if we're talking pure safety play(eraser and being the communicator on the back end) I'm taking Taafe all day everyday, but if we're talking football player and defensive chess peice. No question, it's Downs everytime.

I get it, but you need to know (you in general, not you literally) which practice reports you throw out and which ones to listen to. Pay attention to how the players react when certain names are brought up, or is there one consistent player a certain coach, or all of the coaches keep bringing up all off season, especially when unprompted. Also pay attention to position battles and how quickly they are won or lost. As far as Siereveld goes, Ohio State gives out what they call the "Iron Buckeye" aware for winter and spring lifting and general weight room competitions. Seireveld was an Iron Buckeye in the winder, and again in the spring and then won the starting LT position very quickly over Ethan Onianwa. On top of multiple coaches saying Siereveld has been playing very well.

Quinn holds a special place in my heart. He was the first major recruit I ever really followed. He also brought this program out from a very dark place. He wasn't the perfect QB, but he is an all-time Horn.

Julian Sayin is the #1 question mark I am most excited about learning about on Saturday, #2 is what a Matt Patricia D looks like. I'm expecting a lot of exotic blitzes and simulated pressures against that new look OL.

Agreed, was a big fan of Klare coming out of the portal. Another reason I give you guys the advantage is because I'm not entirely sure how the TE will look this year as opposed to the past few years with Quinn. As you and everyone else knows, he had no deep ball and excelled in the mid-range and the TE was his best friend. Arch is quite the opposite so curious how many targets we are looking at TE wise this year.. I do like Endries a lot though and could see improvement vs Helm but we shall see.

You’re a fan. I get it. I’m sorta not reliant on practice reports anymore. They’re just all over the board. And I’m more well versed on Ohio State due to your presence. One of the counters to less theoretical talent is experience. And I don’t believe the guys you lost were without talent.

Caleb Downs will be around the scrimmage, playing a similar role to the Cotton Bowl. It'll be a lot of the nickel back moving to deep safety (like Jordan Hancock last year), except this year it would be Lorenzo Styles Jr who is the starting nickel back, or Aaron Scott Jr, Bryce West, or Devin Sanchez.

The QUINN ewers. injuries derailed a new york trip!

Sure, if you are only looking at snaps. But LG Luke Montgomery, C Carson Hinzman, and RG Tegra Tshabola just dominated Indiana, Tennessee, Oregon, and Notre Dame, and played well enough for OSU to win against Texas. We know we can win a national championship with that interior OL because we just did it. As for Austin Siereveld, yes he was always the #1 backup at either guard position. I don't expect other fan bases to just take an Ohio State's word for it, but it seems like the coaches know exactly what they are going to get from Siereveld, and it seems like they expect it to be a very high level.

Here's the all 22. Go ahead and find as egregious of a hold in a key moment by Texas. Right now you have zero evidence to support your claim.

I like Downs in Jim Knowles scheme as the middle safety lurking in an inverted Tampa two, coming up at strong safety playing in the box around the line of scrimmage. As a high safety he leaves a lot to be desired, go watch the spring game or the Alabama/Texas game, Sark picked on him all night. Everytime Sark put Downs in conflict Texas scored.

Does anyone know the 3 groupings of NIL referenced in the chart above? A guess: ”Commercial” is legit NIL from a 3rd party commercial interest. Ex. Quinn Ewers and Dr.Pepper ads ”Collective” is the deals with the school booster collectives which tend to be more charitable-centric activities for compensation. Ex. Horns with Heart ”Collegiate” is the revenue share payments directly from the school?

