Blake Munroe

Somehow I knew someone would bring this up right off the bat when I made this thread. lol

Today’s game lineup + TV channel

No College Gameday today, but ESPN will air “College Football Countdown" following the morning SportsCenter.

Sark is one of many in this video thanking Corso for what he’s done for college football. https://youtu.be/ZY6KL0N8OXI?si=_1IQ-eRlpVFRHxHF

A week from today the Longhorns start their season against the Buckeyes. Who is your favorite Texas player to wear No. 7? Some options today include… Michael Huff Jahdae Barron Keilan Robinson

The best part of that is he couldn’t find a men’s FSU shirt. If you look closely that’s a women’s tight shirt.

What area of the state are you looking for? That’s gonna determine a lot.

That’s going to be tough. If it airs Friday mornings (after C&F), I also do another high school show (on the radio) around the same time. So…. We shall see. If anyone could get him, I bet Carl can.

Both teams have been to the state championship five times, iirc. Longview has won it twice I believe and Cisco only once.

Cisco or Longview?

They need to be. Makes a lot of sense.

Gotta be on my A game.

Not so much six man (no offense to six man, but we just don't have the time), but we will cover 2-6A for sure. Haha yeah that's a little nicer on my part for sure.

If someone has a noteworthy performance, I'm sure we'll discuss it. This won't just solely be looking at Texas commits performances, but more what's happening in TXHSFB and what surrounds it. Every now and then they get a good team. I think they just closed a HS there not too long ago!

I think it's going to be phenomenal. I also learned yesterday that Shipley and Buc played at Abilene Christian together. Buc said he sat the bench while he watched Bob play.... can't wait for the stories!

ESPN took a look at the Top 10 recruits from the last recruiting cycle and gathered intel on how they'll fit in this year... Justus Terry, DT, Texas Longhorns Vitals: 6-foot-5, 268 pounds 2025 ESPN 300 rank: No. 8 overall, No. 2 DT, No. 2 in Georgia Position outlook: The bulk of the defensive line unit that helped carry Texas to a national semifinal last season is gone with 2024 leaders Alfred Collins, Vernon Broughton, Barryn Sorrell, Jermayne Lole and Bill Norton all out of eligibility or off to the NFL. Syracuse transfer Maraad Watson, an 11-game starter as a freshman last fall, and Purdue transfer Cole Brevard lead a deep group of portal newcomers at defensive tackle that includes Travis Shaw (North Carolina), Hero Kanu (Ohio State) and Lavon Johnson (Maryland). Sophomore Alex January and Terry will also factor into the interior rotation, while Terry is also expected to get snaps on the edge alongside senior Ethan Burke and redshirt sophomore Colton Vasek. How he projects: Terry's size and ability to play across the defensive line will get him on the field in 2025. The question is where and just how significant of a role he can forge this fall. A powerful interior talent at Manchester (Georgia) High School, team sources told ESPN that Terry carries immediate potential as a pass-rush option up the middle, but questions hover over his readiness to contribute as an impact run stopper as a freshman. Terry's ultimate positional landing spot at the college level will hinge on the development of his range of pass-rush moves. First-year Longhorns defensive line coach Kenny Baker said earlier this month that Texas was working Terry at both defensive tackle and on the edge, and team sources suggest that Terry's optimal role in Year 1 with Texas would come as a situational mismatch option in either spot. "He can do multiple things," Baker said. "He's been blessed and gifted with that type of ability and talent. But on the flip side, you have to make sure you're not giving him too much. We want this guy to be able to settle a little bit, experience a little bit of success. It's not a perfect balance, but then it's also continuing to poke and prod and get him going in another direction, as well." -- Jonah Williams, safety, Texas Longhorns Vitals: 6-foot-3, 213 pounds 2025 ESPN 300 rank: No. 9 overall, No. 1 safety, No. 4 in Texas Position outlook: Texas returns 2024 second-team All-American Michael Taaffe but has a major hole to fill at the other starting safety spot following Andrew Mukuba's jump to the NFL. Third-year defensive back Derek Williams Jr. is back after a season-ending knee injury kept him from the Longhorns' final 12 games a year ago. He's the most likely contender to claim the starting job alongside Taaffe. Junior Jelani McDonald -- who is expected to feature elsewhere in the secondary -- and sophomores Xavier Filsaime and Jordon Johnson-Rubell are among the experienced returners also in the mix. Williams and fellow freshman Zelus Hicks are a pair of intriguing unknowns at the position who could feature in Texas' early season safety rotation. How he projects: Williams joined the Longhorns' football program in June after hitting .327 with eight RBIs over 20 games in his debut season with the school's baseball program this spring. He projects as a potentially special secondary talent for the future, but Williams had ground to make up this summer and patience might be required before Texas sees his best on the football field. "We'll just kind of wait and see because we missed a lot of spring ball and all that," Longhorns safeties coach Duane Akina told reporters of Williams' progress earlier this month. "So I haven't really had a chance to work with him. He's intent in meetings and that's a good start." Williams' ability to get onto the field this fall will be dictated by the pace at which he picks up the defense and the speed of the college game after sitting out the back half of his senior football season last fall because of an injury. A big-bodied safety, team sources say they believe Williams will ultimately become a multipositional defensive weapon whose earliest opportunities might come on special teams in 2025. -- Full article here: https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/46038104/college-football-2025-top-recruits-play-alabama-ohio-state-michigan

This story is an excerpt from the book "American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback," which will be available on Sept. 9 from Disney Publishing's Hyperion Avenue. SENIOR NIGHT AT Isidore Newman School in Uptown New Orleans. Class of '23. A warm October sunset. A tunnel of cheerleaders under the lights, with a line of football players waiting to have their names announced and to meet their parents at midfield, and little surprise over who will be called first. He's in full uniform, wearing a kelly green jersey, with a white number 16. He stands, slightly tilting back and forth, waiting. The field is bright and clean. He turns to his coach beside him. "Do I run?" Arch Manning asks. He is the top-rated high school quarterback in America. His talent and production and work ethic merit the status, but it's his name that makes the future feel inevitable. He's a Manning. His grandfather is Archie, a Southern icon. His Uncle Peyton is a two-time Super Bowl champion, a national icon. His Uncle Eli is a two-time Super Bowl champion, which in New York gets you pretty close to icon status. Arch knows no other kind of life. There's no hiding. The crowd buzzes. A fervor awaits. The structures framing the stadium at Newman seem to mirror stages of his life. He'd started playing, almost as soon as he could walk, on the playgrounds behind the north end zone. Parallel to the sidelines are classrooms and buildings where he went to elementary school and then high school. As he approaches the south end zone, seventeen years old and at the beginning of something, he stands in the shadows of Manning Fieldhouse, named in honor of his father and uncles, all Newman alums. Tonight, as a senior, he commands the stage with little left to prove. In three months, he will be a freshman at the University of Texas. Anything other than a college career that ends with him being the first overall draft pick will seem like potential unfulfilled, an expectation both comically unfair and a reality of the life he has chosen. This is a really long article, so to read the rest of it, go here: https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/46022536/ruthless-recruitment-arch-manning

25 days in the books and I couldn’t have done it without all of your support… except @Joe Zura.