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"trust thes corchez!?!" That's been a bleating plea on the boards for decades. It was screamed from the rooftops when anyone deigned to question OL recruiting and development with Mac McWhorter, or WR recruiting with Bobby Kennedy, or Strong hiring Shawn Watson or Herman signing like 3 OL per class. Yep. In any event, reading comprehension isn't taught well these days, I get it. Or maybe you had the flu that time during all of 4th, 5th, and 6th grade when they taught it back in the day. My question isn't of Flood maneuvering his OL. It's of the notion that if he is doing so, it's not for nothing. There's something bigger here with an injury on the OL. It's obvious.

Super insightful. My point is that I don't trust Vogel's reporting on this. There's an injury issue here, so don't tell your readership that there's nothing to see here.

Look, I understand the personality of this forum. It's mod-driven and generally involves an undying faith in the coaches, whoever the coaches may be. People can't handle it when a poster offers a thought or question of their own that runs counter to the narrative or direction coming from the site staff and the coaching staff. It manifests in all kinds thoughtless ways from middle aged men who don't like loud noises or thinking on their own. This has been the case fromthe founding of Obloods and Rivals all the way to now, irrespective of whether it's a Texas site or a Bama site or a Cal site. That said, it's "you're", not the 6th grade misspelling rendered up by you here in the post quoted, and, yeah, you guys are doing the typical thread shrieking that occurs when someone actually gets critical, like at all. No one needs to go to practice to look at a situation and form a simple opinion about what a development may represent. I don't need to have seen the OL do work to know that moving 3 different starters off of their starting spot on the OL is simultaneously risking making all 3 positions worse. Maybe that was done for a few reps just to see how it would look? Cool. If it was done for the duration of the practice, then "oh it's just some reshuffling for a few days and there's nothing to see here with injuries (or some other off the field issue)" is a bizarre take.

Yes. What’s your point? I’ve been invited to plenty, actually. Just put me in ignore and find someone else to clutch pearls over. I’m bound to eventually hurt your feelings again. Also, a) I chose the handle so handle smack is a bit silly, Ace, and b) telling someone to go kill themself is at a minimum poor form and likely a violation of the site’s TOS.

Zero reps? No. But he's never been a regular at Tackle for reps. The guy is trying to make the starting rotation at Guard for a second consecutive season, for God's sake. Now everyone is just cool with the notion of him whipping over to OT for "manufacturing depth"? Right.

I get it, dude, you've been told that there is nothing to see here, so, hey, nothing to see here. You have no clue whether Omeozulu makes any sense at Tackle whatsoever. He's rarely played Guard and was allegedly being pressed there. Now he's the next best option at LT after not repping there since HS? I guess, maybe, but what's happening here is removing gelling reps from 3 different positions because one has an injury that appears more serious than anyone is letting on. It's a bizarre move. The situation you reference last year was one made out of desperation. That's fine if that's the case here as well, but your initial post doesn't indicate that there's anything of concern. Anyone not looking at this and thinking, "huh, this is weird and probably raises some red flags" isn't actually thinking.

You think that's what this is? Moving the starting LG and C to new spots because the starting LT is "hurt for a few days" is "manufacturing depth" to you? Okay then. They have Nick Brooks as a flex Tackle. Omeozulu hasn't taken reps at Tackle in 3 years. Now he's the fill-in LT if Goosby is down for awhile? The only reason this move, right now, makes any sense is because someone is more seriously injured than the staff is letting on to the public. There is no other rationalization that makes any sense and "manufacturing depth" certainly isn't one.

This doesn't make much sense if Goosby is really going to be back shortly. It's bizarre.

Did he graduate before he left? He was a helpful guy for the program at a time in which good behaviors and attitudes were sorely needed.

The change in question is in regard to letting FCS (Football Championship Subdivision) teams have the helmet communications. That rule will help Illinois State against OU in a few weeks, preventing Brent Venables from a last bastion of space for him to steal sideline signals.

Boy, you guys like to put on the pink panties heading into the season. The answer is unequivocally no.

Dvoracek certainly used a bat. You are thinking of Lynn McGruder, who threatened to kill his girlfriend while holding a screwdriver to her neck. It was a long of terrible violence, many times against women, during the Stoops era. Hard to keep up on it, no doubt.

