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Oh look, another washed up SWTSU dropout compensating online. Don't worry, you can always finish out at A&M Galveston, they'll let you wear the aggy ring and everything.

I know you think you're being funny, but you're just being a dick.

TRIGGER WARNING - Horns Down at 0:56 mark.

Of course. We had our shot at spoiling the Sooners chances, one more Sooner championship and Heisman trophy doesn't hurt our recruiting nearly as much as the national bias against us and the Big 12.

I think our RB rotation is methodical and reasonable if you care about player development more than winning this year at the cost of winning in 2019 and 2020. If Ingram is good enough to be a high draft pick, then he'll be gone after three years. First and second round RB picks historically ramp up their production over time. Most are third backs their freshman year and get well less than 100 carries. We're actually playing Ingram more than we should because he's so much better than the guys that were on the roster when he got here.

Sam actually trusts his line enough to step up into the pocket instead of taking off at the first sign of pressure. Anderson and Cosmi have been studs at OT.

You would be correct. https://www.footballstudyhall.com/2017/6/1/15723948/college-football-coaching-underachievers-overachievers Check out who landed number three on the overachiever list.

Wow, these stats are a bit sobering. Tom Herman is good at getting teams to over-perform based on their advanced stats, but one would think that we just HAVE to get more explosive on offense and disruptive on defense to continue our momentum beyond this season. I don't understand how we can be so good at creating turnovers yet so bad at generating and stopping big plays.

I agree that Herman can be a little autistic, and I think some of the stunts he pulled last year from the Urban motivational bag of tricks bordered on hazing and didn't really work with the roster he inherited. Urban is a classic narcissist and master manipulator, and Tom just can't pull that shit off. He dialed it back once he won the team over with the Missouri win, and team morale seems to as high as it's been since the Colt years. Tom also seems to be actually taking advantage of having Mack Brown around as a mentor in dealing with the pressures of coaching at Texas, and he's getting better with the press. This win streak has done wonders to win over the Austin sports media who, in keeping with modern journalism trends, were more interested in hot takes and playing gotcha than giving Tom any sort of honeymoon to get his feet under him. The stank of mediocrity from late Mack Brown and Charlie Strong is starting to lift, and Tom is starting to come off less defensive and more insightful. As far as the coaching, the staff's stubbornness with strength and conditioning, devotion to scheme, and rigid practice habits are paying dividends. We're improving game to game, particularly on offense. The defense has overcome some major personnel changes and not missed a beat, despite a lack of upperclassmen star power on that side of the ball. Special teams is improving in consistency, even though all our ST skill players are true freshmen and make their share freshmen mistakes. Not bad for a team I was hoping would be 3-3 at this point in the season, when in fact we're 5-1.

Double post.

Herman diagnosed this problem as the offense failing to execute with a slower tempo during his press conference on Monday. I think this is a good way to look at it, given that Sam and the O-Line tend to function best when the tempo is higher. Hopefully we'll have more time to work on getting better playing with a lead as the season goes on.

Never mind, bad info.

HOLY FUCK, new allegations!

You wait until next year because there isn't a significant upgrade on campus worth burning a redshirt on. If Sam can't figure it out by the end of the year and prove himself to be a valuable veteran going into his third year, then next year's starting position will be wide open.

Nobody thought Colt would be the quarterback he proved to be his third and forth year after eight starts. Sam's decision making hass vastly improved from last year, as has our offensive line. He's making his pre-snap reading and making adjustments at the line this year much better than last year. If the line continues to get better and he continues to get support from the running game, this year will be about how he develops making multiple reads post-snap. I want to see how effective we can be if Sam makes it to the point where he can get to his second or third read before scrambling out of the pocket before I write him off as a bust. Eight starts just isn't enough time to expect that development to have happened yet. Assuming Sam stays healthy and plays the whole or most of the season (which isn't a given), these are questions for next year, not this year.

We were able to exploit the middle of the field a little with the tight end toward the end, and a we ran a couple of drag and slant routes early. But it seems that the bulk of our offense assumes that the middle of the field will not be open, which is often the case in the Big 12 where base defenses are often in the nickle and run a lot of Cover 3.

1800 carries is an incredibly high bar though. There are 57 players in history that have more than 1700 career rushing attempts, and only 40 with over 2000. Of the 40 with over 2000 attempts, 15 are in the Hall of Fame and 6 were active last season (Frank Gore, Adrian Peterson, Matt Forte, Marshawn Lynch, LeSean McCoy, Chris Johnson).

Porter's problem wasn't technique, it was talent. He's not fast enough to make anyone miss and not strong enough to break a tackle. When the O-line did its job, he would get just as many yards as there were blocks and then he'd be dropped. You either believe that the coaches were right and reasonable in deciding whether Warren deserved more snaps over Porter or you don't. Personally, I believe sometimes more talented players ride the bench because they refuse to be coachable, and that a first year coach should worry more about establishing a culture than sacrificing culture to get the most talent on the field.

But not better numbers than Carter and Young, which is why he was moved to TE/H-Back. He also led the team's RBs in lost yards, even though he was third in carries behind Porter and Young. Porter sucked, but he did what he was coached to do, unlike Warren. Once the freshmen could be trusted to hold on to the ball (something Carter still can't quite do), Warren was out of the rotation. If he stayed with the team and wasn't still at H-Back, he'd be behind Young this year too, with Carter and Ingram breathing down his neck.

Let's not get into revisionist history with Warren. Everybody was crying that he wasn't getting snaps over Porter, until he did, and we got to watch him dance in the backfield because he couldn't find the crease. Warren is a tall, heavy back who runs upright. He takes a long time to get moving at full speed and he has to run people over because he can't change direction once he gets rolling. If something doesn't change in his running style, he's going to get absolutely hammered with injuries in the NFL. There's a reason that almost every star running backs in the NFL isn't over 6'1" or heavier than 230lbs.

I hadn't really thought about how the RS rules are going to help us with QB depth. No more worrying about cross-training Heard as emergency third-string QB or relying on a walk-on. Plus you have the option of actually being able to evaluate future talent in real-game situations without burning their shirts. It's a great rule change for everyone, but I think it could really benefit us, especially given Herman's propensity for banging up QBs as runners.

Three car pileup that leads to rear driver getting his ass beat? On July 4th? Yeah, sounds like the alleged victim in this whole thing might be lucky he didn't go to jail. DA might be waiting on blood from the hospital to charge the Jeep driver with intoxication assault. That'd be enough to justify a beating,