Coffee & Football: Latest Texas Longhorns News & Notes!

Summary

Podcast Summary: "Coffee & Football: Latest Texas Longhorns News & Notes!"

On Texas Football – July 17, 2026
Host: Blake Monroe
Guests: Jerry Hamilton, Rod Babers; Special Guest Coach Bob Shipley

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Episode Overview

This energetic and interactive episode dives deep into the latest Texas Longhorns football news with a particular focus on recruiting—especially the impending commitment of five-star prospect Munchin Sales. Host Blake Monroe, recruiting analyst Jerry Hamilton, and former Longhorn Rod Babers break down Sales' recruitment and broader trends, dissect Texas’ roster strengths and weaknesses, and explore defensive changes under new DC Will Muschamp. The show is rich with anecdotes, insider perspective, and community engagement via live listener questions.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Recruiting Spotlight: Munchin Sales’ Decision

• Sales’ Commitment Looms: The biggest storyline is the upcoming announcement of top prospect Munchin Sales (expected to choose between Indiana and Texas live on the Pat McAfee Show).
  • “Sales will announce here coming up in 2 hours and 38ish minutes and we expect it to be Indiana or Texas. Nothing has changed.” – Jerry Hamilton [02:38]
  • Sales and his camp were still communicating with Texas as of the night before; neither Texas nor Indiana had been told "no."
• Recruiting Tactics & NIL Influence:
  • Rod and Jerry discuss how recruiting is different now due to NIL and agents, with Sales' decision being seen as a litmus test for Indiana's new football prominence post-national title.
  • “You idolized Deion Sanders. You love Florida State. ...We can all three of us sit here and say, there's no way that Munchin Sales grew up dreaming of wearing an Indiana Hoosiers football uniform.” – Jerry [06:10]
  • The conversation shifts to the importance of fit, brand, and family or local ties in modern recruiting.
• Texas’ Sales Pitch:
  • Stability at QB under Sark is highlighted as a selling point.
  • Longhorns’ "farm system" for QBs and high draft picks are enticing for top-tier recruits.
  • Indiana’s appeal largely hinges on its recent championship and Coach Kurt Signetti's reputation.

2. Recruiting Q&A and Future Prospects

• Impact of Landon Williams-Callas: If Texas lands another big recruit, expect other schools to circle back on prospects like Noah Roberts.[15:47]
• Listener Super Chats: Various recruiting questions addressed, including possible dominos/battle for in-state prospects, and behind-the-scenes dynamics.

3. SEC Media Days & Texas Football Expectations

• What to Expect from Sark at Media Days:
  • Coach Bob Shipley expresses curiosity over how the staff evaluates O-line and D-line depth, transition to new defensive terminology, and under-the-radar players such as Emmett Mosley.
  • “I want to talk about the safeties...how this new defense is shaping up, has it been a smooth transition in terminology?” – Bob Shipley [18:10]
• Offensive Weapons Discussion:
  • Discussion about how Texas’ "embarrassment of riches" at WR/TE/RB will impact defensive game-planning.
  • “They've got so many weapons...your defensive coordinator won’t have enough resources.” – Rod Babers [20:43]

4. Texas Defensive Outlook under Will Muschamp

• Roster Depth and “Most Irreplaceable” Players:
  • Crew discuss which players are most vital aside from obvious stars (Arch, Simmons, Goosby).
  • Connor Robertson (center) on offense and Ian Jaffeard (DL) or Jelani McDonald (safety) on defense mentioned as hardest to replace due to experience/fit. [23:30-25:25]
  • “I think those are two positions that really can put you in a bind: Safety and offensive line.” – Bob Shipley [25:25]
• Injury/Health Wildcards:
  • Jonah Williams (safety) and Justice Terry (DT) flagged as potential difference-makers—if healthy.
  • Desire to see more inside disruption from D-line; Texas used to have triple-digit pressures from the DT spot, a production level they want to recapture.

5. DBU and Defensive Confidence

• Cornerback Play is Key:
  • Muschamp’s aggressive style (“dictating the tempo”) relies heavily on man coverage ability from corners and nickel.
  • New faces in the secondary (Kobe Black position move, Grayson Littleton, Bo Masco) discussed as likely to elevate performance.
  • “If you can’t play effective man coverage situationally, that is really going to handcuff Muschamp as a play caller.” – Rod [35:39]
• Depth Chart & Safety Battle:
  • Jelani McDonald’s versatility singled out; coverage reliability will determine who plays alongside him.
  • “Whoever can prove that they’ve mastered whatever the flaw is in their skill set first, that's the guy who’s going to win that job.” – Rod [42:54]

6. Longhorn Lore and Community Engagement

• Favorite ‘50’ Moments & Players:
  • In celebration of 50 days to kickoff, hosts and listeners recall legendary Texas players who wore #50 and memorable moments like “the 50-piece we put on Tech.”
  • Fun anecdotes about the 1999 defensive line, and Houston-area Texas legends.
• Listener Q&A:
  • Road atmospheres: Kansas State and Nebraska in the '90s cited as toughest environments; Baylor and Kansas as easiest due to lackluster fan support. [56:59+]
  • Texas’ performance trap games: UTSA highlighted as a possible "letdown" spot due to scheduling/emotional hangover.

7. Outlook on Team & Coaching

• Muschamp Nostalgia and Expectations:
  • Nostalgic comparison to Muschamp's first stint at Texas (noting his success in the 2008-09 seasons) and speculation on how history might repeat regarding defensive dominance and records.
• Offensive Play Calling Needs Growth:
  • Listener brings up that more than just talent is needed; Sark’s situational play-calling, especially on 3rd downs and in the red zone, needs to improve for Texas to maximize this season’s potential.
  • “If this is not the best offense Sark has had since he’s been at Texas, something went horribly wrong.” – Rod Babers [63:48]

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• Jerry Hamilton on Recruiting Secrecy:
  “If you want to have your shock-the-world moment in recruiting, you don’t tell anybody [schools] where you’re not going.” [01:55]
• Rod Babers on Defensive Scheme:
  “If [corners] can’t play man coverage...that is really going to handcuff Muschamp a little bit as a play caller.” [35:39]
• Bob Shipley on Underrated Contributors:
  “I want to know who the real Emmett Mosley is, a healthy Emmett Mosley, and what you see his production being this year.” [19:52]
• Rod on College Football Psychology:
  “Human emotion does not allow you to get up for every game. It just doesn’t work that way...You’re not going to be up the same for A&M and Oklahoma as you are for Kentucky.” [59:07]

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Important Timestamps

• 00:35 – Show start, recruiting day setup
• 01:10–13:04 – Deep dive: Munchin Sales’ recruitment, Texas vs Indiana, NIL, branding
• 17:10–27:12 – Guest Coach Bob Shipley: SEC Media Days, Mosley analysis, roster depth
• 35:39–43:00 – In-depth examination of DB depth chart, defensive concerns under Muschamp
• 47:32 – Jelani McDonald’s NFL draft ceiling
• 50:26–54:00 – WR Jermaine Bishop’s role and prediction for his true freshman season
• 56:59–61:08 – Rod’s favorite (and easiest) road environments
• 63:48 – Listener comment: OC/play-calling growth needed for team success
• 70:37–72:35 – Muschamp nostalgia and past vs present comparisons

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Overall Tone & Style

The show is lively, conversational, and packed with anecdotes from real experience. Both expert analysis and candid player stories are abundant. Listener questions are answered thoughtfully and in-depth, maintaining a clear, friendly, and insider tone.

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Takeaways for Fans

• Recruiting is complex—fit, NIL, brand, agent input all play major roles.
• Texas is poised for a strong year if depth and health hold, especially in key spots (center, safety).
• Defensive and offensive improvements under Muschamp and Sark are necessary for playoff success.
• Longhorn fans’ questions and nostalgia are integral to the show’s fabric, connecting the current generation to program lore.
• Watch for EMERGING PLAYERS: Emmett Mosley (WR), Jelani McDonald (S), Justice Terry (DT), Jermaine Bishop (WR/ATH).
• Team chemistry and situational preparedness—on the field and in recruiting battles—may decide how high this year’s Texas team can fly.

