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Ketch's 10 Thoughts From the Weekend (Ignore my narcissism for a moment...)

With our QB room and stable of RBs when we add Wheaton and maybe LJ, it must help our OL recruiting, right?

We need a monster season and must win the conference this year.
 
It hailed for the first time ever in Dallas tonight, too.
 
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You keep talking that shit and I'm gonna pop that left cheek and have you looking like a chimpmunk getting ready to hibernate. :)

Also, Gremlins is a killer movie.
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iF you do, can I watch?
 
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Truth on your evaluation. Maybe my old man brain isn't remembering correctly. But I recall him being a bust based on rankings and that he was a highly rated prospect.

He was a 5 star when rivals came out with their first rankings for that year. I thought we had found the next Vince young
 
All the 5 star QBs in the world won’t matter if Herman can’t recruit a 5* OL and DL. Football isn’t hard, win the LOS and win at a high, high percentage. Lose the LOS and lose when the chips are in the center of the table.

If Herman is ever going to compete for the CFP at Texas, he better start recruiting 5* OL and DLs.
True, but quarterbacks matter more than OLs and DLs. It's the most important position in team sports at the college level.
 
Gotta have a championship line to have a championship team idc who is playing QB. They can make a good QB look great or a great QB look just okay. Our pass protection wasn’t too bad last year but our run blocking needs improvement imo. I like some of our bodies (majors, Garth, Johnson, parr, anguilar) but we need more mauler types inside if we running inside zone and pure tackles (broken record topic I know). Most people fall in love with the hybrid flex TE but a legitimate blocker makes a significant difference in our offense too.
 
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@Ketchum two things:

you can’t claim victory on Card yet considering he’s never played a down of college football. I fully expect you to be right but you can’t call it yet.

Don’t you think if Ewers can throw it 80 he’s capable of throwing it 20 on a rope? Kinda seems like you’re moving the goalposts a bit. I’d argue the fact that he doesn’t try to throw an 80 yard fastball on a 20 yard route shows maturity beyond his years. It’s a concept Simms never seemed to grasp.
Not calling victory, other than I called him a big-time recruit before anyone really agreed.
 
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Top 10 list is missing Raymond Reddington from The Blacklist. Pretty good argument could be made he would and could kill anyone on this list if you have watched the show
I'm getting some show recommendations out of this!
 
Let’s hope Yurcich is still here when Ewers signs his LOI.
Fascinating little subplot. That's going to be one any time you're getting sophomores to commit if you're having even remote levels of success.
 
Tyrone Swoops was the number 26 QB in the nation? I thought he started in the rankings as a 5 star?
He's an example of a guy that was rated really high as a sophomore and wasn't as a senior.

Sherrod Harris was arguably the No.1 quarterback prospect in the country as a sophomore. Shawn Robinson from just a few years ago is another.
 
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Swoops was never five star by any reasonable measure. I saw him in high school his senior year. Certainly talented, but beyond raw. And played for a tiny school with a school yard offense.

Another domino from the Ash injury. In a just world, Swoopes would have sat and learned for two seasons and would have not taken a meaningful snap until 2015.
Mack playing him as a true freshman as a desperation attempt was messed up.
 
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@Ketchum I would argue that Steve Austin was a bigger badass that Colt Seavers. Lee Majors was older, slower and not as strong as Colt Seavers.
You are also showing your youth by not including James Arness at Matt Dillon in Gunsmoke, George Peppard as either Banacek or Hannibal Smith in A-Team, Mike Connors in Mannix, Dennis Weaver in McCloud among many others.
a. Seavers had more charisma.

b. I definitely have a blind spot for those old 50s and 60s bad ass TV characters.
 
What changes about 2013?

We win more games. Recall that Mack stabilized the defense after the BYU game by firing Diaz and bringing in Robinson.

McCoy had the OU game. But other than that, the offense was pretty much DOA with his noodle arm. I believe the last two games he threw for more years to defenders than to our own receivers.

Ash had the tools and was getting better and better. I think Mack gets through at least the 2015 season if Ash stays healthy.
 
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Truth on your evaluation. Maybe my old man brain isn't remembering correctly. But I recall him being a bust based on rankings and that he was a highly rated prospect.
The conversation was some were saying he could never play quarterback anywhere and I was saying I thought he could and that his upside as an athlete was playing on Sundays.

I was more right than wrong, I think.
 
All the 5 star QBs in the world won’t matter if Herman can’t recruit a 5* OL and DL. Football isn’t hard, win the LOS and win at a high, high percentage. Lose the LOS and lose when the chips are in the center of the table.

If Herman is ever going to compete for the CFP at Texas, he better start recruiting 5* OL and DLs.


SPOT F'n ON! We do not pay enough attention to this as compared to getting all wet about a WR or RB. It is a big deal with this QB and a downstream effect on recruits, just dont know if it impacts OLinemen as much. They are the toast of the NFL draft these days.
 
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Gotta have a championship line to have a championship team idc who is playing QB. They can make a good QB look great or a great QB look just okay. Our pass protection wasn’t too bad last year but our run blocking needs improvement imo. I like some of our bodies (majors, Garth, Johnson, parr, anguilar) but we need more mauler types inside if we running inside zone and pure tackles (broken record topic I know). Most people fall in love with the hybrid flex TE but a legitimate blocker makes a significant difference in our offense too.
2009 Texas says hello!
 
We win more games. Recall that Mack stabilized the defense after the BYU game by firing Diaz and bringing in Robinson.

McCoy had the OU game. But other than that, the offense was pretty much DOA with his noodle arm. I believe the last two games he threw for more years to defenders than to our own receivers.

Ash had the tools and was getting better and better. I think Mack gets through at least the 2014 season if Ash stays healthy.
Texas nearly won the Big 12 title in 2013. I can't say Ash definitely tips the scales for the Longhorns to change history. He's an all-time maybe.
 
I will concede that Seavers had more charisma that Steve Austin.

I can't believe you never watched Ray Donovan and I forgot about him, but he definitely deserves mention as does Ghost on Power.
I've always wanted to watch Ray Donovan. This tips the scales for me to do so.
 
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Man, I'd totally forgotten how highly ranked nationally Mock was.
 
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