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It's a shame he was not used more to create more havoc the last two years

Havoc, you say?

Gerry's right. This is pure BS. Don't pay if you don't want.

Fong bomb for him today along with a few other put in RPM to Texas.

She gone

Basketball NIL also taking off. Article in today's Athletic titled "Want your men’s college basketball team to contend next year? It might take $10 million" (paywall). Top guy in this year's portal, Flory Bidunga (C), supposedly was asking for $5 million. Four years ago Nijel Pack, an All-Big 12 player at K-State but not considered a really big fish, signed with Miami for $800K over 2 years. In the current cycle a potential all-conference player could expect $3 million and above yearly (see screen grab below). Interesting article with a discussion about how the money is available but it's tricky to get it past the NIL Go clearinghouse auditors. Also, no evidence yet that the Big East will dominate given they don't need to spend most of the $20 million cap on football. Another tidbit - "Last July, when The Athletic polled 35 coaches, the average estimate to build a roster in the SEC was $9.7 million, and the other four high-major leagues were in the $8 million range." The part about how opaque the system is was interesting too, with too many poorly prepared 'agents' asking for outlandish numbers. Article mentions a blog by Evan Miya which "has data from 30 teams that input player salaries in his front office tool." He says NIL is up 65% for basketball this year over last year. This site is not behind a paywall, here's the link for those interested (I'm interested but haven't read it carefully yet, just skimmed it). Here's a screen grab from Athletic.

For the All Sports Trophy, sports with a true regular season - like baseball and softball - it is the regular season finish that counts. sports without a conference regular season - like track and field - it’s the sec championship finish that counts.

Georgia was ahead earlier this spring for Brock. Hopefully we can land one of these two.

Im going to guess based on this news, they are doing very well with Brock.

How is Texas doing with Brock Williams?

I think Gerry said that Vic is trying to operate under the radar and not have a bunch of media hype around it (a la CDC). If this is true, while it sucks for us information fiends, it's probably better for the program overall.

I will take things that wont happen for $700. I am even skeptical about $60 million rosters. Look at the way top rosters churned out dead money last year

When the GMs and agents are the ones shaping the direction of the sport, it’s clear that the incentives have become horribly misaligned.

Collective Bargaining coming soon.

This defense could make the offense amazing

if Vic messes up this transfer portal, he needs to bench himself. Feels like we have no plan right now. What are we doing????

Texas is not after any of these players. Kymora Johnson is likely staying at Virginia. Brown is visiting Vanderbilt and UCLA this week.

Really good stuff Jeff. The havoc drop‑off really showed up in the losses - when this defense wasn’t creating negative plays, everything bogged down. Muschamp’s more aggressive man‑coverage approach should give the DBs way more chances to attack routes, and if the front can pair that with more consistent pressure, Texas can get back to that 2024 level of disruption

CJ wrote about Rasheem Biles yesterday, but his havoc résumé is exactly what Texas was looking for in the portal. In 10 games, Biles had 17 tackles for loss, two forced fumbles, four pass breakups and two interceptions. That's 25 havoc plays on the season. By comparison, Anthony Hill had 13 (seven tackles for loss, three forced fumbles, one PBU and two interceptions) in 10 games.

What stood out about the havoc rate under PK is that it was way too player-dependent. If Jahdae Barron, Anthony Hill or Colin Simmons were making plays, then the havoc was there. That's another reason why Sark made the move to hire Will Muschamp. The scheme needs to lend itself to forcing the issue and forcing the opposing offense to make mistakes. You need great players, but you need a scheme that facilitates playmaking more consistently.

