Glass Joe

Wild guess…given that tomorrow is National Signing Day and we still have some room in the 2025 class, I’ll guess that the “Hi” is a 2025 recruit. Either an LB or a Kicker.

Time to un-gird the loins?

I had Luka being traded to New Orleans for Zion Williamson. Seemed like fair value on a caloric scale.

Damn, you mean I have to read past the thread title now?

His mother now lives in Austin, correct?

@Gerry Hamilton I’ve noticed Toa Katoa tags our old friend Jake Langi on his socials…anything we should be aware of there?

Win the 3 “winnable” home games - UGA, Ark, OU. Go 2-2 on the road games against unranked opponents (Vandy, Ark, LSU, S.Car). Lose the remaining four games against ranked opponents (Ole Miss, MSU, Kentucky, Bama). That gets us to 8 SEC wins. If we happen to pull an upset against a ranked opponent, than we only need to win one road game against an unranked foe.

That was my first thought as well. Jerry Jones, a guy who loves to find a reason to be in the spotlight, announces his next HC decision at 9pm on a Friday night via press release. Kinda suggests how much belief Jerry has in this hire. Cowboys now own the longest streak in the NFC of not winning a divisional round playoff game…30 years. (it was Washington at 33 years but that ended last weekend). The credit debate over Jimmy vs Jerry for the 3 Super Bowls in the early 1990s is settled.

Who has the lead for DH? J.Stewart? Maybe T.Farmer?

Niblack was so impressed with his firsthand witnessing of aggy’s offense putting up (..check notes..) ZERO points against Texas, and thought to himself “man, I want some of this offense”. At the rate he is descending through SEC programs, Niblack will be playing for Miss State by 2026.

I’ll take Garrett Nuussmeier over all others on that list (+1200). Look at the skill position talent he will have around him next season: WR: A.Anderson, Nic Anderson, Barion Brown, Zavion Thomas, Chris Hilton TE: TreyDez Green RB: Caden Durham That is a collection of elite athletes. You can take four guys off the list above, and beat half the D1 men’s 4x100 relay teams.

Clemson is the most likely team to make the CFB Playoffs next season. As weird as that is to type. I think Texas should be the pre-season #1 based on returning talent, and I’m not sure it’s really close. LSU is my surprise to contend for the SEC Championship and to make the Playoffs. They have the best offensive skill talent in the country (but also an atrocious defense).

The top 4 teams at the beginning of the 2024 season were nearly unanimously agreed to be: tOSU, UGA, Texas, and Oregon. Of those 4 teams, tOSU , UGA, and Oregon all lose WAY more off their rosters than Texas heading into the 2025 season. It’s not even comparable. And particularly, Ohio State loses damn near everybody that started the game on Friday night. So, the question for me is which teams have a reservoir of returning talent / experience that will surpass Texas in 2025? Bama? Good grief, no. They’ve been gutted by the portal the past two offseason, and graduation / early NFL entries (Milroe, Campbell, Booker, J.Roberts, Lawson, et al). Michigan? They’re about to lose 4 first rounders and haven’t been replacing these guys in recruiting. Penn State? Still have J.Franklin and Allar Ole Miss? Completely gutted after 2024 aggy? OU? USC? LOL !! There are 3 schools in the SEC on an upward talent trajectory relative to 2024 that should be improved on field in 2025. 1. Florida 2. LSU (best portal class in country plus Nuss returning and DC in year 2) 3. South Carolina The question for Texas is do any of those 3 teams actually have enough talent, experience at key positions, and overall depth to surpass Texas in 2025? IMO, while both SoCar and Florida have the QB piece in-place and have some solid players on both sides of the ball, they are both one-deep right now and won’t have Texas’ talent after a 14-17 game schedule. By contrast, LSU also has the QB, WRs, RB and more talent through the entire depth chart than Florida or SoCar. However, LSU still has huge problems in the secondary, has to replace OL, and is unproven along the DL…all of which matter in the SEC. LSU can win offensive shootouts weekly however. Add it all up and while we focus on Texas’ personnel losses from 2024, I can’t find any team in college football that enters 2025 with a better roster across the depth chart, and with as many of the key pieces already identified and (many of them) experienced. QB? Arch, WR? Wingo, Moore, maybe an InPort. OT? Goosby and possibly Big Cam. DE? C.Simmon, Burke, possibly T.Moore. LB? Ant Hill. DB? Manny, Taaffe, Guilbeau, Jelani M, D.Williams. The biggest piece for Texas is finding a decent Kicker. Finally, keep in mind that SEC teams can’t poach InPorts from other SEC teams in the Spring (for the 2025 season). So, all the talk of seeing Spring roster portal movement is limited to SEC teams poaching ACC, B12, FCS, and Big Ten rosters for talent. If you assume that tOSU, Michigan, Oregon, and PSU have enough NIL to retain the players they want, is there really enough NFL caliber talent on the rosters of other Big Ten schools to be difference makers on an SEC roster? Not really. How much NFL caliber talent can an SEC team poach from the Big 12 or FCS? A: very, very little (there isn’t much NFL-caliber talent in these leagues). Which means incremental SEC roster improvement via Spring portal for 2025 will be sourced by raiding ACC rosters for talent in the Spring…except that Clemson has already protected their roster talent. Net-net: SEC rosters for 2025 aren’t going to change too much from what they are at the end of this week (once the portal closes on CFB playoff teams).

