The OFFICIAL 2017 College football RANDOM THOUGHTS thread
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jwonder
Superstar
His best bet is to go to the Gators. Virtually no comp at qb.We been knew there was not a shot in hell at flipping Fields, that was just hope by the overzealous fans. We got our sights set FIRMLY on Emory Jones hoping we can flip em from OSU.
until i see homie sign on the dotted line, i aint saying not a damn word acting like we got him
I can't see Franks running the Tebow offense
this b*stard herman has already lost the team. 
Update on football team, Texas Bowl practices and discontent ...
For those interested in how bowl practices are going, the defense has been dominating. Lots of plays by the usual suspects up front - DT Poona Ford, DE Breckyn Hager, DE Malcolm Roach, LB Gary Johnson, LB Jeffrey McCulloch and a name to keep an eye on - LB Marqez Bimage. Jason Hall continues to thrive as the dime back closer to the line of scrimmage. P.J. Locke is settling in at safety, replacing DeShon Elliott, while Antwuan Davis works at nickel. And Kris Boyd and Davante Davis are working at corner with Josh Thompson.
The defense beating up on the offense in practice is not much of a surprise based on the results of the 2017 season. But what you want to see in these 15 bowl practices is improvement on offense. And that improvement seems hard to come by. You’re down to one tight end - Kendall Moore. You’ve got an offensive line that will once again be looking to plug a hole at left tackle with Patrick Vahe at left guard, Zach Shackelford at center, Jake McMillon at right guard and Derek Kerstetter at right tackle. The two running backs who seem to be preferred by the coaches continue to be Kyle Porter and Daniel Young. (Might be a great time to get Toneil Carter going, because I continue to hear Carter isn’t exactly happy.)
At receiver, everyone is practicing, including Armanti Foreman, but no one pretends to know how the playing time will be divided up. At quarterback, Shane Buechele and Sam Ehlinger have been back and forth working with the ones. And how coach Tom Herman handles the QBs over the next eight days could determine if Buechele stays or leaves UT, sources said.
According to sources, Buechele’s parents aren’t crazy about the way Herman is running the program - even thinking Shane would be better off playing baseball. According to sources, Steve Buechele has told other parents of players the way the coaches are coming down so hard on the players with everything from constantly having to pass hydration tests to cleaning the weight room at 4:30 am as punishment to eating burnt breakfasts for being on the losing team at practice, he doesn’t think players are enjoying the game they love - especially when the team is 6-6.
It’s the old adage, you can be as hard as you want on players as long as they get the joy of winning. If you’re drilling down on players, and they aren’t winning, watch out. Sources said one thing that really bothers them is the fact Herman will walk past players in the hallway of Moncrief-Neuhaus without even acknowledging them. “That’s not showing love or even showing you care about the young men you’ve been entrusted with,” said one parent of an outgoing senior player. “Why should these young men continue to give and give and give when they don’t get the sense the head coach even cares about them?”
According to sources, Steve Buechele, a bench coach with the Texas Rangers, has told other parents UT coaches are running the program harder and with less feeling than the Rangers run spring training - adding the Rangers get paid, while UT football players don’t. Shane is his own man, however, and will make up his own mind, just like when he picked Texas while growing up with three of four siblings who went to Oklahoma. Several sources said they fear what may happen in terms of discontent if the Longhorns lose to Missouri in a lackluster showing at the Texas Bowl. Especially considering four offensive linemen, who would be either fourth of fifth-year seniors next season, are hanging it up after the Texas Bowl (Jake McMillon, Terrell Cuney, Alex Anderson and Garrett Thomas).
When I asked how much of any discontent would be based on guys not being used to working this hard, the sources said they didn’t think the players would mind all the demands if they knew Herman was genuine and truly cared about them. They didn’t think Herman stopped to consider most of the players on offense had been through at least two head coaches, four offensive coordinators and multiple position coaches - all teaching them different offenses, making different demands and settling on different player favorites.
“It’s just been too much change and too much BS,” said one departing player. “It’s definitely not been fun. I don’t blame all the offensive linemen for saying they’ve had enough. Maybe it will all get better when Herman gets more of ‘his guys’ in here. The weird thing is, (Todd) Orlando did a good job of making everyone ‘his’ guys on defense. Herman did the opposite on offense, playing favorites with some and totally minimizing others. Some of it seemed totally unnecessary. The head games just got tiring and old. If we get a good offensive game plan, we’ll be in the bowl game with a chance to win, because our defense is so good.” (Chip Brown)
Update on football team, Texas Bowl practices and discontent ...
