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  1. 2 minutes ago, Irish Wrist Watch said:

    If you're saying OU might kick our ass, you might be right. Sark has to get his shit together. Way too much reliance on one player. Way too little  deception. Way to little outside attack. not nearly enough play action. I'd like to think Sark is saving that for OUsucks.

    Somebody said Sark's philosophy was to keep doing something until they stop it.

  2. 1 minute ago, TexArcher said:

    You've got to be god damned fucking kidding me?!

    What's he supposed to do there?!  The quarterback isn't obligated to give himself up.  Are supposed to fucking ole and hope he chooses not to keep running?!

    Fuck this bullshit ass conference.

    The QB wasn't intentionally sliding.  He was slipping.

  3. https://www.actionnetwork.com/ncaaf/mountain-west-staves-off-aac-boise-state-san-diego-state-air-force-colorado-state?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=BrettMcMurphy

    Brett:

     

    "...In other words, the Mountain West stuck together and now could pick off some schools from other leagues.

    Among the possibilities, sources said, could be gauging interest in some of the AAC members, including SMU, or non-football members such as Gonzaga (West Coast Athletic) or Wichita State (AAC).

    “All three have been discussed, along with many others,” a Mountain West source said. “We’re still strategizing whether to add or not. This is an ongoing conversation.”

    The only certainty about the Mountain West’s future membership is it will not include UTEP. The Miners, members of Conference USA, have longed to be in the MW for geographic reasons, but the Miners “have no chance” at the MWC, a source said....

     

    After the exits of Cincinnati, UCF and Houston, the AAC will be down to eight members. Among its only options would be from Conference USA or the Sun Belt.

    At the top of the list is UAB and, perhaps, Charlotte, with several other schools from both leagues in play once the AAC decides which path to proceed.

    “We’re still determining who, and how many is still up in the air,” an AAC source said. “Anything from two to six schools seems possible...."”

     

  4. 6 hours ago, 'stache said:

    MWC and AAC should just merge already. They are about equal on the power scales tbh. AAC probably does better financially because of population and overall interest in their parts of the country.

    20 schools is too many.

  5. 1 hour ago, Lobo said:

    Probably trying to rape those campers' sons.  

    Penn State is a disease.  Only cure is to round up everybody that ever knew Joe Paterno well, including his family, and hang them in front of the football stadium.  

    Wow.  Sounds like you knew Sandusky.

    PSU is just an extreme case of Enron.  Groupthink allowed them to pretend nothing was wrong.  And fear of the leadership kept the lower level employees from reporting anything.

    Happened in a number of Catholic archdioses as well.

    EVERYONE on the message board would have done the right thing in similar circumstances.  But lots of human history says most of them wouldn't.

     

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  6. They play more games, but they also started younger  You don't see many really young head coaches.   DKR was a head coach at 30.  Of course he retired at 52.  That's why he's only #30 with 184 wins.  DKR's winning % is .749 which is the same as Paterno's and slightly better than Bowden's .740.

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  7. https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/leaders/wins-coach-career.html

    List of all time major college football coaches.  Mike Leach is 6th among active coaches:

    6.  Nick Saban 265

    8T. Mack Brown 255 (with Tom Osborne)

    32. Gary Patterson 180

    40. Kirk Ferentz 172

    55. Brian Kelly 159

    69T. Mike Leach 145

    75T. Dabo Sweeney 142

    78T. Mike Gundy 141

     

    Dabo may be the only active coach to catch Saban.  Maybe the only one to catch #13 Hayden Fry who has 230 wins.

  8. ""...One thing everybody agrees with is that Division I is too big,” one athletics director said. “At some point, there has to be a line...."”

     

    From the article.  I have long felt they need to knock about 100 schools out of the basketball tournament.  I've never seen it expressed before though.  But there is a huge gap even between an Illinois St. in the Missouri Valley and some of the WAC, MEAC and NEC schools.

  9. 18 hours ago, oSuJeff97 said:

    Am I misremembering, or wasn't Army in the American for a while? Or maybe that was C-USA? I just have a weird memory of them and Tulsa being in the same conference for a while, lol. 

    EDIT - just looked it up. Army was in C-USA from 1998-2004. Tulsa joined C-USA in 2005, so not any overlap, just old man brain.

    https://sports.yahoo.com/top-bottom-conference-realignment-gripping-100149648.html

     
     

    "When the Big 12 recently invited Cincinnati, UCF, BYU and Houston to reconfigure yet again after Texas and Oklahoma declared their intent to join the SEC, it brought an end to the latest round of conference realignment at the power conference level.

    But the landscape of college football, and all of college sports, isn’t even close to settled. The Texas/Oklahoma move didn't just shake up the SEC’s peer leagues; the effect is being felt all the way through the Football Bowl Subdivision down to the lower levels of Division I.

