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Bodacious Bevo

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  1. Pros of 10 days between games: player health, time for travel plans Con: matchup thread has gone to shit before a normal game week thread would have been posted
  2. … wouldn’t this math have put ASU up 31-24 with 2 minutes left? Tennessee has a really good front seven too. Difference for us needs to come from the secondary. I personally don’t put any stock in the Michigan game. Ohio State care more about sending a message than playing their best and got burned for it. They seemed to have learned their lesson. This is a lot of anger considering a decision hasn’t been made yet. They’ll likely be told “No” and “Too bad” too. Hell, just because Sankey asked doesn’t mean it’s being considered.
  3. There’s a policy process term for this: policy bubble, when suppressed change in a policy area finally occurs and over-corrects so that the solution to a problem becomes a problem itself. It’s part of a larger policy process theory called punctuated equilibrium theory, which is a way of explaining why most governance systems change very slowly with occasional periods of large, explosive changes (i.e., why you don’t often see moderate, reasonable change in government). PET looks at agenda-setting and information processing to show how the desires and values of the general population get distorted in the policy-making process. In the case of CFB, the NCAA was a policy monopoly. They had complete control over the rules of collegiate athletics. Anybody that wanted to create change had to do it through their system. They used that power to dampen such efforts. Grievances with the system slowly accumulated as the difference between the NCAA’s rules and the wants of players/fans/coaches/etc grew. Eventually people found an alternative way to create change: the courts. The introduction of a new policy venue opened up all of collegiate athletics’ institutional rules to change and attracted tons of new policy actors: TV networks, collectives, agents, private equity, etc. They all have their own agendas that may or may not align with what the original stakeholders wanted. The processes of negative feedback that used to suppress change were replaced by positive feedback that encourage it. We’ve completely flown past the moderate change that was originally desired and find ourselves in a policy bubble.
  4. I’m not sure Arnold is better than Thorne. Thorne just has an uncanny ability to throw horribly disastrous INTs. Arnold can do that too and adds in fumbles to match
  5. Can’t wait for Brauny’s next post where he cries because Braxton was at his wedding
  6. Hugh Freeze is worried they won’t throw enough interceptions for his liking
  7. The really fun part of the arguments about the value of a degree vs. name recognition for Maalik is that it completely ignores the single most important factor in the entire deal: what the guy actually wants to do Please shut the fuck up about it
  8. Gen Z: the first generation to need guidance and to learn the value of hard work
  9. From what I recall of the ‘23 DT class, we liked Mitchell as a high-upside take but hated only signing one DT
  10. That makes sense. I guess they wouldn’t have access to the university’s contract management system. Hadn’t put it all together in my mind.
  11. I’m surprised to see TOF uses opendorse. And to the tune of $622K. My understanding is that their value-add is access to athletes for people that want to do NIL deals. Am I wrong on that?
  12. Personally I’d have Taaffe as a round 3-4 guy with the important caveat of not having all-22 so DBs are hard to grade
  13. Plus Texas has a higher total tax burden than Oklahoma. It’s a more than fair price to pay to not live in Oklahoma, of course.
  14. “Yeah, the shrooms really make my typing make zero since. I haven't taken any in like a week ans a half, I had to stop because I was seeing all kinds of rfindsm things. It made it extremely difficult to watch the games, so I needed to stop. Not to mention I began having bad trips and thinking too much about my divorce and lost my furry best frienda. I knew it was time to let” I’m not going to subject myself to reading S2Y posts in order to find/quote the post, but the fact it was difficulty watching the games due to hallucinations that made someone reflect on their drug use is fucking hilarious
  15. lol I only reference PMs because it’s easier to check dates there than to search for the discussions on there
  16. Something that the aggies seem to universally misunderstand is that Texas' NIL efforts were not a response to 5-7. They weren't born out of desperation, to make up for a coach's poor performance, or to gear us up for the conference move. They were purely motivated out of a desire to be the best and to seize the moment. If the early movers had waited for external motivation, it would've been far too late to pull it off. I have pm proof of the work being done going back to July 29, 2021. That's months before Sark's first game and 7 days after the SEC leak, which means the work started long before. It takes a lot of time and effort to build something new. Especially when you intend to do it well. Until the aggies accept that sweat equity is still more valuable than the dollar, they'll stay little bro. I'll let the guys on here correct me if I'm wrong about any of the above.
