derpyhorndog

"Ah, a dedicated QE thread...the perfect forum for lengthy debate over blocking assignments on a play where QE did nothing but hand the ball off." Surly gonna surl.

Counterpoints: Texas has regularly had talent on both sides of the roster, albeit not as much as Bama, that produced shit-tastic performance despite said talent. If any fanbase can admit high-level talent can be squandered, it's us. Some credit (even if partial) has to be given for getting on-field results from the talent you have to work with. Sark (offense / play calling / QB development) and Flood (OL) both have significant skins on their resume even if you net out their Bama years.

To be fair, those were B12 refs calling the 2022 game. Feels strange to say, while Bama is known to get their calls, there is some comfort in the fact that it will be an SEC crew on Saturday. Fuck Brett Yormark.

Holy fuck, time truly is a flat circle jerk. We've now reached the Sark-era equivalent of "Strong should focus on recruiting and the DC role, get a de-facto HC assistant to handle the rest."

I agree. And to your point, one example of his skittishness was critiqued earlier today by the longtime TXHS coach that Burton had on his show. The critique was Quinn's hasty decision during the first 3rd down of the game to tuck it and roll/run despite the fact he was under no pressure. He ditched a super clean pocket and, along with it, two good locking reads on the left side of the field (JT and AD) he would have otherwise seen. Here's the timestamped video (1:10 in).

If the kid himself is to be believed, which I'm more inclined to do given his distain for the recruiting circus, he recently told Sam Spiegelman that he decided on a school "about a month-plus ago" and currently feels even more confident in that decision. If CTJ and certain 9.95'ers are to believed, this isn't an NIL-focused recruitment, such that one wouldn't expect this to be a last minute bag battle with schools jockeying for position down to the wire. With that backdrop, what schools other than Texas were under serious consideration about a month ago? OU and tOSU were squarely in the top group, but last I checked neither have since moved their campus closer to Lafayette, and OU hasn't skyrocketed up the USNWR rankings. A&M was viewed as a blip on the edge of the radar, largely written off in the "just a hat on the table" category with LSU. If this was a NIL-focused recruitment, the alleged A&M "resurgence" would mean a lot more. The only school that checks the "location" and "academic" boxes AND was in the contending group when McKinley said he made his decision? Texas. All of the last-minute 9.95'er reporting is noise for clicks.

There’s only one correct answer here, and I’m disappointed it hasn’t been given yet.

we gettin’

Yes, he said all of those things at points over the last few years. Also, thank you.

Let's hope it's as ill-fated of a switch as when Butter Teeth made a similar decision the night of June 7, 2010.

So what's your proposed solution? Shut up and let the bullshit go unopposed? Hope your school gets in the dirt and gives it their best shot? Concede that "this is just how it is now"? Microcosm of the growing mindset in today's society that has things trending worse in many areas of life. Running theme in this thread of not being able to appreciate nuance, but "pretending not to know" where a situation has been trending in CFB generally and speaking out against that trend breaking containment and polluting other areas of the sport — totally different things.

Sure, just PM derka and he'll get you added.

Not going to watch the replays and fact check you, but I'm sure UT has been the beneficiary of many bad (or missed) calls over the years. Bias may have played a part in some or many of those instances. Don't think anyone is debating that. However, there is a difference between bitching about officiating and bitching about the conference head, who presides over the conference officials, making a public statement of bias against a specific team. "Saying the quiet part out loud" so to speak, and in doing so removing a lot of the plausible deniability that any given bad call is just a bad call, not biased officiating. Though I get if you can't understand the distinction.

I'm just going to go ahead and get this inevitable response out of the way:

