The Official 2011 NCAA College Football Thread

**AdamVR4** · 12-16-2011, 03:53 PM

Tyla,

This is a particularly fitting post given the latest discussion. This should give you an idea of just how lousy Mack Brown and Greg Davis were at evaluating offensive talent.

How bad was Texas recruiting on the offensive side of the ball from 2006 to 2009? This bad. In that period Texas recruited 40 offensive players, a number 50% larger than the defense had (27). Here is what an offense made up of the best 11 recruits from that era looks like:

WR John Chiles
WR Malcolm Williams
WR James Kirkendoll
TE Blaine Irby
RB Fozzy Whittaker
QB Sherrod Harris
T Britt Mitchell
G Kyle Hix
C David Snow
G Michael Huey
T Trey Allen

A couple of nice players, but also a lot of guys who really are no more than depth contributors on a good team. I don’t believe any of the above players received any conference awards. No offensive players from those three classes were drafted, and I don’t expect any to be drafted. Don’t believe this is the best offensive lineup that can be drawn from those classes? Check them out for yourself. Note- I purposefully did not count two transferred players, G.J. Kinne and Antoine Hicks, who have shown elsewhere that they are stars. If Texas had wanted to keep them, we would have treated them accordingly in order to keep them around.

With only 27 scholarships, what kind of defense could you draw up?

DE Sam Acho (KC Chiefs starter)
DT Kheeston Randall (will be drafted)
DT Lamarr Houston (Oakland Raiders)
DE Sergio Kindle (Ravens)
LB Emmanuel Acho (expect to be drafted)
LB Keenan Robinson (expect to be drafted)
S Earl Thomas (Seahawk star)
S Blake Gideon
S Chykie Brown (Ravens)
CB Curtis Brown (Steelers)
CB Aaron Williams (started for Bills until hurt)

Now do you see how we managed to play for a MNC in 2009, despite offensive scouting that would make Jerry Jones snort in derision?

Note that our offensive recruits were mostly 4 stars, and parts of nationally ranked classes, and you have to ask if the Rivals rankings mean anything. I think recruits with Texas interest got slight boosts, but nothing conspiratorial. I believe that modestly talented players recruited by Texas were a little over-rated, that the Texas coaches were satisfied with “good enough”, and that the Davis/Brown offense wasn’t really the place for the modestly talented player to reach his potential (the Davis/Brown offense was based on matching up great players one-on-one with less-than-great opponents, and capitalizing on the targeted victories).

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**stealthee** · 12-16-2011, 05:04 PM

I really didn't think this deserved its own thread so I'm posted it here.

Craig James on leave from ESPN as he weighs Senate run - NCAA Football - Sporting News

REALLY? LMAO

I guess Craig James would be perfect in politics. He's a lying, coniving, cheating, back-stabbing, self-pretensious asshole.

**AdamVR4** · 12-16-2011, 05:42 PM

Originally Posted by stealthee

I really didn't think this deserved its own thread so I'm posted it here.

Craig James on leave from ESPN as he weighs Senate run - NCAA Football - Sporting News

REALLY? LMAO

I guess Craig James would be perfect in politics. He's a lying, coniving, cheating, back-stabbing, self-pretensious asshole.

I'm just waiting for him to deny the allegations that he killed 5 hookers while @ SMU.

**HilbillyHomeboy** · 12-16-2011, 05:54 PM

What a self-righteous tool.

Jeremy

**AdamVR4** · 12-19-2011, 10:18 AM

Some shit I didn't know about Greg Davis. May or may not be true:

Greg Davis's record without Mack Brown is much, much worse than it is with him.

First, he ran Tulane's program into the ground and got fired.

Then he became the OC at Arkansas. His first game was a 10-3 loss to THE CITADEL. He also got shut out by Memphis. Somehow, he lasted two years as OC, and he produced the two lowest scoring offenses at Arkansas since 1973.

Then he went to Georgia as OC for two years. He got credit in his first season for "turning Eric Zeier into an All-American QB," even though Zeier actually had a better year the previous season without Greg Davis. Georgia went 12-10-1 during those two seasons, and the offense in GD's second year (first without Zeier) was the second worst offense at Georgia since 1991.

Basically, he owes Mack Brown big time for giving him talent that was (except for one year) idiot-proof.

**BigTyla** · 12-19-2011, 10:29 AM

I don't think he's in the running to be honest. Then again, no one knows who's in the running. Things at Auburn have been tight-lipped for the past month. Chizik seems to run a pretty secretive ship down there as it seems very few things slip through the cracks.