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Thermos H. Christ

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  1. Keep CCGs AND go to 8, with autobids for the champions, autobid for the highest-ranked G5 team, and 2 at-large. That’s really a full season long playoff for P5 teams at that point. Each division or conference round robin is a tournament, with winners advancing to the CCG stage. CCG winners advance to the Tournament of Champions along with some wild cards. Regular season conference games matter because they’re all part of the grand tournament. Noncons matter because good non con wins give you a chance to stay alive even if you don’t win your tournament. Imagine how much less shitty the sports chatter-verse would instantly become as everything becomes about predicting/discussing the outcome of games instead of debating idiotic and arbitrary/contradictory eye test metrics. Or a total fantasy that will never happen - break up the P5 into 8 conferences that all play round robins with autobids for winners. Promote a few G5 teams to make the numbers work. Then bring in relegation and promotion. A team like UCF doesn’t get screwed after going undefeated twice because after the first time they take over a P8 spot occupied by a Kansas or a Rutgers or somebody and then control their own destiny the next season. And every season after that until they finish last in their conference. And Kansas or Rutgers can go play in the MWC or wherever and maybe have a chance to win some games. If they ever get good enough to finish first in their lesser tournament, they get to move back up and take a slot from last place finisher at the next level.
  2. Read the post. I said non-defenseless, which applies practically any time we’re talking about a ball carrier lowering their head to collide with a defender. A player in possession of and running with the ball is not defenseless. A receiver going up for a catch is not charging forward with their head lowered.
  3. In college at least, helmet-to-helmet hits on a non-defenseless RB or receiver are perfectly legal as long as the defender doesn't lead with the crown. Keep your face pointed at the ball carrier instead of the ground and you can't get a penalty whether they go high or low or whatever. Easier said than done I'm sure, but it seems like it ought to be teachable.
  4. He was up and down, but he definitely made some incredible plays along the way, and as you say he was going 1-on-1 with NFL guys all year long. And when you play everyone as close as we have lately, making the big play to break up a touchdown pass can easily be the difference between a win and a loss.
  5. I’m probably not quite as sympathetic, but we’re still talking about amounts of money that, if managed well, could get a person set up for life. If you have $10m in the bank/investments, you can spend nearly $300k a year and expect your net worth to stay around the same long term. For a high first round pick they’re probably gonna have more than that from their signing bonus alone, after taxes. McCaffrey may have come from a comfortable upbringing but he’s probably not set like that.
  6. This is why we lost and I won’t hear any different. In the stormtroopers we win that game.
  7. As a fan obviously I’d like to see teams meet each other at full strength in the postseason. But I don’t see how I could get mad at a young person who likely came from a less-than-privileged background, who has worked their ass off since like age six to get to a point where they have a very real chance to make millions of dollars, who chooses not to risk all of that to play in one more college football game. Even if they want to play, they might reasonably feel they owe it to their family to make the smart business decision when so much is on the line. And it’s worth bearing in mind that the kind of players who leave early have generally contributed a ton to the program in the time they did play. Even without the bowl game the investment in their scholarship has paid off more than most.
  8. On the penalties and mistakes front, I think we have to consider the possibility of players being tight or in their heads or whatever because of the moment. I think it matters that not one of these guys had ever played for any kind of title at the college level. OU at the Cotton Bowl is another big stage with high pressure, but we always have lots of guys on the roster who have experienced that game multiple times before. OU obviously hasn't played in a CCG lately, but they've absolutely played in games with the title on the line.
  9. Gave this one away. Yeah refs were bad and all that but if we just didn’t empty multiple clips into our own dicks we win this.
  10. The truth is he was mostly fine here and sometimes quite good until Mack demanded that he install the 1950's offense Bama beat us with. Despite the fact that what GDGD was doing had allowed us to keep it competitive with Bama in the NCG with our backup QB and a really quite bad OL.
  11. Mack Brown hired Greg Robinson as his DC and I actually think it could work out. Greg Robinson is total garbage... except in the presence of Mack Brown. Gerg... your unbelievable work in 2013 is not forgotten. If we'd had anything resembling an offense we would've easily won the conference that year. I'm sure it's happened before but I've never seen a midseason turnaround as dramatic as what Gerg did after Manny was ousted. Defense went from being so bad to so good they held Mariota and Oregon in their offensive heyday to ONE TD (and three FGs). Case McCoy threw twice as many Oregon TD passes as Mariota did...
