2020 Recruiting - Football

ViperHorn said:
Which player other than Sam and Ro was significantly better at the end of the season than he was at the first of yhe season. No defensive player and no OL.
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Uh, Roach, Kerstetter, ta'Quan, Ossai, Mitchell, Ojomo, Jamison, Adimora, Brown, Josh, Watson, Adeyole, Cook. Injuries slowed some of them down or ended their season, but each improved.

ViperHorn said:
Sam wasn't either, but cut him some slack due to the rib injury in the oSu game.
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Considering the adversity with the decline of the OL and the young DB, he handled it well and played even better than any other time faced with such adversity or even last year. That is a major accomplishment.
 
Until a neurologist and Neurosurgeon of my choosing examines him & reads the MRI done on a GE 3.0, I shall continue that to believe that Sam played hurt after the fifth or sixth game of the year. He regressed in his reads and zeroed in on a single receiver. That's the way he payed when injured before. I would love to see the kid be one of our greatest ever, but we need someone to help him develop or let him go back out to Southwest Travis County and work with Todd.
 
SabreHorn said:
... we need someone to help him develop or let him go back out to Southwest Travis County and work with Todd.
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You are the only person who I have read or spoken with who does not think that Ehlinger has not improved remarkably from his freshman year. But I do not talk to a lot of coaches.

Any way, he is a 2017 recruit, so I am not connecting to why this is even in the 2020 Recruiting Class thread.
 
I never said Sam has not improved, I said that I believe he has regressed the second half of this year, AND it is MY belief that the regression is caused by an undisclosed or unrecognized injury.

I do not, however, believe he is being "coached up".
 
SabreHorn said:
I never said Sam has not improved, I said that I believe he has regressed the second half of this year, AND it is MY belief that the regression is caused by an undisclosed or unrecognized injury.

I do not, however, believe he is being "coached up".
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This is an interesting take. My recollection is that Colt also had periods of regression. In fact, I believe that his best year was his junior season.

You may be right about Sam. I didn’t take those rumors (that he was injured) very seriously because I felt that our offensive collapse was primarily related to two issues: Questionable and predictable play-calling and the fact that teams (OU, TCU, ISU & Baylor) out-coached us badly.

My biggest concern with Sam is head injuries. I suspect that virtually all of the glaring mistakes he made late in games in his freshman year — excluding the fumble at USC — were due to his being concussed. I remember sitting in the stands, perhaps against Okie State, and wondering how no one on the coaching staff could see that he was disoriented after being hit late in that game ...when I could see it without binoculars. The next play he threw that inexplicable pick.
 
Here is Bobby Burton on 3 of our less highly ranked commits -- I know some people hate Burton with a passion so I am putting it inside the spoiler brackets so it doesnt burn your eyes

OL, Andrej Karic, 6-5, 270, Southlake Carroll
ATH, Jaden Hullaby, 6-2, 205, Mansfield Timberview
WR, Dajon Harrison, 5-10, 170, Hutto

I’d suggest all three have the potential to eventually contribute heavily to the Horns. Of the three, I particularly like Hullaby as an outlier. Nobody seems to know exactly what position he will play. Is he a TE, an H-back, a big running back or even a rush linebacker? That sort of versatility is rare. And it’s also telling. He kind of reminds me of Jason Hall, the former South Grand Prairie safety who everyone thought was too slow to stick at safety yet started four years for the Longhorns, despite being one of the lowest rated players in his own recruiting class.

In Karic, Texas is getting a lineman that is somewhat raw. He should be able to fill out to the 300-pound range in a couple of years. He’s not the quickest-footed lineman Texas will sign, but he may be the meanest on the field.

Harrison is perhaps easiest for some to dismiss. He’s from CenTex, a local product with not a lot of national appeal among the other bigger receivers, like Quentin Johnston and Troy Omeire. But about a decade ago, there was another Hutto receiver, Jeremy Kerley, who ended up making it big.
Harrison reminds me more of another CenTex product. He’s similar to a Billy Pittman-type receiver with a lot more wiggle. Pittman had a solid career with the Horns, including a big TD against OU and a chain-mover on the final drive against USC for the national championship. So as we go into next week, and we hear the names like Bijan Robinson, Ja’Quinden Jackson and more, remember that the odds are that the ones who are overlooked will still contribute to the team and somehow etch their name into Longhorn lore.

If you do read his thoughts, you might remember he absolutely hated the LJH commit, and also told us Leitao would be an impact player.
 
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Joe Fan said:
Here is Bobby Burton on 3 of our less highly ranked commits -- I know some people hate Burton with a passion so I am putting it inside the spoiler brackets so it doesnt burn your eyes

OL, Andrej Karic, 6-5, 270, Southlake Carroll
ATH, Jaden Hullaby, 6-2, 205, Mansfield Timberview
WR, Dajon Harrison, 5-10, 170, Hutto

I’d suggest all three have the potential to eventually contribute heavily to the Horns. Of the three, I particularly like Hullaby as an outlier. Nobody seems to know exactly what position he will play. Is he a TE, an H-back, a big running back or even a rush linebacker? That sort of versatility is rare. And it’s also telling. He kind of reminds me of Jason Hall, the former South Grand Prairie safety who everyone thought was too slow to stick at safety yet started four years for the Longhorns, despite being one of the lowest rated players in his own recruiting class.

