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When Georgetown Prep sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.

I haven’t seen anyone talking about this, so I wanted to mention something that I noticed during the game on Saturday and that I’ve thoroughly enjoyed on the rewatch. Also, given the flack our offensive staff gets (and the “credit” Orlando gets for scheming), I thought it was only fair to give credit where credit is due. Against TCU, Herman showed a great package that our offense has never shown before, and it resulted in a lot of positive yardage, helping to jump start our offense in several critical moments of the game. Here’s the scenario: Texas has a TD on the previous possession, taking our first lead over TCU since 2013. TCU has just punted (a crappy punt), downed by TCU at their own 47 yard line. Texas has a short field to march. On first and ten, Watson gets 6 yards on inside zone with an insert lead block from Beck. Now, it’s 2nd and 4. Here’s the scheme itself: Play #1: We show 11 personnel (1 TE/1 RB), with trips one side. But the look is actually unbalanced—two of the trips receivers are on the line of scrimmage, meaning only two of the trips receivers are eligible receivers. Beck is playing TE off the line of scrimmage, and the RB is shaded to the TE side. Here’s a screen cap of the initial formation: In this formation, Beck (TE), Josh Moore (who is playing slot WR), Duvernay (farthest outside WR), and Tre Watson (RB) are eligible receivers. Collin Johnson is not. After showing that relatively simple set, the QB then sends the RB in motion to the field side (away from the trips receivers), leaving himself in an empty backfield. Here’s the post-motion set: TCU still has, effectively, seven men in the box at this point. One of their overhand defenders is lined up, at linebacker depth, just outside the shoulder of Calvin Anderson, giving him the ability to defend a pass to Josh Moore or stop the run. In addition to that defender, TCU still has their traditional 4-2 front in the box, as well. After the ball is snapped, Sam fakes the bubble screen to Josh Moore. Now, the overhang defender who was playing both run and pass is screaming towards Moore, thinking he needs to shut down the bubble screen. Duvernay and Johnson are both stalking the men over them, showing bubble screen looks as well. But that defender has guessed wrong—the play is actually a QB power. Back at the line of scrimmage, it’s just carnage. Anderson has escorted his pass rusher up the field, walling him off completely from the play (and further selling pass to the edge defender). Cosmi and Kerstetter have delivered a crushing double team on the playside defensive tackle, allowing Cosmi to break off and block the backside linebacker. Rodriguez mauls the nose guard, and Beck effectively shadowboxes Banogu. Vahe pulls, his target is Wallow (LB #30). Wallow actually takes himself out of the play, jumping outside Vahe’s block. Vahe actually turns upfield, looking to take on another man, because Wallow has appeared to totally take himself out of the play. But insanely, Wallow still able to get an arm inside on Sam’s hip, tripping him up. If Wallow misses that tackle, Sam might have scored because there is no safety help over the middle of the field. Sam ends up with a seven yard gain. Here’s the full clip of the play (starts at the 40:45 mark on the full length YouTube video): Play #2: The very next play, we come out in an identical formation—with two minor differences. First, Ingram has replaced Watson at RB. Second, Ingram’s initial shade is to the opposite side of the QB (i.e., on the trips side instead of the TE side). The motion action and eligible receivers all remain the same as in the first play. Looking at the defense though, you’ll see TCU has already adjusted. Instead of heaving three men accounting for the trips receivers (along with an overhang defender), TCU now has three defenders isolated on that, with a safety over the top of the box for the play. They’re no longer asking the overhang defender to play both run and pass. The final pre-snap defense looks like this: Texas runs the exact same play. But this time, the nose guard shoots the A gap (crossing Rodriguez’s face) before he can be blocked. Vahe does a tremendous job of recognizing the stunt and picking up the nose guard during Vahe’s pull. In the meantime, Rodriguez has recovered, and he is able to lay a hat on Wallow, who is playing backside linebacker this time. Because the nose guard has stunted, it has opened up a huge hole on the backside of the play, taking Banogu and the other backer out of the play completely. Sam is able to get through the second level before he is brought down by the free safety (the additional defender who TCU brought into the box). Sam ends up with a gain of eleven. Here’s the full clip of the play: Play #3: Texas has now gained 18 yards on the same play, run twice in a row. They hustle to the line, showing the same formation a third consecutive time. In response, TCU devotes even more defenders to take away the run. They’ve brought the overhang defender back in from his coverage of Moore, now requiring him to play both run and pass responsibilities. And they’ve kept the safety over the top of the formation (on a pass play, it looks like he would have man coverage responsibility for Beck). Here’s the post-motion look shown by the 😧 On the snap, the players show the same look they have previously (other than Beck, who takes off the down the field on a vertical route). Vahe’s pull is deeper, so that he can account for the DE who Beck is leaving unblocked. This time, though, Sam does not fake the bubble screen, but he throws it to Moore. But the two previous run plays have done their job: Watch the hesitation shown by the overhang defender. He doesn’t know if he should be playing run or pass. He drifts closer to the line of scrimmage without actually committing to defend either play (compare this with the very first video, when the overhang defender screams toward Moore’s bubble screen). As a result, the defender’s feet have almost completely stopped when he is locked up by Collin Johnson, who then rides him about seven yards upfield. Jerrod Heard (who has replaced Duvernay as the outside eligible receiver) does almost nothing on this play other than shadow the cornerback from about five yards away. If Jerrod Heard attacks that block, Moore has a lot to work with (and is basically one on one against the safety). Instead, Moore has to take the route outside Heard and only gains five or six yards. Here’s the full play: New Scenario: It’s the first play of the next offensive series for Texas. Caden Sterns has just picked off the double-pass, giving Texas the ball back at Texas’s 38 yard line. Play #4: TCU has adjusted again. After motioning out Watson, TCU still has seven men in the box itself—a four man line and two LBs and a strong safety who is playing over the top of Beck at linebacker depth (the strong safety likely has man coverage responsibilities for Beck). But Texas has modified the look. Now, instead of the trips receivers lining up to the boundary, they’re on the field side (wide side) of the formation. TCU can no longer devote an edge player to having both run/pass responsibilities. And when Watson motions out wide, he’s only about five yards split out from Calvin Anderson. The cornerback covering Watson is playing off coverage at about 7 yards. Here’s the post-motion defensive look: After the snap, the offense shows a similar look. But TCU has had enough of sitting around and letting Texas take the fight to them. They’ve adjusted by bringing Banogu and the other DE hard off the edge. They’ve also adjusted by having their LBs step up into the B gaps once the ball is snapped. They guess wrong again. And Herman has banked on an aggressive response from Patterson. Sam fakes the bubble screen to LJH, pulling the LBs toward the trips side of the field. He then comes back and rifles the ball to Watson, who has run a stop route just behind the line of scrimmage. Calvin Anderson ignores the playside DE and flies out to try to put a hat on the cornerback. Beck is flying upfield, looking to block the free safety, who will be coming across the formation to tackle Watson (as a side note, although the strong safety over the top of Beck almost certainly has responsibility for him in the pass game, he totally lets Beck run by. If the play had been a jump or pop pass to Beck, he would’ve had a 20+ yard gain. Keep your eyes peeled, because that wrinkle is definitely coming in the future.). Rodriguez’s block is a thing of beauty. He makes it across the playside linebackers face, hooking up with him on the hash about two yards past the line of scrimmage. He then rides him all the way to the numbers at the first down marker. Kerstetter gets a decent piece of Wallow, but Wallow is able to wriggle free. Unfortunately, much like Vahe’s near miss on Play #1, above, Anderson can’t quite seal the deal on the cornerback who dives outside the block, but is able to get a hand on Watson’s ankle. If he doesn’t make that tackle, Watson would probably have gotten the first down (assuming Wallow would’ve been able to get to him). Watson ends up with a gain of about six. Here’s the full gif of the play: Takeaway: All in all, we ran this set three times in a row in the second quarter and gained 23+ yards, getting us into the red zone (ultimately resulting in Dicker’s one made FG). We ran it again the next series and got another six yards. These are solid if not very good results against a fundamentally sound TCU defense. Against a defense less in “control” of their keys, one or more of these plays could’ve broken the D wide open. Even so, they resulted in huge gains that were basically "free yards" resulting solely from scheme and decent execution of the scheme. The plays' success are also almost entirely set up by the fact that we were able to run block effectively on the first two plays out of the package, requiring TCU to respect the run possibility each subsequent time we showed the formation. If my memory serves, we ran the same set once or twice more in the second half, gaining positive yardage but showed no different wrinkles than those above. This set is something very similar to a scheme that OU liked to run with Baker Mayfield and that they’ve continued with Kyler Murray. Empty out the box and run RPOs or RPO “looks” that spread the defense out and force it to defend three things: Space, the run, and the pass. The defense has to guess the play correctly to beat you. Even with TCU’s great pattern-matching scheme and technical soundness, they couldn’t stop it from being effective on Saturday. Credit to Herman and Co. for unleashing this very effective wrinkle against TCU. Because of the pressure it puts on the defense on all sides of the field, this package should continue to pay dividends down the road.

