Ketch's 10 Thoughts From The Weekend (Close, but no 2024 cigar?)
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The thing that has to eventually happen is that someone inside the program has to implore to Sarkisian the metrics involved and why they are more important than his own confirmation bias towards the kids they recruit.
This reminds me of the scenes in Moneyball.
This reminds me of the scenes in Moneyball.
Exactly. Most coaches live in long built silos and they have a really hard time looking outside. Also, most coaches probably think, just like the players, that they are the exception to the rule and can just coach the recruits up better than others.
bingo. they all believe they are the exceptions to the rule when the data certainly doesn't reflect that.
I had #3 WR Jordon Addison, #7 LB Drew Sanders, # 8 DL Akeem Meisidor, #14 DB Christian Gonzales, #21 DE Chop Robinson, #26 LB Mohammoud Diabate, #31 LB Darius Muasau and #46 Charlie Jones on my list.
As I said I don't know that we could have promised all of these that they could have started but I would have liked us to try to recruit the top WR, LB, DL, DB and DE off that list. I think there might have been reasons that they did go after the rest.
#11 NSBTU (not significantly Better Than Us), #12 Edge Jared Verse (should have gone after him(My bad), #13 OL (Did no t want to run off our recruites, #16 DL (wouldn't have played much), #17 same as #16, (thought we had better), #20 Another OL, #23 another OU to USC, #24 (thought we had better),
#29 (Another OL), #34 (thought we had as good or better) #36 same, #38 ( who knows?) , #39 (thought we had as good or better), #43 (same), #44 (same), #50 Wish we would have gone after him, who knows.
When I say " Thought we had as good or better I am typing what I understand what our coaches thought. I don't know I am just a fan and what little I know I have read on here.
Thanks again Ketch.
I think that is Sark"s biggest weakness, he believes his players will always be better next time. He has so much faith in his players.
A free ticket to see Magic Mike's last dance, plus an empty plastic bag, in case you can wait to get to the restroom stall at any point surinb the film.
My conversation was a question of how to top 50 rated high school recruits compared against the top 50 transfers.
I have no idea if Ketch will consider doing that.
Surely Sark knows Isaiah Neyor a top portal guy is better than any wr we recruited last year. Isn’t that why he got him?
I don't have a single clue why you think Texas had better options than these players. For example, Texas had two wide receivers it felt it could use all season and you think Texas had better options than the receivers?
You do know that I'm talking about trying to be a championship team and not what it was, right?
Not sure if this has been discussed at all…but I saw something on Instagram where Marion mentioned that Worthy played all season with a broken hand..what’s the story on that one?
I believe he's wearing a soft cast at the moment. Not a single person, including those close to Worthy, made an issue out of an injury during the season.
Figured. Just wasn’t sure the extent of that injury. I saw on one of his Instagram posts that he was wearing a cast.
Here is the clue
I listed nine players that were in the portal that I thought Texas should have tried to get.
I responded with the reason I understand (based on reading information here) that the Texas coaching staff may not have pursued others.
I asked if you disagreed with my stated reasons and why.
Reasons like;
1) they didn’t want to upset HS recruiting- OL
2) they thought they had similar players on the roster
3) in some cases there was just not enough history to use a scholarship on that player.
Earlier I asked what the impact the top fifty freshman recruits had in their first year for comparison to the top fifty transfers. At some time when you were looking for something when you were bored.
I have been a member since you started, primarily to support your effort.
Over twenty years but you are successful and don’t need a new single old member.
I think with the OL, specifically, it came down to not wanting to chase away OL from the 2022 class.
In general, Sark just prefers HS kids.
He’s never even won an NCAA tournament game as a HC in 10 years.
If a person with his resume was being considered for the HC that wasn’t already on staff people would be melting down left and right.
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I get it, I meant that he was top 50 at time of transfer. Seems wierd to me to use any date other than date of transfer as you should use the condition present ast the tiome the team took thje transfer. Otherswise, it could sque numbers if some get injureed in practice / early saeason.
Well, the list was done right before the season starts, but I get what you're saying.
He would likely have been ranked very high. somewhere in the top 25-30.
I’m an old rocker from before you were born. I know what I like and what I don’t. It’s not a hard decision, but thanks for the advice anyway.
No. Never have, really. Was going through a country and contemporary Christian phase at the time, if I recall. Rap has never been my cup of tea.