Not a single Texas fan expects a red carpet. I keep seeing this blabbered and it makes zero sense - how is that your genuine read of the situation? As for the people "being a pussy" about this, the vast majority of UT fans responding to (much less, even aware of) Yormack's comment are diehard CFB fanatics. All care about their own team, but most also love the sport in general. A fundamental pillar of CFB, like all sports, is fair competition. At minimum, regardless of what school you support, we should all be able to agree on these things without debate: Biased officiating is directly at odds with fair competition and threatens the integrity of all sports, CFB included. Officiating bias is not a conspiracy, instances have been exposed at both the amateur and professional level. Bias in any setting (sports or otherwise) is often motivated by financial reasons and, when within a company or other organization, starts at the top (management). CFB involves and is increasingly influenced by incredible sums of money. Any given conference's refs are trained, reviewed, managed, employed (and reprimanded or fired) and paid by the conference. That relationship in (5) puts each conference in a position of influence over its refs' actions on the field. In matters not requiring the vote of conference members/schools, the commissioner of any given conference is the ultimate "boss," and conference officiating is one of those matters. If true that we can agree on all that, absent hatred for UT or your own fandom clouding things, I don't know how you could then deny that Yormack saying what he did does matter. That it was a public display of bias, bias that could (arguably should) be expected to flow to "his" referees and risk any game involving UT or OU not being a fair competition. A direct attack on the integrity of the game. Even taking off my burnt orange glasses, I would be pissed if the tables were turned and he had said the same thing about TTU, ATM, Baylor, etc. instead of UT, or another conference's commissioner had said it about any two of its members. TV networks, colleges and their own financial and other interests have negatively influenced CFB in many ways, but do you know the critical distinction? At least it does not directly influence individual outcomes of plays during the 60 minutes on field. Fuck anyone, anything, that threatens the actual integrity of those 60 minutes. Those minutes are the "game" we all love (changing the conference patches on uniforms doesn't means shit). Double fuck anyone that makes that threat publicly, brazenly and with a smug, shit eating smile. Any true fan should want a conference and its refs to do everything in their power to support a fair competition, a glorious contest of modern-day gladiators where the best team that day wins or loses by actual play on a perfectly level field — not influenced by some jilted corporate bureaucrat putting thumbs on the scale in response to realignment decisions made years ago or the future financial interests of shareholders. That sort of influence is precisely what threatens the joy of the fan experience as you put it: "playing the games, watching the games, having fun, talking shit." So yeah, if you couldn't tell by this novel, I care. It's serious, relevant and matters. What is done may be done, but backlash should be expected and any true fan of CFB should take issue or at minimum not publicly endorse (or downplay) a conference behaving in this way, assuming they aren't too stupid to recognize the broader implication and/or set aside their own bias. You're right that fans and media calling out Yormack's attack won't bring the proverbial dead dog, but at minimum it signals to commissioners that this type of mindset and action is not acceptable and fundamentally at odds with the role conferences have and the sanctity of the game. If caring about CFB and fair competition in sports and calling out a threat to those makes me a pussy, consider me Hope Solo's meat flaps. Though I would say you're the pussy for condoning what Yormack did and actively discouraging others from calling out his bullshit, for being too chickenshit or dumb to recognize why it should be offensive (and concerning) to all CFB fans or at least respecting those who do after it's been explained.

Yeah for sure, definitely a gamble. One they would presumably only take if they were confident that the ACC would stay intact until the GOR expires in 2036, helped largely by the estimated $55MM in concessions by SMU, Cal and Stanford and the ACC's new revenue distro model that should disproportionately benefit the FSU and Clemson malcontents. If it plays out that way (to your point, that's a big "if"), think it would shake out to where SMU would have left behind ~$56MM in aggregate American distributions ($8MM * seven years) but received ~$200MM in ACC distributions ($40MM * five years) by GOR expiration. Even just two years of ACC media distros would put SMU in the green.

The rumor is SMU would be foregoing only broadcast/media revenue for the first seven years, not all conference distributions. As in they would still receive any ACC distributions for post-season play (CFP, NY6 bowls, March Madness, etc.), which should offset a large chunk, if not all, of the ~$8MM/year in American distributions they would be leaving behind. Then they would stand to get the ~$40MM/year in media distros from the ACC starting year eight. Factor in incremental revenue from things like higher ticket prices and concession sales, increased donor support and boosts to some of the "soft" value items like academic and athletic prestige and general brand recognition along with the incident recruiting benefits for both athletes and ordinary students. Overall a great deal for them to get a seat at the big boys' table, IMO.

Can we please neg this regard to bolivia already? Just another TTU NPC like the many spewing nonsense across the interwebs. No meaningful contribution to the board or interest in debating, or even just talking shit, in good faith. Above is the standard NPC manual response when confronted with any fact they can't intellectually process/combat. Fuck off.

I know it’s a TTU event, but he’s really taking pep rally dick sucking to a new level. https://x.com/rcmb323/status/1694398986327646471?