Gigglebush

Athletic hit hard by pandemic. Back to reading sports articles that are just reporting players tweets I guess. Oh well.....

Hate to be a downer but I'm gonna bite. We get that Herman's use of tight ends is great in theory. Our offense was really really dynamic when we had Andrew Beck. But people were upset with the use of tight ends last year because we had no good tight ends on the roster. Our best TE was Cade Brewer, who was a massive step down from Beck. From what I understand, opponents were able to ignore the tight end threat completely and that is why our offense didn't show up to several games last year. Considering the number of stud WRs we had sitting on the bench, we should have spent the majority of our time in 10 personnel. Working with the players you have matters, even in the NFL. It's why the Ravens had 562 snaps from the pistol formation last year, while the next highest team were the Cardinals with 62. There is no "best offense" that everyone should run. Working to your players strength's makes you successful at every level. I trust Yurcich to fight Herman to put the best 11 players on the field though. He did at OSU and theres reports of him butting heads with Herman on certain issues already.

Did Jordan put on baby oil for those photos? Sweat does not make people that fucking shiny.

I'm guessing he said that since a lot of the big games Herman has won in his career as a headcoach have been due to dominant defense. The bowl game performance vs Utah should ease that worry.

Having Sam make short throws to the wide receiver built like a running back seemed like a good strategy to me. Most of his deep shots to Duv were wildly inaccurate.

All the draft junkies I've seen have Dev going in the 5th. I definitely think the Seahawks take him if he falls that low. They've gotten a lot of good value off of low rated longhorn players recently.

https://twitter.com/KP_Show/status/1248794941481836544?s=20 6'6 Malcom Epps getting punked by 5'8 LA Tech corner last year.

If Yurcich had balls he'd implement the wishbone for Sam's senior year.

I hope he bounces back and does great, but he was also bad the year before Kliff arrived, injured the year before that. You can look up his stats, which are bad, but I watched the games and l am warning you HE IS SLOW. Apparently he's been working on losing some bulk this offseason so maybe that changes. Anyone that took him in fantasy the past couple years got fucked.

This trade is even more ridiculous from a Cardinals fan's perspective. Johnson has been playing like ass since 2018 when we gave him a huge deal and made him one of the highest paid RBs in the league. In the middle of last year we got Kenyan Drake who was amazing. I dont think Johnson even got 5 more snaps after Drake was added to the roster. However, with the huge amount of cap space tied to Johnson we didnt think we would be able to afford resigning Drake. You just cant spend that much money on the running back room. The idea of finding a team dumb enough to take on Johnson's contract seemed impossible. Cardinals fans didn't even think we would be able to GIVE Johnson away. Now we have arguably the best WR in the league and can justify spending on Drake. All for just a 2nd round pick and giving away our backup running back. Johnson is still a good pass catcher, but he is slow as hell and will go down immediately with any contact.

I'm pretty confident about a good year next year. LSU hired piss pants so we basically have a top 10 win guaranteed at the start of the season and we have enough senior leaders that I think we can carry that momentum to a playoff appearance.

Do people not realize that there is no downside analysts? Their job is tedious grunt work that anyone can do.

This is Texas Basketball, not Football. The expectations for basketball cannot be the same as they are for football. We are not a basketball powerhouse.

Its gonna be interesting to see Mike with some blue chip recruits on his roster for once in his career. Miss State is near the bottom of their conference in recruiting but they're still usually top 25 with 5+ four stars every year. Hell I think there might be a 5 star on their roster. Hes not dealing with nearly the talent disparity he was at Tech or Wazzu.

People are blaming Clemsons OC even though Lawrence couldnt hit the broad side of a barn past the 1st quarter?

I know a lot of Oklahoma State fans hated him, but the reasoning behind it was always stupid. Anytime they faced a really good defense that managed to shut them down it was always blamed on Yurich instead of giving any credit to the opposing defense. They were a consistent top 10 offense but the fans were incredibly spoiled and would freak out anytime they didnt score 40. Here's an example of a bad game for him. Remember Tom's first year where we went to OT tied 10-10 vs OSU then lost because Sam threw the worst INT of his career? That was against Yurich.

I'm guessing Hawaii is the first 10-5 team ever.

Am I the only one who isnt freaking out about losing a recruit? It happens every time a coaching change happens. I also think its weird to be panicked over 7/8 wins in year 3. I don't see it as a huge regression. 2018 was us being extremely lucky in all facets of the game, most importantly turnovers and injuries. In 2019 we were extremely unlucky. Its not like we had achieved dominance and then lost it. We lost games to 2 playoff teams, Rhule, Campbell and Patterson, with a young and extremely injured defense. We were never a playoff team no matter what this year. All the analysts "underestimating" Texas this year saying we were going to be mediocre were right because of obvious, measurable reasons. So why are people melting down? We will have a new defense and fresh eyes on offense. Our supposed stud WR recruits might actually do something now that Mehringer is gone.

Odom was never the genius behind Pinkel's Mizzou. It was a DL coach Bama scooped up.

I don't get the anti Chris Ash stuff, wasn't he a well regarded DC at Wisconsin and Ohio State? I know Rutgers sucked but Greg Robinson sucked as a head coach and he still came and kicked ass as a DC afterwards.

The Meyer train is more laughable than the steal Saban train.

There are like two veteran coaches that don't have plenty of WTF losses. Do you think there are only 2 good coaches in college football? What are your standards? I feel like people have the expectation where Texas finds the right coach and never loses another game after year 3. No one is going to recreate Saban's Bama dynasty at Texas. It's not going to happen. Bad seasons will occur no matter who the coach is.

He's a fantastic coach but he's not consistent enough for people on this board. He has plenty of WTF losses, instead of losing Maryland openers he loses to FCS openers. He has had a ton of bad seasons, Wazzu currently have the same record as Texas right now. The cherry on top is he also gets ass raped by his rival on the regular, which keeps him from winning his conference. He's like pretty much every good coach outside of Dabo and Saban right now except with championship level press conferences. I honestly don't think he'd be a clear upgrade over our current coach.

Most data driven analysts predicted we would have a worse record this year. Turns out they were right. Most posters here bought the hype behind our stud WR recruits and just assumed that the new underclassmen starters on defense would be an upgrade over our seniors from last year.

ISU is gonna score and then we score again vs. their prevent defense. This is MENSA level strategy, you''ll all see.