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Voluminous Banality

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  1. Taaffe tackles extremely well, plays the ball well in the air, catches it whenever he has a chance to (no Gideon), and is seemingly in the right place all the time. He has turned himself into a real asset. It would be great to have him back next year.
  2. Say what you will; it's impressive that this guy is able to play WR in disguise and with a prosthetic hand.
  3. 2022-23: We are screwed if Taaffe is on the field for more than garbage time. 2024-25: We are screwed if Taaffe leaves for the NFL.
  4. So aggy didn't lose the transfer; they just ran out of time to get the financial aid agreement turned in.
  5. Maalik Murphy, Savion Red, Isaiah Neyor, Troy Omeire, Sydir Mitchell, Tiaoalii Savea--you could field a solid WAC second team with the absolute nothingburgers this board has made into Longhorn legends in their own minds.
  6. The "Texas hasn't beaten any top-25 teams" brigade is peddling bullshit. Texas has the second-strongest SOS of all teams in the CFP. Texas is #3 in the country in strength of record. Texas is #1 in the country in game control. Texas has 8 wins vs. bowl-eligible teams, most in the country. Texas has beaten two top-25 teams--Aggy (#14 in combined FPI/SP+, #19 in Sagarin) and Florida (#22 in combined FPI/SP+, #20 in Sagarin). Unranked teams that Texas defeated beat Ohio State, Tennessee, Ole Miss, Alabama, LSU, and Missouri, among others. Michigan and Oklahoma are also fringe top-25 teams, depending which computer models are being used. If one is using stupid, arbitrary criteria, one will get stupid results.
  7. So you're saying that Georgia... ...didn't want to be there.
  8. Simmons didn't line up offside and he didn't move out of his stance. He flinched and the ref flagged him for offside because of course. Simmons is nearly a full yard off the LOS here.
  9. People keep talking about the SEC and the B1G. There is no "SEC and B1G." In conference payout, sure. In competition level, there's the SEC and everyone else with the B1G above the rest. That isn't SEC SEC SEC bullshit; it's just reality. Maybe the B1G will close the gap, but right now there are more, better programs in the SEC than in the B1G and it's not debatable.
  10. Georgia is doing it the right way. All class and fiscal responsibility.
  11. Eric Nahlin: Recruiting percentages for Texas' Early Signing Day finish Final Scorecard (pending Justus Terry) Nahlin Prediction: 5 of these guys sign (4.85) Reality: 1
  12. Final Regular Season In-State Rankings 1. Texas (11-1) - The Longhorns go wire-to-wire at #1. 2. SMU (11-1) - The Mustangs rumbled through their inaugural season in the ACC undefeated. They will earn a CFP birth with a win over Clemson in the ACC Championship game. If they fall to the Tigers, can the Ponies still sneak in? 3. Baylor (8-4) - The Bears roll into a possible Rate Bowl bid on a 6-game win streak, the longest of the Dave Aranda era. 4. TCU (8-4) - The Horned Frogs benefitted from a tissue-soft schedule with their 6 conference wins (and 1 loss) coming against the 7 teams in the cellar of the Big XII standings. 5. Texas Tech (8-4) - Seventh place in the Big XII runs through Lubbock. 6. Sam Houston (9-3) - Last season, their first in the FBS, the Bearkats finished just 3-9. This year, they improved by a remarkable 6 games. With their defeat of Liberty, they finish tied for 2nd in CUSA and will just miss the Conference USA championship game on a tie-break. 7. Abilene Christian (9-4) - After dropping an early OT heartbreaker to Texas Tech, ACU rolled through the UAC with a 7-1 conference record. They open the FCS playoffs with a shutout of Northern Arizona. 8. Texas A&M (8-4) - The aggies close the regular season on a three-game losing streak to teams not named New Mexico State and finish in the same position they held in our initial rankings. 9. Texas State (7-5) - If the Bobcats had been able to close out games against Sam Houston or Arizona State, this could have been a special season. They improve over last year's conference record to 5-3 in the Sun Belt. 10. UTSA (6-6) - Under head coach Jeff Traylor, the Roadrunners have gone 12-2, 11-3, 9-5, and now 6-6 over the past 4 seasons. 11. North Texas (6-6) - With their win over Temple, the Mean Green are bowl-eligible for the third time in five years. 12. Houston (4-8) - After defeating Kansas State on November 3, the Cougars end the season on a three-game skid. 13. Rice (4-8) - The Owls’ winning percentage over the past 11 seasons: 33%. Their winning percentage this season: 33%. 14. UTEP (3-9) - The Miners showed little life all year with three wins coming against fellow bottom-20 FBS teams FIU, Kennesaw, and New Mexico State.
  13. Come play for the premier SEC program between central and east Texas. 🔥🔥🔥
  14. Combination of early game + coming off bye week and election hangover. Energy will pick up again this week.
  15. Apart from Florida State, of course.
  16. With apologies for the pedantry, that's actually not what 'prone' means. 'Prone' isn't backward-looking--how many times someone has been injured in the past--it's forward-looking, i.e. more susceptible to injury and therefore more likely to be injured again in the future, which I am positing is not the case. I may be wrong, but I'm hoping for the best for Quinn's future and for the team's prospects this year in what could be a special season.
  17. On the "Quinn is injury prone stuff," here is the injury against Alabama his freshman year: And this is the play last year where he was injured against Houston: Are these injuries due to being injury prone? I don't know; he got absolutely blasted on both. One was a late hit personal foul where he went from suspended in the air to pile driven into the turf by the POS, Dallas Turner. Brett Favre would have been injured on that play. The second was a big, big hit he took while running where he probably shouldn't have been running. From early returns this year, he's developed into the kind of quarterback who won't be taking a lot of hits like that. Last night, I think he injured himself on the first TD when his arm was hit while extended. The abdominal strain could have happened there or subsequently. In either case, those are fairly common QB injuries. If Drew Brees can recover from a dislocated throwing shoulder to play another 15 years in the NFL, Quinn will be fine. His injuries look to me like a function of dirty play (Alabama), a bad decision that he learned from (Houston), and plain bad luck (UTSA). Arch looks like a good one, but reports of Ewers' death have been greatly exaggerated.
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