Bobby Burton

1. If that center plays in the NFL, I worry about the team's QB. 2. Nice to see Sweat treating the A&M guard like a rented mule.

I'm so ready for this. Today should be special.

The NCAA just picked a fight with the University of Tennessee over NIL. And Tennessee has volunteered for the rest of the country to fight back. The Vols' response? The school president wrote a scathing rebuttal on Tuesday. On Wednesday, the attorney generals of the states of Tennessee and Virginia joined together to sue the NCAA over its NIL policy. The funny thing here is, those attorney generals weren't defending the institutions. No, they were defending the rights of the individuals - the young players - in those states to be able to capitalize on NIL in any way they see fit. So the state of Tennessee didn't argue NIL for the University of Tennessee. They argued on behalf of the players/recruits. That may be an end around the NCAA just didn't see coming. Right now, the NCAA is embroiled in so much litigation. A tweet below details many of them. My take is this: The NCAA can't get out of its own way fast enough. While well meaning, the current governance was set up for a different era of college sports. Not a bad era, just not the multi-billion dollar one we have today. Today, the labor should be compensated more equitably. Therein lies the crux of the problem. The NCAA and many of its member institutions don't want to call athletes "labor" because that might jeopardize the schools' tax exempt status. I don't know the right answer. I don't even know if there is a right answer. The questions and problems are multifaceted. Someone needs to take the reins soon, or college sports is going to be a muddled mess of epic proportion in two years time. View full news

It's possible but I have not heard of any. Yet.

I think some recruits are over-rated coming in to college, and just as many are under-rated. I've seen it time and time again. If you look at the bottom five of every Texas recruiting class, you will find players just as successful as a group in the middle five of that same recruiting class.

I think a real statistician needs to get involved, not a guy like me. I’ve done simple averages based on number of five stars and four stars that are drafted versus the rest of the high school football universe. There is a correlation there. But I don think that makes the rankings “right”. I bet you could just follow the top 10 teams and get half the rankings right.

Would they be worse than what it is now? I kid. Sort of.

I agree with Chip Kelly. One of the reasons we are where we are with the NCAA is that the NCAA cared more about the basketball tourney than anything else.

There are a lot of issues here to add to the discussion. December 15 - January 5 used to be a relatively calm time for college football coaches. They had to worry about the bowl game and little else. Now, they are full-on all the time. ** There needs to be a complete overhaul of this system. Stop doing half measures. That's what the NCAA and member schools have tried to do for so long. Stop that. Cut to the core of the issues. Football players at major football-playing universities, more often than not, deserve more than room-and-board and a scholarship. That leads to the following questions: 1. Which schools want to be major football-playing universities? I'm not so sure Boston College is one of those even though they always have been in the past. 2. Allow those schools to create their own system outside of the NCAA.

I have two immediate reactions: 1. I don't disagree with his issues. Something needs to be done. But as long as the NCAA leads, this is not going to happen. 2. Does Boston College have any DTs?

Have fun, Ray!

I'm seeing more elite guys on the board at multiple positions than I have in previous years. I think the staff and Sark is getting its legs and traction with recruits simultaenously.

And Shane is the DL coach at Cy Fair these days, too.

Yes, the Big 10 would take them. They are a huge university with a large following.

Why Texas' coattails, of course! 😉

Rod and I took a deep dive on two subjects that I think you might find interesting: - Recruiting rankings/player development; how they intertwine some at least from a perception standpoint - The strategy and blueprint Sark is now using in recruiting View full news

It would perhaps be so true to form that I don't think it would actually happen.

Large bet it's sub-4.4.

He seems to be a VERY active recruiter as well. I don't think he's just going to be going after LBs based on his activity thus far.

Good stuff, CJ!

I think you hit on something significant, the front and back of the defense being in tune with one another. I can't say I saw that until the final two games of the regular season and the Big 12 championship game.

Then you'd be a no-fun, crotchety old man. 😉

Video: http://www.hudl.com/v/2MZWmp Starts with some offense but gets into defense.