-
Posts
13691 -
Joined
-
Days Won
21
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Store
Downloads
Recruiting - 2020
2019-2020 Football Season
Football
Entertainment
Sports
News and Business
Cloak Room
Transfer Portal
Recruiting
Events
Posts posted by Huckleberry
-
-
1 minute ago, henrygandorf said:
so ljh and a couple players/coaches say publicly that they think horns down is disrespectful, which it is, on purpose (duh) - that's why rivals (and wva) do it. that's the whole point.
holgo and riley get in touch with league office, and are instructed about penalties.
why are people acting like we're crybabies and responsible for this? and when i say "we're" i mean our players/coaches. (i know we have butthurt fans). as far as i know, we didn't petition the league office. when someone does something disrespectful, we're no longer allowed to mention it in articles or tweets? we're not allowed to use it as locker room material?
i love that our rivals (and wva) do it. i love it even more when they do it in a game we're not involved in (which definitely happens in ou and a&m games). 99% of teams don't have a universally recognized hand signal, and i feel lucky that my team does. my dad taught it to me when i was little, and told me when to do it and not do it during my first game when i was like 7 (fight song, big 3rd downs, injuries, etc). i taught my wife how it works, when to keep the hand still and when to move it forward. i have done the same with my nephews.
as with pretty much all taunting, if they get up in our players' shit and do it, they should be penalized. if they do it to the stands (which will be split even moreso than the rrr) than who gives a shit?
i don't care that this has become a story. but i don't see how everyone is blaming us. am i missing something? other than a couple tweets from our guys (or really just tweets quoting our guys), i barely see us complaining, and i seriously doubt ljh has that kind of juice with the b12 office to institute a rule change.
i blame the big12. i think the opposing coaches are part of it. and i feel bad for that kid in the hospital, that was weird. otherwise, go horns.
The short answer is that the media and fans are idiots. We didn't have anything to do with it and, as noted, we were penalized for the equivalent years ago.
-
8 minutes ago, BluTechsan said:
Texas Tech's defense was better than Utah State's this year. It's completely wrong to look at raw totals when trying to judge a unit's strength. Even without getting into the fully adjusted numbers, just look at the average rank of the offenses they faced. Tech - #50, Utah State - #81 after throwing out each team's FCS opponent.
That's 72 yards per game on its own, which would move Texas Tech up to...the mid-50s in the defense list.
-
Spavital and Stitt to Texas State? Hot damn, sign them up for an annual game on Thanksgiving right away.
-
18 minutes ago, Dark Horse said:
Why do computer rankings seem to favor the SEC? Is it their non-conference scheduling and 8 conference games? Im looking at your EWP rankings, and the SEC has 8 teams in the top 14.
Is it my own SEC biases?
It's because the SEC is actually really good this year because the East finally doesn't completely suck. In fact the East was better than the West this year on an average team basis. The conference as a whole is finally as good as everyone thinks they are every year.
-
Weren't there rumors that Troy Calhoun was willing to interview at Kansas? If so then you have to think he'd pay his own way to interview at Georgia Tech.College football will be worse off without Paul Johnson.Do they just go straight to the GaSouthern coach?
Army's coach?
Ken Nuitalamoaloelaodijaohsfao seemed perfect a couple of seasons ago, but he had a really rough year.
-
That made me look up Brundle as a driver. I've only recently started watching F1 so don't know much history beyond the greats. Showing up multiple times on the left side says something about a driver but so does showing up multiple times on the right.
-
Four SEC teams in the NY6.
-
I meant for fuck's sake toward slorch. Obviously.
-
For fuck's sake. Marquise Goodwin deserves to have a few years of his prime go by without any major life problems.
-
There's not a Leinster Senior League thread, so thought I'd throw this here. We have a new potential recipient for the fake wreath fund:
An amateur football team from Dublin has apologised for a "gross error of judgement" after falsely reporting that one of its players, Fernando Nuno La Fuente, had died on Thursday.
A death notice was posted in a local newspaper, a game was postponed and teams across the Leinster Senior League in Ireland held a minute's silence to honour the memory of La Fuente, who was thought to have been killed in a car crash last week.
"This grave and unacceptable mistake was completely out of character and was made by a person who has been experiencing severe personal difficulties unbeknownst to any other members of the club," Ballybrack FC said in a statement posted on their Facebook page.
The club said the person in question was fired after an emergency meeting.
The league offered its "sincerest apologies for any distress caused as a result of notifying clubs as to the demise of a valued player."
David Moran, chairman of the league, said the story began to be exposed after inquiries were made regarding offering support to La Fuente's family.
