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Martez Walker for men's hoops under Rick Barnes. He was only in the program for one season.

Winfield and Navarre have already been removed from the program's online roster.

Yes, the three question marks are expected to return. I would expect Harrison to be back in the Saturday role and Grubbs to be a versatile bullpen hand. We'll see if the staff can get Ruger back into the stopper role they had envisioned for him initially. Don't forget Burns, Walker, Bing and Saunier.

Rerick and Jason Flores are the two names we've heard most among the rising sophomores.

I gave you a Hook 'Em for a positive Mavs reference and your avatar. Love me some Bar Rescue!

Easton Winfield and Bryce Navarre entering the portal brings the total number of outgoing transfers from the 2025 team to 15.

LSU baseball is kinda like Miami football, if they hadn't hit bottom while Butch Davis was cleaning up the program and kept winning after 2001. LSU has little to no baseball history before Skip Bertman. It makes their program résumé more impressive when put in the proper context.

Everyone must show respect to the face mask made of Legos.

Cruz is coming along. He's very much viewed as a big piece for the future of the Texas offensive line. When he'd be used would depend on the situation. In a pinch, they'd probably go with Robertson since he has more experience, but we've heard nothing but positive reviews on Cruz.

It's updated in the OP, but here are the 14 outgoing transfers from the 2025 squad: C Oliver Service C/INF Cole Chamberlain INF Carson Luna INF/OF Sam Richardson INF Jaquae Stewart OF Tommy Farmer IV OF Will Gasparino OF Donovan Jordan OF Matt Scott OF Easton Winfield LHP Chance Covert II LHP Ace Whitehead RHP Aiden Moffett RHP Easton Tumis

If I was an LSU fan, I’d be enjoying my team winning a national title instead of trying to be the best internet troll I could be.

He’s off to a good start because I don’t think I’ve seen him look better physically in his time at Texas than he has coming out of spring practice.

I’m optimistic after he held off Cojoe and Nick Brooks in the spring. He was pushed and responded with a strong close.

For me, it's less Hutson by himself and more so the power of the trio of Hutson, Campbell and Neto.

Justin Blalock decleating the blitzing safety was clutch. The same can be said for what that group did to help Selvin Young score the two-point conversion.

When Jared Spencer went down, Texas lost the element of knowing they had a guy who could toe the rubber every Friday and give them a chance to win the game. It feels different when a team has a stud they trust in the Friday role, which is something the two SEC teams that made it to Omaha had.

In all seriousness, I like the growth potential for the 2025 offensive line. For me, it comes down to how quickly the group of Huston, Campbell and Neto comes together and how they set the tone in the running game. Those three could come together and make Texas a much better short-yardage/red-zone offense.

I'm trying to see how many characters I can use in a headline before I get some kind of error message. Still hasn't happened yet.

Since Bob McKay wrapped up a Texas career (1968-69) worthy of induction into the College Football Hall of Fame three decades before Lyle Sendlein began his time with the Longhorns (2002-06), the 2005 national championship team’s starting center had an uphill climb to become the top player in program history to wear No. 62. Still, Sendlein started each of the 26 games on the schedule over his last two seasons on campus before starting 133 combined regular-season and playoff games over nine NFL seasons with the Arizona Cardinals. One of those starts Sendlein made came in Super Bowl XLIII, which pitted him against Texas and Pittsburgh Steelers legend Casey Hampton (the Steelers, with former Longhorns Tony Hills and Limas Sweed also on the roster, won, 27-23). Sendlein’s second career start in burnt orange saw him jump from the frying pan into the fire, in the second game of the 2005 season, playing one of the biggest roles on a star-studded offense when No. 2 Texas went into Ohio Stadium, at night. It upended No. 4 Ohio State, 25-22, kickstarting, in earnest, a run to the program's most recent national title. Sendlein’s redshirt junior season saw him replace departed starting center Jason Glynn, who was with the Longhorns for five seasons (2000-04) and started each of the last 38 games of his career. The Longhorn offensive line (left tackle Jonathan Scott, left guard Kasey Studdard, right guard Will Allen and right tackle Justin Blalock) had experience to share, combining for 89 career starts between the four returning starters from a squad that went 11-1 with a thrilling Rose Bowl win over Michigan in 2004. The 2005 Texas offensive line started the season as a group oozing potential and fulfilled it, ending an unforgettable 13-0 campaign as arguably the best unit in school history. Sendlein helped elevate the line, which paved the way for an offense quarterbacked by Vince Young to record the best single-season marks in school history for points (50.2) and total yards per game (512.1). When it comes to the similarities between the Longhorn offensive lines in 2005 and 2025, a new starting center is roughly where they end. Cole Hutson started 13 games as a true freshman right guard in 2022, so he’s not new to the starting lineup. Hutson also logged 389 snaps in a reserve role last season, including a season-high 52 in the team's College Football Playoff first-round win over Clemson and 35 in the loss to Ohio State in the Cotton Bowl. The return bout with the Buckeyes, on Aug. 30 in Columbus, will mark Hutson’s starting debut at center. He’s taking the baton from Jake Majors, who signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as an undrafted free agent after starting a school-record 57 games in his career (2020-24). Unlike Sendlein’s situation, there isn’t a lot of starting experience around Hutson. Major is one of four departed starters, accounting for more than 35 percent of the 161 combined starts Texas lost from last season. DJ Campbell (30 career starts at right guard) and projected starting left tackle Trevor Goosby (two starts as a redshirt freshman last season) have 45 combined career starts between them. Those three account for all of the starting experience among Kyle Flood’s group. What the group lacks in starting experience, it makes up for in raw, high-upside talent. If Neto Umeozulu and Brandon Baker continue to trend in the right direction from where they ended spring practice, the group charged with protecting Arch Manning and creating running lanes for a deep backfield has a tremendous opportunity to grow together en route to a possible third consecutive berth in the CFP. While the 2005 offensive line merely added a new starting center to a mix of talented blockers coming together at the right time, the remaining members of a highly-touted 2022 signing class (Hutson, Campbell, Umeozulu and Connor Robertson are on the 2025 roster, Kelvin Banks and Cam Williams are in the NFL and Malik Agbo will suit up for West Virginia after entering the transfer portal during the spring window) and their 2025 linemates will get a good idea of where they stand and what's possible in Steve Sarkisian's fifth season leading the program after traveling to the Horseshoe in 62 days. View full news story

We've had plenty of requests for a full list of players transferring out and transferring in through the portal. How we're doing it is the best way to keep track of the roster.

No, I meant Oklahoma could be on the verge of going through a stretch like Texas did in the 2010s.

A&M usually doesn't keep a coach long enough to see how that might work for a prolonged stretch. A new coach at least gives you the chance to sell hope.

Irrespective of recruiting, winning the SEC means Georgia is the dragon Texas has to slay. It's no different than what Georgia has had to deal with under Kirby with Alabama. Still, I'd much rather be entertaining that conversation than the ones in which I was engaged before Sark righted the ship.