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Park Gothic

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  1. Something I've been mulling over and am interested to hear what y'all think. How we play this week is going to tell me a lot about the culture of the program today and in the near future. There are very few of the 2022 class left on the roster (Campbell, Hutson and Taaffe are the only starters that immediately come to mind), and most of our leaders are from 2023. The 2023 class has not seen the kind of adversity we experienced in 2021 or even 2022. My lingering concern is this - we have always gotten up for the RRSO. Even bad Texas teams have played above their heads in that game, and good Texas teams tend to be at their best. We are supremely motivated for the RRSO. But where Herman, Strong, and some late-stage Mack teams struggled was getting motivated for the other games. The ones we didn't take seriously. When I hear people talk about a "country club" attitude at Texas, that is what I think of. Us playing down to our opponent because we don't care as much as they do. Since 2022, we really haven't played like that in any game. At least not against a real opponent (I don't count G5 non-cons when we're working on install or getting over injuries). In the real games, even when we lost, I could see that the guys were trying. They just couldn't execute when we needed to. The defense has been especially consistent from game to game. So for the first time since 2021, I saw us act like we weren't properly motivated against Florida. Just lacking the requisite energy and propensity for violence. The only player who seemed to have the level of fight required was Manning. I'm not saying they didn't care about Florida, but that they looked incredibly flat. Like they were showing up for a job and not a fight. But then we came to Dallas looking for a fight, and showed what we can do when we are ready to inflict pain on our opponents. Especially for the defense, but also the offense in the second half. I'm not being pessimistic, because I think we show up in Lexington ready for a fight, and I think we will whip Kentucky's ass. But I want to see it, because it will tell me a lot about the attitude of this team. I want to see if the leaders in the 2023 class have got the same level of fight as the guys who came before them, and who learned the hard lessons of 2021 and 2022. If we see this team come out properly motivated, then that bodes well. Not just for this season, but for the foreseeable future. Because that tells me that the culture under Sark wasn't just created by adversity, but can also be handed down from class to class. That the culture is portable and isn't specific to individuals, which was far too often the case over the previous decade. I wouldn't have worried about this before the Florida game, but here we are. To me, this game will show a lot about what the culture will be for Texas going forward. Even if the game is a slog, as long as we look fired up then I think we're set up for the long term. tl;dr - this is a culture game, and will tell us a lot more about this season and the trajectory of the program than the RRSO did.
  2. Dude's pretty pale too
  3. I think you are actually agreeing with me. The video shows Baxter running hard, getting YAC, and breaking tackles - yes?
  4. Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but this video seems like evidence that Baxter is a good back who gets plenty of YAC? Remember that "YAC" is yards after contact, not just broken tackles. Seems like it usually takes multiple defenders tackling Baxter in the body / legs to take him down. Arm tackles weren't doing it. Which I generally consider good, hard running.
  5. Who benefits from making those kinds of puns?
  6. I like music, it's just that .... Huey's too black sounding for me.
  7. I know I'm inviting a ridiculous tangent into this thread, but I think they're fairly categorized as post punk and at the cusp of creating EDM / new wave genres. If New Order was their natural progression, then I think Joy Division is a perfect "bridge band" between punk and new wave.
  8. He was a solid contributor as a true freshman in the 2023 season. People who are saying otherwise must be confusing him with Blue.
  9. By like three scores. People are fucking ridiculous.
  10. Dump your purse out some more, pussy. Your posts here and in the Quinn thread are peak humor.
  11. Can we make PK the HC and have Sark be OC
  12. For me, I haven’t been posting because I don’t know what to say. I’ve never been more confused by a Texas squad. May be one of the most disappointing and inexplicable starts to a season since 2010. But it’s still a “young” team. The 2023 class hasn’t really had to overcome the adversity the team experienced in ‘21 and ‘22, and there are almost no guys left from that 2022 class. Maybe that’s all this - growing pains. I hope anyway. We’ll learn a lot about this team tomorrow Everything else (about Arch, the OL, defense) has already been discussed to death.
  13. I just got back from reading some PSU message boards. Really the only thing that has made me feel better after Saturday.
  14. Flood is the OC. I get your point, but they have him that title specifically because it justifies the higher pay
  15. Collins saw Ant Hill KO that one poor bastard from SJSU and thought "shit I can do that too"
  16. Looking isn’t the problem. Everyone looks. It’s all about how you look.
  17. This is just stupid. Stop flagellating yourself. Famously worked out well for him and Gunney. Are we looking at a murder/suicide for BO&W and CTJ? Because I’m just imagining CTJ looking down the barrel of BO&W’s M-14 and thinking “well of course this is how it happens.”
  18. What Im hearing is that we need to hire Pittman as an IOL coach
  19. It could certainly happen - schools are shockingly profligate when it comes to coaches' salaries. And they want to keep up with the Joneses. But I've always thought that Florida had more sense than the average school, and have tried to show some restraint when it comes to their coaching searches and hires. The AD has to have built up some credibility with boosters etc., given that they just won the national championship in basketball. They're far from perfect, however, and at this point may be pretty desperate.
  20. So are we doing "Fire Flood" unironically now?
  21. You seem oddly testy about this. Are you from Arkansas or something? You're overthinking this too. The deep south is South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. It's a name that people use to refer to a region, and that's the region. It doesn't have anything to do with trees or mountains. You could maybe argue that parts of Texas or Florida could be included, but you'd be arguing and not agreeing. Everyone agrees that those five states are in the deep south. I think schools are trending away from huge coach salaries and towards paying players more. Take the extra 5 million you would pay for splash hire and spend it on a QB. You can still get a great coach for $10 million.
  22. Jeanne Crusemann Daniels sucks balls
  23. Good. Fuck that guy.
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