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I'm not gonna speak for the other guy, but I understood you, agreed with you and decided to put a dickish, Surly spin on it.

And what about all those passes that didn't hit a wide open defender in the hands?

Pretty sure they only truly stopped for a couple years after the '99 fuckup and then started having "unofficial" (school officials are well aware and many attend) overgrown campfires every year since. I live on the edge of the area claimed as "aggie-land" and have too many of the roaches in my family, so I've been aware of the event going on back to their exit from the big12. Did realize they kept it after that. What I don't understand is why they would continue the tradition that is so focused on the annual UT game. As a child I attended a few and they were more so a Texas-hate rally than a pro-aggie pep-rally. They burned a longhorn in effigy at the top of the pile. Have we continued the Hex Rally? IDK, but I sure as shit hope we don't. ...I had to wiki it before I posted: "After UT's last game against Texas A&M in 2011, attendance quickly declined in following years until UT's athletic department finally discontinued participation in the event. The Texas Fight Rally, held the week before UT's annual game with the Oklahoma Sooners, remains as UT's primary annual football pep rally."

Given the thread title, let's add the context to all the 4th down calls we're concerned with. Since the UH game, here's what we've done on 4th down: Down/Dist, Field Pos, Score (Tex-opp), play result, points on drive Vs UH 4th/2, opp 30, 0-0, 1st, 7 4th/6, opp 26, 21-7, TOD, 0 4th/1, Tex 45, 21-21, 1st, 0 4th/2, opp 44, 21-21, TOD, 0 4th/2, opp 15, 21-21, 1st, 3 Vs BYU 4th/2, opp 2, 21-6, TOD, 0 4th/1, opp 2, 21-6, TOD, 0 Vs KSU 4th/1, Tex 46, 10-0, TD, 7 4th/2, opp 12, 17-0, TOD, 0 4th/4, opp 37, 27-27, 1st, 3 So in the last 3 weeks, we are 5/10 on 4th down and that's not terrible in itself. But looking a 4th down from the opponent's 30 or further (>46-yard FG) we are doing really well: 4/5 and scored 17 points on those drives. When going for 4th down inside FG range, we have been absolute shit: 1/5 and scored only 2 points. Adding more context, when the score difference was 14 or more, we are 0/4 on 4th down. We were also in FG range in all of those cases. In each of these 4 cases, we gave up momentum and empowered a team that had been on the ropes. I don't think anyone is arguing that Sark should never go for it on 4th down. I think "the binder" and recent performance shows that going for 4th and short between the 30's is a really good idea. But when we are up big and have a chance to pile 3 more on them, recent performance says, take the f'ing points. The Rig12 is already waiting for its chance to fuck us. We don't need to help them by giving up momentum too.

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I think we are all happy with that play, but it doesn't contradict the OP's point. You're omitting a key factor in the decision tree... that was 4th and 1 well out of fieldgoal range. If we are 4 and 3 vs a 35-yd fieldgoal, we need to take the points.

This x1,000,000 I am not a Sark hater. I think he's doing great and I'm very pleased to be 8-1 (fuck OU). But there is one gaping hole in his gameday performance this year.

Yeah, I joked with the other guy that brought a decent pot of chili (with venison!) that next year I'll bring my mom's chicken enchilada soup and call it chili.

I'm posting here this afternoon because I'm deep in my feels after losing a chili cook-off. The actual event carried no prize, no prestige and no particular weight in my life. But the reason I'm shook is that out of 6 entrants, the top two winners were a white chicken chili and a chicken chili Verde. Does life still have meaning? Do the words we speak carry any attachment to reality? If you put chicken soup on the table of a chili cook-off, do you not deserve some sort of gruesome violent punishment? If my chili recipe can't crack the top two in that lineup (one that also included a Midwest chili) should I ever bother cooking ever again? To chime in on the bbq sauce convo: BBQ sauce shouldnt be use as a featured flavor ingredient. But I have made chili using mixed leftovers of sliced and chopped brisket - that came out great.

Well now you've gone a ruined it. Doomed.

What is the best part? I've never seen anything but the screengrab I was mixing up videos. I was thinking of the old dude in the cowboy hat eating his boogers at an aggie game.

Around 7:15 re: the blocked punt. "We had a blown assignment on the protection. We had one guy who thought he heard a call THAT'S NOT EVEN IN OUR SYSTEM." (Emphasis added) Sounds like somebody is riding the bench for the rest of the season.

He probably went into hiding because of the rest of that video. What's up with that clip anyway? Why would you take out the best part of the video?

/old man over-hand-tosses his walker straight at you, @Goredho/ We don't have players, much less the entire team except our starting QB leave the field before singing The Eyes with THE HOME CROWD. We don't have players who obvious don't give a fuck about winning on the damned starting roster. We're fighting to the last snap, not hanging our heads to stare at our dicks, and winning one-score games (despite extra help this year from the Rig12). Some of those criteria are fucking pitiful and a scar on our history, but that is exactly where we were 3 years ago. Fuck off, complaining about culture. I'll go stop drinking in celebration now.

No. It's more Aggie to shit on all your coaches and QBs because they couldn't elevate your shit program to an NC, despite their relative success.

Nah. I'd say these are both video game matches. I have both on mutiview and was just wondering to myself if I'd see a punt tonight. LSU / USC have to be the two worst defenses on serious conference contenders ever.

I saw that live too. Got down to 4 sec and then reset to 25. I wasn't sure if there was an error in the broadcast clock or if the refs reset the in-game clock. I assumed that it was a broadcast error bc the QB was not in a hurry and nobody on field seemed bothered.

See above. This is the PI in question, I believe.

But I'm not arguing that we shouldn't go for it on any 4th down. I'd support most of those attempts, as I think a ton of them were called short of the opponent's 40-yard-line. But, again, when it's 4th and manageable fieldgoal, we need to kick the field goal. Even if we convert the 4th down, we still have to overcome our terrible red zone convertion rate.

Any QB would look better against not our D-line.

Maybe I'm partial bc I was there, but our road game against USC at the Coloseum a few years ago had some nice unis too. And it was a repeat of the Rose Bowl colors too.

I would agree with you, if we had converted any of the 4th and fieldgoals in the last 3 weeks. But our 'Horns have a terrible track record in that time frame. I'm not saying a coach should never roll the dice from time to time, but when you know you're playing with weighted dice, it's a terrible fucking call.

Sorry. You seem kinda arguementative but you're making my point for me. Am I missing you here? -When a fieldgoal ties the game as the clock expires, you kick the fieldgoal. -When a fieldgoal puts you up by 20 and demoralized your opponent at halftime, you kick the fieldgoal. -when your D ain't stopping shit and the fieldgoal doesn't give you a 7-point lead, think twice about the fieldgoal.

Fuck that stadium and their 5' wide sidelines. Not gonna miss that place as all.

Wish our announcers would give refs this treatment during our game broadcasts. These guys are bitching like it's the OU radio broadcast.