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  1. 2 minutes ago, CfRhTxStBobcats said:

    So are we in it for Trey Sanders at all? Surprised he decommitted from Bama. I'm sure it's been covered here somewhere but I ain't looking for it.

    Well considering he signed and sent in his NLI to Alabama, it's a real slim chance but we're still in it.

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  2. 21 hours ago, Helobious said:

     

     

    Yeah the broadcast team was wrong for the correction (shocker), he caught it about a yard past the LOS so it should've been a penalty. Doesn't change the fact that it was a grown man run after the catch. 

    This is sort of correct. It's not an ineligible receiver downfield penalty because none of the ineligible receivers were more than 3 yards downfield. That's part of the (dumb) rule change a few years back.

    But because the pass crossed the neutral zone by about 18 inches (it's where the ball is when first touched, not where the receiver is when he fully catches it) it should have been offensive pass interference on Beck and possibly even Johnson. But considering the dozens of times we've watched OU receivers get into the open field when the Sooners broke this rule over the past two decades I don't really give a shit.

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  3. 1 hour ago, PencilPusher said:

    Link?

    (All numbers given as Rating/Viewers, all times listed are Central)

    2014 Season:

    Peach Bowl - 12/31/14 11:30AM - Mississippi vs. TCU - 3.4/5.01M
    Fiesta Bowl - 12/31/14 3:00PM - Boise State vs. Arizona - 4.6/7.41M
    Orange Bowl - 12/31/14 7:00PM - Mississippi State vs. Georgia Tech - 5.0/8.94M
    Cotton Bowl - 1/1/15 11:30AM - Michigan State vs. Baylor - 5.2/9.09M

    2015 Season:

    Peach Bowl - 12/31/15 11:00AM - Houston vs. Florida State - 3.7/5.60M
    Fiesta Bowl - 1/1/16 12:00PM - Ohio State vs. Notre Dame - 5.6/9.76M
    Rose Bowl - 1/1/16 4:00PM - Stanford vs. Iowa - 7.4/13.55M
    Sugar Bowl - 1/1/16 7:30PM - Mississippi vs. Oklahoma State - 5.1/8.94M

    2016 Season:

    Orange Bowl - 12/30/16 7:00PM - Florida State vs. Michigan - 6.2/11.46M
    Cotton Bowl - 1/2/17 12:00PM - Wisconsin vs. Western Michigan - 3.1/5.44M
    Rose Bowl - 1/2/17 4:00PM - Southern Cal vs. Penn State - 8.6/15.74M
    Sugar Bowl - 1/2/17 8:30PM - Oklahoma vs. Auburn - 5.6/9.52M

    2017 Season:

    Cotton Bowl - 12/29/17 7:00PM - Ohio State vs. Southern Cal - 5.3/9.47M
    Fiesta Bowl - 12/30/17 3:00PM - Penn State vs. Washington - 5.7/10.17M
    Orange Bowl - 12/30/17 7:00PM - Wisconsin vs. Miami - 6.3/11.73M
    Peach Bowl - 1/1/18 11:30AM - Central Florida vs. Auburn - 4.6/8.38M

    2018 Season:

    Peach Bowl - 12/29/18 11:00AM - Florida vs. Michigan - 5.0/8.37M
    Fiesta Bowl - 1/1/19 12:00PM - LSU vs. Central Florida - 5.0/8.47M
    Rose Bowl - 1/1/19 4:00PM - Ohio State vs. Washington - 9.7/16.78M
    Sugar Bowl - 1/1/19 7:30PM - Texas vs. Georgia - 7.8/13.30M

    Ratings in bold italics are overnights, finals not available

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  4. 4 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    In speaking with some people in the longhorn foundation, there has been lamentation about our showcasing of our trophy collection that is being shored up my CDC. She said that they literally have storage units that hold nothing but trophies UT has collected over the years, just rotting away. The intention by CDC is to bring much of that back into the new facility being constructed in the South Endzone and display all our great hardware for people to view. 

    So like A&M's Hall of Champions except with, you know, actual championship trophies instead of empty space.

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  5. 8 minutes ago, texifornia said:

    Can't wait for the new fleet of grad transfer/JuCo/fallback offers now that the Sugar Bowl is over and the staff is back in ATX. Should give us something meaningful (aka not Bru) to talk about.

    Random side question - what do they do with non-national-championship bowl trophies? I assume the Texas Bowl one is a doorstop, but the Sugar Bowl trophy is a pretty great historical artifact/recruiting tool. I remember seeing a picture of all of OU's Orange Bowl trophies full of new oranges for a recruiting event.

    I would assume it goes right next to our other Sugar Bowl trophy from 1/1/1948. I wonder what that one looks like.

    We only need the Peach Bowl to round out the NY6. Based on current contracts we will have to get it in a national semifinal.

  6. Yeah, Mangino was a great coach (and a shitty person, pun intended) but he also got extremely lucky in 2007 with how down the South was that year. And they still didn't have to play down Texas or Oklahoma squads but only benefited from them not taking high bowl slots. 

