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Steelers Roll Left

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  1. So the #1 recruit, aka “highest graded QB in the history of recruiting rankings”, Quinn Ewers, was unable to win the starting job at Ohio State, transfers, and now “rumors” are starting to leak that he might be on the verge of losing QB competition at Texas to a QB that was benched the season prior (as a freshman himself to be fair). While it’s always possible such a player blooms when finally actually put into a game since we haven’t really seen this yet other than a pair of handoff snaps in garbage time at Ohio State, we’re starting to see a pattern established at two schools and under two different coaching staffs. So now everyone on this board is struggling to make sense of it all from the outside based on leaks and glimpses of what might be going on inside the program’s inner circle. I would offer 2 things to consider as you attempt to make sense of it all: (1) How many highly-graded recruiting prospects have passed through The 40 Acres in the post-McCoy era that didn’t live up to the hype?, and (2) How many freshman QB’s did the program give up on, bench, etc that eventually transferred and found success elsewhere, even eventually being drafted into the pros? I want to believe that <Insert 5-Star recruit here> offers the hope of immediately changing the decade-plus narrative of mediocrity around here just as much as the next guy, but there is a history here worth analyzing that would suggest instant gratification and immediate great expectations might be part of the problem.
  2. Sounds like we’re punting the Alabama game so as not to soil Ewers’ confidence early by allowing a Card to be the sacrificial lamb. Also keeps Card from transferring. Of course the flip side of that statement is if you thought Maalik Murphy had shown enough, maybe you wouldn’t care about Card transferring, but you’d still be concerned about sending Ewers out there against Bama for his 1st or 2nd college game action
  3. Perhaps there’s something wrong with me. Perhaps this is a cry for help. But I felt this needed a bump into prime time…..
  4. For you youngins’ who weren’t around for the Simms-Applewhite debacle, pay close attention to this thread, take notes, and prepare for the looming Manning-Ewers wars of 23’
  5. I don’t know, but it kind…..of feels like……realignment talk is indeed “going away”…..a little bit, for now….
  6. Clearly he needed to change his name to Hunter the Punter….
  7. I can see Sark formulating the plan now. Start Card to keep him from transferring. Card lights up a pushover ULM squad game 1, then shits the bed against Bama……enter Super Quinn without the potential confidence-squelching Quinn might incur facing Bama in his 1st or 2nd start.
  8. I went to UT 94’ thru 99’. OU was considered a secondary rival to A&M the whole time due to OU being down and A&M having contended in the early 90s. Then, like the previous poster alluded to, OU shocked the world seemingly out of nowhere in 2000, and from that point forward The Texas-OU game became THE game.
  9. Have you seen Card throwing them bombs?…..
  10. It felt to me like Geoff Swaim barely caught anything at Texas so I was surprised to see him stick in the NFL for awhile. And sticking with the TE position, Jermichael Finley was decent at Texas, but ended up being one of the best at his position his short time in the NFL
  11. I assume the “S” in “SBJ” stands for “super”? I could go for an SBJ right about now…..
  12. It’s not even about camp reports for me. It’s about more than a decade of mediocrity at best, and every preseason with the same unfounded optimism. If ‘The Who’ wrote the story it would be entitled “I won’t get fooled again, again, again……..again, again, again….. again………again”. Show me on the field in October/November. Til’ then you’re the program that lost to Kansas at home after the abysmal KU football program had lost 56 straight road games in conference. Earn it
  13. Fuk’d if I know. This is some sideline warm-up shiite. I’ll let you know when I see a pass rush bearing down on them 3sec after the snap
  14. Lose the “L” and you’d achieve Surly Level ‘Perfection’
  15. Oklahoma State has most definitely exceeded “leech” in terms of rank and status, but Iowa State?…………
  16. West Virginia is significantly above any of these programs in prestige. The rest are historically small programs that have had decent run recently. TCU’s run came on the back of Gary Patterson who’s gone now, and it will be interesting to see where this program goes without him.
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