Ketch's 10 Thoughts From The Weekend (Very good isn't good enough)
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How many did Mack have when he never lost to those schools...
I don't give him a ton of credit for firing Herman.
Per the Falcons and Matt Ryan, their draft is likely a combination of QBs available, belief that Ryan still has his fastball, freak Pitts and a new HC, former Titan OC Arthur Smith.
Although about 1/3rd of Falcons fans wanted a 1st round QB, ATL must believe the best play is to build on status quo, address QB later.
Although about 1/3rd of Falcons fans wanted a 1st round QB, ATL must believe the best play is to build on status quo, address QB later.
Believing in hopeless dreams is part of being an NFL fan, I suppose.
It's not that annoying. Anwar likes to ask that type of question all the time. It's far from some revelation.
The reality is that if you have elite talent, which Texas has had virtually none of in the last decade outside of punter, you don't have to worry about these types of questions.
When you don't have elite talent, you end up having answer annoying questions.
Woo-hoo we won the tallest midget contest! Let’s add some context;
Of the total of 259 draft selections available in the 2021 draft;
SEC 65
ACC 51
Big 10 44
PAC-12 28
Big-12 22
For the first time in history, the Big 12 went without a first-round draft selection. For the 10th straight year, the conference (which has 10 schools, the fewest of any Power 5) had the fewest amount of draft picks.
This.
We have gotten way too accustomed to seeing our talent underperform, and lose to less talented teams. While Ketch is right that we need elite talent to compete for the playoffs, we were plenty talented last year to beat every team on the schedule, including OU.
What we need is a little better development, but mostly we need a better offensive & defensive scheme to take advantage of our strengths, and better game plans to exploit mismatches against our opponents.
Talent aside, what we put on the field last year was not a good product. We were not fun to watch and didn't really dominate anyone, even in games where we were clearly better across the board. If we start playing an exciting, aggressive brand of football like Sark & PK are trying to do, I believe we will win games and be fun to watch. And if that happens, recruiting should really go through the roof.
I agree with both you and Anwar, but annoying may not be a strong enough word choice. For example, OU has recruited five 5-star WR and two 5-star QBs in the last few years, while we had of lot of WR drops in the spring game. We’ve got to improve our recruiting to beat them but will probably need to get there through player development first.
The last steps are the hardest to take.
I'm not sure that Texas is nearly as close as some of you believe. The "we almost did it three years ago" mantra reveals a lot in an unintentional way.
@Ketchum @Alex Dunlap
You guys should do a state of Texas draft recap.
List each player drafted from Texas in order of selection, their Rivals rating, LSR ranking, and college attended with a sentence or two about them as a recruit coming out of HS.
You guys should do a state of Texas draft recap.
List each player drafted from Texas in order of selection, their Rivals rating, LSR ranking, and college attended with a sentence or two about them as a recruit coming out of HS.
I already am working on something like this for later in the week.
Probably less critical than me. And I will certainly say my biggest criticism was lack of desire to fire folks which he emphatically countered with the football and basketball hires. And quite frankly, his hiring of Beard was the boldest hire in the history of UT athletics when you consider all the circumstances. So certainly kudos to CDC.
I'm going to keep asking that question until Texas takes that next step. Hopefully, for all us, Sarkisian has the answer
It's a fair question to ask. If this were a group of non-Texas fans, they'd be laughing at the notion of talking about dethroning OU before the other thing has happened first.
Yes. They have developed some specialized stilts for him that adds half a foot while not taking away his speed and mobility. Championship!!!
To be clear: I don't think we are close to playoff, much less natty, contention.
I do, however, think we have been held back by a moribund scheme and anemic game planning/play calling. I do think we have the talent on campus to field a much better, more exciting and more competitive product on the field next year.
The steps we need to be looking at are:
1) Separate ourselves from the rest of the conference (besides OU) as one of the two clear big dogs in the B12. Despite Iowa State being the best they will probably ever be, we might do this in 2021, and it should certainly be within our grasp by 2022.
