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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!

I'm very surprised tight end is that low, also interesting that the Big 10 and SEC have the lower % for QBs yet have a higher number of top QBs vs the ACC and Big 12.

Yes, I’d be surprised. You don’t want to acknowledge the amount of experience you lost on defense. Houston has played 141 snaps, 27 versus an atrocious Purdue. McDonald has 247 snaps. Will Smith has 34. Malone 250. After last year Williams and Hamilton had over 1,600 snaps each. Curry and Jackson around 500 each. That’s decent. Sawyer, JTT had a combined 4,000. Hicks at 226 then Atkinson has two years of good reps. You lose a lot with Simon behind them. But of the 3 groups, this is the most experienced grouping returning. On the back end, Burke, Ransom, Hancock played a ton too. And as best as I can tell, the guys leaving were Ohio State guys that were in the program for the duration. Almost all of whom were logging reps for 3 or 4 years. 3 or 4 years of more reps than Jackson and Curry have been logging in single years. You’ll have some guys hit and probably big, but that’s a lot of truly unknown quantities you are asking to come thru early in the season.

TE can go either way but may lean OSU here.. Special teams I need to see it to believe it after last year (although was good previous years)..

It’s because many of these players have been in the program for 3-4 years already, and we know what we are getting from them. It doesn’t mean Texas won’t win, or there won’t be hiccups though

My father and I will try to join! We’ll be arriving a little after 5pm.

Maybe this was why: I guess you can probably count on the refs again this year if they’re Big10.

My opinion only based on what is returning for both Teams and caliber of new starters. QB-Advantage Texas RB-Advantage Texas WR-Advantage OSU O-Line advantage OSU TE- Even (slight lean Texas) D-Line-Advantage Texas LB- Even (slight lean Texas) DB’s Advantage OSU Special Teams- Even

Couldn't agree more, I have an idea on what I would like to see and would do, but I'm just a fan. Nothing I say is bound to happen, I would like for Texas to pull it out. And if you're right about anything 🤣 if Texas does win, it's because they listened to me and I'm applying for the first coaching job available at Texas.

Same. It’s free and should be easy. I don’t love that Fox got the contract for this game anyway, but it is what it is.

Somebody should send Meyer some Jacksonville chubbies.

No one. Eleven Warriors like Loving buckeye mentioned is a good source , both articles and forum space are decent. Still mostly a homers perspective but overall good content.

Klatt still shows TEXAS a lot of love, generally speaking.