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Evan V
Welcome back everyone to the Quick Hitters show on Monday on the Inside Texas YouTube channel. Presented by Inside Texas. I'm your host, Evan V. After little vacation hiatus, joined by Nash Talks Texas. Nash I'm no longer in a cave. I'm just kind of in a blank prison cell right here. Before I get my New apartment, set up, my office, background. But before we get into a pretty interesting topic about kind of youth in Texas's relationship with the youngest teams in college football, make sure you're heading over to Inside Texas and joining for just $1, which also lets you join for 50% off for the first year. You join Inside Texas today for all your Texas football, basketball, baseball needs. But really, Nash, we've been talking about it. Football is right around the corner with, you know, th SCA just, just ending. And SEC media day is coming up. World cup ended, football's coming, and it's a fun time of the year.
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Nash
Yeah, absolutely. I mean, we're. We're right on the cusp of football season. That transition from July to August, that's when things really start to feel real. And then once you get into late August, man, it's. Every day starts to be a countdown. You know, the intensity really starts to build.
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Evan V
Yeah. With us to see media days this week. Next week's kind of the last nothing before we get into spring or fall camp. Excuse me, and all that comes with that. But let's talk about, you know, one of the things that always gets brought up is, is youth on teams and how much experience matters. And I wrote an article earlier this week that was titled Texas is one of the youngest teams in College Football. Once again, here's why it won't matter this time around, which is, you know, kind of a thing that you're scared of no matter what. When you hear that Texas is one of the youngest teams because you saw what Indiana did last year with a roster, you know, a little overblown about how many of their players are 23, 24, especially on the starting lineup. But a lot of depth was brought in of experienced G6 players. Now, are we looking at another Texas team that is young? And the answer is yes. I mean, look at this graph. The youngest teams in college football, one is Georgia. So that's the only really major team ahead of them Yukon, NIU, and then the Longhorns. Teams that are under 20 years of age average are USC, Ohio State, Notre Dame, Tennessee, and that top 15 A and M's right outside of it. So what you're noticing is that these are some really major contenders in the sport, Nash. But once again, Texas is one of the youngest teams. And I think that really comes as we'll kind of transition right through it comes with recruiting.
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Nash
Right.
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Evan V
Like, look at the teams that recruit well in college football. These are the ones that you're seeing near the bottom of that or the bottom of the you youth and age lists. And, and this is part of the, part of the reason I think Texas is there is because they bring in so much talent from that recruiting instead of the transfer portal.
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Nash
Yeah. I mean anytime you're, you know, recruiting really well in the high school ranks as opposed to the portal, you're going to, you know, you're going to lean more towards the younger side, obviously, you know, know coming from high school. But I mean it's, it's, it's a nice balance that you want to have, you want to have, you don't want to have a bunch of old dudes running around out there, you know, with broken backs, but you want some young, you know, fresh guys out there.
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Evan V
Yeah. And what you'll notice as well as I kind of overlooked it, but the oldest teams in college football, you know, Jeff Trailers UTSA, Neil Brown and UNT brought in 72 new players, but you know, not a, not a real CFP contender on this list. Maybe one of these teams from the G6 makes it or Virginia wins out in the ACC. But the oldest teams don't include Indiana or Ole Miss or Texas Tech, who we've noticed big time portal users, ones that don't really hit the recruiting very hard and want to have an older team in general. They're not even in the top 25 of the oldest team. So there's always going to be, I think, a skew, which is what I kind of get into this article of. As you get from power two, which is big 10, SEC, power four, add the ACC, big 12 and then into the group of six teams, there's a trickle down effect, right. Like, like you bring in a lot of freshman recruits if you're at Texas and, and Oregon, but even if you're at Mississippi State and Kentucky and Wisconsin, those players wouldn't be signing out of high school to some of these G6 teams. But as they lose chances and opportunity, they lose eligibility. As they get older in college football, they start to go towards those teams and find their way onto those rosters. And I think, you know, a G6 coach Nash, they got to know that freshmen aren't going to win them football games and that's the way that they have to kind of build their roster. What do you think about that power 2, power 4, G6 relationship? What's the biggest difference in how they have to build when it comes to making these championship rosters?
