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Some of reasons he is going pro actually have very little do with play on the field: 1) This is an extremely weak QB class and there are at least 6-7 teams that will be looking to take one relatively early. 2) Sometimes it’s not the worst thing in the world to go in the 2nd or 3rd round to a place where you will get development time instead of going to the Browns in the first round and being thrown into the fire right away with a terrible franchise. 3) He has now missed multiple games with injury in 3 straight seasons. Whether it was bad luck or not, he is going to carry an injury prone tag with some and if he returns and gets hurt again, it’s only going to hurt him more. He has very little to gain from returning. 12 additional games aren’t going to magically ease all the concerns NFL GM’s will already have about him. I don’t know why it’s so damn hard for some to just wish a highly successful QB at Texas well and move on without all the drama and hot takes. I sure wish some of yall had our fanbase looking over your shoulder at work awaiting your next mistake so they can replace you.

Let me guess…Facebook?

You don’t know what their DT allocation is this cycle. Of course DT’s are expensive. I don’t think anyone at Texas thinks otherwise, but if Charles runs up his price so much that it means Texas can’t get the immediate help they also need in the portal, what do you do? Accounting decisions come into play in all these situations. Of course you want 3-4 elite HS DT’s and 2-3 more good portal dudes but the money tree ain’t endless.

This recruitment might be an important lesson in the “just win” recruitnik thinking. Times have changed.

I wouldn’t even engage with him. He has been kicked off of pretty much every Texas message board out there. Isn’t even a Texas fan. The horror of a coach going 17-3 the last two years with Quinn Ewers at QB after coaching a bunch of NFL QB’s the last decade. How will we ever recover from this QB crisis?

There were bridges in the Lacy recruitment that Texas didn't want to burn. He has a chance to be a good player in his own right. With the portal in play and Dia Bell committed in '26, you can easily absorb potential QB misses. I wouldn't lose sleep over the Russell recruitment.

Can’t really say he is deserving of snaps over Burke, Sorrell, Simmons or Moore.

Temple is a job you take to collect a paycheck and buyout after 3 or 4 years.

Does Ole Miss beating Georgia offset the fact they probably have the two worst losses of any 10-2 team looking to get in (Kentucky, LSU)? I know everyone has penciled them in at 10-2 but their SOS will be lower than Texas’ at the end of the year and their non con schedule was Furman, Middle Tennessee State, Georgia Southern and Wake Forest.

HC has a large say in non-football sports. UConn and the conference slate aren’t too far off. Feels like every year you see less and less on-campus non conference matchups featuring two big name programs. They are always at neutral sites or in tournaments for some reason.

Why did Missouri schedule them? And Iowa State? And BYU? And Kansas State? And Utah? And LSU? Welcome to college basketball, where beating a horrible team by 70 sometimes helps your NET ranking more than beating a good team by 2. It’s a broken system and until they fix NET teams will continue to do this.

The only thing that slightly gives me pause is Kentucky had a bye last week and has Murray State this week, so they get 3 weeks of Texas prep. It shouldn’t matter but just something to file away.

Interested in hearing @Gerry Hamilton’s opinion on this decision because Florida’s recruiting right now is not good at all and I can’t imagine the 2026 class will be much better.

Was with Sark at Washington and USC. I bet there would be a nice analyst spot available for him at Texas if he isn’t retained.

Having Bama the following week is likely the basket Auburn is going to put all their eggs in, especially after last year and the 4th and 30.