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Discussion in 'Football: NFL, College, High School' started by Rockets1616, Aug 17, 2011.

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Our running game better be good next year
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No excuse for it not to be. Looks like there have been some roster moves already with Whittington moving back to WR, Overshown to LB and Ossai to DE.

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tinman said: ↑

Our running game better be good next year
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Lol, because THAT's what will make the difference next year

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Let’s hope Herman fares better, he seems to be slightly so far. But I am cautiously encouraged by the staff changes. Yurchich and Boulware are big time improvements and think Coleman will get more out of the WRs than Mehringer did. The defense changes are a bit of an unknown although I think experience along with the scheme change will help.
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I agree. Hopefully the move to rugby tackling will lead to more tackling in practice and less injuries.

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Malcolm Roach is focused on his next chapter, but he had honest words about how the Texas defense could have been better over the past four years. A former linebacker and defensive lineman with the Longhorns from 2016-19, Roach believes that the unit is in good hands now without coordinator Todd Orlando calling the shots.

Texas head coach Tom Herman fired Orlando at the end of the 2019 season Dec. 1, ending a three-year run as the Longhorns' defensive coordinator after a campaign in which the unit had the 97th-ranked total defense with 431.5 total yards allowed over 13 games. Orlando landed on his feet Jan. 24 when he was hired as USC's defensive coordinator, but Herman went hard after former Rutgers head coach Chris Ash, whom he hired as his defensive coordinator Dec. 15 to replace Orlando.

Roach believes that the Texas defense was held back by Orlando's scheme, a 3-3-5 base. As the Longhorns switched to more of a natural 4-3 base under Ash, Roach feels that the talented players will be put in better situations to make plays and ultimately develop.

“I would have loved to be in a 4-3,” Roach told Clarence E. Hill Jr. of the Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram. “I think it’s a smart move. You have pass rushers out there — (senior defensive end) Taquon Graham, (senior defensive lineman) Marquez Bimage, (junior linebacker) Joe Ossai — guys that can get after the quarterback.

“You have to use those guys. That was the biggest thing that we got caught up in, not using our weapons to our full advantage. Now they brought in a new staff, giving those guys the opportunity to rush the passer and show what they have.”

Roach recorded three sacks in 13 games last year, adding nine tackles for loss and one pass breakup. The 6-foot-3, 290-pounder's career numbers total eight sacks, 22 1/2 tackles for loss and three pass breakups in 44 games over four years. In Ash's defense, Roach hopes his now-former teammates get the chances that he did not have under Orlando.

“We understood the reason why we were running what we were running,” Roach said. “That style of play didn’t transfer to the NFL and the NFL didn’t understand what type of player this guy was. Or what type of player they would be getting because of the scheme we ran.

“I just feel 3-4 didn’t let us showcase our abilities the way we wanted to. But we understood why we were running it. I feel the 4-3 will help those guys to show their talents and more people will come out of Texas.”

Now preparing for the draft, Roach was one of the four Texas products invited to the 2020 NFL scouting combine, which runs from Feb. 27 through March 1 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. Wide receivers Devin Duvernay and Collin Johnson and safety Brandon Jonesare the others. Among his goals for the combine, Roach said that he hopes to run a 4.8-second time in 40-yard dash.
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Thought Charlie would do well at USF but looks like it was all Teddy. Makes you wonder if he'll ever get another shot.

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Thought Charlie would do well at USF but looks like it was all Teddy. Makes you wonder if he'll ever get another shot.
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So Charlie and Major are now on the same staff?

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Eyes of Texas: Construction has UT football scattered

via Chip Brown at 247

For the next 16 months, Texas football is … well … scattered all over the place.

What was south is north. What was north is east and west.

That gorgeous locker room with all those state-of-the-art-patented lockers? Gone. Demolished in January. (The lockers themselves were removed and preserved for future use.)

Anyone seen the weight room?

Wait, Tom Herman’s office is now right next to athletic director Chris Del Conte’s? Talk about bonding.

(No wonder Herman has been dressing in sports jackets at press conferences since signing day in December.)

And talk about irony, Texas is now in the locker room that LSU coach Ed Orgeron said had no air conditioning.

