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Does this already count as a moral victory?

From texags: "Clemson is def overrated"

It also might help to have a sugar daddy pour over a billion dollars into the athletics programs at Tech, but even that doesn't necessarily mitigate against bad coaching hires.

They had stripes. They were just on the actual sleeves of the jersey, not on an undershirt.

I don't think Tech should be ranked, and I don't particularly care about rankings. Just pointing out how illogical this is.

Anyone want to venture a guess as to why UH got two votes in this weeks coaches poll and Tech got none?: http://sportspolls.usatoday.com/ncaa/football/polls/coaches-poll/ Were the two votes from Applewhite and Briles?

Coaching - and your hiring process when you're looking for a new HC - would seem to be the problem, not talent. Maybe there's some talent evaluation issues in recruiting, but that's still ultimately coaching,

I think they do have a good offense, but we're gonna face better offenses than them in the Big 12.

Defense sucks ass, but yeah, I feel a lot better about this team after today.

It's helps a lot to not have Shimonek playing QB.

We need to kill this off, but for Kliff, this is usually three runs up the middle time.

Sweet pass from Bowman that he dropped there.

Tech doing whatever the hell they want on O now. Even Kliff's stupid time wasting runs are not slowing them down.

It was.

Bowman is putting up some numbers.

He's morphed into Tuberville II at this point. No thought of winning, just half-assed attempts at damage control.

I take you haven't watched the Tech offense much since Mahomes left, then? The shit Kliff is dialing up these days is more reminiscent of Greg Davis than it is of Mike Leach.

Glorified scrimmage versus Lamar. We should've played this game to start the season.

I prefer to continue watching and being infuriated.

The plays Kliff called for Bowman would've been no different for (noodle-armed) Carter, as it was exactly what he did most games with Shimonek last year. We pick up decent yards running earlier in the game because at that point, opposing defenses still tend to respect that Tech might do something other than run outside or throw short passes. Once it becomes clear that Tech won't be attempting many passes over ten yards and don't complete them consistently when they do, the D tightens up and the run game stalls. It's happened over and over since the start of 2017, and it did again against Ole Miss. Kliff killed several crucial drives in the second half by running on 1st and 2nd and getting nothing, if not on all three downs. I would take any effective offense system over Kliff's at this point, but I would actually prefer someone from totally outside the Leach coaching tree. It really is best for a school like Tech that can't go out just any coach they want to explore every option and not limit themselves to Leach era former players.

Solid win for y'all, even if Utenn isn't all that great. The Big XII needed it, what with UT and Tech shitting the bed against similar P5 opponents.

I've thought the last few years proved that Kliff was just a glorified OC and QB coach, but I'm not sure now that he's even that. We got hurt today by a bad matchup with their big receivers on our crappy DBs, and there were some bad calls along with some typical stupid killer penalties that were correctly called. I think Kliff's bad play calling was as much a factor as anything, though. No matter who we have at QB, we won't go anywhere as a team if Kliff keeps calling 3 runs in a row, or run on 1st and 2nd, pass on third and long, on crucial, "must score" drives. Our offense has to score a lot for us to win. Not getting TDs when we get close is a killer for this team, just like pretty much every Tech team under Kliff. I actually really liked Bowman all and all, as one positive thing we can take away from this. I hope he'll stay when Kliff gets fired.

He's a bottom's bottom.

Boring, unoriginal, looks like shit.

Saw that one too. I was in the Tech band that year (my senior year at TTU), but I was suspended for the TCU game due to my minor role in an on the field incident involving the Austin American Statesman "Rex L Bat" bat mascot at the '95 Tech-UT game in Austin, so I watched as a (very drunk) civilian.