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[Matthew McClure]

28 minutes ago, LECHorns said:

One slight* difference -- you guys are playing for a national championship on Monday, and your success over the last two seasons is unmatched in your program's history.  We know that if we don't win a national championship next year, we'll have wasted the college career of Arch Manning.  There's a lot more angst and urgency to be expected from our fanbase vis a vis yours, which is one reason for "sky is falling" around every recruit.  We're also the hunted no matter how good or bad we are.  Like it or not, we're Texas, and we have a massive target on our back.  Right now, we feel the increased pressure of competing with Texas Tech and Cody Campbell, A&M made the playoffs, OU made the playoffs, etc.  I'm not saying Indiana won't be the hunted next season, but if you went 0-12, no one burns down your campus.  You're living a dream right now.

We are also reluctant to entertain Texas losing any recruit for any rational reason.  My guess is this board has significantly more participants than yours...and not all are informed, rational, sober, etc.  The more participants you have in an online forum, the more extreme the takes will be.  I can't imagine Alabama's board being more reserved than ours.  

But to answer your question, no, we haven't recruited, retained or developed OL very well under Coach Flood.  We lost 4 guys to NFL in 2024, and all of sudden we saw the cupboard was bare.  We didn't address it in the portal last year, even though there were plenty of signs to tell us we needed to, and as such, we lost an early October game in Florida that kept us out of the playoffs - mainly because we had a revolving door of pitiful play on the iOL that afternoon.  Indiana and Miami look incredible right now, but Texas was a very talented team starting to peak, and I think we could have made things interesting.  Alas, we left LG to chance.

Thanks.  I got the sense fans weren't too thrilled with Flood, but I don't really know much about him or the current situation with development/retention.  From an outsiders view Alabama's board is not more reserved than yours, but it is "different".  I found their fan base a bit less football knowledgeable outside of their program.  I'd also say they've shifted more from expectation to denial.  Things like not understanding how a D-Line giving up +50 Lbs could make their massive O-Line of 4*/5* recruits look so inept.  I'd certainly rather be a UT fan than an Alabama fan right now.

I do understand your point about "angst" stemming from expectations and the target on your back.  It's been a very very long time... but IU fans used to feel the same way about our basketball team.  Now it's more like how Dallas Cowboys fans feel about the Cowboys (well... maybe not that bad).  As for IU football, there will be teams in our conference out for vengeance but I doubt anyone on the national stage will care all that much.

[akhookem]

Just now, HookemHorns87 said:

WTF🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

A&M is the greatest program maybe ever if they accomplished all of their “ifs” and “should’s” 

[Joe Zura]

2 minutes ago, akhookem said:

A&M is the greatest program maybe ever if they accomplished all of their “ifs” and “should’s” 

@Gerry Hamilton You going to let this man slander your team like this 🤣😂

[TimLamaster]

It's nice to see a bunch of offensive lineman options show up in the portal that will definitely take some of the angst out of things. We just gotta sign some of them now. 

[Realist Horn]

 

[hdzy1]

Wow Jonte Newman

[TexasDynasty3]

Who is Jonte Newman? 

[airhelm24]

🤣 I love it when Sark does sh*t like this 

[Joe Zura]

2 minutes ago, Realist Horn said:

 

[HenryJames]

Just now, TexasDynasty3 said:

Who is Jonte Newman? 

Texas A&M true freshman transfer OT

[Guts]

Wtf lol

[Realist Horn]

4 minutes ago, Realist Horn said:

 

Get it before you get left out type of feeling...

[TexasDynasty3]

2 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

Texas A&M true freshman transfer OT

When were we on him? 

[Caden Kuykendall]

We have to get that depth now. I like the take

[TimLamaster]

I'm guessing this guy is just depth? 

[Guts]

@Longhornfrenzy

we need reactions! 

[HenryJames]

Just now, TexasDynasty3 said:

When were we on him? 

Looks like the staff did a good job of keeping it under wraps.

[John F.]

That’s random. Guess we have Nick Brooks 2.0

[HornsUp409]

I don't understand bringing in a guy with no experience at this level unless we didn't pay him

[Guts]

1 minute ago, HornsUp409 said:

I don't understand bringing in a guy with no experience at this level unless we didn't pay him

Good thing you aren’t a UT coach

[HornsUp409]

Just now, Guts said:

Good thing you aren’t a UT coach

somebody hug this guy

[hookemrj13]

Why are people upset about a depth piece portal OL that will have 3-4 years of eligibility?

[davisxcole]

1 hour ago, Bunk Moreland said:

Using my Bobby decoder ring, I take “of note” in reference to the Louisville guard to mean that Texas is interested. 

@Bobby Burton @Gerry Hamilton

Bobby of note Burton 

[HornsUp409]

Just now, hookemrj13 said:

Why are people upset about a depth piece portal OL that will have 3-4 years of eligibility?

I'm with you!  We will take all the depth we can get...was just a weird signing IMO....but bring on the BEEF!!! 🤘

[Tex CJ-7]

Behind the scenes!! We have no idea what the staff is up to!

They’ve been dealing with the agents every day. Dead period or not.

Edited 1 hour ago by Tex CJ-7