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closetojumping

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  1. I guess I’m confused as to why you’re confused. He’s pushing two initiatives he believed in: 1) Laura Dern for the Heisman. 2) The guy was a big poultritarian and never missed a chance to push that agenda.
  2. Huh? Anyone wanting anything more than a W is delusional. Find the win, celebrate, go home.
  3. Correct, which is why I find the stuff about Patricia amusing.
  4. Moving a random Cincy/Nebraska discussion from the Texas/OSU thread to here. On paper, Cincinnati looks like they can be a decent ball club. They return their QB and a 1st team All Big 12 TE. They bring in spares from A&M at WR and Walker from OU/Wiscy at TB. They have some OLs coming back. On defense, Cincy returns like 4-5 of their own guys and 3-4 starters from other backwater programs like Coastal and NMSU. They have some talent including the mobster veteran DT, Corleone, who has NFL talent. The problem for Cincinnati is that Satterfield is an imbecile and should not be a P4 HC. I assume he’ll be fired after this season and they’ll try to hire Fickell back after he’s shitcanned going 4-8 at Wisconsin. Nebraska, as mentioned, has a now veteran Raiola playing QB. Dane Key, as Drebin said, is a stud transfer. Emmett Johnson has played TB there for awhile. They like him plus two others and all will get carries with Holgerson calling the shots. They return two starters on the OL plus two good OL transfers that started for years at ND and Bama. The defense is mostly home grown and we’re going find out if Rhule is as good of a developer as I think he is because there are a bunch of new starters in the front 7, only 2 of whom have transferred in to Lincoln. The secondary has a ton of experience as starters. I just think Rhule is a good coach and Satterfield is a bad coach. I take Nebraska all day in this one.
  5. I can tell you this, Cincinnati isn’t a home dog. It’s a neutral site game at Arrowhead, which completely favor Nebraska.
  6. Thursday: -Boise State at USF - I think USF will be a good team this year. Give me USF over Life After Jeanty. -Ohio at Rutgers - Rutgers gets way too much credit for being some sort of super tough program. I give Schiano credit for turning them around again, but 7-6 on the reg doesn't mean your tough just because your school is the flagship of a shithole state. That said, the Ohio dude left for fucking Charlotte, so Rutgers rolls in an ugly one. -East Carolina at NC State - I am foolishly taking NCSU because I enjoy being letdown. -Miami (OH) at Wiscy - Fickell is on the hot seat. I am interested in seeing just how bad Wisconsin might be and using this game as a pulse check on that. -Nebraska vs Cincy - I think Satterfield is a buffoon and I've always thought that Rhule was a good coach. Folks have been too hard on Raiola after playing every game as a true freshman. I like Nebraska way bigger than 6.5 tonight, I don't care who Cincinnati has coming back.
  7. Where is this notion that Patricia was brought in to be some sort of Ohio State scheme caretaker coming from? Bucknuts is talking daily about how their insiders tell them that Patricia is pushing forward "his install" and crafting up "new exotics" to confuse the Texas OL and Manning.
  8. You are crushing it, Derka, crushing it. Keep owning this thread, bro.
  9. Aggies247 writer predictions for the UTSA game? Pain, brother. A whole lot of fucking pain. All 3 writers have the aggies mauling UTSA by 20+ points.
  10. When you get off your meds and get loose from the orderlies, you really are exhausting. You presented two concepts. 1) If player X didn't go to Texas, no one here would even be cheering for him. 2) Everyone cheering for him is projecting success at the next level for no reason, all of the objective stats and facts point in my arguments favor, potshots at maga and comparing those folks to posters in this thread for whatever reason, blah blah blah. I addressed concept 1, which no sane person not on a manic rage-posting streak would argue against. I have no interest in further hearing you about this if you wish to challenge it because you'd be wrong on it and it is a mindnumbingly stupid take that you should have never posted in the first place. I ignored concept 2 because I reject the premise. You've provided no evidence to secure a genuine response that a bunch of posters here are calling for Ewers to be successful at the NFL level simply because they're Ewers fanbois. Note: this isn't an invite for you to go back through the more than 100 page thread and find shit people said hopefully about him in the past. I've been on the past 4-5 pages of this shitshow and I don't see much of that, if any, and it is absolutely nowhere near a consensus POV even if your amped up ass finds a needle in the haystack and you want to come back and "OH OH OMG SEE SEE!! THIS GUY DID IT!! RIGHT HERE IN THIS ONE POST IM QUOTING! THIS GUY DID IT! BOOM! MIC DROP!!" whatever perceived nugget you've managed to locate.