For those interested in how bowl practices are going, the defense has been dominating. Lots of plays by the usual suspects up front - DT Poona Ford, DE Breckyn Hager, DE Malcolm Roach, LB Gary Johnson, LB Jeffrey McCulloch and a name to keep an eye on - LB Marqez Bimage. Jason Hall continues to thrive as the dime back closer to the line of scrimmage. P.J. Locke is settling in at safety, replacing DeShon Elliott, while Antwuan Davis works at nickel. And Kris Boyd and Davante Davis are working at corner with Josh Thompson.
The defense beating up on the offense in practice is not much of a surprise based on the results of the 2017 season. But what you want to see in these 15 bowl practices is improvement on offense. And that improvement seems hard to come by. You’re down to one tight end - Kendall Moore. You’ve got an offensive line that will once again be looking to plug a hole at left tackle with Patrick Vahe at left guard, Zach Shackelford at center, Jake McMillon at right guard and Derek Kerstetter at right tackle. The two running backs who seem to be preferred by the coaches continue to be Kyle Porter and Daniel Young. (Might be a great time to get Toneil Carter going, because I continue to hear Carter isn’t exactly happy.)
At receiver, everyone is practicing, including Armanti Foreman, but no one pretends to know how the playing time will be divided up. At quarterback, Shane Buechele and Sam Ehlinger have been back and forth working with the ones. And how coach Tom Herman handles the QBs over the next eight days could determine if Buechele stays or leaves UT, sources said.
According to sources, Buechele’s parents aren’t crazy about the way Herman is running the program - even thinking Shane would be better off playing baseball. According to sources, Steve Buechele has told other parents of players the way the coaches are coming down so hard on the players with everything from constantly having to pass hydration tests to cleaning the weight room at 4:30 am as punishment to eating burnt breakfasts for being on the losing team at practice, he doesn’t think players are enjoying the game they love - especially when the team is 6-6.
It’s the old adage, you can be as hard as you want on players as long as they get the joy of winning. If you’re drilling down on players, and they aren’t winning, watch out. Sources said one thing that really bothers them is the fact Herman will walk past players in the hallway of Moncrief-Neuhaus without even acknowledging them. “That’s not showing love or even showing you care about the young men you’ve been entrusted with,” said one parent of an outgoing senior player. “Why should these young men continue to give and give and give when they don’t get the sense the head coach even cares about them?”
According to sources, Steve Buechele, a bench coach with the Texas Rangers, has told other parents UT coaches are running the program harder and with less feeling than the Rangers run spring training - adding the Rangers get paid, while UT football players don’t. Shane is his own man, however, and will make up his own mind, just like when he picked Texas while growing up with three of four siblings who went to Oklahoma. Several sources said they fear what may happen in terms of discontent if the Longhorns lose to Missouri in a lackluster showing at the Texas Bowl. Especially considering four offensive linemen, who would be either fourth of fifth-year seniors next season, are hanging it up after the Texas Bowl (Jake McMillon, Terrell Cuney, Alex Anderson and Garrett Thomas).
When I asked how much of any discontent would be based on guys not being used to working this hard, the sources said they didn’t think the players would mind all the demands if they knew Herman was genuine and truly cared about them. They didn’t think Herman stopped to consider most of the players on offense had been through at least two head coaches, four offensive coordinators and multiple position coaches - all teaching them different offenses, making different demands and settling on different player favorites.
“It’s just been too much change and too much BS,” said one departing player. “It’s definitely not been fun. I don’t blame all the offensive linemen for saying they’ve had enough. Maybe it will all get better when Herman gets more of ‘his guys’ in here. The weird thing is, (Todd) Orlando did a good job of making everyone ‘his’ guys on defense. Herman did the opposite on offense, playing favorites with some and totally minimizing others. Some of it seemed totally unnecessary. The head games just got tiring and old. If we get a good offensive game plan, we’ll be in the bowl game with a chance to win, because our defense is so good.” (Chip Brown)
Lil Daddy Briles ready for the Main EventIn for Lane Kiffin fukkery tonight
this b*stard herman has already lost the team.
Update on football team, Texas Bowl practices and discontent ...
For those interested in how bowl practices are going, the defense has been dominating. Lots of plays by the usual suspects up front - DT Poona Ford, DE Breckyn Hager, DE Malcolm Roach, LB Gary Johnson, LB Jeffrey McCulloch and a name to keep an eye on - LB Marqez Bimage. Jason Hall continues to thrive as the dime back closer to the line of scrimmage. P.J. Locke is settling in at safety, replacing DeShon Elliott, while Antwuan Davis works at nickel. And Kris Boyd and Davante Davis are working at corner with Josh Thompson.
