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12 hours ago, closetojumping said:

We're hosting a Kentucky couple in our suite this weekend and they're great friends. The guy joining us played for Mumme and Leach at Kentucky and he's buddies with a bunch of guys involved in CFB and the NFL that he played with or got to know through playing for those guys. One of his good friends is Neal Brown, the HC at West Virginia. I've gotten to chat with Brown due to my friend a few times. That dude has dealt with some crazy shit at West Virginia. Anyhow, my buddy is a great source of non-UT CFB information and I present that here in threads when and where relevant. 

As to road trips, we're planning on going to the UK trip next year and making 4 nights of it, with a couple in one of Louisville or Cincinnati, two of the only large US cities that neither my wife or I have ever visited between us. Our friends go and on about Lexington, and we'll be there with them, so I hope it's a blast.

I’m a sucker for HC press conferences. I watch a ton of them. My top two pressers every week are Kenny Dillingham and Neal Brown. I don’t know either of them, but they strike me as more accessible than most HCs, and fairly thorough and direct in their responses to questions. I’m actually surprised at how much hate that man receives in Morgantown constantly. I like the guy, but I also don’t really care if they win or lose. On a side note, Kirby Smart is a total asshole in his pressers, but sometimes I wish Texas fans would watch them and apply what he says about his team and football in general as if he was speaking about the Longhorns.

Lexington and Columbia, SC are the two games I can’t wait to attend. I second the notion that Seattle and Madison are desirable. I have a half sister who lives in Seattle, and her mother is a UW Law grad (huge Warren Moon/Oilers fan which made January 1993 in my family interesting, but that’s a story for another day), so that would be fun, especially if Texas could actually beat them. I wouldn’t mind Bloomington now that they are respectable. I also wouldn’t turn down an opportunity to go to SLC or a return to Provo or Boulder if they showed up on the schedule. I really like Louisville. Went there for the Derby several years ago and had a great time.

Back on the topic of Kentucky, or on Texas this week, at least, I’d like to hear Sark’s assessment of the punt game. Seems like they are ceding a lot of hidden yardage there this year.

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I may be in the minority, but I'd much rather play a late season game against Kentucky vs something like Kansas or K-State where a win for them would be a season maker and get their coach a raise and extension no matter how shitty the rest of their season was.

That said, Kentucky is looking for bowl eligibility and it would be a nice feather in the cap of the players and bag o' dicks Jr to be the second SEC team to beat Texas. We can't afford to overlook this one, far too many 2 loss SEC teams and some with better wins.

Kinda wish we had gotten this one out of the way earlier in the season and scheduled UTEP or something to rest up for aggy and give some of the restless young players some snaps, but whatever.

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3 hours ago, The Original Greaser Bob said:

Where're you boys heading?
We'll trap over the fall.
Winter in Can-tuck-ee.
Find a Delaware-speaking woman for Uncas.

It’s a shame there was only one left, or so we were told.

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6 hours ago, SamMan said:

I’m a sucker for HC press conferences. I watch a ton of them. My top two pressers every week are Kenny Dillingham and Neal Brown. I don’t know either of them, but they strike me as more accessible than most HCs, and fairly thorough and direct in their responses to questions. I’m actually surprised at how much hate that man receives in Morgantown constantly. I like the guy, but I also don’t really care if they win or lose. On a side note, Kirby Smart is a total asshole in his pressers, but sometimes I wish Texas fans would watch them and apply what he says about his team and football in general as if he was speaking about the Longhorns.

Lexington and Columbia, SC are the two games I can’t wait to attend. I second the notion that Seattle and Madison are desirable. I have a half sister who lives in Seattle, and her mother is a UW Law grad (huge Warren Moon/Oilers fan which made January 1993 in my family interesting, but that’s a story for another day), so that would be fun, especially if Texas could actually beat them. I wouldn’t mind Bloomington now that they are respectable. I also wouldn’t turn down an opportunity to go to SLC or a return to Provo or Boulder if they showed up on the schedule. I really like Louisville. Went there for the Derby several years ago and had a great time.

