Horn of Gabriel

What’s hilarious about them going for a TRO, is that when it gets overturned (which it will), it will push the 3 game suspension into the big 10 championship game or round 1 of the playoffs. They must think they can run out the clock on the entire season in the courts. We shall see

And he's already signaling that he and his Dad want to be de-facto GM and part-owner of whatever team they deem worthy of drafting him, from a list of their 7 preselected cities they'd like to be in to maximize his endorsement deals. This guy has amazing talent for sure but he ain't some God, he ain't Tom Brady. He's been bred for one thing and one thing only: making money, from as soon as someone realized he could.

Wins count the same if they're by 1 or 100, pretty or ugly. Happy to be 8-1 even when we are playing closer to our floor than ceiling.

I've never seen softer coverage than our defense in OT. Incredibad. Feast or famine with this group, team owes me a new heart.

gone!

I'll DM you

Two tickets in section 5, around the 45-50 yard line, under the overhang. Should have shade by the end of the 1st Q, although it will be beautiful tomorrow. My wife and I caught COVID so take 'em off our hands. I'm going to list them online later today. On SeatGeek tickets around them are $150-190/ea, will sell to surly for $100/ea. Picture from the BYU pre-game. No HDMI ports.

Horry wasn't in the top 3 most talented on his TEAM, let alone all time. WTF?

You can wish for it to happen but it won't. The decision makers who hired Sark got everything that comes along with that, and you don't bring Sark without bringing him as OC. He sees it as his biggest strength and he's not wrong, even if it does create other weaknesses. And no OC of note is going to come work under Sark anyway knowing that he'd be the de-facto OC anyway. So we'd get a junior OC who is basically a meat shield for Sark to sacrifice if something goes sideways, kinda like Jimbo is doing. A better approach is to Sark to hire someone like an ex-HC who he trusts to be in his headset during the game on the "other stuff." But he isn't giving up OC duties.

Meant to write what % of games would you SAY you're able to watch between Bally's and ESPN/TNT @SimonBolivar

If you do Bally's and not NBA LP, what % of the games would you're about to watch between between ESPN, TNT, and Bally's?

OK so I live in the Austin area. Is NBA LP still fucked up where even if you pay the $100/yr you can't watch every game due to some bullshit blackout rules? If so what do you do when a game isn't on TNT/ESPN, I guess it's on Bally but blacked out? I don't get Bally as part of YTTV.

If there's one thing we love in America more than building someone up, it's tearing them down again. Deion may be a top 10 all time NFL player and turned around a HBCU on the back of his swagger and reputation as a player, but he is nothing special as a coach. Congrats from going from 12th in the Pac-12 to (checks notes) 10th in the Pac-12. Let's see how far that swagger goes once you lose your all-star QB son. I guarantee Deion "retires" from coaching once his sons are done. This is just a vehicle to highlight them, nothing more. If a few other kids like Travis Hunter are able to use their shine to improve Deion's and Shadeur's rep, he's good with that. Grifter gonna grift, then ride outta town with his middle finger held high blaming the administration and everyone else while lauding his son as the best thing ever.

You're having a statistical argument against this guy?

Ford was not good, no argument. He's played much, much better. Even the best, most athletic defender looks slow when they're indecisive, and OU put Ford in conflict enough between the run fits and pass coverage to make him indecisive. PK didn't help him much either. Ant Hill played better both because he's a better athlete but he also was more decisive even when he was wrong (which he was a few times). Seems like we really wanted to flood the 7-15 yard between the hashes area to discourage the drag routes and mid-breaking plays that are DG's favorite area and force him to use his arm to the outside. That created a big linebacker issue because 1) DG was able to make the outside throws enough, 2) he scrambled and had enough designed runs that our linebackers were flatfooted and worried about giving up that middle third. Also contributing here: poor gap control on the D-line and also credit to OU's scheme to get the ball out quick which negates a lot of the pass rush. If we get the rematch I'd love to see a defensive scheme the next time that prioritizes: Interior D-line gap control especially up the middle - no up the middle scrambles D-line edge doesn't over pursue - never, ever should the edges get north of the QB, force all scrambles to the sides and cut the field in half for the QB and defense 3/4 alignment - more speed on the field, more disguised pressures More blitzes from more places, especially in the middle Potentially spy DG - Ant Hill would be good here as he was on Milroe in the Alabama game More man free - if we're blitzing it's going to be risk/reward and the DBs need to hang on for a few seconds until we get to him. We know that DG can pick the zone apart. But if we don't have pocket integrity we're dead b/c those DBs are running with their backs turned and if DG slips the blitz he's running for 30+ yards I just think zone is probably not gonna work out awesome with a QB that accurate who gets it out that fast.