Like it or not Matt, the rest of us don’t dont live in Indoctrination Station. We don’t go to Fish Camp and get told what to think about our school. We aren’t pumped full of juvenile traditions and made up stories about the “greatness” of our university or how terrible Hayseed U down the road is. There’s a historical record, and it isn’t arbitrary based on random dates, who the coach was, what sexes or species attended our school at the time, what was happening in the world at the time, or the average annual rainfall in the Brazos Valley. The University of Texas has consistently owned our little brother, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University, on and off the field since 1883. We don’t need to explain it to everyone else because the whole world has witnessed it. It’s regrettable that your university’s leadership has targeted misanthropes and the intellectually challenged to fill your halls since 1879, but that has nothing to do with us. Try thinking for yourself sometime and you may realize the fact that “from the outside you can’t understand it and from the inside you can’t explain it” is because “it” is a bunch of regurgitated lies you are told to believe and are dumb enough to do so. Your school cowardly chose to run away from our conference and from the sports rivalry our schools shared for selfish reasons. You lied about everything that went down. You convinced yourselves it would make you “somebody!” in the sports world. You told yourself how much better you would become because of it, but you’re still pathetic losers. You’re still losing at the same rate. You still haven’t won a conference championship since 1998, and the people who are watching closely still recognize you as the annoying attention-starved rejects you’ve always been. Matt, don’t go away mad. Just go away.

We (and I’m talking about the people who post on this board, who are generally college-educated and in decent financial shape) are jaded – well, I think we’re jaded in ways of which we’re unaware. Specifically, we’re jaded when it comes to the whole “America” sales package: the land of opportunity, the American dream, that whole deal. We talk about how the American dream is dead. Indeed, I’m one of the chief proponents of that position. And in many ways, it is. But, we had an experience tonight that prompted a helluva conversation around our table, and more than a few hopeful tears. I mean, I still have incredible frustration at what we seem bent on doing to the American Dream, and how what we thought it was, or should be, is dead. But you know who it’s not dead for? A wide-eyed kid from Afghanistan, considering college. Y’all may remember that we work with an Afghan refugee family – we have for a couple of years, and I suspect it will continue indefinitely. The oldest boy, M, is a junior this year. His high school has started talking up colleges, and tonight was the first “college fair.” It wasn’t a huge production, and it was mostly smaller, local schools; think Texas State, ACC, Blinn, Schreiner, etc. Well, M got the notice that the fair was tonight, and he REALLY wanted to go. I mean, REALLY wanted to go. So, my wife and his mother took him. And to hear my wife describe it, when he walked in and saw the array of schools – of opportunities – in front of him, he was in real-deal mouth-open awe. They talked to several schools. And they kept it modest – places within an hour and a half of home. Places that are likely to offer scholarships and grants. As my wife explained, “M, our goal is for you to go to college for free.” He was again dumbfounded – “you mean they’ll pay for me to go to college?” She confirmed that is the goal. At every table they approached, my wife introduced him: “this is M. He’s going to be a first-generation college student.” And the people and resources that they talked to knew just what was going on, and how to approach it. M needs to go someplace where he can learn to go to college; something that most of us grew up expecting to do, and knowing the drill, will be alien to him. And so many of these places are geared towards doing just that. They were blown away by Blinn, which has an entire community of first gen students that even live together. Texas State also has a good program and plan geared towards kids like M. There’s plenty of potential scholarships on the table (M is bilingual and a strong student, on top of being a first-gen student with no financial wherewithal of his own). He is SO DAMNED EXCITED. Not by going to this fancy school, or that fancy school, but by the idea of going to SCHOOL. Of getting a degree. Of the limitless opportunity in front of him. An opportunity that this country, and its educational system offers. An opportunity that countless people, from my wife, to his high school counselor, to people at Blinn, and Texas State, and numerous other schools, have consciously put together. And yes, one of the first things my wife said when she got home was “lord, we have it so good.” And yes, the contrast between M’s college vision and the road we’re walking down with my daughter these days, who is looking at “this fancy school or that fancy school” is not lost on us. Perspective is a good thing. But the other thing my wife said, quite soberly, was “I got to see the American Dream happening tonight.” We talked about it, and how this is what we should be doing across the board, for everyone – refugees, first-gen students born right here, all of ‘em. This is good. This is America, being good M walked in the door of the high school auditorium with a dream in his head. He saw the path to making that dream come true laid out in front of him. That dream is the AMERICAN dream. It is what has made us great. It is what still makes us great. There are still people who believe in the American dream. One of them is a skinny Afghani high school junior. And his belief gives me hope. Just something I wanted to share with y'all. It's a good thing, and I didn't want to keep it to myself.

