J.B. TexasEx
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You're welcome to fill his role as resident Twitter link guru and "shit memes" distributor.
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Mayhall posted a lot of cool Twitter, memes, etc... Haven't seen him around much either.
http://insidetexas.com/tom-herman-post-practice-quotes-3817/ This was a free link on Twitter. Hope it's ok to post it
Alex Dunlap
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NewThank you to the Texas staff for allowing us to observe a nice portion of practice on Tuesday, I'm very much looking forward to this setup continuing. While it isn't a full practice, we got to see all of stretching/warmups and then five full periods of practice. It is enough to glean some great information for our readers, but also keep the parts private that the coaches want private. I believe, if this arrangement continues through spring and fall camps, we'll see some of the more robust reporting on the team that we've seen in recent years.
Fingers crossed.
. . .
OFFENSE
- The starting offensive line to begin spring ball from left to right was Connor Williams, Patrick Vahe, Zach Shackelford, Jake McMillon and Tristan Nickelson/Brandon Hodges with Nickelson being the first man up in the first drill.
- Interestingly, in position drills, McMillon and Shack would flip-flop from center to RG and back as if they're both cross training.
- The second unit was from L to R was JP Uriquidez/Jean Delance (interesting to see JPU run out with the twos to start over Jean Delance) Elijah Rodriguez, Terrell Cuney, Patrick Hudson and Nickelson/Hodges.
- Buck Major seems buried and Denzel Okafor wasn't getting too many meaningful reps during the period witnessed either.
- With the first receivers, Collin Johnson and Dorian Leonard were the first up on the outside with Jerrod Heard and Armanti Foreman sprinkling in at the slot. With the twos, the primary targets during position drills and w/ QBs were Lil'Jordan Humphrey, John Burt, Devin Duvernay, Davion Curtis and Reggie Hemphill-Mapps.
- Chris Warren was running as the starter at RB with Kirk Johnson handling second-team duties in the period open to the media.
- QB Sam Ehlinger started his UT career at practice by completing a deep bomb. I did not see who it was to as we had not been allowed in yet, but it got everyone pumped. I'm sure they'll be a video up of it at some point. Buechele started with the first group while Ehlinger worked with the twos.
- Jerrod Heard through this part of practice was used both at the outside and slot WR positions.
- TE Peyton Aucoin was pretty heavily involved and looks like a hell of a prospect. He's a little slow and lumbering in his routes, but is big and has some beast in him.
- A Roderick Bernard sighting? He doesn't seem to be going full speed, but at least he's out there with the team.
DEFENSE
The first unit to start spring was as follows from the front of the defense to the back:
Malcolm Roach (end) --- Poona Ford (nose) --- Chris Nelson (end)
Naashon Hughes (B-Backer) --- Malik Jefferson (will) --- Breckyn Hager (mike)
Kris Boyd (CB) --- PJ Locke (NCB) --- John Bonney (S) --- Deshon Elliott (S) --- Holton Hill (CB)
- During the period of practice made available to media, there were no substitutions of this group and it was the same for all drills.
the second unit:
Jordan Elliott (end) --- Gerald Wilbon (nose) --- Charles Omenihu (end)
Jeffrey McCulloch (B-Backer) --- Anthony Wheeler (will) --- Edwin Freeman (mike).
Davante Davis (CB) --- Chris Brown (NCB) --- Jason Hall (S) --- Brandon Jones (S) --- Antwuan Davis (CB)
- Erick Fowler was working third team, and not as an OLB surprisingly, but at the mike, Demarco Boyd was beside him at the will. Chris Daniels, D'Andre Christmas and Andrew Fitzgerald also worked with the third group while Marcel Southall seems buried at this point in time. He also doesn't look in the best shape.
- Kris Boyd and PJ Locke are the clear leaders of the DB group and very vocal.
- Naashon Hughes does indeed look bigger, but not 260-bigger as he's listed on the depth chart. I'd say the tops I'd peg him at would be 255. Still, he looks better this season than last.
SPECIAL TEAMS + ODDS AND ENDS
- The coaches had everyone and their dog try fielding kick returns today --- Antwuan Davis, Holton Hill, Devin Duvernay, Armanti Foreman, Jerrod Heard and Kirk Johnson among others but the one that stood out to me was freshman RB Toneil Carter. What a burst he has to the open field. He also seems natural drifting back to receive the punt, see it in, then burst into space.
- Dynamic stretch period was much more energetic and aerobic than stretch under previous staff.
