Thursday’s Practice Tidbits from The Asset

Is The Asset Rick Perry? You can tell me.

no, perry is just another assit.

Great to hear that it’s going to be nearly impossible to keep Diggs off of the field. If Dorsey can grab the 2nd DT spot and have Des Jackson backing him up, as Scipio, says we may be cooking with fire.

Thanks for the report. Have a great weekend in Vegas.

The only way to keep Diggs off the field was to not recruit him. Thankfully, we acquiesced.

good for garrett again. i’m thinking it wouldn’t be bad to have a solid garrett run things while david gradually sheds his freshman skin if that’s the direction things need to go. good to hear connor had a good day. i’m pulling for him. sorry that case had a bummer. sounds like that’s not like him.

you gotta love a showing by fozzy. just hope he can hold up. speaking of hold-up, i wonder what the delay is going to cost malcolm in terms of his being ready once he’s healthy to play. really hate this happened to him. hope that the combination of the other backs can give us a solid season until malcolm is at speed if that’s where that’s headed.

good to hear solid work from grant, irby, and terrell. this is grant’s year, depending on what blaine is up for. i noticed the other day on mack’s site that darius is now blaine’s size. i’m hoping he and mj will be coming on line before long.

the o-line comments dovetail nicely with scip’s discussion over on the m-ship. looks like we are shaping as functional a group as is available.

love that alex is flourishing with manny at the helm. we always heard he would be special. he and jackson should make bookends for trouble for opponents. really hoping reggie can get through this period quickly and join them in cooking up headaches.

great to hear that calvin seems to be turning a corner. he and ashton can really make a difference while desmond adjusts to the bigger game.

good to hear that steve edmond continues to be mentioned in the same breath as the starters. i’ve forgotten which of emmanuel, jordan, and keenan is manning the middle. which? i swear i can’t remember a lb corps the equal of this one.

great the at the defense put in a good day against the pass for a change. that’s really encouraging. maybe quandre needs to play corner. sure have hopes that this bunch gels before they have to.

thanks for another excellent report.

speaking of o-line. i bet it is really fortunate that stacy had to fashion a semi-functional line out of some tag-ends at georgia a couple of years ago. that way he has the process down.

good read on diggs..

So I am still left with some ? about the defensive tackles.

I wonder if it will turn out to be something everyone overlooked?

So it sounds like Gilbert is going to start and David Ash will be the backup. Mack has learned that we need a quality backup. If Gilbert falters, David will step in and succeed. If not, hopefully he at least gets some meaningful snaps. Either way David needs to get some playing time NOW. Connor Brewer is coming next year and David may never get his change if it doesn’t begin this year.

chance*

Just landed in Vegas and saw a limo driver holding a Jesus Shuttlesworth sign.

If only had invented a cell phone that also had a camera.

If Ash steps up, what makes you think it won’t be Brewer who is missing a chance? I love that Brewer chose us and that he is coming here, but it’s strange to assume that he’ll just walk on the field and beat out Ash.

I love these reports and the accompanying comments. What a great site.

Hey, Competition!

Great write up. Thanks for the daily fix. Sounds like horns have some synergy. Can’t wait until the open practices. One thought… GG having solid days against a secondary within issues? Is he really facing a ballz out full throttle D our are they holding back? By the way Casino Royale on the strip offers the best odds on dice and the Mirage seafood buffett is worth the 25 clams youll pay.

@Roma Victa yeah I guess I was assuming that Brewer would play over Ash primarily from comparing high school highlights. Brewer looks REALLY GOOD throwing the ball while Ash’s highlights were mainly him running with the football. Either way you can’t go wrong with Ash and Brewer as QBs. Next year should be really exciting with J. Gray showing up and the offensive and defensive schemes being in place.

Yes, yes, yes & oh hell yeah!! Bringing the wood.

