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5 minutes ago, The Ace of Aces said:

Oh absolutely not - just we have had national media attention and then have sucked. It’s all rat poison. 

Just enjoy it. Fuck. We’ve been through enough. The sun doesn’t shine on the same dog’s ass every day, and we have all learned that brutal truth over the last 13 years. When you get a ray of light for once, enjoy the warmth. If you can’t, fine, bow out of the thread and let the rest of us. 

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2 hours ago, WelfareBuysMyWeed said:

Finebaum sucked us off on Sport Center this morning. Can't find clips online though, but he literally said "Texas is back."

If I had a chemo patient fetish, I would listen to and pretend to care what he says. I don't and I don't

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1 hour ago, WelfareBuysMyWeed said:

No. Even if this is somehow a bad Alabama team, the win is still entirely different. We needed two overtimes to barely beat a bad Notre Dame team at home by a margin of inches that year. That is not at all how this victory went. Texas needed only 3 quarters and 15 seconds to beat the shit out of Alabama on the road.

No matter the opponents record, entirely different quality of wins.

This is correct. This team passes eye test, where that one did not. Can’t confuse an “exciting game” like ND with a dominant one like last night. Don’t know if we’re mentally tough enough to sustain, but this team is loaded with actual talent. 

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BehoId, The Underminer!

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5 hours ago, WelfareBuysMyWeed said:

TEXAS LITERALLY ROLLS OVER ALABAMA TO SHOW HOGS AND EVERYONE ELSE THAT THE SEC IS NO SURPRISE TO THEM

https://www.si.com/college/arkansas/hogs-football/razorbacks-alabama-crimson-tide-texas-longhorns-sec-sam-pittman

"Texas showed it's well aware what coming to SEC means"

That gibberish was definitely written by someone that went to school at Arkansas. 

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5 hours ago, Huckleberry said:

Don't worry, Georgia would trample Genghis Khan and his hordes. We are a hot story right now because of the win just like when we left Columbus. The media will be right back to fluffing Georgia soon enough, just like USC in 2005.

It's actually kind of eerily similar as USC had back-to-back AP titles heading into that season. We are not 2005 good but there are a lot of parallels between the seasons. 

I think we may be better across the lines of scrimmage than we were in 05. 23 LBs are definitely better. 23 DBs are not as good. Our QB is definitely not as good. 23 WRs and TE are better (I love Dave Thomas, but it’s true). 05 RBs were better with Charles and Ramonce. We just don’t have a super-human freak at QB, but the overall team is good and deep. 

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5 hours ago, The Ace of Aces said:

Careful here gentlemen - after the ND win where Charlie String was put on shoulders we had this phenomenon and we all know how that tuned out. 

If you're gonna be a wet blanket at least get your facts straight. The team lifted him after beating OU in 2015. 

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9 minutes ago, Chili dog said:

I think we may be better across the lines of scrimmage than we were in 05. 23 LBs are definitely better. 23 DBs are not as good. Our QB is definitely not as good. 23 WRs and TE are better (I love Dave Thomas, but it’s true). 05 RBs were better with Charles and Ramonce. We just don’t have a super-human freak at QB, but the overall team is good and deep. 

Our 2005 OL was easily better although this year's unit has time to improve. And David Thomas was better than Sanders is right now. Sanders has too many lapses. Thomas is pretty underrated by Texas fans.

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Our 2005 OL was easily better although this year's unit has time to improve. And David Thomas was better than Sanders is right now. Sanders has too many lapses. Thomas is pretty underrated by Texas fans.
No false starts, not a single one.

At night in one of the most hostile CFB environments. They may be spoiled and pretty docile in Bryant Denny most of the time, but not when the horns come to town. Man for man the 05 line may be better, but Quinn was rarely pressured all night. Run blocking was pretty inconsistent, but good enough to get the job done late in the 4th.
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54 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

Our 2005 OL was easily better although this year's unit has time to improve. And David Thomas was better than Sanders is right now. Sanders has too many lapses. Thomas is pretty underrated by Texas fans.

This is fair. Honestly, I have no business comparing this team to anyone with only two games under their belts. Hell, Bama may turn out to be mediocre. I’ll retract all comparisons and revisit the subject at the end of the year.  

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2 hours ago, Huckleberry said:

Our 2005 OL was easily better although this year's unit has time to improve. And David Thomas was better than Sanders is right now. Sanders has too many lapses. Thomas is pretty underrated by Texas fans.

Sanders is the better pro prospect.  Thomas, to this point, was the better college player.  Sanders is more than welcome to change my mind this year, and I expect he will.

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2 hours ago, Huckleberry said:

Our 2005 OL was easily better although this year's unit has time to improve. And David Thomas was better than Sanders is right now. Sanders has too many lapses. Thomas is pretty underrated by Texas fans.

I honestly don't ever remember Thomas dropping a single pass.  He was crucial to our success.  Every time Vince needed to dump it off, he was there.  Came up big in the NC game, too.

 

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9 hours ago, WelfareBuysMyWeed said:

TEXAS LITERALLY ROLLS OVER ALABAMA TO SHOW HOGS AND EVERYONE ELSE THAT THE SEC IS NO SURPRISE TO THEM

https://www.si.com/college/arkansas/hogs-football/razorbacks-alabama-crimson-tide-texas-longhorns-sec-sam-pittman

"Texas showed it's well aware what coming to SEC means"

 

3 hours ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

That gibberish was definitely written by someone that went to school at Arkansas. 