- During stretch, certain ball-carriers were holding footballs that assistant coaches would go around trying to knock out. I did not see one knocked out but imagine there would have been consequences if so.
- Coach Herman is almost comically involved in punt team. He's a maniacal teacher of technique in how to engage as a blocker then disengage with a rip-and-throw to get downfield into coverage.
- Former Horns Mike Davis, Sedrick Flowers and Malcolm Brown were in attendance at practice as well as 2017 TE commit Cade Brewer.
- The music at practice was much louder and the songs were better.
- Coach Herman's first words to the team in its first practice when it broke down post-stretch:
"Everything matters! EVERYTHING!!!" (it was the beginning of a pre-practice talk that emphasized the importance of attention to detail in every aspect of your work).
This was on Facebook.
Any Updates on Desmond Harrison?
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NewThank you to the Texas staff for allowing us to observe a nice portion of practice on Tuesday, I'm very much looking forward to this setup continuing. While it isn't a full practice, we got to see all of stretching/warmups and then five full periods of practice. It is enough to glean some great information for our readers, but also keep the parts private that the coaches want private. I believe, if this arrangement continues through spring and fall camps, we'll see some of the more robust reporting on the team that we've seen in recent years.
Fingers crossed.
. . .
OFFENSE
- The starting offensive line to begin spring ball from left to right was Connor Williams, Patrick Vahe, Zach Shackelford, Jake McMillon and Tristan Nickelson/Brandon Hodges with Nickelson being the first man up in the first drill.
- Interestingly, in position drills, McMillon and Shack would flip-flop from center to RG and back as if they're both cross training.
- The second unit was from L to R was JP Uriquidez/Jean Delance (interesting to see JPU run out with the twos to start over Jean Delance) Elijah Rodriguez, Terrell Cuney, Patrick Hudson and Nickelson/Hodges.
- Buck Major seems buried and Denzel Okafor wasn't getting too many meaningful reps during the period witnessed either.
- With the first receivers, Collin Johnson and Dorian Leonard were the first up on the outside with Jerrod Heard and Armanti Foreman sprinkling in at the slot. With the twos, the primary targets during position drills and w/ QBs were Lil'Jordan Humphrey, John Burt, Devin Duvernay, Davion Curtis and Reggie Hemphill-Mapps.
- Chris Warren was running as the starter at RB with Kirk Johnson handling second-team duties in the period open to the media.
- QB Sam Ehlinger started his UT career at practice by completing a deep bomb. I did not see who it was to as we had not been allowed in yet, but it got everyone pumped. I'm sure they'll be a video up of it at some point. Buechele started with the first group while Ehlinger worked with the twos.
- Jerrod Heard through this part of practice was used both at the outside and slot WR positions.
- TE Peyton Aucoin was pretty heavily involved and looks like a hell of a prospect. He's a little slow and lumbering in his routes, but is big and has some beast in him.
- A Roderick Bernard sighting? He doesn't seem to be going full speed, but at least he's out there with the team.
DEFENSE
The first unit to start spring was as follows from the front of the defense to the back:
Malcolm Roach (end) --- Poona Ford (nose) --- Chris Nelson (end)
Naashon Hughes (B-Backer) --- Malik Jefferson (will) --- Breckyn Hager (mike)
Kris Boyd (CB) --- PJ Locke (NCB) --- John Bonney (S) --- Deshon Elliott (S) --- Holton Hill (CB)
- During the period of practice made available to media, there were no substitutions of this group and it was the same for all drills.
the second unit:
Jordan Elliott (end) --- Gerald Wilbon (nose) --- Charles Omenihu (end)
Jeffrey McCulloch (B-Backer) --- Anthony Wheeler (will) --- Edwin Freeman (mike).
Davante Davis (CB) --- Chris Brown (NCB) --- Jason Hall (S) --- Brandon Jones (S) --- Antwuan Davis (CB)
- Erick Fowler was working third team, and not as an OLB surprisingly, but at the mike, Demarco Boyd was beside him at the will. Chris Daniels, D'Andre Christmas and Andrew Fitzgerald also worked with the third group while Marcel Southall seems buried at this point in time. He also doesn't look in the best shape.
- Kris Boyd and PJ Locke are the clear leaders of the DB group and very vocal.
- Naashon Hughes does indeed look bigger, but not 260-bigger as he's listed on the depth chart. I'd say the tops I'd peg him at would be 255. Still, he looks better this season than last.