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For all interested in Texas football, this episode provides comprehensive recruiting updates, depth chart insights, and lively discussion about current team strengths and challenges heading into the 2026 season.

Transcript

[A]

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[B]

Good morning, everyone. Welcome to Coffee and Football, presented by Southpoint Dodge. I'm your host, Blake Monroe. I'm joined daily by Jerry Hamilton. And we got Rod Babers filling in for Bobby Burton this morning. So thank you, Rod, and thank you all for tuning in. Tell us where you're checking in from this morning, what you're drinking. Get those questions in. We're also 50 days away from kickoff. That's a nice little number right there. 50 days away. So be sure to tell us who your favorite number 50 is. We'll come back, we'll visit that here in a little bit like we always do. But Jerry, it's a big day today. It's a decision.

[C]

It is, it is, yeah. Look, we're what, 2 hours and 45ish minutes away from land, from munching sales, announcing his commitment. Obviously, we still believe that's going to be Indiana versus Texas. You kind of decide on, okay, people are going to pick Indiana. You kind of go, okay, it's Indiana, unless he announces somewhere else. And I'm not sitting here saying for sure he's going to Indiana. I'm just saying that's where this recruitment's been. But I, I can tell you guys this. Bobby wrote something. Same things we've heard obviously from multiple sources is that sales in his, in his people, his circle was still talking to Texas as of yesterday evening, as of Thursday evening in Indiana, not so much the others. That's why we've said, you know, we think this is Texas, Indiana. That's where it's been headed for a while. Obviously it's a big announcement today in the state of Indiana. It's one of the bigger football announcements of a high school prospect in the state of Indiana a long time. So he's going to do that live on the Pat McAfee Show. And the one thing I can say going into this is word normally behind the scenes starts to leak out. As you guys know, who have kind of been around recruiting for a while, when he calls schools to say he's not going there, that had happened as of yesterday evening, he had not told Indiana or Texas no. So, you know, look, I, Rod, I'm, I'm always the belief, and I know fans don't like this when I say this, but if I was a pro, high profile kid like this announcing I would not tell anybody where I would not tell the schools? No, that I'm not going to. I, I, I would text him after and say I just wanted to have my, my moment. But when you start, when you start telling people, anybody you're not coming, the word normally tends to leak out. So I, I, I tell guys all the time if you want to have your shock the world moment in recruiting, you don't tell anybody you're five star guy, you have all the leverage. You just go announce your decision and move on with it. Everybody's big boys, they can handle it. Sales will announce here coming up in 2 hours and 38ish minutes and we expect it to be Indiana or Texas. Nothing has changed. I would say this to people, as Cy Young says, sales to Texas here first you always lean to in this situation you're going to lean to Indiana until he says otherwise. That's just where you're at right now. But the biggest news I can say for Texas is the communication has continued.

[A]

Yeah, and I'm, you keep thinking about the sales pitch, right? Like what can Texas throw out there that you know is a better sales pitch than what Indiana has right now because their premier program fitting national champion just had the Heisman Trophy winner. He's from that state as well. To me it's got to be the consistency and stability at quarterback that Sark has been able to create this form system that he has been able to create at quarterback. And yes, Indy, Kurt Signetti is a great coach. You can argue he's the best coach in football right now. So he's going to find a solution quarterback. But it seems that they find they're into a different solution pretty much every season or every so often with the quarterback, which hey, there's a lot of teams like that that are there that have that model. Ain't nothing wrong with that. But the Sark model is at least if you're a munch on sales, you can envision yourself in the future having chemistry with this guy, whether that's a, a Diabell or you know, whoever it is that's going to be there in the pipeline. KG Lacy I think those, to me that's the sales pitch is that Sark has created his own farm system at quarterback and with guys like Arch Manning willing to stay and develop and learn and Quinn was able to kind of stay around so you could develop and create that form system and now you hoping that's the case with some of these other young, highly touted quarterbacks that you've now put into the, the pipeline or your forum system. So to speak. So me, that's the sales pitch. Because I don't. I'm trying to think otherwise. Nil, I mean, they got their own sugar daddies now, too, with Mark Co.

[C]

So I joke, Rod, I jokingly said, like, if not that Cuban had it. Has had a discussion with Sales. But I would joke, hey, if. If anybody's like, that's like it. You went to Indiana, lives anywhere around the world, said, hey, man, stay home and go to Indiana. I would say, why don't you live in Bloomington? You can live anywhere in the world. Yeah, that's what I would say.

[A]

That's good.

[C]

If you want me to go there so bad, why don't you live there? Why you live in Dallas? Tough, tough, tough, tough thing to say. Sometimes I think that they. What's so interesting where Nil has made this, made recruiting so interesting nowadays is, is this, Rod, you went through this. You idolized Dion Sanders. You love Florida State. Okay, we can, all three of us right here, can sit here and say, there's no way that Munch and Sales grew up dreaming of wearing an Indiana Hoosiers football uniform.

[A]

No way.

[C]

National championship or not, that's. That was not his envisioned dream in college football. I mean, he was nicknamed Bama. He's originally from Bama. He visited three SEC schools. He had a fourth southern school in Miami, which he canceled for Texas. So that's the hurdle. And I'm not saying Indiana can't clear the hurdle, but that's the hurdle they have to get over. And like with the Landon Williams Callis, I'm a broken record on this SMU in Houston. If they really think they're in the ball game, they still have to get over that hurdle. I mean, these kids that, that are recruited at this level nationally, they didn't. Very rarely, unless there's a family connect, are they growing up envisioning themselves playing for those schools.

[A]

And.

[C]

And that's not the takeaway from Kirk and Nettie. He's done amazing things. And Monon could easily commit to Indiana. I'm not saying he's not, but that's the hurdle these schools have to get over because that kid didn't grow up with. With some Indiana football players jersey on running around the front yard. That's not the way this deal works with these kids. You know that, Rod. I mean, you know, Mac. Mac had to convince you to stay home.

[A]

He did. Yeah, that was a good point, because

[C]

I. Yeah, when you came out of Florida State, it was Florida State, it was Miami. That's who you Grew up Notre Dame.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Yep. And my. My best friend at the time, Jerome Sapp, who was a All American as a junior, he had that same thing. He was. He was always fixated on Notre Dame. Always had this infatuation. Yeah.

[C]

With the.

[A]

Yeah. And he ended up going to Notre Dame. But you're right. Mac did a great job. I'll say. I'll give Mac and RC Slocum some credit. Shout out to the Aggies, because RC Slocum did a good job. Of they both were, man, stay in the state. Why you leaving the state? You know? And I said, I always throw out there. RC had the best pitch. Like, hey, you want your mom and dad to go to every game, right? And I was like, yeah. He's like, well, then you got to stay in the state. You got to stay close to home. You got to stay at the Big 12. And that was pretty much how I started, you know, crossing off the out of state schools, thinking about, oh, man, I want mom and dad to go to the game. Now, that's obviously not a concern for this young man. Mom and dad can go to every game. They got different resources. But to your point, Jerry, you gotta hit the. Whatever those little X factors are. Maybe that little cinnamon, little sentimental things for this young man, like for Mac. Mac knew for me, at least RC Slocum did a good job. Like, hey, you want your mom and dad to go to the game? Boom. That was big. So I went out to stay out of state. Mac knew that, hey, I wouldn't. I love Dre Block. He. Because at the time, I was a big Dre Block. Dre Block was like a huge great player.

[D]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

And he coached Dre Block.

[B]

He kept.

