Bobby Burton

Kenneth Grant of Michigan. - Defensive Tackle - 6-foot-3, 339 pounds (according to Michigan website) - Will be a true junior from Merrillville, Ind. For those unfamiliar with the town, Merrillville is about a half hour from the Illinois state line just south of Gary and next to Hammond. - 29 tackles with 3.5 sacks and 1 INT in 2023. - Awarded 2nd team all-conference from Big 10 coaches. - 2023 was first year as a starter. - Played in 12 games as a true freshman. - As of the time I am typing this, Grant has not entered the NCAA transfer portal. - Is this the type of elite DL the Horns are looking for? Absolutely.

In this day and age, you just never know. It seems a little weird that he'd be following Sark/Texas Football/T Sweat all out of coincidence. But maybe he's just doing some recon.

Glad I mentioned what I did about Michigan. Here are the last four follows on Instagram of Kenneth Grant, DL, University of Michigan.

Same.

This could be nothing... Or it could be enormous!

Thanks for posting. Let's see if anyone steps forward in spring ball since Kern won't be there.

Complete transparency, I think they're evaluating all of that right now. Granville was bigger than they anticipated IMO.

I'm going with +73% completion and 5-1 TD/INT ratio.

100-percent wanting to get back to being closer to home for family reasons. Two hour drive from home. It was going to be either Auburn or FSU for those reasons.

Barring something major - like the immediate unexpected exodus of a couple of linemen from Michigan - Texas is officially done with portal recruiting for the spring semester. In review, the Horns grabbed eight players who expect to contribute immediately, six of them heavily. Meanwhile, the Horns lost 15 players to the portal, of which I'd say four or five would have been contributors of some level. Perhaps one departure really, really hurt - Trill Carter (Auburn). Carter would have been immediate, helpful depth at a position of need. The others of note: safety Jerrin Thompson (Auburn), safety Kitan Crawford (Nevada), receiver Isaiah Neyor (Nebraksa) and quarterback Maalik Murphy (Duke). Thompson and Crawford would have provided a lot of experience in the secondary. Crawford was a demon on special teams; he will be missed there. So, yes, there were some losses. But overall, the portal is clearly a net gain. Three starter-level receivers, a starting TE from a college football playoff team, an edge rusher with 14.5 sacks, an experienced back-up linebacker, a defensive tackle with some starting experience, and a three-year starting DB from a nationally ranked team. Sark and his personnel staff yet again used the opportunity available to them to improve the roster. Ongoing improvement, piece by piece, continues to be perhaps the biggest theme of Sark's tenure. It's not his offense, or his quarterback tutelage, not merely his top-notch recruiting, it's been his pursuit of upping the ante, improving his team and roster, at every chance that has made him - and Texas - into a force to be reckoned with. If Texas keeps adding pieces to the puzzle, replacing ones that go to the NFL or portal out, then we're on a path of being a program, not just a We don't know where this will all end up for Texas. But the steady incline of the program is what we're seeing. View full news

I'm one of those guys who doesn't think people have to explain themselves to anyone if they want to un-retire. My dad did it several times through the years for special projects. Old friends called and off he went. There's no need to label retirement as the end. It can just be putting a pause on your career these days. It's all up to the individual and what they want out of life.

While most people think of the West Coast, Hawaii and Utah when it comes to Poly players, there are some in Texas as well. It used to be in the Euless area at Euless Trinity. But that is changing with the times. There's a junior DL out of Bastrop, Tiki Hola. He is a definite target, too.

Cal McNair would absolutely love that.

He didn’t spend anything in ‘22. But alums? That’s a different story.

We moved the Livestream to 6:15pm from 7pm tonight to accommodate for the NFC championship game. https://youtube.com/live/D5rpPqM0_7w

Chippy in Baltimore right now.

Hope it’s not serious but a little concerned. It looked like non-contact.

Chiefs fail on 4th down in Ravens territory. 14-7 Chiefs in the 2nd.

Can't read too much into this. Texas didn't push for either of those players. Not that that matters all that much other than it doesn't effect the Texas board. Still, the players can still be good even if Texas isn't prioritizing them.

No, they're not without talent. But they don't have two returning starters. They recruited him to start. Texas recruited him to compete. There's a difference. Not saying which one is right, but the two teams see their corner spots differently is all.

I also think Texas may start to push a bit more for Granville, who was at OU this weekend.

Two commitments for A&M from the weekend. - LB Riggins from Forney can really run. Undersized but I like him a lot. - Pettaway is a solid player. His older brother is already on the team at A&M.

All good questions. We'll see what Rod has to say. My overarching take is more about run offense generally, not just in two back sets. Run defense and run offense are the two biggest changes in moving to the SEC IMO.

It is. Agree.