Yes, folks, for the next 16 months, everything we’ve come to know about the location of Texas football on campus is upside down and inside out.

Moncrief-Neuhaus, which has housed Texas football since its construction in 1986, has been demolished. To the studs. To make room for a palatial new, $200 million south end of DKR that will be done in August of 2021.

Last year, the construction caused some of the student section at home games to move from the south end zone to Section 19 in the northeast corner of DKR - while the rest of the students sat in sections 30, 31 and 32.

That caused a ripple effect for the LSU game that saw more than 15,000 students cram their way into overflow seating.

Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte said an estimated 116,000 people were in DKR (capacity 100,119) for the LSU game.

“The fire marshall wasn’t happy with us,” Del Conte said. “But our staff was simply overwhelmed by the number of students and basically got bum-rushed.

“We had people sitting in the aisles, standing on bleachers. Let’s put it this way, if you got up to go to the bathroom or to get a drink, you weren’t getting your seat back.”

This year, the construction has caused the coaches, players and the entire Longhorns’ football operation to be displaced.

The Dr. Nasser Al-Rashid Strength Complex, also known as the Texas football weight room, is now in the student recreation center just to the south of DKR.

Football has rented one of the full-length basketball courts in the recreation center for 18 months and moved its entire weight room there.

Players shower in the recreation center or in their 50-year-old locker room, because their plush, new locker room as of three years ago, is now construction dust.

“It’s not ideal by any means,” one team source said. “But then you keep reminding yourself of what’s coming. It’s one year.”

The coaches’ offices have been moved from the south end to the seventh floor of the north end, where Del Conte and his staff, compliance and the media relations departments have been housed.

But part of Del Conte’s staff, compliance and media relations have been moved to various points throughout DKR/Bellmont Hall to make room for the coaches’ offices.

“I’m not sure there’s another Power Five program in America where the football coach’s office is practically next door to his athletic director,” one UT source said.

“But considering we just hired seven new assistant coaches, it’s probably good that everyone is huddled together for this year, so everyone gets to know each other a little better.”

So, until the Joneses of college football can once again live like the Joneses of college football, they’ll live like That ‘70s Show - or at least live out of a locker room that was last used by Texas in the late 1970s.

“It’s a huge shift from what the players were used to,” one team source said. “It’s a visitor’s locker room. It’s not supposed to make you feel at home.”

The south end zone construction also means the Longhorns will enter the field at DKR for home games this season out of the main north end zone tunnel used by the band to enter the field.

Visiting teams will use the visitor's locker room used decades ago in the bowels of the southwest corner of DKR and enter the field from the southwest corner of the stadium.

And as for the fans, they’ll experience inconvenience, too.

The great part about having nearly $800 million in athletics construction happening in the same part of campus simultaneously is that championship facilities for football, swimming and diving, track, soccer and men’s and women’s basketball are all on the way.

The negative aspect is traffic in and out of campus. If you thought it was bad before, wait until the city shuts down Red River between Manor and MLK (which will happen before the 2020 football season).

Deadman Drive leading into Moncrief-Neuhaus from Red River has already been shut down to make room for construction of the new, $388 million Moody Center basketball arena and the new practice facility for men’s and women’s hoops (all due to be completed in early 2022).

Fans at Del Conte’s recent Town Hall meeting on Feb. 2 complained that it often took at least 90 minutes to get out of the LBJ Library parking lot after football games. Just to get out of the parking lot.

Del Conte said that’s part of the reason athletics officials are trying to come up with more things for fans to do AFTER games, such as the postgame silent disco parties on the LBJ Lawn.

And while Del Conte said UT is working with city officials and police to figure out new ways to alleviate the traffic, it’s probably going to get worse before it gets better.

Texas is trying to come up with more and more things to do in and around the stadium before games, so people will feel more comfortable tailgating on Bevo Blvd. or at Longhorns City Limits and will use car services or shuttles onto campus, rather than parking.

But school officials know many traditionalists simply want to bring in their smokers and tents to tailgate the same way they’ve always done it before Texas games.

As is the case with any remodel, it’s never easy or comfortable, so Longhorns Nation just needs to be prepared.

But, hey, there will be an attempt to improve the sound system inside DKR this season, Del Conte said at the Town Hall meeting.

