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10 minutes ago, BobInHouston said:

It would show that Deloitte would have no business reviewing anything. 

Someone with no skin in the game will decide how much skin should be in the game. That's profoundly stupid.

I agree with you.  But everything I've read seems to suggest that is the plan if the settlement is approved.

I'm just wondering what Deloitte would say if the House settlement happens.  Her deal is >5x more than what they said on the broadcast is the highest deal they know for softball ($175K).

If that's true, would Deloitte kick it back?

34 minutes ago, Gerry Hamilton said:

He’s a PWO 

Makes sense, but wondering about the kid.  He's roughly 85% on FGs for his career with a long of 51, but was only 54% (7/13) last season.  Before last season, he was an even 90% on FGs.

What happened in 2024?

12 hours ago, CHorn427 said:

The statement should read, over the course of 29 years as a HC, Belichick has had two winning seasons during which Tom Brady was not his QB. And zero division championships or playoff wins. 

First of all, I agree that Belichick rode Brady's coattails.  Your statement above is correct, although your premise is stronger if you point out Belichick is 19-1 with Brady on the team and 2-7 without him.

By the way, the "1" was in Brady's rookie season when he didn't sniff the field and Bledsoe was the starting QB.  And in Brady's second year, Bedsoe got injured and only played in two games - both were losses.  Brady took over and led them to the first Super Bowl win.

When you look at it that way, it accentuates your original premise.

12 hours ago, CHorn427 said:

The only thing wrong with my statement is syntax. Apologies. The point stands- without Brady, Belichick has been an average to below average head coach. Brady won without Belichick, Belichick did not win anything significant without Brady. 
 

Andy Reid is far and away the more accomplished HC in my eyes compared to Belichick. 

I absolutely agree with this.

4 hours ago, Oldest Horn said:

So 2-7 rocks? Cool…

I guess reading comprehension is a challenge for you.  The last sentence literally says it's not good.  But it sure as hell isn't the 2-27 that was stated in the post I responded to.

I don't have a problem with the premise. It's valid.  But the 2 out of 29 statement is blatantly wrong.

31 minutes ago, CHorn427 said:

Note: as a HC, Belichick never won one playoff game or even a division championship without Brady as his starting QB. 
 

2 winning seasons in 29 years without Brady.

Bias much?

Belichick was not a head coach for 29 years without Tom Brady.  That's a bullshit statement.

Belichick was only a NFL head coach for a TOTAL of 29 years, and 20 of them were with the Patriots coming while Tom Brady was also there.

So, Belichick and Brady were together for 20 of Belichick's 29 years as a head coach.  He had a winning record in 2 of the remaining seasons (1-4 with the Browns and 1-3 with the Patriots).  Not good, but not the incorrect BS you wrote.

29 minutes ago, Burnt Orange Horn said:

But they finished 4th in conference?  I do not think so.

With the exception of SEC regular season finish, Vandy wins all the metrics comparisons.  I think the aggy at D1 has it correct.

2 hours ago, horns96 said:

My wife and I were discussing this today. I've been watching this post-season format for almost 30 years and I always assumed home teams just alternated "home" and "away" with each successive game, but I heard something on the UT softball radio broadcast today that indicated otherwise.  @Jeff Howe, do you know?  

Not Jeff, but I think it has to do with the # of times each team has been the home team.  Michigan was visitor in game 1 against UCF and Texas was home team against Eastern Illinois.  By default, Michigan was home team against Texas. 

If both teams were home in their first games, it gets a bit murkier for me.  I've been told two different answers on that.  One was that higher seed would be home, as in the first round games.  The other was that it would be a coin flip.  Don't know that answer on that.

9 minutes ago, Bobby Burton said:

 

This is accurate. They are cutting to 105. 

And that appears to be why the judge has a problem with it... for the current members of football and other sports who would get shut out by the lower limits 

7 hours ago, Jeff Howe said:

 

@Jeff Howe Any reason stated for the change?  Weather doesn't look like an issue, except for possibly Sunday.

Parking all weekend will be screwed with softball in town against L$U and games that start before baseball.

7 minutes ago, John F. said:

This lady does these random redesigns. some others have been pretty cool. This one…well what do y’all think? 

 

It sucks.  All of it.

1 hour ago, HuntFishTexan said:

Miguel of Valentina’s is back with a food truck now.   Making a comeback

Where does he park it?

2 hours ago, Jeff Howe said:

 

I think all of the loud and unfiltered a$m interest being reported was Beard and his agents putting pressure on Ole Miss to raise their commitment to Beard and the program.  a$m did as predicted and was supposedly going to offer another dumb big-$$$ contract.  Ole Miss blinked.  Beard stays in Oxford.

That was always the script, imo.

11 minutes ago, Raistlin said:

when RT is fired?  Does the new coach keep Ogden around or bring in his own guy?  The GM is essential to building a college basketball team, especially with the Portal opening in a few days.  The 2025-26 Texas team will be a complete rebuild, we lose every one of consequence.  

EVERYTHING in the program will be up to the new guy.  It's up to him to decide if he wants Ogden (or anybody else in the program) to stay.

Zero U is a mutual rival, a$m is an annoying and underachieving little brother.  There was no way either UT or Zero U would split from each other during conference realignment.  a$m ran away, then threw a tantrum when the UT and Zero U announcement was made.

29 minutes ago, McCoyColt said:

Will Wade please

Never gonna happen.  Texas will not hire a head coach who currently has a show cause enforcement against him until June 2025.  Even if it was over this past December (it wasn't/isn't), they wouldn't hire him.

1 hour ago, TexShoe said:

Oh I’ve been here, just don’t post as much. I’ll try to spend more time here.  Not much left at 247.  What can I say, where Burton goes, I go. 

