Gerry Hamilton

https://www.espn.com/united-football-league/story/_/id/39540441/ufl-battlehawks-agrees-ex-bengals-qb-aj-mccarron

I do think he will play one year at Texas. He likes the idea of being a college player ... and he has nice NIL runway

Texas SOS currently around 25 ... will end up 15'ish https://www.teamrankings.com/ncaa-basketball/ranking/schedule-strength-by-other

Year two will tell the story. Problem for Texas basketball is they have had too much coaching turnover in a short amount of time. Beard comes in, and they have Brock Cunningham and have to build a team. Get into tournament, win one game. Beard on track, but then we all know what happened. RT gets job, and essentially has Brock Cunningham and injured Dylan Disu for sure coming back and has to build team. Texas needs to get in the tournament this year, and build more in year two. Texas needs some stability to have shot to build, but RT and staff have to win enough to create it. I'm in no way saying RT/Texas is in a position similar to UConn ... but they gave Danny Hurley time to build something and create some stability. He went 16-17 and 19-12 and no NCAA Tourney. Then lost in Round of 64 next two years before the obvious breakthrough. Texas isn't a blue blood basketball program, and the University certainly doesn't approach basketball like they want to be a blue blood. But they have enough with Moody and NIL to compete.

OSU is a must win. Can't lose that one. Need to win all three home games.

Not a bad comp!!!

I do like the 2024 class, especially at guard. Tre Johnson (6-6) and Cam Scott (6-5) bring size and individual shot making wither perimeter skill. Devon Pryor (6-7) sophomore at wing, Weaver returns ... that ideal off ball skill and size. Chris Johnson also a 6-4 combo guard. PG in portal is possibile. If Texas could win out for 6-11 Ulrich Chomche (if he doesn't go to NBA), that would be huge. That's three future first round picks in 2024 class. Rugged, but skilled enough big in portal for sure. Maybe two.

Prediction is in! Love it

Agree with you ... solid point

We agree for sure.

Agree on WR. Would take a Jamie Ffrench level dude to have real serious interest for OOS to truly factor in right now. Not ruling Marcus Harris out totally, to be clear.

Not sure he's the sure fire No. 1, but he's top 3 for sure.

If Texas continues to play through Abmas and Disu on offense, and Mitchell and Hunter play off those two guys without forcing into bad situations off the bounce too much ... Texas can definitely hit the 75 point mark needed in talent neutralized situations (road or neutral). On defense, Disu and Weaver staying out of foul trouble is the key IMO. We pretty much know who and what this team is, but now they have to maximize it as many times as possible the next month.

For those that may not know when Dubose committed ... I talked to a college head coach that recruited Dubose ... "Freak athlete that could be really good if he stays healthy and learns the position." I'm an interested observer.

Such a tough deal with Vasek. He's still not where he needs to be health wise, but hopefully he can get back.

I too think Texas finishes 8-10, and gets in ... and not in the play in game. One thing that could push Texas to 9-9 is if they get to play a Quad 1 team on road with an opponent having a key player out due to injury. Look at Kansas at Texas Tech this week. McCullar is not going to be 100% the rest of the season.

Nothing new other than continue to hear he's one of the top pound-for-pound athletes on the team headed into spring.

Texas No. 31 in NCAA NET https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/basketball-men/d1/ncaa-mens-basketball-net-rankings

Texas No. 25 in Ken Pomeroy rankings https://kenpom.com/

Texas No. 21 in ESPN BPI https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/bpi

What does Texas have to do to make the NCAA Tournament? The Texas Longhorns will travel to Houston today to take on the No. 3 Cougars at noon Saturday on CBS. Texas (16-8, 5-6) has a strong NCAA Resume currently, but still has work in front of them to punch the ticket. OnTexasFootball takes a look ahead, and the scenarios for Texas to be comfortably in the tourney. Texas’ Remaining Schedule 2/17 @ No. 3 Houston 2/19 Kansas State 2/24 @ No. 6 Kansas 2/27 @ Texas Tech 3/2 Oklahoma State 3/4 @ No. 12 Baylor 3/9 No. 25 Oklahoma NCAA Men’s Basketball NET Rankings (Feb. 15) Texas is No. 31 in NCAA NET headed into Saturday’s games. The Longhorns are 4-6 in Quad 1 games, 1-1 vs. Quad 2, 3-1 vs. Quad 3 and 8-0 vs. Quad 4. Quad 1 games remaining for the Longhorns: No. 1 @ Houston No. 17 @ Kansas No. 26 @ Texas Tech No. 12 @ Baylor Quad 2 game remaining: No. 33 Oklahoma Quad 3 games remaining: No. 77 Kansas State No. 137 Oklahoma State T-Rank Texas is No. 22 in Bart Torvik’s rankings headed into Saturday. 2024 Pomeroy College Basketball Ratings Texas checks in at No. 25 headed into college games this weekend. What it means for Texas The Longhorns are comfortably in the NCAA Tournament headed into the weekend. That resume is aided by Quad 1 wins at Oklahoma, and over Baylor and TCU in Big 12 play. While Strength of Schedule as a whole may not carry as much weight as it used to, the Longhorns have played a top 30 ranked schedule and will likely end up with a scheduled ranked from 20-30 area. Most years, a sub .500 conference record would not get you into the Field of 68. With the monster level Big 12 Conference in 2023-24, Texas would get in at 8-10. Sitting at 5-6 with four Quad 1 road games remaining, 8-10 may be the best case scenario. Texas and seeding: Scenario 1: 19-12, 8-10 is likely a 9-10 seed headed into Big 12 Tournament Scenario 2: 20-11, 9-9 would likely be a 7 seed headed into Big 12 Tournament Scenario 3: 18-13, 7-11 would likely send the Horns to the NIT without a run in the Big 12 Tournament. Right now, I do not see a scenario where Texas is 21-10, 10-8 to finish the regular season. That would mean winning five of last seven vs. a very difficult closing stretch of the schedule. Texas has not shown that consistent type of stretch this season over talent neutralized stretches. View full news

Yep. Bobby Burton had some stuff earlier in the week ...

Yep. Center is the plan for Cruz. Can't rul out some reps at guard, but his position at Texas is seen as center inside the building.