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  1. I heard him chide (mostly) the officials and (partly) the Texas fans for overturning the bad call after the student protest. He has a point, but…remember the game situation. Texas had scored a TD and two point conversion after Smart’s failed onside kick. It was 23-8. Texas had just returned a pick to the Georgia nine. If the refs let the call stand, with Georgia snapping from midfield, and Texas goes on to lose, we’re all saying that the refs stole the game. And, we’d kind of be right.
  2. No. It was right after that that Mack had Chance Movk play a few series at QB against Missouri, with Vince at WR. Vince caught a long pass, Mocj played poorly, and that foolishness was shunted aside. The next week, at Lubbock, Lead Option was added to Zone Read, and “Let Vince Be Vince” carried the day. https://stats.texassports.com/custompages/sports/m-footbl/archive/stats/04/101604.htm
  3. The “reason” for the fuckery was Mao Grant Teaff could go out with a winning record and bowl game in his last season. Of course, Texas needed that win to go to a bowl game (the UNT win didn’t count towards the six wins necessary, them being D-1AA), too. Their gift to Grant Teaff fucked a squad of Longhorns over. Roger’s Redding was the referee. Check out the box score-Baylor didn’t give enough of a shit about Teaff to fill the stadium, but the refs had to take care of their friend. Edited: https://www.curriejefferson.com/obituaries/rogers-redding If you’re thinking of writing a letter to Redding, asking what he was doing, you’re out of luck
  4. That is some bullshit, that he knew Texas got screwed on calls but he thought is was ok because Texas got calls in the past. Fuck Grant Teaff and Fuck Baylor. I am glad Grant Teaff lived to see Texas leave Baylor in the past. The other referee fucking we got was the ‘99 bonfire game.
  5. That looks damning, but in 2024, Quinn has played 4 1/4 games, and three of them were against teams bringing a lot of heat all the time.
  6. I think we know that if ISU and BYU finish undefeated, before the CCG, ISU’s best win will be Iowa and BYU’s best win will be SMU.
  7. Isn’t that what everyone who tweets out something they want to take back says?
  8. If we’re doing hypotheticals,… What if Barron had returned the puck all the way for a TD? Think they would have overturned it (I don’t, but it would have been worth it to see Smart strike out).
  9. When Sark, after last year’s KSU game, said, “I don’t even know what PI is anymore”, in his weekly press conference, showing replays of KSU not being called (Kevin Mar crew), he got some PI calls the next week at TCU. Which really dumbfounded and pissed off Sonny Dykes.
  10. Checking in on Conference-Big 12. ISU (#10 AP, 16 Sagarin) and BYU (#11 AP, 18 Sagarin) are undefeated and not scheduled to play each other. There is one other ranked C-B12 team, KSU, and they are on ISU’s schedule. ISU’s best win is Iowa, a very mid B1G team. BYU’s best win is SMU (they trounced KSU earlier, too). Does anyone feel that, should any defeated ISU meet an undefeated BYU in the C-B12 CG, both teams should make the CFP? Why or why not?
  11. “The Big 12 Fan Base”? WTF? who the hell is that? A couple of guys in Utah, Al on his tractor in Iowa, a couple of Okies…?
  12. I am so ashamed of our students that I made a TexasOne donation. I am disappointed that I can’t designate it in honor of Kirby Smart.
  13. They’ll get over it, or they won’t.
  14. Worth it. They don’t correct the call without the delay.
  15. “Danced with your women.” Dude, do you not know that there are other things to do with them? Dude, we fuck your women.
  16. I heard Bob and Corby downplaying Texas- “they haven’t played a real offense yet this year”, quoting team rankings for opponent offenses. Hilarious that they can never say, “Wow, that semi-local team is having a terrific year. Might be special!” Texas hasn’t played a good offense yet. However, part of those poor rankings has to factor in that Texas took a gouge out of their stats. On average, CSU, Michigan, UTSA, UKM, MSU and OU scored 20 points less against Texas than they have for their other opponents. Against Michigan and OU (decent defenses), Texas scored an average of 14 points more than those two usually gave up (other opponents). I think Texas will acquit itself fine against Georgia. It’s hilarious that Bob and Corby are more interested in finding ways to doubt than they are in observing.
