Tres Comas

Upgrade over anything on campus

I'll give credit to Sark for having the opportunity to upgrade and taking it. Additionally, he recognized Akina was a bad hire and rather than persist he failed fast and got rid of him. I'd be curious to understand how much of the defense's struggles this season can be laid at Akina's feet. A lot of Texas DB alums have positive things to say about Akina as a coach but as Jeff's post points out when Akina was given coordinating responsiblity in 2007 things collapsed then as well. It also appears he wasn't popular almongst the players either. Onward and upward

A lot of time between now and next December.

We’ll know if any of that is true when they actually play a decent team

It’s not happening. We’ll get into the top 12 but b/c of the 5 auto bids we’ll be left out with who’s above us and previous committee actions. They’ll use us being ranked 11/12 as a get out of jail free card but we still got screwed.

That 59th ranked SOS must’ve really tested their D and depth

They'd both be in the 8-14 range

You don't understand this nonsensical system where the rules are changed and made up on the fly every week?!?!

Being force fed this nonsense makes me long for the days of bowl tie ins

Kids change schools like they’re underwear now

They also have a game against Eastern Illinois on their schedule. Why that should count as anything more than a meaningless scrimmage is beyond me

I think he’d be looking at UDFA

I’m not disagreeing if there will be attrition but it still begs the question regarding that class on evals and development. A lot of money frozen on the sideline.

Interview with Cowherd today https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=0h3_fIauDgxNEZoZ&v=RHKH8W3j1xs&feature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R22Yw83OUbo Five top 10 ranked opponents played 6-1 2nd half of season. Four of those teams ranked in top 10 and 3-1 in those games. Didn’t play at home for 42 straight days 3-2 against top 10 with only losses to Georgia and Ohio St on road and outgained OSU by 150+ yards with chance to tie or win at end of game. Teams in front of Texas that haven’t played any top 10 teams. Is this about what your record is or your quality? Dig at Miami for throwing fade TD at end of game for style points Is committee watching games? What are they doing differently then the AP if they just look at the loss column? If they’re only looking at losses then no reason to schedule difficult non-conference games.

Unless we’re expecting another year of zero contribution from this year’s Freshman I don’t see spending on WR unless it was someone special that gave us something we didn’t have. Taking a high dollar WR would beg the question what the hell happened with the last WR class? Poor evaluation, poor development or both?

As he should be. I’m more just wishcasting.

Need to recruit Ahmad Hardy into the portal

Save the OL powder for the portal and no doubter types like Banks. Exactly the type of HS OL we should be targeting. Inexpensive with decent ceiling.

What are the odds he makes it to campus @Blake Munroe

My thoughts about OL recruiting in the NIL era is I’d select lesser recruited players with lower asking prices but obvious potential on a 2-4 year timeline. Develop those guys while they’re not taking up significant $ then use the portal to bring higher $ proven college commodities as needed. Whether that’s 1 or 4 out of the portal will depend on the development of your HS crop. I’ll add if there’s a no doubter like Kelvin Banks coming out of HS I’m not opposed to spending on that type of prospect.