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  1. He's trying to turn Sochan into a Draymond type player on offense and gonna baptize him by fire this season to develop that in him. Tre Jones actually looked pretty effective on bench minute duty when he was out there. We need better rebounding to win games too and Idk where we are going to get that.
  2. I want all UT QBs to play their best. And to win games. How we win and who we win with at QB isn’t really as important to me. Sure I want to see what Maalik can do healthy. Same with Arch and hope Quinn can heal soon and go back to playing lights out like he did the Bama game. I support who is on the field and everyone on the team. As I posted before I don’t get why people can’t just support who is on the field. It’s not like the job has been taken from Quinn. He can’t play. And until he can I root for whoever the QB is on the field.
  3. Where is the part about Ohio state telling him to play his senior year? I think we can both agree that 18 year old kids do some dumb shit lol. It's also fair to point out that he was a year older than his classmates at the time, he should have already been in college. Oh and he should have enrolled at TEXAS but coach coke head ran him off. He should have been there for Sark's first year, learning this complex offense and maturing from having a good HC who knows how to play qb. This should be his 3rd year in this offense but TEXAS fucked that up. Not quinn, not his family, HERMAN. We can go back and forth all day tho, lets agree to disagree. We both want Texas to win, and that's a positive.
  4. God fucking damnit. I hated Herman. Never wanted him. Wanted him fired one year before they pulled the trigger. QE did himself a disservice by not playing his senior year. And I think he will be doing himself a disservice by leaving college early. I wish him the best and hope he gets a great NFL contract and plays for a great team as long as he wants as their QB1. But if he doesn’t pan out I can point to exactly why. It didn’t have anything to do with talent. It will be due to the fact that he left early. And it impacted his growth and maturation process and QB development physically and mentally. Ohio state told Quinn to play his senior year. He went against their advice. Road the bench and bolted for Texas (where he always wanted to go) once we canned Herman. By the way, with NIL and the portal it doesn’t take 8 fucking years anymore to win a CCG and be in the CFPs. Mack didn’t have the portal or NIL when he was at Texas and towards the end got really lazy and got his ass canned. Sark has both NIL and the portal. And a roster most people would kill to have. And future roster loaded with potential. And draft picks. You may dislike my takes but yours seem to be no one should criticize Sark. Or QE because of your reasons. If I were you, I’d invest in a blindfold and earplugs because if Sark doesn’t get it done in a few years all you will hear and see is criticism and you’ll run out of people to scold and tell they shouldn’t criticize or post bc they disagree with you. You’ll be on an island with like 5 people. It took sark ten years as a HC to go 5-0. That happened this year.
  5. Arch Manning’s “people” which include two SB winning QBs and a grandfather who just happens to run a prestigious QB camp told him to play his senior year of HS. Told him to play all four years of college before going pro. Wanted him to sit and learn his freshman year of college and to stay and graduate and also to play his whole time here. To learn under Sark. Quinn’s people (or QE makes all his own decisions) told him against Ohio State’s advice to not play his senior year of high school, and to allegedly leave early for the NFL. If we were talking about any other position but QB, either approach could be the right one. Now with NIL kids don’t have to leave early to get paid. QE is making money. We know he’s talented but now he’s been injured three times since his junior year of HS where he has missed and possibly will miss a few games. At the start of the season he was a top 3 QB. Now many of the mock drafts I see online have him not only after Maye and Caleb. They also have him after Penix and McCarthy. If he misses significant time (we all hope not) and we don’t make the CCG and CFP this year, there will be more hype for the QBs that are in it and eyeballs on them. He’s already out of the running for a Heisman as is Caleb who probably regrets he stayed his final year but he’ll be compensated as a number 1 pick. TLDR: I think Arch’s people are giving him better advice than Quinn’s people and Arch’s people actually know what the fuck they are talking about and have the receipts to back it up.