Um, what? Any time you are forced to cite a known and proven imbecile like Peter Burns to reinforce your position, it should alarm you that you are in the wrong position. An 8 game conference schedule in a 16 team league is a joke. It's basically indefensible without having to advocate for wanting a soft schedule. The FCS opponent stuffing in the SEC is also an embarrassment. Drop those games and UTEP for Texas and add 8 more conference slates and the sport is overall better off and the SEC will still get 4+ into a 16 game conference every year. Also, a number of these SEC teams have no business being ranked. -SCar has a great player on each side of the ball but lost a ton of talented experience. All of the sudden Shane Beamer's program just reloads? That's laughable. They return one starter from their defensive front 7, which was the team strength. He's great, but he's one guy. They also replace a high draft pick in the secondary and at LB. -ATM hasn't finished a season ranked in 5 years. They've only finished ranked twice in the last 11 seasons, and they've opened ranked in 9 of those years. They define overrated and their roster for this year says that continues. -Oklahoma is in the same boat as ATM. "But they had a lot of roster change! They brought in a hot shot QB!" They had the worst OL statistically in FBS last year "but all those guys return!" Right. -Tennessee has no business being ranked with their losses. They don't have an answer for the loss of Sampson, the conference's leading rusher and a key to their 2024 success in an offense predicated on rushing success. They also will be starting the former QB from ... App State. -Florida will finish the season unranked. Lagway is made of glass and they're living off closing last year with 4 wins including against 2-10 FSU and unranked Tulane who had lost their QB and TB to the portal before the bowl game. -Ole Miss has that one QB who had that one drive against Georgia last year. They lost a ton. See FSU if you think a constant portal rotation of 20+ entries and exits can't kill you. That's what's churned in and out again at Ole Miss, LSU, and OU. That's not tenable and at least one of those teams is going to be punished for missing on evaluations and having a mercenary culture, maybe several. The formidable opponents in this conference this year are Texas, Georgia, and Bama. Everybody else you can drop in a bag, shake it up, and pull out a name and it will look the same or worse than the other 13 teams. Same as the Big 10.

He just said almost the identical quote heading into the playoffs in 2024. It was something dumb trash like “we were the first 15-0 national champions, now we’re going to be the first 3 loss champion.” and then Texas whipped his loudmouthed ass. He’s a giant dum dum.

I was looking at the Longhorns in the NFL list on Ourlads today and noticed that Connor Williams was nowhere to be found. I looked him up and I didn’t hear about him deciding to retire in the middle of last season after playing every offensive snap through 9 games for the Seahawks. Bizarre. He made some decent money. I hope he’s doing well. I was grateful for him on the OL during some dark times for Texas in general.

Very cool

Day did this last year with Howard and Devin Brown. He’s since said that he pretty much knew all along. Bill Kurelic has said on their 247 board that the same vibe is there for Sayin with the team. I assume he’s the guy.

Pretty sure that a HC change opens the portal for a roster for 30 days. To your question about OT, Jacob Seaton is a former 5 star. I think he started as a freshman and he is still on the roster. Might want to fact check that, though.

Does Maryland have some other shore that isn't eastern? That's a tiny state with damned near more colleges than land mass. The schedule looks fun overall, though.

The big problem with him is he has a ton of swing and miss. Even in AAA it was off the charts compared to league average. If he could figure that out, he could be amazing. If he can't, he could still have a Jose Hernandez/Rob Deer kind of output.

FWIW, the Miami mods on 247 told their board that the Miami staff does not expect to land Johnson.

There might not be a bigger buffoon in the history of college QB handing than Steve Spurrier. It looked at times like he was deliberately trying to ruin various QBs' careers on live TV. Him questioning Sarkisian on the subject matter is laughable.

The only thing that should surprise anyone is that Texas continues to waste its time with North Shore. Their mods have remained confident with Calicut for weeks, including after this weekend. They’re not always right, but they do seem to get solid info from the Georgia staff. There’s Redding, Hopkins and Chykie Brown on UT’s side of the ledger and then there’s a ton of Zach Evans, Denver Harris and Shad Banks and 20 others like them on the other side of the ledger. Texas should just move on from NS if that doesn’t tell the tale enough to win recruitments from there. There is an entrenched narrative being told in Galena Park that isn’t worth the time to counter. Maybe Sanchez winds up being more Chaisson and Redding than all of the busts, but the math says probably not. For Calicut, a tweener going to a place where multiple Texas kids have flamed out lately and a culture swirling around the toilet, he has bust written all over him if he chooses Georgia.

That’s more like it. Outstanding.

He was bad down the stretch, but it doesn’t bode well that they’re bringing in Temu Flores to replace him.