Texas TE Bo Scaife out for the season, maybe (knee)...

Apparently Scaife blew out his ACL running a route. He's fragile as hell. I watched the Texas High School coaches game between North and South, and David Thomas is not a DI tight end. The Cavil comparison is pretty close, because he's not a blocker. Chase Pittman might be moved today in practice.

Also, there's news of a returning player having academic problems as well.
http://www.longhornfanzone.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/011635.html

Not to mention 2 decommits in the last few weeks, and Marquis Johnson getting someone to take his ACT.

Guess that means Brock Edwards or Chad Stevens will be starting at TE. Interesting because Scaife was Chrissy's #2 target after Roy. Also, Brock was moved to FB during spring practice.

Press conference today at 3PM. More as it comes.....

 

He had some issues with the NCAA clearinghouse. His score went from 15 -> 18 -> 20. Not sure if someone actually took it for him.

 

Poor guy! It ALWAYS happens to the nice ones, doesn't it? Could have been something really special in today's version of what a TE should be. Hope he can come back like Wayne McGarity did! I'll be pulling for him.....

 

He's still recoving from blowing his ACL, right? So we'd basically have to redshirt him anyway for the upcoming season. Hope he can get his grades together to come back next season. And his ACL should be fully healed and re-habbed by then.

It does suck because Bo is a rare playmaker type at TE-- like Shockey from Miami, or Jerame (sp?) Stevens from Washington. Not saying he was quite in their league, but he had speed and receiving skills that I just don't think Brock Edwards or Chad Stevens can offer.

Minus the knee injuries, I would have put him right up there with the Shockeys, Stevens, and Grahams who were drafted in the 1st rounds this past April. Too damn bad for him and us. Edwards is a totally different type of TE so Coach Davis is gonna have to alter some of his schemes. Wouldn't mind running a little bit more with Cedric all healthy now!

 

This one hurt. The thing with the Marquis situation is that many other schools (ou) have kids that have had much more suspicious scores than MJ. If MJ had gone from a 13 str8 to a 20, I would be suspicious. But his was a gradual rise. Tons of speculation of course.


At wr, remember the name Robert Timmons. He's supposed to be a big time playmaker.

Thomas looked good at the all-star game, but he needs to gain weight. He threw one hell of a crackback type block though.

 

Don't forget the Major Applewhite Show on 1300 at 2 PM.

 

gr8-1: Losing Marquis really hurts, especially if Roy goes pro after the season. This guy was a 5-star recruit, and was supposed to be Roy's heir apparent. Timmons is a stud, though. Saw Brian Carter (#19) yesterday and he looks like he's in good shape as well. The depth chart at WR looks like this:

Roy Williams
BJ Johnson
Sloan Thomas
Tony Jeffrey
Kyle Shanahan
Brian Carter
Robert Timmons (RS)
Dustin Miksch (RS)

Smokey: Guess who's Major's first guest: Simms. They probably won't be taking calls this afternoon.

 

I feel really sorry for Bo, and he was a WR playing TE.

He would've been one hell of a weapon with all the other talent we have to overshadow him offensively.

There will be no derailing this run. Nebraska, without Crouch gimme a break, KState is rebuilding, The aggies in Austin-I don't think so, UNC on the road-tough but we will get it done. Tech on the road-the tortilla flingers scare me a little.

And then OU. Hmm. I'll say the 3rd time is the charm and I'll be there to see it.

I wish Bo could contribute to what will be a magical season but it wasn't meant to be.

Basically, this years run hinges on the Red River Shootout and this is the year we get it done.

 

I think the three toughest games are:

1) OU - no explanation needed

2) UNC - out of conference, early in the season, on the road, 8 PM start on the east coast, emotional game for Mack Brown (last year was not too bad because it was in Austin)...Bunting will have the Tar Heels ready and it could prove costly.

3) NU - Whenever you play the Huskers in Lincoln, its going to be a tough ball game.

 

baqui99..... stevens went to my hs and played tight end so at least he has some experience...... then again that is at the hs level..

i haven't seen a whole lot of him in texas games the few that i have seeen... has he played tight end at all the last few years or mainly full back..

but anyways what they saw of him in hs was as a tight end so maybe the coaching staff may at least have some confidence in his ability to play tight end..

 

I agree about OU and Nebraska.

NC, however, shouldn't be a problem. Their home field advantage isn't near what it is for Tar Heel hoops. Also losing Peppers and Sims hurts them on the D-line. Crouch or no Crouch, Lincoln is damn intimidating. I'll be making the trip up there in November for the game. Simms will be shaken up early, and needs to keep his composure.

The thing that worries me most about TX-OU, is our O-line. OU is stacked on the D-line with Tommie Harris, Kory Klein, Wilkerson, etc. We don't match up well with them after losing our star right tackle, Mike Williams, and our center, Matt Anderson. We have a RS freshman in Jonathan Scott as Mike's replacement, and an undersized Jason Glynn will be stuck with Harris. This doesn't sound too good. Add to that mix the two JUCO studs, Pasha Jackson and Lance Mitchell, and OU's gonna have a tremendous pass rush. Oh ya, did I mention their secondary has 3 Thorpe award candidates? Don't forget to factor in that we have one of the dumbest offensive coordinator's in the nation in Greg Davis.

Anyways, I still have nightmares of Roy Williams leaping over Bret Robin....ughhhh.

 

Yeah- UNC lost 9 defensive starters from last year, including sims and peppers. So, although the game might have an emotional edge to it, and it does have that "trip to stanford" feel to it, it is a game we SHOULD win.

 

I think that needs to be repeated: SHOULD

With Mack expect the unexpected.

 

I think, besides the obvious OU game, K-State is the game that's going to be trouble. For one, it's immediately after the OU game and if we get past that, there's a letdown issue.

More importantly, though, Synder is a ridiculously effective coach. He had a down year last year, but it included a number of close losses to top-10 teams (2 pts to OU, close vs. NU, CU, etc). If they have a legit QB this year, they'll be dangerous. Worst of all, there's still a huge questionmark as to whether Simms will be able to handle their pressure -- they'll be relentlessly attacking him and we do have a new O-Line (3 or 4 starters gone?).

 

You better believe that K-State's gonna blitz the hell outta Simms. That either means that he'll throw alot of picks, or he'll rip the secondary apart like he did to the Ags in 2000. Snyder will have his guys ready for this game, but the talent just isn't there. Ell Roberson is erratic, and their studs like Quincy Morgan, Aaron Locket, Ben Leber, and Josh Scobey have all graduated.

 

I don't think this really hurts UT all that much (I'm not much of a UT fan BTW).

Scaife is a gamebreaking-type of TE, but that really is the last thing that UT has to have. With all the playmakers at WR.

If I'm UT, I'd rather have a blocking TE to protect Simms from getting assraped, than having a TE running deep routes.

If UT's offense weren't so explosive, then yes, it's a major blow. But, this might be the one offensive position, other than FB, where UT could afford to lose a starter. At least it's not Benson, Roy W, SLoan, etc.