Game Thread Texas (5) VS Florida - 11AM on ABC - Makin’ Some Gator Boots

[Hookem2147 20,927]

The upper decks legitimately may have been 40%ish away fans for Georgia and Florida. 

I expected a lot of away fans the next few years as schools travel here for the first time or first time in a long time, but it’s still pretty disappointing to see the number of season ticket holders selling their tickets. A lot of the same seats around me that were occupied by Georgia fans were occupied by Florida fans today.

Edited Sunday at 06:31 AM by Hookem2147

[TrashMaster G 17,385]

2 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

The upper decks legitimately may have been 40%ish away fans for Georgia and Florida. 

I expected a lot of away fans the next few years as schools travel here for the first time or first time in a long time, but it’s still pretty disappointing to see the number of season ticket holders selling their tickets. A lot of the same seats around me that were occupied by Georgia fans were occupied by Florida fans today.

No. Not even close.

[Hookem2147 20,927]

Just now, TrashMaster G said:

No. Not even close.

It was on the east side. Someone referenced it earlier but the BYU game last year is the only recent game I can remember with that heavy of an away fan presence.

[Yev Kassem 1,026]

8 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

The upper decks legitimately may have been 40%ish away fans for Georgia and Florida. 

I expected a lot of away fans the next few years as schools travel here for the first time or first time in a long time, but it’s still pretty disappointing to see the number of season ticket holders selling their tickets. A lot of the same seats around me that were occupied by Georgia fans were occupied by Florida fans today.

Professional brokers account for probably 10-15% of most teams’ inventory these days. It’s not mostly regular fans just selling their seats. 

Edited Sunday at 06:38 AM by Yev Kassem

[Hookem2147 20,927]

1 minute ago, Yev Kassem said:

Professional brokers account for probably 10-15% of most teams’ inventory these days. It’s not mostly regular fans just selling their seats. 

They supposedly were cracking down on those accounts. CDC sent an email out earlier in the year that they had taken back a certain number of season tickets from accounts showing broker tendencies.

The early start time didn’t help and Florida sucks, but the weather was perfect and the team only had 2 home games left. Was just a little disappointing to not see more burnt orange in the stands.

[Yev Kassem 1,026]

2 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

They supposedly were cracking down on those accounts. CDC sent an email out earlier in the year that they had taken back a certain number of season tickets from accounts showing broker tendencies.

The early start time didn’t help and Florida sucks, but the weather was perfect and the team only had 2 home games left. Was just a little disappointing to not see more burnt orange in the stands.

They’re consolidating to one or two main brokers so that they can better control the market. It’s too much of the Wild West when you have thousands of people dumping tickets at bottom out prices. Not as big of a deal when you’re sold out, but more so when you have a good amount of inventory to sell for single games like a few years ago. 

[TrashMaster G 17,385]

21 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

It was on the east side. Someone referenced it earlier but the BYU game last year is the only recent game I can remember with that heavy of an away fan presence.

I was staring at the east side all game. The upper deck was maybe, MAYBE 25% blue. My best guess would be more like 20%.

[Enemy07 281]

Just tell me where the drunk gator chicks are partying and drowning alcohol in sorrow.

[Tex Pete 20,162]

50 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

The upper decks legitimately may have been 40%ish away fans for Georgia and Florida. 

 

Not close to 10%. What the fuck are you talking about?

[Voluminous Banality 1,032]

3 hours ago, immamac said:

So it's a weird vibe here and obviously ticket prices reflected a weird vibe and going to tailgate late and seeing the exiying fans it was a weird vibe. 

Something is off when people aren't excited about a complete blowout win against Florida at home where we got to see the depth. It was weird, I've been to and around a few blowout wins and it is always more rowdy than this. We drank all day in town at multiple bars with tons of horns still in gear there. Very subdued and no one talking much about the game or how fun it was etc. Didn't see bro high fives, hear a single Texas Fight or have anyone thrown the horns up at me with a smile. All really normal things after a BLOWOUT of a team at home. 

Today was a great fucking day and I was so excited all day, probably annoyingly so around my family who knew I missed tailgate to do all this wedding stuff. I was stoked. I threw the horns up and asked about the win and flashed smiles to anyone with burnt orange on. 

Make the win feel good tomorrow if you didn't today for some reason. 

Combination of early game + coming off bye week and election hangover. Energy will pick up again this week.

[Deej 76,533]

Maybe everyone had heard that Ewers was a pussy?

Edited Sunday at 02:38 PM by Deej

[Dahobbs 17,432]

5 hours ago, Hookem2147 said:

The upper decks legitimately may have been 40%ish away fans for Georgia and Florida. 

I expected a lot of away fans the next few years as schools travel here for the first time or first time in a long time, but it’s still pretty disappointing to see the number of season ticket holders selling their tickets. A lot of the same seats around me that were occupied by Georgia fans were occupied by Florida fans today.

I don't think you know how percentages work. 

[hornian 5,203]

36 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

I don't think you know how percentages work. 

23% of statistics are made up on the spot. 

