Five Questions :: Offensive Line Pondering

how about instead of ranking how worry or concerned we are with a opposing team. How about we rank how confident we are? I think its a better attitude to have, right?

1, Alll I can say at this point is where we won’t end up. This includes but is not limited to the Big East, WNBA, World Cup, and Narnia.
2. Same old argument…speed versus strength. In the words of Ricky Bobby, “If you’re not first, you’re last.” Hopefully, we will be quicker than last year which should help compensate for any strength that may have been lost.
3. It’s not my biggest concern at this point but it is number two after the health of Sheffield. I know we have “depth” at that position but I just can’t help but pull for the guy.
4. No clue
5. June Jones

1. I think you guys have me about convienced that XII & Pac 10, are a good fit. I wouldnt mind matching up with Arizoan and ASU, maybe be a babeilicious road trip evey couple of years, from the word on the street they are legendary. But maybe this is all just testing the waters and wont happen for another five to ten years. Texas is smart enough to stay put then we should all be OK.

2. More atheletic Olinemen – Definilty a good thing, watch the NFL draft, those guys wernt fat at all

3. O line is always a big concern, look at the success of the 08 Season, mostly Oline driven!

4. I think we might get some new, unknown guys starting, but thats the hardest position to play young

5. My biggest concern is that the SMU girls wont travel as well as Red Raiders coming to Dallas. Not much reason to leave the metroplex to go to Lubbock. We know in Sept it will still be hot and the short shorts will display the hard earned tans from a long summer in the Texas sun.

1) my hope is that we land in some sort of Big XII/Pac10 mega conference but could see us landing in the MWC if the Big XII has a total nuclear meltdown. I have read that Cal and Stanford have some reservations about Tech possibly joining the conference.

2) For the style of play that Neal Brown wants to implement, I can’t really see the loss of 15-30 pounds as a big hurdle. It depends on if the weight was fat, water weight, etc…. as long as it isnt muscle, then we should be fine and maybe a bit quicker.

3) QB health is my biggest concern. I believe the OL will be fine.

4) my new slogan for the O-line, “In Matt Moore We Trust”

5) June Jones will put in a few wrinkles but I don’t think athletically SMU is in the same zip code. Bad Weather or freaky QB injuries could make the game closer than it should be.

Despite having a leaky o-line, under performing receivers, and a carousel at the qb position last year…we still had a winning season. Not a lot of teams can overcome that kind of adversity. I feel like the o-line will perform a lot better this coming season. Matt Moore will have our guys ready. There isnt a whole lot of experience on the o-line but those guys have seen meaningful snaps and that what counts most. Theres a change in philosophy for our football team but our guys can and will just well. June Jones is gonna have his ponies ready but its at the jones. He’s got a explosive offense…but so do we and our defense is gonna be licking its chops. The D will, imo, show us some crazy sh!t, but we wont tip our hand until the UT game.

1. “Kinfolk said, Jed move away from here the Pac-10 is the place to be, swimming pools, movie stars……”
2. So many OL are carrying around so much extra fat just to get in the 300lb range that they could drop 10% of their weight with out any effect on muscle mass. Next time your in HEB go pick up a 25lb bag of dog food to carry it around on your back while you shop and then tell me this is not a good thing. It also is good for the players long term health, NFL linemen tend to die way to young.
3.Experience is the X factor, but coaching will take care of this.
4.Adam James if he has not lost to much weight.
5.June Jones….. but the juxtaposition of June Jones’ jumping and jiving juggernaut against gentleman Tom’s jacobinic defense should be a joy to watch for jubilant Jim’s and Jane’s sitting in the Jones in their jaunty scarlet and black.

1. My head is spinning from all the possibilities. Re: Pac-10

Option A: Strategic Alliance. How will that work? Two ten team conferences with two interconference games plus two other nonconference games? How do you schedule your own conference? Do you still split up into divisions? No divisions means NINE games. Ouch, my brain hurts!

Option B: Mega Conference…OW OW OW

Option C: Bust ass to remain the Big XII and remain viable with 12 teams. I just think our conference, if put to the test, can out nimble the Big T1E1N conference. I saw on CF Live yesterday that the process could take the them EIGHTEEN months. Surely, we can put in place and enact a plan to keep from gettin our teams poached by these guys. We just need to show the “huevos” to do something.

2. Im just not seeing the connection between MORE running the ball and O-Linemen losing 30lbs. Especially after knowing what we know about guys like Louis Vazquez, and all the other NFL caliber guys that have come through our system. But Im lining up for my glass of Katfish Koolaid.