This might be the worst-written article I've ever read in my life.

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16 hours ago, Huckleberry said:

Don't worry, Georgia would trample Genghis Khan and his hordes. We are a hot story right now because of the win just like when we left Columbus. The media will be right back to fluffing Georgia soon enough, just like USC in 2005.

It's actually kind of eerily similar as USC had back-to-back AP titles heading into that season. We are not 2005 good but there are a lot of parallels between the seasons. 

I sort of think this defense and special teams might be better. I know I’d take the specialists from this team, and the linebackers on the 2005 team were a real problem for us, while this one has Ford and Ant Hill. This years DL is deeper. This years secondary is as deep- but that secondary was awesome and just had absurd high end talent. 
It’s not there yet and who know if it will get there, but I think it might surprise me if we aren’t actually better on defense and special teams. 
we are a lot deeper at WR and better top end talent too. RB and OL 2005 was so much better. TE probably a push. Coordinators are better on this years team. VY was just such a motherfucker that I’d like 2005 favored over any college team ever to play, but we’d have some strengths on this one and reason to be excited. 

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8 hours ago, SpiralOut said:

I honestly don't ever remember Thomas dropping a single pass.  He was crucial to our success.  Every time Vince needed to dump it off, he was there.  Came up big in the NC game, too.

 

The biggest drop of David Thomas career worked out well for us in the title game because if it was ruled a fumble we lose the game. 

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The two most perceptive Sooners in existence:
 
Say what you will about the methheads, but you will never see this sort of public honesty from aggy.
The two most perceptive Sooners in existence:
 
Say what you will about the methheads, but you will never see this sort of public honesty from aggy.
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I sort of think this defense and special teams might be better. I know I’d take the specialists from this team, and the linebackers on the 2005 team were a real problem for us, while this one has Ford and Ant Hill. This years DL is deeper. This years secondary is as deep- but that secondary was awesome and just had absurd high end talent. 
It’s not there yet and who know if it will get there, but I think it might surprise me if we aren’t actually better on defense and special teams. 
we are a lot deeper at WR and better top end talent too. RB and OL 2005 was so much better. TE probably a push. Coordinators are better on this years team. VY was just such a motherfucker that I’d like 2005 favored over any college team ever to play, but we’d have some strengths on this one and reason to be excited. 

Is this years DL deeper? Or just in the middle? This years secondary is nowhere near the 05 secondary. There were 2 Thorpe award winners, one of who played nickel. 3 1st rd, 1 3/4 rd and 1 guy that should have been drafted in the first but went in the 5th.

That secondary was probably one of the best in this era.
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1 hour ago, Jkwellborn said:


Is this years DL deeper? Or just in the middle? This years secondary is nowhere near the 05 secondary. There were 2 Thorpe award winners, one of who played nickel. 3 1st rd, 1 3/4 rd and 1 guy that should have been drafted in the first but went in the 5th.

That secondary was probably one of the best in this era.

Yeah- that secondary was better. That’s what I meant when I said it was absurd with high end talent. When I’m saying this secondary is as deep as that I mean that in the sense of we have 8 or 9 options that can play credibly. I put the over/under on guys that get drafted on the current 2023 roster in the secondary at 8.5. 

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I’ve listened to more dumb ass national media podcasts over the last 48 hours than I care to admit. The college football portion of the Ryen Russillo pod was pretty great; Texas is great followed immediately by holy shit how is A&M so fucking bad. My wife is concerned that I’m walking around with a shit eating grin on my face at all times. 

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On 9/10/2023 at 10:03 PM, SpiralOut said:

I honestly don't ever remember Thomas dropping a single pass.  He was crucial to our success.  Every time Vince needed to dump it off, he was there.  Came up big in the NC game, too.

 

Didn't Thomas make a sideline catch late in that USC game where he had to drag defenders to get out of bounds and stop the clock. Seems it was a crucial moment and we wouldn't have won if he didn't make that play. The details are fuzzy at this poiint, but it seems it was a move he never got a lot of credit for. Anyone remember what happened on that?

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On 9/10/2023 at 10:04 PM, Hornlover said:

 

This might be the worst-written article I've ever read in my life.

Hahah. It reads like it was translated into Cantonese, then back into English. Here are some gems:

"Handing Alabama the first home double-digit loss of Nick Saban's college coaching career led to The Eyes of Texas playing at the end of the game instead of whatever it is the Crimson Tide have become accustomed to hearing at that time." What? 

"Arkansas fans were in a confusion position even before the game." I'm in a confusion position.

"A lot of folks hate both of them, but probably the majority has a stronger dislike of burnt orange than crimson red, even though they have beating the Horns twice since they last beat the Tide in 2006." Someone will have to explain what this means to me. 

"The Sooners won't play any SEC teams this year, but it's probably a good bet they are preparing their teams for the league. Don't base a 2024 projection on what these teams are doing now. That even goes for the Hogs." Glad he cleared that up. 

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On 9/10/2023 at 12:37 PM, wood said:

These guys liking us makes me a little nervous. Feels like a trap.

They've had a glimpse of what's coming, and they're all rushing to make sure the rest of the country knows how much even more the bestest the SEC is about to become.  

They're gonna talk massive shit when they beat us and act like we're family when we beat them.

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