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Horn of Gabriel

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  1. It's nowhere near as clear cut as you think: UW winning as undefeated PAC champion is in. UO losing is 2-loss and out, but UW in that CFP spot is unmovable. UO wins they are 99% in as PAC champion and the committee love they've gotten. UW with 1-loss is definitely out unless there is chaos elsewhere as non-conference champ. That 1% on UO winning only becomes relevant if Alabama and Texas also win.
  2. You sure? This year any team in the top 7 or so I could see: Georgia, Michigan, Washington, Oregon, Texas, Bama, Ohio State
  3. The gravity of the beauty contest argument means a lot less when it's two teams arguing over who should be #12 or 13. The bowl system was the ultimate beauty contest, pining for those days is putting the car into reverse and mashing down on the gas.
  4. This is a joke, right? Right? You'd prefer a system where WRITERS who 1) admit they don't watch many of the games, 2) are homers, and 3) include people like Kirk Bohls unilaterally declare a MNC based on teams that DIDN'T settle it on the field? A system that dis-incentivizes marquee OOC games so you can retain a perfect record by loading up on creampuffs, where multiple teams end the season undefeated and all stake a claim to the MNC, and where the very best teams rarely if ever play each other at the culmination of the season? A system where fat cats in cheesy colored ill-fitting blazers travel around on boondoggles to see the top teams as part of their pseudo money laundering bowl setup? That's the system you'd prefer? The 4 team CFP isn't perfect but it's a million times better than the BCS, which was a billion times better than the bowl system. The 12-team CFP will be nirvana for people who actually enjoy seeing, you know, the best teams actually play against each other and settle it on the field.
  5. It was OK. There is just no way to do internal monologue and have it not be clunky. Rule #1 of filmmaking: show, don’t tell.
  6. 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
  7. 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.
  8. Horn of Gabriel

    8-1

    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.
  9. I've never seen softer coverage than our defense in OT. Incredibad. Feast or famine with this group, team owes me a new heart.
  10. 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.
  11. Horry wasn't in the top 3 most talented on his TEAM, let alone all time. WTF?
  12. 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.
  13. Meant to write what % of games would you SAY you're able to watch between Bally's and ESPN/TNT @SimonBolivar
  14. 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?
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. You're having a statistical argument against this guy?
  18. 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.
  19. this LOL. "oh noes he kept Kirk Bowls waiting"
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
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