[A]

And Alexand could have been B.S. max. Like, you remind me of Dre Bly. And I was like, oh, well, that. Come on, now that you saw me. And I ended up playing with Dre Bly. Ironically, when I was a Detroit Lions, we'd share Mac Brown stores. But he. Yeah, so I'm with you on that. I mean, I did not think Texas was not a it school when I was growing up. It was not a sexy school when I was growing up. As a teenager, Mac was in the process of reinventing Texas to make it the school with. Then Ricky went into Heisman recruiting, the number one class 99 with Sims and Reading, and then the pinnacle of it with dy. Right. It's the coolest. It's coolest brand in college sports all the way to Austin, Texas, baby. And so it is. You're right about that, Jerry. The recruitment for Sarek and whoever's ever recruiting them, they got to hit those little sentimental factors that may pull this young man. And maybe it's that, hey, I want to. Maybe he wants to be away from home. Maybe, like now. I don't. I want to. I want to. I want to start my own legacy away from home. I don't want to be here, you know, with, you know, the pressure of the family and everybody. I want to be. I want some distance. Some people like that. Some people are like, no, I need some distance between me and. And. And all the entire family and the state and all those expectations. So it'll be interesting to see how this works out.

[C]

And you know what's also interesting now? The dynamic in recruiting. And again, we're not saying sales is going to Texas here. He's going to announce his decision in two and a half hours. Indiana's the favorite until he announces for somebody else, in my estimation, in this recruitment. But the other interesting thing, Rod, is from an agent perspective, in these recruitments now, where can a kid build a brand? So like that. That's the other thing. Like with. With Indiana, I think all this stuff factors in with him. And, you know, look, Indiana. When people talk about Indiana Hoosiers, they talk about Signetti more than the Heisman trophy winner. They do. They talk about the head coach more than the players. So that's an. That's because what Signetti did was so amazing. One of the most amazing things we've seen in college sports is. But he is the guy, you know, he's the guy everybody's fixated on more than the players there. And that's. That's a really different dynamic because of how quickly he came in and turned that flipped that thing and had the success and won the national championship. So it's. It's always interesting, too, from the agent's perspective. Look, the agent's local in Indianapolis, so everybody say, oh, he wants him to stay close potentially. But then there's also the thing of, okay, where can this kid be marketed the best? Yeah, he can be marketed inside the state of Indiana and in the Big ten, probably the best at Indiana. Where can it be marketed around the country that. See, there's so many different things in recruiting now when you add into agent and the marketing of the player and building that player's brand.

[A]

So there.

[C]

There's.

[D]

I.

[C]

You know, look, we'll see where he goes. But there's so many factors now. That's why I think sales is. Is A fascinating recruitment because he's in a state, he's the best prospect in that state in a while and he just so happens to be a senior the year after Indiana does one of the most unthinkable things you, you've seen in college sports. Win a national championship in football. You know, hey, if you're Texas basketball fan, that's what should give you hope right there. So it like doing that with sales then coming in the next class probably he's also facing not, it's not Eastern Royal State of Louisiana pressure Leonard Fournette faced in Louisiana, but there is a different pressure now because no kid was expected to stay in state unless they went to Notre Dame. In Indiana he's the first big prospector that's changed. There's like people want him to stay and say hell if you, five years ago, if you say I'm considering Indiana pre, they're like, what else? She got out of state, man, you're staying here like so the thing flipped in two years and he's the first big recruit to go through this right on coming on the heels of Indiana winning a title. So that's why I think it's such a fascinating recruitment. But the other part of the recruitment that's really interesting to me and it doesn't surprise me that Indiana and Texas are the favorites. He reached out to Texas. He was a top 10 ranked player and a 5 star player. He reached out to Texas through his people to say he'd have interest.

[A]

Wow.

[C]

Top 10 players don't regularly, they don't regularly do that. Yeah, there was something in about Texas that caught his attention. Probably Cam Coleman going there. Probably guys, he watched Texas on tv. They've been in the playoffs the last two years. Guys were getting drafted in the first round, right? So then when Texas offered him, I was like when Chris Jackson offered him after word got to Texas that oh, he has interest, I was like, so Texas did their due diligence and thinks this is, this could be a real recruitment. So it's gonna, it's gonna be interesting where it goes. I think everybody's picking Indiana and I don't blame everybody for picking Indiana. And now we talked about this for five more minutes. Five minutes closer to winning announces. And by the way, Landon Williams, Dallas, August 1. We still like Texas there. I will, I plan to attend that announcement, wherever that is in Houston because it's going to be a big one. It's going to be fun. He's, he's a hometown hero. There aren't many of those Those get you really excited to go to a ceremony where somebody's a hometown hero because that just doesn't come along very often. And Landon Williams, Callous is truly one of those guys in his family with Michael Lewis, Jacquiz and James Rogers, they are hometown heroes in Richmond, Rosenberg. So I can't wait to go to that one, wherever it is August 1st.

[B]

Well, we're gonna talk some more recruiting in just a moment. We got some recruiting super chats rolling in, so we'll get to those as well. But first, Rod, if you don't mind, tell us about South Point Dodge this morning.

[A]

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[B]

Thank you, Rod. Appreciate that. And let's see here a couple of recruiting super chats. This one here from Colt, he says, what will Noah Roberts do if we land Landon Williams? Callis also sales will choose Indiana. He won't choose Texas. On the McAfee show in Indianapolis,

[C]

you know, on Noah Roberts, what I would say of that is who knows what Noah Roberts would do. You got to get to that point first. But the one thing we talked about on coffee and football yesterday, Blake, with Bobby, was we all just kind of talked about what's going to happen if Landon Williams callous does commit to Texas August 1st. His schools are going to start tapping back in with Noah Roberts to see if he has any interest. That's what's going to happen. Because, you know, who doesn't have a back in their class that was recruiting him, you know, or doesn't Oregon just tap back in, say, hey, we're still here, you know, get the conversation flowing Again, because if that does transpire, I think the. That what will. What you can guarantee will happen is schools will start to. That hit Noah Roberts with the text in the dm, say, hey, we're still right here. And could be some new schools, too. That running back recruiting didn't go their way in the summer, so. And well, on the last part, we'll. We'll see. I mean, look, that's what Indiana fans sure think. Indiana fans are confident. They should be confident. They didn't lose a game last year they hadn't lost in a while. They're not. They're not. So they think they're going to keep winning here. So we'll see what he announces. I don't think. I don't. I think Texas is undefeated on the McAfee show, so this will be their first loss.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Well, it's Friday, which means we have our special guest coach Bob Shipley joining us. Good morning, Bob.

[D]

What's up, guys?

[C]

Always tanned and ready, man. I'm jealous. I'm jealous.

[A]

What's up, coach?

[D]

Hey, it's all good, man. It's all good. Just, you know, thanking God for some rain and praying to God to protect those that are affected by the rain.

[C]

Coach, I want. We are Next Monday, the 20th is SEC Media Days. It's here, obviously, Sark. We wait all week for Sark. He's Thursday last coach to speak. What are kind of. I mean, I know, look, these coaches say different things. What is something you're. You kind of want to hear or you expect to hear from Sark on the media day? Well, or what would you ask him? What would you ask him?

[D]

Yeah, Well, I don't know. What I would ask him is the same thing that he would answer in a media situation. Because you have to understand, he's obviously all these guys gonna have their guards up. They're not gonna. There's a lot of questions I would like to ask him off the record, you know, just Bob and Steve, you know, shooting the bull kind of thing. But, but, you know, there's, there's, there's like, you know, I want to get down into the brass packs of the offensive line, of the defensive line and you know, start there. I want to talk about the safeties. You know, I want to talk about how that's going to shape up. I want to talk about how, how this new defense is

[C]

been somewhat seamless.

[D]

Has it been a smooth transition terminology or is it. Is it off the charts? Is it somewhat similar, you know, was, you know, maybe Blake Gideon able To, you know, ease that transition, having been in both systems as a coach. And so anyway, there's, but I also want to ask his, his take on, and again, I don't know that we would get an honest answer, but we, we, we were talking the other day about, you know, you know, ranking who were some underrated players and all that. And the name Emmett Mosley keeps coming up, you know.

