Ketch's 10 Thoughts From the Weekend (The thing I was most wrong about this season...)
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Not sure what Bill Walton was saying:
1. is he suggesting that the arrests are something for which the human race must apologize? I understand the thefts were caught on videotape.
2. Is he saying the human race should apologize because a few UCLA kids are crooks? Maybe he should apologize for UCLA. I feel no responsibility for these kids' stupidity or dishonesty. I did not raise them and their shame is not mine.
1. is he suggesting that the arrests are something for which the human race must apologize? I understand the thefts were caught on videotape.
2. Is he saying the human race should apologize because a few UCLA kids are crooks? Maybe he should apologize for UCLA. I feel no responsibility for these kids' stupidity or dishonesty. I did not raise them and their shame is not mine.
There are still 12 5*'s uncommitted with Texas having a good shot with only 1 it appears. 23 of the composite top 50 are uncommitted with only 1 appearing to be leaning our way... Team rankings at this point are pretty pointless with so many kids electing to commit closer to signing day... At this point @Ketchum is right and I would put a lot of money on us not finishing with a top 5 class...
Stuff like this is the problem. We want saviors we don't want a good coach. We just figure eventually if we keep firing guys we'll luck in the next Saban. Think about the cycle of assistant coaches and transfers that's taken place here recently. We chew coaches and players up and spit them out. We'll want the new staff to start all the freshman day one, don't start any seniors, have the depth chart perfect on day one, etc.
This is a process, building a football program. There is a reason Smart went 7-5 last year before emerging this year. Have some confidence in who you hired for the job and stop watching every week to find reasons why he's not. Maybe if we would stop expecting new guys to come in and win with players they didn't recruit. Firing a bunch of people every year you don't win 10 games is not the answer.
Welp, ok now you have me convinced... lol.... Care to make a wager? I'm a sucker for easy money....
I don't disagree with any of that. I'm just saying the Oklahoma State game didn't make me forget about the other two performances at all, especially in light of the offense in the last two weeks.
Where they are on the track to graduation when they leave matters. Quite a few have stayed at Texas and finished their education.
It's quite possible you haven't been around long enough to know how it all works, recruiting rankings that is. I only have two decades in the industry to lean on...
Sure it felt like 20 point loss but it wasn’t. And to be truthful we had the ball with a chance to get the lead late in the fourth quarterFinal score was misleading.
Can’t argue against experience. But we won’t stay at 18 commits either. We will sign 25-27 guys.
Wow, he was not aware that kids occasionally shoplift? That honesty is not an instinctive human characteristic like breathing?
Yep. The twists and turns of recruiting, so crooked a snake would break his back following the trail.
I hope all the predictions of a big class, and a Top 5 (or hell, Top 10) are accurate; I just know that even with early
signing, it's a long way to dry ink and fax machines.
Did Sam only get one series? I left early, I couldn't take any more. If he played one series, then.... why?
Buy or Sell:
The offense we rolled out Saturday, even with all the injuries, has more talent than Kansas, K-State, or Iowa State?
I honestly don't know the answer. But my feeling is even with our backups at several line spots and the youth in the backfield, we are miles ahead of those teams talent-wise. So if that it the case, our OC and by extension our HC, are getting out-gameplanned on a weekly basis. We've made a lot out of not having a gamechanging QB since Colt left. But when was the last time our OC gave us an edge?
The offense we rolled out Saturday, even with all the injuries, has more talent than Kansas, K-State, or Iowa State?
I honestly don't know the answer. But my feeling is even with our backups at several line spots and the youth in the backfield, we are miles ahead of those teams talent-wise. So if that it the case, our OC and by extension our HC, are getting out-gameplanned on a weekly basis. We've made a lot out of not having a gamechanging QB since Colt left. But when was the last time our OC gave us an edge?
That's my preference. I can't even watch other games when UT is this bad, so it's not hard for me!Are we going to pretend that he just doesn't exist? I'm game for whatever.
Yeah. We've been starved for the moxie, leadership, and ability to make off schedule plays for so long that lots of people are ignoring his flaws. Most notable of which has been his below average accuracy downfield. The decision making is a true freshman thing and I'm not worried about that.
Clemson, Alabama and USC have 11 or 10 recruits, they will fly by us when their classes fill up.
15 miles west of Gainesville. They could possibly hold the Football, Basketball and Baseball trophies all at the same time if Football pulls it off. Won both Basketball and baseball last yr. Lost in the Semi's in football last yr to Albany on a bs ref call.
My family of origin on my paternal grandmother's side hails from there.
Klement.
My cousins and I come out once in awhile for a golf weekend at Turtle Hills.
Lovely place; dear to our hearts.
One end of the family, by marriage, is shirttail kin to the Walterscheids somehow. Good folks.
They are all kin over there. lol. Very good people around there
- The sign of a well coached PROGRAM is having depth to survive terribly-bad injury luck. Herman's staff just got here and has to build that depth.
- The sign of a well coached PROGRAM is having a bunch of good, unselfish and coachable football players on both sides of the ball. Herman's staff didn't inherit very much of that. I still see plenty of kids that peaked in high school, or maybe don't really love the game, or don't seem to care that much about being here, and don't really show much of a burning desire to get better.
- The sign of a well coached PROGRAM is having a junior or senior quarterback at the helm, preferably one in an offense he's well suited for - one that he's been developing in for at least 2 or 3 years. This likewise goes for the rest of the offensive players too.
Going forward, new players have to be found at many positions. Depth has to be built. Kickers have to be brought in and developed. The OL should be relying on juniors and seniors and not freshman. When competing against three early round draft picks at QB (Darnold, Mayfield and Rudolf), we should expect to be putting up a junior or senior ourselves. And regarding the QB, expectations of winning big games shouldn't be placed on the backs of true-freshman or even true-sophomore QB's; especially not when it's one that's had two offenses to learn in as many years and has no offensive line protection to speak of, and doesn't have a solid running game to rely on.
As for the "cliche" expectations of "seeing development" in the form of better play as the season goes on, were it a seasoned program, I'd have to agree. However, where we had some depth, some talent and some experience, and where injury allowed, we saw development in spades. Only exception would be the WR's. But, some of them did put in some great moments this season, just didn't do it consistently. And I'm not sure that was ll on them. However, the defense had us in a several games when it was apparent that our offense shouldn't have had us in any of those games. And the offense is where the PROGRAM was in the worst shape. As for special teams, we tried to bring a kicker in to shore things up there. We found a juco all-star, and once he got here he "unlearned" how to kick field goals.
This coaching staff inherited a real mess. I'm going to give them some time to reshape things. I'm going to give them some time to develop their newly recruited players, their way - get the right messaging into their heads. I've already seen a lot of things improved with game management, the defense and most of the special teams outside of place-kicking and the recruiting seems to be taking shape nicely (but could use more OL help). This season we had a very tough schedule and played a lot of senior-level talent in many games. Our expectations were way too high.
Without massive improvement from the OL, and without the finding of a reliable kicker, next year might be pretty tough too. We'll at least have the benefit of facing OU, OSU and TCU without senior quarterbacks. But, I'm not expecting us to challenge for the conference next year: I'm hoping to see things shape up for 2019 to maybe have a run at it. And, we'll have to pray Todd Orland sticks around next year too. Even if Herman were able to find a suitable replacement, I'd really like to see these kids have some damn consistency-of-coaching for a change.
That's all. I say the future has great potential. May have to adjust with an assistant coach or two, but if given time, I think Herman can get it done.
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Just to be clear on bet. You are saying Alabama, usc and Clemson all finish above Texas on 247 recruiting rankings after signing day.
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