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  1. Did you fall down the stairs with him?
  2. Yet he’ll still run/jog/Gallup 75 yards to put on the headset.
  3. Retirement time for Colt. But anybody bringing on Dobbs should be questioned. They ought to pick up Felipe Franks so they can have two dudes that keep getting more opportunities than they’ve ever deserved.
  4. This is bs. Look at the Chiefs. The RBs won it for them. Particularly the one they spent a first rounder on.
  5. When does fall camp end?
  6. I was following the conversation that was applauding Sark on his recruiting but was referencing Herman. That Oline class for Sark was struggling to come on board. Then things changed. And that Oline class along with Ewers may be defining moments. Sark is fortunate of the timing. NIL and the SEC move. Texas fans can look back on that as a GameChanger. To hell with me for not realizing it was off limits to have some reflection.
  7. Does Sark suck or TBD?
  8. You do asshole. I’m assuming you want a good team. NIL is helping Sark recruit. He’s doing a great job with it. Without NIL and with the under the table offerings, that makes things more difficult.
  9. Yet the wins aren’t there compared to year 1 and 2 of Herman. So all players are better. All recruits are better. But we are a .500 team over that same time. Your math doesn’t add up. Both year 1 of Strong and Herman had a similar impression on the defensive side of the ball. WOW development. That didn’t work out in the end. You can’t measure a player’s maturity or maturity in the scheme. Surprise - DMO was better LB year 3 than year 1. I’m not surprised others are better as 3rd/4th year players than 1st/2nd particularly the further out from Covid spring and continuity of scheme and coaching. Some guys improve even with the crappiest of coaching. We’re the most talented team in the conference. Probably the deepest with talent. Maybe even the most experienced. We are pretty well balanced. We are in one of the best positions moving forward of anyone in the country. Sark can take this to incredible levels. If we can’t win 10 this year, there is a significant problem. There are no excuses.
  10. The jury still is out on the Oline too. That says nothing about their ability or potential. Simply getting a starting role doesn’t prove much particularly when the incumbent starters struggled. They have yet to perform. It is my expectation that the Oline will make a helluva jump this year. But the guard play is all projection. I also think the side opposite Sorrell will be solid as well.
  11. No, I get that, but do we believe that the Banks OLine haul happens without the NIL landscape changing? The timing was good for Sark and the program.
  12. Our upside with Sark is greater than Herman, but I can’t help but think NIL/under the table payments heavily skews the recruiting to Sarks advantage. And that might be a sizeable advantage. Thus far only Banks has come through with actual production from Sarks OL/DL commits. Murphy/Sorrell committed to Herman, right? Ojomo, Coburn, Sweat, Collins. Thornton and Ovie were Sark guys. It’s early in those guys careers, but they haven’t done much yet.
  13. I think what he is saying is that Tech can foolishly overpay just like the Ags. Tech has some good history recently with basketball and baseball too.
  14. A couple things, and BO&W, I’m on board with the high expectations that you share. We should kick lots of ass. At the risk of pissing HenryJames off I’m going to reference PFF. I do feel comfortable with their stats. A little uncertain on the gradings. Ovie versus Sorrell. Ovie had more pressures, in total and on a per rush basis. He graded higher. Sorrell had more sacks. Ovie was allowed to walk for reason(s). I think both were solid. Overall, I’m not sure Ovie wasn’t the better player, but he’s closer to his upside than Sorrell. Ovie was good enough to keep around unless the coaches felt his replacement can match or exceed his performance. That should give us a good level of comfort for the baseline. The edge took a step up last year. Time for another step. Brooks versus Jamison. In pass D Jamison graded way higher than Brooks. I was thinking Brooks blew the coverage versus TCU. Pretty sure he was beaten deep versus UW although incomplete. Brooks didn’t make many plays. I’ve read here that Brooks basically took over. Yet versus UW and BU, Jamison played over 100 snaps with Brooks at around 35. Yeah Jamison didn’t get drafted, but he’s been projected to make the 49ers roster. He’s not shitty. And Brooks is young with lots of his career left. We were hurt when Jamison was not available for all of Bama.
  15. It’s been a number of years but Tech and Baylor were better in game environments than Ole Miss and Mizzou in my experiences. There’s value for day trips in not only football but basketball and maybe even baseball too. I’d assume we’d get some of those for non-football but we’ll see. I think there will be fewer marquee non conference games eventually whether that’s the super conferences shifting to a more structured schedule or more teams realizing the potential extra loss is a negative. Sure Texas come out ahead. Sorta. But as long as Texas-Bu-TCU-A&M are reasonably competitive it’s dumb that they don’t all play each other. It’s not surprising you’d see more LSU in Houston but not sure that holds elsewhere in Texas.
