Over at Football Study Hall I wrote about some of Neal Brown’s unique qualities as an Air Raid coach who prizes physicality, defense, and special teams. The big story today is that Oklahoma gave way and allowed Austin Kendall to transfer to Morgantown to compete for the starting QB job. I haven’t watched Jack Allison … [Read more…]
Players are zipping in and out of the transfer portal and ending up all over the place. Nowadays QB transfers are a major, defining feature of the college game and there have been some big ones that will shape the 2019 season. Oklahoma wins the “biggest free agent in college football history” Jalen Hurts’ dad … [Read more…]
Things are starting to fall into place as the NFL draft deadline approaches, the coaching silly season resolves, and we see who has to figure out what. The biggest chips fell the other day when Texas’ Lil’Jordan Humphrey declared for the NFL… …and then Oklahoma lost Bobby Evans and Kyler Murray to the NFL draft … [Read more…]
As a Texas grad, I’ve been here before. Your program is replacing a legend who was losing his touch. It wasn’t easy to convince him to hang things up and now he’s probably going to stick around and be a helpful or hurtful force depending on the circumstances. You hated to see him go but … [Read more…]
The league released their All-B12 team already, I was surprised to see that they did so before the B12 championship game evidently counting that strictly as a postseason event and unrelated to the B12 season. Obviously there’s some sense in that but I wanted to see how the Red River Rematch played out before I … [Read more…]
Finally, I have a short interaction I had with Matt Rhule about the Baylor defense. This came after a few questions in which he praised Taylor Young for helping lead this team through the 2017 season and in which he accidentally indicated that he has a high level of trust in Charlie Brewer. Also after … [Read more…]
I asked a single question (this first one) during the televised Big 12 coaching pressers of the legendary Bill Snyder and then some additional questions during the breakout. I’ll list the single question first and then the breakout discussion we had before offering my own commentary. What tactical changes have your new coordinator hires brought … [Read more…]
I had a few brief interactions at B12 media days with Jalen McCleskey, Dana Holgorsen, and Justin Phillips I’ve transcribed here. We’ll start with Dana Holgorsen, who seemed bored and irritated by the time I headed over to his booth at the breakout session. Holgorsen What did you make of some of the dime defenses … [Read more…]
I caught a few words with Lincoln Riley during B12 media days, transcribed here. Coach what went into the decision to move Caleb Kelly inside? Just thought it was the right time, kinda had an opening there with Emmanuel Beal graduating. It’s gonna allow us to keep Caleb on the field a little bit more … [Read more…]
At the 2016 Big 12 media days Matt Campbell was a little resistant to the idea that the goal at Iowa State was to build a Midwestern-Style football team to take on the Texas-based squads elsewhere around the league. However, I came back and revisited the topic at the 2018 Big 12 media days and … [Read more…]