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Listening to am1300 the zone this morning.
Chip and Sean were at the practice yearerday.
They are saying that Shackelford is the Real Deal. And the Linebackers are looking good as well. Haven't heard any QB talk yet
Chip and Sean were at the practice yearerday.
They are saying that Shackelford is the Real Deal. And the Linebackers are looking good as well. Haven't heard any QB talk yet
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That's nice to hear, but the two positions I'm most concerned about for 2016 are DL and QB
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They did mention DL...They say it looks thin and the D may need to switch to a 3-4 if the Freshmen comin in cant learn the schemes fast enough.
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QB is really concerning.My hope is that what is happening with Kai is more "tough love" than a reflection of his maturity. If the latter, then it wont end well.Buschell really,really needs a redshirt year, but we might not be able to wait him out. Swoopes will run away with the competition as he can at least pass the ball. I am alarmed when I see clips of the flutter balls that come out of Heard's hand. I saw one from yesterday where he threw a TD but I swear that the ball went end over end.
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I agree with Olson.
Big 12 roundtable: Texas, Iowa State, Kansas storylines
What is the biggest storyline to follow at Texas?
Chatmon: Can there really be any other answer outside of the quarterbacks? To be honest, I’m not that worried about the rest of the roster, Charlie Strong has recruited well, but it might not matter if the Longhorns don’t get good play from their quarterbacks. However, I don’t think the best-case scenario for Texas is to leave the spring with a starting quarterback. If the competition lingers into the summer and preseason, that could be a good sign and, more importantly, force all the competitors to continue pushing each other to improve until a final decision is made. But every step of the way should be entertaining.
Olson: Yes, the quarterback job is the most important thing at Texas this spring. What I'm most interested to see is how their staff handles Tyrone Swoopes. I can't say I'm surprised that he seems to have the upper hand in the first week of competition, because I think he can execute what Sterlin Gilbert is seeking in the passing game. But remember, Texas' coaches spent all of fall camp last August working to build up Swoopes' confidence as their No. 1 guy. Then they went up to Notre Dame and it all fell apart. If he thrives in practice this spring, can he turn it into the real thing in live action?
Trotter: Quarterbacks. Enough said. If Texas doesn't get significantly better quarterback play, nothing else much will matter for Charlie Strong. Can freshman Shane Buechele finally be the answer? We could get a glimpse this spring.
http://espn.go.com/blog/big12/post/_/id/110392/big-12-roundtable-texas-iowa-state-kansas-storylines
Big 12 roundtable: Texas, Iowa State, Kansas storylines
What is the biggest storyline to follow at Texas?
Chatmon: Can there really be any other answer outside of the quarterbacks? To be honest, I’m not that worried about the rest of the roster, Charlie Strong has recruited well, but it might not matter if the Longhorns don’t get good play from their quarterbacks. However, I don’t think the best-case scenario for Texas is to leave the spring with a starting quarterback. If the competition lingers into the summer and preseason, that could be a good sign and, more importantly, force all the competitors to continue pushing each other to improve until a final decision is made. But every step of the way should be entertaining.
Olson: Yes, the quarterback job is the most important thing at Texas this spring. What I'm most interested to see is how their staff handles Tyrone Swoopes. I can't say I'm surprised that he seems to have the upper hand in the first week of competition, because I think he can execute what Sterlin Gilbert is seeking in the passing game. But remember, Texas' coaches spent all of fall camp last August working to build up Swoopes' confidence as their No. 1 guy. Then they went up to Notre Dame and it all fell apart. If he thrives in practice this spring, can he turn it into the real thing in live action?
Trotter: Quarterbacks. Enough said. If Texas doesn't get significantly better quarterback play, nothing else much will matter for Charlie Strong. Can freshman Shane Buechele finally be the answer? We could get a glimpse this spring.
http://espn.go.com/blog/big12/post/_/id/110392/big-12-roundtable-texas-iowa-state-kansas-storylines
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I'm going to have to do some research on Buschell. I thought I knew all the UT QBs. contending for the job.
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The Beatles wrote a song about him.I'm going to have to do some research on Buschell. I thought I knew all the UT QBs. contending for the job.
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http://www.hudl.com/athlete/1902601/highlights/316683375I'm going to have to do some research on Buschell. I thought I knew all the UT QBs. contending for the job.
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Get ready ladies, Swoopes is going to shine in this quick read package that is fast paced and run oriented.
I'd love nothing more than to see Swoopes go out on a high note, the kid has been a trooper and his confidence is sky high coming off last season and the way they utilized his size.
As I gather, neither Merrick nor Kai are really in the mix and Shane is pushing the upperclassmen! The unit is going to get better.
I'd love nothing more than to see Swoopes go out on a high note, the kid has been a trooper and his confidence is sky high coming off last season and the way they utilized his size.
As I gather, neither Merrick nor Kai are really in the mix and Shane is pushing the upperclassmen! The unit is going to get better.
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Probably the most important person on the team this year.
Sterlin Gilbert’s family opens up on new Texas OC
SAN ANGELO (KXAN) — Sterlin Gilbert’s rise to one of the most prominent jobs in college football started in his West Texas home in San Angelo.