[C]

Oh yeah. I want to know who the real

[D]

Emmett Mosley, a healthy Emmett Mosley is and what you see his production being this year and his role with your two guys that you've got that everybody in the country knows about who's going to be that other one and, and what role do you see him playing and how will you utilize him when people start taking, you know, your big guys? And he wouldn't answer that question, I'm sure in public. But, but I'm interested to know because you have to, you have to as a coach, you have to use that strategy and say, okay, they're taking Wingo away, they're taking Coleman away, giving them more attention than most people do. Then what's my counter to that going to be? And who is it going to be with?

[A]

No, I totally agree, Coach. Between Emmett Mosley and your tight end position, defensive coordinators won't have enough resources to be able to allocate to stop, you know, Wingo and Cam Coleman relief Brown in the backfield with Smothers. You'll probably gotta keep somebody around on some pass plays now to spy Arch because of his mobility and his scrambling ability. So it's just a lot of weapons to worry about. And I'm with you. I could easily see the coordinates going, hey, man, we just gotta let em and Mosley, we got to leave him to our, you know, our third best DB and hope our DB can hold up against Emmy Mosley. So, so I agree. I think even Mosley actually could play a huge role this year. And I think he's, I believe the conversation we had was that he might be the most disrespected player on the team because we go from talking about Coleman and Wingo and we kind of just skip to go straight to talk about the young bishop and how's he gonna fit in and what he could do and some of the other weapons, and I believe he might be the least talked about player on offense this offseason. I don't think we talked. I, I, I remember a lot of conversations that we've had, not many about Emmett Mosley and his impact on the team. So I like that Coach. I'm with you.

[C]

I think part of that is the last time people saw him, he was limping off the field and had surgery too. Right. So I, I think the Mosley is in that. I'm not comparing him as a player. He's in that Jordan Whittington mode of people just want to see him healthy for a season and to see what he can do because he didn't play all the games as freshman year at Stanford. Then obviously he missed the first four, came back, then gets hurt in the bowl game. So he's, he's had that injury bug his first couple years of college football. And I think guys, to Yalls point, that's why Texas is so excited about him because they say if we get a healthy season out of this guy, how good is he really going to be? And I think inside the building they think a lot better than people probably think.

[A]

I think he has zero drops too. I don't think he had a drop last year. If I'm not mistaken. I gotta look at pff. But I believe that's kind of one of the other impressive stats about even mostly that he didn't have a drop last year. Hey, coach, speaking of this kind of subject, let me ask you this because this is a question fight through with me. And I don't know if you could ask Sarkis and he'd tell you the truth. He probably just kind of beat around the bush because it's a, an answer that could really be an indictment, I guess, if he gave the wrong answer. But aside from Arch, Colin Simmons and Trevor Goosby, your three top players, those will be three players that are at SEC media days. Who on offense and defense, who are the most irreplaceable players on the team?

[C]

That's a great question.

[A]

Behind. And take Arch out of it, Take Goosby, take Simmons, because those are elite players. They top 15 picks. Obviously nobody can replace them. Who's the most irreplaceable players outside of them on offensive defense just.

[D]

Well, as hard as it's been for our offense. This is going to sound strange coming from a guy who, who, who likes speed. And I like action and I like going deep and I like ripping off big runs. But none of that can happen without. I'm going to say Connor Robertson.

[A]

That's a good one.

[B]

Code.

[A]

That's. That's money, Coach.

[C]

You know what's interesting? I was thinking along the same line because behind Connor Robertson is no experience at center, no playing experience at center. The other one I was going with was the other side over the balls, Ian Jaffaard.

[A]

It's true.

[C]

I mean he is, he's going to take on a big role on this team in this scheme. And the other guy, I was thinking if it wasn't Connor Robertson was Massunas as a, as a plus plus blocking inline tight end. But I think that's great. I think the up the middle, I think coaches on it, I mean Connor Robertson, who has experience behind them.

[A]

I agree. Because everybody else, you can kind of see a player like, well, there's, there's a guy here, depth here, they may not be proven, but you can see the upside and then potentially fitting into wherever that player left the void on the roster. But center is one of those. And I would say Jelani McDonald. Yeah, you, you don't even know who your other safety is going to be. Not having Jelani McDonald. If Jelani McDonald ain't available to you, what does that safety situation look like? That's scary. Hey, because you just don't know. I mean, yeah, we love Jonah Williams, but he can't stay healthy. You just got guys coming off an injury. Derrick Williams is hoping to take that spot, but he's in that conversation too. So somebody asked, asked that question to me and, and I was just stupefied me for a while. I didn't know what to say, so I thought I'd throw it out there to coach. But I like coach's answer about.

[D]

I think those, I think those are two positions that, that, that really can put you in a bind. Safety and offensive line. Defensive line wise, we've got some depth, you guys. Yeah, we've got some depth.

[C]

And on the defensive line, if you,

[D]

if you misread a hat or you make him stay, you just stick a foot in the ground and go. And nobody will. If you do that on offense or you do that on defensive safety, he's got big problems. You know, if you make the wrong read initially, you know defensive lines a little more forgiving. And I like that depth. But I like the Jelani McDonald too. I think that's, I think that's going

[A]

to be

[D]

a huge question mark if something happens with him.

[A]

One more thing to Jerry's point about Andrew Fart last year you didn't have anybody really that could play that nose play that zero technique right over the ball. And now you have it essentially a guy that his expertise is that that's what he specializes in. And so that is going to change the complexion of your defensive front as well.

[D]

Yeah, I think that's a Great point. I can't. I can't wait to see the bridge in action.

[A]

What, what, what, what, what.

[D]

What do we name him?

[A]

Fridge. And your friend?

[D]

Yeah. Oh, yeah, baby. I can't wait. And, and, and if he's successful and becomes. Becomes a celebrity like the real Fridge. Give him the ball. The gold line over, baby.

[A]

There you go.

[D]

Give that, Give that fridge some food. Groceries.

[B]

I love it.

[D]

Yeah, that's going to be great. I, I can't wait to see how that works out. And as will Muschamp. That's got to be a great feeling to have a guy like that. Have Colin Simmons and have the other guys you have up front.

[C]

Yeah. Who's the. On this. On this subject, Rod, Who's the most important guy that. Texas is the most important guy Texas needs healthy that struggled with injuries. Is that. Does that just become Jonah Williams if we're, if you're ever. Because look, the reality is for Jonah Williams, like if Emmett Mosley rolled his ankle Week three again. Okay, Texas is loaded at wide receiver, right? You got Jermaine Bishop waiting. You have Dale McCutcheon. You have Sterling Burkhalter. I mean, you got guys at that position. The circle of trust is going to be small, but you got really talented guys. But from a standpoint of getting somebody healthy to see and they have a chance to make a real impact on this team, it kind of leads me to two young guys, Jonah Williams and Justice Terry. Oh, it's a good one because Planet Fitness coach. That's Justice Terry's nickname. Planet Fitness. Planet Fitness. You know, he said he set scheme fit with must champs defense too. I mean, he is that 5 tech. He's got his weight over 290, can be an interior disruptor. But Jonah Williams is. It's. It's so important for Jonah. And I think Texas fans one, I think Jonah could be a tremendous player if he's healthy. But this is his last year before he's going to have to make a decision on the sport. It's coming quick for him. So. And Rod, as much as you liked him out of high school and as much a question is that free spot kind of is. I. I think he's the one guy and I think a lot of Texas fans that way that we're really looking to just say, okay, what can you do if you're ever healthy?