Today was the day Donald trump finally became president.

We're all in. We've got a campaign worker staying at our house this week while she attends training sessions. We're hosting a pop-up office at our home during most of October. M12 is taking the week of the election off to work full time on the campaign. I'm volunteering to drive people to the polls. We've maxed out our contributions to the campaign. We can fucking do this.

Something interesting I noticed. When the claims this morning first hit the board, even our most right-wing posters admitted Kavanaugh was probably done. Conservative twitter was completely silent for hours. I'm sure some won't admit it now, but everyone on both side of the aisle can admit that in their gut, those allegations felt BAD. But then, around lunchtime, a switch flipped. Trump and the GOP Congress started voicing their defiant support of Kavanaugh. Suddenly, the usual suspects on twitter started chirping and trying to shame Ms. Swetnick. Even the posters on this very board have found their usual footing. We now rely on our political parties to tell us how to feel. Even when our gut tells us something is wrong, we will support it if the Great Leader tells us to. How do you recover from that as a country? How can you ever hope to unify a nation when people shun their core beliefs in order to cheer on their team?

I so completely know BK's type. In fact, he's the rank intersection of 2 types. First -- wealthy, entitled white kid in bubble-type enclave in the 80s....just like certain places in TX, materialism is king and sexual assault is rampant among the high school set. The thought of reporting any of it as a young female teen, is laughable. They knew it would only blow up their own lives. And it's as if the boys were raised by wolves and no one seems to quite grasp that the behavior is wrong, much less illegal. Then you get your male law student who came from this environment. He was a bit too nerdy and/or not athletic enough to have been in the cool jock crowd, and has a chip on his shoulder because of it. "I'm gonna fuck everyone over with my intellect and skilz" says he, and so begins his obnoxious reign as class gunner. These types are of the conservative, "anti-affirmative action," free enterprise persuasion, 99% of the time. Lacking in emotional or social maturity, they continue to act in problematic ways towards women. Then they go on to become self-aggrandizing, sycophantic hacks, with personal advancement an end unto itself. Amazingly, women agree to marry and reproduce with these odious creatures. But don't mistake their having families for actually having empathy or human qualities. Ted Cruz fits this profile as well (notwithstanding the Cuban-ness). I know a little bit about which I speak.

Yesterday made 46. The candles didn't fit on my cake.

Bunch of friend zone cucks, not real men like us who don’t take no for an answer.

Did you go to law school with Johnny Sack?

I had to stop and think about whether this would be better or worse than Maroon 5.

