I was wondering that. Why just now hire a guy from taco tech? I would understand if they waited this long for Malcolm Kelly or someone in the natty game but they could have hired him immediately after the last regular season game or bowl game...
Could have been a professional courtesy to give him some time to decide.
Could have been Malcolm Kelly wouldn't give them his final answer till after his game.
Could have been a professional courtesy to give him some time to decide.
Could have been Malcolm Kelly wouldn't give them his final answer till after his game.
The timing on these things always depend on a lot of factors. Maybe he had a buyout that expired. Maybe his agent was on vacation. It's not like with early signing day, transfer portal, bowl games, Christmas, New Year, Transfer on campus visits, etc., these guys aren't busy. BV wants high character guys. He's going to do this in a way that allows them to fulfill their obligations to their current school, players, and their families.
Andrel Anthony shouldn't have a problem because of Dillon Gabriel being a southpaw. His high school QB was also left-handed. 4.4 speed is acceptable, too.
This hire only makes me question BV's coaching acumen even more. We waited this long to hire a WR coach, after all the really good portal receivers were gone. This guy has very limited and unimpressive experience. I'm about as excited over this hire as I was about Calvin Thibodeaux, and the Thibodeaux experiment was a flop. Lastly, we're hiring another texsa tech assistant. Clearly, we haven't learned from our past mistakes.
It's time to divest this program completely from texsa Tech. It would be nice to pattern it after Alabama or UGA instead. We don't need another texsa recruiter. We need to go where the national championship winners recruit...FL and GA and LA and MS.
Just my 2¢.
"...after all the really good portal WRs were gone." Aren't they still in on the most coveted one of them all; the kid from Bowling Green? Further, this is NOT the previous Taco regime. Those WRs they played this season were much more physical than any that played for Coach Bro.
Starting to think you and cpva have an actual, real life, axe to grind with BV...and OU in general.
I can't speak for anyone else like spva, but I want to see OU competing for and winning national championships again. We're far from that as a program, and we keep going backwards. I'm not a sunshine pumper and I never will be. I'm a realist and I'm honest. Sunshine pumping doesn't motivate people to fix problems. Telling people they're great when they really suck is a disservice to them.
Bob already pointed out Emmet's tech coaching tree, so I won't rehash that.
Broden is the most coveted WR who is left in the portal, but he wasn't the most coveted WR in the portal. The Arizona WR and the LA Tech receivers had much more impressive careers. The guy from Kent State was also more impressive. I'd rather have any of those 3, but having an "interim" coach and bad results on the field didn't help.
Don't get me wrong...I hope we get Broden and I hope he's productive. Same for the Michigan transfer who's done little at Michigan in 2 seasons. But no one will ever convince me that it's a good thing to have to recruit from the portal as much as we do. History has shown otherwise. If we're still having to get 12-14 players from the portal in 2 years, we'll be in trouble and a coaching change will be on the horizon.
Full disclosure, BV wasn't my 1st, 2nd, or 3rd choice. I got behind him nonetheless. I have since developed a wicked case of buyer's remorse with BV. It's been mistake after mistake. I will be surprised if he's still the OU coach in 4 years from now. I hope I'm wrong about that and we're slapping high 5s because of a meteoric rise of the program. I have a hard time believing that based on what I saw this year. I haven't seen anything this bad since Blake was coach. Personally, I thought this team should have finished 7-5 or 8-4 in the regular season. I think our schemes, defensively and especially offensively, really hurt us this year.
I think it's ridiculous to the point of absurdity that he didn't hire a WR coach until so late in the game, and then the guy he hired barely has as much experience as the guy he's replacing. I was expecting a big splash. This was more like a pebble thrown into the river.
And yes, I'm tired of OU over-recruiting texsa. If texsa HS talent were so great, then texsa and texsa A&m should have about 20 national championships between them since they primarily recruit in-state. But they don't have many trophies for good reason. They have more total HS players than anyone else, but they don't have the talent Florida has. Or Georgia. Hell, Alabama produces more high-quality defensive lineman than all of texsa.