Back on the topic of Kentucky, or on Texas this week, at least, I’d like to hear Sark’s assessment of the punt game. Seems like they are ceding a lot of hidden yardage there this year.

Columbia is not a very exciting city, and you never want an early season game there (a quirk of meteorology means it's always hotter and more humid than the surrounding area. It's football in a sauna).

You can at least check off a national park (Congaree) and go to Greenville or Charleston for an actually cool town.

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19 hours ago, closetojumping said:

We're hosting a Kentucky couple in our suite this weekend and they're great friends. The guy joining us played for Mumme and Leach at Kentucky and he's buddies with a bunch of guys involved in CFB and the NFL that he played with or got to know through playing for those guys. One of his good friends is Neal Brown, the HC at West Virginia. I've gotten to chat with Brown due to my friend a few times. That dude has dealt with some crazy shit at West Virginia. Anyhow, my buddy is a great source of non-UT CFB information and I present that here in threads when and where relevant. 

As to road trips, we're planning on going to the UK trip next year and making 4 nights of it, with a couple in one of Louisville or Cincinnati, two of the only large US cities that neither my wife or I have ever visited between us. Our friends go and on about Lexington, and we'll be there with them, so I hope it's a blast.

The small college town bit gets kind of old, in my mind. They all start seeming the same - been to Knoxville, Fayetteville (twice), Tuscaloosa, and Ann Arbor over the last 3 years. I was in Fayetteville this past weekend with the wife and BIL (arky alum) and it was fine, and the dinners were great, but it's always the same drill at the bars and restaurants near campus, and the same horns down and SEC shit-talking there and around the tailgates. 

are you still planning to be in Columbus next year?

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11 minutes ago, Thiefery said:

are you still planning to be in Columbus next year?

Nope. Never planned that. I’ve never heard a positive thing about that place for games and I’ve been there for business and found it uninteresting.  Good luck to all who go though. I’ll likely be in Gainesville, Athens and Lexington, however. 

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7 hours ago, SamMan said:

I’m a sucker for HC press conferences. I watch a ton of them. My top two pressers every week are Kenny Dillingham and Neal Brown. I don’t know either of them, but they strike me as more accessible than most HCs, and fairly thorough and direct in their responses to questions. I’m actually surprised at how much hate that man receives in Morgantown constantly. I like the guy, but I also don’t really care if they win or lose. On a side note, Kirby Smart is a total asshole in his pressers, but sometimes I wish Texas fans would watch them and apply what he says about his team and football in general as if he was speaking about the Longhorns.

Lexington and Columbia, SC are the two games I can’t wait to attend. I second the notion that Seattle and Madison are desirable. I have a half sister who lives in Seattle, and her mother is a UW Law grad (huge Warren Moon/Oilers fan which made January 1993 in my family interesting, but that’s a story for another day), so that would be fun, especially if Texas could actually beat them. I wouldn’t mind Bloomington now that they are respectable. I also wouldn’t turn down an opportunity to go to SLC or a return to Provo or Boulder if they showed up on the schedule. I really like Louisville. Went there for the Derby several years ago and had a great time.

Back on the topic of Kentucky, or on Texas this week, at least, I’d like to hear Sark’s assessment of the punt game. Seems like they are ceding a lot of hidden yardage there this year.

Would love to hit Oregon and Washington. Daughter goes to Madison. Atmosphere pretty meh. Tailgate is fun. 

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I think we start running the ball more and more effectively.  We are so close to breaking long runs multiple times the last couple weeks.

Need that and to work intermediate passing game.  Those two plus our short game makes our offense so much better. Quinn can be elite short and intermediate.

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9 minutes ago, Frank Drebin said:

I think we start running the ball more and more effectively.  We are so close to breaking long runs multiple times the last couple weeks.

We should tell Sark to be better at running. I'm sure the guy whose offense is usually based around running to set up the pass and whose RB room is a MASH unit will be shocked to hear it.

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24 minutes ago, Frank Drebin said:

I think we start running the ball more and more effectively.  We are so close to breaking long runs multiple times the last couple weeks.

Need that and to work intermediate passing game.  Those two plus our short game makes our offense so much better. Quinn can be elite short and intermediate.

