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boilerhorn

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  1. Predicting 8-4 before the season and being satisfied with 8-4 after the season is silly. Before the season, the only real context we had was that OU, OSU, Baylor, ISU, and KSU were decent in 2021 - and would likely be decent in 2022. Losses to Bama, two of those five and "one we shouldn't" would have Texas at 8-4. Reasonable pre-season prediction with zero in-season context. Having seen this Texas team and the pile of steaming mediocrity that is the Big12, there is no reason this team should have 3 conference losses, especially not to TTU and OSU. However, coaching tactics contributed to those losses and I guess we should be somewhat thankful that the coaches did not choke away a couple more. That said, this team would steamroll what Texas put on the field against LaLa last year. There is marked improvement.
  2. These are two mediocre, flawed, beatable teams. Texas has lost to one and I fear will somehow find a way to lose to the other.
  3. Without context, it was a reasonable call. With context, it was the wrong call. Texas had just completed its first successful drive of the evening, a 77 yard drive resulting in a FG. The defense had just stopped TCU for another 3-and-out. Texas got away with near misses the 2 previous times AND should have noted that the kicker was a flopper. Field the punt and take back control of the game.
  4. Prior to this year, I would say that Dykes has been "OK" after Cal. He continued Chad Morris's upward trend at SMU, so he deserves some credit. But there are very few signature wins. 2018: vs. Major Applewhite's #17 Houston; 2019 at #25 TCU; 2021 at unranked TCU. This is his first year as a coach to ever win more than 1 game against a ranked opponent. This year it is 5: OU, Kansas, OSU, KSU, Texas. And it is entirely possible only 1 is ranked at the end of the year.
  5. Sonny Dykes is a decent enough coach, but his results at Cal were only really so-so - not unlike Sark's at Washington. 1 win, 5 wins, 8 wins, 5 wins. He did lead the Cal team to a win over Texas 45-44 in 2015 and 50-34 in 2016. He was 1-11 against the other California PAC12 teams. While at Cal he had Tony Franklin as OC and (after Franklin quit to spend more time with his family) he brought on Jake Spavital. He was fired. Texas fans would have gone ballistic if Dykes was brought on. Moreover, he'd have brought along his merry group of G5 assistants - resulting in further vitriol. Dykes is a fine enough coach, but TCU is winning in a mediocre Big12. TCU will get steamrolled if they go to the playoffs. Texas just wrote the defensive script on how to stop them. Texas was 1 defensive mistake and refs ignoring Jared Wiley's holding from keeping them to 3 points.
  6. Should have been a DPI. Hyphenated DB clearly grabbed Sanders at the neck of the jersey. Not that anything would have come of it.
  7. Wiley got away with holding 2 plays in a row. College officiating is either incompetent or corrupt. Either way, it makes for a shitty product. Esp. if you care about any of the teams.
  8. We've put up 1.22 Watsons of offense in the first half. I am optimistic for the 2nd half.
  9. As shitty as Charlie was, his teams never lost to OU by more than 5. Sure, they had double-digit deficits in the 4th quarter of both of those losses, but the team never gave up. There were plenty of bed-shitters when he was a coach, but it was not against OU.
  10. With Rutgers, the B1G can make a claim to the NYC market. I suspect the carriage rates are properly adjusted (derated) for the fact that it's, well, Rutgers. Rutgers has the 8th largest number of living alumni (per the report I link below). Rutgers is an AAU member. There may be considerable value to a large alumni base from a reputable R1 university. I am certain the B1G considered all of that before offering Rutgers. I say that and Cal meets the same criteria https://www.universitymagazine.ca/10-biggest-college-alumni-networks-u-s/ The B1G has 7 of the 10 colleges with the largest alumni base. The others: Texas (9), Cal (7), UCLA (5).
  11. Carolina's not even good at tanking.
  12. If this is you emotional hedge, bet the moneyline. It's presently at +225. If TCU wins, you get $1125 (plus your original "deposit"). If Texas wins, you'll be happy.
  13. (10+5) -1 = 14. 14/2 = 7, our margin of victory. Advanced analytics! What do I win? Texas has done less with more for some time, so that stat is unsurprising.
  14. Fans rushing the field after a game should incur an automatic $10mm fine. Once the home team can demonstrate that no visiting player, coach, or staffer was physically or verbally assaulted, the fine is dropped. Texas players were shoved at Tech. The above fool could not just enjoy the win. The fines are presently at the "sure, I'll pay that" or "worth it" levels. Make it painful and the home hosts will make sure there is proper postgame security.