[A]

That's a good question. It's definitely four guys in that conversation. The Justice Terry I love, the Jonah Williams I think is at the top of the list. I've seen The Derrick Williams out there in the comments as well. And then. Yeah, and then the guy we just talked about him and Mosley, I think those are your four guys and that, that could be true impact players. Justice Terry, the reason he could be at the top of the list is because you didn't have very much disruption from your interior D line last year. I believe total, you had like 55 total pressures from all of your D tackles combined. I mean think about it, guys in some years where you had, you know, Collins and Broughton and Murphy and Sweat, you had, you had like triple digit. You had 100 plus, you know, pressures combined just from your D tackle position. I mean you were just, you were, you were beast. You were beast mode from that detail. So you need more disruption there. And that's what Justice Terry is. He causes disruption, he penetrates. So I think that's why Justice Terry could rise to top of the list because I, I still don't know. We'll see with now Javar and I think Canoe led you in pressures and KANU could, he could take it to the next level. Mr. Guy that played his first what coach his real football. The first time he actually put on pass American south football was, was in spring of 2021, I believe. Something crazy like that. I mean think about that. And he ended up starting for Texas last season. Like that's crazy. So his upside is tremendous. He could also take a huge step and help you there. But I think right now Justice Terry and Jonah Williams probably the top of that list. We know about Jonah. If he stays healthy, I mean who else in the country's got. That's a five star safety that is right now second string, third string potentially for you. That's the luxury Texas has right now. But if he stays healthy, I think he's gonna leapfrog a few guys just because of his skill set. Coach, he's, he's special. He's special.

[B]

All right, well Bob, thank you so much for joining us as you do each and every Friday.

[D]

Always appreciate you. Only time I get to hang out with you and Jerry.

[C]

Hey, watch with us around the corner, Coach. Watch with us is around the corner.

[A]

That's right, man.

[D]

I'm telling you. Yeah, it was last night, the winning drive. We were a little off the tracks a little bit because it was. I mean we're talking about George Washington and the history.

[A]

That was CJ man.

[C]

The cj.

[D]

Yeah, we, we, we need, we need some, we need some material and we're gonna have some material later today. It's just A matter of whether we're gonna have smiles on our faces or not.

[C]

There you go, coach. There you go, guys.

[D]

Have a great show. All right, coach.

[C]

See you soon.

[B]

Have a good one.

[A]

See? Yeah, that was C.J. c.J. Went to go see young Washington and apparently was so moved by it that he went to Barnes and Noble to buy a book about George Washington. And now he's like, he's really that. Now he's going, look, trying to look at documentaries and stuff about George Washington and now he's like a new fixation on our founding fathers or something like that. So good for him, though.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[B]

All right, Jerry, I am going to let you tell everyone this morning about

[C]

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[D]

man.

[C]

Rod, I think you're muted

[A]

and now my.

[B]

There we go.

[C]

You're good. No, you're muted.

[B]

There we go.

[A]

Sorry, sorry. I got some glitches happening over here. My apologies. I think the DV thing is interesting. Thanks for the super chat, by the way. Appreciate that, super chat. Because I don't think much Champ defense is gonna work. If he can't play aggressive coverage. He. He's not going to be able to be as. Maybe I don't think as creative up front with his pressure packages, the twists and stunts that he likes to run, the second level pressures he likes to run and your blitz race are definitely going to increase. But if he can't play man coverage and play kind of aggressive man cover, especially situationally third down in the red zone, I think it's going to hinder his ability to completely kind of dictate the terms and dictate the. The tempo of games, because that's what Sark. I think that's why he moved on. One of the reasons he moved on from PK was that PK was about organic disruption. He was about. He more or less really allowed the opponent to really kind of dictate the terms of the chess match and then he would adjust to it. And I think Stark wants a defensive coordinator to be aggressive and where it's going to force the issue and that's what must. Champ's defense is all about he forces the issue and a lot of his ag indic indicators, blitz rates, the twists and stunts up front, your man coverage rates, single high rates. Those are some of the highest in the country. Even though I tracked them at the spring showcase, they were still actually pretty high the rates of those ag indicators. But the key to me is those corners and your nickel. If you can't play effective man coverage situationally, that is really going to handcuff Mus champ a little bit as a play caller. So that's one of the things to watch. I got faith in Kate. I think he'll take a huge leap this year. I love what I'm hearing about Bo Masco and what I watched on film from him at Rutgers. Grayson Littleton should take another step too. So I don't anticipate that being an issue. Just saying, just throwing it out there. But the Kim Kardashian, Nicki Minas R Mass Cardi B size, Megan Thee stallion size, JLO size But is you do play really good quarterbacks this year. You do play really good offensive minds this year. We'll see if Texas, you know, can line up and just play really good, effective, aggressive man coverage situationally against those teams. I do think Texas will know early on if they can do it because in spring, sorry in training camp, even though you didn't have it available in spring, you should have your full complement of wide receivers in between Cam Coleman, Ryan Wingo M. Mosley, Jermaine Bishop between those four guys. Those are high level type elite prospects at wide receiver. You should be able to expose any man coverage woes that you have potentially in training camp and you should know by the time you get to the season.

[B]

Well, we just went a little in depth there on corner but let's look because yesterday we looked at the offensive depth chart. So let's go ahead and jump over to the defense today. And Jerry, you know we, we talked about the oars yesterday. There's a couple of oars on this one as well, but not as many as the offense.

[C]

Yeah. So some of these D line spots are a little interchangeable. Well first of all, I mean like yeah, we have Marad Watson listed a couple of spots there. Right. By the way, I think Texas is really excited about what he can do this year. Obviously got banged up last year. But you know Rod, I think one of the the interesting or we ca we broke the news that Kobe

[A]

Black.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, Kobe Black was making the move to safety. The other interesting or on here is Richard Wesley. That's how much Texas Likes Richard Wesley is. They think he's gonna there.

[D]

It's.

[C]

It's not. Is he gonna play? He's gonna play. And the question is, can Vasic hold him off? Like I think that Wesley had that level of a spring. But Rod, you know, you look at, you're talking about the safety spot, looking at the safety spot headed into the spring and kind of your thoughts overall and what you see here.

[A]

I like, I like Jelani McDonald. I mean, I think Jelani McDonald is solid. I think he's one of the better safeties in the country. But the thing about Jelani McDonald is his versatility. It is, that's what makes him special. His ability to. He's a guy you can move down into the box at linebacker depth. He can be a spy for you. I think he's underrated actually as a blitzer. I think that's something you'll probably see more of him in the Must Champ system. He can play, you know, single high. He can play too high for you. He can be a whole player for you. So I think that's where Mus Champ wants to use him or that's how he wants to use him, as a versatile piece. Right. That movable chess piece around formation. In order to do that, you do need to make sure that the other safe, whoever wins that job can be a reliable single high safety and they can play that deep single high. Whether you be, are you playing man one and he's the single free safety or that deep third, you need someone that has range and is able to do that. And that's going to be the challenge for Derrick Williams, Xavier Phil, to me, potentially even a, a Kobe, Kobe Black. All right. If he ends up playing that other safety spot or Jonah Williams, right, they gotta prove they can do that. Because I think you're gonna, you know, move Jelani McDowell, Jelani McDonald around a lot and he's gonna waste his ability as a versatile chess piece if you just have him playing single high safety a lot. So I think that's a big part of it for Derrick Williams. He's got to prove that he can be an asset in coverage. You go look at him as a force run defender. I mean, he's great. He can run the alley for you. He's physical. We all saw that from Derrick Williams. So that actually makes him in A plus for Mustiam. Mustiam, that's a non negotiable. You got to be a physical player, especially at the safety position for him. So he's got that, but he's got to prove coming off the injury that he actually can be effective in coverage. Last year he was a bit of a liability in coverage and I think that's because of the injury. I don't think that's. I think Derek was a really good player. I think that was because of the injury. Now that he's supposed to be back 100% pre injury Derrick Williams, that's what he's got to prove is that he's got the twitch to get in on those breaks and be an asset in coverage and not a liability. Xavier feels to me he kind of has the opposite to me. I think he has actually proven that he's pretty good in coverage. He's got to prove that he can come downhill and be a force run defender and be physical in that must champ scheme. I think that's also going to be the case for Kobe Black. Right? We know Kobe Black and cover God, play corner, corner. So he's gonna be an asset in coverage. Can he be an alley cat for you? Can he come down, take precise angles to the football and bring, you know, the hammer when he does actually have to come down and be a, a fit run defender. So that's the issue for Kobe Black and I think for, you know, Jonah Williams, I mean we all know what the issue for Jonah Williams is, right? He's got to stay healthy. I mean we, I, I don't think there's many kind of raunch wrong traits that, that you need at safety that he doesn't have. I think he's got the instincts, I think he's got the ball skills. He's got the size to do this huge, by the way, if you've ever been next to him. I think he's got all that. He's got to prove that he's durable enough, the best abilities, availability. So that's the only thing about safe for me. But that's kind of how it works out. In my opinion. Whoever can prove that they have mastered whatever the flaw is in their skill set first dust, the guy's gonna win that job. Money

[C]

stuff.