The problem with sound inside DKR is the configuration of the stadium. Because the west side has the upper deck and because all the sound emanates from south end, it bounces off the north end and echoes up to the upper deck.

Currently, your ability to hear the sound system inside DKR depends on where you’re sitting. Some folks in lower sections near the video board complain the sound is too loud. Others can hardly hear it.

School officials are bringing in sound engineers to best figure out how to configure the sound once the south end renovation is completed. The most likely answer will be to disperse speakers throughout the stadium, which could be incredibly costly considering all the concrete that would need to be penetrated to install such a system.
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Thought Charlie would do well at USF but looks like it was all Teddy. Makes you wonder if he'll ever get another shot.
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He'll be a big boy conference DC in the next few years.

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He'll be a big boy conference DC in the next few years.
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Ole Miss can't wait to hire him

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AUSTIN, Texas - Texas offensive coordinator Mike Yurcich is set to receive a three-year, guaranteed contract with a base salary of $1.7 million, while defensive coordinator Chris Ash is set to receive a two-year, guaranteed contract with a base salary of $800,000, according to an agenda book provided to University of Texas regents for an upcoming vote.

Texas regents are set to meet on Feb. 26-27, when they will vote on the proposed contracts for four of the seven new assistant coaches hired by football coach Tom Hermanthis off-season.

Regents are also set to approve a three-year, guaranteed contract paying $700,000 per year in base salary to tight ends coach and special teams coordinator Jay Boulware as well as a two-year, guaranteed contract paying $600,000 annually to co-defensive coordinator and linebackers coach Coleman Hutzler, the regents’ agenda shows.

Herman also hired Andre Coleman as Texas' receivers coach, Mark Hagen as defensive tackles coach and Jay Valai as cornerbacks coach, but their contract information wasn't included in the regents' agenda.

Yurcich is replacing Tim Beck, who earned a base salary of $800,000 as Texas' offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach last season. Ash is replacing Todd Orlando as defensive coordinator. Orlando, who earned a base salary of $1.7 million last season and had a year remaining on a guaranteed contract, is now the defensive coordinator at USC. Beck is the offensive coordinator at N.C. State.

Texas regents are also expected to approve the funding and construction of a $60 million basketball and rowing training facility adjacent to UT's new Moody Center basketball arena (set to be finished in January 2022), according to their agenda.

The basketball and rowing training facility would be 75,200 square feet and would be completed in June 2022. Rowing doesn't currently have its own training facility, and basketball will be losing its Denton A. Cooley Pavilion practice facility when the Erwin Center is demolished to make room for the completion of UT's Dell University Medical Center.

The three-story, basketball and rowing training facility will include basketball courts, rooms for rowing ergometers, strength and conditioning, sports medicine, players' lounges, meeting rooms, and coach and staff offices. Also included in the project will be the interior finish-out of space in the Moody Center for locker rooms for the men, women, and visiting basketball teams, as well as retail store spaces.

Regents are also expected to approve a new agreement through June 2032 with Texas athletics licensing partner IMG College that would pay UT $15 million in royalties in the first year of the agreement, escalating to $25 million in the final (13th) year of the agreement. It was also noted in the regents agenda that Texas is set to receive $12 million this year from ESPN for their Longhorn Network partnership, escalating to $19 million in the final year of the agreement (2030).
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A nice hefty $10M+ reset for Herman. Thank you ESPN.

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A nice hefty $10M+ reset for Herman. Thank you ESPN.
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Make it pay, pronto

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Lower deck walkways are being poured.

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Also, Brian Davis from the statesman posted some new renderings. For now, construction continues on the south end zone. I don't think we'll have a football season this year.

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Also, Brian Davis from the statesman posted some new renderings. For now, construction continues on the south end zone. I don't think we'll have a football season this year.

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Remove 66% of the seats and this could be viable

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OL Denzel Okafor entered the transfer portal. Interesting timing given all what’s going on.

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OL Denzel Okafor entered the transfer portal. Interesting timing given all what’s going on.
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Grad transfer

#12559 Buck Turgidson, Mar 27, 2020
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Surprised since a lot had him as a projected starter at RT. Then again he’s been passed up by younger guys the last 2 seasons.

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