  15. The Aggy brain-trust (I use that term loosely) who signed Jimbo to the insane contract clearly did not perform some of the most basic risk analysis before doing so. A simple 3-part question like, "If we need to make a change after year X, what will it cost us, will we be willing to pay it, and will we have the cash?" In a real business, if the answers are not "we know, yes, and yes" then you do not proceed with the contract. For Aggy, the answers are "holy shit, maybe, and no." I think. that was the answer when the signed him and it is definitely the answer today, esp. if you have legally minded Aggys looking for reasons for cause. Actually, when signed, the answers were likely, "Don't care got Jimbo; Don't care Got Jimbo; and Don't care got Jimbo" We all believe a contract like this is foolish. If you willing to eat the political shit-sandwich and pay the cash, then the contract was "fine." Risk/reward/etc. Don't forget that Jimbo was the 2000s version of BoB. His name showed up as a candidate for EVERY OC and tier-2 HC search. Perhaps Aggy believed a 10-year deal was the only way to secure him. The question Aggy needs to be asking themselves at this point: is it worth it to pay out the entire contract to get rid of him? Short-term pain for long-term gain? When a CEO is fired by a board, this is one of the questions they ask. I am fairly certain the board concludes, "Yes it is worth $80+ million to get rid of that person" once the cut ties. Aggy needs to answer the same question.
  16. Anyone with an attachment to tOSU should probably take a step back before taking a moral or ethical stand on anything related to football, much less as it applies to UM. At home or on the road, tOSU fans are the paragon of boorish behavior. They throw bottles at and threaten visiting opponents; they trash campus buildings when on the road.
  17. In Elon's post acquisition screed, one thing stood out: It's a well-known fact to those who are paying attention, but I am astonished that he was so transparent about it. If something's free, you're the product. Free gmail and search can be useful, but there's a reason you get ads for "bags of dicks" soon after a google search for Bob Stoops or Brent Venables.
  18. FIFY
  19. If your path to KSU football takes you through a JUCO, there's a pretty good chance graduating is low on your list. Jerkiness aside, Klein had significant numbers for only 2 years (as did Bishop), and was really only used as the "run first QB" as a soph. Only 8% of his total production came before he was a junior.
  20. Manny Diaz strikes again.
  21. You misspelled meteor.
  22. Yeah - seems like a load of shit. "CDC would like our booster club..." Uh. No.
  23. Couple of comments, fwiw. Income 10% and 1% fly coach because they want to become wealth 10%er to 1%ers. A planned RT from Austin to NYC will cost around $250-300 on a non-shitty airline. It's 3x-5x. for first class. And if there is any buffoonery on the flight, First Class is still subjected to it. My employer pays for business on overseas flights - definitely worth it Flew from OHare to Austin 2 weeks ago on a flight leaving around 8p. TSA pre was closed at all of the checkpoints I approached, so I kept walking. Stopped at the checkpoint that was nearest Spirit. First, the clientele in that space adheres to the stereotypes. Second, a TSA agent said to me, "We do not do TSA Pre at this checkpoint." Looks like the US Govt has figured out a cost savings - no Pre Check at Spirit. No one spat on anyone, but this was clearly the Trailways of the sky. My adult kids will sometimes consider Spirit to come visit us. If they insist, I will always offer to pay the difference to get them on a real carrier. It's with my money to mitigate their disaster, esp. since I am picking them up... So it is a little bit selfish. On same OHare visit, son and I had pretty crappy seats. Noticing that no one had paid a premium for the exit seats, I politely asked if we could be moved there for a lower cost. The gate agent gave it to us for free - and left the middle seat empty. Flight was clearly not full, but treating other humans with respect and dignity can go a long way. A former coworker had a VERY bad drinking problem at one time. He'd get on long flights - and some red eyes - and proceed to drink vodka for the entire trip. On one trip back from Asia, he got so sick that he (more or less) "destroyed" one of the business class area bathrooms with vomit, etc. All over his clothes, etc. The attendant moved him to a more isolated seat so he would be less of a nuisance. He missed a couple of days of work and claimed "food poisoning" or something of the like. Fortunately, the guy did not become a volatile asshole when drunk. Just an asshole. The only really disruptive experience I had on an airline was when a woman had a heart attack on a flight from Houston to San Francisco - around 20 years ago. Fortunately, we had a Cardiologist and a Ben Taub ER doc on the same flight. They kept her alive as we made an Emergency landing into El Paso. Only delayed the flight by a bit. No big deal - saved a person's life. I shudder to think how the entitled idiot masses would have responded to that today.
  24. A head coach engaging with an opposing player's trash talk is prime idiocy. Perhaps he's not the one passing up the top jobs; perhaps they are passing on him because he is an immature simpleton.
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