Jump to content

Horn of Gabriel

Legacy Members
  • Posts

    1225
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    1

Everything posted by Horn of Gabriel

  1. Howard's ceiling isn't as high as QE's but his floor is higher. They can actually run the ball usually. And their defense is very good as well. Their safeties are ELITE which would be the best position group on the field if not for their receivers who are freakishly good and catch everything. For Texas to win this, we have to do a few things all at once, which we haven't done much this year: Plus 2 turnover battle Consistently run block and go on at least two to three 7+ minute drives 75% Redzone TDs No negative ST plays (no FG misses <45 yards, no bringing the ball out on a kickoff 5 yards deep and starting on our 10 yard line, no getting fooled AGAIN on a fake punt) Basically we have to be able to play downhill run the ball offense and control the clock like ASU did to us. That's the path to victory. Unfortunately it's also not our identity at all, which leaves the other path, which is rocky: shootout. We may have the horses on Defense to do the shootout path but I don't think we do on Offense to consistently score enough. If they score 35+ we are in big big trouble. If they score >21 in the first half we're in big trouble, because you know we piss ourselves in the 3rd Q. We need to stone the run, sack Howard and turn him over, get some timely turnovers and ST plays be be up by 10-14 at the half and then pray that we don't give it away. Blame QE, Sark, whoever we just don't have the killer instinct right now and we play up/down to the competition.
  2. The type of offense that kills Ohio State is smashmouth ball control. Like ASU or Michigan. Not us. We can win but should be underdogs and will need to win the turnover battle badly. I love Texas but we should be +7 in this game.
  3. All fine and good but you have to have a plan to deal with him too, because with a narcissist it's never enough. If you give him all of the above he will be thinking "yeah but why didn't they give me XYZ?" And worse, I'm sure he still has supporters, friends, patrons, boosters, BMDs in the system and he can pour poison in their ears in private all the easier the closer he gets to the program. All it takes is him attending one practice, then he has a conversation w/ a big donor about how "oh I saw something that I didn't like or wouldn't have done it that way" and pretty soon the BBs are falling out of the box and someone like Sark or CDC has to start working to put them back in. Maybe let's not spill them to begin with.
  4. Are you serious or is this "amazing interview" thing a bit? Even if you take away all the hysterics about Mack and his potential toxic impact on Texas going forward and just look at Burton's interview in a vacuum, it was mediocre to below average. The questions were fawning, softball and leading the witness ("Mack, would you agree that..."), the answers were shallow with little-to-no follow up ("Sark is doing great," "You need great NIL to compete today," "I keep in touch with former players on Facebook"), and there was zero balanced examination of the bad side of Mack's tenure as you would expect in an "good" interview. I was going to give Burton half-credit for his "which loss stung the most" question, but he loses it when he jumps over and answers it for Mack, and then Mack predictably uses it as an opportunity for excuse making and throwing players under the bus. I don't blame Burton for this. He's not a professional interviewer, that's a skill. And Mack probably wouldn't be there if he was going to face anything other than softball questions. Maybe, as you said, a softball interview with an over-the-hill coach from a decade ago will generate hundreds of thousands of viewers and that makes it worth it to OTF. But don't piss in our face and say it's raining by calling this a "good fucking interview" when it clearly is anything but.
  5. Those pointing out that the University won't be as petty as we are here are right; at least outwardly. No one at UT is going to issue a press release saying "fuck that guy, he's not welcome and UTPD will arrest him for trespassing the moment he steps on campus." The University's pettiness will show up in more subtle ways. Like he gets honored between quarters vs. a halftime presentation. He is feted in a group vs. alone. Or one of my favs: he gets the statue or his name on the practice facility you know he so desperately wants for his legacy...after he dies.
  6. Just another indicator that Mack saw himself as "bigger than the program." Of course he would never admit it; he was careful to say the right things when pouring poison in your ears and complaining in a passive aggressive way about the unfair expectations and how darn hard it was to be the coach at Texas. But if you gave him truth serum, I guaran-damn-tee he would admit that he thinks he could coach circles around DKR, Sark, everyone else, that his name should be added to the stadium, and he should have an office next to Sark to provide "advice."
  7. Sounds like you're carrying water for your buddy and business partner Bobby Burton. "Incredible interview?" LOL Mack didn't say anything he hasn't said a 1000 times before OR you could predict with 100% accuracy: Sark is great His team plays great defense CDC is great Texas has great NIL Texas is such a hard place to coach at that those mean fans got mad at us when we "only" won 10 games! har har har! That's some hard hitting analysis right there. To be fair, he did break news about his and Sally's retirement plan to move to Austin. So there's that. If anything he showed his true anti-Texas colors by arguing passionately for "parity" in college football and that the "big brands" (Texas???) boosters don't want that and complain to their politicians to freeze the status quo. You're damn right we want to freeze things here Mack! First there's never been parity in college football, ever. Second, the current playing field allows Texas to legally pay players in a way we didn't when it wasn't legal. Mack's an old head who wants to turn back the clock. Maybe he gets Burton some extra views, which is great. But the sycophantic fawning interview questions that only focus on the positive and glaze over all the (many, so many) negatives Mack had on Texas resulting in our last decade plus in the wilderness, I can do without those.