"We were told he was flown back to Spain on the Saturday. Straight away, that rang alarm bells for us," Moran told Irish broadcaster RTE.
"We checked the hospitals, we checked everywhere. Nobody could find anything about this young fellow."
Moran said some of La Fuente's friends said he had gone to Spain four weeks ago.
"The club has contacted Fernando to confirm his whereabouts, well-being," Ballybrack said, "and [is] thankful for his acceptance of our apology on this matter."
-
3 minutes ago, FondrenRoad said:
Those other squads dont matter. Bama is in anyway. They won't drop past 4 no matter what. The SEC probably wants Bama to lose so they can get GA in too. To be honest, even as an SEC hater, I think Bama would deserve to be in even with a loss to GA unless they got blown out. They still would have a better resume than tOSU or OU. Not gonna happen though. Bama will beat GA by 2 or 3 TDs.
They are the best team in the country, so if that's the criterion then they clearly deserve to go.
But if they lose to Georgia then they will have only one win over a team with fewer than 4 losses (LSU) and an absolutely atrocious non-conference schedule. It's not their fault that Louisville is so awful this year but Alabama's non-conference opponents were ranked #114, #85, #111, and #161 in Sagarin's ratings. That should definitely be a topic of discussion, but of course it won't and they'll just sail right into the playoff. In all honesty if they lose to Georgia then their résumé won't be that impressive if you only look at wins, losses, schedule, etc. I'd obviously bet on them straight up against any other team, but you mentioned the word résumé and typically that's what people mean by that.
-
2
-
-
4 minutes ago, ChiTownDoc said:
Oh I think it’s beyond the pale if you guys get penalized for throwing horns up to your fans. Is that a thing?
Yes, Roy Williams was flagged at a home game for doing it to our own fans. We were also flagged for doing guns down against Tech, I believe it was Mike Davis in 2012. So we had received 15 yard penalties for doing our hand sign to our own fans and doing the opponent's hand sign upside down years before other teams finally started getting flagged for doing ours upside down.
Like many have said, I don't give a shit if it's a penalty but it sure as hell better be called the same both ways. I mean it's technically taunting according to the rules so I think it should be called based on that but I don't mind if the rules change.
-
Yeah, that's an absolutely terrible take. Clemson is better this year than last by an appreciable amount.
-
1
-
-
Agree with all of you but that's where we are.
-
1
-
-
Actually, winning is the only guarantee. It's entirely possible the committee jumps Ohio State over Oklahoma if both win, which would give the Sugar Bowl bid to the Sooners.So win or lose we're in the Sugar Bowl against Georgia or maybe Florida.I think the team understands the conference championships are more important than bowl games.
With a close loss I think we would still be alive for an at-large NY6 slot but it's far from guaranteed.
-
- Popular Post
- Popular Post
4 minutes ago, housious said:The bill is stupid.
That said, I wish we still played the game every year. A bunch of adults on both sides are acting like whiny children about the whole thing.
I watch college football for fun. For entertainment. This game would easily make the season more entertaining.
But too many dickheads on both sides will keep it from happening any time soon.
Yeah, it's only whiny children and dickheads who would rather play this non-conference slate instead of locking in Texas A&M and the attitude that comes with that game:
2019-20 - LSU
2022-23 - Alabama
2024,28 - Michigan
2026-27 - Ohio State
2028-29 - GeorgiaMore like it's only still being talked about because a bunch of supposed adults are brain-dead morons.
-
10
-
3 hours ago, Thermos H. Christ said:
Doesn't seem that out there to me. Both schools are arms of the state. The annual game was a significant and longstanding piece of Texas' culture, thoroughly enjoyed and anticipated by many citizens of our state. For many people, watching or going to that game is central in their memories of spending Thanksgiving with loved ones. Putting on that game was a benefit these two public universities bestowed on the state for a hundred years, and they stopped doing it over some bruised egos and a few million bucks. I really don't see why it's outrageous at all for the legislature to step in and tell both schools to get over themselves and make with the football already.
The Surly and TexAgs contingents are always against it, but ordinary fans and Texans in general liked the game, they're annoyed it went away and they'd like it to come back. Most people don't give a shit about which side started this slap fight, or whether one team "deserves" to play the other, or who's scared to play or any of that.
You're still wrong.
-
1
-
-
Objectively speaking I don't have an issue with Oklahoma being favored by over a touchdown. A simple power rating system would have it higher than that (mine has it a little over 10). The issue is that Texas seems to play everyone close and Oklahoma's defense keeps most teams close. It's a strange game to handicap to be honest.
