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  1. Which is exactly when the next poster pulls out the DKR/Mack quote about "bb's in the box" to cite that coaching at Texas ISN'T like everywhere else because of all the stuff that surrounds the job that we've been unable (or unwilling) to extract the coach from like booster management, LHN commitments, etc. The poster after that talks about how "WE'RE BY GAWD TEXAS GODDAMIT" and should only accept a Saban. Oh and we should be able to "money whip" literally anyone to come to Texas. Because apparently money is the ONLY thing that matters to coaches, more than job security, sanity of the fanbase, ease of winning their conference, and so on. Just money, that's all that matters. After that we hear from someone supposedly plugged into the Houston-BMD crowd and their favorite vs. the Dallas BMDs and their favorite (which is never the same). Then we get someone blaming the AD, when we all know that in football hires they have little-to-no sway. Then someone blames the coaching search firm that we hire, even though they do nothing other than serve as a lawsuit shield. Round and round we go. A good coach at Baylor or SFA won't necessarily be a good coach here. It is different. Aranda would not do well in the booster or media environment at Texas. Maybe he could win enough that it wouldn't matter but he'd be swimming upstream the whole way.
  2. Tell me more about Arch firmly on campus in the era of free transfers?
  3. That QB played over his head, as usual for a QB against us, and was pretty accurate given his reputation. We did put some pressure on him but couldn't bring him down and he effectively checked down. We didn't look very complimentary in the the secondary - I kept hearing how we'd line up our DBs in press but I saw a ton of bail coverage and 5-7 yard cushions - maybe fatigue as we got further in? Tech converted what like 6 fourth downs in that game? It seems like if a QB is even halfway mobile we are so paralyzed we can't do shit.
  4. Love this thread. I just got my BGE a few months ago and have been experimenting. The last few times I've tried to smoke, it seems like I'm having trouble getting the temp low enough - after I fire the coals with the Looft lighter (shout out to whoever recommended that!), I let it sit top-open for a few minutes and then close it down to get the temp right before adding in the smoke wood and grill and it's settled in around 300-350. I close off the top and bottom, and it settles around 245 and just wants to live there. Am I firing the coals too much to start it or something? What's the go-to startup procedure for low/slow?
  5. Well, let's go get 'em. Maybe we'll see QE take a series or something but probably not. Bubble wrap until next week and warm up for OU.
  6. Why would Quinn be playing LB?
  7. LOL way to bounce the throw off the turf to a wide open receiver Casey. JAG
  8. Sources cannot confirm or deny Bob Stoops at the scene of the crash.
  9. They figured out that if they break out it's all on them. Much easier to keep a super weakened NCAA as the convenient punching bag and default excuse for anything that goes wrong. "But the NCAA!!!"
  10. I’d like to see correlative and causal factors applied here as well, specifically home vs neutral, temperature, and the rise/fall of the S&P 500 the week before these games air. Maybe pull together a machine learning model in Python real quick to do some predictive analysis? Thanks in advance
  11. I'll admit I haven't followed every game Saban has coached; I know he's really animated, fired up, etc when he thinks they got it wrong - there are multiple examples of Saban screaming at refs and the ref changing calls after the fact as a result?
  12. Because "you can beat the rap but you can't beat the ride." How often in the history of football does the coach go up and make a logical, rules-based argument to a ref (or better, yells at the ref how blind and stupid they are) and the ref then says "Oh you know what, you're right! We screwed that up, and we're going to reverse the call in your favor." Even when you're right that rarely happens. Just like a cop who has decided you're going to jail is going to take you there even on a trumped up bullshit charge that will get dropped later. The difference is we have this nice little balance of powers thing with cops/courts that we don't have with refs. And even with the courts it still takes weeks/months/years sometimes to get to the "right" result on a b.s. charge. I don't think this ref crew or the Big12 ref crews in general are sitting in a smoky room dreaming up scenarios to screw Texas. The table people keep posting is nice and probably speaks to un-conscious bias against Texas. The better explanation is that they are just bad at their jobs. Either way, more transparency into the grading of refs by the league (they do that, right? Right?) would be awesome. At least fucking recognize that it's an issue. Thankfully this Big12 problem won't be ours much longer and we can start bitching about SEC refs biases.
  13. https://bijanmustardson.com/products/official-bijan-tee
  14. It was good. * no flyover due to low cloud cover, I’ll allow it, we will get one this year * new Derrick Johnson hype video slaps * fewer ads than years past * new video boards in sez are an upgrade but agree rushing att/TDs is odd Improvement needed: * heat and humidity sucks, install some big ass fans * under the west side is like a prison, puddles, no TVs or signage. Easy fix, just money. * stop showing the hellraisers. Those fucks are an embarrassment
  15. Why do they only have to pay me $5?
  16. For a player of the skill level of Bijan, getting him to return vs. jump would have to be an extraordinary number plus as you've mentioned desire to cement legendary status like Heisman. Because it's not just offsetting what he'd make in the rookie contract, there are downstream effects too like he's now behind a year on accruing seasons which could potentially hit 2nd or 3rd contracts, etc.
