Just now, Deej said:

So where does Texas go from here on the offensive line?

Goodwill

BTA on the portal Oline search

2 minutes ago, Bobby Burton said:

OTF expects Wisconsin lineman Joe Brunner to head to Indiana. Brunner's circle reached out to Texas but he wants to stay in the Midwest.

Then I don’t see the need for his circle to reach out if that was the case in the first place. Thanks for the update Bobby, love your work. Just seems like a lot of these players/agents are using Texas for extra leverage. 

3 minutes ago, Bobby Burton said:

OTF expects Wisconsin lineman Joe Brunner to head to Indiana. Brunner's circle reached out to Texas but he wants to stay in the Midwest.

Why did they reach out if he doesn’t want to come play here ? 

3 minutes ago, Bobby Burton said:

OTF expects Wisconsin lineman Joe Brunner to head to Indiana. Brunner's circle reached out to Texas but he wants to stay in the Midwest.

 

I wish we would look at Emeka Ugorji. Freshman started some games for Stanford from SOC, played both right tackle and guard. He’s got a Florida Visit. 

16 minutes ago, McCluskey said:

Extremely disappointed the live stream only went 2 full hours tonight. Have my pajamas on, was ready to pull an all-nighter right through to coffee & football.

I think we need to talk about the definition of "all in".

 

Not surprised he’s going to Indiana but was hopeful he’d come for a visit at least.  
 

Now almost a week in to the portal opening up and have no commits and no targets.  

3 minutes ago, Bobby Burton said:

OTF expects Wisconsin lineman Joe Brunner to head to Indiana. Brunner's circle reached out to Texas but he wants to stay in the Midwest.

ANOTHER FAIL 🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱

Not sure how we can be so ill prepared on the oline back to back years, oh and the only 2 years we have Arch Manning as QB. Absolute disaster

Just now, Bevohorns said:

Why did they reach out if he doesn’t want to come play here ? 

i know this is hard to grasp but... you have to talk to someone first to find out they don't want to come

Just now, Matthew Hutcheson said:

 

Sounds like Texas Portal efforts so far 🤢🤢🤢🤢

Just now, AtxCJC said:

i know this is hard to grasp but... you have to talk to someone first to find out they don't want to come

So his camp initiated it and he doesn’t want to come play here ? 😂 

In the hotel of portal madness, it feels like Texas is in the corner chair of the room watching it all happen.

How many from the OL do we need, and they’re apparently supposed to be done by Friday?

Thank you Brunner and your agency for at least letting us know right away instead of making this a 4-5 day process where he ends up where he wanted to go the entire time.

Where’s the OL that are desperately needed gonna come from, we cannot put out that same type of OL again or we waste Arch

Alright, so we landed zero of the big time guys we were after. Let’s just move on to plan C and D and call it a day. And before someone says the 385 lb DT or the honorable mention big 10 CB in 2024 are big time guys, kindly save it. They are in no way big time guys. 

We better get names of who we are after in OL cause this is just miss after miss on a huge need. I’d put it above anything atp and it’s going this bad.

So where do we pivot now on the OL @Bobby Burton? I know on the livestream you said they could have it wrapped up by Friday but I guess I don’t see who we are after. Is there a chance this weekends CFP losers have guys? 
 

Thanks for all the hard-work 🤘🏽 

I wasn’t really a fan of the Wisconsin OL. I can say that now that he picked another school. He just isn’t what Texas needs (a big difference maker on OL)

At this point we need to accept the position we are in and over pay for an OL - get numerous to enter, take the one who commits - this whole Player A enters, 2-3 days later Player A commits somewhere else thing is wasting our portal window 

14 minutes ago, Bobby Burton said:

OTF expects Wisconsin lineman Joe Brunner to head to Indiana. Brunner's circle reached out to Texas but he wants to stay in the Midwest.

I believe on coffee and football this morning someone said texas expects to have their offensive line signed by the end of this week. Is that still the expectation? 

@Bobby Burton@Gerry HamiltonOTF is doing a good job at covering but Texas did this to themselves. 
 

When you invite 3 OL, one not being a take, you have zero leverage. Player has all the pull!  Invite top 10 OL on board and let them know you aren’t pissing around waiting.  If they want on the boat they better jump.  Thats how you get the leverage!  
 

Invite top 4 RBs and do the same.  Texas strategy was to piss around with 2 players that didn’t even enter.  Now they are up against it.  
 

They let Coleman hold them hostage at WR.  Coleman isn’t coming!  Why not invite the top 5 WRs on your board? Nope!  Missed out on all of those too!  
 

This has to be the worst “all in” portal strategy I’ve seen.  
 

I also realize not all players will come to Texas.  Thats no excuse for this staff.  They limited their options early, not a surprise at the outcome. 

We’re on the borderline of having to raid Bishop Syncamore’s roster for OL, never would’ve imagined this. Maybe Flood isn’t the fit at OL coach for today’s college football, back to back years of portal negligence