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Park Gothic

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  1. “If ye love wealth lower tuition better than liberty an actual education, the tranquility of servitude Dickson Street better than the animating contest of freedom Dirty 6th, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick call the hands hogs which feed you. May your chains diploma set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
  2. Thinking that Arkansas doesn't hate us anymore just because our younger fans stopped caring about the rivalry is forgetting an important facet of the rivalry - people from Arkansas (the state) hate Texas (the state). The University of Texas represents the state, and playing (or beating) us in football gives everyone in Arkansas a chance to feel better than Texas. When was the last time anyone here ever thought about Arkansas? Traveled to Arkansas other than to pass through? Arkansas is a small, unimportant state that happens to be next to one of the largest and most important states in the Union. They hate us and we don't think about them at all. And before someone says something dumb like "well they don't hate A&M" - yeah no shit, it's A&M. They don't represent the state of Texas. At most, they represent a particular strain of East Texas weirdo who probably has more in common with Arkansas than they do with the rest of Texas. Everyone at Arkansas, young and old, cares about this game way more than we do because it runs deeper than football. It's social, cultural, and political.
  3. Trying to respond to your comment honestly - the reffing in the SEC is just as incompetent as it is in any other conference. I have not noticed any uptick in reffing quality since the move. What I have noticed, however, is that the incompetence seems more impartial. They are calling bad games for both teams. Still frustrating, but doesn't leave a bad taste in my mouth the way a lot of Big 12 officiating did. I have not seen anything that comes close to a Kevin Mar officiated game. That guy fucking sucked and clearly hated Texas. That he still has a job is embarrassing for the league office and should piss off every Big 12 member. And to be clear - I'm not some conspiracy theorist who thinks the league had it in for Texas. I don't even think the crews get together and say "here's how we're gonna fuck 'em." Maybe that happened once with the Teaff game, but that's about it. But I do think officials have personal biases and those biases work their way into games. And Texas was very unpopular within the Big 12. So yeah, the SEC isn't any better in terms of good calls and bad calls. But I don't think we're getting fucked over by any zebras nursing a grudge.
  4. Yes, I raised a question and then answered it. It's a rhetorical device. My original point was that Texas' schedule in the SEC is easier than it was in the Big 12, despite claims (mostly from A&M fans) that we had it easy in the Big 12. I think everyone understands why our SOS is easier this year, but the irony is still humorous and reflects poorly on A&M fans.
  5. True, but that doesn't explain A&M's relatively weak SOS despite playing the vaunted SEC West. My point is that the concept of an "SEC grind" being somehow worse than any other conference's grind is bullshit. The week-to-week isn't what makes the SEC a hard conference, it's the fact that you have an absolute juggernaut waiting for you at some point, who can expose your weaknesses, hurt your players, and potentially fuck your season. The Big 12 was probably harder week-to-week, but we didn't have to play a Bama or a Georgia. Even still, Texas went out and scheduled those big teams (Bama, LSU, USC) anyway in our OOC. Because we aren't pussies. Unlike A&M, who schedules schools like Nevada and Prairie View.
  6. We joined the SEC and our SOS literally got easier. Texas' 2021 SOS - 31st (A&M was 52nd) Texas' 2022 SOS - 24th (A&M was 25th) Texas' 2023 SOS - 12th (A&M was 20th) Texas' 2024 SOS - 55th (A&M is 21st, but they have to play us and we can't play ourselves...) Source: https://www.espn.com/college-football/fpi/_/view/resume/sort/resume.avgsosrank/dir/asc
  7. That Moore drop was half on Ewers for a poor throw. He still could have pulled it In but Ewers didn’t do him any favors.
  8. I don't give a shit about Ewers' politics and if you do you should take that conversation somewhere else.
  9. I am unfamiliar with this expression
  10. People have already offered the same type of speculation I would (for what it's worth, I think @Codaxx nailed it), but I'll add to the conversation that I think this will be a regular thing with WR. That's probably the most portal-happy position group and there are too many good WR running around in CFB for them to ride the pine. Throw in the mentality that is typically associated with WR and I think that means we should expect to lose any highly ranked WR who isn't cracking our top 5. I doubt Cook will be the last good WR we lose to the portal by the end of the season. Still sad to see him go. I loved him as a recruit and he seems like a good kid. Hope he gets a chance to ball out at Oregon.
  11. I'm actually good with the 11:00 AM start time. Breakfast tacos and beer at the tailgate, catch the game, go home and enjoy the rest of Saturday's football from my couch. I don't want a whole fucking season of 11:00 AM starts like we were getting in the Big `12
  12. I politely decline your invitation to add yet another argument about semantics to this thread.
  13. TSRH. I'm not going to weigh in on the asinine and at this point extremely tired argument of whether Quinn is a pussy, is just playing like a pussy, or if he's still our perfect golden boy and it's actually everyone else who's terrible. But he is playing to not get hurt - that is clear. Whether that's justified or not, playing to not get hurt is a great way to get your shit rocked. Playing loose and looking for a fight is part of accepting that football is a violent game and being okay with that level of violence. You're ready for someone to bring it to you and to bring it to them. As the QB you can't be stupid about contact, but you can't avoid the fact that you're playing football too, just like everyone else on the field. Look at this Pavia kid - do you think he's worried about contact? Fuck no. He's not trying to get his head caved in but he's not thinking about it either. If it happens it happens, that's the game. Even within Ewers' own career we've seen this - dude plays better after he's had a little contact. After a hit he sees that it's not a big deal. It's like he needs a shot in the mouth to wake himself up. But we haven't seen that version of him since UTSA. Pretending like you can avoid the violence that's inherent to football is not only dumb, it's dangerous. Ewers is not only playing worse, but he's going to get himself hurt worse too.
  14. He's definitely a gamer. Got that clutch gene.
  15. Great video, and great explanation of what is happening some of the time when Ewers is getting blitzed. I was just talking to a buddy about the QB controversy, etc. and I said the one thing that I'm not understanding is why we aren't punishing teams for the outside blitzes. Inside blitz - okay, Ewers throws side arm and it's too easy for a blitzing LB in the A-gap to throw up his arms. But when the blitz is from the outside we should be able to throw to pressure. We just didn't read the backside blitz against UGA, but I know Ewers recognized it a couple of times since then and just hasn't been able to throw the ball. It has happened a couple of times with Wingo but also with Golden. It's just another example that the struggles for the offense are a team failure. Ewers is a part of the problem - especially in the UGA game - but the WR and OL aren't doing him any favors. Couple that with a running back room that is struggling between the tackles and it becomes clearer why we are killing so many drives on offense. It's like every room on the offensive side of the ball is plagued by either penalties, failure to read the defense, or inability to execute. Most of it is fixable, although I don't think we'll ever see Ewers reliably throw the deep ball or the RB run effectively inside. But at least we can get Wingo to recognize blitz and Cam Williams to stop with the stupid penalties. I swear he accounts for half our penalty yards every game.
  16. The second team defense runs a dummy version of the opponent's defense in practice against the first team offense. So if Vandy runs a lot of stunts and blitzes, then our starting offense will see a lot of stunts and blitzes in practice in the week leading up to the game. It's the reverse for the first team defense, who runs our defense against a dummy version of the opponent's offense. Just because PK doesn't run those schemes doesn't mean they're alien to him or the rest of the staff. The chief issue is that our second string defense is probably not as good at running those schemes as Vandy's first team defense is, so the look our guys get doesn't quite prepare them for the game speed. That's part of why it's important to have talent at depth - iron sharpens iron. The better our second string defense is, the better they prepare of first string offense.
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