  17. The crazy thing is that Bowman may be the best (healthy) QB in the state of Oklahoma
  18. Question- the police can take your phone, right? With a subpoena, even if you don’t surrender it voluntarily? Given the damn apps I have noting my (well, the phone’s) location all the time, shouldn’t that pretty well establish whereabouts? What are they going to get from you in an interrogation that they can’t get 90% of from a modern person’s phone? (Besides a false confession)? (I saw a Dallas based Dateline/48 Hours/whatever where the wife of the victim texted the killer just before the murder. Did she think the police wouldn’t see that?) I guess it could depend on the situation. If your spouse were missing but possibly alive, wouldn’t you consider handing a detective the phone and saying, “wire me up to a polygraph so you can get on with the real investigation. Ten minutes in, I’m pulling the wire off and asking for an attorney”.
  19. In the 1980’s, Texas was one of a few schools in the region turning SMU in for their egregious cheating. SMU responded by hiring PIs to investigate other schools they suspected of turning them in. They dug up the most minor stuff on Texas, compiled and submitted it (and leaked to the press). Texas got a couple of probations out of that, allowing SMU, OU, TAMU and the rest to say, “You’re no better than us! We just have better teams.”
  20. This is something. There is a current of thought on Sooner boards that their recruiting has suffered because the OU compliance department picked the advent of NIL as a reason to clamp down on inducements for recruits. Does this make any kind of sense to anyone?
  21. Quote Necro-bumped, because it’s too great
  22. Ian Boyd wrote on IT that the Arnold camp wanted Littrell as OC. Take it for what it’s worth. Either way, Venables owns the decision.
  23. Venables made the same mistake the OU fans did. The main reason that touted young QBs as inexperienced as Arnold (Bradford, Williams) worked out is that they were: 1. Exceptionally talented 2. Exceptionally well coached The reason that Venables and OU fans expected Arnold to work out are: 1. He wears the OU uniform (just like Bradford and Williams) 2. They really need him to. A five star rating is an assessment of talent, not a definition of talent Fans are expected to be idiots like that. It’s malpractice for coaches to.
  24. How so? Not firm? Not a good communicator?
  25. I think their single biggest problem is that their program was extremely successful for almost a quarter of a century, and one of its pillars was that they would say and do what was needed to recruit well, and once those players were enrolled, the program was extremely demanding of them. Schmitty, Stoops, Venables, all those extreme hardasses could be as tough as they wanted or needed to be, because there were barriers to player movement. They could make a guy swallow the vomit from an over exertion. They could have a culture where a player was considered a pussy if he sought treatment for an injury rather than play through it in a big game. That all made the football better at OU. Their success in developing players was enviable, and the ones that made it to the NFL weren’t going to claim, but the process was brutal. Do you think Mancini, fired at KU for being abusive to players, was softer at OU? Hell, no. So, that worked for over 20 years, but now the barriers to player movement are gone. All of us in the regular workforce know that Gen Z has a limit to how much bullshit they will put up with (to their credit), and that’s a problem for Venables. Venables made his bones in a system where the solution to performance problems was to grind harder and demand more. His player management toolset has one tool: a ratchet set to tighten only, and not loosen. Yes, NIL is a problem. What are they going to do when the key players that they want to build on explore opportunities elsewhere? Is Venables ready to develop soft skills? Is that program? I’ve read that, in the NFL, players won’t put up with abusive, hardass coaches (see Urban Meyer). They say the best NFL coaches are firm, but good communicators, that players will respond to demands from a coach that is honest with them, lets them know where they stand and where they are going. That sounds like Sark. Does that sound like Venables, or any others off the Stoops tree?
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