Humphries #12/ M’Pemba #26

Tamu where oil money goes to die.

It was too early to tell with M’Pemba, as he had only been on campus for one year, but it’s hard for kids who have never been anything but superstars at every level they have played to suddenly be buried on a depth chart and not be “the man” on your team. M’Pemba could have been a big contributor in a year or two, but never gave it much of a chance.

Humphries was probably right to move on. He was never able to put it together and always seemed to be a liability in coverage. Never got is head around, and it always wound up being a big play or DPI. Wish him well, hope he does better in a new setting, but it’s helped our defense to have him off the field.

I think this was M’Pembas second year on campus.

Edit to add, he got passed up by multiple folks.


I think he was a TE or something until his Junior year in HS. Just may need more time to develop at LB, like Tae Crowder.

I see no issue with humphries leaving. One could argue we might have had a chance there's some games had he got his head around more often than none he would beat a lot. His play in that Bama game really sucked. M'Pemba should have waited another year before deciding to leave It was too early to tell if his development was going to take off or not.

TAMU is and has always been a mediocre program.