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  1. I don’t think I’ve ever heard her call a game. Is she bad? Doesn’t look particularly bad, at least. Now, the sideline reporter appears to be wearing some sort of Howdy Doody mask and looks terrifying.
  2. I got 6 of 12. I got some things right on the nose and then whiffed bigly in a few spots. No one anywhere picked the Big 12 accurately. My write-ups on many of the teams and what it would take for them to make the playoffs had a really high hit rate. Of course, some shit was way off but predicting the future is hard.
  3. None? I do not go to the CR and the Daily Texan is mostly hot garbage and an echo chamber as well. Further, I find the subject matter boring. The simple reality is that Tech people in the legislature are campaigning among peers that they deserve an equal share in the PUF as a key public university in the state. We all know that’s bullshit and it’s a driver for Texas working to avoid Tech in all sports and has stopped new forays on the research and academic end as well, allegedly.
  4. I’ll be cheering for Arkansas. I feel obligated to despise them due to history and legacy, and I really do hate their “if we beat Texas and go 1-11, I can live with that” jihadist shit, but my disgust for Tech is current. Tech is actively working on getting access to the PUF. They were constantly jihading Texas just like Arkansas anyway. The Double Eagle guy thinks he’s Phil Knight with a 20th of his worth and is fucking with multiple transfers and recruits every cycle. So fuck those dipshits. Go hawgs!
  5. Thanks for the responses to my question and the obvious reason I was asking about it now. I like the dashboards during the season but it’s a twisted thing that as the models get better, injuries and exits become more plentiful and can impact single outcomes in sometimes extreme ways. I’ve been scratching my head about OU being favored in this game against Navy since the game and line was announced. OU has 24 available players on offense with 12 of them being freshmen. They can barely field an offensive line, they have 2 TEs with limited utility or experience, like 3 WRs and a true freshman with no backup at QB. Meanwhile, Stutsman and Bowman have opted out on defense. While I think Stutsman is seriously overrated and Bowman did not have a great season, they’re 2 of their better defenders. Depth on the front 7 is also a problem if someone gets hurt. Finally, you have the unusual offense for Navy. OU’s having to incorporate new personnel while working on a weird defensive gameplan. It all seems like a recipe for Navy to run away with this. The advanced stats have to be jerking off to the Bama win for the forecast to be that lopsided in OU’s favor.
  6. These never factor in injuries or roster changes in-season, correct? Is there one anywhere that does?
  7. It’s all driven by the staff, for sure.
  8. Rutgers is objectively mediocre. I took KSU in the confidence pool simply thinking that they’d be ready in the most KSU of ways. Nope. The big WRs for Rutgers, plus their backs, appear to be the way too much. It’s getting ugly.
  9. When did @Wulaw Horn start writing for Orangebloods?
  10. It’s some sort of anomaly in the realm of social physics. How can the aggies always be, at the same time, so predictable and also so stunning. We know it’s coming, and it is still amazing. They immediately abandoned the whole notion of correcting their culture issues when it became clear that going for mediocre character guys wasn’t going to yield 1+1=3 results. More like 1+1=1.25 results. So fuck that, let’s load up on as many shitheads and big time busts as we can, and convince ourselves that we, and we aggies alone, can fix each and every one of them. Farmers fight!! Holy shit. The College Station culture of adulation ahead of achievement is a poison for athletes arriving there who already believe their own hype. We know how this works all too well. It’s been a problem many times in many sports at Texas. Thank goodness it isn’t one now, really with any program. All anyone has to do is look east by an hour and half to be reminded of how cancerous that kind of shit can be.
  11. Texas has played QBs that can move around effectively, as much so as Leavitt. Problem is that none of them were very good QBs at the time. Warren’s best plays were on the move at Michigan. Van Buren moved around well but it was his first game. The guy at ATM moved around well too, he’s just not very good. The Arkansas QB was mobile. Texas has faced quickness in the pocket this year. You and Craig Christ rolling in for the big game, huh?