OU has as many NCs as ALL of the D-1 texsa schools combined. When OU won those NCs, the thing all 7 teams had in common was that the rosters as a whole, as well as the 2-deep, they were NOT made up of a majority of Texans, which is contrary to the popular myth. texsa HS football is overrated, as is their college football. Florida and Cali universities have a lot more NC trophies than texsa, and those schools also recruit primarily in their home states. So, I'm not excited that we've got yet another texsa recruiter on the staff among plenty of them, when we should be adding Florida recruiters...IF the goal is national championship.
Georgia has ten players from Texsa, one from MS, two from LA Bama has thirteen from Texsa, three from MS, four from LA Together they get two times more recruits out of Texsa than the do MS and LA combined.
Georgia has 88 players on their roster from Georgia and Florida.
I went on their website and looked up their depth chart. How many Texans were on the 2-deep? Two. One was a 2nd string WR. The other is a 2nd string placekicker. There were more players from MD in the starting lineup than TX.
Georgia has ten players from Texsa, one from MS, two from LA Bama has thirteen from Texsa, three from MS, four from LA Together they get two times more recruits out of Texsa than the do MS and LA combined.
Georgia has 88 players on their roster from Georgia and Florida.
I went on their website and looked up their depth chart. How many Texans were on the 2-deep? Two. One was a 2nd string WR. The other is a 2nd string placekicker. There were more players from MD in the starting lineup than TX.
Except the discussion was regarding recruiting and I was specifically responding to the list of Ga, FL, MS, and LA. I never claimed that Ga and Fl aren't their primary recruiting bed. That's not surprising given that one is their home state and one is next door just like Texsa is to us. The claim was that we shouldn't be recruiting Texsa and recruiting those four other states like Bama and Georgia. But Bama and Georgia recruit Texsa more than MS and La. It's also not a particularly good strategy to ignore a large nearby state while trying to go head-head with two behemoths in their stomping grounds. There is no reason not to recruit nationally these days, but one of the primary factors with many recruits is whether mama can come watch them play. That's an easier sell when you are next door and not halfway across the country.
Andrel Anthony shouldn't have a problem because of Dillon Gabriel being a southpaw. His high school QB was also left-handed. 4.4 speed is acceptable, too.
I'm a bit put off by the sizable dropoff from his freshman to his sophomore year at Meatchicken. Still need dudes in that room.
Andrel Anthony shouldn't have a problem because of Dillon Gabriel being a southpaw. His high school QB was also left-handed. 4.4 speed is acceptable, too.
I'm a bit put off by the sizable dropoff from his freshman to his sophomore year at Meatchicken. Still need dudes in that room.
The word on the street is that he was injured ...who knows ...but it seems like Lebby wanted him and probably Jones as well since he committed after Jones was on board
I'm a bit put off by the sizable dropoff from his freshman to his sophomore year at Meatchicken. Still need dudes in that room.
The word on the street is that he was injured ...who knows ...but it seems like Lebby wanted him and probably Jones as well since he committed after Jones was on board
Michigan fan reacting to his transfer mentioned that he was seldom targeted and often had uncatchable passes thrown his direction when he was targeted.
The word on the street is that he was injured ...who knows ...but it seems like Lebby wanted him and probably Jones as well since he committed after Jones was on board
Michigan fan reacting to his transfer mentioned that he was seldom targeted and often had uncatchable passes thrown his direction when he was targeted.
I heard the same thing from a Michigan buddy. He said he was not targeted and used like he should have been and was an incredible athlete. Hopefully he just needs a new start and targets here will see him explode.
Shoot, I was like that in the 90s. I did have a playstation but that wasn't really until I was in highschool. But by then I was practicing baseball until the lights came on after school. I don't think that works in this day and age though. I would never send my kids outside to go wherever like I was able to when I was a kid. I'll send them out in the backyard but too many crazies out there snatching your people up to just let them wonder the neighborhood.
"...after all the really good portal WRs were gone." Aren't they still in on the most coveted one of them all; the kid from Bowling Green? Further, this is NOT the previous Taco regime. Those WRs they played this season were much more physical than any that played for Coach Bro.
Starting to think you and cpva have an actual, real life, axe to grind with BV...and OU in general.
I can't speak for anyone else like spva, but I want to see OU competing for and winning national championships again. We're far from that as a program, and we keep going backwards. I'm not a sunshine pumper and I never will be. I'm a realist and I'm honest. Sunshine pumping doesn't motivate people to fix problems. Telling people they're great when they really suck is a disservice to them.
