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  1. As probably the only person on this board who watched every Troy game last year, I can speak to his game a little bit. He started the year either second or third string... It's hard to tell because multiple guys were hurt and then QBs got switched in and switched out. Ultimately played in 8 games and won 3 of them (all of Troy's FBS wins last year). Played a decent game against Iowa. He's got good zip on short timing routes; slants, comebacks, etc. I think this is actually the best part of his game. (We saw that against Florida). Doesn't have great touch on the intermediate routes. Deep outs, overs, etc. I think this is where he struggles the most. Throws a really nice deep ball... Can get 55-60 air yards when he can step into it. However, he can get locked in if he thinks he's got a winner. Couple of his picks last year were from locking in on a WR and not seeing a safety come over on a fade or not seeing a corner drop back and get underneath a corner route. He's closer to Arch on the mobility scale than he would be to Ewers. Doesn't have the top speed of Arch, but has some escapability, can get out of the pocket, and has enough that he can threaten on a zone read. I worry about his pocket presence with this o line. A few sacks from last year, he would get to the top of his drop and would stay there while the play developed, which gave a better angle for the blind side DE to get to him... Didn't have the greatest feel for oncoming rushers and doesn't step up into the pocket a lot. Would prefer to escape sideways rather than step up. Can't speak to his post-snap processing as Troy didn't really ask him to do that a lot. A lot of their offense is pre snap identification of first target and then hitting timing routes. Not a ton of post snap read progression. He had some big plays last year escaping the pocket and finding his speedster down field.
    26 points
  2. on the one hand, the sympathetic side of me says, β€œimagine falling in love with a β€œnever trump guy” and waking up a few years later stuck in a marriage to trump’s personal ball polisher.” on the other hand, you met jd vance and then let him nut all up inside you (on purpose!) so i can only extend my sympathies so far.
    23 points
  3. Its like a peak offseason thread in the middle of the season lol
    19 points
  4. You people should go outside and touch grass or get a hobby. This is hilariously dramatic from a bunch of teenage girls
    16 points
  5. Hate to break it to you, but you aren’t that important.
    15 points
  6. Where are all the fake "fiscal conservative" magats? Fuck your lying bullshit.
    15 points
  7. I wasn't sold on all of this. Seemed to outrageous too be true. And extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. But you just dropped a truth bomb right on my head. It was on reddit, the front page of the internet? Well shit, it must be true.
    13 points
  8. Am I alone in feeling like college football is careening off a cliff? It just feels like a completely unstable, wheels off enterprise.
    13 points
  9. Have you seen. Our short yard game. 2nd and 1 becomes second and 6 after the false start. Then a hand off into a pile becomes 3rd and 4 and then holding becomes 3rd and 14.
    13 points
  10. "God DAMN you, closetojumping!! Do not do this!!" Over the course of the last two months, the patrons of this board have gone from feeling their oats and scheduling dinner reservations in Miami for next January to a bunch of sobbing twats, scared of their own shadow and counting future losses as though these things are certain. It is time we pull ourselves together. Texas is playing Vanderbilt, for fuck's sake. I don't care how highly rated those dorks are, they haven't played in Austin since 1903. Texas didn't even have a stadium then and most of our grandparents weren't even alive then. Things change, but opponents coming to town and having their heads handed to them is a longstanding tradition in which every reader here is rooted. This season and this team has been shit on and shoved down by every talking head and voter in the media since the lofty #1 preseason ranking was vaporized in week one in Ohio. Boo hoo. The team hasn't quit yet, and they're finally heading home. This year's schedule has only exacerbated the distorted view that college football nation and our own fanbase has of this team. They lost by one score on the road to Ohio State, who no one has played close since. Then they played 3 cupcakes that no one cared to even cover or watch for the most part. While our fanbase yawned and Manning struggled, everyone else just read box scores, watched some clippings on Twitter and IG, and formed definitive opinions that Texas sucks. A bad loss to lackluster Florida in The Swamp didn't help the program's cause. People excused OU because of the Mateer injury, even though he played and said he was fine, and then beat two SEC teams on the road. After two fucking decades of hearing mouthbreathers tell us what a grind every SEC game is, especially on the road, Texas has received zero credit for going back to back weeks and beating Kentucky and Mississippi State in their backyards. So were folks just lying pieces of shit overhyping a top-heavy, otherwise mediocre conference? Or is everyone just full of shit and resentment now and can't give Texas credit where it is due? I've heard multiple talking heads yesterday and today claim that Texas is done and simply not a good team this year. "I expect Vanderbilt to expose Texas as a fraud this weekend." - Nicole Auerbach, AP voter who did not vote for Texas this week, but voted for her alma mater, Michigan, who lost to OU and has the same 6-2 record as Texas. The good news is that the game still gets to get played. Texas has gone the longest stretch without a home game of an P4 team in the last 25 years - 6 calendar weeks.