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Always. I really think we can win 9 games this year but then I again I always think that in June lol.
Sure!
Once upon a time back in 1893, Coach Albert Lefevra's Longhorns finished season 1 with a perfect 4-0............
Unless you have some inside confirmed info on recruiting, the win-loss expectations have been covered.
I was feeling good, not great, but good about Hager, Omenihu, Roach on the DL and a wait and see on Nelson/Wilbon/T. Graham/Chisolm on this inside of the DL. What are you not liking? Only guy not returning is Poona.
And I heard that was one h*** of a team. I read somewhere that it was considered one of the ten best teams of all time.
No kidding, but whiffing on all 5 is pretty hard to do. Only point I was making was, if any are left, year 3 is when they should start making a meaningful contribution. Unless they are pastrami.
Good or not, you have to tip your hat to anyone playing football with a loincloth on their head. Back when young men were ruff n tuff.
Do you think it's possible that they will move any ol to the dl? Are any of them good enough to play there?
Good thing we only play with 3 of them.................
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Again, while at practice, watching the dline and Oline doing drills, it is easier to get an idea of our talent and shortcomings than when we scrimmage. Nobody wants to get hurt in the scrimmage so everybody stays high.
I know a monster dline when I see one..... we ain't got it. Serviceable? Perhaps. But no monster.
We have an olineman transferring in from rice who will start..... Rice..... there have been very few olineman in history from rice that, compared to Texas talent, would be able to get playing time in our line......
The cal running back transfer is another example. In the history of cal running backs, there's been only one that could have started at Texas----- beastmode.... marshawn lynch. Young doesn't impress me yet.
Oops, we have EIGHT schollies tied up in RB’s. Crazy.
I like Young, I think he runs downhill bigger and stronger than his size and has decent speed once he gets going. Nice find and eval by Herman as he was the best RB we had last season. I just wish he had a little more burst and wiggle and he would be an elite total package.
I’m still wondering what Carter’s got if he can hang on to the ball and get out of the doghouse.
Nah, sorry, that's not right at all. Cal has had a lot of good RBs in the 21st century -- in addition to Lynch, they've had J.J. Arrington, Jahvid Best, Justin Forsett, Shane Vereen, and maybe others I'm forgetting. All of those guys were drafted, and all of them would have started here in almost any season over the last decade.
hell....old as I am I was thinking Chuck Muncie
at any rate.....I stand by my statement that I trust our man Clob
at any rate.....I stand by my statement that I trust our man Clob
The pressure is on. All the staff layoffs may be occurring because of a drop in football/basketball ticket sales. We need facilities upgrades so a big season is needed indeed. Clob's dissent as a former player is not encouraging. So far, it seems the criticism is of players and not the coaches. Amiright?
There's not enough of a body of work yet for the coaches to be assessed. Year one is always a throw away. You see patterns developing in play calling, game plans, critical situations etc.
Remember year one when Greg Davis started throwing screen passes? By year 3 we were all like, "Oh, another screen pass....". So yes, the jury is still out on the coaches.
DL- Good. Not great, not very good, just good. We have the horses on the ends, DT has a lot to prove.
LB- could be great. Will not miss Malik. That's right, I said it. As much as I loved Malik, he was still out of position and ran himself out of plays far too often. We're loaded with studs at LB. Gary Johnson and Anthony Wheeler both could turn out to be as good or better than Malik. Shark and Fabio are no slouches, either.
DB-OMFG I can't wait.
As far as RB, don't sleep on Kirk Johnson. People seem to have forgotten, but he showed flashes of brilliance before his injury.
LB- could be great. Will not miss Malik. That's right, I said it. As much as I loved Malik, he was still out of position and ran himself out of plays far too often. We're loaded with studs at LB. Gary Johnson and Anthony Wheeler both could turn out to be as good or better than Malik. Shark and Fabio are no slouches, either.
DB-OMFG I can't wait.
As far as RB, don't sleep on Kirk Johnson. People seem to have forgotten, but he showed flashes of brilliance before his injury.
I hope so Metcalf....but poor ole Kirk....He stays so injured when guys are NOT tackling him that I fear what happens when they start to tackle him.
No, they’re occurring because the useless bureaucratic bloat in our AD is unlike any other. We operate with close to double the number of full-time employees of other major athletics programs, despite having a similar, and in several cases smaller, number of student-athletes. (We have 429 full-time employees. Other major programs carry roughly between 220 and 280.)
This is why I always shake my head when people start jerking themselves off over our gross revenue numbers. Much of our advantage is wasted on literally hundreds of unnecessary full-time AD staff that do absolutely nothing to improve our chances of winning in any sport. Quite the opposite, since they drain revenue that might have been spent on keeping our facilities from lapsing into utter mediocrity, among other things.
I’m hoping that CDC’s cuts are only a modest beginning. There’s a lot of resource-draining deadweight to go after still.
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Interesting. Not saying its right or wrong, but one of the things I've always noticed is UT takes the band to every road football game. Isn't that 300+ people? How much does that cost? I know that when other schools come to Waco, OU will bring 15 brass, none of the others bring anyone. Maybe its worth the expense, but that's gotta cost a lot.
I've always gotten the impression that Mack Brown created a lot of these jobs for guys he worked with whose time with the fb team was not needed anymore. Correct me if I'm wrong here but aren't these state jobs. If so that means a job with great benefits and a pensions as well. The one that I found most appalling was the one for former asst coach Mike Tolleson. Basically he had a fundraising job where he had to work only a few days a year and it turns out he didn't show up. If this is true or false let me know. One of the things that Steve Patterson wanted to do was to eliminate these jobs. One thing is certain these jobs need to be eliminated. Most of these people don't deserve these jobs and their benefits. But if this isn't true let me know.