  12. You guys just can’t help yourselves. Just a constant tumbledown contest of humorless pedantry.
  13. That 4th down play, USF simply had no interest in winning. Pathetic.
  14. The stupid fucking mobile posting. Better not fat finger a delete below a quoted post or you are fucked. I like this TE. I don’t know how he grades on the blocking side, but he has good hands. He’s not the fastest guy, but neither is Gunnar Helm.
  15. A lot of people are taking the jokes about Livingston seriously. He’s like found money if he becomes productive. That’s the same for Dubose and Butler. They’ve never prevented Texas from taking other guys. I like making PL jokes and will take ribbing if he works out. It would be kind of awesome for one of these three guys to become a real contributor. Conversely, Texas needs Ffrench, Lockett and Wingo to work out. Texas went after those guys at the expense of other options and they all cost a lot of money.
  16. I’d have liked to have had him, but for a big guy, he is kind of made of glass. High dollar gamble for Ohio State. Get me commissioner Sankey on the phone. We’re surrendering our position in the Peach Bowl.
  17. Closers, CBs, QBs, and Kickers are going to show up some days and actively attempt to lose games. It sucks when it is happening to your team. Here’s hoping for better things to come in the remainder of this season.
  18. Golden might make more by coming back and building on what he’s doing than going into the draft. The replacement cost for him is significant. I’m hoping they retain him and that’s that at WR. Williams has been working out with the team already, albeit non-contact. He was looking good ahead of the injury. If you just go through the exercise of asking yourself if you believe that Texas is going to head into next season short: a seasoned WR, a solid three deep at DT, a solid three deep at RB. I don’t. History says they’ll be fine. FWIW, it sounds like they feel good about where things go from here in this transfer cycle.
  19. He’s born and raised a SCar fan. They’re also taking care of him.
  20. Jermichael Finley got like his 4th girl pregnant, so Mack decided to have Sally intervene. Sounds like GILF porn, but Brown was in the room as well. Sally started to encourage the use of condoms. Jermichael allegedly interrupted with “Ms Brown, I know I’m supposed to use condoms and I do. The problem is, they don’t fit and keep snapping. “ Okay then.
  21. Sure, but everyone in the country wants that guy. He’ll be one of the first non-QB multimillion $$ high school recruits ever.
  22. No one’s in love with him and he’ll be like the 4th DT in the class if they want him for a higher body count. The TE to watch is the one out of Mater Dei and Texas has a great shot. He should be reclassifying.
  23. Finley and Lott are bigger priorities than Bishop at WR. There are bigger priorities OOS as well. Lott could be a CB, which would change some things. The IOL in Spring, Turntine and Kotoa are the must-gets as of now on OL. They’ll take 5-6 if they can land 3 OTs. They could have a TB commit now if they’d wanted it, but it’s not clear if they’re going to take a small scat back in this cycle. There’s a DL out of Richardson, I think, who will be a big priority. Baryman out of Louisiana is probably a Texas, ATM, LSU dogfight. The LB mentioned in The Stampede is probably too small. Georgia assumes they’ll land Atkinson but Texas might really be interested in winning that one.
  24. ISU has 5 wins against Texas. 3 of those were against the worst teams for Texas in the last 26 years. The other 2 were against Tom Herman and the second loss for him sealed the deal on getting him fired. Hold the memories high in your heart all you want, but they’re more a reflection of the futility of Texas football in the Late Mack/Chuckles/Herman decade than anything else. Regarding last season, did you ever really think ISU was going to win that game? I didn’t. Texas methodically took care of business on the road against an inferior opponent and got out of town quickly. Campbell is a choker. A coelenterate of the college football landscape. The minute he has to deal with actual expectations, he shits himself and does his level best to drag his team down with him. That’s what you witnessed in Jerryworld. It wasn’t some herculean performance by ASU. It was mostly Iowa State not jihading a game as they would often do for Texas and Oklahoma. As to the coaching premise of Arizona State or Iowa State versus Clemson, ummm, I’m taking the guy and program who have won 2 national titles and played for several others in the last decade. No one thinks ASU is a shit team, but they’re one of the 3 worst in the playoff. They wouldn’t have beaten Tennessee or Clemson. The talent gap is massive even with those teams.
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