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Nash
Yeah, I mean I, I think that first off, when you're looking at the youngest teams, just because the Team is really young. Doesn't mean they're out of the, you know, doesn't mean they're not going to be in the playoff. Half of half the teams last year in the playoffs were in the top 25 youngest teams, and that includes Miami, Georgia, Ohio State. So it's. There is, there is always going to be, you know, how much you want some experience on your roster, but I don't think that, you know, having a really young team is necessarily like this. Oh, no, crap, we're not gonna, you know, we have no chance in the season at all. Right. We're not gonna have enough experience. I think that these older teams or not older team, but these like, you know, group of five teams or group of six now. But I think these G6 teams, they're going to want to skew older because they're not able to go, you know, hit the recruiting ranks as, you know, well, as these other programs are. But really, I mean, I, at the end of the day, I think that still power four teams and power two teams, they want to go out there and get some, you know, really young teams. Because you look at a guy like a Jermaine Bishop this year, if he goes out there and he balls out, I mean, it's like, it's almost like in the NFL and fantasy football, where if you have a guy that produces at a really young age in college, like 18 years old, like, almost like Xavier worthy, that makes him an excellent prospect for his ability to go out there and, you know, play really well as a 21 year old against, you know, 27, 28 year olds. So there is that aspect of wanting to find that, you know, find that 18 year old that can go out there and ball like a, like a Colin Simmons can. Colin Simmons is out there hanging with grown men as a, you know, very young adult.
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Evan V
Yeah. I think when you, you look towards what, what's a successful recruitment for a Power 4, Power 2 or G6. On a Power 2 team, the best recruits only stay three years. You know, they expire quickly because Jermaine Bishop does end up being the guy that they're kind of hyping him up to be at thsca. But it's like Colin Simmons specifically, like, this is his last year at Texas, and the Longhorns got a lot of value in those first two seasons. They will in his third. But at the end of the day, a good G6 recruit is one who survives the portal process states for five years and contributes in four of them now, now five of them. If we're talking about five for five eligibility. So that's just the best players kind of get cut off by two years of the Power Power 2 conference teams. And that's how Georgia, which Sarkeesian joked yesterday when we were talking to him like Georgia tried to get older in the portal. We tried to get older in the portal and we're still top four. The two most notable teams who are not in that in that sphere and the youngest teams in the nation. It's just funny the way that they, they understand that they need to be getting a little bit older and still no matter what they they have to have a youthful team. But I kind of point out later in this article, Nash 2025 and 2026 Texas were both two of the youngest teams in the country. There's a huge difference between that kind of youth and what that actually means. In 2026, 53 players are sophomore year of eligibility or younger, which that does kind of mess with registered sophomores. They're a year older, but you get the idea they're in their first two years or first two year with a red shirt on the team. Last year that number was 69. I mean that was the majority of the roster was redshirt sophomore or younger, which is just unfathomable really when you think about how there was smaller roster restrictions then or at least you know, the roster restrictions have changed around a little bit. 69 players in your roster have being that youthful and that just goes to show what they were dealing with last year. And even if we're just going to narrow down to starters, you can see right here 11 players were starters or starter adjacent, which I used to define like T. Anthony Smith was sort of a starter. Alex January was sort of a starter. Those guys were true sophomores last year. This season, Ash, you can count on one finger how many of those kind of players are going to be playing for Texas. Three to four depending on if you think Nick Townsend is the starting tight end. Grayson Littleton, Cade Phillips, Lance Jackson and that's it. You know, Zeno Mayazulu is Umozolo is a red shirt sophomore and he'll play a lot of edge, but he's not a true starter. That's just a big difference, right Nashik? Eight different positions that are going to be so much more experienced than what you had last year coming in.
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Nash
If you're wanting experience, like if you could choose one side of the balloon that you're going to, you know, get more experience on, I think that you'd lend yourself to wanting to play, wanting to have defense, having more experience in the college game, just more of an understanding of high, higher level defenses. Offensively, yes there is, you know, positioning that you need to know about, but you're able to rely more on athleticism as an offensive player as opposed to defense. It's very much I was just on a show with Cord and Michelle. We're talking about how, you know Michael Tat and actually it might have been you. We're talking about how Michael Taft, you know, his, you know, ability to know what the play is and know, you know, just know everything that's about to happen before it happens that helps him, you know, make up for speed as opposed to a Jonah Williams, you know, or Xavier Fil. So that experience is definitely probably something you want on the defensive side of the football.
