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Posts posted by Had Enough
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Why is the Bama demolishing of Georgia excused?
It did happen.
Neither Michigan or Cincy played worse in the playoff than did UGA in that CCG.
No one is questioning the obvious talent of UGA and Bama.
What folks are tired of is the endless excuse making whenever an secsecsec team loses and ecstatic fellatios when they win.
So are you saying Michigan or Cincy could have played better or at least approached it differently if they played a second time? -
As a loyal Texas fan club person we really just look to grasp any hope
Interesting. There’s room for hope so I get that. I just wouldn’t call the Surly crowd a hopeful bunch.
By the way I’m not stating Cook can’t be a useful contributor. -
I just find it odd that so many of you dudes select a few plays and that’s the everlasting impression.
Cook this past year being an example. He hadn’t shown much up until to this past season. He sat much of the first half of OSU in favor of some size. His truly one big play of the season was versus TCU but that was right call at the right time. That was 100% of his sacks, forced fumbles and fumble recoveries all in one play. No picks.
Crawford didn’t show anything in games that says he deserved more, but he didn’t play enough.
We probably were not good fundamentally but our big play making ability was worse. Those are the dudes that need to see the field. Ideally we get both.
And that starts upfront. Our front 3/4/5 have to make things happen. Until that happens the inside LBers and secondary will be vulnerable.-
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BoB should have been fired on the spot for his play calling on Bama's last drive against aggy.
Thought Billingsley dropped a pass on this drive, no?-
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Every other sport settles it on the field. It's not about a retrospective evaluation of the season.
As a Chiefs fan, 100% they win the Super Bowl if the two doofus linemen hadn't gotten rona from the barber shop and missed the game. If the NFL did a "season evaluation" then the Chiefs are back-to-back, but that's not how the real world works.
And every other sport pales in comparison to D1 college football in my opinion. So much so that I’m willing to pay, out of my own pocket for season tickets, OU tickets, the occasional road game and some bowl games. Part of that value for the OU game was what used to be the all or nothing nature of it. You lose. Better luck next year.
I can count on one hand the number of NFL and NBA games I’ve attended in my life. It’s so damn good cause it has a playoff. Yet it’s not inspiring me enough to attend.
It’s done differently in D1 college football. Nothing more perfect than 2005. No sport ever got it more right than that year in that sport.
This “every other sport settles it on the field” is a bit of bullshit. One, I ask you to name me one team that loses a bunch of games and still wins the football national championship. Two, everyone knows sports are about matchups which can dictate who actually wins. In a tournament that is more likely to happen.
This year we had two high level repeat matchups. BU is not better than OSU. You cannot tell me BU is better and have me convinced. But who is b12 champs? Then comparing the two Bama-UGa matchups. Georgias best argument to say they’re better is not head-to-heat but the season long butt kickings they deliver. Oh and they were fortunate Bama lost two WRs. So again, throwing away the value of you only get one shot is negative for my experiences. There really isn’t a question as to who were the two best teams. They played in a winner take all.
There’s no perfect scenario at any level. Pro football has fewer teams, more games, somewhat balanced scheduling. They don’t even get the best teams in the playoffs. Yeah the Colts screwed up but the Eagles aren’t better than them. The Colts could legit beat a number of playoff teams. That happens every year. College basketball plays 2 to 3 times as many games. College baseball is 4 times as many games. That decreases chances of picking the wrong team for the tourneys yet every year they screw up the matchups. The College World Series is great, but people don’t give a shit in the regular season. They don’t in basketball either. I guess I’d say use caution about giving a damn about 1 month of the season at the expense of blowing off 3-4 months. -
The problem with all these discussions is that no one can agree on what the main purpose of the playoff is for.
- Is it to let the best teams decide a champion on the field?
- Is it to determine which conference champion is the best team?
- Is it to help parity?
- Is it to avoid rematches and produce interesting games?
You can’t have a system that meets all those goals equally. And if you’re honest with yourself, your own priorities change depending on how your team/conference or team/conference you hate is doing.
If this was 2008 and we had a playoff almost every person arguing for the sanctity of conference championships would be losing their gotdamn minds if only BlowU got into a playoff along with 10-4 Virginia Tech.
For me, forever and always is to award the best team based on having the best season. It’s rarely perfect though. I don’t give a shit about a tournament winner as that method has flaws. And when you expand to allow playoff home games, that’s bogus. Some team gets a bye, bogus.
