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How can Strong and the Longhorns reverse the current recruiting trend in Texas?
Posted on 2/12/14 at 1:07 am
Posted on 2/12/14 at 1:07 am
Our old friend Geoff Ketchum has a plan all laid out:
But wait, there's more:
TLDR: Steal Daylon Mack and pray the Texans dont pick Manzisl
I would just like to thank whoever signs Ketch's checks for allowing him a platform with which to voice his thoughts. God bless you
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If Charlie Strong wants to set the world on fire in 2015 recruiting, and by setting the world on fire I mean taking control of the Lone Star State back away from the Aggies, I've got just the challenge for him that might accomplish just that.
Go get Gladewater defensive tackle Daylon Mack. Go get Texas A&M defensive tackle commit Daylon Mack.
In a year when the defensive tackle needs for the Longhorns are as severe as they've been in a decade, this is the guy they've got to get and if they can find a way to drive a wedge between Mack and the Aggie coaches to whom he's been committed since October 22 of last year, Strong might just find that the pathway to the type of recruiting class that can punctate his first year in Austin might be wide open.
Not only is Mack one of the top players in the state of Texas, but he's also an unofficial pied piper for sorts for a huge block of East Texas recruits in his class. Although he may or may not be the best overall prospect in Texas, there definitely hasn't been a more influential prospect around these parts to be found because it seems like every top prospect in the state has an open ear to Mack.
Therefore, he needs to priority No. 1 for Strong and the rest of the Texas coaching staff and the recruiting pitch doesn't have to be rocket science.
If you want to play championship defense, are you going to go play for a head coach that hasn't had a top-flight defense at any point in his tenure as a head coach or are you going to go play for a head coach whose entire reputation is built around what you're looking for?
A&M coach Kevin Sumlin joked this week that he needed to get him some more gadgets based on the way he recruited in 2014, but at some point Strong's message of substance over show has to sink in if the Texas coaches can simply deliver the velvet sledgehammer throughout the next year. Yes, the Texas coaches will remind him, "Coach Sumlin is good with offense, DJ booths and helicopters, but are you about maximizing your abilities as a defensive player and winning championships because that's what we're about."
All the Texas coaches need is a chance. Get Mack on campus once and see if once can become twice and twice becomes three times.
Establish your message and make Sumlin prove in 2014 that he's about substance. Make him prove that he's not just a guy that happened to be the coach when Johnny Manziel showed up. Texas needs to create doubt in his mind and then it needs to let that doubt fester during a 2014 season that figures to be just about anything but championship caliber.
It won't be something that happens in the blink of an eye, but quest needs to be issued and fulfilled …
Go get Daylon Mack.
But wait, there's more:
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In the aftermath of a couple of shots being fired across the bow by both Charlie Strong and Kevin Sumlin this week, which seemed to preview exactly the kind of hard clashes that await both in the game of recruiting in the coming weeks, months and years, there's no question that one of the most hotly contested areas of the state of Texas will be in the Greater Houston area.
Along with the Metroplex and East Texas, the Houston area represents one of the three most important recruiting hotbeds that Charlie Strong must have recruiting success in.
Therefore, if you're a University of Texas football fan, you better cross your fingers that Johnny Manziel is not drafted by the Houston Texans because if you think the amount of rhetoric coming from A&M voices is loud now, it would probably reach out of control heights if he becomes the NFL face of such a recruiting hotbed region.
Basically, the A&M brand would have daily constant reinforcing over the next few years at a minimum in a very powerful way if Manziel is selected No. 1 and becomes the most important professional face in the city. It's not that any kid is going to make his decision based on who is playing quarterback for a local NFL team, it's that the idea that A&M is now the cool kid on the block will only strengthen if its favorite son is the poster child for that city's Super Bowl hopes.
It would give A&M even more momentum in Houston than it already currently possesses and that's an added dynamic that the Longhorns probably don't want to deal with.
All hail Teddy Bridgewater?
TLDR: Steal Daylon Mack and pray the Texans dont pick Manzisl
I would just like to thank whoever signs Ketch's checks for allowing him a platform with which to voice his thoughts. God bless you
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Posted on 2/12/14 at 1:09 am to Roger Klarvin
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&M coach Kevin Sumlin joked this week that he needed to get him some more gadgets based on the way he recruited in 2014, but at some point Strong's message of substance over show has to sink in if the Texas coaches can simply deliver the velvet sledgehammer throughout the next year.
What does this sentence mean?
Posted on 2/12/14 at 1:19 am to TbirdSpur2010
Oh wait my bad that's the velvet fog
Posted on 2/12/14 at 1:23 am to Agforlife
Posted on 2/12/14 at 1:23 am to Agforlife
From the urban dictionary
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velvet hammer
When a man takes his errect penis, and bounces it off the forehead or mouth of a woman.
He gave her a velvet hammer, right before he blew his load.
Posted on 2/12/14 at 1:27 am to TbirdSpur2010
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What does this sentence mean?
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velvet sledgehammer
I typed this phrase into the Pornhub search engine once and got 53 emails from some guy named John 'The Fist' Buggery.
Posted on 2/12/14 at 1:31 am to Agforlife
oh lawd.....
ETA: But that sentence still makes no sense!
ETA: But that sentence still makes no sense!
This post was edited on 2/12/14 at 1:32 am
Posted on 2/12/14 at 1:33 am to TbirdSpur2010
Apparently the coaches are gonna go around bouncing their dicks off of foreheads.
