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2011 was your shot man. It should’ve been OSU playing, not Bama.

Yes we played like shit most of the game. Yes the refs were jobbing us most of the game. Yes we deserved to lose. But this is what I’m most pissed off about: We’re trailing 33-29 in the fourth quarter, and Keontay Ingram has just broken a couple big plays by sprinting a combined 60 yards to give us 1st and goal from TCU’s 1 yard line with 2:32 remaining on the clock. All of the things I mentioned in the first couple lines of this post no longer matter. The game is now firmly in our hands. All we have to do to not lose at this point is either fail to score a touchdown or fumble the ball. And we have 2:32 and 4 downs to do the first thing. So let’s do it in the safest and most time consuming manner possible, shall we? If I’m the Texas HC, at this point I have our guys run up the middle 3x, utilizing the full 40 second play clock each time. If we score, great, if not, we remove 40 seconds from TCU’s chances of a comeback. I specifically instruct our ball carrier to NOT make any risky end zone stretches, because being “stopped” on one or two of these 3 downs is actually sort of advantageous here. In the event we get stopped on all 3, then we can try something clever and less predictable on 4th down. But nothing is more important than ball security on downs 1-3. Instead, what we actually did was hurry up to the line and immediately rush the guy who had just sprinted 60 yards and was probably a little winded. For some reason he stretches the ball out haphazardly as if this was the final play of the game and there was no alternative. Ironically, it WAS the last play of the game for us because he fumbled at the goal line and we never saw the ball again. But even if he had scored and not fumbled, TCU would have still gotten the ball back with about 2:30 left and timeouts to burn because we chose to snap the ball with 20 seconds left on the play clock. Even a TCU field goal at the end would’ve sent it to overtime. There was no need at all to do things the way we did them in the final few minutes. Our coaches need to have more situational awareness and trust our team to manage the game better than that. We have inexplicably played games like this every year under Herman against less talented opponents. All this is to say that Herman is not our guy, and it really sucks that we’re going to continue being mediocre for the years to come.

We’ve lost way too many games in way too embarrassing fashions over the past decade for me to really give a shit that we “almost lost” this one.

Show me a motherfucking loss

We aren’t Bama or Clemson, Jesus Christ. We just saved our season and the big12ccg and CFP is still in front of us. Let them celebrate.

There’s no fix, we are just sucking ass. It’s really disappointing to watch.

Do we have a special teams coach?

I fucking love having a quarterback! We’re fucking good.

I remember doing the same damn thing while watching the game live. Your post made me rewatch our last touchdown drive in that game just now, and I counted (conservatively) that we could have removed an additional 1:50 off the clock on our final drive by just allowing the play clock to run down further before each play. We snapped the ball on one play inside Tech's red zone with 30 seconds left on the play clock. Infuriating! When Tech got the ball back for the last time, they had 1:29 left. Gideon should've still caught that ball, but really the game should never have gotten to the point where it was in Gideon's hands.

This is the greatest head coaching hiring decision of all time.

This was the fucking stupidest head coaching hiring decision of all time

My prediction was 70-14 in the other thread (see below), but it hasn't been inputted yet here. I had the margin of victory exactly right. Please update at your convenience.

This thread sucks and so does OP for starting it. But I say it’s Gilbert followed by Swoopes. Case is immortalized to me for beating ou and giving us eternal scoreboard over aggy.

Yeah I think we let Thompson start 2H. I feel like I’m watching a mid-2000s Texas team.

Third and ash has been money all night

70-14 Texas wins, obviously

UTEP is predictably terrible. Getting dickslapped by SFA.

TCU might want to reconsider.

How is this any different from being a football fan in a non covid world?

It’s UTEP. As somebody else mentioned, if our backups aren’t running it up on them, we have a problem. Herman can be as conservative a he wants to be in second half, our players are still going to score and UTEP isn’t going to be scoring.

We're going to beat them by like 70.

All we need now is a @THUJONE COVID edition CFB season preview.

Not sure what’s going on in this thread. Is it a comment on ongoing efforts to have football during coronavirus or a Reverse jinx?

Is there any information on how exactly to opt out and collect our refund? Is CDC just telling us what the options will be at this point?

RJ stays on at running back, forming a high quality 3-deep with Ingram and Bijan. Whittington is moved to WR to help fill in the voids left by the losses of CJ and Duvernay. We beat LSU at their place and we beat OU in Dallas. We Probably drop a game (or two) that we shouldn’t, but we still play in the big12ccg (and probably win). We are in the discussion for a CFP spot, but probably fall short of actually getting one. We End our season in the sugar bowl again, this time against Florida. We win that game; and herman expands his perfect bowl record And improves to 3-0 against the SEC in the post season at Texas. Herman remains HC. Major hype builds for 2021.