  12. Boooooooo
  13. Watch him parlay getting fired by Texas Tech into an NFL HC gig in like 3 years.
  14. I mean it doesn't even matter because this bill is going absolutely nowhere, I'm just saying.
  15. Do you seriously have the slightest doubt that the game would instantly sell out and become a really hot ticket on the secondary market if they scheduled it? Or that it would do big TV numbers? People want to see it. They want to see it quite a bit more than they want to see most of the games played by either of these teams.
  16. Doesn't seem that out there to me. Both schools are arms of the state. The annual game was a significant and longstanding piece of Texas' culture, thoroughly enjoyed and anticipated by many citizens of our state. For many people, watching or going to that game is central in their memories of spending Thanksgiving with loved ones. Putting on that game was a benefit these two public universities bestowed on the state for a hundred years, and they stopped doing it over some bruised egos and a few million bucks. I really don't see why it's outrageous at all for the legislature to step in and tell both schools to get over themselves and make with the football already. The Surly and TexAgs contingents are always against it, but ordinary fans and Texans in general liked the game, they're annoyed it went away and they'd like it to come back. Most people don't give a shit about which side started this slap fight, or whether one team "deserves" to play the other, or who's scared to play or any of that.
  17. Why did he specify that it was physical snow? Are flights often grounded due to ethereal snow?
  18. Hey, uh, maybe don't do that?
  19. Herman probably saw some old article about 2016 presidential candidate Gary Johnson smoking weed and got confused
  20. Yeah, with the possible exception of Bama, we could and probably would beat anyone in the country if we played our best game of the year and they played their worst. Clemson has looked crazy dominant on their best days this year, but they barely escaped aggy and Syracuse. If Texas played to the absolute peak of our potential for four quarters and Clemson had a game worse than the aggy and cuse ones, we'd win. Likewise with ND (close calls against the likes of Pitt and Ball State), and on down the list.
  21. After Maryland and Tulsa I thought 3-9 or 4-8 were within the realm of possibility, and I thought it was unlikely we'd do better than 6-6. We've definitely overachieved from that perspective. But I think the reason Tom is stressing it is to avoid encouraging any cockiness. Don't give the players any ideas that they're going to win on talent or otherwise cruise to victory as the obviously superior team, keep telling them they can win but only if they stay laser focused and work hard and trust the process.
  22. That was in 2007 though, when the air raid was a gimmick people weren't really used to. Now practically the whole conference is air raid/veer and shoot type offenses. The whole conference has designed their defenses to deal with that. The whole conference prepares for and plays against that every week, against better players than Kansas will have. I don't know that triple option specifically is the answer, but I stand by their best hope being to come up with something that will let them gimmick their way to a few conference wins each year. Kansas is in way worse shape than Iowa State was before Campbell.
  23. Cool, but that is actually kind of a terrible hire, I think. His whole thing was owning the state of Louisiana (the best per capita recruiting ground in the country) and running a caveman offense with huge athletic freaks that would just push people around and run them over. When he couldn't win with brute force, he couldn't win. He is like the last coach I would hire at a school that will always be at a talent disadvantage. If I was Kansas I'd be looking at triple option guys or something. They need a gimmick, something that can mess with a more talented team that isn't used to seeing it.
  24. Do we know that he's not? The game when we left him in Austin was maybe our worst offensive showing of the year (fingers crossed), which at least suggests he's contributing in some meaningful way.
  25. Well, I wasn't thrilled about the hire, but I've gotta admit our offense is pretty solid and seemingly improving over the course of the season, and our QB has progressed a ton during his time on campus, so it's hard to say the OC/QB coach isn't doing a satisfactory job. It's no surprise that we're running the Urban/Herman offense, but man I think it's a great fit here and it feels so good to have an identity again. The versatility is killer. We can spread it and go fast and have a vertical passing game when we need to, but also be physical and establish the run to slow down the game against all these funslingin' offenses in the Big 12.
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