  6. It did but the buckets Wemby had late felt different. And I think the results will start to be different as these guys learn to play with each other. The Keldon shit late is inexcusable. He had a nice game - but he should be no higher than our 3rd option to close games. And that isn't all on him - Pop needs to set the standard and DV and Wemby need to step up and take the reins (which doesn't appear to be an issue at all with Wemby). How many games they win will be dependent on how quickly they mesh and how good Wemby really is. We aren't going 20-62 - but we might win 28 or we might win 36. Too early to tell. If Wemby stays out of foul trouble we could have easily won last night.
  7. He really fucked himself on development by skipping his senior season. No QB should ever skip their senior seasons of HS. QBs need all the reps they can get and need mental and physical maturity that extra year brings. He's solid here but he just doesn't have the awareness of defenses to make the proper reads against certain types of defenses. The more the defense disguises and tricks up how they play him the more hesitant he gets and he holds the ball and misses open reads. Doesn't help the OL is only mediocre in pass pro. We're probably going to see a lot of the same with Malik and Arch since they have a lack of experience but Malik should have been studying this offense in depth for a couple of years and Arch played in a very similar offense to Sark's in HS with a lot of the same terminology. Hopefully one of them can make some things happen and we can keep winning this season. The other guys around them might step their games up now knowing that they have to help out the backup.
  8. @Ghost of LL is absolutely right - and to your question they threatened explicitly: “If we do not win in that first special session, we will have another special special session and we’ll come back again,” Abbott said. “And then if we don’t win that time, I think it’s time to send this to the voters themselves.” But here's the thing - Abbott and Patrick are creatures of Statewide GOP politics, not local politics, and the Texas Senate is more or less the same for a number of reasons for a number of reasons including the outsized influence of exurbs and big cities on the landscape. The house GOP is FAR more rural, and much more connected to the rural county courthouse/school district political engines that send them to Austin and mostly care about agricultural finance, jail and highway funding, and the local school district. So when Abbott threatens to "send this to the voters," the house members who can afford to ignore him do, because they already know where they stand on this and everything else that matters. And that was BEFORE the Patrick and the Senate fucked them on Paxton. Now they aren't only following the will of the voters - they are looking for revenge, too. here's what is going to happen: 1) Vouchers won't pass, and the session will end 2) Abbott will call another session, vouchers won't pass and the session will end 3) A few House members will get primaried and most of those challenges will fail. 4a) Abbott will be appointed to 2nd Undersecretary of Shrinking Public Stature by President Trump, or 4b) Abbott will retire at the end of his term
  9. THJ is fine. He will win us games when he gets hot. But hopefully we don’t have to be nearly as reliant on him every night. Lively is a breath of fresh air even though he’s going to have some nights where he struggles. It’s nice to see a center who might actually challenge Luka for the team lead in rebounds. Overall, good first night. Defense is still atrocious.
  10. Call me crazy but after a decade of watching mostly shit qb play (ash and ehlinger excluded) if we are the point we are arguing whether a qbs production is systemic or not , I'll be a happy fan Edit: to put another way after 20 years of bs ? If you're telling me we FINALLY have an offense where the QB doesn't matter and where going to score score +/- a touchdown, were fucking winning fuck the details
  11. this is the therapy thread? my oldest was 8 months old. we were a strike away and i was holding him in between feedings, marvelling that i'd had to wait decades to see the mavs and rangers win a championship but now my son was going to "see" them win one each within the first year of his life. that didn't work out. i have 4 now and no dallas teams have won a championship since. you better believe i'll wake them up to watch us pitch that last strike.
  12. I was at every series for the 2011 run. Game 2 against Tampa when we absolutely had to have that game after dropping game 1 in a 5 game series and at home. Napoli had a huge HR that night. Was at game 1 for ALCS. 2 separate rain delays and they were lucky to finish it. As we were driving to Applebees after, the sky fell out and huge rain the rest of the night. Sucky drive back from Arlington to Dallas. Then went to game 6 of the ALCS where we smoked a young Scherzer in the 3rd inning to the tune of 9 runs. Was amazing to see the Rangers win the ALCS in person and had great seats. This was months after seeing the Mavs win the West at the AAC and seeing them win games 4 and 5 in the Finals all in person. Was a great months of sports in the DFW. Then went to see the Game 4 Holland game where he dropped his nuts all over the Cardinals. Was supposed to go to game 5 the next night but was fired that day and not really in the mood. Game 5 was a crazy finish as well. Not like Game 6 but that was a huge win after falling down 2-1.