“We played football outside, we played football inside the house,†Brady Gilbert, Sterlin’s older brother, said. “If it was glass in our house, it was broke as a child. We had a large living area, and that’s where it started.
“Friends went out on the weekends, we stayed at home and practiced football or baseball or basketball, whatever it was. It was our life, even then.â€
“We threw the football, and we threw the football and we threw the football,†Sterlin’s father, Allen Gilbert, said. “I mean, later on in life, I had to have surgery on my right arm, and it wasn’t all from me throwing the football when I was growing up and playing quarterback, but it was from throwing baseballs and footballs with Brady and Sterlin all those years.â€
Those games with his older brother, fostered a competitiveness in Sterlin that turned him into the starting quarterback at Lake View High School, and later Angelo State.
“Him being a couple years younger, he would play with me and my friends,†Brady recalled. “So he had to strive to be as good as we were, which in turn, made him very good.â€
But even before Gilbert became a three-year starter for the Rams in college, his family knew what his future held.
“It was obvious from high school on, that he wanted to be a coach,†Sterlin’s father said. “When he got into college, that was his life’s dream, was to be a coach.â€
“I would say, maybe even probably back in high school, he knew he wanted to do something with football,†Brady said. “I knew football was his life, even in high school, growing up. That passion and competitiveness there, so I was like, as long as that translates over to coaching style, you’ll be unbelievably successful with that.â€
Gilbert’s success has been undeniable. After a two-year stint at Springtown High School, Gilbert was a graduate assistant at the University of Houston under Art Briles. He then spent two years as the OC at Abilene Cooper before his first head coaching job at his alma mater, Lake View. After three years with the Chiefs, he spent one season at Temple High School, and then made the jump back to college with stops at Eastern Illinois, Bowling Green and last year at Tulsa before joining the staff at Texas.
“Every one of us knew that this day was coming,†Allen said. “I think we might have been a little surprised how quick it came, but none of us, I don’t think, were surprised that it came.â€
“I expected him to get to this level,†Brady said. “The rapid ascent of it, I wouldn’t necessarily say five years from the time he was coaching high school football. If you’d have asked me to look in a crystal ball and said, ‘Will he be at the University of Texas?’ I would have probably, honestly, probably said, ‘I don’t think that quickly. Will he be there some day? Of course'â€
The move from Tulsa to Texas wasn’t so simple, though.
“Between Brady and Sterlin and I, I know we had over 60 conversations within 24 hours,†Judge Allen said.
After reports across the country that Gilbert had agreed to become Charlie Strong’s OC, news came out the next day that Gilbert had actually turned him down. It wasn’t until Strong, along with UT president Greg Fenves and athletic director Mike Perrin flew to Tulsa to visit with Gilbert, that he accepted the job.
“It’s a tough and difficult time for anybody to go through, but he handles it just like he’s on the field playing,†Allen said. “He did it calmly, he thought about it, he saw the field, in essence, and he made his decision based on the facts that he had.â€
“It was intense,†Brady remembered. “We knew as much as we could know, didn’t wanna know more than we knew because obviously, there was a ton of questions we were even being asked. But the intensity of it. I wouldn’t say that there was a while when he didn’t know. He was working, he was going back and forth with his decision and what was best for him. But it was intense. I can’t imagine how intense it was for him, knowing how intense it was for us. The texts, the phone calls, everything.â€
Now, Gilbert is tasked with turning around a Texas offense that’s been stagnant for most of the past two years.
“You look back, that was the pinnacle of his career to this point,†Brady said. “It was the culmination of all those days in high school, all those days in college, all those days coaching.â€
“I think it’s worked out great for him and for the University of Texas,†Allen said “I think he’ll do an excellent job.â€
Longhorns everywhere are counting on it.
http://kxan.com/2016/03/07/sterlin-gilberts-family-opens-up-on-new-texas-oc/
Sterlin Gilbert’s family opens up on new Texas OC
SAN ANGELO (KXAN) — Sterlin Gilbert’s rise to one of the most prominent jobs in college football started in his West Texas home in San Angelo.
“We played football outside, we played football inside the house,†Brady Gilbert, Sterlin’s older brother, said. “If it was glass in our house, it was broke as a child. We had a large living area, and that’s where it started.
“Friends went out on the weekends, we stayed at home and practiced football or baseball or basketball, whatever it was. It was our life, even then.â€
“We threw the football, and we threw the football and we threw the football,†Sterlin’s father, Allen Gilbert, said. “I mean, later on in life, I had to have surgery on my right arm, and it wasn’t all from me throwing the football when I was growing up and playing quarterback, but it was from throwing baseballs and footballs with Brady and Sterlin all those years.â€
Those games with his older brother, fostered a competitiveness in Sterlin that turned him into the starting quarterback at Lake View High School, and later Angelo State.
“Him being a couple years younger, he would play with me and my friends,†Brady recalled. “So he had to strive to be as good as we were, which in turn, made him very good.â€
But even before Gilbert became a three-year starter for the Rams in college, his family knew what his future held.
