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I knew about the year before but I thought Ohio St was #1 last year given all the guys that turned down the draft to return plus the portal additions. They were most everyone's pick to win it last pre-season.

Wasn't Ohio St #1 entering last year?

They've got some good receivers as well. Their best WR missed the Texas game as well and they've gotten some good ones out of the portal along with stud freshman Dallas Wilson.

Without inside info, this seems to have played out very similarly to what happened with Yaya Gaad last cycle.

Sounds like they accepted his commitment but told him to hold off on announcing. Remember, he had a date set to announce and then pushed it back (probably told by staff to hold off announcing). After seeing others jump in the boat and still not being given the green light to announce he probably felt he was being put on the backburner while in recruiting circles people are viewing him as a Texas commit. Better for him to get out in front of it than to be trapdoored closer to NSD with no seat to sit in once the music stops playing. I wish good luck to the young man.

Not just the defense with a pass rush that should be much better (although '24 was really good) but also special teams with us having a future NFL punter in Bouwmeester instead of true freshman Michael Kern.

I'm still trying to figure out how much of that was Sark and how much of that was Quinn. I watched the Vandy game the other night and after we took a two score lead Sark was still dialing it up but that's when the false starts, holding calls and another Quinn pick made the game closer than it needed to be. Same thing with A&M, Sark called a game that should've resulted in 31-0 or 38-0 type game yet key mistakes made it 17-7 instead. Year 1 of Sark saw all of the blown leads but that was Casey Thompson and a Texas team that severely lacked depth so once again, I'm curious to see how much Arch(and this team) changes those dynamics.

Matt Leinart also never had the opportunity to play 16 games. They played 13 at most.

Might be just me but I'll consider it after he signs and is on campus.

I know about the handshakes and money sandwiches but those are still very different than full out bags that were famously being dropped by SEC teams well before it became somewhat legal.

It's college football and the only big games are the ones you lose and for them they remember us not being able to get a yard against OU (Brooks missed a gaping hole on 1st down), not coming through in the red zone vs Washington in the Sugar Bowl, getting punked in Austin by Georgia, losing to Georgia again with their backup QB, and then not being able to gain a yard vs Ohio St. Us dominating Michigan, A&M, Clemson or even Alabama two years ago doesn't matter to these fools. They're going to question you until you're holding the national championship trophy and confetti is dropping on you.

This kid is blowing up!!

Doesn't matter if he's worthy of $5.1M or not, all that matters to Tech is that got one over on Texas.

I could be wrong but I don't think Arch is taking a huge payout from Texas especially with the knowledge of how much he can make outside of the Texas collectives in legit NIL deals like Red Bull, Panini, Canes, EA Sports, etc.

I had heard so many stories about his attitude going all the way back to his 7th grade year. Part of me always wondered if he'd ever even make it to UT and if he ever did, how long would he last with Barnes. I'm extremely surprised he lasted the 3 years that he did.