  16. Just to make Tech people feel better, I would have preferred the Big 12. But the pre-NIL under the table payments, SEC hype train required action if you wanted to compete with it. It is the money, but the competitive environment was skewed. Who else was going to act? PAC-12? I doubt it. The ACC still is sitting on their hands. The playoff and subsequent expansion made conference shifts a certainty. The SEC and Big 10 still and will always want what is their “right.” The most seats at that table, which in their minds, is my 3 loss team is better than your 1 loss team. Tech and Baylor are our rivals. Maybe not the primary ones but rivals nonetheless. History and living amongst each other make the best rivalries. We have/had that. Losing them forever, that’s hard to reconcile. Supplement that with great and varied non conference matchups, and you have a winner. I’m not a big trash talker, and a great part of road game experiences are the brief bonding experiences with opposing football fans who appreciate the moment. Winning is enough. Losing is painful enough. All the rest is bullshit. Nobody asked my opinion. And no one gives a shit about my opinion now, but each step closer to the NFL this becomes the less great it becomes to me.
  17. The DBs have whiffed too often the past two years at or behind the LOS. I’m not sure if they’re thinking killshot or not, but they don’t have much backing them up so they need to understand the objective. Tackle or disrupt rather than highlight reel.
  18. Worthy dropped 3 versus UW, but two were on the same possession. The other wasn’t necessarily a drive killer. The TCU drops probably killed a drive or two but not necessarily scoring chances. Now the Bijan wheel route versus TCU? That’s as bad as QBing as you’ll ever see. Perfect call by the way.
  19. I’d say all those things are important. I don’t call play calling adjustments but for the past two years there are games which Sark fails to use his rather simple to execute screen, jet sweep, diamond formation game. We’re less perfect for that without Bijan and Roschon gone but still damn good from a personnel standpoint. If the offense begins to lull, we need to get the ball in playmakers hands. Those type plays can you get you first downs and kick start drives. We need to catch the interceptions when presented. There’s no stats background for it, but we missed quite a few opportunities for picks. Staying healthy is important. Obviously luck is needed there.
  20. See look at that Gbenda is ready.
  21. This is a prime example of opposing fans bullshit. The only example you even cite was the type of hit that wasn’t really called at that time. What year did Leach whine? I was in Lubbock shortly thereafter hearing a Tech fans discussing it as gospel. It was wrong. There was justification for every single call.
  22. I realize it may be a bit off but his bio shows he was 6’ 230. SENIOR (2015) First-team All-Big 12 selection by the Associated Press … second-team All-Big 12 honoree by the league’s coaches, San Antonio Express-News, ESPN.com and Sporting News … started all 11 games in which he played, leaving early against Texas Tech with an injury and missing the Baylor game … led the team with 75 tackles, 6.5 sacks and 9.5 tackles for loss … That team had no depth. Or at least no mature depth. We lost to Tech in part because of that. Both LBs went out and it was freshmen. The following week I think we started 7 frosh on D, moved Duke Thomas to FS. Jinkens probably got lost in the program faltering. He and Marcus Johnson could have had a role on the 2023 team.
  23. Bullshit. Yes, ask other fan bases. They don’t like Texas and believe we get the calls. We don’t. I live in a Big 12 city. I’ve heard the bogus bullshit time and again. Texas has the advantages to overcome. Yeah, sorta maybe. I happen to have a bit more respect for the small town, 3 * than most. There are a shit ton more than 25 good prospects per year but that’s the biggest drawback for most teams - they can’t get the higher end “talent” but never mind the endless stream of mediocre talents like Drew Brees or LT that somehow make it to the NFL anyway. Coaching is the most important element. As I’ve matured, that has become even more apparent. The truth of the matter is that most Texas schools have underachieved, but we only want to put that at Texas doorstep. If Leach and Briles can do it, others can as well. I don’t particularly give shit about Yormarks comment. I am not concerned about refs screwing us over this year. Wouldn’t put it past them, but they have subtlety done fine the last handful of years giving us the short end of the stick.
  24. Your boy slorch continually references the preferential treatment Texas receives. That thought is prevalent too. Much of it based on bullshit. Over the past 10 years, there’s exactly one call that’s pro-Texas that impacted a game significantly in our favor. There are likely others but far fewer than against Texas. As a fan there is no doubt you focus on how you’ve been wronged. But 2019 Big 12 champ. 2021 OU. 2015 OSU. I’m not saying last years OSU game was terrible but the hold on Jones was horrible given the way the game was called. Bama had some too (and I don’t even give a shit about the safety/not a safety). You should forgive the human nature bit when stuff pops up again and brings up bad memories for us.
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