this LOL. "oh noes he kept Kirk Bowls waiting"

Bold move, accusing others of ad hominem right before you make a straw man. Let's see how that works out. You can be a "Sark supporter" and still acknowledge failings and areas to improve. We lost a rivalry game with :15 seconds left. A game where we played to our floor with three turnovers, and where if you flip any one of our mental errors (players or coaches) the result also flips. This isn't Texas getting boat raced by 50, it was a back and forth game against a legit opponent who isn't gonna just roll over. The onus is on you: if you're going to post that Sark isn't the guy, what's the alternative? Also explain how we will get that person, how that will put us in a better place going into the SEC, and how we'll retain our excellent recruits who signed up to play for this staff.

Good that we don't have one. There is nothing, not a damn thing that Sark or any coach can say in a post-loss presser that will make anyone happy. All he can say is "We didn't play well enough to win and that's on me, I take full accountability for the loss, congrats to OU." But that's boring and a dozen reporters have stories to write and need content so they ask the same tired questions over and over. Then the coach resorts to coach-speak to avoid 1) throwing his own players under the bus, or 2) making excuses/sounding whiny. And the second the coach slips up and admits a player screwed up or an official missed a key call or whatever there will be multiple posts here about "there goes Sark blaming the players" "there goes Sark making excuses, not our standard!" ...we complain about coach speak but the problem is us. We don't accept the truth.

I have a 2020 GMC Sierra. Inside is nice but the screen is tiny compared to the current Ram and Ford. 4x4 is good, I've towed a few times but it's not my main use case. I like the pro tailgate or whatever they call it for carrying oversize stuff in the bed. The interior materials are good but not awesome, I'd put Ram, Ford, and Toyota ahead. Haven't had any reliability issues with it yet. It's a shade too big but all the full sized trucks are like that now.

So tie game you go 3-and-out after burning a minute and they get the ball back same place they got it anyway with the same or more time left on the clock. Your comment reads "if in hindsight we would have done this other thing and it would have worked perfectly and we won that would have been great." yeah no shit

You forgot the part where the FATE faction overlooks any/all improvements year-over-year in recruiting, game planning, or results (such as Alabama) because the only acceptable result is to be 12-0 and win the national championship each year. And lays 100% of everything at Sark's feet because he's he coach! Ewers made a bad decision throw into the DB for an INT? Shoulda coached him up better than that Sark! "Call the touchdown play Sark!!!" These are the same type of people who use the term "money whip" with regard to coaches and players as if we're fated to get positive results because Texas is rich. Spoiler: we're not. We have improved every year that Sark has been on campus and the trend line is still pointing up overall. This isn't Herman who was immature and a shit recruiter or Strong who was shit overall and just looked lost. Fate people need to stop being a prisoner of the past. And BTW most people were roundly criticized on that thread comparing this year to 2005, there is no comparison. As Alan Greenspan would say "irrational exuberance." Yeah I'm hope. But I temper hope with logic. You can be hopeful and acknowledge our shortcomings and areas we need to improve. Anyone ready to cut bait on Sark due to FATE as defined above needs to be ready to get another Herman or Strong, because that's a real possibility.

Well played

This narrative needs to die, it's wrong. Ewers and the offense was in rhythm with the hurry up and it was keeping OU on their back foot. It was also negating a Venebles strength of matching the defensive call to our alignment and tendencies, plus subbing. You give much of that up when you slow it down. The assumption baked into your comment above is that we would still have moved the ball down the field by going slow, which is NOT a given. The thing to get annoyed with is the flip from aggressive (staying with the hurry up) to conservative (kicking a FG and not going for it when they're in FG block alignment on 4th and 5 and we come out in the offense). Still, we took the lead. This loss is a team loss but the defense is more on the hook. Playing prevent is playing for OT with 1:17 left. Gabriel really only had to drive 35 yards for a FG which is not a problem in soft zone.

Lulz about people talking about "I could be the biggest donor EVAAAAR" ....are you one of the 756 Billionaires in the US? If so I applaud you and wonder what you're doing on Surly. Otherwise, I'm reminded of what someone here once said: "...and I have the biggest most satisfying dick on the Internet"