SPECIAL TEAMS + ODDS AND ENDS
- The coaches had everyone and their dog try fielding kick returns today --- Antwuan Davis, Holton Hill, Devin Duvernay, Armanti Foreman, Jerrod Heard and Kirk Johnson among others but the one that stood out to me was freshman RB Toneil Carter. What a burst he has to the open field. He also seems natural drifting back to receive the punt, see it in, then burst into space.
- Dynamic stretch period was much more energetic and aerobic than stretch under previous staff.
- During stretch, certain ball-carriers were holding footballs that assistant coaches would go around trying to knock out. I did not see one knocked out but imagine there would have been consequences if so.
- Coach Herman is almost comically involved in punt team. He's a maniacal teacher of technique in how to engage as a blocker then disengage with a rip-and-throw to get downfield into coverage.
- Former Horns Mike Davis, Sedrick Flowers and Malcolm Brown were in attendance at practice as well as 2017 TE commit Cade Brewer.
- The music at practice was much louder and the songs were better.
- Coach Herman's first words to the team in its first practice when it broke down post-stretch:
"Everything matters! EVERYTHING!!!" (it was the beginning of a pre-practice talk that emphasized the importance of attention to detail in every aspect of your work).
This was on Facebook.
Also on Facebook
Under Strong, the media was allowed to watch the first two to three practices in full. Today, media was only allowed to view and photograph around 45 minutes of mostly stretching and position drills at practice. Here's what I saw.
-First thing out of the gate, or rather into the gate, was how the team got to the Denius Fields. At least today, Herman had his players take school buses to get to the fields, and ran off the bus right into early stretching and drills.
-Some number switches. D. Davis is 18. A. Davis is 7. Devin Duvernay is 6. Hemphill is 17. Humphrey is 84. Joe is 14. Ehlinger is 11. Carter is 30.
-During part of the stretching drills, players held a ball in their hand, and coaches would travel through the lines with a padded-punching apparatus in order to try and knock balls out of the players’ hands. This only reinforces what Herman said on Monday; ball security is of the utmost importance.
-Every single coach was intense. Naivar, Mehringer, Herman, and Drayton appeared very vocal.
-If a player messed up technique during one of the stretching drills, the entire team had to do the technique/stretch over. Music was playing during practice, and Herman ordered that the volume be turned off so the coaches could “show all these [expletive] cameras whose name we’re calling.†Patrick Vahe was one of the players who was most vocal about making sure drills were done correctly. We heard Davante Davis a couple of times in a row for not properly doing a drill.
-After practice, Herman noted how the stretching period was one of if not the toughest change for the players to make.
-Ehlinger had a knee brace on but it looks to be precautionary. He didn’t show any yips in the short time we were there. Kirk Johnson was participating full speed seemingly without any struggle.
-Every single player on the team practiced something related to special teams. Today, it was punt coverage. Naivar and Washington handled technique responsibilities for players usually in their domain, so gunners. Orlando helped with players called to block and release. Herman himself was teaching the personal protectors. Warehime and Giles were with their groups working on techniques during this time.
-Alums at the first practice: Duke Thomas, Jeremy Hill, Mike Davis, Frank Denius, Ted Koy, Aaron Ross.
-Cade Brewer was also in attendance.
-First team line appeared to be Williams – Vahe – Shack – McMillon – Nickelson. Aucoin was TE1.
-At one point during the practice, a line of Urquidez – Rodriguez – Cuney – Hudson – Hodges took the field with Ehlinger and Porter behind them.
-Jerrod Heard and Davion Curtis repped at outside receiver for the limited amount of time media was able to watch. Armanti Foreman lined up in the slot.
-After practice, Herman began with: “I will save you the trouble; nobody stood out, offense or defense. Nobody stood out, good or bad.â€
-Did he expect anyone to stand out? “Not running around in underwear. Today was all about practice habits.â€
-This is a team that Herman will make sure practices hard and to the whistle on the field and in other aspects of players lives. Herman said his son, TD, does 11 pushups and situps every night “because everybody else is doing 10.†He’s bringing that mentality to the team.
-Herman also said he had to discipline Shane Buechele during practice for poor ball security. Herman made sure to note it wasn’t because of poor effort, but just because Shane wasn’t protecting the ball. It also showed the team that everyone was expected to perform at their very best, regardless of their position or standing.
-After practice, Naashon Hughes and P.J. Locke were the only players available to the media. Who has Herman been talking up a lot recently? Hughes and Locke.
-Hughes said players learned who was in the gold, green, and crimson groups last night.
Herman spoke for almost 20 minutes after practice. I’ll have more on him tomorrow.