I thought all practices were closed to the public?

for this discussion of the qbs to make any sense, we all need to go read longhornscott’s brand new installment and pay especial attention to his mention of harsin using special packages for qbs with particular skills. i think we are all in for a re-education on this game they calls footsball. or something.

javier - stop posting. you’re dumb and i don’t want it to wear off on me.

yeh - the only problem with starting gilbert this year is that he’s not going anywhere and he’s a junior. you really want to waste two years of ash’s eligibility while we watch gilbert try not to screw the pooch? actually, it’ll probably be a moot point. no way gilbert lasts two years. he’ll have a meltdown and get yanked long before that.

Everyone has been fretting over our #2 DT

Mack has learned that we need a quality backup.

That’s something he had to learn?

That’s like the guys who kept on posting, “after the BCS title game against Bama, Mack has learned that you need to have a good rushing attack.”

@Viva Puta when did I ever say I WANTED Gilbert to start? I’m simply judging from the practice reports that Gilbert will start because he isn’t totally fucking up. Even if Ash is slightly better than Gilbert, Mack will still play him because of seniority. That’s just how Mack does things.

@Joetx you don’t think he regrets not having Gilbert more game ready in the championship game. I honestly think he’ll choose Ash as the backup because he will be the best out of the rest.

javier - did i say you were dumb because you wanted gilbert to start? no. i didn’t. you can’t read. like i said, you’re dumb. stop posting.

I am anti JS - he smacks of cloning. This site and its regulars are posers. Get a life, leave Recruitocosm. YOU ARE ALL FRAUDS!!!!!!!! Go to a pay site. This is pathetic.

I am anti JS – he smacks of cloning. This site and its regulars are posers. Get a life, leave Recruitocosm. YOU ARE ALL FRAUDS!!!!!!!! Go to a pay site. This is pathetic.

No, I am the real anti JS. Look no further than my username for proof. You are just a fraud, posing as “anti JS.” It’s pathetic, really.

Hey viva puta! Stfu. You’re sounding pretty dumb yourself there champ. If you don’t like his comments, dont read them. Telling someone not to post is dumber than just ignoring the posts you don’t like. Go back to the frat house, have yourself a shot of Jagermeister and calm down.

I’m skipping over Yeh’s posts until he learns how to punctuate and capitalize letters.

Was the driver wearing recruitocosm chaps?

Uh oh, someone shit the thread. Guess we put you in big boy pants too soon. Sorry Viva Puta, that was our fault. Bad parenting, imo.

TripsNot, go back to paying for what you can get for free. You’ll show us all.

People are going to be shocked by just how good the five starters on the line really are. Coaching matters.

Gilbert needs to be the man this year if we are going to surprise and win 8-10 games. The secondary is concerning but at least we are playing the guys with the most upside.

“Malcolm Brown…His condition isn’t thought to be anything worth worrying about.”

OK. Now I’m worrying.

Actually, though, it seems like we actually DO have some serviceable backs without Brown who
have never had a system they could shine in before. A world beater is always helpful, but lesser though consistent performers will often do.
I just want to see the maximum pressure taken off of Gilbert. I still think he can succeed in this system, but still not sure about his ability to actually carry the team. Gut feeling.

An earlier practice report stated Desmond Jackson was a BEAST, UNBLOCKABLE, BLOWING BY EVERYONE THAT TRIES TO BLOCK HIM. Seems like he should be starting if those reports were true.

You know you are in for a long season when the words “Fozzy Whitaker is looking the best in the RB group” are said. Enjoy.

Is there any word on Cobbs? I though he was having a monster spring and could challenge for playing time. The more reports I hear about our secondary, the more I think we are going to have to win some shoot outs. It reminds me of 02.

(Preceding banalities from the most inappropriate user name in the history of the intra-webs deleted)
Thanks for playing, nimrod. I’d say we have some lovely parting gifts for you, but you’re not even close to being worthy of a tote. I think a dunce cap might be in order, though.

But hey, don’t go away mad…just go away.

You are going to have to win some shootouts with GG as your quarterback? Ouch.

“I love that Brewer chose us and that he is coming here, but it’s strange to assume that he’ll just walk on the field and beat out Ash.”

