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The simple answer is “no”. If he coulda, he woulda. Also, fade routes are nothing more than vanity play calls for an OC. Just thinking they’re creating art. It’s stupid. Sarkisian needs to never call one again. They are the lowest percentage pass plays in the book.

My bad if so. I don't follow hockey and it read like he was referencing recruiting rankings to me.

Broughton and Mukuba were solid 4 stars, ranked as such by every service. The OL of Goosby-Conner-Majors-Campbell-Williams, from a composite perspective, went 3-4-4-5-4 stars. Helm was a lowly regarded 3 star and he went 6 for 56 on Saturday and you didn't rank him. I appreciate the development narrative, but accuracy should matter.

A DE talking about development as something sacred and then going to play for a Mike Elko team is like these guys that talk about "academics" and then signing with LSU or Oklahoma. Mike Elko has been a FBS DC or HC for going on 16 years now. In those 16 years, 4 DEs have been drafted. Duke Eljifor in the 6th from Wake. Khalid Kareem in the 5th at ND. Demarvion Leal (a high 5 star) in the 3rd and Michael Clemons in the 4th at ATM. If you give Elko all of the development credit for the defensive players drafted under his watch in 15 years, meaning guys drafted within 3 years following a year of his coaching as DC or HC, he's had 24 guys drafted. Kevin Johnson, a DB at WF, was drafted the spring of 2015, roughly one year after Elko got to campus. Jerry Tillery was drafted in the 1st round 3 years after Elko's one year on ND's campus had passed. Both of those are as stretchy as you can get for credit to the coach and those are the only 2 1st round defensive players ever drafted around Elko. Elko's highest ranked 5 stars, Leal and Jaylon Jones, eventually went in the 3rd and 6th. We've done a lot of review about Elko the Developer mythology at Surly. The dude is basically an excellent X's & O's guy with an extremely checkered history as a developer of talent on defense. For comparison, Kwiatkowski has put 5 DEs into the league and 2 were 1st round picks, along with a 2nd, 3rd and 7th. Never mind the 39 total defensive players with one less year of credit as a DC.

1) Salary caps will have little impact on NIL. 2) No one can prevent an adult from earning money for their name, image and likeness. The NCAA is spineless and any effort to prevent something as banal as a booster paying a player for a signed jersey will collapse under review/in court. The NCAA can't do a damned thing about corporations being involved either. There is also nothing shady about any of it and the geezers who continue to whine about such things need to get a grip. The market sorts the rates for contributions from players and they get paid. 3) Added revenue for players will inherently dim some of the needs from collectives and will be much welcomed. 4) Larry Ellison being involved changes very little for anyone except Michigan itself. We have already been dealing with Phil Knight. There will be others. Some teams will show up occasionally and go nuts while other teams have a big backer who can swoop in whenever they want for the right target. 5) Texas, Ohio State and a few others have built a layer cake foundation for winning each cycle if the results on the field and in the draft are present.

There’s more going on here than just attitude and heart. He’s got real off the field problems and the only way they get fixed is if he eventually wants to fix them. There’s a reason other programs aren’t all over him and also why Texas told him to not let the door hit his ass on the way out.

Texas has speakers pumping noise on its sidelines.

He certainly wasn’t prioritized this week, and for good reason. You can’t drop a certain TD with comparable fighting for oxygen on be sidelines while you do that. I watched him play in the fourth. Right in front of me. He absolutely played and was perfectly healthy.

I assume there’s going to be a big OOC home and home in 2028/2029 to replace the prior set up with Georgia or Florida or whoever it was. I’m assuming a Big 10 team or Notre Dame, plus La Tech and UTSA and 9 SEC games.

I was about to say, watching Gabe Ikard run his mouth about Hill while constantly talking up Stutsman is quite rich. If you need a LB to show up 8 yards down the field, maybe make a tackle, and then prance around like he’s accomplished something, Danny Stutsman is your guy.

Just looking at that list of freshmen, holy smokes, man. It really looks like an amazing class, and that’s on top of the excellent classes ahead of it. It’s gratifying that almost none of these guys is a “must play” for Texas this season, yet still, guys are forcing their way into legitimate minutes because of their talent.

