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Texas Football 2025 - Playing With Our Food
Park Gothic replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
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Service errors are way overrated as a statistic. I'm not saying they're unimportant. They are important. But what is more important is the effectiveness of serves. Otherwise players would be back there serving underhanded. For some servers, they might as well be. But because it's measured that's what everyone focuses on. I wish there was a stat for each player that showed the percentage of serves their team scores on. That's way more important than aces, which is also overrated as a stat. Obviously scoring a point is often as much about the rotation a player is in as it is the effectiveness of their serve, but it would still be way more useful than aces and errors, especially as a ratio. That's a dumb measurement of the effectiveness of a server, their aces to error ratio on serves. There is a great site I went on that explained the analytics in terms of getting an advantage on one exchange and being able to capitalize on it, even if it wasn't during the very next exchange. It's similar to any net sport. You put the opposition in a disadvantageous situation where their response back over the net is relatively weak, it puts your team in a good spot to make a forceful shot, which may again get returned, but in a weak way such that your team is again able to make a commanding kill shot. The odds to get the point are in your team's favor with each exchange, even if the first hit over the net didn't score. None of that is measured in the aces/errors statistic. That said, there are times I've seen Stanford service error themselves out of a match, so again, I'm not saying it's unimportant. Just over emphasized by the announcers and fans. We see the opposite true on the Texas side sometimes. Not with serves, but with kill shots. Elliott puts a big emphasis on limiting errors, and sometimes IMO it causes our players to choose to tip the ball over rather than letting it rip. But it's hard to argue with the overall results. It can be frustrating to watch as a fan at times.
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listen to this bitch "our president proclaimed that there are only two genders so this is illegal." h/t @Michael Knight
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I'm warming up to the "I am TEXAS and y'all ain't" t-shirt. Too bad it's black
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No, not even close.
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USMNT 2025 - Easy English, hard ones Spanish
Hagbard Celine replied to Captain Ron's topic in Futbol
scratch that we have 7 best-on-best (including tonight) if you count the warmups regardless poch needs a result tonight badly -
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I buy the too much romance critique especially for Spock. Especially since it neither advances his character nor are they interesting for him or Chapel/La’An
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Don’t ever quote my post and reply with stupidity ever again.
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jp france expected back this series
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Are there estate attorneys on premises?
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I was talking to someone I’ve known since the 70s, my older brother’s college roommate. He lives in Florida and the subject of Florida no longer requiring your kids to vaccinate to go to school was raised. He knows this one young man who was anti-vaccine and will not let his daughter be vaccinated with anything. I told him that if the daughter winds up with polio or some lifetime disabling disease that someone needs to give dad the Mussolini treatment. He instantly got offended and said he was a good man. He was just not smart in the ways of vaccines. I said that’s the problem with you MAGAs - you literally will forgive someone destroying his daughter‘s life or killing her because he refuses to educate himself on a topic where he knows there are two sides. He told me, “I don’t wanna talk politics, maybe we’ll talk later” and hung up on me. He doesn’t know it yet, but that’s the last discussion I’m ever having with him on anything. He’s the biggest misogynist you could ever find, his dad was a flat racist wife beater, and his whole world is now involved around his re-found evangelical Christianity. I guess he falls into the category of people you don’t necessarily respect that much, but have known for 50 years. Well, I know him, but I’m no longer going to interact with him. Not surprisingly, I’m one of the few people who will still talk to him - other than his friends at church who hate the crime inclined Mexicans - and who are deathly afraid of trans people. Like Jesus said to do.
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What if the trash is blocking the bike lane?
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you had me at sandwiches
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Texas Football 2025 - Playing With Our Food
Pato del Muerto replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Big boys shop rosters and put players in the portal, they don’t shop the portal. Are we one of the big boys? -
Texas Football 2025 - Playing With Our Food
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Comparing OL plug and play from the portal to DTs plugging and playing are two different things. Going and getting a good fit at an OL position to mesh with the rest of the group is one thing, going wholesale into the portal is another. Not only would adding 3-5 guys mean a complete retooling of the starting lineup, but also telling 5-7 guys to hit the fucking road, decimating continuity and development of those on campus. Everyone on this thread is completely overreacting to the OL play for the first two games. The PFF score might not have been great for some of them against Ohio State, but the unit played well enough to win in that game. They played overall poorly against SJSU, but that's also what this 3 game stint is for - playing up a learning curve. We've seen OL play come together year after year with Flood. Christian Jones and the one giant dude who played for just one year as a 5th or 6th year guy and brags on Flood regularly whose name I forget both showed more in a year under Flood than they had in multiple seasons under prior coaching. I'm fine with expecting another OT in this class and wish it would be a five person instead of a four person class, so maybe they seek one more guy or two in the portal this cycle, we'll see. Turntine is ready to play from a technique perspective on day one. Is he going to be physically ready? Again, we'll see. I'm also fine with a bunch of mix and match experimenting at C and LG. I just don't think we're doomed at either spot, nor should not adding a transfer last cycle be viewed as an epic fail. Wingo looks plenty fast on the field. He's gripping and trying to make plays before the ball is secured. If he settles down, he's going to have a big year. The plays are there. That all said, you sound like a fucking idiot with your whines about the guy's speed. -
Tell me you're an incel without saying you're an incel.
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Correct. I actually was the founding member and first president of my chapter at UF Law.
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Basic services are not a top priority in Austin, TX, sir.
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Thanks for the review. It’s been on my radar for a couple of weeks. I need to get over there for lunch in the near future. In other news, Chopnblok made the New York Times 50 best restaurants in the country list. I love that place.
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What new UT gear are you looking to buy this year?
Hmbre97 replied to GhostOfTomJoad's topic in Football
Not official UT gear but Bass Pro Shop put out this "Texas Longhorn Landscape" hat. I wish the 'Texas' was also in burnt orange instead of red but I still dig it.
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