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Texas Longhorns Football: Spring Roster Released

Posted by HenryJames on February 19th, 2009 under Football

The spring football roster is up at the Texas sports website. It’s not much for the typical football fan suffering withdrawals, but I use it for three things. Attrition, heights/weights and position changes.

Attrition

None at this point. Not naming any names, but…Montre Webber? Still there. Philip Payne? Still there. D.J. Monroe? Still there. Make no mistake about it. There will be attrition. Just not yet.

Heights/weights

We get our first glimpse at the somewhat accurate measurements for the early enrollees. Heights will only be settled definitively for the lucky few that attend the NFL combine.

Tariq Allen 6′2″ 235
Thomas Ashcraft 6′5″ 315
Marcus Davis 6′1″ 185
Dominique Jones 6′3″ 240
Kyle Kriegel 6′5″ 262
Alex Okafor 6′4″ 240
Kenny Vaccaro 6′1″ 195
Mason Walters 6′6″ 295

Nolan Brewster is now listed at 210 pounds, and I see a change to linebacker in his future.

Redshirt freshman tackle Mark Buchanan is now 295 pounds. His classmate Luke Poehlmann is only listed at 257. Care to make a guess which one sees the field first?


Will Poehlmann suffer a similar fate as Samson for cutting his mullet?

Position changes

Dravannti Johnson is now a defensive end. He’s a tweener, so it was either a big but slow linebacker or an undersized but fast defensive end. The conference we play in made that decision easy.

D.J. Grant is now a tight end. Good. As long as we don’t do something stupid like make him try to block defensive ends. Unless it’s Dravannti Johnson in practice.

Aundre McGaskey and Greg Smith are now listed as offensive tackles. We may be throwing bodies at the position at this point, but I’m interested to see what McGaskey can do.

Did I miss anything?

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  1. Newy25 said:

    February 19th, 2009 at 6:05 am

    Hales is now wearing number 6 and Humphrey is wearing 99. That almost certainly means Hales will score a walk off BCS td next year and Humphrey will be first team all conference. There are no holes in that logic . None.

  2. ChrisApplewhite said:

    February 19th, 2009 at 6:25 am

    McGaskey was a RT from the day he signed. It was the first thing that sprung to mind when I saw him.

  3. beowulf said:

    February 19th, 2009 at 6:33 am

    This post is nothing without CallKevin’s input.

  4. Eskimohorn said:

    February 19th, 2009 at 7:02 am

    My new favorite is Luciano Martinez, 5′11 265lb DT from Monterrey, Mexico. It would be awesome if he wore a lucha libre mask.

  5. BrickHorn said:

    February 19th, 2009 at 7:48 am

    My new favorite is Luciano Martinez, 5′11 265lb DT from Monterrey, Mexico. It would be awesome if he wore a lucha libre mask.

    $10 says that’s just an overweight, mustachioed Ron Weaver/McKelvey back for another shot at football glory.

  6. J.R.69 said:

    February 19th, 2009 at 8:05 am

    …..”$10 says that’s just an overweight, mustachioed Ron Weaver/McKelvey back for another shot at football glory.”

    Or maybe Jimmy Hoffa.

  7. glenn said:

    February 19th, 2009 at 8:13 am

    i bet hoffa was bigger than 265. probably not now, though.

  8. jc25 said:

    February 19th, 2009 at 8:19 am

    I’m thrilled they deemed El Luciano worthy of a scholarship.

    Don’t tell me the lack of asterisk is a typo. I want to believe.

  9. Luciano Martinez said:

    February 19th, 2009 at 8:23 am

    ¡hola! ¿dónde está la biblioteca?

  10. glenn said:

    February 19th, 2009 at 8:38 am

    i noticed that jc, and intended to comment, but my machine locked up and had to go through a long reboot cycle. vista is the hands-down sorriest operating system ever thrown up, and that is saying something.

    also noted that cameron yoe ol, nick zajicek, is shown sans asterick. no write up on him, though, so i assume the missing asterick is another typo. [or would it be 'untypo' since the error was actually 'not typing'?]

  11. Spring Branch Horn said:

    February 19th, 2009 at 8:44 am

    His mullett weighed 30 lbs.

  12. bighornfan32 said:

    February 19th, 2009 at 9:02 am

    I saw Kenny Vaccaro today. He looked every bit of 6′1″ 195.

  13. bighornfan32 said:

    February 19th, 2009 at 9:04 am

    Also, Tariq allen is big for a freshman.

  14. Black Scholes said:

    February 19th, 2009 at 10:06 am

    Brewster looked absolutely lost to me both when in on defense and on STs. Moving to LB would be the logical next move to try and salvage something of the situation. I hate judging a kid too harshly who is playing that early in his career, but I don’t see him as a contributor. Ever.

  15. ARod's cousin said:

    February 19th, 2009 at 10:32 am

    “His classmate Luke Poehlmann is only listed at 257.”

    I can have him looking like Hulk Hogan by August..

