My brain started to break down by section 8. Thanks for the catch.
Ketch's 10 Thoughts From The Weekend (Grading the Hires and so much more)
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Ketch, how do you rate Sark as a recruiter & coach? What college head coaches do you consider to be a 10 at recruiting?
Totally get it. In my "nearly missed the cut" section.
a. Thanks! I'll take that respect!
b. Forty-freaking-three. amazing
c. This roster isn't within a 10-foot pole of the team Mack inherited IMO.
@Ketchum you should do a breakdown of this staff vs every staff we have had from the Mack Brown era on. Just total up the points per guy and give a total staff grade. I think you’d be surprised by the combined totals. Granted you are using success at other places for the current staff.
Hot take - I think you can look at any of the staffs and find a guy with a lower grade than the lowest on this staff that doesn’t have an incomplete. Most if not all of the staffs had at least some dead weight.
keep those numbers handy and do it again after the 2021 season and the 2022 class ink is dry.
Hot take - I think you can look at any of the staffs and find a guy with a lower grade than the lowest on this staff that doesn’t have an incomplete. Most if not all of the staffs had at least some dead weight.
keep those numbers handy and do it again after the 2021 season and the 2022 class ink is dry.
He's a 10 from an offensive coaching standpoint. He's a 9 as a recruiter.
What was your top concert? I will say Bohemian Rhapsody is my favorite rock movie by a large margin.
This is very much a show me year for Andre Coleman. I don’t think he would survive another WR class like this years class. Way too many stud WR’s in the state and he should be able to land a handful of them.
Gideon - I honestly think he could become a rock star, but how long does that take and what is his leash?
Joseph - I don’t love the hire. I view him as a solid coach all the way around. I think he’s a pretty good Coach and a solid recruiter. Will be interesting to see if he can reach new limits at Texas.
Biggest surprise to me about the staff, is the lack of a West Coast presence.
I love the Flood, Banks, KP, and Davis hires. Like erection love!
Gideon - I honestly think he could become a rock star, but how long does that take and what is his leash?
Joseph - I don’t love the hire. I view him as a solid coach all the way around. I think he’s a pretty good Coach and a solid recruiter. Will be interesting to see if he can reach new limits at Texas.
Biggest surprise to me about the staff, is the lack of a West Coast presence.
I love the Flood, Banks, KP, and Davis hires. Like erection love!
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Blake Gideon’s recruiting grade should go up with some time at Texas. Overall great mix of coaching and recruiters. Really excited about this group.
Love the Queen list and would try to add “Radio Ga Ga” in there somewhere.
Love the Queen list and would try to add “Radio Ga Ga” in there somewhere.
I'll see what I can do. It feels difficult to fairly grade Mack;'s staff in retrospect. I could probably do the others for sure. There was definite dead weight on previous staffs.
Consider me hella impressed with Ellis based on those highlights. @Ketchum - do you know if Texas is in contact? I looked at his Twitter feed, but it looks like he doesn’t tweet his offers...
Funny story, my 20 year old has always been into our 80’s music and especially my hair/rock bands. Absolutely loves Queen, all she listens to. Glad I’ve passed something on to these millennials.I'm not sure I'm going to have a good answer for you.
Yet, when I came across the Instagram page of Texas women's track star Tara Davis, I noticed that she has 135,000 followers. 135,000! @Ketch Ladies tend to have way more IG followers than males. If she is cute and posts a few thirst traps, they will come...
Gotta find room for "Brighton Rock". Just a great song with a killer solo.
More people have heard it since it plays a key part in the movie "Baby Driver".
Good post.
I've somewhat cooled on the Joseph hire. I overrated his recruiting rep based on my memory of the speedy noil recruitment.
Great Queen list— my top group has Radio GaGa in it but I don’t know which song in your T10 I’d remove either
