Introducing, a new podcast hosted by yours truly that’s focused with Big 12 football, “The Expansion Candidate!” For our first episode we had Coach Cody Alexander of Matchquarters.com on to talk about what makes Texas high school football so effective, how that affects Big 12 football, and the school of defense he learned from Phil … [Read more…]
I took the time to break down a couple of Port Neches-Groves games for Inside Texas to break down Herman’s new QB commit Roschon Johnson. You can read my thoughts here. I think this may be intriguing for Texas and non-Texas fans alike as I discuss the nature of evaluating sophomores, the design of high … [Read more…]
Over at Inside Texas, members can get access to Eric Nahlin (best in the region) discussing where the different schools in the Big 12 are right now in recruiting for their 2018 classes. If you’re not a member, you can sign up for a promotion that gives you free access until August 14th. Overall things … [Read more…]
My man @The_Coach_A from matchquarters.com did the coaching world a service and summarized a modern, anti-spread defensive philosophy in his new book: I’ll confess, I opted for the Kindle version, which still reads really easily but is perhaps a tad less useful for sharing for coaches that would want their staff to read this book. … [Read more…]
Over at Inside Texas I broke down Texas’ new challenge in finding 4i-technique defensive ends that can anchor their new 3-4 defense under Todd Orlando. The 4i is a developmental position, you want guys with length and size to play the position since they have to grapple with offensive tackles but that style also requires … [Read more…]
It’s time for another twitter-bag! I took questions from Twitter users about this upcoming Big 12 season. I’m currently in the midst of a deep dive into about 25% of the college football world as I writeup previews for the 2017 Football Outsiders Almanac. It’s a publication with more NFL data and info then you … [Read more…]
I went on David Smoak’s radio show on ESPN Central Texas 1660 to talk about Matt Rhule’s overhaul of Baylor, the new offense, and how the current players will fit in. You can check out the interview here. The column series we discussed on Rhule’s overhaul of Baylor is a three-parter. Part one on Rhule’s recruiting/player … [Read more…]
BYU and LSU are facing off in Houston to open this upcoming season and I previewed their battle over at SB Nation. Both teams covet the ability to recruit Houston but both teams are looking for very different types of players. LSU has been pilfering some of the top DBs (and top players in general) out … [Read more…]
One of the biggest shocks that has come from the new #RhuleofLaw in Waco has been the physical nature of Baylor Bear practices. This has been a major departure from the Art Briles regimen of extremely rep-heavy, up-tempo practices designed to get as many reps in as possible every day. Most teams find that these up-tempo, … [Read more…]
Because of the nature of Briles’ Baylor program towards the latter end of that regime, before things went horrifyingly wrong, it has become a bit easy to forget how Briles built that program in the first place. After consecutive Big 12 titles in 2013 and 2014 the Bears were cruising in recruiting, snatching up highly touted … [Read more…]