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utee94

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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #1638 on: March 26, 2025, 09:38:18 AM »
Such a change to see players develop. For too long, Texas would get commitments from top end high school talent, have them play for 4 years, and have them leave as top end high school talent. They'd never get better.


Yup.  Player development seemed to cease to exist sometime around the last couple years of the Mack Brown era, and that didn't change until Sarkisian arrived.  It's truly refreshing.

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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #1639 on: March 27, 2025, 11:59:55 AM »
Such a change to see players develop. For too long, Texas would get commitments from top end high school talent, have them play for 4 years, and have them leave as top end high school talent. They'd never get better.

Player development is an area Sarkisian has noticeably taken up since his days as Washington's HC. Sark's time for much of the 2000s as a USC assistant under Pete Carroll spoiled him (as well as Kiffin) with rosters stocked with the best talent. Out-talenting the rest of the Pac 10 was all it took to dominate conference play without an emphasis on scheming or methodically growing and gelling 3 star recruits into Division 1 caliber OL/DLs - nothing that emphasized player development. This habit was very evident during his years at Washington. Recruiting was strong, and Sark's selection of assistants was good too. But his heavily penalized Huskies teams were consistently beaten (and blown out) by better coached and more disciplined squads who could overcome Washington's talent advantages which were never as talented as USC's rosters.

Fast forward to now, 15 years later, and it's clear Sark has put player development to good use at Texas, despite Texas already having plenty of talent advantages. We talk about player development all the time, but this is a great example of when a coach develops. And it's put Texas over the top. Sark was a just above .500 at Washington. The Longhorns are 25-5 the last two seasons.
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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #1640 on: April 19, 2025, 05:13:34 PM »
I just found out that there will be no spring game for the Horns.  Interesting
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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #1641 on: April 21, 2025, 09:02:34 AM »
I just found out that there will be no spring game for the Horns.  Interesting

It's kinda disappointing, but the Spring Game was never anything more than a fan party. No one was running any actual plays or displaying anything of substance. When there were strict limits on coaches at practice sessions, etc, coaches largely regarded these games as wasting a valuable practice, but necessary for fan engagement.

Nowadays, coaches are considering (1) the amount of games that Texas had to play, what with the SEC CCG and the CFB Playoffs and (2) not wanting to display your depth chart to opposing coaches for poaching purposes - although that's not much of a concern since Texas started practice so late.

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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #1642 on: April 21, 2025, 09:31:36 AM »
We scrapped our Spring Game for a spring practice that was open to the fans.  I've heard of other schools doing similar.  Seems to be a trend.

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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #1643 on: April 28, 2025, 02:10:16 PM »
Assuming the "Big Ten offer" was from Oregon?

Either way, maybe Quinn Ewers stood to make millions more if he'd stayed one last year playing in the college ranks, however, I disagree that a good season would've improved his draft stock better than a 4th or 5th round pick.

1) The book is out on Ewers. There's tons of film of him at this point. After leading the SEC in interceptions last year, a good season still would not have freed him from questions regarding his passing decisions.

2) Next year's NFL draft is supposed to be a better draft for QBs. Ewers still stood to be drafted behind a half-dozen other prospects.

3) Even though he's 6'1", Ewers height is something the NFL was always going to nitpick.





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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #1644 on: April 28, 2025, 02:35:39 PM »
Yeah like I said on the NFL thread on the B1G forum, I actually think he should have turned pro last year, rather than wait til next year.  I don't think he was going to help himself anymore by staying in college.

It was probably better for Texas for him to stick around this past season rather than having to start a RS freshman Arch Manning, but it ended up being worse for Ewers himself. 

Anyway, I wish him the best of luck and hope he exceeds his draft position.  He's already made millions of dollars and he will make millions more, so overall, he can still laugh all the way to the bank.



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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #1645 on: April 28, 2025, 04:05:00 PM »
I've seen players that were allegedly "1st or 2nd" rounders that stayed and didn't get drafted the following year.  

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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #1646 on: April 28, 2025, 04:18:57 PM »
I dunno if Quinn just had bad injury luck or is injury prone. 3 season really isn't enough of a sample size.
I can ignore his first season since he didn't have a full on supporting cast. Texas won a lot of games against tough competition over his next 2 seasons, but the deficiencies were obvious.

What I saw was that Sark worked to correct some form issues in preseason. When he had those habits ingrained, his motion was better, he saw the field, and trusted himself to make correct reads. The ball would get out on time and usually very accurately. Then, at some point early on, he'd get hurt and miss several games. No biggie. However, when he returned, he seemed to have forgotten all those "attention to detail" things Sark worked on. He'd go back to sloppy arm and body mechanics, throwing off his back foot, and double-checking his coverages - which mean the ball was out late. The accuracy would likewise fall off past 15 yards.

He doesn't have any real built-in limitations. When healthy, he can use mechanics to attack every part of the field. The NFL won't expect him to run out of trouble regularly, so that part won't matter. If the light comes on and stays on, he could be exactly the type of ball distributing QB that Miami needs (once they get tired of Tua not quite managing to get it). That could likely coincide with his 2nd contract negotiation, so we'll see.

 

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