Glass Joe

For perspective, the upcoming revenue share for all athletes per P5 school is estimated to be around $20m per year. That’s the amount for ALL athletes in all sports programs, per school. Rashada claiming $14m is mind boggling.

Ohio State can beat most of their scheduled opponents with me playing QB. The talent gap between tOSU, Michigan and the rest of the historical Big Ten (Iowa, Minn, Indiana, Purdue, et al) is far wider than the top of the SEC to the middle of the SEC (and even to the bottom half of the SEC). Ohio State only has 2-3 realistically possible losses on the schedule in any given year, and that holds in 2024 as well. They have a depleted Michigan at home. Their non-conference is Western Michigan, Akron, and Marshall. So, if they split road games @Oregon and @ Penn State, they’ll be 11-1 regular season and favored to win the BigTen championship game to finish 12-1 and a top 4 seed in the CFP. I understand the Will Howard argument, but I don’t see how even a mediocre Howard causes more than one loss for Ohio State this season. Heck, he’s already better than what Michigan is rolling out at QB. And it’s been demonstrated that you can beat Penn State without attempting a forward pass for an entire half of football (see Michigan 2023). Ohio St has Q.Judkins and T.Henderson so running the ball in Chip Kelly’s offense won’t be an issue for them. And that’s no mentioning that tOSU likely has the best defense in the nation. I can’t make an argument against tOSU being a top 3 team at this point….as much as I despise tOSU

It would be interesting to see the terms of the contract from April, 2023 to see if they were within the THEN governing NIL regulations of the NCAA. I’m not concerned about the financial terms as much as if there was anything that encouraged him to return to Ohio State for the 2023 season (which was a surprise to everyone). Not that anything would ever be pursued by the NCAA enforcement at this point, but the NIL regulations back then were more restrictive on the student athlete (prior to the Tennessee and UVA lawsuits). Judging by the article, this may simply be a case of getting bad advice from a parent-as-agent. Harrison, Sr. has a record of doing not so smart things.

Simple Simon says the commit will be….🤔

The reason Oregon hired Rashaad Samples is to get Duncanville athletes to consider Oregon. Current Duncanville athletes are going to visit and consider Oregon out of respect for Reginald Samples (their head coach). It’s pretty simple. That said, no Duncanville athlete is going to actually sign with Oregon simply to please their high school football coach.

Thanks for this gift, Damonic and Uncle Cordell. And for saving us $1.2M in the process!! 😂

What about a Grad Transfer possibility? They don’t have to go through the normal Portal process, IIRC? Maybe someone graduated this week, and has a year of eligibility left and can transfer right in?

Portal or high school recruit?

Yep, that was against USC when Sam rolled right and threw back to a wide open Brewer in the left corner of the end zone. Man, I thought we were gonna steal that game.

In the late 1980s and into the early 1990s, Plano High, Lewisville, and Plano East were in the same district. Allen was eventually added to the district. Plano and Lewisville were beasts back then (each winning multiple state championships in the decade 1985-1996), and PESH and Allen were programs on the rise. Allen took over in the early 2000s and has won several state championships since.

IMG was founded by Mike McCormick, one of the most powerful agents in sports (now deceased). IMG was originally founded for those athletes who could afford elite academy-level training, nutrition, development, etc. in a specific sports (tennis, golf, gymnastics, etc). It expanded from there to include hoops and football. As mentioned above, they now subsidize athletes whose families can’t otherwise afford the cost of professional development. And, yes, McCormick’s original vision for IMG was that his sports marketing firm would be the agency representing these athletes in the professional careers, so that was the upside payoff.

Texas up to 10 players drafted half way through the 6th round. Rooting for JWhitt to make it 11.

I boldly predict that Quinn Ewers will be the first pick in the 2025 draft…by the Atlanta Falcons 😀

Yes, but I think they effectively trap doored him in the 2023 class. Jimbo got the early commit from Bowen, but seemed to slow communications with him over time as David Hicks (5-star DT) signed up, and particularly after the glut of 5-star DTs they already had from the buying spree in 2022 (Nolen, Stewart, GBD, Overton, Lucas).

Well, at the College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta, they have a section on the best rivalries in college football, and they offered: Texas - OU Michigan - OSU Army - Navy Alabama - Auburn ND - USC Stanford - Cal Grambling - Southern

Davis led the Pac-12 in PBUs and PDs last season. Was 2nd team All-Pac12 as a sophomore. PFF ranked him the #4 returning Corner in college football for the upcoming season. Played for Nansen, from SoCal, recruited by Nansen. Probable worth keeping an eye on.

I would guess that KJ has a lot to think about right now.

So you think Pope goes to A&M to become a priest, so that he has a better chance to one day become Pope?

TCU maybe?

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.