Hutson, Neto, Robertson, Campbell all 4th year in the program. Goosby 3rd year in the program. Hutson has played quite a bit yet I have no idea what to expect. I’m hopeful. Sieve… he played little against us. He’s changed positions, right? You really don’t know what you have. You’re hopeful. Tegra. All signs point to him being mediocre. You’re hopeful he becomes something he hasn’t been. Hinzman, Montgomery. Again hopeful. Montgomery has played as much as Goosby. Both 3rd year guys? Goosby played against some 1st round guys. Started against them. Played the whole time. So why is Montgomery a better example of quality than Goosby? Campbell versus Hinzman. Campbell wins that. Our 5th guy, Neto. Chopped liver. 4th year guy. Top 200 National recruit. Mediocre bloodlines, brother is a DE at Texas. Baker is an unknown but good recruiting chops. The youngest of the bunch. Daniels went to Minnesota. Why? Some experience but young too. New to your program. Presumably played at Minny due to injury. Maybe an advantage you but we really don’t know. I was not comparing position by position but relative experience. You have us on the 4th and 5th guys in experience but otherwise don’t. And there are holes in those guys experience too.

I’m guessing the percentages for each positions group are an aggregation of the numbers players in each group. So, if Texas has 15 OL on the roster and 5 TE, we’d need to gross up the TEs to get some comparator of NIL spend percentage. In this example, 3.5% times 3 = 10.5%, which would reflect having an equal number of OL players and TEs on the roster. It also shows that having just 4 QBs on the roster still commands 15%-23% of the total NIL bucket.

There's only one answer, Quinn, without him we're looking back instead of what's to come.

lmao.....are you telling me that neither Sawyer or JTT were held or Kenyatta when JT went down were never held??? Stop it....I think it would not be an shock to say that Sawyer and JT were also held on occasion and they managed to have a big impact on the game

I still believe in DeBoer. I believe I predicted Alabama to meet Texas in the SEC Championship Game this year.

You are correct experience wise. Talent wise on paper we look to be OK with the new starters but how does that translate to a live game. D-Line is much easier to have ready week one than an O-line. I will be interested to see Patricia schemes. Fall camp has repped everything form 5-2 to 4-3 to Nickel. One X Factor on D is Downs, he reminds me 100% of Troy Polamalu the dude's Football IQ is through the roof and his athleticism off the charts. He is a game changer and disrupter from so many different spots on the field. He may be at FS, SS, Nickel may walk him up at LB and blitz him. He is the unquestioned leader of the D and another coach on the field. I am confidant he will make the correct pre snap reads and make the calls to get our guys lined up right. The question is how well do so many unproven new starters execute.

As I posted in a previous thread, when only comparing the players who will actually be playing this game, Texas has the slight talent advantage over Ohio State.

Ohio State's RT (Josh Fryar) was the weak link on the OL last season. Whether it is Phillip Daniels (the favorite at this point) or Ethan Onianwa, the RT position will be better for Ohio State.

I know what you are saying, but this is also based on practice reports from the spring all the way through fall camp. By all reports, Kenyatta Jackson Jr is looking and playing like a 1st or 2nd round pick. Although I will grant you that not much has been said one way or the other about Caden Curry/Beau Atkinson on the other side. As for linebacker - Cody Simon was a leader and very experienced, but Arvel Reese has a much higher ceiling and is much faster and more athletic than Simon was, plus Sonny Styles was always a safety, last season was his first at linebacker, so we are expecting another jump for the former 5* #12 overall prospect. As for DB's. Denzel Burke was experienced, but never a lockdown cornerback. We are expecting an upgrade with Jermaine Matthews Jr taking his snaps. Matthews Jr is an actual NFL prospect, where I don't even think Burke made an NFL roster. Losing Jordan Hancock doesn't worry us just because of the insane recruiting at the CB position. Lathan Ransom could be the biggest loss of the secondary and one that may hurt Ohio State the most. That will be Jaylen McClain and Malik Hartford competing to replace him. As for defensive tackles, there was never a concern about the starters (Eddrick Houston & Kayden McDonald), the concerns have been about 3-5. I am personally still concerned about the depth, but Ryan Day seems confident that they developed good depth over the off season, so hopefully that isn't an issue either.

I know I'm biased, but I think Ohio State might not have the #1 TE in the country, but has the #1 TE room in the country. They legitimately go 4 deep with guys who could playing meaningful snaps against Texas. I think Klare is going to be one of the top TE's in CFB, but maybe not #1 or #2.

Billy "Sure" Schott!