EastTXHorn

I’m not an old like most of you liver spotted senior citizens, so I don’t have a ton of emotional response to the changes that have occurred in College Football recently. Though even I am starting to become a bit concerned about the future of the sport.

This time last year I was giving my Ole Miss grad father in-law a hard time about how hard Lane was hitting the portal. “You can’t win a championship like that”, “You have to recruit well, develop your guys, and maybe cherry pick obvious needs from the portal”. Only a year later that statement is outdated and unrealistic. Development is being outsourced to smaller P4 and G5 schools. It’s likely you can count on one hand the amount of players from a singular recruiting class that will actually play the entirety of their college career at that school.

It’s hard to imagine the product on the field not suffering amidst all the chaos. New Campuses, New Professors, New Coaches, New Teammates, New Friends, New Living Situation, New Workout Regimen, New Diet, etc. How can anyone grow consistently in such a sporadic environment? You have to implement some sort of OTA structure if this is the future. Even then, would enough contact practices even be possible?

These conferences are too big. As a Texas fan being in the SEC has been a good fricking time. Yet, we probably don’t belong here. This monopolized conglomerate of the biggest brands in CFB in one conference is just greedy. Regional rivalries don’t have teeth anymore, the kids don’t care.

I don’t know. The best things about college football seem to be fading away so quickly. I’m a Texas fan, but I’m a college football fan first. I love the sport from coast to coast. It’s becoming hard to find aspects I can invest in.

It appears we’re only losing battles to those players OG schools. Which is understandable.

Texas spent the most money retaining a roster they recruited. They didn’t money whip some ultra productive transfer. The evaluations were pretty hit or miss. We’re attempting to fill holes in the portal, pitching to the elite guys, but Texas will never be a market altering portal team. Texas goes harder in the HS ranks in terms of capital investment.

Texas has been cleaning house. Guys who’ve been recruited over have hit the road. Recruiting misses have been processed. Expect Texas to actually be active in the portal for talent and depth, instead of just cherry picking needs like usual.

The HS recruiting model is what makes the sport enjoyable for me. Getting to know these guys through the years. Watching them grow. Rooting them on in their lives after college. Georgia sports a 90% recruited starter snap percentage, highest in CFB. Texas sat around 85% this season. In this era it’s probably not sustainable, but I’ll always root for those teams. The off-season roster overhaul squads are lame. Go Dawgs.

Texas spent most of its money retaining their roster. A lot of young developmental guys. It’s not like they went out and bought the most proven guys on the market.

The only Texas team capable of winning a game didn’t even make the dance.

Ehhh, betting on Arch to make a handful of miraculous plays each game doesn’t seem sustainable. Maybe we would have made it past the first round of the playoff. The poor IOL play and lack of quality backs would have got you beat eventually.

Too many development/evaluation misses at RB and IOL. Texas was similar to Georgia with one of the lowest transfer snap percentages in the country. Simultaneously being top 10 in underclassman snap percentage. We could have used a couple transfer bodies on the OL and one decent three down back.

I think this is season high penalty yardage for Texas. We’re also 0-2 on controversial UM TDs. I think it’s safe there’s little to no Texas officiating bias.