Things I Think I Think - EOY 2019 Edition

I dont know who all this will interest, but it's been on my mind to start an annual thread to share what we each have learned or are taking away from the past football season...in its sum total...UT, college, pros, football in general, specific or not. Here's mine...purely scattershooting:

1. The nose tackle may be the 2nd most important position on a football team
2. Recruiting should begin and end with linemen
3. Really hard to tell which is more important with coaching, scheme/systems or motivation/buy-in. Seems like often coaching induced focus, confidence, and inspiration trumps schemes...though I realize the two are related. Just look at Matt Rhule for example of the original point here^^^^
4. Jerry Jones....that's all. Jerry Jones..smh
5. UT fanbase sometimes does more harm than good...like many others.
6. Really like some things I'm hearing about culture coming out of our program
7. Hope it translates to wins
8. Sports media may reflect how dumb we are as a culture almost as much as commercials do. Any time I turn on any form of sports media (which is rare thank God), my IQ immediately drops about 50 points, which still leaves me about 50 points above whoever I'm hearing.
9. The transfer portal unnerves me
10. Will 2019 mark a decline for two of the most dominant powers in football history, college and pro...Pats and Tide??
11. College recruiting and the I-first, over-hyped young recruit, with his eyes on fame and $$ is more disturbing to me now than ever before...throw in social media's rise and gas that ridiculous fire even more.
11 1/2. Tight ends are very very important and mostly misunderstood, underappreciated, and underutilized
12. NCAA corrupt and lacking moral conscience
13. NFL " " " " " " "
14. ou still sucks
15. aggys are poor football program engineers

What do you all "know" about football right now?

 

It's a sport for over 95% of the college players. Even if one is good enough for the NFL, a lot of real life follows. Preparedness is everything.

 

16. Players who jump and wave towels in the air on the sidelines must be important, because we have a lot of them doing it.
17. Texas has yet to slide into the Gulf of Mexico for obvious reasons.

 

Spoiler

 

you put out a memo?

 

11. on your list is my #1

Agree with many of your points / observations.

 

The service academies regularly beat major state schools now because in part they recruit character and discipline. Can you imagine what a team could be if they recruited just that, but left out the part about having to take 18 to 21 hours of engineering, and having to serve for 6 years or so after...?

 

Good post.

I’ll add
18 - Big 12 is weaker than ever. No one is benefitting from that but OU. And they still suck. Do we need to put an end to that.