2) Get back to beating OU more often than not. What I really mean here is that when we beat OU it should not be an upset, and when they beat us it should be. We are definitely at least 2-3 years away from this one.
3) NOW we can start thinking about winning the conference and getting a playoff spot. Again, optimistically this is a 2-3 year goal at least
4) Until we do the above, all the talk of what it takes to be a Natty contender is just a little silly.
So yeah @Ketchum I agree we are not close to the end goal. But I do think we can make major progress within the B12 in the immediate future, and I think we absolutely need to do that now if we want to be in a position to get our recruiting up to the standard of a truly national contender.
** edit: It would be a huge help if we could improve quickly enough to keep from getting totally pantsed by Bama when that home and home rolls around. We don't need to win, we just need to be competitive and look better than Aggsy against them.
@DrothmanII and @Ketchum what's the story with Dr. Richard Reddick. I'm out of the loop. He falsified info in The Eyes of Texas Report that exonerated the song?
I agree with all of that, especially if it was apples to apples. This staff lifts last year's team to a better finish line IMO.
My concern is that this team isn't as good on paper as last year's at this point and there are some major personnel concerns that I'm still not sure get answered in ways that lead to more than a game of improvement in the W/L column.
@Ketchum
I get not including it, but Willie & Paula Nelson singing "Have you seen the rain" is a Top 3 Willie song for me.
I get not including it, but Willie & Paula Nelson singing "Have you seen the rain" is a Top 3 Willie song for me.
5-Stars Signed by Notre Dame
2009 -- 1
2010 -- 0
2011 -- 2
2012 -- 1
* Played in the 2012 season National Championship Game
2013 -- 4
2014 -- 1
2015 -- 0
2016 -- 1
2017 -- 0
2018 -- 0
* Played in the 2018 season College Football Playoffs
2019 -- 0
2020 -- 1
* Played in the 2020 season College Football Playoffs
2021 -- 1
5-Stars Signed by Oklahoma
2012 -- 1
2013 -- 0
2014 -- 1
2015 -- 0
* Played in the 2015 season College Football Playoffs
2016 -- 1
2017 -- 0
* Played in the 2017 season College Football Playoffs
2018 -- 1
* Played in the 2018 season College Football Playoffs
2019 -- 4
* Played in the 2019 season College Football Playoffs
2020 -- 0
2021 -- 3
I get your point, which is that talent is critical to competing for Championships. But, Notre Dame and OU have made the playoffs MANY times without ever coming even remotely close to the quantity of 5-stars you're saying are necessary. And you can add Michigan State and Washington to that list as well. If our coaches are worth their salt, Texas will be in the playoffs even without a bevy of 5-stars. But, you'd be spot on if you said you're not hoisting the National Championship Trophy without averaging at least 3 5-stars per class.
I couldn't agree more. The schedule sets up for a potentially tough season. I'm less concerned with the W/L outcome than with the actual product on the field.
I'm expecting an aggressive offense that will do a better job of attacking weaknesses in opposing defenses. I'm also expecting growing pains with a new QB and a lot of uncertainty in the OL/WR corps. Possibly some costly turnovers due to inexperience at QB combined with an aggressive scheme. But I'd rather the offense fail boldly than go turtle.
I'm also expecting improvement and a more aggressive defense, with some concerns at LB and in the secondary (the talent is there in the backfield, but can we translate it to productivity?) I also expect the D to be in a few sudden change situations as we work out the kinks in the offense.
What I'm hoping for is (1) cleaner, more disciplined play, (2) a more aggressive and fun style of play on both sides of the ball, and (3) hopefully a team that's not afraid to run up big numbers and lopsided wins when they get a chance. I really like that Sark understands football is meant to be fun - I want to see our guys play to their potential and have a great time doing it.
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