Under Strong, the media was allowed to watch the first two to three practices in full. Today, media was only allowed to view and photograph around 45 minutes of mostly stretching and position drills at practice. Here's what I saw.
-First thing out of the gate, or rather into the gate, was how the team got to the Denius Fields. At least today, Herman had his players take school buses to get to the fields, and ran off the bus right into early stretching and drills.
-Some number switches. D. Davis is 18. A. Davis is 7. Devin Duvernay is 6. Hemphill is 17. Humphrey is 84. Joe is 14. Ehlinger is 11. Carter is 30.
-During part of the stretching drills, players held a ball in their hand, and coaches would travel through the lines with a padded-punching apparatus in order to try and knock balls out of the players’ hands. This only reinforces what Herman said on Monday; ball security is of the utmost importance.
-Every single coach was intense. Naivar, Mehringer, Herman, and Drayton appeared very vocal.
-If a player messed up technique during one of the stretching drills, the entire team had to do the technique/stretch over. Music was playing during practice, and Herman ordered that the volume be turned off so the coaches could “show all these [expletive] cameras whose name we’re calling.†Patrick Vahe was one of the players who was most vocal about making sure drills were done correctly. We heard Davante Davis a couple of times in a row for not properly doing a drill.
-After practice, Herman noted how the stretching period was one of if not the toughest change for the players to make.
-Ehlinger had a knee brace on but it looks to be precautionary. He didn’t show any yips in the short time we were there. Kirk Johnson was participating full speed seemingly without any struggle.
-Every single player on the team practiced something related to special teams. Today, it was punt coverage. Naivar and Washington handled technique responsibilities for players usually in their domain, so gunners. Orlando helped with players called to block and release. Herman himself was teaching the personal protectors. Warehime and Giles were with their groups working on techniques during this time.
-Alums at the first practice: Duke Thomas, Jeremy Hill, Mike Davis, Frank Denius, Ted Koy, Aaron Ross.
-Cade Brewer was also in attendance.
-First team line appeared to be Williams – Vahe – Shack – McMillon – Nickelson. Aucoin was TE1.
-At one point during the practice, a line of Urquidez – Rodriguez – Cuney – Hudson – Hodges took the field with Ehlinger and Porter behind them.
-Jerrod Heard and Davion Curtis repped at outside receiver for the limited amount of time media was able to watch. Armanti Foreman lined up in the slot.
-After practice, Herman began with: “I will save you the trouble; nobody stood out, offense or defense. Nobody stood out, good or bad.â€
-Did he expect anyone to stand out? “Not running around in underwear. Today was all about practice habits.â€
-This is a team that Herman will make sure practices hard and to the whistle on the field and in other aspects of players lives. Herman said his son, TD, does 11 pushups and situps every night “because everybody else is doing 10.†He’s bringing that mentality to the team.
-Herman also said he had to discipline Shane Buechele during practice for poor ball security. Herman made sure to note it wasn’t because of poor effort, but just because Shane wasn’t protecting the ball. It also showed the team that everyone was expected to perform at their very best, regardless of their position or standing.
-After practice, Naashon Hughes and P.J. Locke were the only players available to the media. Who has Herman been talking up a lot recently? Hughes and Locke.
-Hughes said players learned who was in the gold, green, and crimson groups last night.
Herman spoke for almost 20 minutes after practice. I’ll have more on him tomorrow.
Daniel Seahorn
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If it's free content then it's fair game obviously because they made it available to everyone.
I don't want to nitpick about the post after this one because you found on Facebook, but wherever you found it from is the exact thing we are trying to avoid here. People taking premium content and posting it in a public forum so others don't have to pay to see it.
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I think the safe route is to post the link or tweet to the original site. That way, if it's free, we can just follow the link, and if it's premium, then you're not copying/pasting. Just my thoughts!
primal defense
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Texas under Tom Herman: Winners eat steak, losers eat hot dogs
http://www.espn.com/blog/ncfnation/post/_/id/136964/texas-under-tom-herman-winners-eat-steak-losers-eat-hot-dogs
http://www.espn.com/blog/ncfnation/post/_/id/136964/texas-under-tom-herman-winners-eat-steak-losers-eat-hot-dogs
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joeywa
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My 2-cents is, I think the writing on Facebook is fine to post here, as Facebook is not a premium pay site. I don't have a Facebook, ain't gonna get one again after it was opened up to everybody and their mother, so I like seeing that kind of stuff.
That said, the Alex Dunlap piece was copied/pasted into Facebook verbatim from Orangebloods premium.
