Glass Joe

This OL portal cycle feels more like a failure of execution, whereas last year’s OL portal failure was due to poor room evaluation / talent planning. I think the Texas staff had their eyes on a handful of P4 starter-caliber OGs going into this portal window, but miscalculated on those OGs actually entering the portal (current team retention efforts likely won out). Given the number of OGs that actually DID enter the portal which Texas seemingly passed on (Lockett, WKU Guard, etc), it would suggest Texas was confident their primary targets would be there, but alas…nope. I guess there is technically still some Bray Lynch hope, but he’s a replacement-level OG relative to Cole Hutson so we are not upgrading LG this cycle. So, we now appear to be in a situation where we are sorting through the secondary OGs currently available in the portal. My guess is our current situation is forcing the evaluation staff to look at A LOT more Guards than expected to find a decent 1-2 guys to recruit and sign. My assumption is once all our primary targets were not available, we had exhausted our Big Board at IOL, so now we have to evaluate to reset the available Board. A disappointing outcome, but not the end of the world. Their may be a replacement-level P4 OG in the portal, and that would effectively be a 1-for-1 swap with the level of play we got from Cole Hutson (and a big improvement over what we got from the other LGs in the first half of the season). Baker appears set to move inside to RG, which may provide better pass blocking than DJ Campbell, but not likely as good run blocking as DJ. Net-net: we aren’t improving the IOL play at all this offseason, and we lost some young depth pieces along the way (Kibble, Cruz). We better hope Jackson Christian and Sikorsky are ready to be in the Top 8 OL this season…or we are up a creek.

Ohio State’s defense was gutted by graduations and early NFL entries. They lose 7 starters, including 4 NFL first rounders…and all 4 played in the middle of the defense (Caleb Downs, Arvell Reese, S.Styles, and K. McDonald). Add losing both starting CBs, and one can see Arch / Cam / Wingo doing a lot of damage and scoring a bunch of points. On the flip side, Ohio State returns 8 starters on offense, including 4 OL. They have Sayin, J.Smith, and Bo Jackson as headliners at the skill positions (but also lose Carnell Tate and Max Klare). They will score some points on our defense too. Take the over. Texas wins 38-24.

Princely = older brother = Florida, then Ole Miss, now NFL Princewill = younger brother = Nebraska, then Ole Miss, now Portal

He just wants to serve his country. Good for him!

I’d love every part of that structure, but it ignores one really big reality…the conpensation is based on NIL (name, image, likeness) which is unique to each player’s commercial market appeal, and is a function of the market they play in (school) and the brand they represent (again, largely the school). This is NOT salary. Even the “revenue share” component (often referred to as a salary cap), is based on the NIL / marketing revenue of the players, NOT some salary determination based on employment services rendered. What is described above is a wage-for-common services approach which is great when dealing with employees / employers compensation structure. But that has nothing to do with the marketing appeal based compensation of NIL (which is the basis for all the hand wringing and changing landscape of college football).

All true. However, there is a third category “Players Texas could’ve acquired in the Portal anytime they wanted to”, and (conveniently) all of those players above would fall into this category. Problem solved! 😂

I’m keeping an eye on Green Bay to see if they let LaFleur go. If so, they move to the top of the list for Harbaugh. Great young QB signed long-term, elite pass rusher signed long-term, solid roster already in-place, and no maniacal owner to worry about. And great fan support.

Glasscock is at LSU, not Ole Miss.

I thought this guy was Tech bound

He needs to pay off the UGA NIL debts lawsuit 😂

I’d guess WR2 or WR3. They have Sategna back (WR1), and recent portal entrant Trell Harris is more accomplished than Livingstone.

Allegro makes me alegro

I had hoped we’d learned our lesson about Bo Davis’ half-assed evaluations, but I guess we need to be reminded.

Is football important to this guy?

Yep, although this was doubtless his agent’s narrative plan, not Parker’s necessarily. The Athletic story was embargoes well before the Citrus Bowl, so such BS for Mandel to make it a bigger issue (and Mandel certainly knew what he was doing). This was really just the Athletic / NYT / Mandel getting clicks off another Arch Manning story (particularly after the Citrus Bowl performance). The Livingstone angle was just the noise to get readers to look at an Arch story.