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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #490 on: February 02, 2023, 01:43:12 PM »
I think Ohio State was pretty good (duh).

But this thread is about Texas, sort of ...
Michigan and TCU were pretty good, too.

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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #491 on: February 02, 2023, 01:52:49 PM »
I still find the ups and downs of CFB to be ... entertaining, e.g., how a team can look pedestrian one week and awesome the next, or later.  I know at times the matchups are unfavorable, and A>B>C>A ...

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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #492 on: May 29, 2023, 09:59:13 AM »
Steve Sarkisian and the Texas Longhorns are adding a prominent ex-Big Ten coach to their football coaching staff.

Paul Chryst, a former head football coach at the University of Wisconsin, is joining the Texas football program, according to multiple reports.

Chryst is expected to serve as an offensive analyst to Sarkisian and Co.
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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #493 on: May 30, 2023, 01:05:13 PM »
Steve Sarkisian and the Texas Longhorns are adding a prominent ex-Big Ten coach to their football coaching staff.

Paul Chryst, a former head football coach at the University of Wisconsin, is joining the Texas football program, according to multiple reports.

Chryst is expected to serve as an offensive analyst to Sarkisian and Co.

Hmmm, I wonder what's @847badgerfan 's take on this?

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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #494 on: May 30, 2023, 01:18:29 PM »
Pretty big step down, but probably what he needed. I'm really not even sure he wanted to be the head man anymore. He didn't act like it.

I recall when UT was trying to steal him out of Madison back in 2010 or so, to be the OC in Austin rather than Madison.

He'll add a lot of perspective in the run game for sure. He knows football. 

Just failed to evolve with the times. Hated fund raising, did not embrace the portal and wanted nothing to do with NIL. Made some poor hires on the offensive side of the ball and let them stay too long.

Given his background as an OC and knowing his personality, this is probably a great job for him, at the perfect time. I wish him well.

Maybe @bayareabadger can lend more to this.
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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #495 on: June 14, 2023, 10:44:51 PM »
Well here it is, in draft form at least.  UT's 2024 football schedule.  No official dates yet for the SEC games but opponents and home/away have been determined.  Looks like fun!






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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #496 on: June 14, 2023, 11:25:46 PM »
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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #497 on: June 15, 2023, 09:16:23 AM »
I wish we had either the ags or pigs at home, because those are fun rivalry games.

But I'm certainly excited about home games with Georgia and Florida.  And the road game @Ann Arbor will hopefully be pretty epic.

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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #498 on: June 15, 2023, 09:22:13 AM »
Maybe I might come visit with the Dawgs ... we should still be decent, and Texas by then will be awesome.

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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #499 on: June 15, 2023, 09:46:53 AM »
I focus a lot on the OL, and this is where my attention is still occupied. If I had to design a perfect world for a collegiate OL, this would largely be it. Two consecutive classes of top talent recruiting coupled with two entire offseasons being taught by a proven OL coach.

Going into this season, Texas has exactly that. There's no off-the-shelf replacement for Bijan Robinson (heck, replacing Roschon Johnson is rare for college football), so it's imperative that the OL make progress.

I know better, though, then to assume the OL will reach my expectations. Five talented players don't make a talented line. Five players doing the same thing at the same time do. One isn't ever guaranteed from the other.

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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #500 on: June 15, 2023, 09:49:21 AM »
Perhaps the most notable thing about the recent run of success with UGA has been elite line play on both sides.  This may come as a shock to most here, but it's important.

I think you can do quite well with an elite mobile QB and "pretty good" line play.  You also can manage with a pretty good QB and elite line play.


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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #501 on: June 15, 2023, 11:30:05 AM »
The state of Texas has so many football camps and such available to youngsters growing up that talent arriving in college is perfectly adept at reading a defense and knowing where to go. Sark prefers this sort of mental QB who wins the play pre-snap. If you don't do anything about it, both the receiver and the QB know how to attack the defense before the play starts.

This works perfectly if nothing is thrown off schedule. With a clean pocket, the QB steps up, executes his mechanics, and puts the ball in a spot on time. it makes it look easy.
Of course, the defense is trying to stop this. The most direct way is to disrupt the whole thing by making the QB reset and play off-schedule. This is where Texas has fallen woefully short for over a decade.

If you're Boise State or something, you might need to get creative with blocking schemes, shifting power, etc. Sark and Flood figure there's no reason why a school like Texas shouldn't be able to go the direct route. Recruit and train big, strong bastards that simply win the fight with the guy in front of them. If you have your choice, that's the way to go.

That said, those gorillas have to learn a ton of footwork, hand placement, and other technique.

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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #502 on: June 15, 2023, 11:36:42 AM »
They also would be facing equally elite players when they get to the playoffs.

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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #503 on: June 15, 2023, 11:37:28 AM »
I idly wonder if you play a "weak schedule" with a powerful OL if they develop bad habits, because it doesn't matter, until you face an elite DL later.


 

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