ArizonaLonghorn

"Guys, it's not your fault. It's my fault for hiring you" 🙂

Too bad he doesn't have a better sense of humor!

But BIG for his age, no doubt

Marquise Goodwin played football during the Mack Brown years and had a nice NFL career. He was a long jumper and in 2012 qualified for the Olympics with a jump that would have won Gold in the games had he been able to replicate it. Someone mentioned Lam Jones, who won an Olympic Gold as part of a 4x100 m relay team. He also ran in the 100 m and finished 6th, prompting Coach Royal to quip "Only five people in the world can outrun him and none of them play football." (Damn, just looked him up to get the facts straight and saw he died from cancer 5 years ago. I was at Texas when he played, time catches up to all of us).

No on Ffrench moving us to top 5, but Ffrench and Terry would do it ... you can play the 'what if' game at this link https://247sports.com/college/texas/season/2025-football/classcalculator/

Will be interesting to see how well he does without 5* WR Ryan Williams. I'm pulling for the kid.

Just hover on his username and click 'Ignore' option and he be gone

F%*@ - he's a neighbor of mine, I live less than a mile from his high school. I'm proud when any Arizona kids win a scholarship to play for Texas but was really pulling for this kid. Best wishes for a speedy recovery Christian.

How is Cam doing against speed rushers in practice, like say Simmons or Trey Moore? (not disputing your pick, just wondering given Cam's size)

Pretty sure you meant Hill instead of Ford when you wrote "left with the super explosive Ford" ...

This makes at least eleven Longhorns medaling in the Paris games, right? This would put us # 11 among nations so far. https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/here-are-all-the-texas-longhorns-who-have-won-medals-at-the-paris-olympics/ar-AA1oce4Z

DeAndre Moore first on the field (at 4 AM)?

College football's top 25 players of the 21st century as ranked by Bill Connelly on ESPN. Just one Longhorn on the list and he's ranked a couple of spots lower than I'd rank him. # 2 will probably make you puke. # 11 played in high school near where I live (adjacent district), I was surprised to see him on the list but he did have 24 sacks and 31 total TFLs in his best college season, so yeah, I guess I can understand it. What do you guys think of the list? https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/40648172/ncaa-football-top-25-players-21st-century-tim-tebow-reggie-bush-cam-newton-more

Well most polls I've seen have them at # 9 - in the SEC 🙂 So yeah, the Times may have missed this one.

Or at a minimum let Georgia concentrate on DL talent within the lower 48 states and leave Hawaii, Alaska and the rest of the civilized world, including Europe, to us bottom feeders ???? Please!

I know, the dang fool spent all his spare change on the Dell Medical School. Talk about misplaced priorities!

I'm thinking this looks a lot like Evan Stewart 2.0. How did that work out? Did we survive that loss? If we get both Ffrench and Lockett I'll be very satisfied with WR recruiting. If we get just one of them plus a couple other talented guys ranked lower on our offer list we'll be OK. If we miss on both Ffrench AND Lockett then it's time to panic.

It's considered bad manners to provide facts and sound logic in these situations.

What does "Gerry I hear is trending with the 5 star tackle from Kansas. " mean? Not another musical reference, is it?

Ouch. Touché.

20 this year ... I think I remember 33 one year but may be mistaken https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/2024-elite-11-finals-roster-meet-the-20-qbs-invited-to-prestigious-event-headlined-by-tavien-st-clair/

Just speculating, but assume(1) Bond, Bolden and Golden play a year and go pro or move on, opening 2 or maybe 3 starting spots. Assume(2) Cook and Wingo are as good as we think and hope they are and have earned starting jobs for 2025. That leaves this Moore competing with 3rd year WRs Deandre Moore and Niblett and second year guys Butler, Livingstone and Dubose for the WR3 slot, plus likely someone like Ffrench or Lockett and a third or fourth 2025 WR recruit. Assume(3) one or two of the 2023 and 2024 guys are not happy with the depth chart and portal out, which still leaves maybe 6 or more guys he has to beat out, all potentially quality players. Can we assume(4) he is enrolling early? If not the odds get longer. Whole lot of assumptions but if Kori is as good as advertised you can assume(5) he has a decent shot at earning the WR3 spot, but he's definitely not a lock. Say 50-50 to be the starter by the OU - Georgia games? Who the heck knows at this point, a lot depends on if he enrolls early and the development of the WRs besides Cook and Wingo.

Seems like these early Heisman bets rarely get it right. Last year it was Caleb Williams ... not gonna look it up but of the past 10 Heisman winners I'd bet no more than two or three were favorites before the season began.

Are these anonymous responses on this website or do you have a link to them? If you have a sub to The Athletic (NY Times) the link is https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5493847/2024/05/16/college-football-coaches-qb-draft-class-deion-sanders/ There's a summary on Sports Illustrated at https://www.si.com/college/texas/news/overhyped-anonymous-coaches-have-mixed-opinions-on-texas-qb-quinn-ewers-01hy1bqgyk1y Here is the relevant section from The Athletic - the article is talking about which QBs will go high in the 2025 draft, so Beck and Sanders are also mentioned (if Bobby & Gerry don't want us to quote directly from behind paywalls let me know and I'll delete it - even though YOUR paywall posts are usually rebroadcast within minutes :)) Quinn Ewers, Texas Four years ago, he was the highest-rated quarterback prospect the online recruiting services had ever evaluated. His college career started at Ohio State, but he wasn’t a factor on a team that featured C.J. Stroud, among others. Ewers returned home to Texas in 2022, where he had an impressive moment early, lighting up the Alabama defense for a quarter before leaving the game with a shoulder injury. Ewers was plagued by inconsistency for the remainder of that year but matured last offseason, got into much better shape and made nice strides in 2023 — improving from 58 percent as a passer to 69 percent during Texas’ College Football Playoff run. He did have a very talented group of receivers to throw to last season with speedsters Xavier Worthy and AD Mitchell and gifted tight end Ja’Tavion Sanders. The Longhorns brought in more burners through the portal to go with a promising bunch of young receivers. Still, some of the coaches who have faced him aren’t as enthusiastic as some of the recruiting analysts were. “I’m not that high on him,” said a DB coach who played Texas last year. “Overhyped. He has a good arm, and he did have a lot of talent around him, but you just see a bunch of stuff where you wonder what he’s doing out there.” “I think he’s just still trying to figure things out,” said a veteran Big 12 assistant. “Sark (Steve Sarkisian) does such a good job of setting things up for him, and so you’ll see times where he’ll rip it, but then there are other times, he just seems to be a little timid.” “I’m very curious to watch him this year,” said a Big 12 defensive assistant. “The last two years he had superstars around him. There’s some ‘Oh My God!’ throws on film that he made against Alabama, but he was just so inconsistent. I think he’s about average athletically.” “I do think he’s come a long way from 2022,” said a Big 12 DC. “There was too much of the (Patrick) Mahomes comparisons around him coming into college. He does have a good arm, but he’s not anywhere near as athletic nor the playmaker Mahomes is, or has that kind of presence. It’s kind of a strange deal because people want to talk about that, about what he was supposed to be, or they want to talk about Arch Manning behind him. But that isn’t the kid’s fault.”