Only reason I'm still there is the free Paramount+ sub.

3 hours ago, CJ Vogel said:

The search for the next Texas defensive backs coach continues on after Blake Gideon took the Georgia Tech defensive coordinators position.

One name that has been passed on to me as a candidate for the opening is current Notre Dame DB coach Mike Mickens.

Mickens has been on staff at Notre Dame since 2020, where he was the cornerbacks coach until making the jump to the Defensive Backs coach in 2024. In 2020, Mickens coached with Terry Joseph on the staff at Notre Dame.

Before Notre Dame, Mickens had stops at Cincinnati, Bowling Green and Idaho, all as cornerbacks coach. He graduated from Cincinnati and was selected by the Dallas Cowboys in the 7th round of the 2009 NFL Draft.

Mickens was the lead recruiter for star freshman CB Leonard Moore and was instrumental in the development of Xavier Watts, Kyle Hamilton and Benjamin Morrison.

Mickens would probably know Tashard Choice from their brief overlap at the Dallas Cowboys.  Choice was in Dallas from 2008-2011.  Mickens was drafted by the Cowboys in 2009 and was on the practice squad for the first 2+ months of the season before being picked up by Tampa Bay.  Just another potential data point.

17 hours ago, Hashtag said:

 

 

 

He set a rookie record for receiving yards (158) in a Super Bowl, beating the previous record by 49 yards.  It's also been said he's also the first rookie ever to catch two TD passes in a Super Bowl.  So more than just Longhorn history was made.

7 hours ago, Texas fan in Georgia said:

Vasek hasn’t been healthy since he got on campus . Offseason shoulder surgery not long ago. Hate it for him

I understand the concern about Vasek's injury history.  I hope he can stay healthy.

I was told his surgery was just to clean up the area and remove some loose junk and that he would be available for spring workouts.  But I am not certain of the veracity of the info or the source.  Hope it's accurate.

10 hours ago, Jack Lala said:

Sam is on 3rd and Longhorn this week. Great interview. 

Who is Sam Ehrlinger?  Is he related to former Texas QB Sam Ehlinger?

Couldn't care less.  It's the POS NBA.

2 hours ago, Jeff Howe said:

 

I'm elated to be a part of On Texas Football.

My conversations with Bobby and Gerry recently reminded me of the early days of building the Texas site for 247Sports. What made those days exciting (and, for me, when working in the market was the most fulfilling) was that the bottom line was about building a community where fans who bled burnt orange wanted to be.

That’s what excites me about continuing to write about, analyze, and report on the Longhorns with OTF. August 2010 wasn’t the ideal time to launch and build an online community and news source for Texas fans, but OTF is experiencing rapid growth at a time when Steve Sarkisian looks primed to lead the Longhorns through a historic run of success.

With Arch Manning in the saddle as QB1, the bulk of the No. 1 recruiting class in 2025 currently on campus and the 2025 NFL Draft possibly making it back-to-back drafts in which Texas produces double-digit picks, the train isn’t slowing down.

It’s time to puff out your chest and walk tall if you're a Longhorn fan, making it the perfect time to be a part of OTF. After slogging through the dark ages (2010-2021), I hope everyone reading this is as excited as I am to be a part of something special.

Whether you’ve followed me for a while or you’re reading me for the first time (thank you for the support, by the way, and I look forward to talking Texas football with the OTF community), one of the things I’ve always been fascinated by (and will often discuss) is the group of players entering their third season in the program.

Spring practice will be a now-or-never time for the 2023 signees who’ve yet to break through. Thankfully, a good chunk of the class has panned out.

Of the 18 signees still with the program (including Will Randle), I count 11 who are either proven commodities or who’ve shown enough that we’ve got a feel for what they’ll bring to the table in 2025: Arch Manning, CJ Baxter, Quintrevion Wisner, DeAndre Moore Jr., Trevor Goosby, Colton Vasek, Anthony Hill Jr., Liona Lefau, Malik Muhammad, Jelani McDonald and Derek Williams Jr.

The third-year guys are a critical group because if you’re evaluating and developing the right way at a place like Texas, you should have a decent number of guys on NFL trajectories. By Year 3, a recruiting class should form a team’s nucleus; if you’re a championship-caliber squad, the core must include elite players.

Of the 11 mentioned, the biggest concerns are Baxter and Williams bouncing back from their knee injuries and Vasek being healthy enough to remain in a tremendous EDGE rotation with Ethan Burke, Trey Moore and Colin Simmons.

What about the other eight? Well, they'll determine whether the Longhorns have enough talented depth to make it through SEC play and the College Football Playoff to reach the top of the mountain.

Can Spencer Shannon provide the kind of presence as an in-line blocking tight end to demand snaps and let Jordan Washington grow into his role?

Will Jaydon Chatman, Andre Cojoe or Connor Stroh push the older linemen in the program for playing time?

Is Ryan Niblett capable of filling Silas Bolden’s role as a burner with big-play potential in the slot on offense?

With Jahdae Barron and Gavin Holmes gone, does Warren Roberson play himself into the cornerback rotation?

At an exciting time for the program, I can’t wait for arguably the most competitive spring on the Forty Acres in a long time.

 

 

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Welcome Jeff!  Happy you're here.  I go back to those early days, when it was still "Hook'em/247".  I'm still there, but it's my third most viewed of the Longhorn sites   tbh, the free Paramount+ Showtime sub makes it palatable to keep the 247 sub.

Look forward to seeing your contributions to OTF.  🤘

Loved the athlete, competitor, and human that was James Street.  But also loved the backfield of Street, Steve Worster, Ted Koy, and Jim Bertelsen.

A few years later my favorite Longhorn to watch/look at was Farrah Fawcett.