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advantage aggy. Not that it will help nearly enough...

Sounds like a good idea. I still won't watch other than actual sporting events.

Exactly. The starting point and trendline are really important here. Year zero baseline wins (Charlie's last year): 5. Year One: 7 wins. Year Two: 10 wins. So +2 and +3 each of his first 2 years. Clear and major improvement. Year zero: NO BOWL. Year One: Bowl win over SEC 2nd tier. Year Two: DOMINANT NY6 bowl win over SEC top tier. It takes a real Debbie Downer or a troll to ignore the bold trend lines and bitch about Maryland.

The home grays (blacks for the Waffen SS) were designed like a (Hugo) Boss.

A kid that age having trouble getting his Horns up is probably a sign of serious medical issues.

Harsh but fair.

You attacked me and questioned my judgement for saying Sam was the better QB. So obviously we're talking about a COMPARISON here. Sam is statistically better AND has better intangibles. That does not mean Burrow is lacking in intangibles. It means Sam has more of them. I can analyze football and diagram a sentence. Should I question if you actually ever went to college?

Burrow shouldn't scare anyone who's actually paying attention. He's can drive the bus and occasionally make a play with his feet. It's LSU's defense that is the strength of the team. Unlike most SEC teams, they will take big risks to penetrate and disrupt - high risk, high reward. They will need to produce turnovers and field position to have much of a shot at winning the game. If LSU's offense has to march the length of the field, they will be lucky to score 20 points.

Respectfully disagree. 7 points of completion percentage, 13 points of QB rating, 40% more TDs argue otherwise. Burrow also took 40% more sacks on fewer attempts than Sam but that is only partly on him and partly on his fatass, immobile OL.

Seriously? This is what you want to hang your hat on? I played in HS. That was a while ago to put it mildly since it means so much to you. Maybe you should dispute my analysis on its merits rather than trying to attack the messenger. The ad homimen combined with the "intangibles" line strongly indicate that your argument is crap. Against the common opponent, Sam was nails on critical downs. Texas converted 9 of 19 3rd downs and 2 of 2 on 4th downs. LSU was 6 of 19 and 4 of 4 so Texas was mach more efficient. Sam's combined stat line was 5 of 7 for 53 yds passing with 4 conversions on those downs. Burrow was 4 of 8 for 24 yards and also had 2 drive killing sacks to go with 4 conversions. It should be obvious from those stats that Burrow had more 3rd and short opportunities but still needed 10 tries to get the same number of conversions as Sam did in 7. But in Burrow's defense, he was much more likely to choke in critical situations.

Yep it takes a special kind of stupid to believe that. Sam is a superior QB and it's not even close. Getting close to time to bring this thread back up. I'll do an analysis of the teams once we've seen how they look in the Fall.

Oh, you mean like Outside Zone, Jet Sweep, Zone Read, Stretch or Counter?

I thought we were the Popular Front...

True but not really germane. OK St didn't remotely get blown off the field like Georgia did. Stanford never made them look completely ineffective on both sides of the ball.

If Georgia and the SEC want some lessons in how to handle disappointing selections they have no control over, they just need to watch how teams from a better conference handle it. In addition to 2009 Texas, we have 2011 Okie State which ended up #3 in a 2-team championship format. The Cowboys went out and beat #4 Stanford, sure it went to overtime but they won and never looked whipped. Then there is 2014 TCU. Again ranked #3 and out of the NCG. They were pissed and Patterson's boys went out and destroyed (then) rising SEC power Ole Miss. Just crushed the Rebels from the word go.

It's like they completely forgot that Georgia has significantly more talent on both OL and DL than LSU...

I think Riley may have hired the wrong guy in addition to the systemic issues he creates for his defense. The high reps vs HUNH creates a lot of bad habits. The lack of contact in practice tends to manifest as poor tacking and less physicality. The quick strike offense doesn't control the ball or give the defense a rest and that's true with Riley to an even greater extent than it is for Leach's short passing game. On top of that, the more I look at Grinch, the more I think Riley hired the wrong guy. Even in his one good season at WSU, his unit was gashed by most of the good running teams they faced and especially by those with a true dual threat QB (they were blown out by Arizona and Michigan State). There were 3 reasons Grinch looked good that year, relatively speaking: 1. The Pac-12 was well into their current decline by then. 2. His defense stuffed some real bottom dwellers, especially FCS Montana State and MWC cellar dweller Nevada from their SEC worthy non-conf schedule. Impressive statistically but not so much if you look at what actually happened. 3. Hercules Mata'afa was able to create an interior pass rush and his quickness was often able to disrupt the blocking and compensate for a scheme whose shifts often left a front that was not gap sound. Teams that could run the ball feasted on the lack of gap integrity. Against Zona, Cal, Washington and MSU Grinch's defense looked a lot like Manny _iaz had moved to Pullman.

Sorry to puncture the land thief mythology slash excuse making but in Bob's 2016 class, the top 3 recruits and 4 of the top 5 were on the defensive side of the ball. https://247sports.com/college/oklahoma/Season/2016-Football/Commits/

Perception always lags behind reality. This is especially true where the people with the outdated perceptions are mentally lazy and have invested a major portion of their large egos in that view.

Automating stupid doesn't help. It just produces bad results faster and more efficiently. The radical alteration to his formula in order to favor pre-season polls and weaker teams in "strong" conferences is a tacit admission that his formula was bad and needed to be altered dramatically. His emphasis on "strong" conferences of course tends to become a self-fulfilling prophecy, especially in the largely closed system the SEC uses to shield their teams from real competition by playing a bunch of non-conference cupcakes. edit: the new emphasis on pre-season polls is also a tacit admission that the humans are producing better predictions than whatever computer formula he's using.

So Connolly is basically admitting that it's a Nerd Love circle jerk of Longhorn Haters...

Sooners laying claim to something that doesn't belong to them? How odd...

Why bother to differentiate between DE and DT? Aren't they all DL? DEs and DTs can align in a variety of different ways.4i is inside eye on the OT. Typical 4-3 DE aligns in either a 5 tech (outside shoulder of the OT) or 7 tech (outside the TE).

5'8" 180 IRL. There's a reason he fattened up, refused to run and refused to get another measurement at the pro day in Norman.

Murray has both ability and severe physical limitations. #1 overall seems patently insane with all the question marks surrounding his size and his character. But we all expect stupid from Arizona.