Again, we lack parity now because of bull shit cheating and preferential treatment. OU would still lead the Big 12 by quite a few titles but they’d have fewer if the officials weren’t in their back pocket. Bama and Georgia are where they are because of player management tactics. The Aggies are trying to get there.
In college football you have too many teams with unbalanced schedules and play too few games. Rematches are largely bullshit. If you lose going away like Georgia to Bama then win the last 5 minutes largely because Bama couldn’t get TDs rather than FGs, then I’m not convinced Georgia is better. They have not proven it on the field, but they did win the last one.
You can keep chasing this perfect playoff methodology, but there are costs to it.
64 teams, 8 conferences and champs. Only champs advance. Take the non-con out of the schools hands. Rotate conferences after playing home and home. Random seeding for the tournament. In order to be the best, you’ve got to beat the best. If it comes round 1 so be it. You could still have bowls for non-tournament schools if you wanted. but the single, oversight entity sets those conference tie-ins. Now you have fewer teams, more balanced schedules, everyone shares in the revenue to promote parity (it still won’t happen), and an equal opportunity to make the tourney.
good luck getting the SEC to give away power. Some of your longtime friends and foes you will never see again. Who knows what happens to some smaller schools that bank on the big payout. -
Point of order... actually... two points of order...
1. Neither VY nor Colt won a Heisman.
2. Greg Davis easily put up 40ppg without Alabama talent at every position, and put up 50ppg when he had the talent.
Carry on.
Point of order……..
Back out those special teams and defensive points scored.
Yeah, I know same for Bama but just wanted to comment cause you were too positive towards my feelings for Greg. -
That's kind of what I mean.
The bowls as a tradition are already done. Opt outs prove that. Players and fans don't care in the same way, and there's no coming back from that.
If your want to continue to have those venues as an important part of cfb postseason, they need to be part of the playoffs. That's all I'm saying. The bowls as they exist now have the same importance as the pro bowl, imo. Meaningless exhibitions often without the best players, which means you don't really get the cross conference comparisons you used to get in bowl season.
Damnit Bill just kick me while I’m down. I want to hold on to tradition as long as I can. It’ll be interesting to see where it all goes, but it won’t be better for me and my tastes. But yeah things have turned and aren’t coming back.
If and when playoffs are expanded, and I know it’s when, there’s no point in being concerned about sites in relation to Bowl sites. Some can’t accommodate anyway. I mean hell the championship was just in Indy. Traditionally, you don’t play that game in the Lucas Oil Bowl.
And shit like that does affect me cause I attend games and some Bowl games. Having to fight avenues to obtain tickets and travel plans all adds up. And that’s as a season ticket holder. College football is a fans game. It’ll be interesting to see if some ticket holders get priced out. Season tickets or 3 rounds of playoff tickets?-
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Make the bowls part of the playoffs………bowls.
This line of thinking needs to go. Bowls are historically an event that ends in a game for both players and fans. What makes many of them just a bit better is the history and tradition. Some of that’s gone as we moved out of the Cotton Bowl or changed the matchups.
To have one team play in 3 “bowls” in one season really no longer makes them bowls. Referring to Alabama playing in the R+L New Orleans Bowl vs Oregon is kinda pointless.
Just use the locations and be done with it.-
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He’ll have to beat out players that couldn’t take the job from Adrian martinez. So yes.
The Adrian Martinez who presumably starts at K State over Will Howard. -
Non-con games can be as tough as you want, they won't affect your ability to make the playoff.
Yes they will, but it’ll be more indirect.
Do you schedule before conference starts or mid conference?
People get this in their head that an expanded playoff means non-con gets better. It just depends. You will not survive a conference slate unscathed if you play a brutal non-con. Not in P5 anyway.
What is the point in Texas going on the road to play Ohio State? If you win, it doesn’t matter in the context of your season. If you win but play later again in the season, the advantage shifts a bit to the loser. If you lose, it doesn’t matter.
What makes that better in the current environment is that it is more high stakes.
The more high stakes, physical and emotional games you play in a season, the more likely you are to lay an egg at some point. That is one reason, and it is justified in many cases, that people say G5 can’t hang over the course of the season.
And I don’t think the SEC is ok with only 1 team repping them in the playoff so I’m not sure they’d ever go along. Now if the SEC were to have 60 teams, then it’s a different story. The more limits you place on the upper tier conferences and the number of team they can get in, the most likely scenario is they dig their heels in. -
He looked frightened and bad after IT spent the offseason puffing him up to goose the value of that NIL deal they had with him.
