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I still call it MNC since the playoff hasn't expanded to my liking just yet. I don't disagree with anything you are saying and pointed out that the championship frequency would go down. But this is a loss (Texas) that Saban has almost every year and he's even had a few at home. Further, 6 championships in 12 years was not sustainable even for Nick, not even for the lovechild of Knute Rockne and Bud Wilkerson would such a thing be sustainable. Since their last championship game appearance, Alabama has had exactly one 2 loss season(been there done that more than a few times) and a home loss against a really good team. This may be the beginning of a marked decline based on the projected landscape of college football, but the won/loss evidence is just not there yet.

I really enjoyed this one and am kind of done reveling in media attention, aggy tears, and in depth play breakdown until the next big w. Texas was kind of at this point last year too even though there was no w. In many ways last year's defensive performance was better than this year's against a better qb. A healthy Ewers makes all the difference on offense, but that was not a cure all later in the season. Teams change and get better, so here's hoping Texas can keep up the intensity. ..and yes, I am pretty fun at parties.

I think there is a myth about Saban and his teams that they are/were some kind of rolling juggernaut year and year out as if each championship season they fielded a team that was on par with 2005 Texas, 95 Nebraska, etc. The only Saban team I think you can possibly say that about was the 2020 team, and even that team gets an asterisk due to covid. His 2009 team, while undefeated, well we all saw the game. All his other championship teams had a loss and at least one other close game that could have been a loss against a team nowhere as talented. In between, there gave been plenty of 2 or 3 loss seasons, where they ended up losing one or two of those close games. Hell, they just played in the championship game two seasons ago and lost to a team they had already beaten soundly which evened out a similar reverse scenario with them and LSU back before the playoff format. Saban's strength was always consistency and process and it allowed Alabama to always be in the mix even with the talent ebbs and flows. Saban is still Saban and if there is any drop off it won't be because of him. NIL and the portal may cut into the frequency of MNCs, but that's just because others got better, not because Saban got worse.

How about one that says: OU SECks !!!

Milroe is pretty Damm good more vy 2004 than 2003. Nick may never win another mnc but 11-2 it to the bitter end. Bama fan should just take it. They walked in desert a long time before Saban....a whole 13 years oh the horror.

No Knox isn't the south like Oxford, Gainesville, Starkville, College Station, Baton Rouge, Tuscaloosa, Athens, Aburn, and Columbia as I said. I will give you Lexington and the other Colombia....and Arkansas venues.

It don't make a fuck. It will be nice to be in a legit conference, but then again, I think we had that in old big 12. Big 10 would have been nice with the fall weather but would have sucked for the winter. Some cool venues in AnnArbor, Madison, Minneapolis, Chicago but some real hell holes in Columbus, East Lansing, and State College. In SEC Vandy and Knoxville are cool but everything else is just the south. Although one could argue almost anyplace would be better than Austin in September. Whatever. It's a conference and we will be in it and put more into it than we take out. We will teach some things and learn some things. Notre Dame, BYU, and Randolph Field are not in it, so I think we will do just fine.

One thing I think we can all agree on is that the Electric Boogaloo was solely responsible for the victory. Harumph!!!

Very similar in that regard to last year's game. I posted that last year there were 3 plays, one each phase of the game, that were set up, 95% executed, and requiring only the most basic follow through in the final 5%, to bring the play to it's logical and almost inevitable conclusion for the good guys, that were not made, and any one of which would have likely resulted in victory. I think there were more plays like that this year. The only difference is that there was more margin for error, given the overall increase in talent level, competence in the more mundane aspects of the game, and the full use of our starting qb There was also the absence of truly horrible officiating. Last year, this game and the Rice game still show that Texas still has work to do to put forth a truly exceptional mistake free game. As happy as we all are, we were a missed lineman downfield call and an astute fumble recovery away from a nail biter or possible defeat. In other words, make those plays, and you don't need to rely on the ref to catch a penalty or the ball bouncing your way, because those things don’t always work out in your favor.

I heard this scence was edited out of The Empire Strikes Back.

I want it to be an emotional let down like we had against Missouri in 2008 after the OU game.

Prepare to be shafted by refs and others in Big 12. I was watching the score scroll on Fox during the end of the Tech Oregon game and Texas and Ou did not appear under the Big 12 subheading scores. Texas and OU scores would only appear in SEC (because Alabama), CFB catch all, or in whatever the fuck conference SMU plays in.

Same add agency that city of Cleveland used: "We're not Detroit !!!"

13 men on the field.lultz

Not seeing the issue here, unless it's your poor memory.

Bunch a upside down Oregon flags at Tech this week too.

I was trying to keep it simple. Also, I would say the other two calls were much worse and more obvious and occurred at the ball...calls that have to be made. Refs miss holding all the time. Also, I think this hold would have been irrelevant had Young been tackled on the blitz that he wriggled out of...I think.

Definitely a team loss. All three phases of the game were coached and put in a position to win and could have probably done so had any one of the team units executed on just one more play. Not each, just one play amongst them. Throw in the two obvious blown calls (safety and k Robinson faskmask) and refs got in on the action too. Sark's failure to call a to before the chip shot miss just before half also pics up the coaching blame as well without considering any other more subtle errors. All in all there were 5 plays that were a combination of easy ref calls that were not made or simply completing a perfectly set up play to it's seemingly routine and inevitable conclusion that resulted in a net point differential of 15 points. Bama had theirs too, but they were more of the garden variety where the poor execution had more than one factor involved and Texas had enough of those too, to balance that out. When Bama had the perfect opportunities, they executed and that was the difference, Ref fuckery aside.

From Oak Hill, sipping coffee and construction dust.... FIGHT!!!!! OR TEXAS!!!!

Nobody talks about cutting your hair when it's awesome.

Imagine what it will be like with a full 5 working days or after a loss (ducks).

I posted up my Wally Pryor CSB on the Bill Little thread a couple of weeks ago, but I just thought of another Wally gem that has not been mentioned. Fall of 1988 early November game against U of H fighting run and shoot cougars. Houston was blowing our doors off and the final score was something like U H 66 Texas 13. Late in the game the crowd was mostly gone and Houston had just scored another touchdown on our hapless D. Houston trots out for the PAT...and Wall's words: " ..and it's.....bueno"

Soon to be "city approved watering hour."

96 is a pipe dream. 85 is unicorns and pixie dust.

Well, if it makes you feel any better, I'm at the office working on 2022 corporate tax stuff...and I'm a concrete contractor. My admin keeps forgetting to put batteries in the thermostat, so when I got here it was 85 on the office. There is enough juice on the batteries to manually set the temp, but it always defaults back to 85. I spent the first hour here setting up a fan, reading Surly, and drinking beer from the office fridge. Just too hot to concentrate on tax stuff. Just wrapping up now and business partner is heading over for a cold one. I should jack up the temperature and pretend I was toughing it out in the heat, but the empties might lessen the effect. Did get a nice bike ride in this morning tho. Worked yesterday too. Not sure what you need a firewood rack for. It's never going to be cold again anyway. But you do you.