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Bodacious Bevo

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  1. They also were able to clearly identify the matchup with some pre-snap motion. I was really surprised we didn't check into a different coverage. Having your LB show man coverage on the RB before the snap and not adjusting is asking for trouble. We just got really lucky Milroe missed the throw.
  2. The important part of those throws (deep over the middle against man or quarters) is distance from the WR, not direction. If the receiver has to adjust their angle a bit, that's ok. The important thing is that it hits them in stride. Good throw + good adjustment = great play. Both of those deep shots hit the WRs in the hands and left the defensive backs with zero chance to impact the result. They weren't bad throws made right by the WRs. Go watch some Mahomes to Hill highlights. Or any of the other elite NFL QB/WR combos. "Fuck it, [WR] down there somewhere" is a bit of a meme but also highlights that great scheme will get WRs in 1 on 1s with plenty of space so that throws don't have to be perfect.
  3. Incredible call by Sark
  4. Oh, the comment about you hoping for a loss was entirely personal and had nothing to do with last year's schedule (I don't actually dislike you as a poster, sorry, just the negativity gets old sometimes) Back to the game: Sark's calling a great game. I of course hope to sustain some more drives and wear them down. That'll do wonders for the run game. I still think our offense is advantaged against their defense (we're hitting deep stuff and have the quick and outside game to fall back on). If the defense can stay fresh and disciplined we got this
  5. What were the full season stats and not only losses? (relavent given that this isn't a loss yet as much as you might hope)
  6. We were a very good 3Q team last year. 4Q no, but you're generalizing past what evidence actually supports
  7. Lol Will Reichard is good and he's made kicks against us two years in a row but this post is really funny given Saban's historical results at kicker
  8. very on brand post Let's go win this. Ten more points might put it out of reach for Bama.
  9. Sooo can we change this back to the aggy thread? Let this thread live it's best life
  10. Y’all, they definitely prepped for Rice. Teams don’t just completely skip opponents. Look at it another way: prep is a skill in and of itself. There’s a routine to game week. Watching film, installing the game plan, practice, etc. The game vs Rice is practice for Bama and prepping for Rice is practice for prepping against Bama. They’re not going to sacrifice that, especially when Bama has two news coordinators and a new QB, so all that prep work last week could have been a waste depending on what Bama does in week 1.
  11. Here’s the OB scrimmage notes
  12. I agree it's unlikely. It's just what I think would be the best way forward. At least each state would be equally represented in the governing body so maybe that could help with consensus-building. In my dream world, some of the SEC states like Texas, Alabama, and Florida come together for it and then start politicking smaller states like Missouri and Arkansas into joining. I have no idea about existing entities. The NCAA and conferences will only ever be able to govern around player eligibility and school participation (e.g., bowl bans, scholarships) in NCAA or conference events. And I have no idea where their authority actually falls for NIL. I don't think the end goal should be to replace the NCAA. It could happen with a conglomerate of the conferences, CFP, and March Madness (if the last two are even separate from the NCAA) but then there would still need to be other organizations that step up to handle the national championships for other sports. And it would also mean the conferences would start having to do a lot of stuff they don't currently. At least based on my understanding of how all these organizations operate.
  13. FWIW, as someone studying public administration and policy, I think the best way forward with NIL is through interstate compacts or uniform state laws. Interstate compacts are the most legally binding form of cooperation between states. It's basically a contract between states in which they agree to work together on an issue. It be a common set of laws that each state must follow or the compact forms a governing body (agency or commission) that governs the issue between the states. The states cannot unilaterally decide to leave the compact. Uniform state laws allow states to opt in to a set of uniform standards. A compact would be ideal but it might be too hard to bring a state like Missouri on board. The dynamics around inducements are different in states with a single university compared to those that have competing interests for recruits.
  14. Makes sense. I have no idea how it will play out once those challenges actually come. I'm actually really interested to see how these challenges start popping up. One weird thing about the bill is they make it all about a student attending the school, not participating on the team like the Texas NIL bill. So to your point, if a kid is a highly ranked sophomore so they lock him up in a contract, but then he falls down the rankings or gets injured and enrolls as a normal student, there's going to be some unhappy folks.
  15. Yeah, part of the confusion here is that we're using our Texas NIL understanding for a different state. The Missouri legislature is very open about the purpose of the law being to help Mizzou and other Missouri universities (are there others?) in recruiting. Inducements are illegal in Texas but that doesn't matter in Missouri. Linux already posted the text about it. I guess it might go against whatever the current NCAA rules or guidelines are but that doesn't seem like it matters. There are a couple clauses that I think specifically exempt both collectives and athletes from NCAA and conference rules. Here's the relevant portion for high schoolers. Altogether, the intent of the bill reads to me that a recruit can start earning money as soon as they sign a written agreement that they will enroll in a Missouri college or university. Right now, we conceptualize that as meaning letter of intent or financial aid agreement because that is what exists through the NCAA. But I think the bill opens up a legal course to sign a new type contract between only the athlete and the paying party in which the athlete agrees to enroll at a Missouri university and earns money contingent upon that enrollment. The 8/28 start date (might be misremembering the exact date) only matters this cycle because that's when the law starts. I imagine this will be a bigger advantage in the future because I think they'll be able to start paying HS athletes anytime they want. So that couple months of a head start could end up being 4 years if they think a kid is good enough. Here's the bill. Relevant portion starts on page 8: https://documents.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills231/hlrbillspdf/1211S.10T.pdf
  16. It's pretty lazy to not read the article and shit on it, even if it is Ian Boyd. His premise isn't that Majors is the problem. The title isn't declarative. It's a question - one that's pretty common in the Texas message board space. And his answer is that the issues were more about assignments and propped up when we were playing defenses that did a lot of slanting and post-snap movement: "In none of those games was Majors’ inability to bully big defensive tackles the issue. Problems always centered around “who’s got who” execution when D-linemen would move after the snap and slant across gaps. In a related story, Texas was using first-year starter and true sophomore Hayden Conner as the left guard and true freshmen Cole Hutson and D.J. Campbell at right guard."
  17. I think y'all are reading way too much into this DL depth chart stuff
  18. I'd say it's pretty easy. Bama's the only guaranteed top 25 team. We get the 3 and 4 teams in the conference by odds at home. Bama and ISU are the only games outside the state. The Big 12 will have a couple teams that are better than expected but it's generally a down year.
  19. Nah man, they didn't have bad culture, just a bad case of the flu
  20. I propose that all discussion of C personnel should be banned forever, effective immediately.
  21. Have they put out anything on how the freshmen linebackers are looking? I'm very curious to see if they managed to find something in either.
  22. FTFY Not that I'm arguing against you. I'm indifferent. Let's just not make this into a bigger deal than it needs to be.
  23. Also I haven't seen this posted here
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