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Horn of Gabriel

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  1. Your post implies that the "old regional conferences" are better for fans. They weren't. The old regional conferences had us playing Baylor, TCU, Houston and Tech. The new arrangement has us playing Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Auburn, and Arkansas. These are much better competition, better games to watch, and will force Texas to raise their bar. Texas does best when it is challenged, and worst when we rest on our laurels and play Baylor. And all of those are benefits even before we consider the extra money that comes along with going to the SEC. The end game in the medium term is the Power 2 conferences of Big10 and SEC take more and more playoff spots and squeeze out the ACC, Big12, and G5 down to 1 spot each. That will happen either formally via guaranteed spots, or informally via the committee recognizing the strength of schedule of the P2. The end-end game in the long term is that the Big10 and SEC probably either merge or create a formal partnership of equals where they build "new" conferences that allow them to drop out the Vandy's and Purdue's, pick up the FSU and Clemsons and consolidate down to a true Power conference of 40ish teams. The playoff will already be at 16 teams by then, and they'll reserve 1-2 spots for the rest of the non Power teams to disarm the anti-trust stuff, but it will essentially be a Power conference playoff at that point. The players will be employees of the universities, and taking a cut of the TV revenues and governed by some type of CBA. The Power conference will set their own rules for paying players beyond that, for recruiting, officiating, everything to replace the NCAA governance. There will be a commissioner of the Power conference who is less powerful than the NFL commissioner but more powerful than the current conference commissioners. They'll try to adopt some type of "salary cap," but that will be resisted by Texas, Georgia, and the big players, but the smaller ones will push for it to create "balance." There will probably be some compromise on that somewhere along the way - but the cat is out of the bag and we're not going back to under-the-table money.
  2. I thought that was Derka!
  3. 48 points is...uhhhh a lot even if we're healthy. I don't think they score more than 7 and that's a garbage time or turnover score. But are we going to score 55+ ...potentially without QE and Blue? We CAN but will we? I think once Sark gets up by 35 he starts running 3 times in a row, like we saw w/ Trey Owens, gets out of the game without more injuries. What's the use of live reps when the team you're playing is probably not as good as your 3rd string in practice? I rarely bet Texas but here I'd take ULM and the points.
  4. Better version, including the Whataburger logo
  5. Fun trip. I enjoyed their game day experience and keeping it simple. It felt kinda like stepping into a time machine back into the 70's or something before we got super commercial. One thing I have to give them props on: their pre-game hype reel narrated by James Earl Jones was awesome. And a pretty good flex when Darth Vader said: "No one has won as many football games as we have. No one."
  6. Texas 31 Michigan 20 UM passing yards 163
  7. I’m in Ann Arbor and had multiple Michigan fans hit me with the “Hang Ten” down [emoji1689] lol
  8. So what was the big deal w/ the new jumbotron? Looked exactly the same to me except for the cheesy donor names added to the top.
  9. Not sure if posted anywhere yet, but I just learned that the Michigan stadium does not allow ANY bags, including clear bags. Info may be relevant to the women in your life who are going.
  10. Whoever is running their social media is bitchmade just like their coach. OTOH maybe they should just lean into being the heel? It's kinda rare thou for the heel to be total ass, usually they're somewhat a threat.
  11. I also want to. But cu is such a wildcard and I can see Deion and shedur chucking it late up 7 easily
  12. Good for him? Bolden caught 54 of DJ's 180 completions last year, so a third? He was targeted a lot. Can't find any reliable YAC stats Bolden to see how many of his 750 yards were him vs. DJ. Did you watch a ton of OSU last year? I suspect we're going to find out this year that Bolden is elite at making his QB look good, which is awesome for Quinn. DJ is still an average college QB, and was very inconsistent. They pumped his completion percentage today by tossing a lot to the sidelines. He made a few clutch 4th down tosses, credit there - but also airmailed a ton that resulted in those 4th downs. Last year he only completed 57%. The FSU I saw today is 3rd - 5th place in the ACC. Couldn't stop the run, defense looked lost. Inconsistent on offense and in creating a push up front.
  13. DJU reminds me of the Mike Leach quote about how if a QB starts off inaccurate, he's never going to become accurate. That quote should have a picture of DJ next to it. FSU has a low floor, low ceiling this year because of him alone.
  14. The worst thing about Rhoback is that obnoxiously placed huge fucking dog logo on the shoulder.
  15. I like that orange hoodie Quinn has on there but don’t see it on the Rhoback site. Maybe still to come?
  16. Yes yes, but what does the daughter think about our RB situation?
  17. We are going to be ok at EDGE this season y’all:
  18. I'M PAT MCAFEE AND MY NORMAL VOICE IS YELLING! EVERYTHING IS A YELL!!!!! LET ME TELL YOU HOW PUMPED I AM ABOUT EVERYTHING!!!!11
  19. You need to go smoke some of that weed and chill the fuck out. I never said cheaters don't suck, so get those words outta my mouth. I said the NCAA can't do shit about it, and that's by design.
  20. That means less than nothing. An asterisk, oh no! They can't take the trophy back. There is no effective punishment the NCAA can dole out. Post-season ban? Punishes future players who had nothing to do with the infraction. Punish the coach? Oh the one who is gone to the NFL now? Fines? UM will laugh at that and can afford it. Scholarship reductions? The boosters will replace them with NIL deals of equal or more value. If this were Texas we'd have our middle finger held high for the world to see as we basked in our championship. The UM alumnus I know are doing the same. If I ask them would they rather have a Championship* or Lloyd Carr the answer is crystal clear. So yeah they cheated and they got away with it. If you ain't cheatin' you ain't tryin'
  21. The NCAA doesn't give the title trophy, the CFP does. NCAA != CFP and the NCAA can't revoke a title they never gave for that reason. It's popular to bash the NCAA. Remember that the NCAA was created at the behest of and with the buy-in and support of the universities that created it, like UT and all of our new SEC friends, the B1G members, and so on. They created the NCAA to do what they struggled to do themselves but wanted, which was to provide governance and more importantly to be a punching bag for all the unpopular decisions they didn't want to put their stamp on, like scholarship limits, academic standards, retaining amateurism, and penalizing rule breakers. It's a heck of a lot easier to sit back and say "those corrupt fat fucks at the NCAA are holding us down" "They're the ones preventing athletes from monetizing their NIL!" Why do you think the NCAA did any of that? Why do you think they held on so long that they get bitchslapped at the SCOTUS? It wasn't for fun, it was because their membership wanted it. Now with all the money in major college football, there is a schism in the NCAA membership between the have's like UT in Power 2 and the have not's in the G7 and below. With the P2 programs turning profit it's no longer a "sports problem," it's a "sports opportunity" and the university presidents at those places are starting to care more. Board members like Eltife are even getting involved at a level previously not seen publicly. The power conferences are going to split off soon in football to establish more permissive rules for scholarships, recruiting, etc. They will form a new body, like the NCAA but just for major college football. The NCAA won't die, they don't even want to govern major college football because they don't make money on it and only get headaches. So yeah I can empathize with NCAA, they're stuck in the middle between stakeholders who want diametrically opposed things. They can't pick a winner because their membership is both. They can't split the middle either. Every choice is a losing choice for them. They've also had some truly foot-in-the-mouth leadership along the way too, which doesn't help. Also fuck you for making me defend the NCAA.
  22. I just want to know if they can pass pro. I'm not worried about their ability to run.
  23. Looks like Sir'Jabari Rice is still plugging in Austin. Hope he makes it.
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