The defense beating up on the offense in practice is not much of a surprise based on the results of the 2017 season. But what you want to see in these 15 bowl practices is improvement on offense. And that improvement seems hard to come by. You’re down to one tight end - Kendall Moore. You’ve got an offensive line that will once again be looking to plug a hole at left tackle with Patrick Vahe at left guard, Zach Shackelford at center, Jake McMillon at right guard and Derek Kerstetter at right tackle. The two running backs who seem to be preferred by the coaches continue to be Kyle Porter and Daniel Young. (Might be a great time to get Toneil Carter going, because I continue to hear Carter isn’t exactly happy.)
At receiver, everyone is practicing, including Armanti Foreman, but no one pretends to know how the playing time will be divided up. At quarterback, Shane Buechele and Sam Ehlinger have been back and forth working with the ones. And how coach Tom Herman handles the QBs over the next eight days could determine if Buechele stays or leaves UT, sources said.
According to sources, Buechele’s parents aren’t crazy about the way Herman is running the program - even thinking Shane would be better off playing baseball. According to sources, Steve Buechele has told other parents of players the way the coaches are coming down so hard on the players with everything from constantly having to pass hydration tests to cleaning the weight room at 4:30 am as punishment to eating burnt breakfasts for being on the losing team at practice, he doesn’t think players are enjoying the game they love - especially when the team is 6-6.
It’s the old adage, you can be as hard as you want on players as long as they get the joy of winning. If you’re drilling down on players, and they aren’t winning, watch out. Sources said one thing that really bothers them is the fact Herman will walk past players in the hallway of Moncrief-Neuhaus without even acknowledging them. “That’s not showing love or even showing you care about the young men you’ve been entrusted with,” said one parent of an outgoing senior player. “Why should these young men continue to give and give and give when they don’t get the sense the head coach even cares about them?”
According to sources, Steve Buechele, a bench coach with the Texas Rangers, has told other parents UT coaches are running the program harder and with less feeling than the Rangers run spring training - adding the Rangers get paid, while UT football players don’t. Shane is his own man, however, and will make up his own mind, just like when he picked Texas while growing up with three of four siblings who went to Oklahoma. Several sources said they fear what may happen in terms of discontent if the Longhorns lose to Missouri in a lackluster showing at the Texas Bowl. Especially considering four offensive linemen, who would be either fourth of fifth-year seniors next season, are hanging it up after the Texas Bowl (Jake McMillon, Terrell Cuney, Alex Anderson and Garrett Thomas).
When I asked how much of any discontent would be based on guys not being used to working this hard, the sources said they didn’t think the players would mind all the demands if they knew Herman was genuine and truly cared about them. They didn’t think Herman stopped to consider most of the players on offense had been through at least two head coaches, four offensive coordinators and multiple position coaches - all teaching them different offenses, making different demands and settling on different player favorites.
“It’s just been too much change and too much BS,” said one departing player. “It’s definitely not been fun. I don’t blame all the offensive linemen for saying they’ve had enough. Maybe it will all get better when Herman gets more of ‘his guys’ in here. The weird thing is, (Todd) Orlando did a good job of making everyone ‘his’ guys on defense. Herman did the opposite on offense, playing favorites with some and totally minimizing others. Some of it seemed totally unnecessary. The head games just got tiring and old. If we get a good offensive game plan, we’ll be in the bowl game with a chance to win, because our defense is so good.” (Chip Brown)
"B..b..b..but Herman is changing the culture for the better
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MustafaSTL
Achievement In Every Field of Human Endeavor
He gone. They say OSU won't even send a NLI tomorrow for him to sign.This Emory recruiting is weird breh. One of the 11W writers says that he heard from a reliable source that we haven't been recruiting him for 2 months and moved on. Then we get a commitment from a qb out of Texas. With all that like 2 weeks ago Emory said he is still committed to us and he doesn't know why people think he will flip. Then Urban has a in home with him last week. I think he signs with us tomorrow but wouldn't be shocked if he signs with UF. Negs @malbaker86 just in case that happens
Scottie Drippin
Should Never Mention Me
O.iatlhawksfan
Devoted Joel Embiid hater
He's goin to blame it on Charlie Strong. Say the players he recruited are not disciplined enough for him. He's goin to use the fukk outta the "not my players excuse"
malbaker86
Gators
signing day aint in feb. anymore?
Rigby.
The #1 Rated Mixtape of all Time
Herman is fukked with the pre-requsites his offense requires anyway. There’s no adjustment to what his current crop of talent is, and UT isn’t bringing in any transcendent black athletes for him to call a QB
O.iatlhawksfan
Devoted Joel Embiid hater
Hearing the Texas high school coaches are cooling on him too