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I think Littrell, and probably Bloesch, really likes Aune. Littrell sounded really excited about Aune going forward on Brune’s podcast this week. Back before the UTEP game, Barnett asked Littrell in the pre-game show about Bean’s development and Littrell went out of his way to praise Aune as well and talk about how well he had been practicing and how he planned to work Aune into that UTEP game. Then Littrell pulls Bean after that 1st drive fumble and Aune goes on to put up 300 yards and 5 TDs that game. Bean transferring seems to indicate the coaches had chosen to go with Aune for next year as well. After him it will be interesting to see if Gilmore can rise up the depth chart, even though a few posters on here have indicated the early reports on Gilmore in practice weren’t good. Martin seems like a decent backup and if he has been ahead of Kuehne the past two seasons, hard to imagine that changing. Drummond will be fun to watch, and he might actually be talented enough to compete but hopefully our focus with him will be on developing him first.

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Always big to get a conference road win. I feel like playing at Tudor Fieldhouse is especially tricky because it seems they are pretty good at sucking us into playing more at their pace there, but we were able to come out on top which is great. To win at their place while they shot over 50% from the floor and almost 50% from three is very impressive.

Nope. This is our travel partner, so we do one home and one away.

This is such a straw man. No one has ever said this, but people have said things along the lines of being curious about the vetting process on these guys. I don’t understand why that’s always met with such negative reaction on here or the insinuation that it’s akin to calling these assistant coaches guilty. Concern seems understandable given the horrific extent of the Baylor situation within the football team, and after the previous coach we hired from that Baylor staff was arrested after an investigation before he could coach a game I don’t understand why people treat it as a taboo subject. As the “fool me once” saying goes, if we’re going down this path a second/third time, isn’t it fair to be curious about the vetting process here? Because that’s what I’ve seen/said myself, and I haven’t seen or said anything along the lines that we shouldn’t have hired them or they shouldn’t be allowed to coach again, like you’re insinuating. He has personally admitted fault in the situation and the investigation found him at fault. Yes it was clearly an institutional issue, and the reports make it clear this did go deeper than football and the University did try to paint this as a football specific issue rather than a University issue, so that does make Briles a scapegoat in that sense. But that doesn’t mean he was not at fault of his own. From Briles directly: “So, I understand that I made some mistakes, and for that I'm sorry. But I'm not trying to plead for people's sympathy. I'm just stating that, 'Hey, I made some mistakes. I was wrong. I'm sorry. I'm gonna learn. I'm gonna do better." From the investigation: The review, conducted by the Philadelphia law firm Pepper Hamilton, found particular fault with Briles' program, saying, "there are significant concerns about the tone and culture within Baylor's football program as it relates to accountability for all forms of student-athlete misconduct." https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/17489466/art-briles-says-sorry-happened-watch-baylor-bears

Done It is now tomorrow afternoon at 2. Saturday game moved to Sunday at 3.

At first glance looks tough. Also have to keep perspective that CUSA has been awful and our recruiting has been ranked ahead of all of our conference mates except FAU, who isn’t on the schedule. Have to start winning more than just the easy games on the schedule.

A couple good things going for us here are 1. Paige already chose us over 3 P5 offers. Last year we got Jayden Jones’ commitment before he had any other big offers, then when they started rolling in he wavered pretty quickly. 2. As a 6’2” defensive end I don’t know that he’s due for another big recruiting blow up. His offer list is already really good for a 6’2” defensive end and his bookend DE has even more offers, so his visibility isn’t an issue. Chances are a lot of the schools who have seen him and didn’t offer were deterred by his lack of height. Either way, it’s always gonna be hard to hold onto a commit for 11 months, but definitely evidence that our recruiting momentum is still going strong.

Yeah it is very common for grad transfers to be brought in for just one year. Teams usually don’t fill their recruiting classes with those guys but you see most teams bringing in grad transfers every year. We brought in 3 for the 2019 season.

Sounds like the latter

According to Littrell at the end here. Sounds like we have a rising star on the coaching staff and this should help keep him with us.

https://meangreensports.com/news/2021/1/25/womens-basketball-wbb-games-versus-rice-postponed.aspx

Graphic showing this is an o-line commit

No

Looking like he’s coming to play offensive line, based on the verbiage and his video

Commitment #2 for the class

There’s 11 there. 3-2-6

Yeah someone posted that alignment previously and I saw where it came from. I didn’t see that alignment, even against 4 wide.

He is back to being listed as a receiver for the 2021 roster but that’s going to be interesting to follow. As a receiver he’s probably our 3rd outside receiver behind Simpson and Shorter (who is out for spring), and at CB we have more people but he was starting by the end of the year. Will be really interesting to see how Bennett evaluates everyone and who he wants at what position.

Someone else posted this alignment chart but that’s not what I’ve seen looking back at Baylor games. I think it will be more of a 4-2-5.

We have our first class of 2022 commit

As of now the only starters we have lost from last season are Ogunmakin, Darden, Cam Johnson, Makyle Sanders, and technically Bean. Ogunmakin was only starting because Shorter was out. So offensively we return basically 9 starters if you count Aune, our leading passer, and we still are set to return almost all of those guys again in 2022. That #1 offense in CUSA is going to be together for a while. Just need the defense to be average, and we definitely have pieces on that defense to make that happen.

I think he should definitely not get a pass for this season. That scholarship situation is all his to own up to. Plus, because everyone had their eligibility frozen throughout the 2021 season, sophomores are really upperclassmen in terms of how long they have been on campus, and even redshirt freshmen are entering their 3rd seasons of college football.