  16. ARod said:

    February 19th, 2009 at 10:49 am

    mmmmm….Deca-Durabolin…mmmmm……

  17. Parlin Hall said:

    February 19th, 2009 at 11:18 am

    Those wanting more of Victor Mature (Samson in the illustration) can enjoy a self-caricature in 1966’s “After the Fox” (with Peter Sellers, dir. Vittorio De Sica).

    That, or ask to borrow Scipio’s stash of “Hollywood Hunk” magazine.

  18. Brandon Collins said:

    February 19th, 2009 at 11:20 am

    Weight means shit.

  19. Brock Fitzhenry said:

    February 19th, 2009 at 11:28 am

    Yeah, what Brandon said..

  20. Capt Oveur said:

    February 19th, 2009 at 11:35 am

    “That, or ask to borrow Scipio’s stash of “Hollywood Hunk” magazine”

    Parlin, do you like movies about gladiators?

  21. Texas_Dawg said:

    February 19th, 2009 at 11:53 am

    I bet La Joya HS kicked ass in Mexico 5A.

  22. ed said:

    February 19th, 2009 at 12:57 pm

    I think some of the weights on that roster are updated, some are not. Website is REALLY BAD about this sissue. Some of the secrecy Mack wraps around his team I understand; some I do not.

    I have thought since August that Brewster NEEDED to be a LBer. He’s buried at safety . . . we shall see.

    Mitchell is now an OG. He was Hix’s backup last year, but an OG the year before. Backup center/guard (other than Snow) is unproven, though I don’t think it’s a weakness.

    Howard still listed at TE. He’ll never surface at that spot; actually, I doubt he would anywhere else.

    I like Johnson as a DE, Grant as a TE, and I think McGaskey (or maybe Buchanan) at OT will begin to look like future starter material.

  23. Nordberg said:

    February 19th, 2009 at 1:09 pm

    “I think McGaskey (or maybe Buchanan) at OT will begin to look like future starter material.”

    They’d better, unless you want to see Tray Allen starting at tackle in 2010.

  24. Art Vandelay said:

    February 19th, 2009 at 2:08 pm

    HJ or others,

    I never heard anything regarding why Vondrell didn’t see the field at the Fiesta Bowl. I know he isn’t a gamebreaker, but he ran hard all year and could have helped us.

    Any ideas???

  25. Groundhog Day said:

    February 19th, 2009 at 5:12 pm

    I found it interesting that nothing was mentioned about the safety battle involving Scott and the possibility of moving Aaron Williams to safety to get the four best players on the field.

    The move of Kindle to DE opens up a lot of playing time for Keenan Robinson who I can’t wait to see.

    DT remains a major concern. No mention of Jarvis is extremely troubling and this is starting to smell like Marco Martin.

  26. US of Ay/DR P said:

    February 19th, 2009 at 5:14 pm

    They grow ‘em big in Texas. I am suffering from withdrawal.I am in a place right now where football is seen as an exotic pasttime. To hell with that. Simply put, if you don’t have football in your life your not really living. Bring on Colt, bring on Tebow; I miss ‘em already!

  27. Devil in the drain/DR P said:

    February 19th, 2009 at 5:16 pm

    Samson had a mullet?

  28. J.R.69 said:

    February 20th, 2009 at 7:40 am

    You people making fun of Samson had better be careful! Remember what he did to those Philadelphians–you know, those mean sumbitches? He took and jabbed ‘em in the ass with a bone!

  29. HenryJames said:

    February 20th, 2009 at 7:43 am

    Art,

    He was having trouble in pass protection.

  30. Bateshorn said:

    February 20th, 2009 at 8:13 am

    I noticed Neale Tweedie is a grad assistant. I guess he can drop passes up in the pressbox now.

  31. Billy Graham said:

    February 20th, 2009 at 9:24 am

    J.R.69,
    If you’re free on Sunday I’d like you to speak to my congregation. If only Samson had slain the Philadelphians with the jaw bone of a Stoops, the world would be an infinitely better place.
    Oops, gotta go. I’m “noodling” up on Texoma this afternoon with the Pope, Woody Allen and the ghost of Yasser Arafat..

  32. ed said:

    February 20th, 2009 at 9:49 am

    bateshorn,

    Tweedie was Greg Smith’s personal coach in ‘08.

  33. J.R.69 said:

    February 20th, 2009 at 12:01 pm

    Billy Graham:

    Sorry, can’t make it….me and Hedy Lamarr are hooking up to, umm, talk about radar, and stuff.

    Maybe another time.

  34. HenryJames said:

    February 20th, 2009 at 3:39 pm

    Some dude on Orangebloods says that DJ Grant is 220 right now and will be up to 235 by the time the season starts.

    With Mad Dog all things are possible.

  35. Scipio Tex said:

    February 20th, 2009 at 4:19 pm

    He knows DJ and that’s legit info.

    If DJ can play @ 230, we’re in business.

  36. glenn said:

    February 20th, 2009 at 5:12 pm

    you and a heady lamarr are gonna do WHAT?

  37. glenn said:

    February 20th, 2009 at 5:14 pm

    good news on dj.

  38. whoopspat said:

    February 21st, 2009 at 1:33 am

    DJ Grant at 220 is false.

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