re: Darian Claiborne and Isaiah Golden dismissed from team.

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Wait, Stansbury is retiring too? frick, he finally got decent.

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nah he got arrested and has already been reinstated because he has an alibi. If the cops blow a hole in that alibi, he gone. But otherwise I think he's good to go

I would. I saw the Wire

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Wait, Stansbury is retiring too? frick, he finally got decent.

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ROBINSON is retiring. Stansbury is fighting bogus charges.

Whatever happened to Tyrone and Tyrell Taylor? They are still on the team and one of the played pretty well in 2012 IIRC.

He wasn't very good last year but a lot of positive vibes for Mastro this spring.... gotta hope that's gonna translate into the season this fall.

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Whatever happened to Tyrone and Tyrell Taylor?

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they are still on the team. And I don't think you are remember correctly

Tyrell Taylor basically didn't play last year after the first game or two. He's a SR this year. Tyrone Taylor will be a R-SO. He played a little but in the bowl game neither made an appearance despite both Stansbury and Obioha being out.

I don't see them ever being a factor tbh but in the above I do have Tyrone as 2nd team WDE. I think he'll be passed by Garrett though

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The biggest hit is the lack that we now have zero known playmakers at LB. Every single starting spot is open.

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Definitely true. I'd be more concerned if we spent the spring thinking these two were going to major contributors. But honestly they weren't sure if either would be there in the fall so they made plans around that possibility.

Damn

I would guess Golden pleas down and testifies on Claiborne if it's true Claiborne did the pistol whipping and had the gun. In also assuming Claiborne didn't acquire the gun legitimately so that could be more against him


Knowing CS and Brazos County they will want to make sure both don't get off easy though

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Honestly all of these arrests are telling me that we are recruiting the right kind of players

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I know this is a joke but since we're discussing it...

You always want the best players you can get. But there's a line you don't want to cross. When a kid gets in trouble he can take others with him because that is generally your group of friends. Right now we've got a few sketchy groups on the team and it has led to a lot of these problems.

We flat passed on two borderline top 10 in state guys last year because of character concerns. That doesn't necessarily mean they are bad guys, simply that we are making a concerted effort to bring in foundation guys. If we take a chance on someone going forward, it will probably only be true game changers and there will probably be a pretty lively discussion about players in his position group or from his HS.

We just don't want to take risks given the current team composition. All the talent in the world doesn't overcome being a knucklehead. There is a pretty high profile recruit in this class that we have similar reservations about. We're recruiting him though so I'm pretty interested if that changes with this news. There is a very specific reason I think it'll be okay but I'm not sure how much risk we really want to take on.

The '14 defensive class is chock full of elite guys we'll never have to sweat: Garrett, Cunningham, Johnson, Alaka, Walker, Washington. These are honor society, church goin' types that just aren't going to be problems. The advantage of recruiting really well is not having to take as many chances. Hopefully this is the end of the chaos and the young leaders will begin to take hold of this team because it's hurting the team, recruiting, and even university fundraising.

very true. Just like in talent evals you aren't ever going to be 100%. But a knucklehead here or there isn't a problem, especially in BCS. It's when they start getting in groups. You can't pick guys' friends for them and just like hot chicks, knuckleheads tend to gravitate together.