MarkInAustin

Sterling looked collected and capable in this game. I think he will be a contributor by the end of the season.

Kelvin Banks, Summer Creek HS - do you think Camara is THAT good? Why? I know he is a highly regarded prospect, but how can one know that even a 5* HS offensive lineman will be an All American and successful NFL player? The world is full of can't miss offensive linemen who missed, and developmental offensive linemen who hit. If you are relying on your own first hand observations of these players - if you are a coach who has watched and/or scouted offensive linemen for many years - I will take your assessment very seriously. If not, I will just hope Camara lives up to his billing and comes to Texas.

Just like that...

I think ranking basketball players who played different positions in the same column, so to speak, is silly; e.g., comparing Jordan and Wemby. Wemby is dazzling, but a bit fragile. He is so good as a stretch 5 that he is already in the conversation with Wilt, Kareem, Hakeem, Shaq, and Jokic. Time will tell. He isn't a wing. He isn't a point guard. Jordan wasn't a power forward or a point guard or a center. He was the best shooting guard ever and could defend a wide range of opponents. Can we keep all that straight, or do we have to continue comparing apples and oranges?

It is too much to ask a team to play its A game every outing. That is why a schedule with only two talented opponents cannot compare to one with eight. It isn't because more talent is required to play the more difficult schedule. It is because an incredibly more intense emotional cost is levied. Notre Dame can surely talent match with the top half of the B1G and the SEC. But the championship in those conferences is worth a two or three loss differential.

Really? My twin granddaughters are top students and not athletes and they are enjoying visiting colleges that have invited them to visit - on their mother's dime. If "ordinary" top students being wooed love visits enough to get family to pay for them why shouldn't great athletes enjoy the process even more - with all expenses paid, and steak dinners, and promises of lucrative employment. At one flagship university's business school in the midwest the granddaughter who wants desperately to go to McCombs but knows how competitive it is to get in was greeted with a giant TV screen in the lobby displaying a banner of personal welcome to her. That was great for her but athletes get an order of magnitude more attention. Would you deny your kid that satisfaction? I would be suspicious of the manipulations that kept a student - athlete from loving the one chance in life to visit major universities around the country that actually wanted him or her to play there so badly that they would spring for the visit.

This Vandy pitcher is crafty, with control and good movement on his stuff.

About the OL: When Goosby and Cojoe both return, and considering the apparent rapid maturation of the prized freshman LT, is it possible that Jordan Coleman would be placed in a contest for the LG position? I am thinking ahead to 2027 when it is likely that both Turntine and JC will start on the OL. I think there are enough talented pieces to fashion a solid pass blocking offensive line, but melding them into a unit will be a challenge, as so many are either new to their position or to the program.

I liked Robertson against OU when he was an emergency fill in and I liked him last season as the bandaid that helped stop the bleeding. I still like him. But if the much larger Sikorski provides better interior pass protection without loss of leadership [not that I am claiming that as a fact] then he can start this season. I think summer will actually bring a contest for the position. However that competition resolves the depth will become much less of a concern.

Funny, I almost added that if Swain got stronger he might approximate a Pippen.

While I doubt he was the "best" I completely agree with you that Swain has an excellent all around game. There is nothing he cannot do acceptably well. He should be a valuable sub for any team even as a rookie. Some guys, Dybantsa for example, are going to start as rookies.

Aside from having the largest endowment of any public university by a wide margin Texas has had the benefit of wonderful wealthy donors. There are generally considered to be eight elite state flagships plus one elite public tech, and Texas is one of the elite flagships. It is one of two flagships in which all departments are ranked in the top thirty in America. And Forbes just called out Texas as one of 20 institutions, public or private, that are properly preparing graduating talent for the changing job market (The New Ivies, April 8). The resulting flip side is how competitive the school has become since my day. While the overall admit rate is about 27%, Cockrell is at 11%, McCombs is at 9%, and the architecture and honors programs are comparably squeezed. I have twin granddaughters who are both in the top 5% of their junior classes in HS - one is number 1 - who legitimately fear they will be accepted into UT but not into business and engineering, respectively. And God forbid one should fall down to top 6% and be looking down the road to The College That Got One Per Cent Smarter when Texas changed auto admits from the top 6% to the top 5% last year.

WRONG THREAD - APOLOGY OFFERED BON says Jurian Dixon is visiting from UC Irvine and Texas likes him. [hoops]

Re: Ivy League I researched this on line. The Ivies permit neither grad student eligibility nor red shirting. Thus there are annually Ivy Leaguers available to continue as students and as athletes - in the real world.

I don't think the Ivy League permits a graduate school player. There should be occasional top FCS picks available as graduate transfers from Ivy League schools. I could be wrong but someone here suggested this as a fact last year, IIRC.