Did Texas force Ewers into the NFL?

Is that called a self-own?

Rodo

lol spurries KNEW arch could not beat out a 7th rounder

The problem with going to the portal is that to some extent - most of the time a significant extent - it tarnishes whatever legacy you had with the original team.

I'm sure Jalen Hurts will always be welcome in Tuscaloosa, but that's one of the few I can think of where the people with the original school still think just as highly about the player after the transfer.

For example, Carson Beck's legacy to a significant extent is going to be tied to Miami from now on. Whether that's the way it should be or not, that's just kind of how it is.

At the end of the day, Ewers wanted his legacy to be firmly tied to Texas, not whatever school he transferred to. He didn't expect to be a 7th round draft pick. If he could have foreseen the future, maybe he makes a different decision. I can tell you if I was in his shoes, I would have taken the money, and I'm a huge Longhorn fan. But I haven't been making over $1 million a year while in college, either. And his family is well off, too, so it's not like he's the primary bread winner, either. He's not buying his Mom a house or anything like that.

I also don't believe this is what Manning was showing in practice. He's not showing it in practice this year. There's something going on between his ears when it comes to game time. It's not just him. Ryan Wingo is having some of the same issues. Colin Simmons is having some of the same issues. But it's most obvious with Manning, and his struggles are the ones that are the most detrimental to the team.

In any case, it wasn't really an option for Ewers to stay another season at Texas. Manning doesn't look ready at all, but I'm not sure another year on the bench solves that. It looks to me like he needs to get out there and suffer through these growing pains and get on the other side of them.

What I can say is this is not the Manning I saw play last year. I can readily admit that UTSA and Mississippi State were not the most robust competition, but neither were San Jose State and UTEP, and Manning looked inconsistent in one and plain awful in the other. It's not the competition. It's playing in games. He's not right, right now.

My guess is that Sarkisian leans heavily on him running the ball against Sam Houston State, since he still looks good in that facet, to help him get his mind right.

I just don't think that entered the calculus. He wanted to be remembered as a Longhorn, not something else.

I'm not trying to say whether it was the right decision or not. But that was his decision.

I don't know how they convinced.All those quarterbacks to go to begin with

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If Connor Weigman continues to have success at UH, he's going to be known as a Cougar, not an Aggie.

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Okay.

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I thought he sniffed around the NIL landscape, but didn’t find any big offers, so he opted for the draft.

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I doubt it. Lots of teams needed QB1s. MIZ could have ponied up $2-3 mil given different portal timing. Glad we have Beau now though, especially with QB2 out.

I didn't say there was a problem. I said that's not what Ewers wanted.

Dia Bell is now lost for the season for the 2nd year in a row. I'm not sure what's going on there, but that's a whole lot of snaps he's missed his last two years in high school.