I think I shared this on shaggy back in the day, but here's My American Dream csb/ Not one of my 4 grandparents advanced beyond elementary school in Mexico. They all crossed over here (illegally, no CR) in the 1950's. Dirt poor and not knowing a word of English. My dad's parents had 8 kids here, and as a family they worked as migrant farm workers until my dad was high school age. When it wasn't picking season, my dad's family lived in a one bedroom house in the Rio Grande Valley. My dad and 2 of his brothers would sleep on the porch because there was no room inside. Of those 8 kids, 6 graduated from college, 1 joined the army, and 1 became a successful realtor. My mom's parents had 3 kids here, all 3 went on to graduate college. My mom and dad were affirmative action admits (again, not trying to CR) to UT in the 1980's, where they met. I grew up far more comfortably than my parents ever did, entirely due to their own hard work and perseverance. To me, the American Dream is the idea that you can go very far in life by living out those two qualities, no matter where you start from. My grandpa, may he RIP, always said America was the greatest country ever. This was a man who picked vegetables for a living, endured many instances of racism throughout his life, lived in a very poor neighborhood, and was viewed as non-existent by society due to his immigration status. When I was younger it never made sense to me why he said that, but I definitely understand it now.

Did he do anything truly crazy? Like accidentally say the number 57 instead of 47?

I stand the entire flight.

You just described the president.

Given the available evidence, ignoring political alignment... - I would vote not guilty in a jury trial. - I would vote against him as an SC nominee. It's not complicated.

what insight could Ted Cruz possibly have about goings on at high school parties

Did you drink the punch at a Kavanaugh party?

You don't turn your shit in, it's a fucking zero. Everyone knows this. Stop trying to rationalize this with grade floors and missing measurements. Do your fucking work. Stop trying to weasel your way out of responsibility. Edit: And I fucking HATE you for making me sound like slorch on this.

The whole opioid crisis is a joke. All of the actors trying now to act like innocents. From the creators of Oxy to the doctors to the pain clinics to the pharmacies and everyone else in the supply chain. Was nothing more than a legalized drug cartel. And now that the pendulum has swung other way and a ton of previous pill takers have been pushed to the street the industrial prison and police engines are involved. Making money on the user from addiction to arrest to incarceration. Just a fucking joke.

For everyone that thinks... "all they have to do is report a rape..." listen to this infuriating shit https://www.npr.org/2018/09/24/651221373/what-happens-when-a-rape-is-reported-but-no-one-is-prosecuted If that doesn't piss you off, you might be a Baylor Football coach

The level of hypocrisy and bullshit spewing out of the GOP has me more fired up than any time in my political life. Just gave $200 to Beto. Committed to host a phone bank in NOVa and phone bank regularly for Beto, will campaign for Wexton (Comstock's opponent) and do whatever else I can. We have to hold these guys accountable.

Like it or not but aggy have been the reigning National Champions with the exception of 1940-2018.

He's right. The line is actually -130.

Kevin Sumlin- Fall From Grace?? or Kevin Sumlin- Fall From Gray Goose

Man there’s a lot of uncertainty about the facts, maybe there should be a comprehensive investigation?

Sadly, I have friends that did this kind of thing on a regular basis too. They even had the same, "No means yes, and yes means anal", motto that BK's group did. They shared an apartment in Dallas they nicknamed, the "butt hut". One guy would bring a girl home from a club, she'd get passed out drunk (or drugged) and a bunch of guys would line up to take a turn. They thought it was really funny and would brag about it all the time. I thought it was really disgusting and actually stopped being friends with them. These were some of my closest friends that I'd known since junior high. I often wonder if peer pressure would have driven me to participate if I hadn't already moved to Austin to go to UT. I'd like to think the answer would be "no", but it was a different time. We didn't think about rape and sexual assault the same way we do now. To us, rape meant that a woman was grabbed off the street, or someone broke into her apartment and forced her to have sex. We didn't have the term "date rape" yet. If we had, I'm certain most of us from that era would be guilty. I know I certainly had sex with drunk women in HS and college who probably wouldn't have consented if they were sober...but to us, that was just "getting lucky". Hell, I'd bet that most of the girls I ever partied didn't consider it rape at the time, but I'd bet they all felt dirty and embarrassed afterward. It certainly wasn't anything they'd want to talk about. I'm ashamed of how I treated women in my teens and early 20's, but I can't act like it never happened. That's really what pisses me off about BK. He wants to deny it happened at all, which is becoming ever more difficult with all the new accusations coming out. I would have been much more supportive if he'd come out and admitted what he did and showed remorse for the victims. But he, Johnny Sack, and the GOP are basically just returning to the "she was asking for it" line of thought. Fuck them

