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Much needed depth if he can get back even by conference play this season.

Make this approval happen Texas.

Small excerpt from a much longer post: Offensive Line There is no avoiding this conversation. Sarkisian said it himself: “I think the offensive line is something that we’re going to address in the portal.” Everyone understood the offensive line was Texas’ weakest unit in 2025 and the position most in need of immediate upgrades. Texas needed to attack this spot with the same urgency it previously showed when pursuing defensive linemen. Interior players who represented clear, instant upgrades were the goal. So far, the inability to significantly upgrade the offensive line through the portal has been a major disappointment. Texas missed on every elite target it pursued. Bodies were added, but none who check the boxes the way Coleman, Brown, or Smoothers do. The only remaining hope is a last-second Hail Mary involving an offensive lineman from Indiana or Miami. Out of respect for the players Texas did sign, an F feels harsh. That said, it is hard to argue with anyone who lands there. Transfer portal grade: D

Anwar going in dry on Flood over at OB.

https://youtu.be/ErvgV4P6Fzc?si=2J9sPXY9agpiY-T4

- Top five in OL penalties in the country. - One of the ten worst pass protection OL in the country. - So bad at run blocking in Athens we just gave up. - Flushed five interior OL misevaluations to the portaL - And to fix the problem… we added Dylan Sikorski and are rolling the dice on a redshirt or true freshman to emerge as the answer. That math don’t math.

Everyone is entitled to their opinions but @Gerry Hamilton is making the podcast nearly unwatchable. Chastising the fans for questioning and complaining about not shoring up the inside of our disastrous oline last year when it was priority number one is just too much. Especially when week one of the portal window was all about the “2-3 OL acquisitions” that we needed at guard. Not that we were good at OL and the redshirt freshman could be the answer. Could a redshirt freshman like one of the Coleman twins be the answer? Of course. Do we know they will be? Absolutely not. And if anything was learning last season it was that all benefit of the doubt needs to be removed from the offensive line roster this coming season. The freshmen on this roster were assembled by the same staff who thought Stroh, Neto and Brooks were the solve at LG last season. They are the same staff that just flushed Cruz, Kibble, Neto, Stroh and Brooks from the program. So forgive us if we don’t think the projects along the redshirt freshman OL are the answer to start against Ohio State in 7 months.

The tea leaves sure seem like the portal options have closed, so try it without the *Portal starter and that’s where I start to wonder how this interior OL holds up in the SEC trenches. We have sorely been needing angry people movers at guard.

So with Goosby out for spring with shoulder surgery let’s take a look at the starting line. This is just a guess: LT - Baker LG - Sikorski C - Robertson RG - I have no idea. Move Chatman inside? RT - Siani Any guesses other than starting three tackles?

Very thorough and convincing counter point.

Ho-Lee-Crap. I just finally got a chance to watch the first 15 minutes of coffee and football and it sure sounds like Texas is waving the white flag on adding anyone else with experience to the guard spot. What a freaking joke. PRIORITY NUMBER ONE was fixing the OLINE this year. Sark himself lamented last spring that he couldn’t just “go down to the Co-Op and buy a few new linemen.” And now he can and he chose not to? What in the actual hell is going on. We lost Neto, Brooks, Cruz, Kibble and Stroh to the portal from the offensive guard spot and we add one freaking guard who has six starts to his name and was displaced as a starter on the Oregon State line after the first five games and call it a day? Absolute atrocity in a season that they claimed to to be going all in on. What in the actual hell. I would have sworn the silence and lack of action was all part of waiting out this final puzzle piece from the westlake kid or someone else. Hope is not a strategy. We found that out the hard way in 2025. And apparently learned nothing from it. Unreal.

That's what I just can’t come to grips with either. The mods must be being silent on this so as not to jinx the last minute fireworks. That’s all I can imagine is going on.

Good lord we’re a mess if putting five starters on the field is considered a success.

https://youtu.be/CpGtBnVZLSk?si=ZPESHVv2_s6HCEZ1

27-2 in two seasons with a natty, heisman and back to back CFP appearances.

I think we just got two of them.

The people who recruited them? Cruz, Kibble, Stroh, Brooks, Neto all were recruited to help take over when the 2024 starting line needed reloading. They’ve all been flushed from the program. That’s an issue worth questioning regardless of who we might pull in here at the final hour.

Agree to the Big Game hunting theory, but in regards to a “lack of candidates” to target this isn’t a game of who enters the portal it’s about negotiating with agents behind the scenes and recruiting players TO the portal. We did this with the Michigan guys and we didn’t close. We moved on to some other targets who went elsewhere as well. We prioritized Cam Coleman and we won. We’ll see how things sit when the dust settles but as of now I haven’t seen the same conviction to signing the best of the best along the offensive line.

The vaunted “four tackle” offensive line.

The shift in livestream conversation from two weeks ago to tonight is frightening. Talking up the Coleman twins as a possible answer on this years line lol. We sorely need the elite starting left guard we all talked about needing. And don’t tell me they’re not in the portal they would be if we prioritized one hard enough.

As it stands? Not dramatic at all. But we will obviously be adding more than one dude in the portal.

Here’s where things sit without listing freshman or adding anyone else in the portal. LT - Goosby (Jr) LG - Sikorski (So) C - C.Robertson (Sr) RG - Chatman (Jr) RT - Baker (Jr) or Cojoe (Knee / Jr) Terrifying

There’s buzz.

Quick question. What are we doing at OL.