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I Plead Da Fif

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  1. <aggy>Better than expected! Better than expected!</aggy>
  2. Any idea when we can expect him back. Feel like we’re really missing his leadership, defense, rebounding and no nonsense energy.
  3. Dammit. We should have won this game. So fucking dumb.
  4. I grilled some hamburgers tonight so at least I also had some home cooking.
  5. And the call on Mark while ball handler was pushing off the whole time. Alright I’m done.
  6. I mean the main difference is Ole Miss just started playing more physical (re: fouling) and the refs aren’t calling it. This one we’re going to have to earn.
  7. About as good of a half as we could ask for right now minus Kent coming in and fucking up repeatedly. We’re not even shooting as well as we’re capable of and Ole Miss’s best runs just do enough to keep the game close.
  8. If only Royal Ivey had some head coaching experience beyond a national team. Would seem like a pretty obvious fit that would get a lot of Texas alums who went to the NBA around the program.
  9. Thanks for learning me on the behind the scenes with Shaka. Makes total sense. At least we can say our basketball hire shortcomings are getting less bad with RT compared with Shaka *ducks*.
  10. Was personally painful for me as I had hosted some friends with my wife with dinner made and everything thinking we could have a fun time chatting and somewhat paying attention to a game in hand for the good guys and watching some of the others for upsets. Instead ended up being me in shock/not in a good mood to shoot the shit with people that couldn’t care less about the result of the Texas game. To this day I still don’t understand how Shaka failed here but was successful at VCU and now Marquette. It just doesn’t make me super confident that any new hire will really excel here. Beard looked like he was gonna be that guy, but then stranglegate occurred.
  11. It would seem with Ole Miss not being strong on the offensive glass bodes well for us.
  12. Completely agree with points 1 and 2, but your take is also seeding doesn’t matter until it does. So seeding matters, just not as much as how well your team is playing down the stretch. Our identity is a collection of scorers who don’t really play cohesively well and has started to play good d, but can’t rebound. Will be very interesting to see how we finish. As JS alluded to, down the stretch schedule is much easier than first 4 games in conference, but we need to beat Vandy or Miss St away and upset one of Bama or UK and win the games we’re supposed to win to gain momentum heading into the SEC tournament. 2 wins in the SEC tournament with a strong finish in conference should put us in that 5-7 range with some confidence of being a second weekend team. Will we be better with Chendall Weaver back on the floor? We need the rebounding help and he’s a beast on that front and our best defender, but whose minutes will he take? Kent’s? Larry has been looking good lately as a distributor and on ball defender. I don’t think we sacrifice Pope’s minutes much either with his scoring potential. Excited to see if RT can earn his money and get the most out of our iso ball team. Kaluma, Pope, Mark, and Johnson are as good of a set of scorers as we’ve had since our elite 8 underachieving run in RT’s roster inheriting year, and all are experienced, Johnson excepted.
  13. Was talking about our loss to Ohio State. They also have a bad loss recently to Minnesota in conference. Texas’s bad losses are Ohio State (first game of the year) and UF blowout. UM similarly was blown out by Purdue. You state a great case as to why Michigan should be rated higher than us. My point was that if we don’t lose to Ohio State who has proven to be a very average team, we’re not that different in resume and the 7 seed difference is not deserved. The 2 away wins they have in conference for teams that aren’t shit are definitely something we’re lacking in at this point. No dispute there.
  14. Just took a look at Lunardi’s updated bracketology, and man I get it’s early but WTF. Updated as of this morning: Texas playing UCF in the play-in as a 12 to then play 5 seed Arizona. He’s got Michigan at a 5 seed, which to me Texas with one result flipped (Ohio State) has pretty much the same resume as Michigan. Bullshit. Lesson learned: don’t peep bracketology until 3rd week of Feb. Let’s take care of business boys. We pull off an upset tomorrow night and we’re looking at 3 straight wins against quad 1 ranked opponents, and 2 relatively easy games afterward that could put us at 6-4 in conference looking at not just making the tournament, but with a strong finish, 6 seed. Here’s hoping Kaluma’s knee better ASAP.
  15. I stand corrected. Thanks for bringing facts to the discussion. Was going off of eye test and clearly my eyes lied. Or I was just giving him too much credit for 2023.
  16. Copped a pair of his shoes. Looking forward to sporting them for the Nuggets tickets I have for second half of season: Lakers, Timberwolves and Spurs.
  17. You’re entitled to your opinion sir. It’s not even fair to say he’s only accurate in one-read throws. If you rewatch games sober you’ll see 3 go through progressions and make big plays on his 3rd read for first downs. It was obvious to me because most every QB since Colt has struggled here, and it’s like we’re projecting the sins of the past onto Quinn. Quinn struggled with moving around the pocket to extend plays, deep ball accuracy, and injuries. He was elite in short and intermediate, first game or two back from oblique forgiven. When Arch played, it was clear as day that he was much less than in the short game. That matters. Short game is low risk. You take shots to stretch the D and make big plays and free up the run game but the modern college football game is about the short and intermediate. Deep balls by definition are higher risk higher reward plays.
  18. Absolutely don't agree here. Countless times during games commentators mentioned that Quinn is leading receivers in stride in the short game that turn a 1 or 2 yard gain into a 6-8 yard gain.
  19. https://www.on3.com/college/ohio-state-buckeyes/news/carnell-tate-expected-to-remain-at-ohio-state-not-enter-transfer-portal-amid-tampering-allegations/ Wide receiver Carnell Tate is expected to return to Ohio State next season, per On3’s Pete Nakos and Steve Wiltfong. On Friday, Nakos reported that outside parties had tampered with Tate, who has not entered the NCAA Transfer Portal. Tate was reportedly commanding offers of up to $1 million. With Ohio State’s players’ five-day window to enter the transfer portal set to expire on Saturday, the Buckeyes have been working overtime to return their top underclassmen for next season. Tate is one of those desirable talents. Tate finished this past season with 52 catches for 733 receiving yards and four touchdowns. The sophomore standout hauled in a season-high seven receptions for 87 yards in Ohio State’s 28-14 win over Texas in the College Football Playoff semifinals. While Carnell Tate was the third option this past season for the Buckeyes behind Jeremiah Smith and Emeka Egbuka, he is expected to be WR2 next season, assuming Smith returns to the Buckeyes for the 2025 campaign. It certainly seems Smith’s future with Ohio State is secured. Despite receiving offers from competing programs ranging from $4.5 to $5 million, Smith all but confirmed his return on X Friday. According to Nakos, Smith will earn at least $3 million next season from OSU. The two young wideouts won’t be the only ones receiving massive paydays this offseason. Nakos believes that Ohio State will be one of several select programs spending $27 to $30 million on its roster in 2025.
  20. Was the only Texas fan at my high school in the Austin area that was in the Simms camp. I just thought our potential as a team was higher with him at QB1. Then I went to the Colorado B12 Championship game with my dad and got to eat a heaping helping of crow back in the football locker room.
  21. Hearing Gerry talking about grundles, “grundle odor” and balls on my delayed stream of Coffee & Football this morning is something else. Gerry taking one for the team with the dick pills and taint deodorant commercials 😂
  22. I don’t know as if we’ve heard for sure we’re kicking the tires on Coogan. At this point I had chalked it up to us fans mostly thinking it a good idea and having some wishcasting going on. I just hope that if Flood decides we want him and he’s an upgrade that we’re able to get him.
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