Come on, you know how this works. The only QB better than the backup is the recruit who hasn’t played his senior year yet. Remember when people were concerned that we’d redshirt Gilbert because they wanted to there to be seperation between him and Wood? Good times.

I’m having a deja vu moment with the “non-worrisome” ankle injury to Malcolm Brown. Hopefully this doesn’t turn into one of those situations where we find out in week 3 that it is a significant high ankle sprain. I’ve heard nothing from the football network here in San Antonio, which I’m not sure is a good sign or a bad sign.

Read, "(Preceding banalities from the most inappropriate user name in the history of the intra-webs deleted) and was immediately followed by a collective, “Awwwwwwwww…”

I find it curious that Traylon Shead has disappeared from his, I thought, impressive spring performance. Up until he got injured and it hampered his Spring Scrimmage performance. Seriously though, there were a lot of good things being said about Shead. Now, nothing.

What gives?

Fozzy has always looked good, when healthy.

Longhorns & godzillatron:
There are no open practices. First time to see Longhorns in action is the Rice game. (And catching the so-so practice reports on MB-TF.com.)

Amazing that JS and Tipsy leave and within hours the comment thread is overrun by first-rate mongoloids.

I have been rooting for Fozzy since day one when I first thought, “Fozzy, that’s a cool ass name.” The fact that he hasn’t sat out a practice due to a stinger or pincher or banger or one of those other pseudoneurological conditions is rather encouraging. I think making it through two days of full contact is unprecedented for the young man. Color me gruntled.

^ Um, woops, that was me. I accidentally typed in my third most visited Longhorn sites web address instead of my screenname. I guess I should get in the habit of logging in.

“Amazing that JS and Tipsy leave and within hours the comment thread is overrun by first-rate mongoloids.”

Actually, Genius has been coming around for a while. Of course, Viva Puta and TripsNot are of a new, particularly idiotic variety.

“you really want to waste two years of ash’s eligibility”

i never said anything about gilbert necessarily maintaining the starter’s role for two years. if he turns out to be that good in a sensible system, well, then, yeah. but i’m talking right now only. and for however long it makes sense. and i’m saying the longhornscott piece gives a very good clue that our concept of qb deployment is probably in for an update. i think we fans are going to be dragged, kicking and screaming, into the new century.

great post from newy. he nails it again. the dude just gets it.

i’m skipping over von gigglesworth’s posts until he quits pretending to be a dr. and what’s wrong with my punk-chew-ation, chief?

Whenever possible, ignore idiots. They usually go away if ignored.

Right on, Javier! And yeh’s remarks about Longhorn Scott’s new piece on Barking Carnival are also right on. In an analysis of how Boise attackes DE’s, you get a glimpse of how Boise used a QB other than the starter. It looks like we may indeed be getting a QB experience other than handing off all gentleman-like in the late fourth quarter.

dasj, i’ll have you to know that i’m not going anywhere!

good reminder, roma, also about how we may run things once a game is in hand. i think we are going to see all kinds of new things. like no moment is not a teaching moment with this bunch.

there really hasn’t been any news on Cody Johnson, whats the word with big boy?

I think Javier is right. We start off with Gilbert and Ash as 1 and 2. And playing Ash this year is NOT a waste. Gilbert gets the benefit of the doubt because he has a year under him (though a bad one) but after last year none of us trust him so he has something to prove. In the meantime Ash runs his plays, picks up experience and after a few games can step in if needed. So if we get to a shootout, we might not have to depend on Gilbert, “Genius.”

We play Ash this year because we need him to develop and we just need him. Brewer can redshirt next year. We’ll have him longer. (Don’t bother to attack me Viva Puta. I’ve already been told I was a dumbass by better men than you. Just go find your Puta and see how much viva you can give her.)

burntorangejuice gargles with bob stoops’ ball sweat

and yeah jerryw, you must be dumb too for stating that gilbert gets the benefit of the doubt. really? wow.

it’s beyond me why some people keep harping on his experience when they only experience he has is failure. seems like a hell of a good way to fail again to me.

that’s like hiring a stock broker, seeing them put all your capital into a fruitless venture that crashes, and then giving them your capital again right after getting a new loan.

wait, are you a stock -broker, jerryw?

