42 minutes ago, Bevo92 said:

Can’t wait to hear Rod’s reaction!!   This seems like a great hire for many reasons.   Fired up!!   Hook em! 🧡🐂🤘🏼

Just watched TalkingBall with @Bobby Burton @Gerry Hamilton and @Rod Babers.   Love the authentic excitement from all three of you guys.   OTF is the GodFather of Texas Longhorns football news.   You guys rock!!! 

2 hours ago, SuperDave0805 said:

Plan is asking who the NIL check should be made out to 

Akina does not have to travel to recruit.  He merely needs told hold court in the Texas athletic center and give tours of the awards his former players have accrued 

39 minutes ago, cmk4pres said:

Spin. I'm huge Akina fan 12-15 years ago. Respected no doubt. But this will be used against him any way you slice it 

Akina points to his player's awards lining the Texas Athletics Center.  

Love to see it 🤘🏾🤘🏾

Seems like a good hire.  Hope we can maintain the presence in Louisiana that Terry Joseph afforded us. 

Realistically, doubt he lasts more than two years. He will be 70+ at that point. Can also move him to analyst next year if he can’t do everything we need. 

6 minutes ago, Austalgia said:

Seems like a good hire.  Hope we can maintain the presence in Louisiana that Terry Joseph afforded us. 

LaAllen Clarke is from Baton Rouge 

Any good Arizona DBs Akina can bring with him?

Any chance Dalton Johnson or Genesis Smith want to re-enter the portal and come with for their last year?

Edited February 25, 20251 yr by DiggsTX

3 hours ago, cmk4pres said:

Spin. I'm huge Akina fan 12-15 years ago. Respected no doubt. But this will be used against him any way you slice it 

 

3 hours ago, bgreen04 said:

Realistically, doubt he lasts more than two years. He will be 70+ at that point. Can also move him to analyst next year if he can’t do everything we need. 

Very bearish take but even if he only goes 2 years and we bag a natty, who's going to complain? (That's rhetorical!)

If he's feeling it for 4 years, that's a fair tenure for any assistant, and with some luck, we're contending for multiple titles.

Your floor of a demotion in a year is highly unlikely. 

DBU be back. Great hire. Akina will improve all facets of our D.

10 hours ago, CJ Vogel said:

The idea that Akina's age will cost Texas on the recruiting trail is crazy to me. I promise that is so far down the list of what’s important in recruiting right now. 

Many folks don't understand how high-energy Akina is haha!

Our zone vs man coverage % is about to do a 180

Holy crap! Love it! 

12 hours ago, CJ Vogel said:

The idea that Akina's age will cost Texas on the recruiting trail is crazy to me. I promise that is so far down the list of what’s important in recruiting right now. 

Definitely. People complain that Kenny Baker or other young coaches don’t have enough skins on the wall. Then when we hire Akina, who has so many skins he had to build an extension on his home, and people complain about his age. Plus his sideline energy is great and that’s infectious.

8 hours ago, HookedOnTF said:

Very bearish take but even if he only goes 2 years and we bag a natty, who's going to complain? (That's rhetorical!)

If he's feeling it for 4 years, that's a fair tenure for any assistant, and with some luck, we're contending for multiple titles.

Your floor of a demotion in a year is highly unlikely. 

Happy to be wrong, Akina has been a great coach for a long time but at the end of the day he's pushing 70 and at the end of his career. If he steps in an helps deliver another Natty then I will gladly eat crow. 

14 hours ago, CJ Vogel said:

The idea that Akina's age will cost Texas on the recruiting trail is crazy to me. I promise that is so far down the list of what’s important in recruiting right now. 

Agree but will his age be an issue in coaching/developing? Everyone loses a step at some point in life. No idea if he's at that point or not.

1 minute ago, qaertyisthatdude said:

Larry Johnson is 73 years old and just helped Ohio State's DL win a natty.

Ohio St fans aren't happy with him and he just cost them one of the top DC's in the country.

35 minutes ago, Hashtag said:

Ohio St fans aren't happy with him and he just cost them one of the top DC's in the country.

Because he was 73?

14 hours ago, CJ Vogel said:

 

My only issue is what did he do after 2013. I’m pumped about the hire, but if they would have hired Gerry(no shade at Gerry) I would have been pumped. 

2 hours ago, Tuco Ramirez said:

Definitely. People complain that Kenny Baker or other young coaches don’t have enough skins on the wall. Then when we hire Akina, who has so many skins he had to build an extension on his home, and people complain about his age. Plus his sideline energy is great and that’s infectious.

I want to know the skins outside of Texas.

6 minutes ago, thatdude2 said:

My only issue is what did he do after 2013. I’m pumped about the hire, but if they would have hired Gerry(no shade at Gerry) I would have been pumped. 

While Gerry would kill it at any job, many peoole think he's holding out to replace buzz williams

12 minutes ago, thatdude2 said:

I want to know the skins outside of Texas.

He developed 5/6 DBs at Stanford that are still on NFL rosters

22 minutes ago, TexasFanatic said:

He developed 5/6 DBs at Stanford that are still on NFL rosters

Thank you 🙏🏾