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  1. I wish we had this Georgia quarterback who hits his receivers in stride.
  2. He thought he was in overtime.
  3. I've never seen a head coach have his field goal kickers be more clutch at the end of games than Mack Brown. Not a big fan of his, but he had some magical super power shit going on in regards to that specific aspect. Sarkisian appears to be channeling more Bobby Bowden right now.
  4. It's weird to think of Notre Dame as the plucky underdogs, so I refuse to do so. But they really haven't had a clear talent advantage in big time postseason games since the 1980s.
  5. You're such a nuggetable nelly.
  6. You keep making comments like this. Are you watching this game thinking you wish we looked more like Notre Dame or Georgia here?
  7. Leavitt would have torn Georgia a new asshole with the way they defend quarterbacks who can run.
  8. There is the James Franklin quotient to consider.
  9. I hate both of these teams. I guess it's too soon to hope for someone to drive a truck into the Superdome and run both teams over. Also, a hope for a meteor is probably a more politically sensible choice. And the winner plays Pedo State. There's not much for me to root for in these playoffs outside of Texas.
  10. This is no stomp a mudhole post. That's for sure.
  11. Until Pearl Harbor World War II was a European war. Roosevelt won reelection in 1940 in part campaigning on the idea he kept us out of it. 90% of the population doesn't give a shit. Probably more. It's funny talking to people from other countries and trying to explain how overwhelmingly indifferent Americans are to foreign involvement. They sputter and infuriatingly point out all the activities the US has engaged in, how much the US uses its influence in foreign affairs, militarily, economically, and otherwise. The elites of this country have been responsible for all that. In my opinion, mostly for the good, and certainly for the benefit of Americans. But in the vast majority of Americans' minds, we're better off undoing all the international linkages. As a populist message it's going to sell well. As an actual foreign policy, it's a nightmare that can't be undone. The general population honestly just doesn't give a shit about Russian atrocities. That's the blunt truth.
  12. I feel like Elliott went all in the last three years for the national championship. It worked out two of those years as well as could possibly be hoped. I thought this team had a real shot at a three peat. The roster looked more talented than anyone in the country not named Nebraska. But they just never came together like last year's group did. After virtually ignoring a couple of classes in terms of development, outside of Halter and Singletary, and maybe Kahahawai, I'm interested to see how he handles the next two classes. He's been winning a lot of his recruiting battles the last 3 years, so he should have a lot of his first choices for the most part. I'd like to see us make a serious run at the SEC title. I believe next year is the first year for a volleyball tournament. Not a big fan of it, but I'm also not a big fan of coming in second this year to Kentucky after beating them head to head. After having so many transfers littering the lineup, that one only has Lauenstein. I'm interested to see what kind of serving lineup we put out there. Starting with Swindle, Halter, Lauenstein, and Kahahawai is pretty stout.
  13. Or a Navy destroyer with a phalanx system accidentally left on.
  14. I think the line with Bo Robinson the next year was even better. Not that Robinson was better than Giles, but all of them were improved from the previous season. A criminally underrated defense because the offense was so incredibly stupefyingly horrific. A little racist, but I don't mean it that way. I loved Giles his senior season.
  15. What a waste of a class. I don't blame them for transferring out. I'm a little surprised Bunton isn't on the list. Not to blame the coaching staff wholly. Not sure how anyone can be upset with 2 national championships. But with all the transfers coming in there wasn't a chance for playing time. Hopefully we get to see the incoming players develop some.
  16. I don't know, man. Elliott has a little Mack Brown in him. There's a few players that leave with bitterness, but there are a lot of players that stick around through their entire eligibility because they just really like it here. If I was Kahahawai's mentor I would have been telling her to transfer last year no ands, ifs, or buts. It's not for everyone, but for the players who seem to fit in with the rest of the team, they don't seem to want to go anywhere.
  17. I feel like Jonathon Brooks has shown that there's no risk in coming back from a rehabbed knee injury. Dunno what you guys are so worked up about regarding Baxter. He'll be fine.