    Not to take anything away from that magical Jayhawk season and the greatest Border War game of all time, just that to me if Miles wants to be as good as Mangino at Kansas the goal should be multiple 9 win seasons and Top 15 finishes.

  7. 24 minutes ago, sushihorn said:

    Spare us the sanctimony.  How much hate have you seen directed at Sam Bradford?  What school did he play for again?

     

    19 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I don't even know how one could have interpreted " . . . and should rightfully be hated by Texas fans" as somehow implying that we should all fawn over Mayfield.  He IS a Grade A douchebag.  He's also a helluva QB.

    It's not that Vic Mackey is above it all and objective, it's that he prefers douchebag behavior. That's why he consistently defends Mayfield and Manziel and shits on Bradford.

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  8. 2 minutes ago, relapse98 said:

    Boy, that's a hiring search team that I would not want any part of. Replacing a guy that's won 5 national championships (6 overall) for your school and is in the championship game again this year and is pretty much indisputably the best coach in college football right now? Yeah, there's so many ways you could fuck up that hire it aint even funny.

    If they're smart they promote from within. That way if the guy keeps the momentum going then great. If not then you can fire him or convince him to resign "in the interests of a clean start" after a year or two. The only downside is if you're too loyal to him and let him stay past the point where Saban's last class are now sophomores even if he's not doing well. You have to be prepared to make a quick decision on his longevity.

    Promote from within and accept that he'll either be the long term answer (unlikely) or be prepared to make him a sacrificial lamb when nobody decent from the outside wants to be Saban's immediate replacement.

  9. 3 minutes ago, Fozzz said:

    Success rate is what drives S&P+ though, not the score.  If you have a high marginal success rate against your opponent, but lose due to turnovers or not maxing out your points/opportunity, S&P+ will still grade you out well for that game.  I think it would be fair to describe Herman's offensive system as "plodding" at times, particularly when we have a lead, but I believe we are still trying to be successful on each down when we have the ball.  

    Explosiveness is a big component. I think Texas this year and his system show that maybe it's too big of a component. Perhaps drive success rate should be a bigger factor and explosiveness a smaller factor in the overall evaluation.

    And once again nobody has been able to supply an explanation for how his system arrives at the overall unit number. Texas offense this year:

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    We are #44 in drive efficiency, #111 in explosiveness, #98 in rushing, #43 in passing, #69 on standard downs, and #75 on passing downs. Somehow that adds up to #26 overall. That makes no sense whatsoever. There are some aspects that aren't in that chart but we're actually bad at those things this year (red zone, etc.).

  10. 16 hours ago, Vertigo said:

    I just hope FWK realizes that the vitriol in this thread (which I am sure Hamm has pointed him to while reading his own sad little thread) is mainly because of the perceived shenanigans around Shepherd and Jimbo's shady ass. If the guy plays it straight, I have no problems with him personally regardless of his twitter personality. If I could legally supplement my income by $2,500 per weekend giving blue chip recruits rides to in-state colleges I probably would too. 

    Well it's illegal in Texas, so...

    https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PE/htm/PE.32.htm#32.441

  11. 3 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    I don't get this at all.

    The Sugar Bowl was January 1 (Tuesday night) and ended almost 11pm CT.  Did anyone complain about that? Not everyone had off Wednesday.

    As for the bolded part, they've played 2 epic championship games already.  Highly entertaining.  People will watch.

    As for the italicized part, you're such a liar.  No one who cares about college football stopped watching.  You'll have nothing else until the Spring Game, which barely counts as football, until August.  People will watch.

    I don't know, the semifinal TV numbers were pretty bad compared to the previous ones. The only year that was close to as low was the year they were idiots and had the games on New Year's Eve. You remember, it's when everyone in the world except the CFP administrators was vocal about how terrible an idea it was to have them on New Year's Eve.

  12. 3 minutes ago, Cheeseweasel said:

    And while we are on the topic, why does it take 4 fucking hours to play a damn game? 

    I get sick of (play) (injury-go to 4 commercials) (play) (change of possession- got to 6 commercials) etc.

    This I can agree with. College games are going to take longer than pro games and I'm absolutely fine with that. But 3:30 should be the target. The worst to me is the score, commercial, kickoff, commercial, next series with a commercial if anything happens like a minor injury or timeout.

    There should be a rule saying that there can be only one media timeout either after a score or after the ensuing kickoff. Not both.

    1 minute ago, Wally Fairway said:

    Was it a January 1? (Wednesday night) - because college football used to own that day; until the ceded it to the NFL even that date to the NFL if it's a Sunday.
    Or is there some MAC game that is the greatest game of all time that I'm unaware of???
     

    January 4, 2006

    Know your audience, man. Ha.

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  13. I thought immediately that Ehlinger was referencing Young's statement after the Rose Bowl against Michigan. Not a single talking head got it, though.

    Which is kind of amazing because Sean McDonough called that Rose Bowl on radio.

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