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Frank Drebin

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  1. I used to see Chris and Rod Babers at Red River Cafe early mornings back then. I used to go there after working out before class. Chris was riding high after that Colorado beat down.
  2. I think Heard has the single game yardage record for a Texas QB.
  3. I never hated Simms. I thought he and Applewhite were both average to slightly above average QBs. I would have started Simms also after Major wrecked his knee. Simms was one tough bastard and his teammates loved him, so I did respect him. He was not a championship level QB. But we had other much bigger problems on those teams. Greg Davis. A joke of an OL coach who squandered all sorts of elite talent. A DC (Reese) who was really good against the option (that we maybe faced every other year) and standard offenses but coached against the spread and especially the Air Raid like a retard. The Simms haters were disgraceful. The Simms lovers were idiots. His arm was nowhere near elite like all the experts in our fanbase claimed. He just threw every pass as hard as he could. Kind of a bizarro Ewers. Simms has as many passing TDs as I do against OU. I'd take Ehlinger all day over Simms or Applewhite but not sure he is what you need to win a championship. I kind of rate him about like Quinn. Make me choose, and I would take Ehlinger because he could play through an injury much better than Quinn.
  4. WR is not close. Maybe Wingo narrows the gap. But Ohio State is special at WR.
  5. I am stealing this from IT, but it pretty strongly refutes your argument. Here is link. https://www.on3.com/teams/texas-longhorns/news/whose-offensive-line-is-more-experienced-texas-or-ohio-states/ Ohio State has two projected starter with three years at their school. Texas has three players that can say they they have been in the meeting room and on the practice field with Kyle Flood. Texas has 12 combined years of listening to Steve Sarkisian in team meetings, offseasons being built up by Torre Becton. Ohio State has 10 combined seasons in Columbus. Consistency has to matter. However it isn’t just the consistency. Something often lost in the counting OL experience shuffle is that Cole Hutson has 1,314 career snaps and 13 starts from the 2022 season. When counting both offensive lines, he comes in just shy of the second most experienced OL in the upcoming game. Texas not only has the edge on years in the system, they hold an edge in career snaps among the projected starters. Texas has 3,670 snaps to Ohio State’s 3,312 total career snaps. When counting total starts, Ohio State gains a slight edge with their 49 starts over Texas’ 45, but again it is far from the lopsided nature that has been sold by some. Granted there is something to be said about the accuracy of the grades from PFF, and the small sample size for the Longhorns. But the PFF grades come in with a strong Texas lean. Only one Longhorn in 2025 registered a grade lower than 62.5, the best from a projected starter grade for Ohio State. The gap between the two teams experience is much smaller than advertised, and might even be flipped as to who is the most experienced. Both offensive lines will have their hands literally full of the best defenders each team may likely face in 2025.
  6. Also they weren't stopping VY from first and goal, which is what it would have been. And had we had to run 1-3 plays to score, USC never has the time to drive the field for a field goal before half. At best for USC it's Texas kicking a FG to end the half. So subtracting the field goal they were able to get it's net Texas 6 points, which is what we got after we rushed the XP. At worst, we score a TD in the next few plays and they don't get a FG. So it is Texas plus 9. Whatever, what happened that night ended up awesome.
  7. We have had a chance to laugh at Tech a lot, despite them spoiling a couple seasons like 2008 and to a lesser extent, 2002. But one of the funnier things I ever saw was when we played at Lubbock in 2004. I was doing some hunting in the area so went to the game. This is when VY started taking off and when Greg Robinson was the DC. (Robinson's scheme was as good against the Air Raid as Carl Reese's was bad). We were absolutely skull fucking them up and down the field. It was 48-14 in the fourth quarter and one of their midget WRs had just picked up 20 meaningless yards against our third string corner. The WR got up and started talking shit to the DB right in his face. The DB just pointed at the scoreboard.
  8. Earl Thomas is the best Texas DB since I started paying attention in middle school (1990). Aaron Williams is too low on that list.
  9. OTF is really good. We are lucky they’re out there. But if you listen to more than a couple hours per week it will be repetitive. There just isn’t that much to talk about.
  10. Watch. The. Tape.
  11. Niblack listed 5th string TE on their depth chart behind a bunch of scrubs. Didn’t they pay him a bunch of NIL? Wasn’t Liucci talking him up in the spring as big get from tu?
  12. I do.
  13. If he does not beat out Reed, he will portal.
  14. They must. Because if you look at experience between Texas and Ohio State OL, it's almost equal # of starts and snaps. If you look at the PFF ratings of those snaps from last season, Texas is way, way ahead of Ohio State and pretty much all of us are taking a wait and see approach. Not to mention they have to play our front 7, which is better than theirs. We can absolutely lose. But if we play a relatively clean game and do not go worse than -1 in turnovers, we should win by 7 or more.
  15. That sounds good to me. I was assuming their WRs would come back at some point. I think the O/U on wins probably should be 7.5. Michigan is a mess right now. Auburn is a mess right now. If they lose either of those, 7 wins is probably their ceiling.
  16. All true. Just telling you he seems to be a different person. Many people are different than what they were at 21, thankfully.
  17. Doubt that. They will win 8 or 9. The delta in QB play is significant. They do lack talent to be a real threat and their talent is only getting worse due to their poorness.
  18. I am thinking the fat Jersey and jort wearing townies that cause most of the problems in Columbus cannot afford road trips.
  19. The extra conference game plus requiring a P4 opponent is going to cut into Texas A&M almost having a floor of 8 wins every season. They lived on mostly 4 nonconference patsies at home plus getting an awful until last year South Carolina as their permanent rival. South Carolina, excluding FCS games, was 71-69 from 2012 to 2023. They bragged about being in the mighty SEC. But if you look at Sagarin SOS, they had weaker schedules than Texas basically every year since they left the Big 12 except 2. So take the 4 buy wins nonconference and go 4-4 in the SEC to brag about going 8-4 in the mighty SEC. They very rarely ever beat any good SEC teams. Arkansas really let us down by losing almost every game against them in Dallas. Often times in very close games. If they win 8 games going forward, that is a lot better than the 8 wins they were getting before Texas joined the conference.
  20. I think he may have actually scored any way. If there was replay it looked like a TD. It was idiotic to use him as our short yardage runner. Jamaal Charles was our best short, medium, and long yardage guy and would have walked in on that play.
  21. I was frustrated in our turnovers against Ohio State in 2005. Had we played a cleaner game, we win by 10. But winning despite being -2 in turnovers was good enough. 3 times our offense turned it over to Ohio State in field goal range. Defense allowed something like 30 yards total on those three drives but gave up 9 points in field goals.
  22. Does the season include bowl games? I would hate betting either way on that. Nonplayoff bowls are now just exhibition games.
  23. Or maybe he grew up? I liked him. And he was very well liked in the company. They were sad but wished him well when he departed.
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