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I really like Watson and if he was few inches taller he might be one of the most sought after guys in the country. I think we're lucky to have locked him in early as he seems like a great peer recruiter and is the type of guy other top players will want to come play with.

Are they recruiting him as a Garrett Nelson role or does he have the frame to to be a true DE?

WR seems like it’ll be a numbers crunch. We’re on a at least a few really good ones but how many are they going to make room for? Overall we seem to be recruiting very well on the offensive side but the defensive side seems like they’re struggling to get rolling. Fisher will get his and but we need a boost in recruiting for the front 7 of the defense.

Assuming that we actually have a shot at Cayden Green, is this a guy that the staff would take today? Obviously Bo Hughley and Green are guys you’d make room for and I’m guessing we only have a real shot with one of them but I wonder how many they’d be willing to take.

7. Tagaloa would seem the most likely to me.

Give us some time to make a spot!

Not that I'm surprised but the fact that we are talking about processing out a kid that's a true freshman is pretty indicative of where we were at with WR recruiting. We are incredibly lucky that Joseph fell into our lap when he did.

When Williams was here we were in on so many good receivers but in the end he landed very few of them. I think Joseph will be able to close the deal with a couple of these guys.

If I had to guess I would say Drew will start with Robinson and Wynn will rotate in after that.

From what I was told it was in fact an ACL again. Could probably almost be back during season but I doubt the will be.

If you want my opinion I think it stemmed from Frost. I'm sure it's not exactly all black and white and like I said this is only an opinion. But I think we got pushed around and ran over by Wisconsin and Minnesota right off the get and he thought we could recruit a bunch of size in the form of height and make a massive line. However what we ended up with was a lot of piss poor lineman along with a pretty high percentage of busts among the guys they've recruited.

And I think you could point other positions besides offensive lineman where you see some of the same. And for that matter I think you could say this extends beyond this staff. I just think of Harrison Phillips and Bryson Williams not being a "fit". I'm a believer that at the college level you just get the best players you possibly can regardless of size and they'll find their way on the field.

I really don't think I am. Fritzsche, Matt Anderson, Banks, Branson Yager, Michael Lynn.. All 6'7 and not a one other than Banks ever touched the field. And I was literally in the room when they were recruiting my brother to walk-on because of his frame when you truthfully probably could have found 10 offensive lineman that were better football players than him just in this state. I sat in the room while they measured him up and told him how they were going to put x amount of weight on him and move him from tackle to guard and he would be an athletic guard and so on. Now I understand that this is common that usually your best high school lineman play tackle and they aren't going to play tackle in college. But I think it's pretty clear we took chances on guys that they viewed as higher cieling players vs. maybe taking some in state guys that were argueably better players just because they weren't tall enough for their liking.

I think the main issue is, and in fact I know this because my brother was one of them, is they recruited frames and thought they could develop them into good football players.. And in turn passed on many guys that were good football players just because they weren't 6'5.... This is probably over simplifiing it but I feel like they were trying to hit home runs with their lineman. Recruitng a 6'7 tight end and make him an athletic tackle is a good idea in theory but very few of there projects have turned out. Maybe it's just me but it seems that their attitude has shifted on this a bit which is a good thing.

I think it's been a combination of some poor recruiting, including what was here when he got here, and poor developement. But Mickey essentially came in and put the 2021 WR recruiting class (Hardy, Neville, Grimes) on notice and it's already been stated that Victor Jones, who is the one receiver not recruited by Joseph in the 2022 class, is also going to struggle to see the field here. They are only freshman and there is a good chance that all 4 of those guys will be recuited over and pushed out by next year so. That in itself is pretty telling if he doesn't even think it's worth trying to develop them further.

Can't have enough good DL. And how we sit now we're still only one injury away from being in bad shape imo..

6’4 165?? Somebody take this kid to the nearest Golden Corral.

In fairness we probably would have had the same odds in the 90's.

Deion Smith is super talented, he’d sure take the sting off losing Betts.. Washington would seem to be the more likely candidate though.

I’m going to say Nebraska. If Texas couldn’t return to glory in the B12, good luck doing it in the SEC…

Lole would be a great pickup there's going to be a lot of competition for him.

Those two and Drew would make me feel a lot better about next year.

Joseph must of got here and looked at our young receivers and thought wtf... Good news is he can probably recruit well enough he should have us in good shape in no time.

We can only hope that this is an actual issue for us!

Poor bastard I wish him luck.