3. No. I just dont believe that the unit will be slow to gel two years in a row. They will have learned their lesson. Biggest concern? The unknown factor of “will our new D work?”

4. Gallington(G) and Okafor (T)

5. Yeah, June Jones scares the p!ss outta me

1. Tech first won’t leave the Big 12. Meaning if Colorado, Mizzou or Nebraska jumps ship the conference will just add 2 or 3 up and comers like U H or NM. It would be a bit of switch in that perhaps Tech moves to the North Division but even that’s a stretch. Texas – I believe they know they have good thing going and would like to maintain their dominance of the league. As stated before they are the market leader for the league and them like it that way. I just want Tech to supplant, dethrone or trip them up – for a long time. The thing is the Big 12 “administrators” need their jobs so from a self preservation stand point they will rewicker a new construct and they will do it fast.
2. It’s only a good thing if they spring a1000 yard rusher and we drop the sacks allowed to under 10-12. I.e. 1 sack per game. And crank 85 plus offensive plays per game.

3. I was impressed by Brandon Carters overall effort especially at Nebraska, not so much with Marlon Winn. S. Byrnes played his butt off and Keown got things done very well from what I could see. I don’t see how the offensive line could be anything but the biggest issue because it’s the foundation of the scheme. That just equals out to an automatic concern with folks graduating. So sort of but that’s just college football. The Tech recruiting, losses from academics etc and strength program seems to churn 3 – 4 serviceable linemen per year. The recruited freshmen linemen don’t seem to mind red shirting a year to bulk up and a fair number of the graduates are catching on in the pros so that helps the long term recruiting effort.
So yes it’s concern but I am optimistic.
4. Okafor and Waddle. i guess. Who knows what Coach Moore concocts?
5. The passing attack for the Pony’s versus our secondary. Less of a concern if the pass rush dominates and e get lots of hurries, tipped passes and sacks generated by the from 3down linemen + 1 LB rushing.
The QB K. Padron that they have is a typical June Jones coached slinger. Meaning he’s accurate and a good check down guy. But his receivers are fairly inexperienced only 2 or 3 of the five expected starters played much last year? Guess that why we need a spring game to look at right?

1. I don’t see the Big 12 breaking up anytime soon. Texas won’t leave either. The conference will get some kind of TV agreement going that gives UT what it wants and the others will follow. I do see Missouri leaving and I’m really fine with that. I would like NU to stick around but if they decide to go that will be fine also.
2. I’m fine with some weight loss on the OL provided the strength and speed pick up in the absense of that extra weight.
3. I am concerned about this OL but the measurables on these guys are good. I also have complete faith in Matt Moores ability to coach these players up. The group coming in is plenty talented enough to make thinks happen.
4. Waddle but that’s just a guess on my behalf.
5. I may be alone but I have very little concern about the Mustangs. I have that game slated as a scoring fest for Tech. Tech has way too many weapons offensively and defensively for this game to not be pure domination. It’s TT first game and it’s at the Jones. I would be dissappointed if Tech didn’t win by 40+ points. I like June Jones and his coaching style but it’s not enough to get me too worried. SMU has no defense and the offense is suspect.

1. TTU must be in a BCS conference, I think it very important that the teams on the schedule be more local than distant…fans need to be able to make away games…that is all I have to say about that.

2. 15 to 30 lbs is a lot of loss, it may have been a lot of excess, it certainly would be for me. I like the idea of guys who may be a little quicker, who may be a little stronger in their legs (the conditioning focus) and who may be getting geared to do drive blocking as well as pass blocking.

3. Replacing that much man power on the OL is scary bidness to me….

4. Right Tackle; Waddle, I hope he is one who lost a lot of weight, Right Guard; Gallington—and I hope he lost a lot of weight. both of these guys were listed about 350 at one time, I think that is way too heavy for anyone.

5. The Mustangs do not concern me. The Red Raiders do in that I am hoping they demonstrate the difference in what we expect to see in a very good Big12 team and a good CSA team.

Heres the scoop:

Lonnie Edwards is in the elite category right now, will be VERY good.

Terry McDaniels would also be in that category had he not gone down in the Neb game.

In center we have two very good prospects:

Justin Keown held his own against Suh and Crick very well, no difference could be seen between him and Brynes

Chris Olson is a jack-of-all-trades kinda guy, the swiss army knife.

In RG Deveric Gallington is showing some promise, Mickey Okafor moved to tackle.

The RT position WILL be taken by LaAdrian Waddle. He is supposedly becoming a BEAST.

I have high hopes for this group!