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Texas takes 1st set 25-18

17-10 Texas TO Baylor

It will start to change soon, but before it was VERY rare if anyone on XC had a full scholarship, most would be small partial ones and hope to find some academic help as well. In XC it was well known that you wanted to be fast and smart if you wanted any money for college. Now some schools would use their assets on distance and that would be their chance at conference or their calling card. Schools like Northern Arizona, Tulsa, BYU, etc. There were some for sure. But those schools would never have any strength in the speed disciplines. You basically had to pick a lane. Tennis, golf, even baseball and softball were the same when it came to mostly partial scholarships if anything. Way more walk ons than you would think. With the changes, teams with money and funding can now have full scholarships for anyone on the roster. Of course, with the new roster limits in track, there will still have to be decisions made on if you want to use them on speed or distance, but there are also full XC scholarships available if a school wants to use them and try to win at distance only. Texas is not fully funding all of the new scholarships yet, no one is, but over time they expect to. This is why I say we can become more competitive if we want. But it will also take spending big money overseas as well. Schools like TTU are bringing over 27 year old, Olympic age "freshman" to compete in distance. It is not illegal, even though I disagree with anyone over 25 competing in college sports, but that is what it is going to take. You will need a roster with some international athletes to compete in distance. The hard part about distance recruiting is you can go get the best runner in America as a high school senior and they may not pan out. Distance running is weird about that. It takes years to truly develop and you have to be running all year long, some well over 100 miles a week in season, which can cause injury. It is just a very tough sport to be consistently good at.

GO PACK GO!

Thanks, I'm really clueless when it comes to some of the "lesser" sports. Like how tennis and golf scholarships work, I assume the top 4-5 ish are on scholarship and the others are walk ons. Typically on the roster there seems to be a lot more than what we see play in the matches.

Not bad. He's only played 8 snaps though vs the rest of those guys in double digits

It is an extremely hard sport to recruit, but with all the changes in rosters and scholarship limits I can see Texas becoming competitive if they want to. Before, it was hard to have a great distance and sprint program. XC is always just an extension of your distance program for track. Now they can fully fund the program, again, if they want to.

I don't think I've ever seen cross country compete for a national championship, is it because there aren't any scholarships there and most of the track and field scholarships go to indoor/outdoor T&F teams?

ahh, dang... yes, when i miss live, I use spotify. but i was hoping for some other live audio only feed.

Great to see!

Can’t wait to see arch in november and december because that’s when i think he’ll start rounding into the high expectations form way to many had for him.

T’vondre and Barryn are testaments to staying all 4 years and taking your development serious

There is something clearly off with Arch Manning. The Texas quarterback has yet to live up to the hype so far this season. He has completed just 55.3% of his passes for 579 yards, six touchdowns and three interceptions to go with 112 rushing yards and three rushing scores through three starts. However, when you watch Manning play, he’s played pretty poorly and nothing has looked solid. Manning’s issues are very different from the issues Clemson’s Cade Klubnik and South Carolina’s LaNorris Sellers are dealing with because they aren’t holistic. That Texas offense has quality wide receivers and running backs with a good offensive line. Has that group played its best football around Manning? Probably not. Still, this is an Arch-specific issue with Texas’ offense. Manning threw 10 straight incompletions against UTEP. His completion percentage is the second-worst in the SEC. But when you account for throws that actually go past the line of scrimmage, he’s completing just 46% of his passes. So, I went back and watched every throw Manning made against UTEP to try and diagnose the problem. Just to preface this, when I watch a young quarterback, there are a few things I look for. One of them is to see if the speed of the game is impacting his play. That looks to be the case for Manning. Even with the games he started last year, it didn’t really translate to him being comfortable. Read the rest of the story here: https://www.foxsports.com/stories/college-football/diagnosing-whats-really-wrong-texas-arch-manning-can-he-fix-it

So much to play out this year regarding the Cup. 1 bad required sport will hurt Texas but certainly not sink our chances. If Stanford puts up 0s again in W and M Bball and baseball, Texas still has a great shot. I haven't written it up yet but Cross Country also not looking super strong but you could make a good argument for every other team on campus to have very very high level success this year.

Imagine spending all this time trying to “unmask” random posters on a sports message board. That’s desperate. I’m here to talk ball, you’re here to write fan fiction. Digging through Twitter to prove I’m some mystery man? That’s not detective work, that’s just you putting in more effort than the actual coaching staff. Maybe take a water break, you’re working harder at this than the team’s offensive line.

We’re going to see Brock Williams play tonight. He’s a five star TE who plays for Libertyville (IL) HS. Will report back.

Don't feel the need to respect dumb takes. "We may have seen the best of Sark so let's cut our losses now and hire the next sure thing"?? Just confounding...

Ok, cool. Hook Em.

Super lazy response but makes sense you’d choose it.

Oregon is just trying to squeeze every bit of juice out of Knight before he checks out.

Love this!! Talk about a real DUDE!!

He was one of the rare players that got better year by year. I remember watching against Tech in 21 thinking this guy can be something down the road. Glad to see he is still getting better!

Barryn Sorrell is beasting out to start the season. Through the first two games, he has the highest pash rush winrate in the NFL for anyone with more than 5 snaps @ 33.3%. 2 Pressures, 1 sack and 1 hurry on 8 attempts. This doesn't surprise Longhorn Nation but still amazing to see what we know actually play out for this young man. Can't wait to see him continue his upward rise.

Let’s go ladies! 🤘

once this is complete, what is going where the bubble and practice field are now?