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I just realized this, before yesterday I had never seen my Navy man hero Roger Staubach blessing the game balls by warming up throwing the balls before the game and somehow Navy pulls off the big upset. Does Roger do this every year or what? He is between my mom's age, 83 and my dad's age, 88. Can't believe he can still throw the ball. But it kind of makes sense. He was on the Ticket probably 10 years ago, they asked him how he stays in such great shape. He told them it was one simple rule. 'I break a sweat every day" he told them.

gonna go under 2 years for this hire. Will he even travel to recruit, or just stay in Carolina? Can't see him doing the recruiting.

No comments on the others, but Dusty is actually very good. Something good came out of OU, imagine that?

If we're making predictions, put me in the camp that says Georgia is losing before the final, so we are done with them. I have been back and forth on this and it's just too much for GA at this point. They played what 7 overtimes last week, another one this week, and the high they are on is out-of-sight. They are going to hear how great they are for four+ weeks? They are coming down like a rock.

I was born in the 1960s, did not see any of 60s action, but have a couple of comments: 1. My favorite memory watching football with my dad was when we were sitting in the living room yelling at the TV all game while losing to Alabama in the 1982 CB. We could FEEL the disgust coming from Robert Brewer as he called timeout and went to the sidelines. WE ALL truly genuinely knew 'bama was coming with the blitz and back then teams did not change calls after a timeout. Then the best call of the decade happened, with the QB draw. I believe this is in the top three calls of the 80s and 90s decades, up there with the 90+ yard pass by Major against OU and the Ricky run for the Heisman. I propose a new category, near legend. Brewer is near legend. If he doesn't call TO that call never happens. I remember only one game Brewer lost, a game against SMU, when SMU had that lucky pass that bounced off our DB and into a receiver's hands, resulting in about a 70 yard TD pass. I think Jitter Fields was on the field for that play and the infamous 1984 CB. Ponies were lucky, lucky that game. 2. Two QBs who could have completely changed the game, had the chemistry been there with wide receivers a. Rick McIvor. Rick had the strongest arm in Texas history. I saw him in person against the Ags one year in Austin. We were losing, Rick drops back, throws about a 60 yard pass in the air it hits the WR in the chest and falls to the ground. We lost the game. Rick had only one game when he somehow got lucky and put it all together, against Aggy in the 1983 game. Plenty of drops whenever Rick played. Did players not practice enough in the 80s? b. Simms. I remember one of those Holiday Bowl losses to Oregon or whomever, when Simms is throwing bullets to receivers in the end zone and they were dropping all of them. The excuse given was the receivers were freshmen. Obviously it improved to some extent, but all most people remember is the game against Colorado, the interception that knocked Cedric Benson and Mike Williams out of the game. I believe there was a fundamental difference that does not exist in today's game. It seems like QBs and WRs are much better at being on the same page, compared to then. I think with the coaching of today, a Simms type player develops much better and wins more games.

yes! thx.. so great, things look really good to buy tickets to the Jerryworld game.

what? Somebody post CT.

Wrt our players experience, I would think a substantial % of our players have experience playing in Jerryworld in high school playoff games. A plus because of the distraction of the huge screen. I don't think our team has played there, no? Other than that the major plus is our guys have experience playing in Dallas, which means the routine could be basically the same as playing OU...same bus trip, etc. Here is hoping if we get to the Arlington game the organizers allow us to stay in Austin and have a week of practice, instead of spending a week in Arlington. What are you gonna do in Arlington? Go to Six Flags in January? nope. Maybe compromise and arrive in Arlington one extra night to make appearances. This is a job, not playtime. If I were a betting man and/or speculator, I would try to get tickets to the Jerryworld game. Other random thoughts; I don't think the GA backup QB who beat us has ever been hit as hard as he was yesterday at the end. Timing is everything. Hit him that hard early 3rd quarter and it's a totally different game. I can bet he will be slightly hesitant running the middle of the field his next game. More importantly we are still going to need Arch. I can feel it, not quite as strong as 2009 season when Colt went down against Alabama, but I can feel it. That year I absolutely knew we were going to need GG. Mack earned all of the hate that year for refusing to play GG in competitive situations when he had the chance. This is almost like a small second season, kind of reminds me of the NFL back in the day when the Cowboys needed a 2nd stringer QB to win some playoff games and more like the NY Giants when Rutledge came in for the injured Phil Simms and won the Super Bowl.

