The thread wherein the national media sucks off Texas for the first time in over a decade

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https://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/sec-football/first-and-10-dear-sec-texas-is-built-to-take-over-everything/

 

"It’s all set up now. The timing is perfect, the investment has been made and Steve Sarkisian is on the way to building a monster at Texas.

A monster that can take over the SEC."

[TreatyOak 16,149]

Nothing is a sure sign of oncoming disaster than overly-effusive media and a giant new contract for your coach. 

 

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3 hours ago, TreatyOak said:

Nothing is a sure sign of oncoming disaster than overly-effusive media and a giant new contract for your coach. 

 

Congrats, you are as dumb as aggy. Do you write for the gig em gazette?

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Congrats, you are as dumb as aggy. Do you write for the gig em gazette?

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On 2/19/2024 at 11:04 AM, WelfareBuysMyWeed said:

https://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/sec-football/first-and-10-dear-sec-texas-is-built-to-take-over-everything/

 

"It’s all set up now. The timing is perfect, the investment has been made and Steve Sarkisian is on the way to building a monster at Texas.

A monster that can take over the SEC."

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Time for an encore. Quinn Ewers, get your rocks off:

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/41166401/in-quinn-ewers-texas-qb-win-national-title

In Quinn Ewers, Texas has the QB to win a National Title

Spoiler

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Vince Young and Texas came to Big Ten country 19 years ago and delivered a statement. Unflappable, Young propelled those Longhorns past No. 2 Ohio State, setting the stage for Texas' magical run to the national championship that ended with Young's iconic dash past the Rose Bowl pylon.

The Longhorns were back in the Big Ten on Saturday. And behind another unflappable quarterback, Texas again delivered a statement -- this time in the Big House -- that these Longhorns are primed for their own title run.

Behind junior quarterback Quinn Ewers, who, like Young did, keeps saving his best performances for the brightest lights, Texas thoroughly dismantled No. 10 Michigan on the way to a resounding 31-12 victory.

"This one game isn't going to define our season," Longhorns coach Steve Sarkisian said afterward. "But I think it would serve as a pretty good barometer of the type of team that we could be."

With the levelheaded Ewers, these Longhorns could be a team that wins its first national championship since 2005.

Facing a Michigan defense still loaded with multiple future first-round NFL draft picks, including defensive tackle Mason Graham and cornerback Will Johnson, Texas moved the ball at will. The Wolverines blitzed. They dropped back. They disguised coverages. They tried everything. Nothing worked against Ewers.

"We did a really good job playing with poise and composure," Ewers said.

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The Longhorns converted seven of their first eight attempts on third down, with Ewers finding receivers over and over. He even converted on the other third-down attempt, but his scrambling, 24-yard touchdown strike to DeAndre Moore Jr. on the opening drive was negated by a holding call.

That penalty led to a missed field goal, but it didn't matter. Ewers came back and continued completing passes.

"There's something about Quinn in his demeanor. He's a very calm guy. He's really collected. He never rides the emotional rollercoaster," Sarkisian said. "When you've got a quarterback that everybody can believe in, that just fuels confidence and belief that, 'Hey, let's go do our part, because the guy that's holding the ball every play he's on point.'"

The Longhorns have reason to believe in Ewers, who is now the only FBS quarterback in the country since the start of last season to throw three touchdowns without an interception against multiple AP top-10 opponents, according to ESPN Stats & Info. Last year, Ewers passed for 349 yards in a victory over then-third-ranked Alabama.

Against Michigan, Ewers was just as prolific. He completed 24 of 36 passes for 246 yards, as Texas scored on four straight drives in the first half, including three touchdowns, to put the Wolverines on their heels.

He tossed a 21-yard touchdown to tight end Gunnar Helm, who finished with a career-high seven receptions for 98 yards. Then, after a Michigan fumble in the final minute of the first half, Ewers completed four straight passes, capped with a 5-yard touchdown throw to Matthew Golden on third-and-goal with 10 seconds to go. The pass put Texas up 24-3 and, effectively, put the Wolverines away.