  18. No doubt. I was thinking of it specifically as the recognition of a defeat as a day celebrating the birth of a new national identity.
  19. I like Gallipoli as an example.
  20. All I know is I watched her at Minnesota for two years and wasn't excited about her coming to Texas. Part of that isn't Wenaas's fault. I was spoiled with our outsides. Wenaas had no chance to match up with the recent history of outsides we've possessed. And she didn't. Another problem is that Nebraska beat us head to head on virtually every recruiting battle we had with them for a couple of years (and everyone else, for that matter). Thankfully that's been changed the last couple of years, plus we received some incredible additions from the portal, including 3 from Nebraska (and Ames!). But even Blackwell this past year - who we could have used as a middle a lot more than Nebraska - we lost out on. We also lost on a couple of littles that could have been difference makers for us. Maybe Wenaas was the best option. I don't know. I just know I wasn't excited about her commitment out of the portal. I've had frustrations watching her the last couple of years. Again, it's not all on her. We won a national championship with her for goodness sakes, so there has to be gratitude around her for that. She went through some rough times and in my opinion showed a lot of mental fortitude. Especially when she was getting pulled early in the 2023 season. That hug from Elliott after the national championship said a lot.
  21. I honestly never completely understood why we brought her in. She's easy on the eyes, I'll give her that. And she tries hard. I never had an issue with her effort.
  22. It's not all on her, but I will be glad to move on from Wenaas. I'd like to say it was a frustrating season, but the truth is it comes following back to back national championships and an absolute blowout of Nebraska in last year's championship game, so that makes it a whole lot less frustrating. It never felt like we took advantage of having Rutherford on the roster. Really missed having a 3rd quality little in the back like the last two years.
  23. I'm not talking about right or wrong here. When it comes to college sports I'm not righteous enough to feel like I know what is right or wrong. As I established with a previous post on this thread - not that I expect you to have memorized my practically incoherent ramblings - I feel like there's a cognitive dissonance we all agree to with college sports being a multibillion dollar entertainment enterprise within academic institutions that fundamentally I'm uncomfortable with. My ideal world would put the genie back in the bottle in ways that aren't practical, where there's an oppressive overarching organization that negotiates the television contract for all college teams, evenly distributes the revenue, heavily enforces no payments to athletes, NIL or otherwise, colleges have much smaller athletic budgets than they do currently, and there are professional options in each sport if athletes want to go that route. I don't think NIL propels college athletics forward in productive ways, personally. It's a mess. It's basically impossible to enforce. It further separates the haves from the have nots. But as a fan of a have, it certainly benefits my fandom. So if this is going to be how we move forward, I'm thrilled Texas is exploiting it as much as possible. I don't blame O'Bannon in any which way. It's absolutely against the Sherman Act, so it's tough to see where the Supreme Court went wrong on a 9-0 blistering unanimous decision. We can blame the NCAA, but I'm not sure what they were supposed to do to get ahead of something I don't think there's any way to implement in a way that wouldn't be tossed out. Congress hasn't been in a position to act on college athletics for at least a decade, if not longer. Maybe work harder to get something passed in 1984 after the Supreme Court ruled against the NCAA negotiating television contracts? But I don't think that would have resulted in anything the average fan wanted to see whether it would have been good for my personal model of college sports or not. But I'm not thankful for O'Bannon, that's for sure. And it could have been a comment you were making to a general audience, but you made it as a reply to me, and so I responded in kind. I'm not mad at you, O'Bannon, the Supreme Court, the NCAA, or any of the individual actors who have led us down this path. I'm just an old man who doesn't like the direction things are going in and see it as unsustainable, but I'm too busy railing at kids to get off my front lawn to do anything about it.
  24. Did you catch the part where I'm not a big fan of NIL? Not that I consider this O'Bannon's fault. But no, no thank you or holiday gift basket from me.
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