Avoid the fumbles and the negative plays and the run game works itself out. We shouldn't lose 2-7 yards against light boxes every 4th or 5th run. 

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3 hours ago, closetojumping said:

Nope. Never planned that. I’ve never heard a positive thing about that place for games and I’ve been there for business and found it uninteresting.  Good luck to all who go though. I’ll likely be in Gainesville, Athens and Lexington, however. 

Gainesville is a shit hole.

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25 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

I've heard that. I want to visit The Swamp about as much as any stadium in the country, so we're holding our nose and going anyway.

Just stay in Jacksonville and limo to game. It is a hair under 90mins to get to Gainesville from Jacksonville. Zero reason to stay in Gainesville. 

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3 hours ago, texifornia said:

 

I'm surprised to see Miami's defense in the top quartile. It feels like they're in a shootout that Cam Ward ekes out most weeks. The New Mexico placement certainly checks out. Devon Dampier is one of the most exciting players in all of CFB, and an incredible QB for NMU standards, but they're fighting tooth and nail just to make a bowl because they don't have the athletes on defense to stop anyone. 

I do find it funny that pretty much every single advanced metric you can find has Texas as a top 3 team, but the media narrative this week is to say Texas has to win out to make the playoff because we don't have a big win. Never mind that our strength of schedule is tougher than pretty much every team they're trying to put in over us, and they can't find a single metric to show the team they're propping up is better than us. Let's focus only on wins against top quartile opponents and ignore any bad losses and quality of play by the other teams. 

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1 hour ago, FloridaHorn said:

Gainesville is a shit hole.

 

1 hour ago, closetojumping said:

I've heard that. I want to visit The Swamp about as much as any stadium in the country, so we're holding our nose and going anyway.

My understanding is it was the place to watch a game back in the mid/late 2000s. The atmosphere was revered. Now, the stadium is just old and outdated, the team isn't great, and that makes Gainesville's already underwhelming patina even more tumbledown.

2 hours ago, texifornia said:

We should tell Sark to be better at running. I'm sure the guy whose offense is usually based around running to set up the pass and whose RB room is a MASH unit will be shocked to hear it.

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Yep, this isn't your typical Sark RB stat distribution. As we all know, missing Baxter is huge for this offense's rushing productivity. We don't have a bell cow, and Sark always has a bell cow (at least in terms of 1,000-yard seasons).

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1 hour ago, HenryJames said:

What's the move? Fly into Jacksonville, go to the beach and shit and then drive to the game?

I would fly to Jacksonville and stay at the Inn and Club in Ponte Vedra rather than some shithole in Jax beach. Just drive down and back for the game. The swamp is pretty cool - it's definitely as loud as advertised. Gainesville sucks ass, but so does 95% of Jacksonville.

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19 minutes ago, Noozak said:

I would fly to Jacksonville and stay at the Inn and Club in Ponte Vedra rather than some shithole in Jax beach. Just drive down and back for the game. The swamp is pretty cool - it's definitely as loud as advertised. Gainesville sucks ass, but so does 95% of Jacksonville.

I've heard really nice things about Fernandina Beach if you're going for cute small beach town instead of big golf resort, as well. Plus Amelia Island does have a Ritz. That is purely based on hearsay, though.

Boy, we're all really excited about playing Kentucky, aren't we!

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6 hours ago, closetojumping said:

Nope. Never planned that. I’ve never heard a positive thing about that place for games and I’ve been there for business and found it uninteresting.  Good luck to all who go though. I’ll likely be in Gainesville, Athens and Lexington, however. 

2 bucket list locations for many of us are the National Museum of the USAF and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton

building a 3-night weekend around the shortest post-game drive to a hotel while picking up both of those locations looks like this:

thursday fly to cleveland and drive to the hotels near the akron/canton airport or fly to akron/canton if the price & schedule are right

friday all day at the HOF then drive to dayton and stay there - avoid the townies entirely after the game - gtfo

saturday - game

sunday you are already in dayton - usaf museum hours are 9-5

fly back from dayton, columbus or cincy for the best price/schedule - cmh & cvg are each an hour+ from the museum so a 7pm flight is doable

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