Glass Joe

April 2024 NT: D.Williams, B.Norton, A.Bryant, A.January (redshirt?), S.Mitchell 2025 season NT: D.Williams, A.January, Z.Williams. If A.Bryant and / or S.Mitchell are still with team in 2025, slot them behind A.January and give Zion a redshirt. I think we can also see the possible consequences of taking both D.Williams and B.Norton on the 2024 depth chart, and even more profoundly on the 2025 depth chart.

I worry a bit about the fallout if we take two NTs in the next week or so. This would push A.Bryant to third string NT for 2024, and it’s his third season at Texas, so one assumes he’ll have some thinking to do. And it sounds like A.January has already passed S.Mitchell on the NT depth chart, so while we may plan to redshirt January in 2024, what does that suggest about Mitchell’s future path to the playing field? All that said, if you can get a D.Williams level talent for two seasons in your program, you do it 100% of the time and worry about the fallout later. A 2025 NT depth chart with D.Williams, A.January, and Zion Williams will hunt.

Yeah, although I think Broughton may have something to say about second team DT. I also think Bledsoe will be at one of the IDL positions on the “obvious passing” sub package for the defense.

Williams plays a different position than Collins. Williams is a true 0/1/2i technique, commonly referred to as a Nose Tackle. Collins is a 3/4/5 technique, the more traditional Defensive Tackle position. Texas should want these two guys on the field playing next to each other as the starting IDL this season.

Doesn’t appear the players are much interested in hearing whatever Pierce is preaching. That’s always the tell-tale sign.

The coaching by non-coaching staff members (and the related hours spent on the practice field) are issues I’m anxious to read the findings on. There’s been whispers / gossip that Harbaugh’s program egregiously violated the maximum practice hours, and the violations by non-coaching staff members is adjacent to this.

Hard to see where there will be enough minutes available for Griffen, with 5 guys already on the roster at the 3 Guard spots (Mack, Pope (or another PG), Tre Johnson, C.Weaver, and some developmental minutes for D.Pryor). I absolutely love Griffen, but hard to see him at Texas with Tre Johnson and T.Mack playing most of the non-PG minutes in a 3-Guard offense.

Reggie Freeman holla!

Here’s an interesting Longhorn golf related question….how many times have Longhorns spent the evening before the final round in Butler cabin? Off the top of my head (and correct me if I’m wrong here): Scottie twice, Jordan twice, Crenshaw at least once, anyone else? Kite? Leonard?

It’ll be interesting to see if this is a reaction to a new portal addition…or a new high school recruit coming to Texas. Or maybe another school made him an offer he can’t refuse, NLI notwithstanding. Arkansas?

Aggys have a tenuous relationship with an honor code, so this makes sense. Walter Nolen, Evan Stewart, et al can probably comment on aggy football and keeping promises.

Among the mechanisms of payment were withheld revenue by the B12 for 2024, forced to change schedule to give Fox the Michigan and Ohio State games as home games (broadcast by Fox, not ESPN), and reduced payouts of tournament revenues from hoops tournament. The only cash payment was to Fox for the other OOC games for 2024 that would’ve been on Fox broadcast. The economic value of the foregone revenues, shifting UM and OSU games to Fox early, and various other game payouts is ballpark $50m for each of Texas and OU. For the 8 legacy B12 programs It effectively reimburses them for the monies they shared with the 4 new schools (UH, UCF, BYU, Cincy) for the two seasons of 2023 & 2024.

15.7 pts, 6.3 rebounds, and 35.7% from 3-pt line. Two years to play. The only thing that doesn’t compute is the 65% FT line.

Never forget the maroon carrot.

Do you think Malik Mack will be able to get into Texas academically 😀?

The Willie Stargell jersey makes me like this commit even more.

Every house needs a utility man like John S. Mill

Forget about passing these guys the football, they should be passing the baton.

Wow! This is big. Great job getting the kid on campus under the radar…and should’ve been plenty of 1-on-1 time for the kid with the coaches.

@Gerry Hamilton does the Texas staff view Guillory as a Safety or CB for this class?

Sounds like Waxahachie is upping its recruiting game to better compete in District 11-6A. If you can’t beat them, join them.

More broadly, I’m interested to see the difference in how SEC refs call the game, versus the clown show of B12 officiating.

Is Osborne loose limbed and flexible, or wound way too tight and easily knocked off balance on contact?

Maybe this time, our AD will have the replacement identified and a deal vetted with the coach instead of getting hefty raises for every credible P5 coach that would be a target of a program like Texas. I know Perrin was an interim in a difficult situation, but this is how we wound-up with a mid major coach who simply doesn’t have a skill set to steer an organization at the highest level of his sport.

Tennessee Tech at home in the Supers was a minor miracle, as we would’ve otherwise been on the road at Ole Miss when they were a top 5 program. And we were very fortunate to win Game 3 against TTU. Then, swept out of Omaha. Then we somehow get USF at home for the Supers after they somehow got through the Miami regional with Miami and UF in the Regionals. Finally, we get East Carolina in the Supers (a program that’s never made the CWS in their history) and we prevail with the big sticks in Game 3. Well earned trip to Omaha. I realize some will say “but Pierce has 3 CWS trips in 7 years”….that’s what the record says! But context should matter in evaluating the “achievement” of making the CWS. For instance, Texas has made HALF of all CWS played in the past 76 years (38), and we are the winningest program (percentage) in college baseball history. So, is the goal for Texas to be a top 8 team when matched against the Tenn Tech, USF, and ECU programs of college baseball? (Top 8 meaning we make the 8-team CWS by beating those programs)? Texas has elite facilities, elite brand, elite history, top shelf resources, great fan support, and is located in the heart of the most talent rich high school baseball players / programs in the nation. Why shouldn’t we aim higher than ending the season #8 in the country 3 out of every 7 seasons? If our program “inputs” (resources) are top 3 annually, shouldn’t our results measure up? Maybe our metric of success should be higher than finishing in the Top 8 (against non-elite competition) and getting swept out of the CWS twice? Pierce feels like a solid mid-major baseball lifer whose success at Texas is as much due to context and inherent advantages of the Texas program than any causation he’s bringing to the program. Similar to Shaka, Herman, et al of the Patterson / Perrin era. Can Pierce really maximize an elite P5 program consistently? Don’t get me wrong…I love Texas baseball, and Pierce’s 2021 and 2023 teams accomplished things that made me a damn proud Longhorn, regardless of not winning a title. But I see a really bad storm coming next year, and there’s no place to hide. I hate the thought of listening to SEC fans mock us for being a bottom third team in “our sport” next season, particularly the LSU fans. Humbling isn’t a good look for the Texas brand. I hope I’m wrong, we shall see.