Also, there used to be an argument that the 1981 defense was actually a better D than 1983, but I think they ended up #2 in the country. I am going strictly from memory. That team was not undefeated, at 9-1-1, and the entire team was stained by a loss in which they did not "show up". The team got a bit cocky I would imagine and looked like they didn't want to be there against Arkansas, in Arkansas. I don't even remember the score it was so bad.

Incorrect. We wasted the best D in Texas football history in 1983. That was the #1 D in the country and is somewhat similar to this year. That year there was one game in which the D outscored our own Offense, against TCU, when the D turned the ball over and ran back two TOs for TDs, The offense scored one TD all game and we won 21-14 I believe. In the 1984 Cotton Bowl, our star kicker, a Freshman named Ward kicked 3 out of 5 FG attempts to give us 9 points. Georgia scored after the famous dropped punt by Craig Curry in the final four minutes and a couple of plays later Georgia scored a TD on a sweep that all Texas fans say they were guilting of holding but it wasn't called. 10-9 Georgia denied us a perfect season. We didn't know the gravity of the game until that night when Nebraska lost to Miami in the Orange Bowl, 31-30. That was the famous game when Nebraska could have tied the game with an extra point and won the NC, but Osborne showed tremendous guts by going for two. The pass was incomplete, and Miami won the game. If either of Jeff Ward's missed kicks in the CB were good, or Curry simply stays away from the punt, we would have another National Championship. If Edwin Simmons had been born with legs more or less equal in length he would not have been injured after the Oklahoma game and we would have had a RB who could hit the hole quicker than anybody else, and we would have had a very good running attack. If Fred Akers had given Rob Moerschell a serious chance at QB in the 1984 CB almost all Texas fans believe we would have scored a TD on one of his drives, because Georgia had prepared extensively for Rick McIvor, because Rick had the game of his life in the 45-13 route of Aggy, throwing I believe 4 TD passes. Rick had a golden arm and despite not starting much in college was drafted into the NFL. Btw, that Texas D had at about 12 players drafted into the NFL. I distinctly remember one backup getting drafted, a DB.

Somehow I feel less devastated than I would imagine. SEC exposed for reffing like the big12 for the entire game. Ewers totally exposed. Someone more educated than I am tell me, was the slant really open the entire game? And we threw it one time? The unit I am most disappointed in is the OL. I really thought they would show up better than they did. With a decent kicker we win. With some luck on the Georgia fumbles they recovered we win. So Georgia has two weeks off to hear how great they are? I wouldn't be surprised to see them lose their next game. We still have a small chance to see them one more time, in the NC game.

ST can redeem themselves....after holding GA on third down we block the FG and run it back for a TD...game over.

Where's the flag refs/???

Bad news for us. #1 I was completely wrong about that injury and #2 our history against backup QBs is not the greatest. We have no tape on this guy.

Gotta go all the way back to Barkley's comment years ago..."SEC, if you ain't cheating, you ain't trying" SEC is sure as hell cheatin for the Dogs.

Quite correct. Never played. Seen plenty of hits. Expect him to be back.

My bad. did not see that. Was busy stressing waiting for the 15 yard PF call to bail out GA.

I don't think the analysts understand. Beck fell on his off shoulder, not his throwing shoulder. He should be fine.

Sark needs to go ballistic on the refs, just one time early in the 2nd half. That should get the message across. Take the 15 yard penalty, Sark, you have nothing to lose.

half over unless refs call a PF on us because Beck is down.

6 to 6 at half.

I think our O is head-fucked because they know refs are not giving Georgia an equal playing field. Our O knows they have to play perfect, so they press. The only way to rectify this situation IMO is to run the ball down their throats and score a TD right before half.

is this OSU level referee fuckere?

No doubt this reminds me of Big12 reffing. W/hen do we get a neutral set of refs?

I thought Kirby had a foot on the field.