OFFICIAL 2019 COLLEGE FOOTBALL OFFSEASON THREAD

[dacomeup]

Florida just lost another kid from their ‘19 Class wtf

I know Dan can't wait for the season to start.

 

[atlsfinest]

I know Dan can't wait for the season to start.

"Another one!"- DJ Khaled Voice

 

[nako xl]

Let’s say they bomb and go 6-6 or worse. Is there any chance Dan gets fired after this offseason?

 

[atlsfinest]

Let’s say they bomb and go 6-6 or worse. Is there any chance Dan gets fired after this offseason?

As corny as Mullen is, he's not getting fired unless he gets in big trouble (like NCAA sanctions). I can see Florida asking him to make staff changes. He has a good Xs and Os but he's not an elite recruiter (which is why I don't see Florida beating Georgia often while Kirby and Mullen are at the helm IMO. Georgia will always have the talent edge)

 

[dacomeup]

Let’s say they bomb and go 6-6 or worse. Is there any chance Dan gets fired after this offseason?

He took a 4 win team and won double digits games in year 1. There's no chance.

 

[ThaxbyChamblis]

There’s no way he gets canned barring a scandal

 

[fahqu001]

Not a fireable offense

 

[nako xl]

Inject this content directly into my veins

 

[tmay407]

Not a fireable offense

How the hell can these dudes making multi millions per year not be bothered to get well fitted clothes (definitely not just limited to Mullen)? With all the other **** they get for free, you'd think the equipment team could just tailor some pants for them. I make like 2% of what Mullen makes per year and even I can afford to get my pants fixed so they fit properly.

 

[nako xl]

How you know that’s not how he WANTS them to fit?

 

[Bobby Layne]

Inject this content directly into my veins

You must be injecting fent, because this is fake.



Fake News Nako

 

[swendro]

Had to pop in to see if Fake News Nako was on it.

 

[ThaxbyChamblis]

Fake News Nako

 

[651akathepaul]

Such a waste of time.

 

[nako xl]

Drats! Foiled again.

Unless...

Did he never tweet it or was he hacked. Is it oochie wally wally or is it one mic?

It's funnier if it's real so that's what I'm gonna go with.





By the way, unimportant, but that "1" after the underscore in the tweet looks fine.

 

[nako xl]

Had to pop in to see if Fake News Nako was on it.

You damn sure haven't been popping in during the season to see if Michigan won the division or beat Ohio, so good to have you by swendro . See you again on signing day?

 

[freakydestroyer]

Not a fireable offense

Are those Eminem IV's?

 

[swendro]

You damn sure haven't been popping in during the season to see if Michigan won the division or beat Ohio, so good to have you by swendro . See you again on signing day?

It's not the season right now, but nah, I don't do recruiting anymore.

 

[Bobby Layne]

Are those Eminem IV's?

Nah, a UF PE

 

[Bobby Layne]

I really shouldn't be entertaining this nonsense but Shea's not going to be calling plays this year for himself either. It would be a lot more believable if it didn't include that tidbit.

This is starting to change with the McVayites taking over the league, but one of the main gripes NFL old heads have with the college game is how much of the pre-snap stuff is handled by the sideline.

 

[N41D]

Watching the A&M and Texas boards react to every twist and turn in the Zach Evans recruitment is hysterical.

Got dudes losing their minds over the silliest ****.

 

[atlsfinest]

Something is going on in Florida. I don't think it is Edward kid was a major contributor but it just adds to the. The number of players theyve had transfer, decommit or non qualify is crazy for a program Florida's caliber.

 

[casper90403]

Watching the A&M and Texas boards react to every twist and turn in the Zach Evans recruitment is hysterical.

Got dudes losing their minds over the silliest ****.

where is he leaning right now?

 

[nako xl]

Can someone with a subscription post this article?

https://theathletic.com/1065902/201...ffensive-coordinator-texas/?source=dailyemail

Thanks

 

[atlsfinest]

Can someone with a subscription post this article?

https://theathletic.com/1065902/201...ffensive-coordinator-texas/?source=dailyemail

Thanks

I gotchu

Mason Fine was a bit starstruck. He knew exactly who was visiting him at Locust Grove high school (Okla.) that day.

With only about two weeks remaining until 2016’s national signing day, North Texas’ pursuit of Fine, who was a two-star prospect at the time, had intensified. Then-Mean Green offensive coordinator Graham Harrell showed up to Locust Grove with the intention of making his sales pitch to Fine and verifying something else.

“Looking back on it, he wanted to come meet me to make sure I wasn’t 5-foot-8, 135 (pounds),” said Fine, who is listed at 5-foot-11 and 190 pounds by North Texas. “I remember him telling me that.”

The Mean Green gave Fine his only FBS scholarship offer. His alternative likely would have been becoming a preferred walk-on at Oklahoma State.

Obviously, Harrell faces a drastically different set of recruiting circumstances as USC’s offensive coordinator. It’s highly improbable he will recruit a 5-foot-8 quarterback or a signal caller with just one FBS scholarship offer while with the Trojans.

Now that Harrell is five months into the job, has gone through a spring evaluation period and just wrapped up several weeks of on-campus recruiting camps, what kind of first impression has he made with prospects on the recruiting trail?

Four-star 2021 quarterback prospect Miller Moss was pretty frank about his goal heading into USC’s second Elite Camp, which was held on June 19. The Bishop Alemany (Mission Hills, Calif.) signal caller’s sole objective that day was to make sure he left campus with a scholarship offer.