  8. This thread has far too much bitching about the location of a game we haven't even made yet.
  9. eh I guess? It's cutting off your nose to spite your face. Just ignore horns down, and smile and toss 'em up while we kick in their teeth. It only has the power you give it.
  10. Were they wearing peach colored blazers? The bowl parasites trying everything to stay relevant.
  11. One of my favorites and a regular in my rotation. Their rye is also good.
  12. That's fine and they'll become irrelevant as a result. But the CFP should still hold the championship game at that stadium every year.
  13. This quote: “We all like the tradition of the bowls, but moreso, the bowl committees know how to put on games and hospitality and game operations,” Hancock said. “They know how to do that better than anybody.” REALLY??!!! The bowls know better how to put on a game than the athletic departments who do it 8 times a year every year? We knew the bowl parasites were going to try every trick in the book to get their hooks into the CFP to try to maintain a semblance of relevance, but zero reason the first 2 rounds should not be on campus. Better environment, less travel, rewards the higher seeds, rewards the fans and season ticket holders. Between semis and the national championship they can establish a rotation of Rose, Sugar, Fiesta, Cotton, and Peach maybe. Or just use the first three, who cares. The only butthurt people would be the barnacles on the side of the college football boat that are the bowl committees. NO ONE is saying "wow I can't wait for a trip to Arlington and the pageantry of Jerryworld!"
  14. The 4 to 12 thing Mack is talking about is a smoke screen. He's talking about revenue sharing. Everyone competing for an ACC title will rev share at comparable levels, so it will just raise the floor. NIL will still be required to set the ceiling.
  15. It's hilarious. NC hired someone who outshines Mack, who doesn't have to pretend to like Mack when he retires and tries to hang around the program, who has enough money himself and gravitas with boosters that Mack can't effectively undermine him from afar. He has got to be seething. All that said, it still probably won't work...unless....unless they find some big spenders to coin up their NIL? I could see them winning the ACC at some point.
  16. ...followed by 5-paragraph rant. Projection much? First, I don't give a shit about MM once he left Texas. He had big limitations and was never going to be more than a backup here. If Duke did give him a time-bound take-it-or-leave-it, all the more reason to take it. As others pointed out, he's not going to increase his value any more, and possible destinations and NIL potential would be gone by the time Texas was done. I don't, as you do, begrudge a player for doing what is best for them.
  17. Well that's certainly a take. Another is the CFP schedule vs. the portal schedule pushed a backup who wanted playing time to the portal in the only viable window (Spring window sucks for QB and we all know it). A player who by accounts did right by Texas, was loved by teammates and coaches, and really didn't want to go but had to if he wanted to progress in his career. Your framing is, as usual, over-simplified, one-sided and lacking appropriate context. I get that your schtick is to be the hyper-reductive asshole, so carry on.
  18. Can we stop with the "Sark should hire a real OC and focus on being a CEO head football coach!" First, it's not realistic and not going to happen outside of fantasy land. If Sark wanted to go that route, he would have a long time ago. Second, Sark sees play calling as his greatest strength, and he's probably right. In his view, if you take him off the headset you are depriving the team of his single biggest asset. Sark has shown that he's probably a top 3 offensive mind in CFB, so those clamoring for an OC would have to bet that the falloff from the OC we in-theory would get would be made up fro by the intangibles that Sark could bring by zooming out - and that is FAR from a given. It's just as likely that we'd end up with a disgruntled OC who is pissed that the HC is meddling or dipping in at the wrong time, or that Sark cycles through OCs searching for someone to run his system as well as he can, etc. Third, even if Sark gave up play calling to "zoom out," and goes to hire an OC...the OCs who are going to take that job aren't the OCs you want. Any real hot shit OC is going to want to be somewhere where they can implement their own ideas and clearly own the offense, either at a top tier G7 or low/mid Power2 school, probably working under a defensive minded head coach who won't meddle as much. Last don't anyone dare think of using the term "money whip" with regard to getting a top flight OC. Texas doesn't do that. And even if we did it rarely works.
  19. A-fuckin-men...I'd pay extra for a TV with a McAfee auto-mute function whenever his whiny voice comes on
  20. I listened to that last night in the car and was laughing my ass off. Christo was talking about his "top 25" defense...ok bud. Miami is trash. Bruce and Stew HAAAAAATE Texas. Not sure if it's their PAC12/B1G bias or just Texas hate in general but they were going out of their way to shit all over Texas specifically. #StayMad
×
×
  • Create New...