  13. Recruiting Country: The latest recruiting news surrounding the Maroon & White By Ryan Brauninger Key notes from Recruiting Country Micah Hudson‍ took a trip to College Station to see some people. He was around campus. He spent Saturday and Sunday in College Station. It’s intersting. That's two trips in the last few weeks for him. I would still lean heavily towards him signing with Texas Tech, but he sat down in this chair and told me that it's Texas Tech or Texas A&M. There is not a big crowd around Micah's recruitment. There is something that keeps him coming back. Whether it's a relationship on staff, the feel of College Station or the proximity, he can decide he wants to come to College Station on a whim. It's tougher to do that if you want to go to Lubbock. Micah's recruitment has the Evan Stewart vibe. Early in the recruiting cycle, A&M had no chance at Evan. Everyone was saying it. He visited. He showed up again and again, and by the third visit, you thought there was something here. Evan was never committed to another school. Micah is committed to Texas Tech. Keeping tabs on his visit plans is going to be interesting to follow. If he turns back up at A&M for South Carolina, ACU or Mississippi State, that would be three visits in a month-plus. We are keeping tabs on it. He is not in any hurry to come off his decision to Texas Tech. He is a cerebral, aware kid. It's not clear weather in Lubbock either. You are in year two of Joey McGuire, so it's easier to sell the vision. Texas Tech and A&M have done the best job of recruiting him and building relationships. They are what he is looking for a college experience in terms of the town and surroundings. He doesn't want big and flashy. Texas and USC never played a roll. He is a quiet kid. The laid-back nature of Lubbock and College Station is what he looking for. Cameron Coleman‍ will be here this weekend. His high school team is on a bye week. He was incredible last week. He is a superstar. He is a 5-star prospect and producing at a 5-star level as a player. He had nine catches for 294 yards and four touchdowns. That is not the only week Cam has had insane numbers. He is also playing against the best competition. He will spend the weekend in College Station. He has family ties to Bryan and Houston. Auburn and Alabama are trying to get him to come away from his pledge to A&M. The negative recruiting arrows were being flung from every direction. That's why the bye week was important for the staff to get out there a quell some of that. Drelon Miller‍ decommitting felt like that would open the floodgates. The coaching and recruiting staff have stopped it right there. Based on everything I have heard, the door isn't shut on A&M with Drelon. Now, you have to win. If you could win the next two, that would be massive to keep what you got on the recruiting front. If you win against South Carolina and beat a ranked Ole Miss team, you will be heavily favored against Mississippi State and ACU, which means you roll into Baton Rouge at 8-3 with a four-game winning streak, playing the best football you have, spoil LSU and go 9-3 at their place. There is an argument to be made that they need to win, and it needs to look a certain way. You have to get to Ole Miss without losing anybody else. Keep the ship afloat. Don't let any more cracks happen. To me, it's more important to beat Ole Miss than LSU. You would set yourself up for that month with a couple of home games to get guys to visit. From a recruiting lens, go to Baton Rouge 8-3, and that will keep everybody in the class and remain in the conversations for top targets. There is real pressure to perform on Saturday now. They have completely eliminated their wiggle room. You have to win the games. I know Conner Weigman went hunting during the bye week with a cast on. I have not talked to him directly about how he is feeling. I think if they get to 8-3, and Weigman is on the sideline for the majority of it? That helps. At 7-5 or 6-6, nobody will care. It's happened three years in a row where the starter got hurt, and they have to play with a backup. Does that mean they will lose games? Having the selling point of Weigman being out and winning eight to nine games, then you could say they would be a 10-win team with him, at least. Every case for every kid is different. 