How might you feel if on the 2nd play of the game 4 of 5 dudes responsible for protecting you are playing patticake with each other while Bijan is getting mauled?
It might take some time to get over it. -
Pittsburgh is absolutely the worst team in the AFC playoffs. NE is miles better than them. TB, AZ, and GB all had losses that mirrored or were worse than Dallas' losses.
NE is not miles better than the Steelers. Better? Sure, but the Steelers could easily beat them.
Watt and Hayward are damn good. If the Steelers open up the offense, they could score enough to win. -
Shit, I would keep it.
Might go good with the 2005 USC National Champs shirt.-
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And he shredded Georgia in the SEC title game. Who would you have given it to?
Probably the best player on the team. Anderson.-
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The heart and soul of World Series championship teams and a HOF DH?
Yep and cheated his ass off to get there. Smart will likely win more too with a loaded deck. -
Best 2 out of 3?
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nah , he won it vs. Auburn legit.
Didn’t they score 10 points in regulation?
Why the hell are you only scoring 10 versus Auburn and needing a poor decision by an Auburn RB to even that chance.
That’s not Heisman worthy type production.-
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Screw Georgia. Kirby Smart is the David Ortiz of college football.
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Yeah just looked. If it was a tie, Raiders would’ve been #7 and played KC. By winning, they are #6 and play Bengals.
It is about the matchups but I’d rather play Cincy than KC. The Raiders coach won’t be criticized, but his preferred matchup in round 1 should have been the deciding factor whether he kicked or not.
I’d be curious to know who he’d truly prefer to play.
The goal should be super bowl so best matchup is more important than a 0.5% chance of getting blocked and returned. If he’d willingly take a tie rather than end a division rivals season in heartbreaking fashion, then maybe football is truly softening up. -
The NFL is light years ahead of college in terms of consistent entertainment and talent.
Yeah BS on the entertainment garbage. -
Which divisional foe would Cowboys be ok tying thus allowing them into the playoffs?
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when will you have had enough?
After submitting my resume for the Assistant to the Head Coach position at The University of Texas.-
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So, you’re okay with saying other players suck, just not Jett Bush, that sounds like a personal problem, the rest of us don’t have to follow your inconsistent guidelines.
And if the entire DL is underperforming, that could easily speak to a scheme issue. It’s not like these defensive coaches have covered themselves in glory, there’s no reason to give them the benefit of the doubt over the players, and it’s not an either/or situation. You can doubt both groups.
I was engaging in a little internet gamesmanship. As I said I’ll generally comment on play by play or game by game performance for players. I’ll generally take the side of player over coach for team and season performance.
The whole defenses season was a big WTF. An example of that that I’ve expressed here is Coburn. Blew 3 short yardage plays versus KState. What precipitated that all of a sudden? I have no idea, but it was winning football. Why didn’t we see more of it and earlier?
I’ve been of the opinion this team should have won 10. The defense is at the heart of it, but the offense failed or sputtered too often as well. I think the refs screwed us vs OU and pretty well gave us the short stick in many others. That OU-OSU-BU was not only difficult physically but emotionally that suck some life out of us. Then 2nd half at ISU broke us.
Two deep safeties with corners off on 3rd and short or medium pisses me off. Safeties so deep their late to the run game does too. I don’t blame the players for that. Now Caleb Williams 66 yard TD run when 8-9 guys played it pretty damn well, but the safeties are unblocked and not only don’t stop him short of the first but completely whiff. 100% on the players and in retrospect that was the play of the season. Our DBs on numerous occasions were blitzed to the correct spot and totally whiffed or just ran themselves out of the play. That’s players and some coaching. I would expect improvement in year 2 though if no changes were made. In part because I do believe the players have some ability and because maybe they’ll play with less hesitancy. I prefer a 4 man front with what we’ve got. And I don’t get why we have wide 9s when our LBers are light as well as potentially one end that’s light too.
I also agree with dcarr or whichever poster expresses the need to take away run or pass rather than just giving both.
I don’t think our players suck, but I think we have dudes on defense that are not complete 3 down players across the board. Probably part talent, part experience and some scheme. In my opinion, the main personnel question on defense I have is playing Foster at the end when it seemed effort was lacking. That’s one thing you can’t have.
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Seems easy enough to me. Promise Sanders snaps on both sides of the ball.