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Skipper

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  1. It is NIL + super conferences. There used to be a MASSIVE talent gap in the roster of a top 3 team vs a top 20 team vs. a top 50 team. Now that margin is significantly slimmer top to bottom. This is now the NFL with parity. The SEC is a perfect example this year. The bottom of the league is good enough to win a game against anyone if they play well and top team brings their C game (just like in the NFL). I think fans will adjust and have more realistic expectations once playoffs are expanded. I think it definitely needs to go to 16 because there are actually probably close to that many teams that could make a legitimate run if they got hot at the right time.
  2. You keep saying or implying this like it's an actual possibility. It's like you have no fucking idea the NFL is completely different than college football with an annual calendar (draft, free agency, camps, etc.) that actually makes fucking sense. There is ZERO benefit to an NFL team hiring their next coach before the season is over.
  3. As crazy as this season has been and as shitty as we've played at times, we are somehow 1 win away from a bye week and a chance to get rested and healthy with everything still on the table. Guys are going to have to dig deep with backup QB + 2 missing OL starters and D playing a ton of snaps in back to back weeks, but at least finally at home. I don't know much about Vandy outside of Pavia and Stowers and haven't been able to watch them a ton. I watched a good chunk of the LSU game and saw LSU (without Weeks) play man with no spy on Pavia and get torched repeatedly. Did not see any of Mizzou game but looking at box score they clearly rectified that.
  4. Hell of a game.
  5. I think the opposite. This is exactly the type of scenario where we come out and randomly play best game of season LOL.
  6. All that booing after the questionable personal foul kept them from calling the hold there. That's why you always boo.
  7. I actually now think we come out and play our best game of the year. Would be fitting for this bizarre season
  8. Since this is getting traction I'll just say what I heard pre reconciliation had zero to do with a player or anything related to the program or local to Austin for that matter.
  9. If it dropped after this OU debacle that is playing out I would put the blame on Venables leaking trying to take heat off him LOL
  10. Again, even if the NFL is Sark's goal, his Agent leaking this NOW makes absolutely zero sense so that tracks. Fascinating who actually leaked it.
  11. I haven't heard anything about the baby thing. But I heard enough background through the grapevine after the initial divorce announcement to know my ass wouldn't have reconciled.
  12. Loreal leaking this out through whomever her people are actually makes the most sense here. Way too much smoke there.
  13. This makes more sense than anything else LOL. Mack and Sally both probably legitimately think Mack's a candidate in their fucking fantasy world.
  14. From our perspective, of course, if this is where it's heading WE would want to know sooner than later. My question is when has a new HC of an NFL team been announced before the end of the NFL season. I just can't think of any but I also don't follow the NFL that closely.
  15. When is the last time a new head coach has been hired in the NFL before the season ended? I don't follow closely but has that ever happened?
  16. Why in the world would CDC want this to leak mid-season? Nothing about the timing of this makes any sense from our side or Sark's side. Hell if anything it's someone with an Anti-Texas or Anti-Sark agenda.
  17. It makes zero sense for Sark to want this to leak now. NFL jobs won't be open for well over a month. This makes everything about his season at Texas harder. We lose and the wheels fall off, then it makes getting another job significantly harder.
  18. This is all assuming (i) it's true and (ii) Sark had anything to do with the leak. The latter makes absolutely zero sense. If his goal was to leave for the NFL this year the dumbest thing he could do is leak it on gameday mid-season with entire season on the line. There is very little chance he had anything to do with this coming out today IMO.
  19. Stop saying this. CDC is not hiring someone with a grand total of 2 fucking years HC experience at North Texas and ZERO big program experience. JFC it's amazing how fucking clueless our fanbase is. The Texas job is a monster. Night and day from Group of 5 bullshit.
  20. I agree that Sark can put them into a better position to make plays than he did against Kentucky, but on our 2nd half scoring drives against OU, we converted 7 3rd downs and most of those were 5+. Players made plays in that game. Who knows how that game goes if Arch doesn't convert that 3rd down from inside the 10 (his best play of the season) or Wisner doesn't break a tackle on 3rd and long dump off to convert? Hell our wide open TD was 3rd and 8 and while it was an easy throw, it was probably "harder" than several similarly wide open shots he missed last week. Nobody at any position made a fucking play all night against Kentucky and there were still plenty to be had scheme flaws or not.
  21. I think Sark can make it easier on the players for sure but how this game goes is flat out going to come down to how the wildly inconsistent offense executes per usual. If the OL isn't a complete disaster and Arch can hit the easy throws we can score 30 on offense. Or we could look like we did against UTEP, FL and UK and score 10. Who knows what we're going to get. I'm a little nervous about whether the Defense can continue to hold up. 4 straight away from home, losing Taafe, playing 80+ plays last week.... They (MSU) know all of that and will absolutely play the TOP game and try to win it in the 4th quarter against a tired defense. This is a game where getting a 2 score lead early and making them chase would be really helpful.
  22. Made it to first 2 periods with my kid before taking off as way too late on a school night. Fuck the NHL for allowing TV (and f'n ESPN + at that, not even national) to dictate late start times. 8:15 puck drop for a Thursday October game is ridiculous (and 2nd time already). Really devalues season tix when they pull that crap. That being said, I thought Stars actually played a lot better overall. Weak call leading to a 5 on 3 goal and then LA's 2nd goal was the epitome of puck luck. We needed to finish some of those opportunities particularly in the first. Oh well. And yeah, got home to watch end of game and OT and the horns down celebration from a Swede was......something.
  23. If it's purely a character/culture problem why is he still on the team? The only thing that makes any sense is he is serving some kind of non-public suspension or just to keep the brother/family happy, they have let him stay on the team "in good standing" preserving a redshirt. Is he on travel squad? If not has to be one of those. I can't imagine he's good enought to be actual answer or this all would have been sorted out, but I also think surely he would have gotten some snaps last week as Brooks was flailing (and Stroh "out") had he actually been available.
  24. The Neto thing is just weird. Absolutely has to be more to the story there. I doubt he's 'good' or it never would have gotten to this point but clearly something had to happen that isn't pure performance/ability related to go from starter to zero snaps at the absolute worst position on the team.
  25. It's just unfathomable we are relying on a known project true freshman as starting LG. Not because of devastating injuries to multiple players in the 2 deep at the position but because apparently that's the best we have on the roster. It's the single biggest failure in personnel evaluation that I can recall in years and certainly in the NIL/portal era. It is 100% a fireable offense for whomever made the determination that we are fine with what he had a C/G in the offseason. I would be willing to bet our offense is 7-10 PPG better with simply average to slightly above average play at C/G, and if we had a plus starter at LG, we could probably live with the center play we have. But the combination essentially made this season a failure from day 1.
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