8-4, you can sign a top-10 class. 9-3 with a bowl win, I think you sign a top-5 class. In this 2024 offensive line recruiting class, you haven't lost any of those kids. You have rock-solid guys with you, like Ashton Funk‍ and Coen Echols‍. You have sensational athletes in Weston Davis‍ and Blake Ivy‍. You pulled in Isendre Ahfua‍. Echols is getting pushed hard by Auburn. He could visit there. Davis is hearing from LSU, Texas and Oklahoma. Ivy is a private kid. He chose A&M over LSU. Tristan Jernigan‍ is taking an official visit to Alabama for the LSU game. He is originally from Alabama. It's not nothing. It's a legitimate threat. It's definitely something to watch. The Aggies can put out all of these fires with performances on the field. These are impressionable kids who have impressionable inner circles. There could be little cracks in the belief, and that is all those opposing schools need
  14. Colt had GDGD. Quinn has Sark. Colt will have more wins ultimately if Quinn leaves early which everyone expects him to do. Colt will have been in a MNC/almost got us to a second one. We may or may not get to a CCG or a CFP this year. We don’t know when Quinn is coming back this season. If we are comparing just based on body of work Colt’s “body of work” is better. Quinn won’t be playing here his full eligibility so unless he takes us to a CCG and wins it (which should put us in the CFPs if we don’t drop any games) I can’t compare the two really. There are some similarities but it’s about wins and losses for me. No Question Colt had continuity of coaching staff and a great roster for the most part. But as far as style of play and statistics it’s kinda a bullshit comparison to me I guess. Obviously I have more attachment to Colt. Fond memories for the most part and all that of UT football at the time even though it didn’t end with another MNC. I haven’t grown as attached to Quinn because we’ve all heard he is going pro asap and it’s hard for me to get attached to a QB that’s not been here that long and isn’t going to stay that long. He’s grown on me for sure…but last year I was frustrated with him and it turns out that frustration was rooted in truth as he himself said he wasn’t taking things as seriously as he should. Hope he recovers quickly and is able to play on the level that we have seen him play like he did at Bama this year.
  15. The streakiness of the team worries me as it reared its ugly head against Houston. Offense took a dip for the 3 games at home and almost blew the series but they came back alive to close the series out. But I have counted out Texas too many times so might as well just enjoy the ride now and trust Bochy can get 4 more wins out this group. Finally a WS where we have the manager advantage. Garcia these playoffs is like Cruz was in 2011, especially how both of them performed in the ALCS. First series these playoffs as the home team. Going back to the last week of the season, this team has only played 4 home games in a month. 1-3 in those. Although Houston just owns us at home. Can't be road warriors this series, going to need to grind out some home wins.
  16. Most of the noted criticism of BYU in this thread is fair. We have lots of issues & weaknesses. Despite those -- and being #124 in total offense (301.9 yards per game) and #74 in scoring offense (27.6 points per game) -- we have a turnover margin of plus-9, #3 in the country, and a good scoring efficiency in the red zone (#23 in red-zone offense). BYU is #14 in fewest penalty yards, #24 in fewest turnovers lost and #22 in net punting. Those other little things have made a big difference for us. We need to continue playing clean vs Texas. We do have a new DC who plays a far more aggressive defense than we have had in years. I'm sure he will go hard after your new QB. Our corners are pretty good, but our safety position is beat up and we are way down the depth chart here. If Maalik can handle the pressure and make us pay when we blitz, y'all will probably win. If not, and we force some turnovers, then maybe BYU pulls off the upset. I've said elsewhere that I have a hard time predicting this game. I could see you destroying us but I can also see us playing well enough to win. I'm sure Sark will not overlook us. And one more thing, this team is not just a bunch of old white guys, although we have a few.
