Texasrocks

Counter-point, Tim Beck, Drew Mehringer, and Corby Meekins.

Fuck it, 11-1 with a loss to ISU on the road. The defense should be great. DL and the secondary are stacked and LB should be much improved. A red-shirt freshman QB is always an adventure, but... Bijan. We don't want or need Card to carry the team the way Sam was expected to. We need decent QB play and a couple of receivers to step up. If that happens, we're good. We've got talent. Not Bama/Ohio State/Clemson talent, but enough to run the table in the Big 12. If Sark comes up with half-way decent game plans we should have an edge against everyone but OU. I assume we'll slip up somewhere. It all depends on Sark. I was disappointed with the hire initially and I'm still not entirely sold on him. UW was awful when he got there and he was apparently wasted the entire time at USC so it's hard to take much away from his time at either place. He put together a great staff though and the players seem to have responded to the new approach. I'm feeling optimistic now, but that could be the koolaid talking.

Some of y'all are crazy. The first week or two of the season, I'll be ecstatic to watch literally any game that's on. Montana State vs Grambling? I'm watching the whole damn thing like it's the freaking championship game.

Say she was drinking a Coors Light and there will be a Surly fatwa.

I immediately thought of Jordy Nelson when I saw the post above. 15 years ago he would have ended up at KSU and none of us would have cared until he scored 3 TDs against Texas. Then Mack would remind everyone that winning is hard.

Hey, my parents died when I was 10. Want to talk about that next? /The Wedding Singer.

They really wanted that full circle narrative. BOB uses words. Bama uses words. Coincidence? I think not.

Commentator says Sark will run the ball all day if you can't stop it and shows a clip of a big run against Notre Dame. The next play is a pass.

Translation: This isn't College Station, stay away from coach's girlfriend.

Also, why would we sit Overshown because we know what he can do and play Bijan.

Becton fixed all that. He now has explosive forearms.

In their defense, Wikipedia can't seem to find Bijan either.

Not to discount the blocking, but I imagine more than one DB was content to be locked up with 200 pound receiver than get trucked by Earl.

I'm kind of surprised Bijan only has 87k followers. I figured being on heisman watch lists would get him more followers. Outside of someone like Suh, I don't see linemen getting huge numbers of followers. Joey Bosa probably would have done pretty well. Still, QBs, RBs, WRs, and the occasional DB who also does kick returns will always have a significant advantage.

Put the dropped interception against Tech on the menu and then tell me where and how much money to send you.

This has no bearing on whether he's an idiot or not, but D'onta is 12 minutes younger.

One year it was calves. Everyone's calves looked HUGE! And one year forearms were a thing. I think that that was when Wylie first came in. Now everyone's explosive.

Shiplap, bitch slap. Waco's got something for everybody. Except maybe the Big 12.

Nebraska could get that elusive 4th conference win per year.

I'll watch this once it's been posted 20 times. So in like 10 minutes.

Why do both kicker's look like coal miners?

Texas has been in the Big 12 for a couple of decades without turning into midwestern corn farmers or Oklahoma meth addicts. I think we'll be fine.

The ACC can't raise it's ceiling (unless it adds ND), but it could raise its floor. Work on a partnership with the B1G - set up as many permanent/semi-permanent cross-conference rivalries as possible. Something like Pitt vs PSU as the first game of the year each season for both teams. Ohio State vs Florida State, Clemson vs Michigan, etc. With an expanded playoff and automatic bids, there's not as big a penalty for scheduling tougher non-conference games. If they can drop a few teams, that's even better. They may not get Texas vs OU, but at least they can avoid Wake Forest vs ... anyone. The irate 8 could go the partnership route as well. Ditch the Kansas schools and Baylor (because fuck them), add whoever makes sense from the AAC to get enough decent football programs (Cincinnati, Houston?). Then use Texas and OU as leverage to get the SEC to commit to a long-term partnership. Texas and OU get to leave at the end of the year in exchange for the SEC dropping its late season FCS games to play teams from the new conference. Texas and A&M would still be playing the Texas teams every now and then anyway and I'm sure OU will still play OSU so its not a huge ask. Arkansas and Mizzou probably wouldn't mind an extra Texas game every other year. Promise the new conference 6-10 home/away pairings each year and the value of the conference goes up while the SEC gets recruiting trips to Texas and better non-conference scheduling. Do the same thing with the B1G by taking advantage of geography to get deals with Ohio State, Oregon, Nebraska and anyone else that wants to recruit Texas. The big name schools get regular recruiting trips to Houston/DFW and the new conference get's high-value TV games.

The right meth to mobile home mix to pay for a $40 million buyout may not be the right mix for an $80 million buyout. Shits complicated.