2018 Recruiting - Football

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Let's all come together now in celebration of two brilliant moves by Herman today.

Adding Carrington will help ensure an amazing 2018 class - maybe even #1 or #2 and stealing some recruits from rivals

Adding Mazzone as a QC coach to help digest film and help get our offense off its ***

These are huge moves that can make a difference next season. This year we were a few plays away from being 8-4 in the regular season. It's the moves like the ones Herman took today that can make up that difference.

It's also a good move by Herman to keep Beck in place but add Mazzone for help or eventual replacement. I don't like Beck but changing OCs again would be brutal for recruiting and our offense next year. We have had too many lately to change two years in a row.

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We offered another 2018 JUCO OL

OG Johncarlo Valentin (6’3, 330) from Asa College, the same school as OT Badara Traore who we offered and whiffed on. He is the #2 JUCO OG and has 3 years to play 2. Offers from Baylor, Kansas, Missouri, Tenn + others.


 
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Joe Fan said:
We offered another 2018 JUCO OL

OG Johncarlo Valentin (6’3, 330)
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You've mentioned us having our OL in the wrong spots before. My memory has you thinking of we're deeper quality wise inside?

Shack, Kers, Rodriguez, Hud, Vahe... You see them inside ideally?
 
X Misn Tx said:
You've mentioned us having our OL in the wrong spots before. My memory has you thinking of we're deeper quality wise inside?
Shack, Kers, Rodriguez, Hud, Vahe... You see them inside ideally?
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We are devoid of OTs. If we can luck out with both Anderson and Tucker (and there is no team in America who can offer those 2 more PT + better grad programs than us), those are your starting LT and RT respectively. This gives Cosmi another year to get his body ready while not being thrown into a starting role with zero experience. He is the future at LT as of this moment. Working in behind Anderson for one year sounds perfect.

Kerstetter can be the RT but he is probably already one of the 3 best OLs on the current roster. Thus, if we land Tucker, my best guess is that he will probably start on the interior just to get him out there.

It's hard to project much beyond this since we dont yet even know yet who is on the roster. But, if we end up with neither Anderson nor Tucker, then Cosmi and Kerst are your likely starters at OT, with Rodriquez as the primary backup. Or, maybe both he and Kerst start, with one at RT and one at OG. Or, maybe Rodriquez is starting at center.
I would not mind seeing Grandy (JUCO) bump Vahe.
Hudson has the most upside but he is coming off injury and, to be honest, did not look that great in his limited PT in 2017. We have to hope he fully recovers and comes back determined to maximize his physical gifts. When he was being recruited, it looked like he might be a tackle but now its OG.
So, best guess as of today is something like --
Anderson/Cosmi
Grandy/Vahe
Rodriquez/Shack
Kerstetter or Hudson
Tucker/Kerstetter (if no Tucker then Cosmi or Kerst or Rodriq start here)
 
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SabreHorn said:
BFS! Make your initial reads, then secondary after the snap. If you aren't going to have time, quick timing throws, not "punts" into double & triple coverage.

D-1 is bigger and faster, some disguises are better, but the reads are the same. Sam could make them at Westlake, but can't now? Why?

Yes, a few bonehead plays could have turned the season, just like Mack not sucking up to Phil Simms in Texas Stadium would have put us playing for another National Championship rather than getting embarrassed by Colorado, or the horrid option in Pasadena that cost us another National Championship, or another National Championship when Fred didn't put Feldt back to receive the punt in the Cotton Bowl. Mistakes happen, but if they happen every game, either you need to change players or the coaches aren't doing their jobs. I choose the latter.
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I normally agree with 99% of your opinions, but I think you are far too critical of Sam Ehlinger's year. The games we "lost" because of Sam? USC, which was a significant home favorite over us... we go ahead at the end of the game based mostly on Sam's phenomenal talent and guts. Then, we lose in OT when he has a ball stripped out of his hands, not because of a bad decision or holding the ball poorly, but because he was held up and then a DT overpowers the ball out of his hands. That's not an example of anything.

Oklahoma State--again a game in which we were the clear underdog, Sam makes a clear "bone-headed" play, I suppose. The smart play would be to throw it away, have our FG kicker, who made about 50% of his tries, attempt to tie the OT, so we would have a 50% chance to go on to win. Instead, Sam forces a pass into the endzone to try to be a hero, and instead of the TD (we win), it is an INT (we lose). So, Sam tried a play that maybe lost us a 25% chance of winning the game. So--is that another game he "lost" us?