  17. Yeah they'll be dropping lots of Olympic sports soon.
  18. This is the thread for GIFs and images about how you're feeling about the team, the game, the season. End of 2021 season Offseason Going into ULM
  19. It's going to go slow, until it goes fast. I'm sure discussions are happening at the highest levels, but there are also pre-requisites that have to happen first, like the rights negotiations. Those timeframes are outside of UT/OU's control and also somewhat outside the Big12's control. Gotta have focus on those before they have enough clarity on what they need to let the contracts and GORs up early.
  20. I agree with the theory that an expanded playoff will widen the pool of teams who benefit from the feedback loop. I disagree that those teams are going to be ones listed or those like them; it will in fact be a wider collection of blue bloods and near blue bloods: Alabama, Clemson, OSU, Georgia will be joined by Florida, Texas, A&M, Oklahoma, Michigan, etc
  21. CSB! Now do the version where there's no salary cap, no CBA, unlimited free agency, and the wild card Giants are located in Waco.
  22. More like torture porn. What's insane is he made contact well behind the LOS. Evans is what, 5'5" 150 lbs? And Brock got pushed.
  23. I know you want to believe this. That doesn't make it all true. Let's stipulate things we can agree on, from above: The NFL is a better on-field product than college - mmm, sure. It's pro, it's the top 2% of college players doing it as their job. It's also antiseptic and vanilla. I'd argue if we expand the product definition to include tradition, emotional connection to your university, the pageantry of the full experience, etc that college is better but whatever, it's not germane to this discussion. That CFB fan interest will wane if their team is relegated out of a Power conference - again, maybe? We can cite counter-examples too, like TCU and UCF that have grown fan interest, or even SMU whose interest looks like a reverse bell curve with a big valley after SWC exit and death penalty and they've been building ever since into a pretty solid program with support. Their fans didn't suddenly disappear, in fact they grew. CFP access - I agree that there should be CFP access for non-P2 programs. I don't think anyone is suggesting a B1G/SEC-only playoff. Now how do you balance the access is the question. AQs for non P2 programs seems silly if the Big12 champion has 2 losses vs. a 2-loss 3rd place SEC or B1G team who is stronger, played a much harder schedule and is ranked higher. But I could see reserving a semi-AQ if the Big12, PAC-whatever or ACC champ is top-15 or top-20 or passes some additional bar. In a 12 team playoff, 2-4 of those AQs seems ok and the rest based in ranking. Now the stuff we might not agree on: There are only about 5-6 programs in any given year that have the ability to actually win the playoff. They aren't BYU, Baylor, Cincinnati, Ok State or even mid-tier B1G or SEC programs. It's currently Alabama, OSU, Clemson, Georgia and maybe 1-2 others. In the 4-team CFP a smaller program might have the "puncher's chance" but it's like 5%. Cincinnati was the best example of the past 15 years, and they wilted. So no, those programs currently don't have a chance to win the championship, nor should that be their measurement of success. Competing for a conference title, beating their rival, and upsetting a blue blood (and before you say it, YES I'm aware of the irony of this statement considering the relative success of teams like ISU, Baylor, and OkState vs. Texas in the past decade). It's the illusion of access to the playoff and the dream we're talking about preserving, not the reality. This gets even harder in the expanded CFP because now instead of having to beat 2 great teams to win, you a have to beat 4 of them. Teams outside the top tier of the new B1G and SEC aren't built for that. Good coaching can't overcome that. You need to stack top 5 recruiting classes, probably top 3 year over year over year AND have good coaching AND have good development AND the right facilities AND proper NIL support AND demonstrated success of putting athletes in the NFL. Only a handful of teams have all of that. In the coming years, the only ones who will have all of that are the top of the B1G and SEC which is basically true today with the possible exception of Clemson. IF what you're claiming about smaller fanbases losing interest due to lack of access to a "clear path to a national championship" (direct quote from above) were true...we'd already be seeing it for the past decades. Because those teams don't have a clear path to a national championship as things stand today. You might say viewership is down, but it's down overall for everything. Live sports and CFP pull big shares relative to everything else. Especially the marquee matchups between blue bloods. Those 4M+ viewership games are what is driving the realignment, going to 9 conference games in the SEC, etc - creating more of that inventory. The butthurt here seems driven more by programs seeing their market value highlighted and codification of the status quo vs. something new. There's still the Vanderbilt and Indiana issue but no system is perfect, we're not building it from a clean sheet. I feel for the ISUs of the world who will take a revenue haircut. But they probably shouldn't have had the higher revenues to begin with.
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