In Karic, Texas is getting a lineman that is somewhat raw. He should be able to fill out to the 300-pound range in a couple of years. He’s not the quickest-footed lineman Texas will sign, but he may be the meanest on the field.

Harrison is perhaps easiest for some to dismiss. He’s from CenTex, a local product with not a lot of national appeal among the other bigger receivers, like Quentin Johnston and Troy Omeire. But about a decade ago, there was another Hutto receiver, Jeremy Kerley, who ended up making it big.
Harrison reminds me more of another CenTex product. He’s similar to a Billy Pittman-type receiver with a lot more wiggle. Pittman had a solid career with the Horns, including a big TD against OU and a chain-mover on the final drive against USC for the national championship. So as we go into next week, and we hear the names like Bijan Robinson, Ja’Quinden Jackson and more, remember that the odds are that the ones who are overlooked will still contribute to the team and somehow etch their name into Longhorn lore.

If you do read his thoughts, you might remember he absolutely hated the LJH commit, and also told us Leitao would be an impact player.
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I haven’t seen any real recent film on these guys, but I’ve seen much of the older publicly available film on Karic and Hullaby. I generally agree with Burton on Hullaby.

As for Karic, I think Burton is way off. IMHO, Karic is the most polished OL recruit, with the best footwork and the best handwork. Karic is a prototype LT recruit. He also has the highest ceiling of the OL recruits, though one could make a good argument for Garth as the highest ceiling OL. Majors is the meanest of the bunch, but Karic does play pretty mean as well.
 
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Hard to figure where to put this, but since recruiting is the first place to suffer from all this Monday morning BS, lets try here.
Hard to imagine that the hottest OC and DC candidates aren’t salivating to come to Nat Champ or 0 university. With an entire year to work and a loaded gun at your head, what could go wrong? I would have to be at my last chance to bet my career or this ‘opportunity’.
We have a new untested D and loose 3/4 and this completely unaccountable site goes nuts. We lost 3 of our top 5 recruits at big need positions. McCoy, Whittington, and D’Gabriel and Darrien Brown (our only other RB) and its a mystery why we have no end rush and no balanced offense. Clearly a poor coaching situation. Hire Rockne or DKR. Oh wait, they aren’t planning on betting a career on this. Duh.
Now, wonder of wonders, recruits are dodgy about the coaching security. We might run off a life-long UT fan QB. How could this happen. Does anybody own a mirror? Then the logical question, why would I frustrate myself reading this? Good question. Come on man, use your head. Nobody on this site is running off anybody but recruits. Seventeen year old kids betting their career and life on one daunting decision. They are vulnerable and swayed by social media BS and you feed that fire with vigor.
Grip what you might actually have some influence over and try not to derail success.
 
hornde68 said:
Hard to figure where to put this, but since recruiting is the first place to suffer from all this Monday morning BS, lets try here.
Hard to imagine that the hottest OC and DC candidates aren’t salivating to come to Nat Champ or 0 university. With an entire year to work and a loaded gun at your head, what could go wrong? I would have to be at my last chance to bet my career or this ‘opportunity’.
We have a new untested D and loose 3/4 and this completely unaccountable site goes nuts. We lost 3 of our top 5 recruits at big need positions. McCoy, Whittington, and D’Gabriel and Darrien Brown (our only other RB) and its a mystery why we have no end rush and no balanced offense. Clearly a poor coaching situation. Hire Rockne or DKR. Oh wait, they aren’t planning on betting a career on this. Duh.
Now, wonder of wonders, recruits are dodgy about the coaching security. We might run off a life-long UT fan QB. How could this happen. Does anybody own a mirror? Then the logical question, why would I frustrate myself reading this? Good question. Come on man, use your head. Nobody on this site is running off anybody but recruits. Seventeen year old kids betting their career and life on one daunting decision. They are vulnerable and swayed by social media BS and you feed that fire with vigor.
Grip what you might actually have some influence over and try not to derail success.
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Do any other schools have message boards and rabid fans? Just wondering.

And by the way, we return an upperclassman loaded squad with a very talented senior QB, a seasoned O-Line, excellent receivers, a backfield that might feature the likes of JW, BR & KI, and a defense with plenty of talent, particularly in the secondary. Can’t imagine why any coordinator would want these jobs.
 
BurntOrangeLH said:
Uh, Roach, Kerstetter, ta'Quan, Ossai, Mitchell, Ojomo, Jamison, Adimora, Brown, Josh, Watson, Adeyole, Cook. Injuries slowed some of them down or ended their season, but each improved.


You realize we went 3-4 and 2 of those wins were against Kansas teams by a combined 5 points. I don't think the word "improvement" means what you think it means...
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