Tommy

I've been here ever since y'all first started the channel w IT, and according to YT I was a top 0.5% viewer last year. This is the best in the biz. The interviews are by far what makes this special imo. This channel is where I get 100% of my exposure to current players, former players, and recruits. I would not know these folks existed otherwise. For me, OTF is solely responsible for tying Texas to these individuals. The interviews with notable figures, head coaches, and opponent beat reporters are also special and unique, please never stop doing them. CDC, Eltife, Abbott, and the roundtable championship HS coaches are what come to mind. The on-the-ground reporting is also more than worth it. I remember Bobby being the only Texas guy at Justus Terry's surprise commit, and how great that was to see. These are far above any of the other fantastic things y'all do like Coffee and Football and the nightly streams, in my opinion. The only things I actively seek elsewhere are the all-22 breakdown from Brooks Austin/Deep Dive w Paul and Ian at IT. Sometimes I'll listen to Paul's podcast if I want more straight-talk and less diplomatic language about the team performance/state of things.

It's public health!

fake list, no mention of raider rash...

absolutely, your typical playoff team does not have 5 NFL draft picks on the line, even Miami/IU this year. However, you judge the line based on performance. 2025 O-line was not good, even towards the end. So the only thing you can look toward improving is either the personnel or the development. Losing Campbell, Texas is also much worse than Guard than last year. Losing Brooks and Cruz are significant for depth. Texas brought in one single starting caliber player, but still projected to be a multi-year development. So from a portal perspective, Texas has lost personnel and decreased its position in the O-line Arch improved in throwing accurately under pressure throughout the season. Florida aside, he faced marginally lower pressure as the season progressed, but he grew to be much more able to take the hits/scramble while nicely targeting his receivers. IMO that's why people are thought the o-line improved. Watching the time 24 Quinn received vs 25 arch is night and day

Returning 4-5 starters from last year doesn't mean anything when the starters last year weren't good enough to begin with. Even when the O-line supposedly improved toward the end of the season, they still weren't that good and Arch just got a lot better at making one defender miss. On this line, only Goosby is a bonafide hit. Like T Hills said today, Baker doesn't really have a tackle bod. Wouldn't say Connor Robertson is better than Majors (undrafted). And we're all hoping Siani is a Goosby level value-steal.

didn't look too deeply yesterday, but he did play a lot of snaps. Got burned on the hook and ladder. I think he just didn't make any tackles if stats say 0.

This strategy kinda worked for Siani. Did not know of the guy's existence, then saw the Texas commitment post before I even saw his portal post. Maybe staff is doing a similar thing of going after a top 5-10 rank under-the-radar guard not yet in the portal.

so what happened with Ojo? Texas wanted him that was clear, but as the mods have said, he was a development project. But every single video I see of Ojo is a bad one. Did he give up developing, does he still have upside, has he always been this bad? I've also seen both $1.5 mil and $5 mil thrown out for what Tech paid him, I wonder what the actual number is

I mean this is definitely AI, the em-dashes, the matter-of-fact language, the "sideways" conclusions. Barnes is a top percentile athlete and speedster that was set to crack the rotation barring a Muschamp reversal, But no point in conversing with AI.

This reads like an AI trying to make sense of the facts. But the conclusions here are wrong. You need to pay HS "dead money" to recruit, retain, and develop- so that they can become the Colin Simmons and Arch Mannings that the portal will never see. Gerry has said this. We just let one of those cats go in Bo Barnes. Depth is absolutely necessary to pay for and keep in any CFB season. Texas is following a cap that many other schools are straight up ignoring. So they risked everything by letting go of half the offense and defensive depth in order to pay for the biggest portal prospects, which have all used Texas for home raises, 0-6 for hits so far. So like Gerry said, Texas is now left holding the bag.