[DigglerontheHoof 21,049]

3 minutes ago, hornian said:

23% of statistics are made up on the spot. 

100% of the time. 

[DoobieWah 1,411]

3 minutes ago, hornian said:

23% of statistics are made up on the spot. 

That's literally true 63% of the time. 

[Newy25 7,638]

I didn’t get to watch the game live but that was one country ass kicking. Quinn was dialed in and it helped that he had a clean pocket all game. 

Aaron Bryant in the fourth quarter- yikes. That man is a blocking sled. I hope we never have to use him in a contested game. 

[Derka 5,942]

does anyone have QE’s depth of target stats on his five TD passes? sark’s play design/play calling were insane yesterday. so many quick throws that turned into 40-50+ yard gains. 

[The Golden Hat 299]

Is there a link to the game? I can’t seem to find one.

[Captainant 27,429]

9 minutes ago, The Golden Hat said:

Is there a link to the game? I can’t seem to find one.

Here's the highlights

 

[Billy Pilgrim 1,912]

33 minutes ago, Derka said:

does anyone have QE’s depth of target stats on his five TD passes? sark’s play design/play calling were insane yesterday. so many quick throws that turned into 40-50+ yard gains. 

The throws to Helm and Wisner had to be at least 15-20 yards downfield. The play calling was the what I was most pleased about yesterday.

[Had Enough 2,056]

50 minutes ago, Derka said:

does anyone have QE’s depth of target stats on his five TD passes? sark’s play design/play calling were insane yesterday. so many quick throws that turned into 40-50+ yard gains. 

Looks like 9.4.  Sorry, that was all passed.

 

Thats the range it needs to be.  For pretty much every game, it had been 6.5 or less.

One on one shots down the field are always reasonable choices.  That doesn’t mean they were the best or smartest choice but reasonable.

That was the best Sark has been, the most aggressive Ewers has been.  It’s a winning combo.

Edited Sunday at 03:16 PM by Had Enough
Clarify depth of target

[Derka 5,942]

16 minutes ago, Billy Pilgrim said:

The throws to Helm and Wisner had to be at least 15-20 yards downfield. The play calling was the what I was most pleased about yesterday.

yeah and how long did it take quinn to get the ball out on the td to helm? like 1 second? sark was two steps ahead of florida all day.

[Huckleberry 32,694]

41 minutes ago, Had Enough said:

Looks like 9.4.  Sorry, that was all passed.

 

Thats the range it needs to be.  For pretty much every game, it had been 6.5 or less.

One on one shots down the field are always reasonable choices.  That doesn’t mean they were the best or smartest choice but reasonable.

That was the best Sark has been, the most aggressive Ewers has been.  It’s a winning combo.

Yes and hopefully Sarkisian sees how much we need to attack the middle of the field in the passing game. Maybe he's scared of it because Ewers gets passes tipped so often with his arm slot but defenses are only worried about defending wide. Helm on the RPO yesterday, Bond on Ewers' bad miss on the first drive against OU, etc.

Most of the time you see Texas with a free runner it's in the middle third of the field. We have to keep them honest. The pump fake WR screen was a good start but only for one specific play. On the Helm RPO yesterday they showed Napier tapping his chest after the play and telling the defender it was his fault. Seems like he knew he was abandoning the middle of the field with the play call and didn't expect us to have someone attacking it.

Edited Sunday at 03:57 PM by Huckleberry

[dcar00 14,030]

I realize that Florida was in a world of hurt at QB position but this game is a good example of what we can do when we don't fuck ourselves with stupid turnovers inside our own 40.

we tried a couple of times early but were fortunate.  play of the game was the 4th and 1.

[BurntOrange&White 39,598]

12 hours ago, Wax Beer Cup said:

Just got home and catching up so not sure if this has had an answer, but holy shit Gator was there in force.  Next to maybe BYU, never see so many visiting fans as DKR.  May have just been that their blue really stood out, but they were everywhere.  The score may have helped, but all were very cool that I talked with. 

 

 

 

 

Florida always travels well

[Redneck Mutha 7,935]

First half play calling was almost flawless, only 3 drives we didn't score:

• First drive of the game we had 2nd and 3 at their 15, Wisner runs backwards for a loss and Quinn takes a sack to push FG past Bert's limits.
• First drive of 2nd quarter, Banks holding puts us behind the sticks, probably could have been more aggressive getting out of the hole, but I didn't hate the calls up 14-0.
• Next drive Moore gets the dropsies. 

3 of our first 4 TDs guys were so wide open, the Fla/Yale/3rd string QB could have made those plays. So well designed and called.

[Slacks 6,791]

37 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

 On the Helm RPO yesterday they showed Napier tapping his chest after the play and telling the defender it was his fault. Seems like he knew he was abandoning the middle of the field with the play call and didn't expect us to have someone attacking it.

Lol, yes. Watching the game my outburst was, "yeah, dumbass a fucking pop pass. Untouched. You got another year, so I guess you figure you don't need a Safety or LB in the middle of the field."

To which my buddy says, "$26 Million."

