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Park Gothic

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  1. To add to this and the other great comment from @NoName, our team was young and Lubbock was a hostile environment. For a lot of the freshmen (including 2 on the o-line), it was their first college away game. I was actually surprised at how composed Card seemed after his meltdown in Fayetteville. Just wasn't our fucking day.
  2. If you lurk a bit longer, you'll notice that futureman is a troll. This is his schtick. He doesn't mean (almost) anything he says and is just trying to get a rise out of you. Basically:
  3. I don't really disagree with your point, but I also want to push back on the idea that he lacks playmaking ability under pressure. Like a lot of young men, he wants to do the things he is good at and comfortable with - especially in front of a large audience. He loves plays where he can use his quickness to shake guys and get open for a short pass. That's his wheelhouse, and it's on full display in the tweet I posted. There are plenty of others. The one against KSU is pretty neat. Most of his drops (and where he looks lazy) come from those deep balls that he sucks at catching. And he knows he sucks at them. He's slight, and easy to knock of his route. He's bad at tracking balls. He's got vertical speed, but he doesn't know how to translate that into catches. Look at how he reacted to catching that deep pass in the spring game - he's almost as excited and surprised as we were. I think it's pretty clear that we didn't intend to use him that way when Neyor was still healthy. It's not playing to his strengths as a receiver. Yeah, he could have put more effort into it, but I sympathize with his frustration (which may have led to an apparent lack of effort). The coaches asked him to do something he's bad at, in front of a national audience. He failed and people now call him lazy. I still think he's a playmaker and we should be throwing him the ball with the game on the line - but in the right situation. Like you, I would prefer that he put a little more fucking effort into deep routes (instead of acting like a diva), but asking him to do something he's bad at isn't going to have great results. He's clutch when he's used correctly.
  4. "Sips still haven't figured out why they have such a false since of superiority."
  5. Man, just google it. https://www.complex.com/life/a/tracewilliamcowen/viral-video-woman-flight-not-real-person Sounds like a drunk woman having an episode because she lost her iPhone earbuds. Apparently Carrottop was on the flight. Yes, I'm being serious.
  6. To give people something to argue about when there's nothing else going on.
  7. This is a random aside, but your post reminded me. Yesterday I was listening to the latest Cover 3 podcast and one of the hosts, Tom Fornelli, started talking about the Aggie rollercoaster. Like literally. He even asked "what was that one website, with the MS Paint drawings and Thujone?" Weird to hear Thujone referenced on a national CFB podcast.
  8. Wasn't there some talk that we were tipping our plays against TCU? Or is that just the fan in me wishcasting? If it was the case, then that could explain how ineffective that package was.
  9. It's changing as the area around campus becomes less of a war zone and more students move in. But it is still a commuter school with shitty tailgating. That said - there has always been a "school within a school" at UH, where a core of ~10,000 students actually have a traditional college experience (live on or near campus, go greek, attend sporting events, go to the college bars, etc.) while the rest of the school is just there to get a degree and get on with their life. I went to UHLC and got in with that crowd during the Sumlin years. It was a decently fun football experience - nothing close to Austin, but not as bad as people like to say. I've always thought of the Big 12 (outside of UT and A&M) as being mostly small schools with rabid fanbases. UH is an odd fit in that sense. It is a relatively big school (about 40k undergrad) with a tepid fanbase. But the fans that do care aren't any better or worse than the average fanbase.
  10. Yeah, you are pretty much wrong. Houston doesn't have massive success historically and the programs lows are extremely low, but the fan base isn't arrogant about football. Maybe a little about basketball, but that's more recent and more justified. To be clear, Houston football boasts a Heisman winner and has won as many NY6 bowls as Texas has over the last 10 seasons. There is some success, but it's sporadic. The worst thing about Houston fans (other than the usual gripes) is that they are fair-weather. When the team is down, they forget football exists. Even when the Texans suck and the Cougars are good, the Texans are 10x the draw. If I had to compare UH fans to a current member of the Big 12, it would be that they are like TCU fans without all the money.
  11. Honestly, I'm just over the Hampton recruitment. Obviously the kid is a take, but if we don't get him...meh.
  12. Maybe I’ve been reading to many Aggie screenshots, but the LSU posters seem to be taking it fine.
  13. Also, why is this on the recruiting board?
  14. Allison Mack hasn’t aged that badly. I was expecting more of a meth head situation.
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