  17. You're probably right. There really aren't a whole lot of "good" options for the Rangers for Game 4. Start based on your gut (guess it's Dunning or Heaney depending on whether it's Philly or Arizona) and have a quick hook for whoever you start. You're going to have to pitch guys you don't really want to at points in this series. 3-days rest is usually a recipe for disaster these days. I'd prefer to stick to Monty 1-5 and Eovaldi 2-6 (or vice versa) and then fill in the gaps from there. So, let's say no games go into extra innings. You'll need 53-54 innings in a 6-game series, 62-63 in a 7-gamer. Ideally, you get Montgomery to give you 12-13 innings, Eovaldi 12-14 and Scherzer 9-10 through the first six games. That's 36 of 53/54 in a 6-game series. Sborz-Chapman-Leclerc hopes to gobble up three innings per close game/win so that's 12 more, giving you 48. You've got lefties Heaney, Bradford, Perez and Smith and righties Dunning, Stratton, and Gray to pick off innings here and there. (I guess Burke was bumped by Scherzer's return? Is that right?) I don't know the answers here. I'm just glad we have Bochy and Maddux to make those calls.
  18. Man- There we a lot of Shenanigans going on with our line. I know you saw it but for the people here that didn't I will just post this here for them. This is pretty much a microcosm of what was going on out there and subsequently what happens to us vs this style of defense and why we struggle. We HAVE TO be able to win vs a 3 man front. If we are busting plays vs a 3 man that means they don't have to come out of coverage to handle our run game. Then you are seeing smaller windows for Quinn to throw into, and drives stall. This is the drive where we ran the fake field goal. We will go through 1st and 2nd down so we can see what happened. 1st down and UH is telling you with the alignment of their front what they are trying to do. Both their ends are aligned inside he tackles. They are telling us you aren't running inside. Sark is going to wisely call an outside run here. However, pay attention to Majors and the NT circled. Sark pulls both guards and uses Baxter to play H-back and cutoff the backside pursuit. However, Majors fires out too low and the NT calmly pushes him face first to the ground. There is Majors face first. Everyone is doing their job except Majors. If he had done his job there is a gaping hole for Brooks to run through for a huge gain. However, that has been filled by the NT and Brooks has to bounce it. Right into the waiting arms of the guy on the edge. Majors lost a lot of battles with their NT, but he wasn't the only one. So now we are on to 2nd and 9. Remember what we said about how UH is aligning their DTs? They are basically telling us they are planning on clogging up the A&B gaps and spilling everything outside to their force players. So as an O-linemen you have to expect the DE to fire into the B-gap. Sark calls another outside run. This time he pulls Banks and Helm. However, the DE whips Jones inside. Jones should've just blocked him down when he fired there. Now he is standing in the hole. Helm, who is supposed to account for the man behind the guy circled tried to chip the DE and still get to his responsibility. Helm is now blocking the DE. The man he was responsible for is now untouched and waiting for Brooks on the edge. Brooks has to cut it back inside and gets two yards. Had Jones done his job Brooks comes off the edge with only a DB in front of him. Probably a big gainer. Sometimes I see guys yelling on the board and asking why are we running inside when the play wasn't supposed to go there. Sark doesn't always call the right play, but he does more times than not. Sometimes, like here, we just don't block them well. This is why we struggle vs the flyover. We have to be able to punish teams for daring to play a light box vs us. However, if you keep busting your assignments then it puts Quinn in a bad place. The next play UH split their 3 down out, rushed 4, and dropped everyone else beyond the sticks. We checked it down to Baxter who danced around and got tackled with no gain.
  19. So here's a reasonable scenario I just came up with - and I think this would send Iowa State to the title game? In this case - OSU wins Bedlam and it's OU's only loss so they are in. Assume (because this is OSU we're talking about) we drop 1 of @ UCF, @ Houston or vs. BYU... probably 1 of the 2 road games. And then this also happens: Texas' only remaining loss is at Iowa State K-State only remaining loss is at Texas Iowa State's only remaining loss is at K-State So that would leave OSU, Texas, K-State and Iowa State all with 2 losses If you do a "round robin" among those four teams, everyone is 1-1 except Iowa State, who is 2-1, being the only one of the group to play all 3 other teams. EDIT - the only thing I'm not sure about - does "record against highest placed opponent" do anything? Because in this scenario, OSU would be the only team in the group to have beaten OU. I'll say that looking at the schedules, Kansas will be a big factor in who gets in, as they play OU, K-State and Iowa State. Also, outside of Bedlam, OSU definitely has the easiest remaining schedule; although UCF is going to be much tougher to deal with now that Plumlee is back.
