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  1. How Green Was My Valley over Citizen Kane and The Maltese Falcon

    Hamlet over The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

    The Last Emperor over Broadcast News

    Driving Miss Daisy winning at all

    Dances With Wolves over Goodfellas

    Forrest Gump over Shawshank

    Boogie Nights not getting nominated

    Titanic over Good Will Hunting

    Chicago over The Pianist

    King's Speech over The Social Network


    It seems like the 50s, 60s and 70s were the glory days of actually getting the best movies the award the most often.



     

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  2. NFL QBs seem safer than college QBs these days.  You can't sack them at their legs.  You can't hit them in the head.  You can't take them to the ground.  The league isn't what it once was.

    Kyler Murray annoys me and OU sucks, but everything that was said about why he wouldn't succeed this year at OU is now going to be said about why he won't succeed in the NFL. 

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  3. I can't help but look forward, and I'm fully capable of enjoying the Sugar Bowl win while simultaneously getting excited about next season.  It seems to me we have several things going in our favor to reach the playoffs next year.

    1. Every Big 12 school that handed Texas a loss (OU, OSU, WVU) will be breaking in a new starting QB next season.  Almost half the conference (KU, KSU, TTU, WVU) will be in the 1st year with a new head coach.  The conference was relatively down this season, but could be even more so next year.   Oklahoma will always be dangerous, but Texas was already in their class before OU loses Murray and Brown.

    2. If Humphrey and Johnson return, the offense should enter the season with more confidence than any group since the 2008 team.  Three years with one system is huge.  Three years with the exact same starting QB and WRs in the same system is even bigger.  The only thing we haven't seen from this offense was big plays, and I think Whittington and Jake Smith could help remedy that.

    3. The amount of seniors Texas will lose on defense is pretty ridiculous (Omenihu, Nelson, Hager, Wheeler, Johnson, Locke, Boyd, Davis), but the most encouraging thing about the Sugar Bowl was the play of Koburn, Ossai and Foster to go along with Sterns performance earlier in the season.  If we do make the playoffs in 2019, it's going to be because the defensive recruiting class of 2018 saved our asses.  And as good as those seniors were, none of them were the kind of violent pass rushers that I think Ossai, De'Gabriel Floyd and Caleb Johnson can be.  Orlando hasn't had the kind of destructive force at Texas that he had at Houston.

    It really comes down to three huge factors.  Can Texas recruit LJH and Collin to stay?  Can Green, Cook, and Jamison become quality corners by September?  And can three of Angilau, Okafor, Hudson, Tyler Johnson, Ghrimai, Reese Moore or Imade become productive starters?

  4. I like McCay and pretty much everyone involved in this.  I think Cheney is a terrible person.  I agree with much of this film.

    Having said all that, I don't think it was very good.  The McCay-like things (Shakespearean soliloquy, breaking 4th wall narrator, fake news caster Naomi Watts) just didn't really work this time.

    Both First Man and Vice fall victim to the fact that they are movies about people who aren't very interesting to watch for more than a few minutes.

  5. I'm just going to piece together a Bru McCoy conspiracy theory real quick.

    1. DeGabriel Floyd's tweets suggested he had confidence Texas was landing someone else and he's been recruiting Bru hard.

    2. There are reports that Bru favors Texas, but USC is more comfortable because of the location and people he knows.

    3. Tom Herman said that he expected to land 1 or 2 more LOI's THIS signing period.

    4. Bru apparently is sending his LOI this signing period.

    Conclusion:  Bru is already in

     

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  6. 16 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

    Tonight would be a great time to rob the First State Bank of Gruver.  Population 1,180 and sold 850 tickets to the championship game.

    Feel like they probably robbed that one in Hell or High Water.

  7. 1 minute ago, Machinator said:

    Next year's defense is not going to be the 2009 defense. Sam is going to improve (I hope), but expecting him to be 2009 Colt McCoy is a whole 'nother thing.

    2009 Colt:  27 TD, 12 INT, 3 rush TD

    2018 Ehlinger:  25 TD, 5 INT, 13 rush TD

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  8. 7 minutes ago, Machinator said:

    Young is not a viable RB2 if we want to win the Big 12. Not unless he develops in a big way, and the stakes are too high to rely on that.

    The last time we wont the Big 12 our RBs by carry

    1. Tre Newton
    2. Cody Johnson
    3. Vondrell McGee
     

  9. 41 minutes ago, ruitxn said:

    I agree with your post..but RB???

    I'm not at the point where I'm freaking out about a 4th string RB.  If I had to rank the position group by year the past 7 or 8 years, a group of Ingram, Young and Brown is probably in the top half.

  10. 1 minute ago, SydneyCarton said:

    Jesus what a fucking beating. But outsode of the results of the day, my favorite part as always is the fucks from the football board who show up tell the regulars on this thread what assholes they are for being critical or pessimistic for any part of this class, staff, or both. Its like 247 arrived and dumped en masse all over the only bearable board relating to football. 

    Weird.  I typically thought it was the regulars of the thread who were more understanding and the non-regulars who freak out about why we aren't landing Ed Oliver.

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  11. I don't really understand the panic.  The only position of need where we actually might need some of these recruits to start next year is linebacker.  De'Gabriel Floyd is perhaps the best player in this class, and Caleb Johnson is perhaps the most ready to play.

    Everywhere else is about depth.  And I think we are solid at depth at QB, RB, WR, TE, OT, DL, LB and DB.  The only real place we need more depth is interior line, and we have two more months to find some bodies.

    It's easy to say we're only getting elite WR and DB, but it's not the case.

  12. I don't know how real clutch stats are, but part of the reason I wanted Luka this time a year ago was that it seemed like every week he had a new highlight where he made a ridiculous crunch time play for Real Madrid.  And he looked like he expected to make every shot.

    The fact that he's already getting those results against better competition... it's pretty shocking even for a Luka homer.

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