Bob already pointed out Emmet's tech coaching tree, so I won't rehash that.
Broden is the most coveted WR who is left in the portal, but he wasn't the most coveted WR in the portal. The Arizona WR and the LA Tech receivers had much more impressive careers. The guy from Kent State was also more impressive. I'd rather have any of those 3, but having an "interim" coach and bad results on the field didn't help.
Don't get me wrong...I hope we get Broden and I hope he's productive. Same for the Michigan transfer who's done little at Michigan in 2 seasons. But no one will ever convince me that it's a good thing to have to recruit from the portal as much as we do. History has shown otherwise. If we're still having to get 12-14 players from the portal in 2 years, we'll be in trouble and a coaching change will be on the horizon.
Full disclosure, BV wasn't my 1st, 2nd, or 3rd choice. I got behind him nonetheless. I have since developed a wicked case of buyer's remorse with BV. It's been mistake after mistake. I will be surprised if he's still the OU coach in 4 years from now. I hope I'm wrong about that and we're slapping high 5s because of a meteoric rise of the program. I have a hard time believing that based on what I saw this year. I haven't seen anything this bad since Blake was coach. Personally, I thought this team should have finished 7-5 or 8-4 in the regular season. I think our schemes, defensively and especially offensively, really hurt us this year.
I think it's ridiculous to the point of absurdity that he didn't hire a WR coach until so late in the game, and then the guy he hired barely has as much experience as the guy he's replacing. I was expecting a big splash. This was more like a pebble thrown into the river.
And yes, I'm tired of OU over-recruiting texsa. If texsa HS talent were so great, then texsa and texsa A&m should have about 20 national championships between them since they primarily recruit in-state. But they don't have many trophies for good reason. They have more total HS players than anyone else, but they don't have the talent Florida has. Or Georgia. Hell, Alabama produces more high-quality defensive lineman than all of texsa.
OU has as many NCs as ALL of the D-1 texsa schools combined. When OU won those NCs, the thing all 7 teams had in common was that the rosters as a whole, as well as the 2-deep, they were NOT made up of a majority of Texans, which is contrary to the popular myth. texsa HS football is overrated, as is their college football. Florida and Cali universities have a lot more NC trophies than texsa, and those schools also recruit primarily in their home states. So, I'm not excited that we've got yet another texsa recruiter on the staff among plenty of them, when we should be adding Florida recruiters...IF the goal is national championship.
I mean you are talking about two of the most dysfunctional programs in the NCAA in texsa and aggie so I'm not surprised they can't win anything.
I know you can't go completely off of recruiting rankings as many players don't develop and bust BUT in the 2023 recruiting cycle 17 players in the top 100 according to 247 are from texsa, 12 from AL, 5 are from GA and 22 are from FL. I don't think OU will ever be able to go in to Alabama and Georgia and win many recruitment battles against those schools. Clemson has broken in there some but again they are close in that area. Once we are in the SEC we can probably start getting more guys like that but AL and GA have been recruiting that area since their existence and it wasn't until they got the right coach to coach get them to the level they needed to win a championship. I would like to see them really develop a good pipeline to Florida though. I don't think that is quite as locked up as AL and GA. Kids from those two states dream of going to play in Athens and Tuscaloosa. If they get that chance then they will jump on it. Kids in FL I don't think grow up with a strong since of school pride. They will go anywhere that will get them to the NFL.
Michigan fan reacting to his transfer mentioned that he was seldom targeted and often had uncatchable passes thrown his direction when he was targeted.
I heard the same thing from a Michigan buddy. He said he was not targeted and used like he should have been and was an incredible athlete. Hopefully he just needs a new start and targets here will see him explode.
Which, after watching DG this year, doesn't give me a lot of hope for next season.
I heard the same thing from a Michigan buddy. He said he was not targeted and used like he should have been and was an incredible athlete. Hopefully he just needs a new start and targets here will see him explode.
Which, after watching DG this year, doesn't give me a lot of hope for next season.
I'm hoping that having Arnold in the QB room will allow Lebby to open up the playbook more and make things easier on DG