Moss performed well enough that Harrell asked him to stay a bit longer afterward, and the Trojans’ first-year offensive coordinator extended the offer Moss had sought for so long. Now that opens the door for Moss to build a relationship with Harrell.



“(Harrell’s a) super down-to-earth guy,” Moss said. “You see a guy from Texas, you think, ‘Oh, he’s all about Texas. He’s all about himself.’ But he’s a guy all about the players. He’s super intelligent. He’s easy to be coached (by) and have a dialogue with.”

When asked what makes Harrell different than other coaches he’s interacted with, Moss pointed to the way Harrell approaches the game — through his Air Raid philosophy and principles. But he also repeated the dialogue Harrell has with his players.

“He’s not just strictly rules guy,” Moss said. “He’s open to different things and really develops a relationship with his players.”

That falls in line with what Harrell’s former quarterbacks at North Texas had to say about him as well. Since Fine was a part of a transition recruiting class and they offered him late, he said his relationship with Harrell didn’t really grow until training camp of his freshman season. But he praised Harrell’s people skills and said he does a good job of understanding his players.

“(He’s) like a friend almost,” said quarterback Kason Martin, who signed with North Texas during the 2018 recruiting cycle. “Someone who has a lot of wisdom. He’s been through it himself so he knows what he likes, what he doesn’t like.”

Martin received an offer from the Mean Green during the spring of his junior year and committed two months later. He estimates Harrell called him once a week to check up on him during the season.

Like Fine, North Texas was Martin’s only FBS offer. Per his 247Sports recruiting profile, Moss holds offers from Alabama, Auburn, LSU, Georgia and Michigan, so the competition for Moss’ services will be tightly contested.

But USC — and Harrell — should have a pretty big say in how it all plays out.

“That’s one of the schools I grew up loving,” Moss said. “It’s definitely going to be a place of interest to me down the line.”

While Moss is just beginning to build a relationship with Harrell, USC’s 2020 quarterback commit, Bryce Young, the No. 1 dual-threat QB in the upcoming recruiting cycle who recently competed in the Elite 11 Finals, has spent the past five months developing a rapport with Harrell.

“First impression was how personable and cool of a guy he was,” Young said. “Especially in college football, it’s their job and livelihood as far as being coaches. Because of that, not everyone in the coaching world is as relatable or personable. Meeting Coach Harrell for the first time and knowing we don’t have to talk about just football stuff … We could talk Xs and Os all day but we could talk about stuff off the field, which you don’t find with every coach at the college level. I’m extremely excited to play for Coach Harrell.”

Young said he and Harrell text practically every day, which makes sense. Even though Young is currently committed to the Trojans, it won’t stop schools — like Alabama — from making a strong push for him.

It’s Young who is a priority for the immediate future. Moss and players like St. John Bosco receiver Beaux Collins will be highly-coveted prospects in the 2021 recruiting cycle.



Collins, a four-star prospect, has received offers from Clemson and Alabama within the past two months. He’s also being pursued by Ohio State as well.

It doesn’t seem like Harrell has done anything to hurt the Trojans’ chances so far.

“Just coming in as a new offensive coordinator, he had a lot to prove and he stepped up to the plate so far for me,” said Collins, who received an offer from Clay Helton after one of USC’s Rising Stars camps last summer. “(Harrell is) just a laid-back, genuine coach who wants to teach you before you even get there.”

Collins participated in USC’s Elite Camp last month and said the Trojans were “pretty high” on his list right now. He seemed impressed by Harrell’s energy given the situation he stepped into.

USC’s offense struggled last season and lacked a clear identity. That played a big part in the Trojans’ 5-7 season, and is one of the reasons Helton’s status seems so uncertain at the moment.

Harrell has stepped into a rebuilding situation with the Mean Green in 2016 and took over an offense that wasn’t producing. Over the course of three seasons, he turned North Texas’ offense into one of the best in Conference USA.

Make no mistake, Harrell hasn’t been under the same type of microscope he’ll be under in Los Angeles, but he’s had to sell an unproven product to players before.

“He’s probably more of a laid-back type of guy,” Fine said. “More (about) out the facts, more about the turnaround of the program and selling their culture. What they wanted to establish, how the foundation of the offense was going to be.”

USC’s been known as a pro-style offensive program for decades. So this shift to a wide-open, up-tempo attack is quite dramatic and will be interesting to watch unfold. But the Trojans, whose strength is at receiver, appears to have the personnel to make it work.

“His philosophy is USC has always had dudes on the outside,” Moss said, “but it’s never thrown the ball all over the place. That’s what they’re trying to do. They’re trying to utilize all the ridiculous athletes they have, get them in space and score points.”

Harrell spent two seasons coaching at Washington State, but most of his ties are in the state of Texas. He grew up there. His father Sam is a legendary high school coach there. He set records as a high school and college quarterback there. His reputation across the state — which was a plus in recruiting — is one of the reasons why Mean Green coach Seth Littrell handed him the keys to his offense despite the fact Harrell had never called plays before.

But this is obviously new terrain.

“The accent,” said Collins’ St. John Bosco teammate and four-star 2020 receiver Logan Loya said when asked for his first impression of Harrell. “Just noticing the accent first. (But) it was cool just his knowledge of the game, his passion for the game because I have that same passion for the game.

“He’s easy to talk to and be around. He’s a dude you want to play for.”