Al_4_ISU

He’s started all season. Been very efficient. Top 1/2 QB in the league as an RS Freshman. Saturday is his biggest test/opportunity.

Yes. These guys are all quasi-pros and they don’t need that extra motivation with a conference title on the line. It’s still completely pointless. Part of the reason Texas is 1-3 in Ames in their last 4 trips is because Texas had showed up as mopey bitches who didn’t want to be there. They’ve always had more talent. Do not give them any extra reason to care. There’s 0 upside in running your mouth before the game regardless of opponent, but it’s a special kind of dumb when the opponent has more talent.

The idiot who ran his mouth is average at absolute best. I’ve had my face buried in my palm since I saw that. Rule 1: never give the other team ammo. Especially when they’re more talented.

We used to do this with ISU, Iowa, Northern Iowa, and Drake. For years the schools all played home and homes against each other. Then ISU and Iowa got tired of losing to UNI and Drake and agreed to do a weekend tournament deal in Des Moines. That ended a couple years back and ISU and Iowa didn’t start it up again, instead choosing to just play each other in a home and home

We throw a lot of shorter and intermediate routes to play off our receiver's strengths. We have a bunch of guys who can get yards with the ball in their hand, but aren't taking the top off the defense. Our QB isn't great with the deep ball either. Get the ball to them 5-15 yards downfield, and let them work. We have some athletic TEs that can hit up the seam too. We run the ball well sometimes. Our offensive line has gotten quite a bit better. Texas has the best DL we've played all year, and I anticipate that we won't get much of anything on the ground on Saturday. We'll have to throw to set up the run, and our receivers and QB will absolutely need to be on the same page with their timing routes.

Giving up 20 to Iowa IS pretty embarrassing.

Had the same thought. They're doing a lot of photo shoots with the new gal.

One TD and 2 FGs to the Iowa offense. Iowa got a pick 6 in that game. It was before Cade McNamara, Luke Lachey, and Erick All got hurt too.

I get a lot of really good ideas/pointers/useful tips from Meat Church. Plus, it just seems like that guy is always having a blast smoking/grilling and drinking. I'm going to assume someone in here will ruin it with a diatribe about how he's a poseur, or a huge asshole off-camera. As is the Surly way.

This is where I'm at. Tipping alcohol based on cost is silly. The amount of effort to pour Johnnie Walker Blue is the same effort required to pour Black Velvet. I tend to center my tip around effort and the circumstances more than dollar amount, although dollar amount factors into it.

I think a couple of the younger guys are going to be on the Hall/Hutchinson level by the time they leave. Abu Sama (true frosh RB) and Jayden Higgins (JUCO WR who reminds me a LOT of Hutchinson) are both NFL guys I suspect. Sama absolutely embarrassed BYU on Saturday. TE Ben Brahmer has a lot of Charlie Kolar in his game too. Rocco Becht (QB) is kind of a poor man's Purdy. He's a little more patient and more willing to just take the easy play underneath and less likely to try and make something crazy happen than Purdy was. He has a few pick 6s, but they've all been on timing routes where him and the receiver were on different pages, as opposed to forcing an unlikely ball into tight coverage. This team reminds me a lot of the one Purdy's freshman year, without a fully formed NFL guy in the backfield like David Montgomery. If you recall, Texas beat that squad relatively comfortably (Montgomery was suspended for the first half for responding to a cheap shot from a Baylor player the week before).

That is kind of something we like to do. Every loss except OU has featured some form of late surge that came up a tad short.

Well, fuck you too, thank you very much! For real though, I just want to see us give you a 4 quarter game. We're stupid young and really improving, but for the first time in a long time it seems like Texas is focused enough to make good on it's talent. We're much better than Cougar High and TCU, but we're not as good as K State. I'm just keeping my expectations reasonable.

We didn't have a healthy secondary in either the KU or OU games. Malik Verdon missed OU and Jeremiah Cooper missed KU. Verdon's healthy and playing great, Cooper is possible to be back for Saturday, but if he's not, Ewers is going to pick on his backups all day.

The prevailing thought among ISU fans was our best chance to win involved Texas being out of the Big 12 race and god awful weather so that your team would throw in the towel from Jump Street. Since of neither of those are likely to come to fruition (one for sure isn't), it really doesn't matter now. Our chance to victory is going to ride on whether or not we can force turnovers and then score off of them. If Texas plays a clean game, they'll cover.

We’ve been rooting for that since the schedule dropped. Fucking La Niña.

Pulpit Rock Saftig

The Texas team that walked into Bryant-Denny wins comfortably. The Texas that walked into the second half in Amon Carter leaves in a body bag.

That grass is certainly thriving in the 50 degree air

I can’t make any promises for those white devils.

Eat shit, Mormons

Drastically better ratings than they would have gotten on Apple TV had the Pac survived

75% of that Snider album has already come out

Grabbed beer to go, kept the baby

They paid me to get it out of there