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Huckleberry

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  1. 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.

  2. 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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  3. 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.

  4. 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.).

  5. 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

  6. 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.

  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 10 minutes ago, Thermos H. Christ said:

    No, CFB is still making money hand over fist. People are just bored by the prospect of the preseason #1 and #2 playing in the Inevitabowl. There’s nobody to root for, no outcome that sounds exciting. 

    I like that term, but it's not just that it's the #1 and #2 playing in the Inevitabowl. It's that it's the same teams it's been for the last 4 years and they're in Santa Clara.

    If Texas and USC were squaring off for the 4th straight time in January 2009 in Charlotte, NC the same issue would have played out.

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  10. Can someone please explain why people credit TFloss every time they post his regurgitated info over here? Nobody gives a shit that TFloss posted it, everyone knows that he just stole it from somewhere else. Here, like this:

    Some 247 info -

    EJ is convinced that Texas and Bru have been in communication, so he's thinking Bru has not sent in an NLI to USC.

    Also reporting that Card and Lindberg have been rooming together at the UA Future50 event and invited Zach Evans to watch the Sugar Bowl last night. 

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  11. Somebody please tell me how in the ever-loving fuck Mississippi State is #7 in Sagarin's rankings?
    They are higher than I would like in my ratings, too. Bowl season was actually really good for them from a computer perspective despite their close loss to Iowa. With the exception of Louisiana Lafayette, all of their opponents who made a bowl game won their bowl game. So you've got 6 data points in their season which improve significantly, and then you've got the 1 data point that should lower them.

    They're #12 in mine and have the #1 adjusted scoring defense.
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