* It is time for home-cooking. "But CTJ, Vanderbilt is actually good this year!" This Vanderbilt team is fine. Are they good? No. This team is a by-product of a gritty QB with some talent around him on offense, a well-schemed defense and an absolutely dreadful schedule. Vanderbilt is currently 7-1. In the non-con they played Charleston Southern in the FCS, a 3-5 Va Tech, 1-7 Georgia State (Sun Belt) and 4-4 Utah State (Mountain West), who also lost to New Mexico and Hawaii by similar scoring differentials. In those 4 games, Vanderbilt outgained their opponents by 1,083 yards. This Vanderbilt team can punch a midget, that much is certain. How about in the SEC? That's a different story. They've played at South Carolina, at Alabama and then hosted LSU and Missouri. SCar, as predicted, was wildly overrated and sits at 3-5. They have a worse offensive line than Texas. Bama looks like a top 5 team. LSU just fired their coach, in part, for losing to Vanderbilt. Missouri's qb suffered a gruesome lower leg injury and was carted off the field in an inflatable cast while the game was tied 3-3 and Missouri was threatening to score. In these 4 games, including Vandy outgaining LSU by 74 yards, Vanderbilt was collectively outgained by 195 yards. This Vanderbilt team has been playing with a guardian angel watching over them all season. The devil always gets his due, and that payment will be made this weekend at DKR. "Now closetojumping, Diego Pavia is a winner. He's got moxie! He rallies his whole team around his aura and energy!" It was only this week that I learned that "Diego Pavia" literally means "overrated hobo" when translated from Mexican to English. Look, there is no doubt that Pavia is a born and proven leader. That's great for a marginally talented team playing either teams with less talent, teams with comparable talent, or teams who are asleep at the wheel. Luckily for Texas fans, this Texas team has awakened. Suffering near deaths on the road with their backs against the wall, the healthy pulse has been found and the adrenaline is kicking into high gear. All this team is going to hear all week is how they have no choice, even if slightly favored due to home field advantage. They're going to hear the Pavia talk constantly. They're getting asked about him at the press conference today. There will be more of it throughout the week. They'll be reminded of the near loss last season. DIEGO MANIA!! and Vanderbilt is for real!! are memes and topics all over social media. Texas players are being bombarded with this propaganda. Meanwhile, sweet baby Diego has escalated his shittalking and showboating with the press. He continues to state that Vanderbilt is winning the national title. He stated this weekend after the Missouri game that he should be a frontrunner for the Heisman. No one is huffing their own farts with more vigor right now than The Macho Vato. We'll see how much grit is left when Colin Simmons tells Pavia from across the LOS "I'm going to be the last thing you see, bitch!" and then lays the dude out for a sack. Moxie and grittiness carry one only so far against motivated and superior talent. Vanderbilt hasn't faced a defense like Texas. Bama and Mizzou both offer up blueprints to controlling Pavia that Texas can replicate. Keep Pavia in the pocket and shut down the run. Make them beat you by forcing Pavia to sustain drives with his arm, which he cannot do. LSU couldn't stop the run and that killed them. If Missouri doesn't lose contain to the backup TB who then goes 80 yards for a score in the 3rd, among many ifs (don't lose your QB for the season, catch a hail mary inside the end zone, not 3 inches short of one, maybe actually successfully kick more than one field goal, etc.), the defense does well enough for Missouri to win. Teh Major Applewhite and I Am Sam Ehlinger both had moxie and grit. Man, they were so good against lesser and/or sleepy opponents. Without superior firepower for either of those guys, how many wins did they tally up against similarly or more talented teams? They both finished around or below .500 in those match-ups. "Have you seen the Texas offense, CTJ? Have you seen this OLine? You know that, now that Arch Manning is finally putting it all together, he's in concussion protocol and is unlikely to play this weekend, right? You know that Vanderbilt has a good defense, too, right?" Oh ye coelenterates of little faith. Yes, I know that Arch Knoblauch is unlikely to play this weekend. Yes, the Vanderbilt