My concern is this; once premium content is posted elsewhere, (in this case, Facebook,) it becomes fair game. As long as it wasn't copied/pasted from OBs it shouldn't ruffle any feathers of Alex or anyone else. If you're not a member of OBs, then how would you know if it's verbatim from OBs? You wouldn't.
It's a slippery slope.
Facebook=Free=fine to copy/paste, just attribute the content to Facebook & author, as was done here.
Orangebloods (and others, IT/247/etc.)=Premium Pay Site Content=link to content or summarize; do not copy/paste verbatim.
That said, the Alex Dunlap piece was copied/pasted into Facebook verbatim from Orangebloods premium.
My concern is this; once premium content is posted elsewhere, (in this case, Facebook,) it becomes fair game. As long as it wasn't copied/pasted from OBs it shouldn't ruffle any feathers of Alex or anyone else. If you're not a member of OBs, then how would you know if it's verbatim from OBs? You wouldn't.
It's a slippery slope.
Facebook=Free=fine to copy/paste, just attribute the content to Facebook & author, as was done here.
Orangebloods (and others, IT/247/etc.)=Premium Pay Site Content=link to content or summarize; do not copy/paste verbatim.
Sirhornsalot
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I tried that once. Once.
After doing so, I got belittled by every HS member who isn't on face book.
MBHORNSFAN
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If you are referring to the Longhorn sports Haven. Yes it defiantly has some interesting people there
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Here is the deal, advertising as a business model for websites is dying because everybody is chasing the same dollar.
The business model of premium or paid subscription is viable but it has its limits.
The Internet has allowed everybody to be a publisher at a microfraction of the overhead it used to take.
Why would you want to own The New York Times or the Statesman with their overhead when you can be an interactive magazine (website) or a specialty television station (YouTube eg) at a fraction of the cost?
The glut in supply of specialty websites has fractionalized the entertainment market. There is too much entertainment available to be able to attract serious advertising dollars unless your website has a great amount of traffic.
My suggestion: Market access to premium information to the public like apps do, say $0.99/3 months. Obviously I don't know what this website, for example, needs to turn the crank so the $0.99 price point is hypothetical but the point is to run the numbers through your business model to determine a minimal price point and memberships needed at that point which would allow the website to make payroll and whatever else you want to factor in. It seems paltry but it might increase premium membership exponentially. The explosion in the number of new subscribers will be what sets a website apart and give it leverage with advertisers.
Then, and only then, will premium websites understand what they are receiving when their premium content is posted free outside the paywall: free advertising that encourages more membership.
The business model of premium or paid subscription is viable but it has its limits.
The Internet has allowed everybody to be a publisher at a microfraction of the overhead it used to take.
Why would you want to own The New York Times or the Statesman with their overhead when you can be an interactive magazine (website) or a specialty television station (YouTube eg) at a fraction of the cost?
The glut in supply of specialty websites has fractionalized the entertainment market. There is too much entertainment available to be able to attract serious advertising dollars unless your website has a great amount of traffic.
My suggestion: Market access to premium information to the public like apps do, say $0.99/3 months. Obviously I don't know what this website, for example, needs to turn the crank so the $0.99 price point is hypothetical but the point is to run the numbers through your business model to determine a minimal price point and memberships needed at that point which would allow the website to make payroll and whatever else you want to factor in. It seems paltry but it might increase premium membership exponentially. The explosion in the number of new subscribers will be what sets a website apart and give it leverage with advertisers.
Then, and only then, will premium websites understand what they are receiving when their premium content is posted free outside the paywall: free advertising that encourages more membership.
doc longhorn
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I've been spending a lot of time at my ranch and on IT and 247. But I have always liked this site as I think, excluding me, there actually sane people on here. Shaggy is 70% children and IT has its collection of a,,holes.
But every time I get ready to comment on here, the love of my life has some kind of honeydo for me to do.
I have seen that Mike Roach got a job at IT, but MBHorns is still here and I love to jack with him.
And if Juan still lurks, he needs to quit sulking and start making a contribution once in a while.
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BevoBlake
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This is pretty typical of this time of year. Recruiting news has died down, football is half a year away and basketball has left people disappointed again.
I actually feel for Aaron and the crew. Hard to maintain traffic this time of year.
I actually feel for Aaron and the crew. Hard to maintain traffic this time of year.
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You laid it out much better than I did and nailed it on the nose. That's what I meant by I saying I can't nitpick because it came from within a Facebook group and thus ended up over here.
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