The 2013 College Football Thread.

[DK77]

Honestly Adam, those statistical comparisons you posted are nice, but I don't think they prove anything. I'm not saying that he is bad or good, but you are comparing him to a pair of quarterbacks that play completely different styles of offense, especially Miller. Ash to Miller is like comparing apples to oranges LOL.

Considering I don't know any better though, I will take your word for it that Texas offense is in good hands with Ash next year.

[AdamVR4]

Honestly Adam, those statistical comparisons you posted are nice, but I don't think they prove anything. I'm not saying that he is bad or good, but you are comparing him to a pair of quarterbacks that play completely different styles of offense, especially Miller. Ash to Miller is like comparing apples to oranges LOL.

Considering I don't know any better though, I will take your word for it that Texas offense is in good hands with Ash next year.

I brought Braxton Miller into the convo to put Ash's numbers in perspective for mike. Braxton and Ash aren't as different athletically as the numbers suggest -- Ash just wasn't asked to run last year because Case McCoy is turrible.

It's understandable that people think we still don't have a QB. After all, they saw the TCU game. Unfortunately for then true sophomore Ash, that was the last of 3 bad showings on the year.

But the #20 passer rating, the way the offense greatly exceeded expectations, the improvisation ability he flashed, the no-huddle offense of the Alamo Bowl, the graduation of only a few role players... Ash is poised to really impress next season, surrounded by the most talented Longhorn offense since ~2006. Longhorn internets is as cynical as it gets, but there's virtually zero concern about Ash as a junior. Certainly less than there was about Colt McCoy heading into his (RS) Jr season.

[Mikes2nd]

you didn't just say Ash can run as good as Braxton did you?

do I need to refresh your memory?

[AdamVR4]

you didn't just say Ash can run as good as Braxton did you?

I said they're not as different as the numbers suggest. Ash can run, but our offense was designed to keep him in the pocket. Obviously Urban believes in running the QB, a lot.



Braxton (6'2", 210) looks more elusive, but Ash (6'3", 223) is tough and certainly fast enough to keep a defense on its heels.


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[HilbillyHomeboy]

Since OU stole WVU's OL coach, they had to find a replacement, quickly. That replacement is coming in the name of WV native Ron Crook, who coached tight ends and offensive tackles at Stanford the past 2 seasons. Obviously that OL has been fantastic the last few years. Extremely pleased with this hire.

OU got an excellent, excellent, recruiter in Bill Bedenbaugh that they snagged from us. As a coach? Heh, good luck, the (lack of) production of WVU's o-line speaks for itself.

Jeremy

[stealthee]

Jeremy, have you heard anyting more on KJ's situation?

[HilbillyHomeboy]

Haven't heard anything else, but I'm not worried about it. Off season DUI won't affect him. He only blew .058, but since he's only 19, it's an automatic. Either way, he'll run, A LOT, and puke, A LOT, but will be otherwise fine.

Now, Travis Bell is a different story. Domestic battery is serious shit, and he may be in deep on this.

Jeremy

[AdamVR4]

Since OU stole WVU's OL coach, they had to find a replacement, quickly. That replacement is coming in the name of WV native Ron Crook, who coached tight ends and offensive tackles at Stanford the past 2 seasons. Obviously that OL has been fantastic the last few years. Extremely pleased with this hire.

OU got an excellent, excellent, recruiter in Bill Bedenbaugh that they snagged from us. As a coach? Heh, good luck, the (lack of) production of WVU's o-line speaks for itself.

Jeremy

Long career at lots of places... I hope he does terribly at OU.

[HilbillyHomeboy]

LOL, that picture kills me, every time.

As a recruiter, he's fan-damn-tastic. Top 50 in the Country, one of the absolute best in the B12.

Definitely wasn't impressed with his OL coaching at WVU. Josh Jenkins and Quinton Spain were both Army All Americans out of high school, and Dana's scheme is very simple. Yet, neither one of these two did shit. Spain couldn't even be coached to stop telling plays with his feet? Meh, you can have Bedenbaugh, OU.

One thing I will give Bill credit for is the way he left. After national signing day, so we didn't lose any recruits. That's classy, and very appreciated. Arguably, the cream of our '13 class is Shelton Gibson, and Bill was his recruiter.

Jeremy

[AdamVR4]

Wow.

Goodwin & Tavon Austin side by side... Goodwin ran 4.27 to Austin's 4.34



Chris Johnson 4.24 fastest in combine history

good article, highlights below: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-...01--ncaaf.html

And all of this brings up a pretty fair question, one that we find ourselves asking more and more as the years go on: What in the heck is the Texas football coaching staff doing?
It's not quite as bad as telling potential recruit Johnny Manziel he could play safety for the Longhorns, but not using Goodwin is also head scratching. Goodwin had 39 touches all year for an offense that ranked a pedestrian 40th in yards per game. The Longhorns probably could have used the fastest player in college football more than three times a game.
Goodwin isn't a polished football player. He has never been able to commit fully to the nuances of the game, as an elite track athlete who was a finalist in the long jump at the 2012 Olympics. Yet, we're also willing to bet he's the only one on any football field he has been on that can be hand timed at 4.17 in the 40-yard dash. It's a coaching staff's job to teach the players, and put their best players in positions to succeed.
In those criminally low 39 touches last season, Goodwin scored six times. Go figure that a guy that fast could score at a ridiculous rate. The coaches seemed to figure it out a bit in the bowl game, in which Goodwin scored on a 64-yard run and a 36-yard catch. Would have been nice in the first 12 games to use a player that scored on one of every 6.5 touches as a senior.
More damning on Texas is that reports from the Senior Bowl were very positive. Shutdown Corner's Doug Farrar was impressed with Goodwin. So were others, who saw him and couldn't understand either why Texas didn't use him more, like perhaps a more raw version of Tavon Austin with West Virginia. After all, the 40th-ranked team in total offense couldn't have had much to lose.