look, dude, i know this is hard for people with a pro-R, anti-D bias to sort through, but, for the most part, people go along to get along. how many in that high school class has even thought about brett kavanaugh in the past 30 years? in fact, people in high school get along to go along as well. people actively and routinely look the other way and mind their own business, when it comes to bullying, drinking, even fighting, and even, yeah, sexual assault as long as they can retain their plausible deniability. i know we're all billy badasses who would have broken up a perceived gang rape. but most high schoolers are just going to sip their drink, assume the chick in the bedroom is a slut and wants all that dick. even moreso in 19fucking82. like i said either here or elsewhere, my mom was still getting sexually harassed by her boss during this time period ( i think my original reference was the early 90s, but the point still stands 10 years earlier), and we had 80s movies like revenge of the nerds and animal house tweaking their nose at fucking drunk girls, because it must be okay, right? also, you kind of overestimate the ease of "coming out about it." whether a victim or another dude at the party, people are generally incentivized to shut the fuck up. dr ford is a great example. think she wanted this shitshow? this is why women vastly under-report sex crimes. "well, i got drunk at a party and a bunch of guys used my body for their sexual gratification, but i was too drunk to remember all of them" quickly becomes "well, what was she expecting? what was she wearing? did she know what those boys were capable of before downing her gin and roofie?" it becomes a total referendum on the victim, her (or his) motivation, and his/her expectations for going to the hotel room, the bedroom at the party, or drinking the spiked punch. and if you were at the party, would you be first in line to say "yeah, i was there, they ran a train on that girl, and no, i didn't do anything to stop them"?

I sweater gawd, some of you have your panties in a wad because his transfer insults your traditional sensibilities as Joe Fan. His next team and teammates won’t give a damn about it if he wins for them. Bryant is simply the first high profile player to transfer in this manner. The floodgates are open and this is the new reality.

Yeah, which is why this is a CRISIS. Not a War. Crises require treatment and rehabilitation. Wars require militarized police and mass incarceration.

Taking a break from Baylorfans?

FIFY.

"Look, we've had tremendous success with this in America. The Dakotas get along fantastically. It's so peaceful I thought they were a part of Canada until recently. A lot of people don't know that. They're right here in America."

Dumb post is dumb. I stood all game on Saturday. I’m 42 and in decent shape; sat in sec 1 and most people around me stood. I’d tell you to kiss my nuts and eabod if you “let me know about it”. I bet you’re fun at parties.

I’m beginning to feel like we may not redshirt Tre Watson, our graduate transfer senior starting running back.

Mike Pence disagrees.

That’s what your grandma told me.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/brett-kavanaugh-donald-trump-and-the-things-men-do-for-other-men

Well, congrats to you. You are 42 and still an asshole. Most people grow out of that phase by that age. Blink your eyes and before you know it, you are 62 and you have 42 year old “bad asses” blocking your view because nobody tells them what to do - because they are in “decent shape”.

Yeah....I know some pretty livid women. Including a woman who was the victim of a pretty horrific assault who was visibly shaken up by the news of the day, and had a man tell her “that was 35 years ago! They were probably just fooling around and now she regrets it!” If you’re a woman who has been assaulted, the messaging remains pretty relentless: if you dare make an accusation, you won’t be believed, you’ll be mocked and belittled, and you will be put on trial, not the rapist. This has nothing to do with “due process,” to which everyone is entitled. It’s about treating victims with decency and humanity. Imagine being a woman who has been assaulted. Think about the message that they’re getting, loud and clear. That’s some fucked up shit.

Donald Trump is the embodiment of every negative stereotype about the ugly American held by the other inhabitants of our planet. It's amazing. He's like a cartoon character.