"When he's confident [we feel] unstoppable," Golden said of Ewers. "We [feel like] we can score 60."

But with an improved offensive line now seemingly built for the SEC, and a defense that overwhelmed the Wolverines, Texas won't need to score 60 to keep winning games.

Michigan produced only 88 yards of offense in the first half, and managed to get off only nine plays the entire first quarter -- their fewest in a first quarter since 2011, according to ESPN Stats & Information.

When Ewers swung a 7-yard touchdown pass to running back Jaydon Blue late in the third quarter, the Big House began to empty out.

"I was hoping to learn about ourselves," Sarkisian said. "Would we be overwhelmed by the environment?

"Our guys played a very composed football game. They played tough, they played physical. ... We weren't really trying to come to prove anything. We wanted to play our brand, our style of football."

Nineteen years ago, the Longhorns learned in Week 2 at Ohio Stadium that they had a special quarterback who could lead them to victory against anyone anywhere. Then Young did just that, leading Texas to a dramatic win over USC at the Rose Bowl.

The Longhorns have another special quarterback now. And while other tests lie ahead, Ewers showed again, that with him, Texas is ready to beat anyone anywhere.

 

Edited September 8 by WelfareBuysMyWeed

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Slurp slurp slurp

https://fansided.com/posts/looking-at-you-texas-has-a-team-ever-joined-a-conference-and-won-in-its-first-year-01j7qebef5ga

As the Texas Longhorns take their first steps into SEC football, there’s an undeniable sense of optimism in Austin.

With a powerhouse team, led by the experienced quarterback Quinn Ewers, and head coach Steve Sarkisian at the helm, Texas is poised to make a serious run at the SEC title in its inaugural season.

Many skeptics might point to Texas' mixed history over the last decade, but this year feels different. The Longhorns have the depth, talent, and schedule to challenge the SEC’s traditional powerhouses.

Has a college football team team ever joined a conference and won in its first year?

Winning a conference in your first year isn’t unprecedented, and Texas isn’t the first team to walk this path.

Virginia Tech’s 2004 move to the ACC provides a prime example. Much like Texas, they entered their new conference with skepticism surrounding them. Yet, under Coach Frank Beamer, the Hokies shocked everyone by winning the ACC Championship. A 10-3 season, including an 8-game winning streak to close the regular season, capped their remarkable year.

Marshall University also achieved a stunning feat in 1997 when it rejoined the Mid-American Conference (MAC). With players like Randy Moss and Chad Pennington, the Thundering Herd captured the conference title in their first season back at the Division I-A level.

A new era for Texas football

Moving to the SEC is a massive shift for Texas, but it's a conference they seem ready for. They come into this season with a roster stacked with talent, including one of the best offensive lines in college football and a defense capable of matching up with any team in the nation. For Texas, it's not just about proving they belong in the SEC, but proving they can dominate it.

In Quinn Ewers, Texas has an experienced leader under center. Ewers, one of the top quarterbacks in the country, is well-protected by a robust offensive line anchored by one of the nation's best left tackles. On the other side of the ball, their defense is solid, boasting enough firepower to make them a legitimate contender in the toughest conference in college football.

One key factor working in Texas’ favor this year is their schedule. Unlike other SEC teams that have to face perennial powerhouses like Alabama, Tennessee, and LSU regularly, the Longhorns have a more favorable path. Their toughest opponent, Georgia, will face them in Austin, a significant advantage. While Georgia poses a serious challenge, a victory over the reigning champions could catapult Texas to a conference championship berth.

The stakes for the SEC

Texas’ arrival is both an opportunity and a threat for the SEC. Historically, newcomers have struggled in their first seasons. Arkansas and South Carolina experienced losing seasons when they joined the SEC in 1992. Missouri fared no better in 2012, posting a 5-7 record in their first year. However, Texas A&M defied expectations, finishing 11-2 in their debut season, falling short of the conference championship.