“It was obvious from high school on, that he wanted to be a coach,†Sterlin’s father said. “When he got into college, that was his life’s dream, was to be a coach.â€
“I would say, maybe even probably back in high school, he knew he wanted to do something with football,†Brady said. “I knew football was his life, even in high school, growing up. That passion and competitiveness there, so I was like, as long as that translates over to coaching style, you’ll be unbelievably successful with that.â€
Gilbert’s success has been undeniable. After a two-year stint at Springtown High School, Gilbert was a graduate assistant at the University of Houston under Art Briles. He then spent two years as the OC at Abilene Cooper before his first head coaching job at his alma mater, Lake View. After three years with the Chiefs, he spent one season at Temple High School, and then made the jump back to college with stops at Eastern Illinois, Bowling Green and last year at Tulsa before joining the staff at Texas.
“Every one of us knew that this day was coming,†Allen said. “I think we might have been a little surprised how quick it came, but none of us, I don’t think, were surprised that it came.â€
“I expected him to get to this level,†Brady said. “The rapid ascent of it, I wouldn’t necessarily say five years from the time he was coaching high school football. If you’d have asked me to look in a crystal ball and said, ‘Will he be at the University of Texas?’ I would have probably, honestly, probably said, ‘I don’t think that quickly. Will he be there some day? Of course'â€
The move from Tulsa to Texas wasn’t so simple, though.
“Between Brady and Sterlin and I, I know we had over 60 conversations within 24 hours,†Judge Allen said.
After reports across the country that Gilbert had agreed to become Charlie Strong’s OC, news came out the next day that Gilbert had actually turned him down. It wasn’t until Strong, along with UT president Greg Fenves and athletic director Mike Perrin flew to Tulsa to visit with Gilbert, that he accepted the job.
“It’s a tough and difficult time for anybody to go through, but he handles it just like he’s on the field playing,†Allen said. “He did it calmly, he thought about it, he saw the field, in essence, and he made his decision based on the facts that he had.â€
“It was intense,†Brady remembered. “We knew as much as we could know, didn’t wanna know more than we knew because obviously, there was a ton of questions we were even being asked. But the intensity of it. I wouldn’t say that there was a while when he didn’t know. He was working, he was going back and forth with his decision and what was best for him. But it was intense. I can’t imagine how intense it was for him, knowing how intense it was for us. The texts, the phone calls, everything.â€
Now, Gilbert is tasked with turning around a Texas offense that’s been stagnant for most of the past two years.
“You look back, that was the pinnacle of his career to this point,†Brady said. “It was the culmination of all those days in high school, all those days in college, all those days coaching.â€
“I think it’s worked out great for him and for the University of Texas,†Allen said “I think he’ll do an excellent job.â€
Longhorns everywhere are counting on it.
http://kxan.com/2016/03/07/sterlin-gilberts-family-opens-up-on-new-texas-oc/
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Here are the stats of the QBs that Gilbert has coached for the last four years. So far every QB has had a good season. Hopefully, it will be five years in a row. His QBs have averaged a 154 QB rating in four years. That would have been the 16th top QB last year.
Eastern Illinois 2012-2013
Jimmy Garoppolo
Year Team G QBRat Comp Att Pct Yds Y/G Y/A TD Int
2010 EIU 8 133.6 124 211 58.8 1639 204.9 7.8 14 13
2011 EIU 11 136.7 217 349 62.2 2644 240.4 7.6 20 14
2012 EIU 12 134.2 331 540 61.3 3823 318.6 7.1 31 15
2013 EIU 14 168.3 375 568 66.0 5050 360.7 8.9 53 9
Totals 45 146.3 1047 1668 62.8 13156 292.4 7.9 118 51
NAME CMP ATT YDS CMP% YDS/A TD INT RAT
Bowling Green 2014
Matt Johnson 383 569 4946 67.3 8.69 46 8 164.2
Tulsa 2015
Dane Evans 305 485 4332 62.9 8.93 25 8 151.6
Eastern Illinois 2012-2013
Jimmy Garoppolo
Year Team G QBRat Comp Att Pct Yds Y/G Y/A TD Int
2010 EIU 8 133.6 124 211 58.8 1639 204.9 7.8 14 13
2011 EIU 11 136.7 217 349 62.2 2644 240.4 7.6 20 14
2012 EIU 12 134.2 331 540 61.3 3823 318.6 7.1 31 15
2013 EIU 14 168.3 375 568 66.0 5050 360.7 8.9 53 9
Totals 45 146.3 1047 1668 62.8 13156 292.4 7.9 118 51
NAME CMP ATT YDS CMP% YDS/A TD INT RAT
Bowling Green 2014
Matt Johnson 383 569 4946 67.3 8.69 46 8 164.2
Tulsa 2015
Dane Evans 305 485 4332 62.9 8.93 25 8 151.6
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"Mattox seems a lot more laid back than Wickline. He runs with the guys going from drill-to-drill. I was told by someone close to the program that the o-linemen have really connected well with Mattox and they really like him."
Gaspar, T. (2016). http://www.scout.com/college/texas/forums/2441-horns-house-subscribers-only
Gaspar, T. (2016). http://www.scout.com/college/texas/forums/2441-horns-house-subscribers-only
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