[B]

All right, let's see. We got some more super chats that we need to get to this morning, so let's jump into some of those. Well, you take this one from Jay, actually, he says my favorite 50 is the 50 piece we put on Tech the last time we played. So while we're talking about that, we might as well look at the number 50 guys because we are 50 days away from kickoff. And I'm probably, probably gonna butcher this and I I. It's the norm for me, so everyone should be used to it but Bobby Vun, I hope I'm saying that correctly. We got Bill Wyman the center, Cedric Woodard defensive lineman, and then Tyson King the linebacker who was a tackling machine. But those are four that stood off the page quickly. If you got another favorite, number 50, definitely drop their name in the chat.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Hey, you know, Cedric Woodard came out. Cedric Woodard came out in a really, back in that time one Bobby Burton was. Had his national magazine and Maxim finger. People remember him and a couple others. And that Texas defensive line class that year was really, really good. I believe we had Casey Hampton in that group. Yeah, that was a Cedar quartered out of Sweeney. I watched, I actually went and watched him in high school. I was a young buck at that time, but I went and watched Cedric Woodard. They played over at Pasadena Memorial Stadium. And he was a dominant but versatile guy on the field, on the defensive side front, you know, he, he may not have been, he wasn't Casey Hampton, obviously. I, I've said before, Casey Hampton's the best. He, he's the best high school defensive lineman I've seen to this day. Cedric Woodard, he could play anywhere along the defensive line at that time because he ended up 310 in the NFL. He's probably like 265, 270 in high school playing in that 3A level. Back when Sweeney was really good football team too. But he was a tremendous player. One of the guys that I got lucky enough to see in high school before I got into this business. He was really, really talented.

[A]

Yeah, I played with Cedric Wooded actually. And so not a couple of years ago actually I ran into C Dub somewhere. But man, that 99D line, I'm just thinking about it. Him, he. I think he was on the edge. A hump was on another edge. And it was Casey Hampton and Sean Rogers were our D tackles. And that 99, I mean, I believe that was the 99D line. That was one of the better D lines that I ever played with. Yeah, I mean that was strong. I mean and think about, ah, was a monster coming off that edge too. He was a versatile guy, right? Because hey, Hump was like a linebacker, I believe at once and then ended up playing it. So that was a really versatile D line. And Bob and Bobby Von Choke, we said his name right. He's an all time great player, by the way. I don't know why I went down a rabbit hole, but I went down a rabbit Hole about Houston players. Oh, it was like 713 day actually they had recently. Right. 7 13. And because that's the area code in H town 713. And I basically was looking at the best football players that played at Texas from the Houston area. This is kind of what we're looking at. And I got Bobby Bunch in the top five. I got, I got him like I got him right there with Casey Hampton. My top five is Vince Young, Iraq Pole, Kelvin Banks, Bobby Vonch and Casey Hampton. Chris Gilbert was number six on the list. Just made outside six. But I mean there are probably just to give you a little background, there are, I believe there are 50 consensus all Americans in the history of the University of Texas. Fifteen of them came from the greater Houston area. Bobby Bunch was a consensus all American in 1970. So he was a. He. He's. He's. He's one of the all time greats. I know lower fans may not know the name. You should know the name. The man's a beast. I see some of y' all do, but I was a little bit ignorant to how good he was. Guy was a fantastic player.

[B]

Good stuff for sure. Ah, some more super chats this morning. Let's see here. We got this next one from Colt. We just talked about DBs, but Colt wants to know what's the absolute ceiling for Jelani McDonald this year? Accolades, draft stock stats, etc. Have a feeling that must champ will bring out the best.

[C]

What do you think, Rod? Second, third round for Jelani?

[A]

Yeah. The problem with safety is, you know, and Caleb Downs obviously proved it wrong this year. They usually don't get drafted like very high. Like a bunch of them.

[C]

Yep.

[A]

Because it's, it's not considered a premium position. Premium position means the highest paid positions in the NFL and which means those are the positions. Since I got a pay them the most, I try to get them through the cheapest means of talent acquisition, which is the draft. And so you don't see a lot of safeties getting drafted that high. That's the first thing. So he's got to make a lot of plays on the football. And I know you'll say, well, Caleb Downs didn't do that. Caleb Downs was seen as kind of a generational prospect from the beginning. So people were watching him as a true freshman. Nick Saban was saying this guy was going to be a first round pick as a true freshman. So when he came to saying stuff like that about you, then. Okay, then you don't, you don't scouts radar from the get Go, go. So he's kind of the one exceptions to the rule. But I do think Jelani McDonald can work himself into being early round pick. I think right now he's probably a mid round pick.

[C]

Yeah, I agree.

[A]

I think he's a mid round pick right now. I think he can go. Makuba wins second round because Makuba could. Listen, this thing about Cooper, okay, first of all, Makuba play can play any position in secondary. Dabble said that at Clemson they play safety, play corner, play nickel, we put them anywhere. So that's one thing that he had those versatile too. But he's also was a ball hawk. You know what he did at Texas, how many times he's got his hands on the football. But in addition to that the dude would come down and bring the hammer in the run game. He almost knock out, you know, knocked up the quarterback from Georgia. I don't know how he held onto the football. Stockton, this dude had like three or four of those types of hits just this one season at Texas. So he was a physical player. So his dimensions, because he's not big but he plays big and he's a ball hawk and he's versatile. He's got a lot. He checks a little bit. I think he checks more boxes right now than Jelani. McDonald is really versatile as a safety, but I don't know how many times you can put him at corner, you know, I mean put him at that big nickel now that's gonna help him. The NFL is playing now more big nickel. Big nick is basically three safeties instead of three corners in your nickel pack. Instead of five DBs, instead of three corners out of your five DBs, you put three safeties. They're playing a lot more of that because the NFL's playing more big, big packages, heavy packages, right? 12 personnel, one back, two tight ends, 21 personnel. He also had really high football IQ. Jelani McDonald has really high football IQ too. He has a really, I've talked to him several times, guys, a really high football iq. But that's going to help Jelani too because the NFL wants to play more big nickel and he can play the big nickel. So he's gotta, he's got to check the ball, he's got to check a couple more boxes. But he could work himself into being hit the ceiling where McCool was drafted. He could. I right now I don't think he's there, but I think he could do it by the end of the season.

[C]

Yeah, I think he's like fourth, fourth slash, maybe Late third going into the season. That could elevate himself up around.

[A]

Exactly. Agreed.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Let's jump to the other side of the ball for a moment. Mulligan Moly, do you think that Jermaine Bishop could have a Malachi Tony top season this year? And then we got one other super chat regarding him from dj. He says bold prediction. Bishop has two rushing touchdowns this season.