defense has looked good in most of their games. Yes, the Texas offensive line has mostly been hammered dogshit. None of that will matter come Saturday, as The Matt Bomber Offense will be on full display. Caldwell was a quiet pick-up from the portal for this specific reason - at some point this year, Manning was likely to miss time. QB is a tough position and the SEC is a tough league. Caldwell has looked good all fall and has gained the trust of his team. His clutch moment this past Saturday only helps solidify that. More importantly than anything else, Caldwell's biggest strength is that he can actually complete most of the layups this offense can offer him. Now, will Ryan Wingo and Deandre Moore actually catch those layups? One can only hope. As to the OL, they've shown some signs of coming together. Their play in the second half of the MSU game might be a fluke, but we've seen similar glimpses in the second half of the OU game as well. If we complete a few simple passes throughout various drives, some wear and tear on a vastly outsized front 7 won't hurt things, either. I'll grant that I have less confidence and more hope, which is never a good strategy, when thinking about OL performance coming up, but just like rent on November 1, that unit is due. On the Vanderbilt defense, they're good, but they're not great. They don't force a ton of turnovers unless they're playing South Carolina and injuring Lanoris Sellers. They average less than 3 sacks per game. Vanderbilt does not have a singular dominant force on their defense. They're a collection of older players who are coached well. Texas has done well regarding turnovers this season and there's no reason to think that that will play out differently in this game. If Vanderbilt struggled to get to the passer against SCar and LSU, there's no reason to be overly worried about protecting The Matt Bomber this Saturday. "So what does it all mean, closetojumping?" Well, I am glad you asked. It means mudhole. Or, I should say, this year's version of the mudhole. Texas 31 - Vanderbilt 17. Hook'em
    12 points
  11. If we learn nothing else from the disaster scenario in which we currently live, it's that bad actors can find loopholes everywhere and there's no way to write a completely airtight set of rules to govern a democracy. For civilized society to remain civil, you have to be able to rely somewhat on people applying laws and rules in the manner in which they were intended. We're never going to get anywhere if we spend all our time arguing over what the word "shall" means in the 22nd amendment. American society is a Jenga tower that has relied more heavily on norms than most of us believed, and we're one or two blocks away from the whole thing falling down. All it took was a cult of personality and a few social media algorithms.
    12 points
  12. Or he's fine and this is a bunch of internet gossip queen drama catalyzed by a 6-2 record.
    12 points
  13. Jesus Christ, how big is your ego? Do you seriously think Sark would leave Texas because @Nicole44 was critical of him on a message board?
    11 points
  14. We aren’t voluntarily dipping into the pool. People who want Sark fired are idiots.
    11 points
  15. Thinking most of the country would see those as negative may have been a misjudgment on our part.
    11 points
  16. Interesting. From a few weeks ago. https://united24media.com/latest-news/ukraines-f-16s-take-over-the-skies-flying-80-of-combat-missions-against-russia-12373
    11 points
  17. Is say we're in the cheap seats, but no such thing in the WS
    10 points
  18. Had some leftover taco meat. Wrapped it in corn tortillas with cheddar. Pan fried them into taquitos or flautas. Whatever you want to call them. Made a tomatillo salsa a few days ago.
    10 points
  19. Note: I love all of you. Most know me to be a kind and fair poster, and yes there is a reason we basically only have 5 women left on this site. Y'all do not know how to interact with us. Thats a y’all thing. second note: I know sobriety is hard, my vice was wine and it was reflected in my posts in a bad way back then, I am coming up on four years of sobriety. I am rooting for sark. I truly am. But part of choosing a life of sobriety is a willingness to change. To point the finger at yourself, recognize you are the architect of your own mess. I wouldn’t take a job with this much pressure and this much money (period) if I couldn’t clean up my own house first. That may seem harsh but there were rumors from the Alabama fan boards about sark disappearing for long stretches there as well. They loved him. And also could recognize something wasn’t right. I want the best for Sark the man. But if he can’t get his shit together he doesn’t need to be running a multi billion dollar football team. Take the money, go on a vacation. Go to a super fancy rehab program where you can see your family every day. Tomorrow is not promised. Maybe he needs to focus on himself and his family right now and not football. If it gets any worse he will be run out of here and no one wants that, he’s talented. Maybe he needs a break and some serious soul searching to get his shit right if he still wants to coach until he’s 70.