Texas is looking to do more than just make noise—they aim to win it all. The Longhorns have a team capable of achieving what few others have. A first-year SEC championship would not only rewrite Texas football history but would also serve as a seismic shift in the balance of power in the SEC.

What it means for the Longhorns’ future

Texas winning the SEC title in their first season would mark one of the most significant moments in college football history. It would immediately vault the Longhorns into the upper echelon of college football programs, solidifying their return to national prominence. For Coach Sarkisian, it would be the crowning achievement of his coaching career, validating his rebuild of the Texas program over the past few seasons.

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What happened to all those overbearing boosters that were gonna hinder us from ever winning again? Those boosters that scared Saban off because he doesn’t wanna answer calls at 7:30 when he’s eating dinner with his children?

Edited September 15 by A’Dam Psycho

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3 minutes ago, A’Dam Psycho said:

What happened to all those overbearing boosters that were gonna hinder us from ever winning again? Those boosters that scared Saban off because he doesn’t wanna answer calls at 7:30 when he’s eating dinner with his children?

Sark tamed them

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15 minutes ago, WelfareBuysMyWeed said:

Sark tamed them

12 years in the desert will do that for ya

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18 minutes ago, A’Dam Psycho said:

What happened to all those overbearing boosters that were gonna hinder us from ever winning again? Those boosters that scared Saban off because he doesn’t wanna answer calls at 7:30 when he’s eating dinner with his children?

It turns out they were real shitheads and helped build the largest NIL collective in the country and helped Sarkisian do whatever the fuck he wanted in football and other coaches in other sports. 

18 minutes ago, WelfareBuysMyWeed said:

Sark tamed them

 

2 minutes ago, FCB said:

12 years in the desert will do that for ya

Dumb and ignorant takes. 

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2 hours ago, closetojumping said:

It turns out they were real shitheads and helped build the largest NIL collective in the country and helped Sarkisian do whatever the fuck he wanted in football and other coaches in other sports. 

 

Dumb and ignorant takes. 

 

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/columnist/dan-wolken/2024/10/12/texas-sec-oklahoma-red-river-rivalry/75652314007/

 

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DALLAS — It all looked, felt and smelled the same: The stark split at the 50-yard line between crimson and burnt orange, the gluttonous stench of State Fair of Texas food being deep-fried just outside the walls of the Cotton Bowl, the fans stumbling around in various states of inebriation as their skin baked under a 93-degree October heat. 

The one thing changed, though, was not merely symbolic. For Texas and Oklahoma, pulling the Roman numerals of the Big 12 off the field and replacing them with the circular seal of the Southeastern Conference has served as a thermometer for the two geographic and cultural rivals that have been meeting in this place that sits roughly halfway between their respective campuses since 1929.

Texas is SEC-ready. Oklahoma? Not so much. 

That admittedly banal takeaway, of course, is a story that can be told by the one-sided score we saw here Saturday: Texas 34, Oklahoma 3. 

But it’s a story that needs to be told, maybe even shouted, for how improbable it seemed a mere three years ago. 

The Texas Longhorns did it. They built a monster: Probably the best team in the SEC, and maybe the whole dang country. 

"Through the first half of the season I don’t see a lot of teams that have played as well in all three phases have they have,” Oklahoma coach Brent Venables said. “They’re good in the right places — quarterback, offensive line, explosive playmakers, really good defense. They’ve got a really complete team.”

 

It will take more months to render a verdict on just how good Texas is, but we may be able to see it forming as quickly as next week when the Longhorns host Georgia in the next Game of the Year. That should be the kind of test Oklahoma is not capable of providing. After seeing the Sooners’ offense bumble their way through one possession after another, they don’t seem capable of much more than a middling future in the SEC that will probably end with a lot of confused Sooners wondering how the program they mostly held the upper-hand against for 2 1/2 decades blew right past them at exactly the wrong moment. 