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Evan V
Yeah, we were talking about that with The Derrick Williams vs Jonah Williams. Like who would you rather end up being the safety if you had to pick one? And I think obviously Derek is the one early in the year just you got to lean on that veteran experience. And you know, I point out that there's also different ways to look at experience here. There's a website that looks at truly the word experience is what they call it and where you rank. And Texas is 34th in the nation, so top 50 when it comes to players that have actually, you know, on the starting lineup, how many years into their college career they are. And that's, that's only behind teams like Ole Miss, Oklahoma, Indiana Tech, A and M, you know, basically their rivals. And then the three teams that Use the portal the most. So Texas is not young when it comes to the players that are on the field. And especially I think it's probably the most important blurb of this is think about the difference between last year. You look at your quarterback. You've added 13 starts and 400 attempts and that is a big, big difference between a first year starter and what Arch Manning is going to be walking into next year when he plays Ohio State. Week two the running backs. Fun little note that I hadn't realized. Hollywood Smothers and Relique Brown, they combined for 500 career rushing attempts on the dot. And that is a lot of football that they've played and run with. Wingo and Mosley are more experienced than they were last year. Cam Coleman joins with 742 routes, 93 catches at Auburn. Just a more experienced guy than Parker Livingston was coming into the year. You add Michael Masudas to your tight end group. The O line now combines for 5,800 snaps. If Lawrence Seymour does take that starting guard position, Connor Robertson is the least experienced as a fifth year player. Then the defense, you know, three starters on the D line, multiple new contributors. Portal 250 combined tackles from linebackers and then DBs. That returns a lot of starters or contributors.
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What do you think?
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Evan V
Nash will be the big, most obvious and biggest position that changes with experience this year.
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Nash
Changes with experience. I, I would, I would go with offensive line. I think that that's, that's something that you can obviously see when, when you go and you look at the offensive line rankings and just whether it's pass blocking or run blocking per year we, every year we got better under Kyle Flood from 2021 to 2023, I think, or 2024, where you had, you had that main core guys coming back. You had Hayden Connor at left guard, Jake Majors at the center. You had Kelvin Banks at left tackle and then right tackle and right guard had a little bit of change. But overall for the most part it was pretty much the same as that core of guys, you know, grew older and older and older. We really, we, we saw that, you know, we saw the offensive line get better and better and better and to the point where I think they were Joe Mortar war finalists in 2024, 2023, I forget which year it was. But as, as soon as we lose that depth in 2025, offensive line rankings fall off a cliff, right? And we're starting a bunch of younger guys that really hadn't played as much. So I think that that's one like I mean, as much as I said on the defensive side of the football, you want experience there. If there's, if you can have got to be on offensive line because again, like, like to almost anti to what I said about the offense. Offensive line is not the position that you can just sit there and rely on athleticism. You can have all the athleticism you want and a defender that you know knows what move to make, when to, you know, when to do a dip, when to do a swim. So it's one of those things that offensive line, I want my experience right there as a wide receiver and running back. Experience is nice, yes, but I prefer athleticism over that.
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Evan V
Well, that inexperience last year really cost Texas and there were some that you had to do. You know, Wingo Baker had to start Manning had to start him with his inexperience. But you know, Connor Stroh was not the answer as a sophomore at left guard and that the youth, that wide receiver outside of DeAndre Moore really showed up. So that's going to do it for us on the Inside Texas Quick Hitters YouTube channel and also the episode Nash and I a little out of rhythm because we haven't, we haven't been doing these for a while. So we'll be back with these throughout the the rest of the summer and into some spring or fall football. Excuse me, make sure going over to insidetexas.com and checking out this awesome offer. Join now for $1, then get 50 off your first year. Nash, it's officially starting to feel like football season and I cannot wait. We'll see you guys next week on the Quick Hitter show presented by Inside Texas.