  17. Part of what I'd like to see in the DB portal work is finding a gunner. Kern isn't great but we're also suffering from losing two elite gunners. I thought the punt that got a touchback Saturday was actually pretty good and could have been downed inside the five if the guy timed his jump better. To me, this is much more important than signing DTs, so I am therefore not going to be saddened by the news of our pets heads falling off at all. I'm compartmentalizing the shit out of that and reserving any meltdowns for after our portal search for gunners.
  18. The issue this year was schedule inequity. Need a pod or division setup. I think the major conferences could also look into making the last week of the year adjustable to create a semifinal system. Then the CFP needs to fix their seeding issue (AQs should be for entry, not a bye, and re-seed after each round). Two minor fixes and the major complaints from this year are gone and CFB is in a great place (NIL/portal will take longer to sort). But keep conference championships. A sport with 130+ teams needs more than 1 definition of success.
  19. I don't know the best place to put this so it's going here. A&M was hellbent on taking away our screen game and they did so very effectively. Not without cost, though. They really sold out and it contributed to our success on the ground. Here's a breakdown of our first TD drive. I haven't gotten to rewatch the rest so it may not hold later in the game. [22:20] 1st and 10: #21 keys on the RB pass immediately and blows it up for a loss. Well played. [22:53] 2nd and 13: Look at how 18 stays on Helm. He almost looks like a QB spy. Helm was clearly one of their keys, which is smart. [23:36] 3rd and 10: #21, #26 and the nickel immediately chase the flats. They actually blew their coverage completely and Moore was open if we pick up the stunt. Instead, Quinn runs for 25 on a bum ankle because half their defense is in the opposite flat. [26:00] 1st and 10: #3 is the one assigned to Helm. He and the rest of the defense are ready for that screen. Well done. [26:35] 2nd and 14: #18 creates a massive hole for Wisner off counter by taking bad steps to the flat. [27:02] 1st and 10: Inside zone goes for 11 instead of 4 because the nickel completely bites on some very basic eye candy in the flat. [27:25] 1st and 10: 1 yard loss and Scourton plays it well so there's probably nothing there even if it's a good throw and catch. But again, Sark is trying to punish overpursuit of the RB with a tunnel screen off RB motion. The rest of the drive is pretty standard but I thought this was some good cat-and-mouse between Elko and Sark. I think it's important to acknowledge the space the screen game gets us even when the screens themselves aren't working. The two passes to the flats went for -7 yards but you could argue A&M's overpursuit contributed to 50 yards via vacated space on Quinn's scramble and the two Wisner runs.
  20. Their offense is a lot different than it was in September so I think we can copy/paste Notre Dame One of the big elements to me is that our DEs are so athletic. Simmons and Sorrell have both made plays this year where they crash down on a zone-read but recover to bring down the QB. Moore and Burke aren’t the same level of athlete Moore is showing great football IQ and Burke is long and seemed to learn how to play the option live in Tuscaloosa last year. We’re not a team that should lose to options plays. LBs still have some issues with run fits but not enough to really cost us
  21. Lol Pate said almost nothing from your first two paragraphs. He used the call reversal from our game as an example of a bad reffing system. The only comment he made on the game itself was that the refs changing the call didn’t impact the outcome. So, really the opposite of what you’re saying he said Also, he issued a correction - the OU/Bama refs were not the same crew as our game against UGA
  22. Can’t speak to other schools but we did it in 95-96 when we won the last SWC championship and the first B12 conference championship.
  23. Man, I fucking hate the ‘meaningless games’ talk we see all across college football. Setting aside the rivalry aspect and playoff talk - this game is for a spot in the conference championship game. How does that not matter? How do we watch this team use conference championship elimination as a motivator for six weeks in a row then decide it doesn’t really matter before the biggest game of the year? Soft
  24. “Longhorns are throwing a lot more NIL his way, and it happened (timing-wise) right after we named him a five star.” Now I’m waiting on all their subscribers to turn on them every time they name an LSU commit a five star
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