[C]

I agree on the second part. I can actually really see that with Jermaine Bishop. I, I think as the season moves along, Sark is just. He's going to force his way in there and you're gonna have to get in the ball, get him some touches every game and he's probably going to produce some celebrations, I would say, based on his history in football on the first part. No, not unless it's bad news and there's a rash of injuries. The difference, the difference is Malachi Toney came into Miami in a pretty favorable position. There's a reason he graduated from high school early. Again, he was a reclass like Marcus Spears just did an early age reclass. But there's a reason he reclassed and got the Miami more as much as nil was the opportunity in kind of getting him there. But look, he's coming into a. Jermaine's coming in a totally different situation on this team because of Cam Coleman, because of Ryan Wingo, because of Mosley, even Dalen McCutcheon. There's a lot of experience around him and in front of him. I think that's going to make his. I, I think Jermaine's going to be a very big part of this team, especially second half of the season. I just think once he gets out there, Rod, he's just going to force his way out of the field. You kind of saw it at the Spring Showcase. He was the one guy people couldn't cover. Right. They didn't use him much. They didn't use Ryan Wingo much. But Jermaine just moves different. But he doesn't have that type of situation. It's eerily similar. His situation's eerily similar, you know, to a Marcus Spears in a basketball stage. He doesn't have to come in and be the guy. He's gonna be the guy in a year or one of the guys in a year. But he gets to come in and kind of work within the flow of a team that has a lot of really talented wide receivers. But I do want to say this. My prediction for him isn't as much touchdowns. I think he's going to get 500 yards this year somehow, some way. 500 all purpose yards this year. I just think he, Roddy, he's just a big play waiting to happen. And you know, when you think about it, if you have a couple of 70 yard plays mixed in over the course of a season, you're already at 140. 500 is not a huge number for a kid that's that talented and all purpose. I mean, I'm saying it could be the runs, not the runs. A run or two for touchdowns, not the runs. Cast Cat catching the football, returning a kick. Yeah, like I see a 500 yard all purpose type season from him. And when you think about who else is on this team, that's, that's quite the accomplishment. But no Malachi Tony. Malachi Tony was in a perfect spot. And the other thing about Malachi Rod is Malachi's built like a running back.

[A]

He is great point. Love it.

[C]

Like he had his frame in in law. And Bishop's going to be more in that, in that worthy mold of how he's built. He's going to be bigger than worthy, but that's more streamlined build. Malachi Tony could take hit after hit because he was built like a running back. As a freshman in college, he was ready for the physicality of the game to where you didn't worry about him catching 90 balls and taking the hits, handing it to him on, on a jet sweep or things like that. I think with Bishop it's. They have two different types of frames as well.

[B]

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[A]

Good stuff.

[B]

Good stuff. All right, Rod, we got a super chat for you, sir. This one from Mike. Question for Rod, what were the toughest road environments you played at in college and what were the easiest?

[A]

Oh, that is a good question. Thank you, Mike, for the super chat. Toughest probably had to be K State was always tough and not necessarily Environment just because, man, Casey was a tough place to go play. I remember back in the day, the planet. Planet. I know y' all don't want to say it in Aggie land. I mean. Oh, yeah, it is at Nebraska.

[C]

Nebraska.

[A]

I know now y' all like Nebraska. Yeah, Nebraska. Back in the day when Nebraska was winning national titles and running, you know, and, you know, competing for the Big 12 title. Yeah, Nebraska's a tough place to go play. Back in the day, their fans. Their fans actually were. They weren't. They were nice and respectful, but they were.

[D]

Were.

[A]

They were. They were up, man. They were lit, as young folks would say, like for those games, man. They knew that they were. They were. They could influence the game somehow. So I do remember that being a really, really hostile ruckus environment, easiest places to play. I mean, back in my day in the Big 12, I mean, Baylor and. And Kansas were just Rudy Poop terrible teams, man. They were. They were. Y' all have no idea how bad Baylor was prior to like Art Browse and them getting there and how bad Kansas was prior to. Was that 2004 was. Who's that? Mangino. Was it? Yeah, Mangino. Yeah. Before Mangino got there, Mangino kind of really turned it around. And then they had a couple other kind of iterations of them turning around before laying sleepo got there. But I'm telling you, man, those were some of the easiest games to play and easiest places to play. Going to play those games because they were. Those teams were so bad, nobody came to support them because they were so bad.

[C]

Well, right.

[A]

Hands were empty and we would. We were literally be. That's games. We make jokes on the sideline. Yeah. We having fun joking around. Or even the coach is like, we can't keep these guys focused. This team is too bad we're. We're whipping them. Too bad we can't keep them focused. So that. Those are some of the easiest places before those teams, those programs actually got themselves like to. To be competitive again.

[C]

Hey, Rod, you went through this. We talk about this all the time. Bobby Bowden, I think, had the great line about it, but it's human emotion does not allow you to get up for every game. It just doesn't work that way. You're not going to be up. It is easy to say, but you're not going to be up the same for A M. And Oklahoma as you are a Kentucky. Right. Or even a Vanderbilt prior to Pavia. So, you know, you've. You've lived through that. What is that like as a player, when you know, when you just know, man, we get, we need to be up, we need to have more energy, but human emotion just doesn't allow it sometimes.

[A]

This is true. And it didn't come back to bite us against some of those bad teams, but every now and then it would. And that to your point about that, that psychological, I guess, disadvantage you would put yourself in where you couldn't get as hyped for an Iowa State, but then I would say we ended up having good players. And then they play with you for a quarter and a half, they start thinking, oh, you ain't, it's the, you ain't so bad. Start thinking like Rocky, right from the Rocky movies, you ain't so bad. And that's when you get yourself in a little bit of trouble. And I think oftentimes, you know, early on Oklahoma states would do that to Texas where they wouldn't be a sub Oklahoma State, but they up for Oklahoma because they know. But those games are always right next to each other.

[B]

They're always.

[A]

I think it was either Oklahoma State before and then Oklahoma somewhere around there. So I do think that has gotten Texas a couple of times where and I, I admit, go look at some of our scores back when we played some teams that we're supposed to blow out. You probably look at that score and go, why did you only beat them by two touchdowns? Probably psychologically we as a team did not come out to dominate. And our opponent, regardless of who the opponent was, we should have been playing to a standard. That's tough to do. That's why if you say that. But it's really tough to do. Like you said, Jay played that standard every Saturday, regardless of the opponent. 2000, 2005 Texas, I mean they, I don't even think. No, they did. It's tough to do every Saturday.

[C]

By the way. You know why I've kind of predicted in Texas isn't going to lose the game? People in the chat, don't get me wrong, Texas will end up winning a game comfortably. I've actually circled UTSA as maybe Texas worst performance. And I in a game this year because it's come you're going to be jacked up for your season opener against Texas State. You're going to be jacked up the following week is Ohio State. There's no way you emotionally are going to get up for utsa. It's not humanly possible. I think they're going to win the game comfortably because Texas has much better players and UTSA gave A m a half last year. Right. They're running the football well and if you get a half, if Jeff Traylor can get them halftime and it's, it's a game that, that's, that's a positive long term the Texans will win the game. But I just think from a performance, performance standpoint that could be the one where people are like that wasn't really crisp and up to the standard. Because if you just think about where that is on the schedule, you're jacked up an opener. You have Ohio State week two. Then after utsa, it's at Tennessee. Probably good that you're playing UTSA in that week.

[A]

Oh, that's a good theory. And they're, they're the oldest team in college football. By the way. There's a roto ryer breakdown. They did a study of every, the average age of every team in college football and they had UTSA as the oldest team in college football and they got a three year start at quarterback. So I, I, that's a great point. Right. And they will be. That's their Super Bowl. We all know Jeff Trailer and Jeff Traylor is a good coach. We all know Jeff Trailer can coach ball too.

[C]

Yep. And so it shouldn't, it wouldn't be a surprise if Texas didn't play their best ball in that game. It's just, it's its position in a really bad spot and the opponent is just not one you're gonna emotionally get up for.

[B]

Let's see our next super chat this morning. Maybe one of you can answer this from Buttered Bevo. Good morning, otf. I was wondering when single game tickets go on sale. I'm hoping to attend the Ohio State game which I think will be an instant classic. Probably gonna have to go secondary market on that one.

[A]

Yeah. I gotta do some research for you. I'm not sure.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Because I, from what I hear that's, that's a tough ticket to get or, or very expensive ticket to you.

[B]

Yes. I'd recommend SeatGeek and use code OTF10. There you go. Save you a little money with our promo code. Nice. Let's see here. Texas on my mind. Talent only goes so far. Success. The season will depend on the offensive coordinator improving on calling a game.

