Here for the Wins

I’m not sure the transfers will be any better, but we’ll see. Maybe they won’t need to be better but hold up just enough.

Just trying to see where you sit on this. Sarcasm or not? The UF dude was loaded for bear.

Super conferences were the likely outcomes once you expanded the national championship. You need to start with the power and money discussion. The SEC and Big 10 want control of both. You’ve for sure seen that from the SEC for two decades. Any threats to that dominance will cause change. To their desires.

I think this has already happened in some places. Just less in your face.

As a freshman at Oregon, he had 74 tackles and 4 interceptions. Then switched to WR and kinda disappeared at Oregon then transferred to Texas playing WR year 1 then DB. Don’t know the story but seems he wanted to play WR when likely better served as a DB.

Yes, from Oregon. His brother went from Arizona to Tech, if I recall correctly. So somewhat of a football family.

He played WR and DB for two major colleges. He is the type of “athlete” the fans want. Nothing is a guarantee however. Its great to see all the Longhorns participating.

2026 should be better. Far greater maturity, experience.

I’d say you’re on the right path.

Just a little ironic that a team unable to win its conference or even participate in the conference title game can be a national champion. One an 8-9 game championship while the other is a 3 game championship.

Because we have won 35 games over the past 3 seasons, and we have guys here through all of that. Because we have guys who’ve played in hostile, playoff and championship environments. We have guys that have competed against the best. We have guys that the NFL will gladly invite onto their teams. You take these factors generically there are few teams that can say that. That’s why.

I manually counted so perhaps math is off a little bit. In the 2025 NFL draft, there were 23 Tackles taken, 14 Guards and 3 Centers. in 2024, 25 Tackles, 16 Guards, 11 Centers. In 2023, 16 Tackles, 15 Guards, 10 Centers. The 3 year totals are 64 Tackles, 45 Guards and 24 Centers. First rounders - 17 Tackles, 4 Guards, 1 Center. There at least two guys drafted as Guards that were Tackles in college - Troy Fautanu, Wyatt Milam. Gray Zabel is another that had more starts at Tackle than Guard. I suspect if you looked deeper there are more that were collegiate Tackles and moved to the interior than moved from the interior to Tackle. Just Texas guys alone we’ve had Conner Williams, Sam Cosmi and Justin Blalock play Tackle at Texas then found their home on the interior in the NFL. There’s a couple of points in here. I’ve read multiple posts about Flood’s ability to develop Tackles but not interior guys. The data suggests he’s not alone. The draft data reflects Tackles are more favored, and it’s quite likely it’s even more slanted in that collegiate Tackles are drafted as interior guys rather the other way around. Then we have the discussion of “elite.” With NIL, the waters are muddied, but I’d assume that a majority of draft eligible elite guys jump to the NFL. Of those 133 drafted offensive linemen, 28 were drafted after Hayden Conner in the 211 slot. I’m guessing few here ever referred to Conner as elite. Now, you’re down to 104 offensive linemen that might be considered elite. Proportionally speaking that’s about 35 Guards over 3 years or 11 per year. If you pair that up with PFF grades, there was 1 with a 90+ (from Army) and 11 with 80+. Only 5 were from the Power 4. Two of the 5 were first year starters and have eligibility left. The other 3 should be out of eligibility unless they get some form of waiver. There just aren’t many elite Guards running around. Moving Baker inside is somewhat uncommon although that transition was likely to occur at the NFL level. It’s uncommon because few teams have two very capable Tackles.

This is a pretty solid thought. I suspect the D2 and D3 guys were hoping for an upgrade. You likely do have more D1 guys hoping to hang on for an extra year. That’s more refusing to let go than crisis. You have seniors exiting and freshmen entering so it’s not like the total of spots are shrinking, as you mentioned.

It is. So Notre Dame. If they get #12, they are bumping at worst #10. That’s assuming the G5 is outside the top 12 and potentially one conference champ?

Yet not baffling that some team outside the top 12 gets in?