  11. Lies! Damned Lies! And Statistics! That grade for Simmons is illusory. He wasn't on the field in obvious running or potential running moments for most of the year. Day would be a buffoon to not make certain that a score like that is merited.
  12. You're correct that I am too intelligent for that dumbass take, which is why I didn't make it. Do you really wish to get into a game of rhetorical cat & mouse with me? You've presented a false premise and you've done it so cheaply that I don't feel like dignifying with a thoughtful response.
  13. The OLB/Edge responsibilities will be more experienced and deeper, that will help. The LBs are running 2 deep at starter level. We know that the safeties will play run responsibilities well. Baker did an excellent job with the interior last year. Hindsight is your position regarding Broughton and Collins. This time last year, hope was our strategy on both guys. Collins always had potential, but potential doesn't pay the rent. Broughton sucked until his JR year and then he flashed being potentially above replacement as a SR if we were lucky. And then no one knew shit about Norton or Lole and everyone was wringing their hands. The 5 guys brought in at DT don't all have to hit. It sounds like they're all pushing for PT along with January though, so, yay! for us. How many preseasons and off seasons in a row do we need to bawl all over ourselves with worry about the DT room before we just trust that the staff knows what they're doing and, if they like what we have, we should as well? My number is 2. I am out of off seasons for that handwringing with this regime. Regardless, we'll know whether our thinking is folly on the first drive of the game for OSU if Day is worth his salt, and I think he obviously is. They're going to run right at Simmons several times and make him, and the Texas staff, make absolutely sure that he's a 3 down Edge.
  14. Has it occurred to you that maybe you're not presenting some enlightened take on Ewers to most of us? I've only watched you post for 20 years, so the question is rhetorical. It's not a revelation that people would cheer for a guy who played for their program when he gets to the next level. It's not a revelation that the majority of those same people would have no interest in cheering for that same guy at the next level if he didn't go to their school. There are very few players in the NFL or MLB, who aren't on my pro teams, that I would ever cheer for unless the player went to Texas. I don't understand why you think this is some amazing point. Is this a serious question? He returns again and again because you just don't get it, man, and he really, really fucking needs you to get it. He is going to tilt at this windmill for as long as it takes.
  15. Well, your mother was really fat and I wasn't, so, you know, the insult worked in that instance.
  16. How many more replies from BO&W where he ignores your points and keeps hammering home that the move was only about the coaching room rift will it take before you realize that you’ve been wrestling a pig in a muddy pig sty who is enjoying himself as you just get filthier and filthier? I’m setting the O/U at 5.5.
  17. Inside the article, they talk about the offense shit-talking the defense when they're playing well also. So, no, the dude isn't changing Venables' culture across the board, he's just creating a fissure within the program. Idiots forgetting that fall camp is a zero-sum game and building division within their org is a new one for me. When things start to fall apart, I'm fully expecting to hear reports of Venables doing some sort of blindsided Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka maneuver in which he knocks Arbuckle into a coma via a mid-air assault. The aftermath will include the entire OU defense and its staff doing some sort of jungle dance circling Arbuckle's limp, nearly lifeless body. Mateer, in crutches on the opposing sideline, begins to slowly and quietly tear up while pining for Pullman.
  18. Here is what the public is doing on the betting side, per Action Network, where I have a subscription: 64% of the bets are on Texas. 71% of the money is on Texas. They're tracking 37,678 bets for that data. They've also stated that, as of now, both the sharp action and the expert picks are majority Texas by a good margin. KJ Lacey is 5'10", 175 with a great arm and a ton of moxie. He's arguably a better QB with the same body as what ATM will be starting against UTSA.
  19. The odds of Stroh being legitimately good seem pretty slim. Dude just rolled out of bed one day in year 3 and started kicking maximum ass? Uh huh. Clearly, injuries along the OL have forced Flood into some uncomfortable maneuvering.
  20. Spoilered below is a hagiographic paean written about Ben Arbuckle and his "culture of joy" that he's installed for the offense at OU. This guy hasn't called a play yet and they're celebrating him as the second coming of Lincoln Riley. They've taken to apparently wild celebrations in the end zone after each time they score in practice. I'm sure there will be plenty of that against the Salukis, but we'll see how much "joy" is rearing its head on the rest of the schedule.
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