FWIW
Just received this from a horn in Florida

The rumor on the heels of the A&M news is that FSU could end up being the 14th member rather than someone from the Big XII, at least for now.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/college/seminoles/os-florida-state-sec-0812-20110812,0,993196.story
 
For what it’s worth, it seems that if A&M does leave for the SEC, Oklahoma will not follow. But all signs do indeed point to A&M leaving.
 
1.) OU officials seem convinced that A&M is indeed leaving but say they’ll stick with the Big XII even if A&M leaves
2.) The Texas Rivals site, Orangebloods.com, is now reporting that the SEC will hold an emergency meeting tomorrow to discuss A&M’s application
3.) The Texas state legislature will meet next Tuesday to discuss A&M’s potential departure and Mike Slive has been invited to the meeting
4.) Texas AD, Deloss Dodds, has gone on the record saying that if A&M leaves, he’d prefer to just find a replacement for them and hold the remaining Big XII together than bolt for the Pac-12 or Big Ten, and officials from all the other Big XII schools say they’ll stay put as long as Texas does
5.) Big XII commish Dan Beebe has told A&M officials that Texas is the key to the future of the Big XII and the league will survive without A&M (basically calling their bluff)
Meanwhile, FSU has reportedly been in discussions with the SEC for months. So, it may not be a done deal but this is looking more and more like it will happen. But even if A&M and FSU end up in the SEC, the Big XII will not dissolve. The Big East is now worried that an invitation to replace A&M in the Big XII could cause TCU to cancel their plans to join the Big East or that the ACC could target Syracuse once again (or Rutgers, or Pitt) as a replacement for FSU. But there are so many different scenarios that could play out, it’s almost a waste of time to discuss them all. The Big XII could go after BYU, or TCU, or Houston, or even a team like Louisville.
So, it’s officially crazy again. Rumors all over the place but the two that seem very credible right now are that both A&M and FSU are seriously considering a jump to the SEC.

… how Boise attackes DE’s, you get a glimpse of how Boise used a QB other than the starter. It looks like we may indeed be getting a QB experience other than handing off all gentleman-like in the late fourth quarter.

Listening to /reading comments from Harsin and Petersen the last couple of years - and watching their games - were what fueled my enthusiasm for Harsin as an OC candidate… particularly when they described how the early plays were designed to see how defenses responded to formations, shifts, and motion as well as how they attacked once plays started AND conditioning the D’s for contradictory plays from those same formations, shifts, and motion.

And as LHS points out in that piece, using the “other” quarterback is a very good sign, and I would emphasize that it was not in “mop-up” time, either, but FIRST QUARTER action.

“You know you are in for a long season when the words "Fozzy Whitaker is looking the best in the RB group" are said.”

Unwarrented statement.

Fozzy has ALWAYS been the best running back - he just always gets dinged. This year he will be a 5th year senior, it is his year (let’s hope). Lest you forget, Shipley had two ACL’s and still wound up being one of the greatest WR’s UT has ever had.

Viva puta, I don’t doubt that failure is a constant in your life (probably informs your dickish, sophomoric attitude), however, many people learn from their mistakes and come out of adversity stronger and better.

Ship’s sister has tweeted from the scrimmage. http://twitter.com/#!/shelbyshipley

Kirk Bohls has suggested Mack play 2 QB, at least thru September. My vote is for GG and David Ash from what I’ve seen and read. I seem to recall another freshman starting at QB, his name was Colt McCoy. Didn’t Major Applewhite come in to take over as a starter in 1998 after Richard Walton was injured at UCLA?

If GG struggles again in a live game with defenses coming after him, I see no reason not to replace him this year.

I’m not worried Harsin/Applewhite will make the right recommendation for starting QB and Mack will go along with it.

Major was a freshman at the time of the aforementioned change at QB.