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Bill Lumbergh

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  1. This is a dumb take. We have not yet begun to peak.
  2. Arkansas fan: I think Texas sucks Texas fan:
  3. Sark did the appropriate thing to put the game away. This wasn't turtle Tom, we still played, but there is zero sense airing it out for no reason and risking a TO and quick score by a QB who has had more issues with ints during camp. As Sark has said multiple times, it's his job to do what's best for the team, not to appease an individual player. He brought Casey in the game for a significant part of the second half. Casey led a TD drive running the full offense, and then another fg drive. At that point, in that game, there was really only downside to doing anything else. If Casey doesn't like that, he's putting his pride before the teams best interest. I'm not saying he is, btw, but since a lot are speculating he's pissed about it, that's what it would mean.
  4. Thanks. We struggled more on both lines than I expected, so interested in seeing how we handle you guys. I forgot that Odom is your DC now. A lot of us wanted him when sark was hired (although I'm completely happy with PK). Look forward to seeing him and Sark duel on play calling.
  5. The third down conversion pass to bijan I never even saw him throw it. I had to rewind to see the pass happen. Love his release.
  6. I'm more impressed that I saw actual wr blocking for the first time in the last decade. Several big plays were completely made possible by solid wr blocking.
  7. How are your lines? I'd say our biggest question mark coming out of yesterday was on the offensive line. Dline was better, but not world beating. Louisiana has great experience, if not great talent, on the lines so that accounts for something. I'd expect with Pittman that you're oline should be at least well-coached, but how is your dline? Card is young so I'd imagine the more pressure you can generate the more in question things will become. I saw enough yesterday to know that if we have time to operate we should be fine, but if we don't hold up as well it could get interesting.
  8. The desperation to be accepted is really pathetic, even by aggy standards.
  9. It's the classic week 1 "our initial rankings couldn't have been totally off so we'll adjust marginally despite overwhelming evidence that we were wrong" approach. There are probably 4-5 teams who should be hit much harder for their week 1 outings than they will be. It's easy to say these things don't matter since rankings become more clear as the season goes on, but that's bullshit. Absolutely nothing, other than some high star recruits, justified LSU in the top 25 to start the season. Now he has them dropping only a few spots after losing soundly to an unranked team. Every team who beats LSU while they're ranked will benefit in the eyes of those who vote, despite the probability that they never should've been ranked to start with. This shit has bugged me for years, particularly with the sec treatment and even more when aggy started benefitting from it. There are several reasons I'm happy about the conference move, not the least of which is the fact that this house of cards process shows no sign of stopping, so we might as well join the club and get some benefit from it.
  10. It's the Houston chronicle. He's following the billy luicci pander to your audience playbook. My only gripe is can we not reward him by linking to his bullshit? Plenty enough aggy will be linking to this to feel better about struggling in their opener, no reason for us to help the cause.
  11. There's a stat I've seen referenced here a few times but I can't remember exactly what it is. Didn't Pete K's defenses average allowing less than 19 pts/ game almost every year he was at UW? I thought Louisiana's point total yesterday was interesting considering that stat, if I'm remembering correctly.
  12. To keep playing and trying to score makes sense. To use timeouts like that, at that point in a game that is clearly already decided and in that kind of heat is anything but standard, imo.
  13. Just like the boat and leased Lexus he parks out front prove that they're the wealthiest family in the neighborhood, right?
  14. Thanks for the reminder, forgot he was there. Always liked Jay here, particularly after the post red river cigar tweet.
  15. Fox isn't exactly highly invested in pimping ut football at this particular moment. Tim Brando out front shoulda told ya.
  16. Oh good lord, are the resident alliance members on the board going to start this sec-shit now? OU are our conference mates and I was rooting like hell for the upset yesterday. LSU are our future conference mates and I enjoyed the hell out of watching UCLA dominate them. If you want LSU to lose because they're lsu and it's always fun to watch them get knocked down a peg or two, great, but fuck this conference/alliance pride shit.
  17. There was a screenshot posted from texags praising how they overcame 5 turnovers (I guess they had a fumble somewhere, too) to win. They said this like it was some amazing thing they'd accomplished, to turn the ball over 5 times and still win. Someone should probably tell them that if you turn it over that much and still win by a large margin, it says a lot more about your opponent than it does about you, but fuck it, I want the rollercoaster to go as high as it can before the inevitable fall.
  18. Normally I'd say your first mistake is the aggy friends, but if you think that particular joke is "pretty funny" then you're probably on the right path in life and should just keep on it.
  19. *4 ints, at least by the official stat line
  20. Ummm, yeah, I joined yesterday before you posted this, so I'm going to need you to shut your whore mouth. But also, yes, everyone who hasn't signed up should sign up.
  21. I think you're discounting one other obvious difference between the two. King will get a bit more lenience from aggy fans because he's a better "cultural fit" for their QB job.
  22. You answered your own question, imo. Herman wanted to run our offense down their throats, which too often meant not taking easy solutions to what defenses were trying to do (oddly, the notable exception is the Georgia bowl where he pretty brilliantly punished their early aggression on the line). If you've watched Sark's clinic that has been posted here a few times, you know he's responsive to how a defense is trying to stop us, and will use whatever the best offensive approach is rather than trying to overpower defenses by running right at them. That doesn't guarantee success, but it makes me feel a lot better than Herman's stubborn approach.
  23. There was a critical play early in the game where Nebraska intercepted an Illinois pass on the Illinois side of the field, but the play was called back for roughing the passer and a personal foul call against Nebraska to boot. Given the final score, it might not have impacted the outcome, but it was early and a huge momentum swing in addition to the 30 yard+ swing from penalties. When they showed the roughing the passer, it looked a bit questionable, at least, in the replay I saw. All I could think about was how lost Nebraska fans must feel when they can't blame questionable calls against them on big bad Texas fixing the league. It must be a disorienting experience for them to hit bad luck and not be able to assume it's somehow Texas' doing.
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