147 tackles, 9 sacks, 2 FFs, 2 INTs if you remove the 2 Arkansas games from his numbers. Those are good stats, but not great stats. That Arkansas 2022 game has done a lot of work for this dude. I assume he has 10/19 circled on his calendar this year, so Arkansas better prepare themselves for an asswhipping.

Thanks for the post and it’s a great topic and visual. I think the big thing, for me at least, is that the FCS opponents and really weak G5 opponents are still skewing things horribly with a 3 game sample size. Directionally, though, it all looks right. Does a staff develop their program out of the left side of the graph as the season goes on? That will be interesting to track as well. The big thing with Georgia is that they really are lacking game breakers on offense. They look pedestrian, and not just because Bobo is a vanilla comfort hire. They have a decent poster base and that’s the big thing they’re wringing their hands about on their boards right now. I don’t blame them given the firepower they’re about to face from here to the Ga Tech game.

Lists like this are dumb when the season is only two weeks old. I watched some of Ohio State on Saturday night and Smith is legit. That said, the opponents have not been legit. Akron and Western Michigan tell us nothing about how Smith compares to other talents. The same is true for Williams at Bama. Western Kentucky and South Florida? Okay then. Lagway's being touted for playing against a team that wouldn't be a top 10 6A high school team in Texas. At least let these guys all play a couple of conference games before doing this kind of thing. Or at least play road games/neutral games against the likes of Clemson and Michigan first.

He made all of that up out of whole cloth. TOF provided nothing and I doubt most of the other collectives did either. He's using the specious assumptions that he and others at On3 are making regarding deal values for various players. Some of it is correct and some of it absolutely is not. But, hey, it will now be cited as fact by various talking heads and the like.

Of course, who the hell knows? But my view is that Josh Heupel just looks run of the mill kind of fat. Like a dude that doesn’t work out and eats a lot of fast food. Elko looks legitimately like he’s doing some hard-living. I thought/think the same way about Chris Beard and Elko probably weighs 100 pounds more than him. It’s all just one idiot’s opinion though.

“a few” is doing a lot of work in this post. There is nothing healthy-looking about The Elk. I assume he’s chugging a handle on a nightly basis based on recent photos.

If you’re “scared to death” of your fall drills and player health, maybe don’t hire a guy who has literally killed a player to be your DC?

Harold Perkins, who is certainly talented, pretty much gets lazily added to this kind of stuff constantly. Last year, Phil Steele called him the best defensive player in the country ahead of the season. If you remove Perkins' 2 games against Arkansas in each of the last two seasons, there's not much left. Moreover, LSU used him idiotically last year and he was rarely an in-game factor outside of spying the opposing QB. Maybe Blake Baker helps him live up to the hype this year, but if not, a rudimentary review of his performances should merit omission if they're anything like the last two seasons.

Boy, that Kenny Baker really is a home run hire.

Mike Farrell is a washed-up Texas hater from way back. He’s on Full Ride every week and pushes constant hearsay and Internet rumors as his own scoop and facts. He’s hired a few clickbait drivers and they’ve already posted multiple trash articles about Texas. The writer you’re lauding here wrote those articles and considers himself a professional gambler. Classy guy. You can check the trashy articles for yourself if you like on that same garbage heap site that you linked for us. There’s nothing in that link but stuff from Albert’s’ wikipedia page, dirty laundry about the Schlossnagle hire and the writers’ own potshots about Alberts as a person. I’m no Alberts fan, but that article is trash, as is the scumbag who wrote it and his employer. Linking to that gives them money and clicks and works against Texas on the Internet.

Second round, guy. Come on.

They looked like twins at one point in time. Peak Berkman was peak Herry Gamilton.

What's the count up to at this point? Also, I'm sure this is a DT commit. Texas is just going to steamroll there, I can feel it.

BTW, as an amusing (to me at least) adjacency, I nominate SMU for the best portal TB room. Jaylan Knighton, LJ Johnson, Camar Wheaton and Brashard Smith offer a who’s who of former top hs recruits trending heavily toward Busttown, USA.