Glass Joe

For me, the real headline from this NFL draft is that only 4 players from FCS level were drafted…and 2 of those 4 players were from North Dakota State (who is moving up to FBS this season). What is shows is that economics are driven college football more and more into a true Major league and Minor leagues structure. Talent will always flow to the top conferences - and increasingly the lower leagues will be devoid of elite talent (NFL-worthy talent). I have not seen the analysis yet, but it would be fascinating to see the number of NFL draftees by school originally attended out of high school (instead of the college where they played their final season before getting drafted). This would be incredibly revealing. For example, Tech had 9 players drafted, but 8 of those players were transfer via portal from other schools, and only 1 was recruited to Texh from high school. This is why the number of players drafted for the Big 12 is surprisingly high…they can source players from G5 or FCS that are talented enough to get drafted.

I see at least 4 first rounders (Colin, Arch, Coleman, Goosby). I can also see anther 2-3 Horns as “likely” day two draft picks - McDonald, Biles, and Wingo. What I don’t know (yet) is where the relative rankings of the next tier of Horn will project to a draft round - Hero Kanu, Bo Mascoe, Derek Williams, M.Siani, R.Brown. It’s just too soon to know how these guys will compare to the other players at their respective positions, (particularly without the Combine testing results). It’s all about relative ranking for these guys. As for the Day 3 Horn potential draftees, the list is almost endless: I.Geffard, H.Smothers, E.Mosley, M.Mousakis, R.Niblett. And this doesn’t even consider the possible earlier entrants if they have a breakout season in year 3: Zina U, M.Watson, A.January, K.Black, B.Baker, S.Shannon, etc. There’s a pretty decent chance the Horns will have 12-15 players drafted next April. Wow!

I actually thought he wasn’t too bad doing TV commentary

No trouble at the airport when Texas is involved 😉.

Anyone else having trouble with the order processing website last night? I repeatedly got the “Unable to Process Request” message. Pacolian software / website is not Texas good.

Keyon Hemphill-Woods.

Hear, hear!

Doesn’t he have ties to Aggy as well (father maybe)?

I wonder if someone made the claim that all oil and gas minerals are a public good, should be protected / regulated for the greater good of the general public, and collectively pooled to determine the price, what would Cody’s response be?

Schloss was fleeing from a boss everyonr despised (much like Buzz Williams did a few months later), and going to a much preferred, higher pedigreed blue blood program to work for a boss he already had a close working relationship with. This happens every single day in corporate America. By contrast, Will Wade got fired for paying players and lying to his AD / investigators about it at LSU. He eventually took another P4 job at NC State, quit via email after one season, and went straight back to LSU to work for the exact same boosters with whom he conspired to illegally pay players and mislead investigators years earlier…except this time the boosters got rid of the old AD (S.Woodward) who was in the way last go around. Now, they’ve fully enabled Will Wade to be even more corrupt this time! Other than those pesky facts, the situations are very analogous.

Unless Texas plans to pay his brother too (and match Tech’s bid), this isn’t likely. There’s a reason so many in-state recruits are selecting Tech this cycle, and it has nothing to do with football. CJ - over / under on this visit even happening?

MJ wasn’t even a top 2 draft pick when he came out of UNC after his junior season. It shows how much NBA GMs know. MJ was head and shoulders above all his peers when he was on the court throughout his career. That’s the measure of greatness for me. Much like Tiger Woods on the golf course in his healthy prime, all others were just competing for second place. There’s no doubt that LeBron has been widely recognized as the best player of his generation, but many also recognize that early in LeBron’s career, Kobe Bryant was still “the guy” in the NBA, and that during LeBron’s career there were other players who received generational GOAT superlatives (such as Steph Curry “greatest shooter of all-time”, or Tim Duncan “greatest PF of all-time”). This doesn’t diminish LeBron’s achievements or greatness, but gives Michael’s greatness additional context. Jordan never had peers or shared superlatives during his career. For me, the difference between MJ and LeBron was when LeBron left Cleveland for Miami, and deferred to Dwayne Wade during winning time in the NBA Championship series (loss to Dallas). MJ would never do something like that, and this makes him the all-time Alpha of the NBA. To LeBron’s credit, he eventually grew into an alpha, and literally willed the Cavs to the title over GSW years later. Props to him for the personal growth into an Alpha, but MJ never wasn’t the Alpha.

Take the next exit (College Ave), take a right at the first light, and head to Coffee Call for the best combo of coffee and beignets this side of Cafe du Mond. Thank me later.

@Gerry Hamilton Did we get an official height measurement as well? I’m guessing in the 6’3” range?

Wow, that’s a big TE 😉😂

Well, sort of here. 😂

Similar to the OU rollout throw to Livingstone, my personal favorite was the 7-yard rollout TD throw to Livingstone in the Mss State game. It was elite in every sense.

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If I am interpreting the OU organizational structure correctly: Stephenson’s job is to raise the money for the players The new AD (Denny) job is to structure the deals with the players Nagy’s job is to identify the players and determine the money allocation across the roster. And hire/fire coaches. Venables’ only job is to call the defense. The times are changing!

Only six weeks left in bubble-watching season!

Rough day in Southlake 😄

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!