Wulaw Horn

It’s like the fighting Hinches are throwing games. Maybe they want a piece of this.

Sure. I’m just going with what’s likely. MSU isn’t helping us out. Vandy isn’t helping us out. Florida isn’t helping us out. Georgia should, OU and aggy might. Kentucky and arky could go either direction. Of course. We are talking about tie breakers which presupposes we lose a game. No way do we not play for it with 0 losses.

We actually probably need aggy and OU and Kentucky to win most of their games. If our 1 loss was to Georgia for example.

They do specify a number of games but it’s like 159 or 160 I believe

Has gusto pitched for us this year? Ever?

Inertia is a real thing. Decent chance Bama jumps us during bye week.

The Astros game system sucks though. This year all we did was graduate a guy that was a borderline all star with a 2.8 era and another guy in Arrighetti that’s probably better than that and will be a top 50 at worst, pitcher next year. And enough trade bullets to pick up a guy that went 9-1 down the stretch for us. Other than that though- yeah- worst farm system in the league.

Bye sucks. They’ve played 100 plus games so far with no wins. They’ve scored no points.

I put up an OU game week thread (it was pure genius) and El Jefe said patience grasshopper, patience. Do a Texas vs bye week thread instead. I’m on a cruise starting Saturday, so he copied my Texas v OU gameweek post and he will be posting it for me on Sunday next week, worry not. So, Texas v Bye is a good time to take note of what’s going on and talk about big picture stuff and what our goals should be during this bye week. Big picture: The Good: This Texas squad is a rolling ball of butcher knives right now. We are one of 3 or four teams not to trail in a game yet this year. We have spent roughly 10 minutes of time in the second half not up double digits. We are averaging something like 45 points a game. We have given up 3 TD’s all year- 1 on a busted play 67 yard run and 2 garbage time TD’s while up 3 or 4 TD’s. We have a starting QB that’s looks like the best QB in college football and his back up has played almost as well and looks like the Heisman front runner for 2025, after QB1 goes to NY for this years Heisman ceremony and likely goes top 5 in the draft. This team lost 11 players to the draft and looks like we will have more players drafted than that this year. We have a head coach that is clearly the right man for the right time in Texas football that’s going to have us going a massive run the next decade. On defense, we lost a damn good LB coach to a head job at a lower level program and improved with his replacement- we got a guy that’s helped bring the defense together and brought new concepts and cohesion to the unit. Our special teams are pretty good. We have tons of young players who are showing out, getting better and showing that the future is bright. Recruiting is good, retention is awesome and the portal is an absolute weapon for us. This bye week is important. We need to get QB1 fully healthy- he’s a weapon and big game tested. We need to heal up some dings in the RB room. We need to make sure we are ready for a dual threat QB in OU and make sure we have some stuff ready to clown a pretty good but not great defense of theirs. We need to be ready for a very good Georgia team the next week that’s not as good as they have been, and, quite frankly, not as good as us. Most of all, we need to continue to work on us and play to a standard. This is, pretty clearly in my mind, the best team in the land. This is the best Texas team since 05 and if they continue to get better and play to a standard they will have the chance to go down as a special team in college football. Maybe not 94/95 Nebraska, 01 Miami, 05 Texas or 19 LSU, but better than the typical run of the mill national championship type team. It’s all on the table for us. Let’s use the bye as a tool to heal up, sharpen our blades, play to a standard and be all that we can be. It’s a good time in Austin when the football is good. Hook ‘Em and enjoy the good times.

This is true about all fans being idiots. Ours our set to bit more default pessimistic and critical. I know we have some myopics too.

Our fans are fucking idiots. Congratulations on sitting amongst some of the dumber of them. Hopefully they at least let their kid pound a Michelob Ultra.

Contest closed.

Got a guy putting down 3% on a 70k house. I’m skeptical that it will appraise.

Yall listening to crane talk about years are missing the point. It’s not years it’s total fucking money- he just frames it as years so the fans will be on his side. I guarantee you if Soto says/ hey- jimbo- I’d love to sign a 100 year deal for 100M you game? He’d fall all over himself to sign the thing. Crane doesn’t want to extend lots and lots of money and uses “years” as an excuse. I’d love to see him offer Bregman 200M over 10 years and see what bregs says. Maybe that’s in the market/ maybe it isn’t. But that would likely be my offer. .

Let Abreu pitch the rest of the game. Kidding. Sort of.

You accused my Cassandra act of being tired and then completely and totally replicated it right here. this is all factual and completely justified, no argument on that score. Sometimes shit needs to be said and people on the internet need to be reminded of how wrong and stupid they are.

Yes, the reason is that they are all hat, no cattle, loudmouth pussies. aggy was perfect for them. Wish they could still be the only SEC team in Texas, but maybe we will go fuck that conference up, get our own way- win it on our way in- win it on our way out- and then dissolve it and start something new with a final endgame champions league format. And be bitched about down in Dixie until the end of time. And of course- leave aggy out of said champions league format.

I mean- I would give us better odds than them since we own them and they are a pack of losers, but maybe not.

I mean- that's just because we have to play the extra series. If we get through the Wild Card series such that it's all the final 8 left I bet we have 2nd best odds to win the WS- maybe 1st.

Too soon.

Whitley should have pitched the 7th. With his 0.00 era.

We are probably getting shut out, but I don’t rule out scoring 3 to just twist the knife

Episode 80 is up. We did a short episode- waiting to blow it out after we clinch. My 9 year old talks first longhorn game (briefly) at the top.

Yeah- at the bye week. Yes on Standings, yes on winners, yes on prizes.

None of that sounds good at all with our history with that kind of stuff. Just looked like a non-issue. He's really fragile.