This is what makes no sense to me. Theoretically yes, NIL at Texas should eclipse the $17 mill allegedly allotted to the school by revshare. But from comments made by insiders and circumstantial evidence, Texas is contracting in its spending. Refusing to pay Tre/Livingston more, ask for pay cuts of Arch/Barnes/Baxter?. Who knows what went on/is going on with Moore/Washington/Lefau and Clark/Black, but you have to imagine not enough money is a part of it. Everything at this time points to saving money with these "layoffs" to poach big names that we've whiffed on 0-6. But this shouldn't even be the game to begin with if Texas is utilizing its NIL to the fullest.

Meant Texas having offered Livingstone, Arch, and Barnes all pay cuts. Arch agreed and Livingstone/Barnes portaled

Texas may actually be following the salary cap, and therefore can't afford even the current players. Checks out as to having Livingstone, Barnes, Arch allegedly offered to take pay cuts. As of now, replacing Tre w Raleek is a loss. And Raleek is now costing more than Tre, presumably. Some arguement over this, but B12 stats didn't look too hot for Tech v Oregon. Replacing Lefau/Barnes w Wisconsin LB and OU LB also seems to be a loss too. Replacing Moore w Richardson seems to be another loss as well. This "All In" talk, even if true, is misguided if Texas has less chips than anyone they're competing with. Texas still has a strong base of players, but as of now, it's weaker than when portal season started, even if we get all the supposed targets above, outside of Coleman and the Michigan OL.

I see your point, and I've been feeling similar as the season progressed. Add in that the off-season talk was about preserving energy, preparing for a long post-season, etc, maybe contributed to a less intense practice load, and complete misjudgement on how good the O-line was. I also seem to remember early practice reports saying the defense was winning over the offense. Like Flood and staff clearly did not believe the O-line would be as bad as it was going into the season, or even Florida. OSU was a deceptively good O-line performance, because I think they just let us have a small run game. These may have all compounded to some laziness that caught the staff off guard after the first bye week into Florida. Maybe wasted those first 4 weeks of the season in terms of O-line pressure to prep.

I never got this line of thinking. Everyone's fallible, look at the Chad Scott and and Akina hires. Support but also let conversation happen

Conspiracy time... Russini wrote the quote at the very end of an article, editor makes it the headliner, athletic also dunked on Arch... Anti texas editors at Athletic?? ☠️

i agree. multiple times he's said how long the season is, he's expecting to play in the playoffs, he's rotating heavily on the defense, and he's said how the defense has been ahead of the offense. Losing Baxter probably bit the offense's flow in pass pro that game, even if it looked like Wisner/other RBs made up for it. Maybe he called different plays with Baxter sidelined. Florida may have been a misstep by the coaches, either they were looking ahead or underestimated the prep needed. Evidenced by them rotating our defense early in the first quarter, and a suspect lack of physicality. I think we can all agree that was uncharacteristic of this team, despite the proven mistakes with discipline and execution.

Great points, I've been wondering why our offense looks so different game to game. This team has not been consistent execution-wise. Let's hope it turns around this weekend.

thank you for this! I never really paid much attention to FB breakdowns until 2022. Learning new things every day.

amazing examples thank you

IT's Deep Dive today (the best thing they put out) is the best eval I've seen on O-line struggles. In short, it's fundamentally bad practice, players playing robotically and following a scheme that's not working, not actually engaging with the D-tackles and just moving to spots without purpose. I think two things may exacerbate it: 1. losing the longtime center Jake Majors who communicated his defensive reads constantly, and 2. Defensive coordinators picking apart the line scheme, similar to regular season Georgia last year lining up just opposite to the O-line's intended slide protects, and Arizona State picking up our landmarks to stunt the outside zone run. With Arizona State, I thought it was the few Texas transfers that exposed our landmarks. But similar to Georgia, I think Florida might've ripped our playbook for O-line protection. It's a bad bad situation if so.

anyone know whether the ole $20 handshake still works with the renovations?

One of the biggest concerns I took from this is Brooks saying Sark's become predictable. Says similar in his last vid too that Georgia, Vandy, OSU have prepped Sark's system and have been able to take away Texas WR routes. But I also see why Sark wouldn't get more creative or complex if his QB wasn't able to make the easy throws to begin with.

That's probably the case, revenue sharing injecting funds and a decrease in burden on collectivez

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