-
Woo hoo! Shitty NY6 bowl games in perpetuity! Nothing like getting a game that doesn't matter at the end of the year, while the 'big boys' play for the hardware that matters.
Good work identifying that it's slightly better for the second place team who isn't in the playoff hunt. Here's a hint: that's not what the conference should care about.Well, we are playing for hardware and a chance to beat OU twice in one season. I’ll take that over a Fiesta Bowl appearance against UCF. -
Ohio State is going over Oklahoma if they beat Northwestern handily no matter what Oklahoma does. Odds are this game doesn't help them anyway but instead just gives someone another loss, increasing the probability of only one Big 12 team in the NY6 bowls. If the game didn't exist then it would be a near lock that both Texas and Oklahoma make the NY6.
-
Hiring Briles will only add to the curse they are suffering for insisting on using TXST instead of TSU.
If you're worried about using a specific abbreviation because you don't want to be concerned about being confused with Texas Southern then you don't actually think you have potential to be a major player. You're worried about being an also-ran.
I wish jt were around here to argue with me.
-
1
-
-
No, it's fucking stupid and Oklahoma should be the conference champions for this season. It doesn't matter who is where in the standings, having a conference championship game after a full round robin is dumb and could only be created by the idiots in the Big 12 office who decided they needed to do it because they suck at publicizing all of these things:
- Conference Strength - The Big 12 is once again the second best conference in the country but nobody knows that. https://www.masseyratings.com/cf/compare.htm
- Schedule Design - The above set is based on a simple average but doesn't even account for the fact that the difference in conference schedules makes a Big 12 slate even more difficult relative to other conferences. Everybody plays everyone, so you don't completely miss matchups like the SEC in particular does. There are 45 possible matchups between the top 10 teams in any conference; based on the above ratings here is how many of those matchups took place in each conference: Big 12 - 45, Pac-12 - 36, Big 10 - 29, SEC - 28, ACC - 26. That is SEVENTEEN LOSSES that the SEC made disappear from their ten best teams' records.
- Related to #2 above is that we don't play FCS week in November. This also leads to #4 below.
- Calculated Schedule Difficulty - #2 and #3 are why this happens despite the SEC being better than the Big 12 this year: Average Sagarin SOS - Big 12 23.6, SEC 23.0. Essentially despite the SEC's average team being much better than the Big 12's average team this year, playing a Big 12 conference schedule was on average just as difficult as playing an SEC conference schedule. This is not a fluke, either, the Big 12 has had the toughest average schedule in years where the SEC was theoretically better.
- We are the only conference that ALREADY guaranteed that our two best teams played in the regular season. It already happened, rematches are stupid. The end.
I'm sure there are more reasons but there you go. Along with the issue discussed above about the Big 12 administration having no fucking clue what the CFP committee is actually looking at and falling for bullshit.
-
7
-
1
-
3 minutes ago, Jhawk said:
Another reason to possibly fire the bum. If he wanted to be the coach at KU and "loves" KU as much as he says he does then I certainly hope he wasn't talking to rival coaches after our games to say "here is something we had you on and here is how you're going to sew it up so we don't have that on you next year."
This should be very telling on why you don't want Beaty near your program. When he isn't destroying your roster to make himself look better right now in this moment and lying to the fans and media about it, he'll call his best buddy on a rival team and tell them exactly how to beat you.
Beaty is a fucking joke of a coach. KU should look at his email history and see if we can fire him for cause and save ourselves $3mm.
Congrats on being worse at reading and posting than your football team is at playing.
Herman specifically noted "Whenever you play an opponent and don’t play an opponent again, you’re going to call friends on their staff and say, ‘Hey, what’d you have on us?’"
If it was so important to your athletic program not to have Beaty give information to Texas on tips and tells then you could have retained him. Yeah, I didn't think it was that important.
-
1
-
-
44 minutes ago, S11 said:
And 31 to Nebraska
And 49 to Purdue
and 39 to Michigan
And 31 to oregon state
36 minutes ago, bigcigar said:And 28 to TCU...2nd highest output for them against P5 competition.
"Four teams under 40 points and one in the 20s? An average of 35.6 points per game allowed? Can we steal their defensive coordinator?" - OU fans, probably
Texas State fires Everett Withers - Jake Spavital WVU OC hired
in Football
Posted
Yeah but CUSA was the worst conference in the country this year and the Sun Belt was two steps better. Sounds like Texas State needs a PR upgrade as bad as Texas does.
https://www.masseyratings.com/cf/compare.htm (scroll to bottom)