This post was edited on 2/12/14 at 1:34 am
Posted on 2/12/14 at 1:33 am to dbt_Geaux_Tigers_196
Posted on 2/12/14 at 1:33 am to Agforlife
Well, it IS austin........
Posted on 2/12/14 at 6:39 am to Roger Klarvin
Charlie's best option: velvet sledgehammers!
Posted on 2/12/14 at 6:41 am to TbirdSpur2010
I agree T-bird, what's being overlooked is that the sentence containing the sledge reference doesn't make any sense. That's not a coherent English sentence. And that guy does this for a living.
Posted on 2/12/14 at 9:57 am to Roger Klarvin
So, in other words, it's out of t-sip control. Sips can only pray and hope.
Prediction:
Sips will try to pay D-Mack for his commitment.
We should be ready with NCAA investigators to pounce and put their program so far behind that they will never even SNIFF A&M's level for the next 200 years.
Prediction:
Sips will try to pay D-Mack for his commitment.
We should be ready with NCAA investigators to pounce and put their program so far behind that they will never even SNIFF A&M's level for the next 200 years.
Posted on 2/12/14 at 1:13 pm to Roger Klarvin
I'm not a recruiter or a mouthpiece for a university but something tells me if you are planning to drive a wedge between a recruit and the coaches/school he is currently committed to you probably shouldn't publicize it in an article that he could end up reading.
Posted on 2/12/14 at 1:22 pm to Dr RC
Ketch is operating on the triple assumption that he's illiterate, lacks internet access, and has no interest in college football. All of his assumptions are incorrect, but hey, it's Ketch, he makes his living judging 2-stars to be 4-stars.
Posted on 2/12/14 at 1:25 pm to KaiserSoze99
The NCAA won't get involved, they fear the SEC and Texas far too much and they are a shell organization. Unless Texas (or whomever) were foolish enough to write Mack a check or make it super obvious and traceable that just isn't going anywhere. Besides, I think we would match their bid.
The only hope Texas has is for Texas to have a great year while we falter, it's really that simple. If we are successful and Strong struggles it is going to get really, really ugly for them.
The only hope Texas has is for Texas to have a great year while we falter, it's really that simple. If we are successful and Strong struggles it is going to get really, really ugly for them.
Posted on 2/12/14 at 1:37 pm to aggressor
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The only hope Texas has is for Texas to have a great year while we falter, it's really that simple. If we are successful and Strong struggles it is going to get really, really ugly for them.
very true
I wish no ill will towards Strong but it would really be funny if he ended up being another David McWilliams/John Mackovic for them.
Posted on 2/12/14 at 1:47 pm to Roger Klarvin
Apart from a few snippets & tweets, I've never actually read a literary offering of any length from Ketch.
Jimminy, he's a horrible writer.
And holy cow, does Sumlin have them shell-shocked.
Jimminy, he's a horrible writer.
And holy cow, does Sumlin have them shell-shocked.
Posted on 2/12/14 at 2:13 pm to Roger Klarvin
All that faux-literate verbal diarrhea, and for naught. All he should have said, and all that matters is: winning.
If Charlie Strong comes out and has a good first season, say he wins 10 games including the bowl and surprises someone, beats down a couple of teams in conference, and hangs with everyone they lose to, UT will recruit itself again. It's like draining a fish tank - if you can get that syphon to catch, it will take care of itself.
If not, there are no tricks, or key recruits or postures, or yes, gadgets, that will work. Absent winning on a notable level right away, which is as I set out, the existing pre-conceived opinion of UT as a program currently in a down-cycle and of Charlie as a back-up plan, 8th-choice hire without charisma will continue to hobble their recrutiing to the point that they'll be down for a decade and will have to go through Charlie and most likely one other coaches before the cycle plays itself out.
It's win reasonably big next year or else for Charlie. If he can't, I bet everything I own he'll be out in 3 or 4 years. It's one thing to take over a sucessful program and maintain, or even to take over a success program and have a rebuilding year your first year while re-tooling things to your system, but it's another thing entirely to take over a major program in a major conference that already has downward momentum when you arrive. You don't get grace years in that situation - all those years do is cement the negative perception that the program is in a desert-wandering era, which I genuinely think UT is entering.
If Charlie Strong comes out and has a good first season, say he wins 10 games including the bowl and surprises someone, beats down a couple of teams in conference, and hangs with everyone they lose to, UT will recruit itself again. It's like draining a fish tank - if you can get that syphon to catch, it will take care of itself.
If not, there are no tricks, or key recruits or postures, or yes, gadgets, that will work. Absent winning on a notable level right away, which is as I set out, the existing pre-conceived opinion of UT as a program currently in a down-cycle and of Charlie as a back-up plan, 8th-choice hire without charisma will continue to hobble their recrutiing to the point that they'll be down for a decade and will have to go through Charlie and most likely one other coaches before the cycle plays itself out.
It's win reasonably big next year or else for Charlie. If he can't, I bet everything I own he'll be out in 3 or 4 years. It's one thing to take over a sucessful program and maintain, or even to take over a success program and have a rebuilding year your first year while re-tooling things to your system, but it's another thing entirely to take over a major program in a major conference that already has downward momentum when you arrive. You don't get grace years in that situation - all those years do is cement the negative perception that the program is in a desert-wandering era, which I genuinely think UT is entering.
This post was edited on 2/12/14 at 2:24 pm
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