I would have guessed Liv McGill, but according to CBS sports she committed to OKST yesterday. Know Texas was looking at her. Some of thes players fit Texas needs. So maybe Audi Crooks → scoring center Addy Brown → versatile forward Kymora Johnson → dynamic guard ***Brown to me with be a home run hit for any team 😀

AUSTIN, Texas — The 2024 Texas defense was a national championship-caliber unit. Even when the offense struggled, the defense’s knack for the football and their ability to keep opponents out of the end zone positioned the Longhorns painfully close to getting over the College Football Playoff semifinal hump. One of the things that made Pete Kwiatkowski’s group elite was the defense’s ability to create havoc plays. When the curtain fell on a 16-game season, Texas ranked among the nation’s leaders with 22 interceptions (tied for first), 18 forced fumbles (No. 3) and 112 tackles for loss (No. 6). Calculating havoc rate isn’t complicated. It’s the combined number of tackles for loss, forced fumbles and passes defensed (combining pass breakups and interceptions) divided by the number of plays faced, which determines the rate at which a defense creates a negative play for the offense. Texas finished the 2024 season with an overall havoc rate of 21.1 percent, according to CollegeFootballData.com. The Longhorns’ overall havoc rate was the seventh-highest rate in FBS, trailing only national leader Ole Miss and Tennessee among SEC defenses. A front seven havoc rate of 13 percent tied for 12th nationally, while a defensive back havoc rate of 8.1 percent tied for eighth-best in the country. Historically, those rates were the highest marks during Kwiatkowski’s five seasons. Last season, however, the Texas defense’s havoc rate dropped to 17.9 percent, with the front seven (11.3 percent) and defensive back (6.6 percent) rated down from 2024. Beyond the overall production slipping, the Longhorns generated a staggeringly low number of havoc plays in their three losses. Whereas Texas averaged 13.4 havoc plays per game in its 10 wins (71 tackles for loss, 10 forced fumbles, 39 pass breakups and 14 interceptions), the defense netted only 21 total havoc plays in losses to Ohio State, (one tackle for loss and two pass breakups), Florida (three tackles for loss, two forced fumbles, two pass breakups and an interception) and Georgia (eight tackles for loss, one pass breakup and one interception. The dropoff was sharp decline compared to 2024, when the Longhorns recorded 11 havoc plays in a regular-season loss to the Bulldogs (four tackles for loss, three interceptions and two pass breakups), 20 in the SEC championship game (10 tackles for loss, four forced fumbles, five pass breakups and one interception) and eight in a Cotton Bowl loss to the Buckeyes (four tackles for loss, two pass breakups, one forced fumbles and one interception). The need to consistently cause havoc can’t be overlooked in the continued offseason examination of Steve Sarkisian's decision to part ways with Kwiatkowski in favor of Will Muschamp. “We want to create havoc,” Sarkisian said after Tuesday’s practice. “We did a tremendous job defensively (last) Saturday, in the scrimmage, of creating havoc plays — sacks and negative plays, turnovers.” Muschamp’s 2009 defense was one of the most opportunistic in program history, helping the Longhorns set a single-season school record for non-offensive touchdowns (11) while leading the nation with 25 interceptions. One of the byproducts of Texas playing more man coverage under Muschamp and getting more aggressive on the perimeter should be more opportunities for Longhorn defenders to make plays on the football. Graceson Littleton and Kade Phillips tied for the team lead with six pass breakups as true freshmen in 2025 — Littleton led the defense in passes defensed (eight, including two interceptions), while Phillips and Jelani McDonald (three interceptions and three pass breakups) tied for the second-most passes defensed last season — which speaks to the playmaking potential of Muschamp has in the secondary. McDonald, who chose to return for his senior season instead of entering the 2026 NFL Draft, said during Wednesday’s on-campus media availability that Muschamp’s scheme will let the safeties show off their versatility compared to what the position was asked to do under Kwiatkowski. “We're able to do more,” McDonald said. “We're jumping digs, we're on top of digs, we're in man coverage — everything. We're able to blitz. “It's going to give me more things to put on my résumé.” Hopefully, McDonald and the Longhorn defenders' renewed focus on finding the football leads to the defense causing havoc more consistently in 2026. View full news story

Thought this was going to be an azzi fudd locker room romance thread.

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