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If Texas gets 50 year old Brady in the portal I'm betting the farm on Texas 😂

There was like a 12 year time period where there was no window lol - I would know, that’s when I was there.

Nobody is saying it’s our last chance, but when you have a guy is marked as a generational talent, you do everything you can to ensure he succeeds. Nobody is saying we can’t win outside the “2 year window” but this is about maximizing Arch’s + the talent around him’s time.

We're all lifetime longhorns. No one is saying we don't want to win after Arch. But until the NCAA takes away eligibility rules and tom Brady can go back to Michigan to try to win a natty as a graduate student, there will always be cycles to some degree at programs. Most important player in sports is QB, so if you can re-align resources to these two years to maximize, you do it. Take for example the transfers Texas brought in this year. It is not a coincidence that Emmet Mosley, Watson, Endries, and Spence all have two years of eligibility or time before the NFL is a possibility. If you need to move some of your 2027 resources to 2026 to ensure you get the right guys in the portal next year (or to keep Colin Simmons), you do it. No question. And then you do the same thing with KJ Lacey and Dia Bell's prime years (or Trey Owens, if he mans up and wins the job).

rod b just had a sunday school on the nickel. great listen.

Get well soon, young man. Football is better when all of the best are healthy and can compete.

We all are brother. Let's go get another natty with Arch then worry about the rest! Trust in Sark and CDC

Me too, but I am all in for life.

It took Kirby Smart five years to win it all at Georgia. Sark is in his fifth year here with coaching continuity, arguably the best defense in college football, and a Heisman trophy candidate at QB. I'm all in.

Georgia didn’t suffer in recruiting the years they didn’t win the championship. Neither did Ohio state, Oregon, Michigan, Alabama or even freaking Saggies. Between the NIL and the SEC we will be good.

The great Rod Babers preaches positional versatility. Texas is cross training and will have layers of players as they match up against the opposition. Taaffes time at nickel versus safety etc will be dictated by the coaches game plan but he certainly provides value at the nickel, otherwise they would solely utilize him as the all American safety he was a season ago.

Let me add that this is Manning's third year in the program. He has patiently waited and is going to blow the roof off the house. If you're not in now? Why wouldn't you be?

FWIW in PK’s defense the nickel is probably the most important position on the unit.

The key thing to consider is what will happen to our recruiting if we don’t win a national championship with Arch. It will be easy for detractors to then say about Texas, “if not now/then, then when”. And they have legitimate room to say that. For a very long time, the overall perception of Texas is that we fail to live up to lofty expectations. If we fail to win with Arch, that will be another data point that fits the narrative. At this point, the longer it takes Sark to win a championship, the more people will be convinced that the answer to the question of “if not now, when?” is “never”.

Adding a third. Things can change in a heartbeat. I don’t want to speak it into existence, but Sark could leave for the NFL or any number of other bad things could happen to set the program back. Strike while the iron is hot applies.

I understand what you’re saying. Yes, Texas will still be Texas after Arch, and Sark is putting together a monster that will be elite for the foreseeable future. But I think the all in mindset is really two things. 1. People think Arch has the potential to be a generational player. Guys that level like Young, Newton, Burrow, etc. win Nattys, and it’s smart to do everything to support them to do so. 2. If he is that level of player and Texas doesn’t go all in and win it all, that becomes a negative recruiting tool. With NIL that stuff may not matter as much as it used to, but it’s still a thing. Also beyond recruiting I’m sure the staff doesn’t want to be labeled “couldn’t win it even with Arch”.

He will certainly make mistakes. Peyton who I think is an all time great threw 28 picks as a rookie. Peyton was humble and tough enough to rebound. I think Arch is going to be phenomenal. He practiced against elite defense here and Sark is a QB whisperer.

We may not be as good after Arch leaves. Who knows. We're not guaranteed anything, as we are all painfully aware. Gotta take advantage while we can, strike while the iron's hot, etc. Are you happy we did during the VY era? We'd still be looking for our first NC in 55 years.

Trenches always win. A great QB is a shell without protection.

I didn't realize Jaray had been in there that often, I guess he wasn't having a significant impact. I viewed him as a pass rusher and I hope justus Terry takes some of that responsibility and more.

We do have a 2 year window with Arch. That part is correct. The problem with this reply as well as your OP is that literally no one (OTF staff/posters) are saying that the window completely closes after Arch moves on. The window at Texas never closes, never has.

My expectations are in check when it comes to arch since it seems everybody has theirs sky high. Are we really gonna act like this isn’t the same kid that got into the georgia game and looked completely shell shocked like Quinn? He is going to have his bad games and i can’t wait to see the mental gymnastics the same guys last year who were ready to bench quinn for arch do in the live game threads.

Second to QB, the most impactful position group on the teams success IMO. We have been spoiled and I like it!

Here are a few nuggets left on the cutting room floor: — The last Texas tackle who played more than 38 snaps per game was Ta’Quon Graham in 2020, who averaged 50.4 snaps per game in a nine-game pandemic-impacted regular season. —The sixth-most snaps at defensive tackle in each of the last two seasons were logged by Jaray Bledsoe (85 snaps in eight games in 2023) and Tia Savea (38 snaps in four games in 2024), respectively. — Travis Shaw’s season-long PFF grade improved from a 52 in 2023 (119 total snaps and 11.1 per game) to a 61.3 in 2024 (a PFF grade of 60 is considered average). The same was true for Johnson, whose 54.8 grade while playing 17.1 snaps per game jumped to a 64.8 last season with an increase in playing time.