The average pundit said that Matt Rhule was going to struggle to recruit Texas replacing Art Briles and coming in to a program that had just endured a PR nightmare but that he’d be able to win early by utilizing Briles’ players. I had a very different sense of things, I was never terribly worried … [Read more…]
I overlooked TCU in my preseason prognostications of the 2017 Big 12 football season. I probably oversteered a bit for having missed West Virginia the previous season and I also underestimated Gary Patterson’s ability to fix the defense with so many returning starters and Sonny Cumbie’s ability to mold Kenny Hill into a good game … [Read more…]
Last year was a huge one for Kliff Kingsbury at Texas Tech. He needed to win some games and he was going to have to figure it out without Patrick Mahomes II at QB but instead relying on 5th-year senior/stopgap Nic Shimonek. That necessarily meant that Texas Tech was going to need to play defense … [Read more…]
There have been a few big picture themes that are very clear regarding Lincoln Riley’s rule in Norman and some others that are murkier. It’s clear that Riley is a very effective recruiter that guarantees consistently strong classes for his program, he’s committed to the run game and creative in deploying it, he’s a really … [Read more…]
The 2017 season was a big one for Mike Gundy and Oklahoma State. My assumption was that it was going to be his big chance to cash in hard on the Mason Rudolph era before it faded and head off for another job (Tennessee?) if he was ever going to do so. Oklahoma State seemed … [Read more…]
The terminal stages of the Charlie Weis era at Kansas were marked by the 2013 recruiting class, which featured 35 signed players of which 20 were JUCOs. The brazen over signing was made possible by the fact that he was just taking flyers on kids all over the place with the understanding that many of … [Read more…]
I skipped ahead to knock out my review of the Longhorn class over at Inside Texas. It’s free so you can read the full breakdown just like all my other classes, it’s just hosted by Inside Texas where I do my Longhorn work. Something I didn’t fit into that review is that like Matt Campbell … [Read more…]
It’s kind of remarkable that Kansas State is recruiting as well as they are right now given olcow much of an unknown it is whether or not Bill Snyder will be still coaching from year to year. However, they keep getting young and younger as a staff as the old man replaces retiring or departing … [Read more…]
I had Coach Joe Willis of Colleyville Heritage on “The Expansion Candidate” this week to talk recruiting today in the Big 12, the value of 7 on 7 camps, IMG and their riff with Texas, and expectations for the upcoming Big 12 season. We opened by talking about Willis’ experiences facing Chad Morris and Lake … [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…]