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Will the new RB coach sign Osborne and Latimer or Cooper without a reputation already established?

A no name RB coach is not going to “make it rain” in the short term, no matter how good he is as a coach.

Choice helped every other coach on the staff get into Georgia and Florida. Choice may not have been the “lead recruiter” but those recruits would not have signed with Texas without Choice. The same thing goes for Jeff Banks.

That was three years ago while the Sarks program was developing and we had time for coaches to develop. Now that development may cost us a Natty.

Dubose 3-star, Livingstone 3-star, Butler 4-star #165ish late flip when we missed on higher rated prospects and Ryan Wingo. Certainly not a Brian Hartline level group. Wingo was the only real stud and he was reeled in late by Sark and NIL; Jackson did his job on Wingo but was not why we won the recruitment. Now, Chris Jackson absolutely tore it up with the 2025 class, but Jackson admitted publicly that he started too far behind in 2024 to win the big time recruitments. The point is, no matter how good a recruiter you are, you won’t sign the big dogs if you don’t already have a relationship with them already. A splash hire is already recruiting the guys we want at his current job.

Even a great recruiter like Chris Jackson had a lackluster first year. Hall will likely be the same, which may cost us a 5-star RB. This is not the time to take a step back.

I’ll put out my 2 cents before the RB hire is announced. The principle qualities needed in a RB coach at Texas is to be a volume recruiter, to instill the Sark culture into the players in the RB room and to be a great developer of talent, in that order. The TE coach needs to same qualities; you can’t replace Jeff Banks with some TE coach no one has ever heard of. It must be a splash hire for an A grade. Of those speculated for the job, only Jabbar Juluke, Tony Alford, Carlos Locklyn and maybe Kevin Smith have all of the qualities we need. Khenon Hall might have been a great hire 3 years ago (and might turn out to be a fantastic RB coach in the long run), but Texas is right on the cusp of winning a Natty and a Javian Osborne or Amari Latimer or Ezavier Crowell or Derrek Cooper might make the difference in getting there. We need a splash hire to make sure that happens. Just my two cents.

He’s a take. Violent, aggressive, will deliver a blow to anyone trying to block him. OK speed. I like him at off ball LB rather than Edge.

He coached blocking TEs and Hbacks for OSU. Short yardage fix

The McEndoo hire is an acknowledgment that our TE’s can’t block. If our TE’s could block last season, we would have the natty

DE from Tennessee?

Photos of Turntine at the Tennessee junior day from Volquest

was at the Tennessee junior day in Knoxville. I guess he considers them “family.”

Yes, we will sneak in to the Tournament

You can probably add Cam Williams to the list after his putrid performance last night

Is Taaffe the greatest legitimate walk-on (Ricky Williams doesn’t count) to play a Texas is the modern era? He is better than Marcus Griffin who is the next best candidate that I can remember.

To make matters worse, their LBs and Safeties are not oversized either. Iowa State and TCU got away with undersized DLs by playing 240 lbs LBs and 210 lbs Safeties who majored in run support. I’m not seeing that with Arizona State.

Hats off to Norton and Gbenda who made big plays in limited snaps.

JAG

That’s the kind of reasoning that caused Sam Bowie to be drafted ahead of Michael Jordan 😂

With good reason. The Georgia DL was pimp slapping our OL all game long a Wisner didn’t break any tackles or make any defender miss. Why would we run the ball when Quinn threw for 358 yards and our run game averaged 1 yard per carry?

How did our run game perform in the red zone against Georgia?

SEC imposed an 85 ship limit for the 2025 season. There will eventually be a 105 limit, but it’s not in effect yet.

Let’s see who returns and who leaves first. We should have room for 8-10 in the portal if necessary. But if Taafe returns, we don’t need a safety with Taafe, D Williams, McDonald, JRR and several other young talented players. If Moore returns, we are set at DE. Michael Terry gives us big back depth to go with Baxter, Gibson and Clark.

Maybe we will, just not for a guy who has played football for one year as a rotational player. High upside but you have to allocate money wisely. Napier doesn’t care because he has to assume this is his last year. He plays the same schedule in 2025 that he played this year.