  20. not saying that you said this, but after the OU game the prevailing sentiment on this forum was that we were going to run the table and then beat OU in a rematch, basically as if it were set in stone. funny what one iffy game to do to the confidence of our football board denizens. ftr i’m with you- even with quinn it was always far from a guarantee that we would win out, even if we are favored for every game.
  21. I would not trade our offense. Not throwing the baby out with the bath water. As I mentioned in my post we are 6-1 and the other teams are not. So no. Would not trade. But as HC and OC much of the blame imo falls on Sark for this. I’ve offered a solution for that but that’s not going to happen. PK isn’t on an island and he falls under Sark. Being better in the RedZone and we are 7-0. There is very little room for error in CFB because you have to be perfect or maybe drop a game (possibly two if the committee likes you and you win your conference championship) to get to the CFP. The offense is Sark’s baby and it is entirely within his purview. That’s what I meant. I didn’t suggest throwing Sark out. I’m proud of how our players are resilient and preserve through games and keep punching. That’s a great thing. We only have the one loss and hope is we get to the Big 12 CCG. Having better RedZone success takes us to that level. But that is all different now because we don’t know how long Quinn will be out nor how he will be throwing when he comes back.
  22. It is such a fundamental violation of the presumption of fair play that it infects everything. You already can see the game outcomes, as you document above, both winning/losing and against the spread. It also goes into player evaluation - how good are their players? On face value, pretty damn good considering the dominating results. But now, in light of this, it is a fair question - is that LB really instinctive, or is the game much easier when you know there is going to be a run and you aren't worried about being in conflict? Is that safety really well coached and disciplined when he rotates over to break up that deep shot, or is playing safety much easier when you know what is coming? We know their players can produce when they've been given the answers to the test, but if you were an NFL scout, how much emphasis do you put on production? Assessments on a player's processing speed? What do you make of McCarthy? I'd love to see Michigan have to play a conference slate announcing their play calls to the other team. I suspect they'd be significantly worse than the usual Harbaugh years leading up to this. The obvious take away is that Harbaugh had established his level at Michigan over several years without the sign stealing. What we've seen the last 3 years represents exactly how much they've benefitted from it.
  23. I wanted to trade for Gurriel before he was sent to Arizona last offseason so I am all for trying to sign him. Mashitty needs to GTFO. I don't want him as backup, I don't want him as bench dude, I don't want him around. What I wanted for manager cannot happen now. I was hoping once Dusty left we could get Bochy to come out of retirement and continue on. Unfortunately Dusty didn't fucking leave when he should have so that is fucked. Makes it worse we just got beat by the dude that I wanted to replace the guy we had. I don't want Espada. Never have and never will. Y'all can all go die on that hill without me. Pena is trash at the plate and pretty much has been the whole time except last years playoffs (which helped win us a WS). I am good with his defense, but cannot stand his batting approach so hopefully they fuck with him this spring training. Realistically we have no better option. Astros demise is still severely overrated. We will be back next year doing what we do regardless who is at the helm. Altuve, Bregman, Yordan, Tucker, Abreu, Pena, Diaz, Chas and a new LF is still pretty fucking stout. Pitching will take a little more work to figure out.
  24. your run is done. it was great, though, much respect. and you were able to win a series, something we haven’t done yet. but yeah going forward we are on the way up and you’re on the way down. enjoy your title though; I congratulate you for it.
  25. Yeah, but the good news is that we consistently do. Next season is about Hunter Brown becoming a top 3 starter, somebody other than Maldy becoming the everyday catcher, adding a bat somewhere else, and getting a good Major League manager. All of that is doable, and if we stay healthy, we can go right back into the 100-win club.
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