[A]

Yeah. I don't disagree with that. I, I agree. 100. Sark's got to also take the next step. It can't just be improving the, the roster and the talent level. He's got to get better situationally. I need Sark to become elite in, in third down situations. He still hasn't brought that. At Bama he was, he, he was elite those last years in third down situations. We haven't had access to that. Texas, his first year at Texas, Texas had an elite red zone offense mostly because just give it to Bijan, put some Bijan on it with a side of Rojo and you're gonna be all right. He figured that out, right? But since then he has not been an elite red zone offense. But at Bama he was in elite red zone offensive play caller. So I, I need situationally those two areas for him to improve and yeah, I need him to unleash the beast. I don't know if we've, we've seen the entire Sark playbook unleashed. I think he's come close maybe in, in 2023, maybe 2024, but this, there should be nothing limiting his creativity and innovation. At times they've been like, oh, the old line can't block so we can't do these things. Oh, we don't have this position. Are we missing a explosive running back? So we can't do these things. Right now there shouldn't be any limitations based on personnel. So I expect him to unleash all the cheat codes and him to be if this is not the best offense Sarkis had since he's been at Texas, something went horribly wrong. That was a good one.

[B]

Had to get that plug in there. All right, Jerry, we got one for you from naming Roberts. He says, jerry, I have a 6,272pound freshman linebacker at Tassocida High School. Any advice on recruiting down the road?

[C]

I, well, the one thing I would say in terms of recruiting is, and, and I tell this to young kids all the time is if somebody asked me, you know, depending on where he's at next summer, I, I, A lot of people, a lot of people just go to like, okay, we're gonna go to Texas camp, A M camp, LSU and Oklahoma camp in the summer and do one day camps at all these. I like to start on all levels of division one football. You know, you have your satellite camps, but that's really for the older guys. I, I would say this. If you want to start getting on the radar, if your kid's in the position to do that, if you feel like an atasita feels like he's going to be in a position to do that, don't just go to all the big schools for camps, go to Houston, go to Heck Houston Christian and pick a couple of big schools too. But give yourself chances to Be truly evaluated at all levels of D1. Unless your kid after this year, it looks like a national recruit or something like that, which I don't know anything about him. But if you're not on that level, I think the mistake some people make is, oh, we're just going to go to all of Johnny's dream colleges. Well, you're wasting a lot of money at that point. Go let yourself get evaluated and get true feedback from. And let your coaching staff get true feedback as well from these schools because they know everybody. These Ataska seat. I can guarantee you people on the Atasca CETA staff know somebody at every college in the state. Everybody at every college at every level. Let your kid be evaluated. I think sometimes people start shooting for the stars early instead of just letting your kid be evaluated at all levels of D1. There aren't many Rod Pavers right around. It can go to Florida State, Miami, Texas and A M camps.

[B]

And speaking of recruiting, Juan Guards are here. Was Royal born in Louisiana or did he move there when he was young?

[C]

I'm pretty sure he was born there. He. He actually lives in Slidell, so he doesn't live in New Orleans. It actually shows you kind of how disciplined he is to make the decision. Trip from Slidell to Brother Martin every day.

[A]

He.

[C]

He's actually in Slidell, so a little northeast of of New Orleans there.

[B]

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[A]

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[B]

All right. And we need to say congratulations here. Saw this in the chat from Santiago. He says we welcome the newest PNG Indian and Longhorn fan Monday night Hookle.

[A]

That's awesome.

[B]

Congratulations.

[C]

Hey, by the way, by the way, when you list schools, some of the best schools I've been at for a high school football game, PNG is way up that list. That is a tried and true long term fan base. Png, whether I went to watch Roshan Johnson way back in the day. Dustin long before when he was being recruited by a lot of people. I watched them against. I think it was West Orange at png. Unbelievable. Fan base. High school fan base. If you listed the top 10, 12 high school fan bases, I'm guessing PNG is going to be almost on everybody's list. I'm guessing Greg way would put PNG up there. They've traveled. They've always traveled. 70s, 80s, 90s to now that fan base travels. It's. It's a cool spot to watch a game on a Friday night.

[B]

I know we got a few PNG fans in the chat every morning as well. So you're not alone.

[A]

But congrats, Santiago. Congrats.

[B]

Yeah, very cool. Thanks for sharing with us. Aspen here says Blake is like Raj in Big Bang Theory. I don't watch that, so I don't really know. Making the project longer and longer every time he reads it. Hey, the script stays the same. The names are the only thing that change. Gotta meet those advertising requirements. It is what it is. Juan Garza, thank you for your second super chat. He says, is it interesting that Muschamp is debuting with after he was hired coming off a 10, 3 season in 07. He finished in 08121 this year. Being hired coming off a 103 season. What could the record be?

[A]

Oh, that's interesting. The thing about must I be it is some nostalgia with this thing because that was one of your greatest defensive eras. It was a short one for Texas, but it was like that. 0809 defenses. I mean I still think you had a record number of takeaways on those must champ defenses. I believe you came close to approaching the sack record. If not. And on that Muscham defense in 08 with what you call them, a sackpo. So it. It's. He. He. There was a. If you were a Longhorn fan at that time watching Texas football, there is a nostalgia with this thing with must champ coming back because that was just such a great era of defensive football for Texas.

[C]

Yeah, yeah. Give me 10 and two and get in the playoffs.

[A]

I got 10 and two. I did not have 12 and I got 10 and two. I will say that before that 2008 season, I did predict that Texas would go undefeated that season. I was wrong, but I was close.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Throwing it out there.

[C]

I think one of the crazy things, Rod from that season was during Earl's red shirt season, behind the scenes, people are saying he's the best. Like, he's the best db. And I was like, whoa. Because, you know, Rod, what I kept hearing, he lived in the film room. He did. He did preparation. Like he was a starter during his red shirt year. And I think people were blown away. And that's when he become. Became better than even the colleges that recruited him thought he was going to be.

[A]

Yep. And I remember Coach Aquinas saying, I thought he was going to be a nickel because I kept putting him at nickel because he could cover and he was a little undersized. I mean, they said that once he got his safety and started making plays, you couldn't move him from safety. Yeah, no, that guy's a. Guy's a safety because he's a great football investigator. And that that translated even to his hall of Fame NFL career, which I think he will be when it's all said and done.

[C]

People ask an update on sales, sales announcers, and an hour and a half. Indiana. Indiana is the favorite until they're not in this recruitment. And I do think. I do. I. I do. He had not, as of yesterday evening, informed schools of his decision. And it's really coming. It's Indiana or Texas here. I do think he will do that before he announces.

[A]

All right, Monshan, he's probably gonna do like 10 minutes for the announcement, right?

[C]

He's like, hey, man, look, I think it's in this. It's Indiana until it's not. And if you. If you get the upset win, you get the upset win.

[B]

There you go.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Sign out soon.

[B]

All right, well, that is going to do it for this episode of Coffee and Football, presented by South Point Dodge. We want to thank them along with Von Lanes and AI prize picks and Hexclad offered sponsoring today's show. Thank you for a very loaded super chat day. Very cool to get all those in. Appreciate those as well. Jerry, what's later today besides munch on?

[C]

Yeah, we got Rod now. I'll be back for an afternoon live stream, which that'll be about three, four, three and a half hours after sales announces his decision. So come get your questions in for Rod and I. We're gonna record a couple of shows here coming up, and we'll have some probably some recruiting reaction at some point today.

[B]

Yeah, and don't forget, we can't be on here all the time. So head on over to ontexasfootball.com come join the great cat community over there. Get your questions anered answered. Excuse me? Join in on the message boards and find out the latest news. Between that and the YouTube channel, we got you covered around the clock with top notch Longhorns coverage. And we hope you all have an absolutely phenomenal weekend. We'll be back on Monday morning. So for Jerry Hamilton and Rod Babers, I'm Blake Monroe and we'll see you then.

[A]

Welcome.