Posts posted by Huckleberry
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4 hours ago, Vic Mackey said:
Who does have an idea then? No one can be spot on on these draft picks. Go to every front office and see how many terrible picks are made. That includes input from all coaches and scouts.
You can do this on the other side and see people rave about a player drafted and they bust. Same thing happens on the recruiting for college.
I'd love to see who exactly on here thought Mahomes was going to do what he's doing right now. Especially with him playing for Tech.

And @Vertigo although he was wrong about Watson.
http://www.shaggytexas.com/board/showthread.php/174106-Meltdown-at-Tech-is-in-full-swing?p=10478067&viewfull=1#post10478067
http://www.shaggytexas.com/board/showthread.php/174106-Meltdown-at-Tech-is-in-full-swing?p=10478154&viewfull=1#post10478154There were plenty of others. The idea that nobody knew Mahomes would be good is ridiculous.
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Best thread to put this on, I guess. FBS teams are connected as of this last Saturday, so it's actually possible to calculate ratings based only on this season already. Usually takes longer. Anyway, the problem with early season stuff is pretty clear if you do a standard power rating for this season. Here's the Top 10 based only on final scores from this season:
1. Auburn
2. Oregon
3. Notre Dame
4. Tulane
5. Louisville
6. Arizona St.
7. Michigan St.
8. Western Kentucky
9. Memphis
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24 minutes ago, TKthunder2 said:Those are bodybag games that we pay them ~1 million to come to DKR with no return game. Plus they are part of the UT system so we have a vested interest in helping them.
Not sure what you’re arguing here. Is Houston better than UTEP/UTSA? That’s obvious, but why play them? First they fucked us hard the last time we gave them a home game. Second, it’s a no win position as we get no credit nationally for beating them (see Oklahoma this year) and national shame for losing to them (see Oklahoma three years ago). Third, they are a shitty commuter school that threw a shit fit when we tried to open a graduate extension campus in the largest city without a UT university. Fuck them.
Wish I could like this multiple times. Fuck UH.
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They called forward progress stopped in bounds. The linesman was signaling the wind the clock motion at the end of the play.
That means out of bounds didn't happen. Clock stops momentarily on a first down but the mechanic is to first signal whether the clock winds after the chains move. The clock doesn't stop until the second signal that it stops to move the chains. No way they would have gotten a play off legally anyway.
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3 minutes ago, Bevo said:
I have a dumb high school football question. I was out of Texas a long time but I think we only played teams in our football classification and everyone in our district was 5A. There was no 6A. I thought Vandergriff high school and Cedar Park High School were in the same district. I was told Cedar Park is 5A and Vandergriff is 6A. Is this right? Do 5A teams play 6A teams up until playoff time? Does it hurt your record and your ability to get into the playoffs if you are a 5A school and lose to a 6A school?
No it doesn't hurt playoff chances. If you're in different classifications then you're definitely in different districts. Only district record matters for playoff qualification.
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58 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:
or Brandon Stewart, who originally beat out Peyton Manning. I will never forget the 1996 aggy game, where Stewart ran out of bounds 1 yard short on a 4th down scramble. The score was 55-something at the time, and the dude just quit.
I've been searching for that clip on the internet, anyone have it? Comes up from time to time when talking about give up plays (like Kyler Murray's self-safety).
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6 minutes ago, Ricky Butler said:
Honest question, what do you mean by this?
Others are correct. Playing shitty teams can actually hurt your ratings if you play them like you're also shitty. Playing shitty teams is not a free pass to a higher rating in any decent computer system (note that at times it is a free pass to a higher rating in some non-advanced systems).
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15 hours ago, GhostOfTomJoad said:
What Aqua Buddha said. Pushing 50 with 17 years of marriage to my lovely bride. Neither of us ever wanted kids. We love our nieces and nephews to pieces. Life's good.
Wait a minute. Didn't you miss a Longhorn game to watch Twilight several years back? So you were in your 40s and missed football for Twilight. And there was no teenage daughter involved.
Holy shit.
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26 minutes ago, Tex Pete said:
I posted this on another thread, but I watched King play 3 games last year.
As I have been saying, King is a “good” player, but he’s no 5 star. Last year, they out-athleted everyone and he just had to distribute the ball. It’s not hard throwing to wide open receivers. He just doesn’t have the same talent advantage this year.
The kid is a game manager and nothing more. He fits what Jimbo wants to do. He is NOT the best QB prospect in the country by any stretch of the imagination. Generally, he reminds me of Shane Buechele, but he was bad last night. Once again, the $9.95ers show themselves to be a bunch of non-thinking sheep. He made them look stupid last night.
Yeah, I don't want to give the impression that King is a terrible prospect. He's a good player and can be successful in college and really successful in the right spot. My only point is that he was closer to his correct position in the rankings after last football season and before the services started shooting him up the rankings based on things he did in a t-shirt and shorts against air defenders.
The knock is on the people ranking him, not on the player. There's nothing wrong with a kid preparing himself for these overly important camps and performing well at them. That's the kind of work you actually want to see from a prospect. Much better than showing up fat and unprepared like you don't care.
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Actually, I do think the vast majority of failures at ranking football players by the services are because of reliance on camp performances. The recruiting services aren't the only people guilty of this, the NFL does it all the time at the combine.
I honestly don't give a single shit about Haynes King, not even based on where he committed. But when your #1 QB in the country looks that bad in an actual football game, you screwed up. Particularly if the reason he's #1 is because of things he did in shorts in drills that can be prepped for but don't have four to five 270 pound linemen coming after you with bad intentions.
Camps aren't football. The recruiting services frequently lose sight of that.
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1 hour ago, NoName said:
i mean, the entire reason he had that big jump was because of his results in the camps - he went from a solid 4* guy to a 5*, top 20 guy in the country guy as a result of that performance - which had nothing to do with the team around him
So his ranking as a football player went up based on things he can do when he's not, you know, playing football?
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Iowa State vs Iowa
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To take the complete denial angle there would have to be something to deny. Iowa didn't make any actual accusation that could be denied. You should try reading.