Well Sark got his first top 100 recruit today! Not a big surprise that it is a big and fast WR. Armani Winfield is a smooth, well coordinated outside receiver. His feel for space and ability to time and set up route breaks relative to the defender or the pass are all very advanced. At 6-foot-2, 180 pounds with a lot of speed to blow by receivers 1-on-1, he projects well to the Z or X positions at Texas. Right now he’s at his best manipulating space so the Z or an outside slot position in 10 personnel make the most sense. But down the line he may grow into a big, dominant target at the boundary X as well.
Sark to hold his press conference today. Steve Sarkisian officially takes hold of Longhorns program hours after winning national title
Rich Rodriguez is joining Terry Bowden's staff at Louisiana-Monroe and will be the Assoc Head Coach and OCoord. His son Rhett is transferring from Arizona and is a QB.
Sark had his press conference yesterday said Texas is BACK! He's about championships and expects to be competing sooner rather than later. Also said he'd love to play Texas A&M, also said the Eyes of Texas was the school song and that they would be supporting it and singing it. That was the only thing that is a little touchy. I don't actually know where we are with the Eyes controversy, but he needs to be sensitive to players feelings on this IMHO, those players who have strong feelings about it should be listened to and not be just told to shut up and sing. Most fans are happy with the hires he's made so far and the watch is on right now for who will be the DCoord.
Can you recall any coach whose career path has fallen more steeply than Rich Rod? From rejecting the head coaching job at Alabama when he was a HC of WV to gratefully accepting a job at ULM is like falling from Mount Everest and landing at the bottom of Neptune’s ocean.
I'd actually forgotten that he one time turned down the Alabama job, I was thinking how he was riding high at West Virgina, got the call to the big leagues at Michigan and I thought at the time Michigan had made a great hire, of course it was a horrible fit although he was the one who brought Denard Robinson to UM wasn't he? He ended up at Arizona where had a little success but it ended badly with the sex scandals, and then OCoord at Ole Miss ..now as you said the bottom rung of the ladder. He was so successful with that run version of the Spread using Pat White and I read his wikipedia page and they said he "invented" the RPO. The thing is he's still only 57 y/o.
It just now hit me, had RR taken the Alabama job in Dec 2006 that Nick Saban would not have taken that same job in Jan 2007. I wonder where Saban would have landed? Would he have stayed 1 more year at Miami and then come back to college after the 2007 season and taken the Michigan job?
Yep. Alabama dodged a nuclear missile that day. I wonder, in his heart of hearts, what Rodriguez thinks about that move?
Kp, .but the Tide rolls on forever Kp * Is this your new signature? I will have to address you as Mr. Asterick
After reading and thinking carefully about this comment, I think I need to replace Anne’s German steak knives with plastic ones to avoid self harm while wallowing in depression.
Don, yeah I have put a smiley face up for the year after Alabama's previous National Championships and I am just acknowledging the special conditions of this season with asterisk.
it does look like Bill O'Brien will be the next Alabama OCoord, Saban answered questions about him at a press conference for the Bear Bryant Award. Saban has turned over his entire staff since 2017 now, amazing. Also appears that Urban Meyer will be the next Jacksonville Jaguars HC. I am so surprised to tell you the truth. No doubt a great coach, but it just seems like his style is a fit for college but not the Pro's. Maybe he's the next Jimmy Johnson. Sark is bringing the Alabama OL coach with him, they've coached together before Alabama so I guess it's not a big surprise and he'll be given the title of OCoord/OL coach so it's a step up for him that wouldn't have happened at Alabama.
"Urban Meyer will be the next Jacksonville Jaguars HC." I agree Terry. It must be an ego thing with Meyer. I hope he is not disappointed, but it definitely is a big risk in my opinion. He certainly does not need the money.
Harbaugh brings in all-time great UM RB, Mike Hart, to coach the RB's. He's been around college football as a coach for awhile now, currently at Indiana. Mike Hart on Harbaugh back in 2007 when Harbaugh was at Stanford and made comments about the way UM treated athletes academics when he was there that Hart took offense. “That’s a guy I have no respect for,” Hart said. “You graduate from the University of Michigan, and you’re going to talk about your school like that, a great university like we have? To say that we’re not true student-athletes? I don’t know if maybe he wants to coach here and he’s mad because he didn’t get a job.” “He says we don’t have great student-athletes, but he just accepted one of our transfers,” Hart said. “What kind of sense does that make? Obviously, he wants guys like us at his school. I don’t know how he can say that. He’s not a Michigan man. I wish he’d never played here.”
Jeff Banks another Alabama asst coming to Texas. That makes the OL coach to OCoord/OL Coach a grad asst to QB coach and now Banks who was the TE/ST coach and according to the InsideTexas a terrific recruiter who worked the state of Texas so he knows the state. In wondering about why he's getting so many guys to come with him, I have heard that he got Terry Joseph from ND by bascially doubling his salary. Now I can't imagine that Bama is someplace that doesn't pay top dollar.
Golding is still the front runner for Sark's DCoord according to what I read. Univ of Alabama at Austin I guess!
Urban Meyer left Florida for medical reasons then the same at Ohio State. I don't know why the pressure at Jacksonville in the NFL would be less pressure except for recruiting. And that might be a biggie. I am not sure how I feel about him being the Jags head coach, except I find it strange he keeps retiring for a year then taking another job.
He might just be a work junkie. Even though it's not good for him, he can't stay away. I suspect NFL pressures are vastly different... you just have to win which he believes he can. Worrying about recruiting, and not breaking rules are non issues there. Maybe that will the difference.