In a 125-year old rivalry that hasn't always been predictable, this role reversal is one for the books.

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Asked if it was alarming that there was suddenly this massive gap between Texas and Oklahoma, Venables repeated the question back before looking down and mumbling a “no” that didn’t seem particularly convincing. 

But it should be alarming to Venables and everyone at Oklahoma, because it wasn’t so long ago that these were the questions being asked about Texas and its viability as a national power. 

Rewind, if you can, to the moment you heard Texas and Oklahoma were going to join the SEC. It was the summer of 2021. Texas had bulldozed Tom Herman out of town after four seasons, just as they had with Charlie Strong after three. It had been a dozen years since the Longhorns put a team on the field that had even remotely looked like it belonged with the SEC’s big dogs. 

This Texas program was going to leave the protective cocoon of the Big 12 for America’s deepest and most physically demanding conference? 

Oklahoma’s move to the SEC seemed questionable for a different reason. The Sooners were coming off six consecutive years of winning the Big 12 under Bob Stoops and then Lincoln Riley, with four trips to the College Football Playoff before hitting their talent ceiling against the likes of Alabama, Georgia and LSU. 

Why mess with a good thing? Why jump from a conference where your advantages over every other program were so profound that you could almost reserve an annual spot in the playoff, especially with the four-team model set to inevitably expand? 

Sure, there were all kinds of reasons to go to the SEC — the money, recruiting allure, the excitement of playing high-profile programs on a regular basis — but it didn’t seem like a great deal for either one competitively. 

The way it looked three years ago, both of them — but especially Texas — were going to get crushed in this league. Now we have to ask: Are the Longhorns on the verge of running this league? 

 

 

It's not just remarkable, it would have been absurd to predict anything like this. 

Even going all-in on Steve Sarkisian, while sensible given his success as Alabama's offensive coordinator, looked risky given how underwhelming he had been as a head coach previously at Washington and Southern California. But what other choice did Texas have? 

Now, in Year 4, Sarkisian has a CFP appearance on his résumé and maybe the most reliably complete team in college football. He’s not just a better football coach than he was a decade ago, he’s backed by an administration and fan base that caught on quickly to the name, image and likeness world of recruiting, plugged some holes in the facility wars and desperately wanted to make sure that its step up in competition wasn't going to result in a historic face plant. 

The result has been a collection of talent and experience that maybe only Ohio State can match. 

“A lot of times on our team it's hard to tell the difference between our 1s and 2s,” Sarkisian said in a subtle flex as he downed a postgame corndog. 

The Longhorns didn't even play that well on Saturday, and the gulf between Texas and Oklahoma looked wider than the stretch of Interstate 35 that separates them. Don’t begrudge the burnt orange brigade if the told-you-sos are echoing from Austin beyond Auburn and everywhere else across the South.

But it’s a told-you-so that comes with a caveat. The Red River Rivalry may always be the most important game on Texas’ schedule by virtue of history, but it’s no longer the measuring stick by virtue of that reality that now exists for both programs and the league they play in. 

“We have to give this game the respect it deserves,” Sarkisian said. “This is a big game at the University of Texas. This game matters to us, and I know it matters to Oklahoma obviously so theres a lot that goes into this and we are fortunate and blessed to be part of it. But the thing that I think I’m impressed with in our guys is we enjoyed the win and the locker room was fun but its almost like our team knows there’s more work to do. Put it in the trophy case and keep grinding.” 

That's the SEC mentality Sarkisian knows they’ll need. Texas has arrived in this conference as a program worthy of chanting those three letters and reduced Oklahoma to just another also-ran in a league full of them. 

The Longhorns didn't just win a football game on Saturday, they separated from their rival and their past. They’re ready for this.