They have one season remaining to be relevant in college baseball, so we’ll just have to bear it this season and then it’ll all be over.

You misspelled Adam McConathay 😂

Texas beat Nick Saban’s LSU team on Jan 1, 2003 that would go on to win the National Championship the following season.

Exactly. I’d be more worried about Leavitt if he can figure out how to accurately pass the football downfield. Until then, he’s an escape artist with little impact against better defenses. And he’ll be without Skattebo next season to occupy opposing DC’s minds.

So Micah Hudson’s on-field production impressed you more than Noah Thomas’ 574 yards and 8 TDs? Thomas had as many TD receptions as Hudson had career receptions. Mario Craver was suspended for two games by Miss State for off-field conduct (as a true frosh). He’s 5’10” 170 lbs, and had 17 receptions in Lebby’s pass happy offense. While he has elite speed, he’s far from being an SEC WR1 (which he wasn’t at MSU). There’s a reason why aggy is going to pay whatever money it takes to have Thomas, as will UGA (apparently).

Don’t we already have national standards for what constitutes targeting? I don’t think the rule varies by conference, so why do we need to develop national standards when they already exist? And why is this a CFB Playoff issue? Is Yormark suggesting that we don’t need to adhere to standards during the regular season? What a complete tool. He’s only issuing a statement out of bitter jealousy and doing anything possible to throw on Texas for jilting his irrelevant conference.

Great stuff, guys. Blake / CJ, - you guys mentioned Harrison and the kid from Indiana State as two of our possible starting pitchers. Who else would you project into the other two starting spots (Sunday, Tuesday starters)? Maybe the kid from Ole Miss? What about the incoming frosh arms? Thanks again for providing this content to us starved college baseball fans!

Troy Omiere will start at WR for ASU in the Peach Bowl. Let that sink in…

Klatt has really gone downhill in the past year or so. He was once a credible analyst and worth a listen, but now he’s a shameless shill for his bosses (Fox - Big Ten), and his takes now consistently reflect his bias. When Texas was in the Big12 and Fox was the primary broadcast partner, we all loved Klatt. Now, Texas is the enemy in the SEC / Disney conference. Klatt’s podcast and his Fox Noon Kickoff show have become nothing more than trying to defend the Indianas of the world (Big Ten) or his personal crusade - Colorado football (LOL!). If Klatt wants to be taken seriously, maybe he can grow a pair and actually enter the arena instead of sniping at those in the arena from behind his Twitter (X) handle. It’s pretty pathetic for the lead analyst for a major college football broadcast partner to be taking Twitter shots at an HC of the SEC, and particularly trying to defend the indefensible…Indiana (really?).

North Crowley High are the new kings of the I-20 corridor in DFW. It was only a matter of time before the talent in south FW found a high school where the facilities, coaching, and resources enabled this kind of success. North Crowley is a suburban high school with incredible new facilities and large enough to encompass the sprawling growth of south Tarrant county. Get used to seeing them compete for 6A titles.

And sparklers

If there is any way that Riley can muster just enough from his USC team to beat aggy in the Las Vegas Bowl, than he can go wherever he’d like after that.