Texas team speed

[T Town Horn]

Obviously speed is like pitching, you can never have enough.
I can be very wrong, but I felt like the last few years Texas has lacked team speed other than Duvernay.
Is there elite speed on this team?

 

[tooshybrotha]

Obviously speed is like pitching, you can never have enough.
I can be very wrong, but I felt like the last few years Texas has lacked team speed other than Duvernay.
Is there elite speed on this team?

A big part of it is coaches creating schemes where players are able to play fast. Ash created that effect on defense and looking forward to Sark creating that effect on the offense!

 

[heygents]

I wouldn't say elite, but for our conference, we are faster than everyone we play not named Oklahoma.

 

[Cutter13]

A big part of it is coaches creating schemes where players are able to play fast. Ash created that effect on defense and looking forward to Sark creating that effect on the offense!

This... We have plenty of speed if we play
“AllAzznoFakes”

 

[bevo10]

Obviously speed is like pitching, you can never have enough.
I can be very wrong, but I felt like the last few years Texas has lacked team speed other than Duvernay.
Is there elite speed on this team?

Kennedy Lewis is probably the fastest in the 100M. Not sure about everyone's 40 speed.

 

[sattxhorn]

I would say there were a lot skill players on offense that were not fast. Ehlinger, Roschon, Ingram, Brewer, Black, Money, Washington, Schooler, and Woodard

I think Ash wanted more speed on the field. He moved Overshown to LB. He had Thompson and Jamison as the starting corners, Crawford as backup and moved Cook and Green to safety. Other than Jamison, the db’s in the 2018 class seem slow.

 

[Htown2utSAhorn13]

I would say there were a lot skill players on offense that were not fast. Ehlinger, Roschon, Ingram, Brewer, Black, Money, Washington, Schooler, and Woodard

I think Ash wanted more speed on the field. He moved Overshown to LB. He had Thompson and Jamison as the starting corners, Crawford as backup and moved Cook and Green to safety. Other than Jamison, the db’s in the 2018 class seem slow.

Herman seemed to prefer the “bigger”, “slower”, “stronger” athlete. I think he just invisioned them being more physical and bigger targets. He never got away from that at the skill position. Other than Ehlinger the bigger, slower athlete turned out to be ineffective and not strong at all. Ingram was great at getting tripped up, all of Herman’s DBs got pushed around, and his WRs never made jump ball catches or beat press coverage. Hell, even Ehlinger would wear down and become ineffective at times.

Then at OL and DL, he was always recruiting the diamond in the rough, smaller, tweener athlete. Seemed like his whole philosophy was backwards

 

[wfoot]

We have good team speed in the skill positions, certainly fast enough to outrun the created mismatch with a linebacker.

 

[FoggyGoggles]

Whittington
Smith
Moore
Robinson
Dixon

All have track speed. Herman just didn’t use it.

 

[Fansong77]

I wouldn't say elite, but for our conference, we are faster than everyone we play not named Oklahoma.

That's the problem.

 

[overTH1]

Obviously speed is like pitching, you can never have enough.
I can be very wrong, but I felt like the last few years Texas has lacked team speed other than Duvernay.
Is there elite speed on this team?

Agreed- we have certain players, but not great team speed.

 

[gshorn]

who is the safety who is down on the depth chart Owens? wasnt he a track star? Jameson certainly looks pretty fast.

 

[texaswill]

Agreed- we have certain players, but not great team speed.

Sark disagrees.

 

[overTH1]

Sark disagrees.

What did you think he was going to say?

 

[Czechdoc]

We lack some deep threats

 

[bake34]

Owens is the fastest

 

[texaswill]

What did you think he was going to say?

He wasn't asked about team speed that's something he gave voluntarily. We have speed, Herman didn't know how to use it.

 

[Frank Pentangeli]

Players that have to think too much don't move as fast. Players who don't trust the scheme don't move as fast. Players who, consciously or unconsciously, think about whether the guy next to them is going to be in the right space, don't move as fast.

 

[Type O]

Agreed- we have certain players, but not great team speed.

BS...there’s plenty of speed. The issue is using it and then bringing in more.

 

[Deskjockey]

Players that have to think too much don't move as fast. Players who don't trust the scheme don't move as fast. Players who, consciously or unconsciously, think about whether the guy next to them is going to be in the right space, don't move as fast.

This. One of the reasons I'd personally like to keep Ash is that the first year of any new coordinator/scheme always has growing pains as the kids learn the nuances or are coached to do things in the manner the scheme requires. If Texas can limit the growing pains to one side of the ball, you'd minimize that next season. The defense undoubtedly 'played faster' in the second half of last season as they got more reps in his system...

 

[Bevo5]

What kind of fanbase speed do we have, though? That's the real determining factor in how successful we'll be.

 

[DKR-3rings]

We have as much speed as pretty much anyone, our problem has been getting the ball to them in space. Sark will solve that problem. Sark will make Bijon a Heisman winner IMO.