Tech: with us winning by 3, 2+ min. left, 3rd and 2 in Tech territory. Coaches decide to go for it, not punt, call a pass; Sam throws over the middle, INT, leads to late Tech TD, so we lose. Yes, an INT, but a physical mistake, not a "boneheaded" play except maybe by the coaches.

OU game; Sam again was a hero, not a goat, leading us from 20 down to a lead in the 4th quarter. The people who made a lot of his throwing a 4th down pass out of bounds at the end of the game--well, that did not "lose" the game--the defense giving up a 60 yard wide open game winner is more suspect.

Those were Sam's 4 losses, right? So he went 4-4 as a true freshman, beating some decent teams--Missouri, K State, W. Va.--and losing to 3 ranked heavy favorites (all extremely close, 2 in OT), and one bad but close loss, Tech. He had 11 TDs, 7 INTs, 58% completion rate, and was sacked 11 times, which would have been 20 sacks for a lot of other QBs. Also, as you said, he seemed to inspire the other players.

Shane was QB for TCU and Md. losses.

So, I do not see any poisonous lack of judgment or reason to lose hope that Sam can be the QB we need to win it all, if the pieces are in place. If someone else beats him out, that's great.
 
LonghornCatholic said:
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Looks like Tim Brewster was none too happy about it
And aggy, of course, started a thread about it, lol



https://texags.com/forums/5/topics/2924725

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Yes, a few bonehead plays could have turned the season, just like Mack not sucking up to Phil Simms in Texas Stadium would have put us playing for another National Championship rather than getting embarrassed by Colorado, or the horrid option in Pasadena that cost us another National Championship, or another National Championship when Fred didn't put Feldt back to receive the punt in the Cotton Bowl. Mistakes happen, but if they happen every game, either you need to change players or the coaches aren't doing their jobs. I choose the latter.
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Couldn’t have said it much better myself.

In QB 101 class they teach ball control, and “don’t lose the game.” While I believe that Sam is talented, the extraordinarily boneheaded decisions he made at the end of the OSU and Tech games (in particular) were nothing short of inexcusable. In both cases he snatched defeat from the jaws of almost certain victory. You just can’t do that.
 
p_town_horn said:
I don't like Beck but changing OCs again would be brutal for recruiting and our offense next year. We have had too many lately to change two years in a row.
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I just want a change at who calls the plays. This high % predictable side line to side line plays allowed the other Team's D to play very aggressive against us.
 
dukesteer said:
Couldn’t have said it much better myself.

In QB 101 class they teach ball control, and “don’t lose the game.” While I believe that Sam is talented, the extraordinarily boneheaded decisions he made at the end of the OSU and Tech games (in particular) were nothing short of inexcusable. In both cases he snatched defeat from the jaws of almost certain victory. You just can’t do that.
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How was the OSU game “almost certain victory “? He threw an int on a completely failed play on 3rd down with us down by 3 in OT. So it was almost certain that our 50/50 kicker would make a FG to tie, and then certain we would go on to win thereafter?
 
Lol at Brewster, get used to it old man, you are an aggsy now. Carrington is earning his pay right now. Don’t know his background but we have got to find a place for him with a big fat raise.
 
VYFan said:
How was the OSU game “almost certain victory “? He threw an int on a completely failed play on 3rd down with us down by 3 in OT. So it was almost certain that our 50/50 kicker would make a FG to tie, and then certain we would go on to win thereafter?
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He made a terrible decision. On fourth down we would have had plenty of options, including a “chip shot” FG, or going for it as we did (and won) against ND in September of 2016. I would not classify an extra point distance FG as a 50/50 proposition.
 
As you can tell from the pic, we are in good shape with Ossai now and, according to some, are in the lead again (EJ says we have the "clear edge" and 2 CBs today to Texas)
Hamm seems to have conceded him to us
And aggy is not taking this news very well

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Joe Fan said:
We offered another 2018 JUCO OL
OG Johncarlo Valentin (6’3, 330) from Asa College, the same school as OT Badara Traore who we offered and whiffed on. He is the #2 JUCO OG and has 3 years to play 2. Offers from Baylor, Kansas, Missouri, Tenn + others.

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Signed with Baylor
For some reason

 
The last 4 CBs for DE Joseph Ossai have been to us, including one this am


And the last 3 for WR Josh Moore are to us as well. Moore originally had a bunch to aggy, then more recently had a wave to Oregon but now the trendy pick is us
 
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