Paul Wesley

Really? Tech seeking to be 4-0 outside of the Texas game For TCU, 3-1 Louisiana is 3-0, favored to be 4-0 after tonight. I mean, we've got deficiencies and issues all over the field, but if you're talking "body of work" to this point, there's no way you'll find 25 teams with a better resume.

Halftime Tech 17 WV 0

WV is short their incisors, several molars, and literacy.

End of first Q Tech 14 WV 0

Yeah, we had a lot of short yardage situations where I'd like to see us with Roschon in the wildcat and Bijan beside him. Maybe have KR come across for jet sweep potential. Have Wiley in there for a little short jump ball. Instead, we're just running all these straight-ahead handoffs, we're not giving the defense a single thing to defend except Bijan... We're just counting on good O-line play, and that's not a great bet for us. ... and yeah, I know he made a couple superhuman runs to get first downs and ice the game, but our performance in the last 6 or 8 short-yardage situations is kind of shitty given what we've got on the roster. We could have easily scored anther 12-15 points by just converting a few red-zone 3rd and 1.

Also, covered (for me anyway) I'm just sayin'

Yeah, that was my thought on that drive too. TCU is just selling out 100% to chase Bijan. We need to take some of these free 5-10 yards on keepers and slow them down a little bit.

I'm pretty sure he thought, "This is way too easy. Letting me through unblocked... must be a screen." Except, no... no screen. Just terrible O line.

Yeah, a flagrant take-down. I remember some NBA coach bitching about a Pat Riley defense -- I think when he was with the Heat -- and saying something like, "It's genius. They just foul you on every possession and they know refs are just going to let some of it go." That is definitely happening with that TCU right tackle. He's just doing a desperation take-down on every passing play.

How do you un-call a flagrant hold? They were about to be in 2nd and 25.

100%

announcers can fuck right off

Naga…. Naga… NagonnaplayatTexas

I have decided that one of the burdens of being a Texas fan is that nearly every game you watch, the other team will have a really good player who Texas didn't offer. And the announcers will mention it relentlessly for 3+ hours. It's tiresome. I mean, we have about 20 scholarships each year, and there are thousands of high school seniors who would come here if offered. The chance of the Texas staff picking *exactly* the 20 best players who want to come here every year... is ZERO percent. Getting the best 20 out of those thousands is statistically FAR more improbable than picking a perfect NCAA bracket. So you're going to line up against really good players who you didn't offer. Every year. Nearly every week. It's not a fucking storyline that deserves the amount of air time that it gets. That said, coaches have to do a reasonably good job evaluating talent. I mean, we went the better part of a decade with Case McCoy, Jerrod Heard, and Tyrone Swoopes lining up under center, not to mention a decade of poor O-line play, and that's kind of inexcusable given our resources.

A friend has one of those mahogany Martins. They're nice guitars. Celery, I love the sound of the Matchless. Remind me what model you have?

Yeah, like Boom says, "Nevermind" was a milepost kind of album, and there haven't been very many of those. "Sgt Peppers" signaled what was possible with modern recording gear. Van Halen's first record featured a new level of guitar virtuosity, and ushered in 13 years of spandex and hairspray (In the words of Bill Burr, "When I was a kid, you dressed like a girl and sang about the devil. Now *that* was music."). The hair metal that VH inspired was the dominant sub-genre of rock music right up until the opening chords of "Teen Spirit." Immediately, the hairspray and the spandex -- all of it was over. The sound, the clothes, the haircuts, the cities that represented the cutting-edge ethos -- everything changed overnight. "Nevermind" did that. I would add Van Halen's debut to Boom's list of albums that changed the course of musical history. My own .02 as an aside here: Just like VH brought on a parade of terrible imitators (Warrant, Poison, etc), "Nevermind" brought on a parade of no-talent copycats with way too many layered dirty guitars (Creed, Nickelback). Ugh. Anyway, "In Utero" was hugely anticipated as a follow-up, but the band didn't want to make Nevermind 2. Instead, they worked with a different producer/engineer (Steve Albini), whose sound was far less polished. I think the fact that the band pushed back against the label and chose to take a more low-fi, DIY path... it still inspires a lot of rock fans to proclaim it as the band's best work. Personally, I think the songs on "In Utero" take a big step back, and I'm not wild about the Albini sound.

I thought the same thing earlier in the year... How awesome would RoJo have been as a wishbone QB?

I thought he'd do great things at UT, but he had some facepalm plays (TCU, LSU) and just sort of fizzled. Transferring out and starting over again was probably best for everyone. And it's not like we were left with an empty running back room. I'd definitely rather see the Robinsons and RoJo get the carries, and the mop-up touches can go to Brooks.

"Disinterested" has seen the same evolution, and I think the new (and historically incorrect) definition is almost entirely due to sportscasters constantly using it to describe low-energy and low-effort players.

My favorite thread to see bumped to the top. Google search lead me to this guitarworld page, but you'll have to click through some pop up ads: https://www.guitarworld.com/gear/the-best-reverb-pedals-for-guitar I have the first iteration of Hall of Fame. It's fine. I probably don't want to spend the time and money to replace it... but if I had it to do over again, I would pick something that 1) keeps small footprint, 2) has reasonably simple interface, and 3) doesn't require high-amperage power (my power supply limits the number of thirsty digital pedals that can live together at once, and the "reverb" spot isn't gonna be one of those). But anyway, I'm not buying any more pedals. I'm not. ...although that Neunabar Immerse looks super cool.

I'm seeing Texas -3.5

Their win streak (and top-5 ranking) were fool's gold. It was stupid to throw so much $$$$$$ at Jimbo. They scored 1 TD vs a terrible Colorado team. 1 TD today vs Hogs. 1 first-half TD vs Kent State.

I make it a point not to reward nonsense with clicks, whether it's music, sports, movies, or politics. So thanks for cutting and pasting. Just to state more of the obvious: The name of the magazine is pretty much synonymous with "rock and roll." So it's just a no-win situation when they bend over backwards to be diverse and inclusive. It would be like "Ebony" or "Jet" magazines making their own list by sending out their survey to old white guys... who stack the deck with Jimmie Rodgers, Woody Guthrie, and Metallica. You'd get an equally silly list. I'm open to hearing poll results from surveys, but this ought to be labeled as "2021 industry survey." For Rolling Stone to stick their name on it to get a few short-term clicks... I think it just stinks of "LOOK AT ME!" and illustrates their complete and total irrelevance to modern music.

... and yes, the Chappelle stories and impersonation are addressed.