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Wait, are we talking about porn? I'm pretty sure I've seen this movie.

I was thinking more along the lines of refinery explosion.

I noticed several years ago that ~80% of the douchebags I know are from the Dallas area.

Soooooo.... they are terrible and we should win convincingly?

I'm still amazed LSU hired Saban after one good season at MSU. He was two games over .500 his first 4 years and then went 9-2.

When did John Bolton and Wilford Brimley have a love child?

Didn't folks say that about Bama last year?

BON was good when Peter Bean was writing. Probably the best Texas football blog at the time. This was when Barking Carnival was still Recruiticosm. Then Wescott Eberts became the lead writer and ... he's an idiot. It hasn't been worth reading for years.

This feels like one of those games where the score isn't totally lopsided, but the outcome will never be in doubt. I expect a 14 point LSU win, but I'm hoping for a 52-10 type game.

Apparently, no and yes. Or both - he's Schrodinger's DC. Or a quantum DC and there is a probability that he is and isn't.

Didn't Jerry Sandusky go to prison for that?

When in doubt, hire Auburn's DC. This really isn't that complicated.

Harsin: Is there anything I should know? You have electricity? Running water? Ark St.: We're in Arkansas. Harsin: Close enough, I accept!

Didn't Clay Jennings come in and torpedo our secondary? There was some sort of Diaz/Akina-level disconnect there.

You mean Ossai shouldn't be covering receivers 15 yards down field? That's crazy talk.

And he saved 10% or more by switching to Geico?

Justin Fuente should probably be on the list. His HC experience was similar to Strong's at that point. That was probably too early for PJ Fleck, but he may have just appeared on the radar. I have to say, I really wanted Gary Andersen at the time. I thought he was going to be a special coach.

I'm not sure Viagra will help in this situation, but I guess it can't hurt either.

I just looked up defenses that Ash has coordinated. Numbers are for total defense from S&P then FEI. Wiscy: (34, 46 in 2010 before he arrived) 2011: 36, 48 2012: 12, 18 11/8 the year after he left Arkansas: (80/64 in 2012 before he arrived) 2013: 80, 99 ranked 20/12 the year after he left OSU: (44/57 the year before he arrived) 2014: 24, 14 2015: 6, 7 8/3 in 2016 after he left I don't know what to make of his one year in Arkansas. His teams improved at Wiscy and OSU. That said, there was no drop off after he left and significant improvement at Arkansas. Without knowing more about each situation, it seems like Ash is a competent DC but doesn't seem like a defensive wizard.

Didn't Traylor coach tight ends and special teams when he was here? We could use both of those.

Seriously? If you consistently fail to execute, it's either a scheme problem or a talent problem. Against Baylor, ISU, and TCU, you can't blame a lack of talent. The defense looks much better since Orlando stopped all the crazy blitzing and we seem to be playing a lot more man coverage. We couldn't hold up in coverage long enough for the blitzers to reach the quarterback. You could call that poor execution, but after it happens over and over it indicates a problem with the play calls. It's gotten better, but we've still got issues. On Baylor's first touchdown drive, they consistently overloaded the left side and we didn't adjust. The ran it 6 straight times, I believe all to the left. I'm not sure why they stopped running it to the left because we didn't stop it. You can't blame a corner for not holding the edge when they have 2 tight ends and a pulling lineman outflanking the d-line and linebackers. At one point they threw a wide receiver screen where we effectively had one DB covering two receivers and what I assume was another DB tasked with covering a receiver and setting the edge. With the wide receivers out near the sideline, there's no way he can do both effectively. Those are play calls targeting the structure of our defense. Similarly, we haven't been able to run the last two weeks and our offense hasn't done much outside of two-minute drills. Yes, we played a couple of good defenses, but the other teams know what we're going to run based on alignment. Last week, one of the only things we did well was outlet passes to the running backs. Baylor was prepared for that and our only effective response was Sam running for his life. As the season goes on, a larger percentage of our offensive success comes from broken plays - the low snap that Sam completed for a first down, the near safety, the long run at the end of the half. That indicates a problem with our scheme.

I think Herman and his staff are really bad a game planning on offense and defense. He seemed legitimately surprised in the post game press conference that we weren't able to move the ball. He said something like, "I think, no, I know we made good some good tweaks to the run game this week..." Then he said they were rushing 3 and dropping 8 and what could do against that? Every week he seems surprised that teams target our weaknesses. It's really bizarre.

There's no way a player punched a coach and wasn't suspended/kicked off the team.

Somewhere, Greg Davis is beaming with pride.

Cowardice and overly confident is a bad combination. He seems surprised when other teams scout him. Against TCU he said he didn't expect them to pass as much as they did. Why not? We suck against the pass. I forget the team (Kansas?), but he said he was surprised they blitzed as much despite a clear pattern of struggling to pick up stunts. This staff doesn't appear to do any self scouting. He gets out coached every week and is still convinced he's the smartest guy in the room. He's the coaching equivalent of the Dunning-Kruger effect.