    10 points
  20. No way. They have to stay in this thread and get to the bottom of all this. Being obsessive about this is their hobby. Nicole is Derka and this appears to be her Ewers thread.
    10 points
  21. Investors like it when companies cut jobs.
    10 points
  22. I don't really understand where the new jobs are or the jobs these people can go to are. When the monopolies start getting rid of everyone there's no one left to employ them because they killed all the other companies monopolizing.
    10 points
  23. 60% of us live from paycheck to paycheck, as we prepare ourselves to live among the first wave of AI sponsored trillionaires. The widening gap between the uber wealthy and the working poor will only get worse. The kind of income inequality were are experiencing is the stuff revolutions are made of.
    10 points
  24. All this talk about takes from back when Sark was hired. We all had'em. Some were right, some were wrong, most were a bit of both. And yet as we sit here today, one Real Man of Genius appears to be firmly in the lead for most accurate take:
    9 points
  25. I blame men for everything, so she’s safe
    9 points
  26. I think a lot of folks on this board are underestimating the challenge the Texas offense will have without Arch under center. We’ve all been pretty harsh on Arch, a lot of it deserved. However the play calling and schemes have not done a good job of recognizing the OL and WR issues and putting Arch in a better position to succeed. As Sark tries to adjust to a more short passing game, he’s going to try and grind out a win with the run and short passes. The Vanderbilt defense will know this and will stuff the line of scrimmage. With our OL issues, it could get very rough to score points. Conversely, not having Taaffe making defensive calls and recognizing the plays pre snap will make the defense more vulnerable. Every one of us should be tickled with an overtime 13-10 win, with the vaunted Vanderbilt QB fumbling away the game at the 5 yard line.
    9 points
  27. Yeah but considering all the TMZ type of shit that has been swirling about Sark his entire career, it’s par for the course. We’re talking about a guy who was caught picking his nose and eating his boogers on national television. A guy who at his previous HC job was visibly drunk at practices and shitfaced at a very public pep rally for the world to see. Then Sark had the nerve to sue SC for wrongful termination to the tune of $30 million dollars (which he lost), claiming his alcoholism was a disability and the school didn’t let him seek help. Don’t forget Sark also hired a guy (Banks) on his staff who is married to monkey carrying stripper. Banks was also sued because this monkey was alleged to have bitten a child on Halloween. TMZ shit. All in the past, sure. While at Texas Sark hasn’t done anything close to his messy shit in the past. But excuse us for having our antennas up when Sark doesn’t show up to Junior Day claiming to have the flu, then he publicly announces a divorce before reconciling with his wife and then announcing a surprise baby. All of this happening in a spring where he cancels the fucking spring game where we have a Manning as the starting QB, just to have a fan day where we can all take pictures with Sark and the team instead of watching them actually play. And then rolling out this dogshit offense in Year 5. We’d be fucking stupid to think everything was fine.
    9 points
  28. Breakfast taco bar is unlocked. Eggs (non dairy), ham, chorizo, bacon, sausage, cheese, tortillas Donuts unlocked 2 Whole Briskets unlocked Keep it rolling and maybe we won't lose our fucking asses this season.
    9 points
  29. Again, how is the season wasted 8 games in, when we are 6-2 and SEC title game and CFP appearance are still readily achievable? You babies are acting like we are 3-5 and already eliminated from the SEC CCG and playoffs. The histrionics are pretty tiresome. Especially because 80% of the "this season is ruined and Sark should be fired" will have a different tune if we beat Vandy.
    9 points
  30. You really want to fire a coach for going 8-4 in this carousel? I like to spend other people's money as much as the next guy, but I would rather save something for NIL and rev share instead of wasting on paying Sark not to coach. Plus, I still like Sark as HC. He's not perfect, but y'all are too quick to forget the terrible coaching luck we had before him.
    9 points
  31. At this point if he runs, he wins. They will cook the books so fucking hard it's not even funny. The only chance we have is somehow winning majorities in the 2026 mid-terms. We lose those and America is lost for most of our lifetimes. (And I have doubts on whether the '26 elections will be "fair.")
    9 points
  32. G. Elliott Morris has a good breakdown of that report:
    9 points
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    9 points
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    9 points
  35. And just throwing out β€œghetto” so casually is once again them loudly and proudly embracing their very public racism.
    9 points
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