Or, college entrance interview.
With the Houston Under Armour All American combine being held at Westfield this past Sunday I had a feeling I’d see 2018 UA All-American Keondre Coburn. That bore out and offered the perfect time to see how he’s been spending his final weeks as a high school student-athlete before embarking on college.
Despite his impressive offer list, Austin Bowie’s Elijah Higgins still feels like he has a lot to prove. At 6-foot-3, 225 pounds, he’s heard the talk about being a tight end and he’s not having it. That topic is largely a semantic one to me as his best utility is likely as an inside flexed receiver who moves around some. I doubt Jordan Reed cares about his positional designation, but as of now Higgins does care about that perception. Schools are recruiting him at receiver, but when Stanford and its rich tight end tradition comes calling, that makes one wonder.
Regional recruiting rivals are each set to host a solid list of visitors for their respective spring game weekends.
This will undoubtedly lead to some tense moments for the fretful sect of Texas recruitniks — the ones whose lachrymosity cascades down my beloved Prospects Board — but keep in mind Texas will hold its rebuttal next weekend, under the lights, and all to itself.
Just what the title said.
There are a lot of moving parts with this offensive line so I wanted to reset the buffet table.
Charlie Strong often discussed the five phases of the off-season, one of those of course being spring ball. It’s important to remember spring ball isn’t specifically a build up to the season, it’s a build up to August camp.
The second part of the Inside Scoop talks practice notes, including a tough injury, Osafo-Mensah, Cine, Ainias Smith, Zachary Evans, and spring official visit time.
If the foundational structures of the run-game — coaching, offensive line, quarterback play, tight end — are improved and in place, how much more production on the ground can we expect over last year? In my opinion, a lot.
it would be easy to make the case that aside quarterback play, tight end will be the most important of the skill positions. It’s also an easy case to make that Andrew Beck is one of the most important individual players on the entire team.
Here’s what new tight end coach Derek Warehime has to work with:
We’ve already discussed how dependent offense is on coaching as well as the offensive line. The third column is of course signal caller.
The Texas defense played very well for most of the 2017 season, with the linebackers benefiting greatly from activity on both the defensive line and in the secondary. Todd Orlando has stated it’s a position that is highlighted by his scheme and that bore out in his first year in Austin just like it did in his previous two years in Houston.