Immediate Wednesday practice news

1 hour ago, taxsaver said:

TROLLS  believe we show Sydir the door before he finishes his freshman year.

PEOPLE?  not so much

Calling people with a different opinion than your own a "troll" is weak and lazy as a forum tactic.

Texas is currently 4-5 guys over the 85 man number for August. Texas is interested in multiple roles from the portal, so the number will go up by 2-3 more including a punter. There is about to be attrition in the range of 6-10 guys leaving the program. 

Anyone can leave, but prime candidates have some or all of the following traits:

1) Far from home

2) Helicopter parent

3) Running 3rd string or worse as a 1st or 2nd year player, running 2nd string or worse as a 3rd or 4th year player. Usually hasn't made a dent in the 2 deep.

4) In the doghouse with the staff

5) Potentially significant and career limiting underlying medical issue

There is one player on the roster that checks all of those boxes and only one.

Maybe Mitchell sticks around, but if you guys don't understand that he's a prime departure risk, you either haven't been paying attention or you are too naive to understand how things work in the portal + NIL era. Either way, you're taking an uninformed position and then howling at others that they're trolls. That's Dunning Kruger in real time. 

26 minutes ago, Gerry Hamilton said:

 

It's a fine answer, and maybe I'm just irritable today, but I kind of wish any question about "oh noes how are you gonna be ready for the big bad SEC" should be answered with something like "Well we beat the SEC champs in their house last year by double digits. How about you ask the SEC how they are gonna be ready for Texas." 

Hayden at center makes sense, should finally cut down on his motion penalties

2 hours ago, Gerry Hamilton said:

Quinn deep shot to Bond 

Seems like the receiver has to slow down in all these clips. Really hoping Ewers get that deep ball dialed in this year, could unlock everything on offense 

Edited March 27, 20242 yr by HookemHorns

1 hour ago, closetojumping said:

Calling people with a different opinion than your own a "troll" is weak and lazy as a forum tactic.

Texas is currently 4-5 guys over the 85 man number for August. Texas is interested in multiple roles from the portal, so the number will go up by 2-3 more including a punter. There is about to be attrition in the range of 6-10 guys leaving the program. 

Anyone can leave, but prime candidates have some or all of the following traits:

1) Far from home

2) Helicopter parent

3) Running 3rd string or worse as a 1st or 2nd year player, running 2nd string or worse as a 3rd or 4th year player. Usually hasn't made a dent in the 2 deep.

4) In the doghouse with the staff

5) Potentially significant and career limiting underlying medical issue

There is one player on the roster that checks all of those boxes and only one.

Maybe Mitchell sticks around, but if you guys don't understand that he's a prime departure risk, you either haven't been paying attention or you are too naive to understand how things work in the portal + NIL era. Either way, you're taking an uninformed position and then howling at others that they're trolls. That's Dunning Kruger in real time. 

Ironic

20 minutes ago, KJon said:

Ironic

I don't think that word means what you think it means.

2 hours ago, Gerry Hamilton said:

 

That is very impressive. 

4 hours ago, TTown said:

So people think we will show Sydir the door? Crazy talk. Plenty of time and remember same talk about Sweat years ago. Let it play out. Could he portal ? Sure as can anybody, but I haven't seen anywhere where that is a possibility yet. Hope he keeps working and let it play out. And of course be portal looking for a DT if 1 becomes available.

Sydir had more bounce today in practice. Good sign IMO. 

2 hours ago, Gerry Hamilton said:

 

Different guy at the mic than last year. No doubt. Things are slowing down for him IMO. 

Definitely sounds like we’ll need two portal zero techniques? since sydir is looking like a dud getting passed up by a true freshman less then two weeks into spring ball. 

4 hours ago, Gerry Hamilton said:

Colin Simmons 

Von Miller/Nik Bonitto hybrid

7 hours ago, Red Five said:

It's a fine answer, and maybe I'm just irritable today, but I kind of wish any question about "oh noes how are you gonna be ready for the big bad SEC" should be answered with something like "Well we beat the SEC champs in their house last year by double digits. How about you ask the SEC how they are gonna be ready for Texas." 

Bc that’s the type of joe tessitore stuff that made Texas a laughing stock . Most recent example would be the “we’re back” from ehlinger 

9 hours ago, GoHorns1 said:

Patience he is only a redshirt freshman, DT development takes time

This is correct, it took Coburn, Sweat, and Murphy 4 years to become quality contributors.

What's up with Sydir?

I guess people have forgot they've been telling us there's something medically wrong with sydir not injury. Could be something seriously wrong there we don't know about 

9 hours ago, closetojumping said:

Calling people with a different opinion than your own a "troll" is weak and lazy as a forum tactic.

Texas is currently 4-5 guys over the 85 man number for August. Texas is interested in multiple roles from the portal, so the number will go up by 2-3 more including a punter. There is about to be attrition in the range of 6-10 guys leaving the program. 

Anyone can leave, but prime candidates have some or all of the following traits:

1) Far from home

2) Helicopter parent

3) Running 3rd string or worse as a 1st or 2nd year player, running 2nd string or worse as a 3rd or 4th year player. Usually hasn't made a dent in the 2 deep.

4) In the doghouse with the staff

5) Potentially significant and career limiting underlying medical issue

There is one player on the roster that checks all of those boxes and only one.

Maybe Mitchell sticks around, but if you guys don't understand that he's a prime departure risk, you either haven't been paying attention or you are too naive to understand how things work in the portal + NIL era. Either way, you're taking an uninformed position and then howling at others that they're trolls. That's Dunning Kruger in real time. 

Helicopter parent?