 

[mdmost 42,838]

I was happy Blue got back into the swing of things. He made so many great cuts to extend plays. And I look up at one point and Gibson has 100 yards rushing. Quinn had 333 yards passing and 5 TDs to 4 different players yet no WR had over 70 yards receiving. Blue had 127 total yards and Bond had 99 total yards. Just a strange game where we totally controlled everything and the defense was rock solid. 

Edited Sunday at 04:47 PM by mdmost

[Had Enough 2,056]

1 hour ago, Huckleberry said:

Yes and hopefully Sarkisian sees how much we need to attack the middle of the field in the passing game. Maybe he's scared of it because Ewers gets passes tipped so often with his arm slot but defenses are only worried about defending wide. Helm on the RPO yesterday, Bond on Ewers' bad miss on the first drive against OU, etc.

Most of the time you see Texas with a free runner it's in the middle third of the field. We have to keep them honest. The pump fake WR screen was a good start but only for one specific play. On the Helm RPO yesterday they showed Napier tapping his chest after the play and telling the defender it was his fault. Seems like he knew he was abandoning the middle of the field with the play call and didn't expect us to have someone attacking it.

I think Sark knows.  There’s been some disconnect.  I lean towards Ewers being too cautious as one element.  UF certainly cleared the middle of the field on that TD and made that easy execution.  I can’t imagine we will get that look often because in spite of the handwringing our pass protection is quite good.  

The defense is better served making us drive the field and see if we can make a mistake.

[EastTexan 662]

1 hour ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Florida always travels well

...and the fans weren't going to collie station.

[SuckitKevin 915]

15 hours ago, Hookem2147 said:

The upper decks legitimately may have been 40%ish away fans for Georgia and Florida. 

I expected a lot of away fans the next few years as schools travel here for the first time or first time in a long time, but it’s still pretty disappointing to see the number of season ticket holders selling their tickets. A lot of the same seats around me that were occupied by Georgia fans were occupied by Florida fans today.

Same, I had to sell Georgia but took less money to make sure they went to Texas fans. My son said a bunch of students somehow ( I thought it was made impossible) sold theirs too. The fucked up thing is that not all big ticket holders get tickets and then shitbirds get them to make a few bucks and sell. Disappointing.

[Texas Wahoo 3,383]

26 minutes ago, SuckitKevin said:

Same, I had to sell Georgia but took less money to make sure they went to Texas fans. My son said a bunch of students somehow ( I thought it was made impossible) sold theirs too. The fucked up thing is that not all big ticket holders get tickets and then shitbirds get them to make a few bucks and sell. Disappointing.

It's definitely not allowed and the policy is revocation of the Big Ticket for the rest of the academic year, but I am not sure how much that is enforced.

[4th and 5 4,914]

first two third and longs got pressure, bad blocking on a twist, RB oblivious, press coverage, no one open, looked like GA game, on the second Quinn fumbles for no reason but gets lucky and falls on the ball

the end around to Bond is a thing of beauty, the eye candy, Niblett has a great block on DB and Gunner's hustle adds 25 yards to the play

Golden's first touchdown has to be a play off something they run, Golden pretends to block by running at DB, Quinn pump fakes Wisner and Wisner FAKE CATCHES the ball in the flat - go look what it does the the DBs, any one of us could have thrown Golden the pass.

Gunner was just the hot route and bad alignment on a blitz

The half boot throw back screen never gets old, OL blocked it perfect and Gunner gets the last guy to score Wisner.

Quinn pump faking right to Golden (with another fake catch deke) with Moore and Bond clearing out the left side for Blue to go one on one to the edge with a LB was beautiful for a long gain, fantastic juke too

The bomb to Golden, Quinn throws off back foot, not set at all, sidearms it 45 yards, Golden had his guy by 3 yards, a better pass would have been completely uncontested, amazing how he can rip it with such poor form

Great hands by Collins to tip a ball to rookie LB Smith

two plays later Blue iso'ed on an LB and jukes the shit out of him and takes the slant to the 5 before he finishes it one play later

Mukuba's pick to start the third was on a tipped ball by...you guessed it, Alfred Collins

3rd and 13 play, OL blocks no one, quick out to Bond, Goosby smacks the shit out of the defender and everyone but Banks floods the right side, 1,400 pounds of OL blocking, best block? DeAndre Moore. Bond jukes the fuck out of the outside defender and its just speed, speed, speed

end of 3rd run by Blue, Banks makes incredible block on LB, Gunner whiffs but no matter, 23 coming right at two Florida players, a quick shimmy (one who tackles the other, instead of Blue) and he's off to the races

Gibson had the benefit of some nice OL play on the seventh TD, he ran strong to close it out

hope to see the same in Fayettenam

Edited Monday at 05:05 PM by 4th and 5

[BurntOrange&White 39,598]

Hard to find much to bitch about this game....defense gave up the 1st TD of the game with a little of a minute remaining in the 3rd quarter with Florida down 42-3. Not really going to complain about their second touchdown in the 4th at it was 49-10 at that point.