     

    Beyond an expected reorganization of schools in the so-called Group of Five conferences, there is a renewed urgency among smaller schools with big football ambitions to position themselves in the best possible way for whatever the next iteration of the NCAA looks like. With the NCAA announcing a constitutional convention to dramatically overhaul the organization’s governance structure — and, ultimately, hand the major football-playing schools more power — administrators and school presidents are concerned that the last ship for any potential upward mobility from FCS to FBS, or from Division II to Division I, may be about to set sail.

    “A lot of people are nervous,” said one Division I athletics director. “If you want to make a move, you’re at the crossroads. You have to do it now...."”

     
  10. 3 hours ago, notre dame joe said:

    This year is as close to parity as college football is going to get.  That's most likely because of all the 5th year+ playing at Tier 2 schools.  Normally I say 'except for Bama' but UF scored a bunch of points on the Tide, both this year and in last year's SECCG.  

    Clemson may be dismal but UGA beat them 10-3, with the 1 TD coming from a pick-6.  So unless the Dawgs are head and shoulders below Bama/UF I don't think the SEC is that far ahead. 


    Notre Dame had to cobble together an offensive line by starting a true frosh at LT (injured) and accepting a transfer from Marshall.  We cannot block anyone and thus our tree trunk transfer QB had to learn the 3 step drop.  We're undefeated because our front 7 has, so far, simply brushed aside the opponents on their way into the backfield.  In short we haven't looked like this in 15 years and no one knows what will happen, not even the bookies. 

     

    On ESPNU they were talking about the horrible line play all over.  They noted OU has 4 transfers on their line.  ND is a mess.  So are a lot of schools.

    One blamed it on coaches trying to get extra receivers and DBs and shorting linemen.  Another guy thought it was the switch from power blocking to zone read.  And either way requires lines that play well together.  The best predictor for top teams is who is returning o linemen.

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  11. 10 hours ago, Pam Cummings said:

    Texas is irrelevant, yet here your obsessed ass is, on the Texas-centric website. How interesting. 

     

    At least we aren't conference title virgins 😂

    Texas is irrelevant.  That's why the pigs had their first sellout in years and stormed the field at a cost of $100,000 in fines.

  12. 2 hours ago, Scooter Monzingo said:

    I believe this team is good enough to win the rest of the games on the schedule. The Thompson kid is making everyone look better. He has poise, and the bright lights don’t seem to bother him. If possible I would like another crack at arky.

    We'll see.  Our secondary is porous enough to lose to the 3 State U.s, OU, WVU and Baylor.  At this point, I'd guess 8-4 or 9-3 but hold out hope for better.

  13. 17 hours ago, HouTex said:

    Did I miss the announcement that the Horns will be in the SEC beginning in 2022? I keep thinking I missed it.

    Well the SEC is going to announce their 2022 schedule tonight.  I suspect UT and OU will not be included.  But if they are, that is your announcement.

  14. 7 minutes ago, BachelorTrek said:

    There hasn't been an announcement.... yet.

    Several people believe the fact that this story has all gone quiet is a sign that this is now being negotiated.

    Plus the difficulty of anyone finding any history of major school realignment having more than 1 lame-duck year, also gives people the idea that Texas will be playing in the SEC in 2022.

    Arkansas had two.

  15. 53 minutes ago, BachelorTrek said:

    IIRC, in 2010 Colorado also left first because they heard about Texas'/whoever's/The-Plan for Texas & aggy to go to the then-PAC-10, and they were scared they would be left out with nowhere to go after Texas & aggy left, so they jumped ship first so that they were first moving to the PAC-10, regardless of whether the Texas & aggy move to the PAC-10 happened or not.

    Then when the Texas and aggy plan to the PAC-10 got reported by the media, Gene Stallings & other jizz-jar-suckas flapped their yaps about how they would "feel better" with secsecsec blahblahblah, as well as all the huffing-&-puffing irate-small-school politicians put a stop to it----But what it did do was set the table for the 2nd Texas realignment attempt years later, and this one that finally worked for Texas & Mobilehoma.

    What I don't remember anyone saying at the time that Colorado was a then-PAC-10 "cultural fit," even though it is -- the emphasis at the time for Colorado was not being left out in the cold/abandoned, in a dying conference or a blown-up conference.

    Colorado regretted not joining the Pac in 1994.  They voted 4-3 to stay with the proposed Big 12 after a Pac offer and then two of their board members who voted for Big 12 left.  Regularly talked with someone who had some connections with Colorado (he was in a sports related business) who said they were always talking to Texas trying to get them to go to the Pac since the Pac was no longer offering CU alone.  CU president talked about the cultural connection.  CA had the largest number of alums.  AZ was 3rd after Texas and had more than all the rest of the Big 12 states combined.  Now CU did move to the Pac first because of TX politicians talking about Baylor again, but that was merely the pace of the move, not the desire.

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