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  1. 9 hours ago, Lhorn said:

    I really liked No Country for Old Men.  Thought is was a great movie, but I can't get over the scene near the very end where the young lady walks into  the room with the psychopath and sits down to chat with him and tries to convince him not to kill her.  100/100 people would see that crazy bastard and running screaming like your hair was on fire.  

    The movie, as well as Cormac's source novel, inverts all of the Western tropes (bad guy gets his, good guy gets girl, rides off into sunset, etc). The third act is just one inversion after another: bad guy gets away, wife gets killed, hero leaves wife out of greed, sheriff figure doesn't catch bad guy.

  2. 5 minutes ago, markstanco said:

     

    April 14   MAROON & WHITE GAME  WIN
    Sept. 1    NORTHWESTERN STATE     WIN
    Sept. 8    CLEMSON                               LOSS
    Sept. 15    LOUISIANA-MONROE          WIN
    Sept. 22    at Alabama                           LOSS
    Sept. 29    vs. Arkansas (Arlington)     TOSSUP
    Oct. 6    KENTUCKY                               WIN
    Oct. 13    at South Carolina                   TOSSUP
    Oct. 20    Open Date                               WIN
    Oct. 27    at Mississippi State              TOSSUP
    Nov. 3    at Auburn                                 LOSS
    Nov. 10    OLE MISS                               WIN
    Nov. 17    UAB                                         WIN
    Nov. 24    LSU                                          LOSS

     

    Going to need to have no surprise wins to go over 7, and also lose all those tossup games.  With that schedule it will be hard to get to 7+ but it would be funny. 

    Here's what you have to remember: even a 6-6 record, with losses to arky Chad (they're due) and one of the SC/MissSt, will have terrible optics after Sumlin consistently eeked out 8 win seasons. Couple that with an 8-9 win season in Austin, and the early signing period should be fun.

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  3. 2 hours ago, DaysOff said:

    Let's hope for less than half a hundred this time. Biggest game of Tom's career.

    Can't understate how important it is for Herman to be 2-0 heading into USC rolling into DKR.  Should be a huge opportunity for the national perception of Herman and Texas.

  4. 5 minutes ago, Walden Ponderer said:

    Looks to me like you've got one too many LBs and one too few DBs. I'm willing to bet we go base dime more often than not. Because Orlando is fucking nuts. Great, but nuts.

    Adding another DB in the Dime/Lightning packages would include... Josh Thompson?  Seems like he's ready to ball out this year. Ready for Overshown to be that lightning package tweener in a year or so. 

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    • QB: Ehlinger 
    • RB: Young, with Carter splitting carries
    • OL: Anderson, Vahe, Shack, Rodriquez, Kerstetter *shrugs*
    • WR: Johnson, LJH, Duvernay 
    • TE: Brewer (if healthy)
    • DL: Hager, Nelson, Charles O (+Graham)
    • LB: Roach, Hater of QBs/RBs, McCulloch
    • DB: Davis, Boyd, Locke, Bonney, Jones 

    Those DB youngins will see plenty of playing time as the season progresses, especially Caden Sterns


     

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  5. 5 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

    Watson + Catalon and the rest of the 2019 DB class is gravy. 

    I could see Richardson visiting in the fall. I know Naviar is conceding nothing here, but Texas might want to give Aggy an opportunity to embarrass themselves on the field. 

    Just have that feeling we hear about a secret Richardson visit the Sunday after it happens this fall after the season starts gaining clarity. I like our chances with Naviar. 

  6. 16 minutes ago, golfclap said:

    Wright is WAAAYYY further along in his development. 

     

    This staff's approach is next level everywhere. Do you know how big this kind of thing is with both recruits and parents? Not to mention the active roster and all that they are getting out of it. Killing it with truth. Selling Texas. 
     

     

    Night and day from previous tenures.  Herman is exploiting every advantage UT and Austin provide. It's really something to behold. 

    Now go win.

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  7. 16 minutes ago, BurntOrangeAss said:

    So, y'all might remember Bob Stoops from 2008 who didn't mind running up scores on opponents as a way to impress the poll voters and did what he could do to make sure the land thieves got into the national championship game.  It worked for him, although the best team that year ended up in the Fiesta Bowl.  Do you think Herman will do what it takes to make sure the Horns can impress Pollsters to get us in the playoffs?  Or will he win respectfully?  As you know, Mack was too nice to do that, but Stoops didn't have any problem.  I don't think we'll have to worry about that this year, but starting in 2019, I fully expect us to competitive.  Thoughts?

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  8. 53 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

    I really, really hope Herman can get this thing turned around on the field, because it's obvious (at least at this point) that he is damn near perfect for this job off of it.

    We say it every damn year, but this year is *especially* critical to win 9+ and be in conference contention. With Riley at OU, Jimbo at aggy, a flailing O at LSU, a weak Big12 relative to last season, a huge DKR showcase against USC, and a intense focus on Year 2 of Herman's tenure, this year on the field could be the impetus to building a true playoff contender for the next decade.   hyperbole.gif 

  9. 15 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

     

    It appears that Herman is finding a groove and an identity for how he wants to recruit at Texas, and it's a pretty good moat against negative recruiting and pitches from other programs. He's doing a few things that are really important:

    1. Identifying players that they absolutely do not want and playing a role in directing them elsewhere. Others do this, but he's doing it as a fired volley in order to actually pursue similar players that UT covets.
    2. Identifying players that are the highest priority and building a full pitch to each of them in a bespoke manner, based on legitimate personal research. Some of the analysts get this started on freshman and sophomore players. It's one thing to talk up Austin or tradition or show hot girls on campus, it's another to introduce players to professors from fields in which they've expressed interest, to put together a suite of high quality unique graphics, or show film of specific opportunities/issues with current talent and juxtapose/compare that to the recruit's role in the same situation.
    3. Going with the "I don't have a game" approach, which is the greatest game to play. Offering up total transparency around where recruits would fit on the depth chart is one thing, telling them where they fit on the recruiting board when they're not number 1 is another. Involving the parents and walking everyone through statistics about percentage of players who make the NFL vs. enter the work force, and then comparing that to other schools and average salaries, etc. Showing them that Billy Sims has been homeless in the not too distant past and that Earl Campbell still gets paid a salary is quite a contrast. 

    With Saban and Swinney around, he's not unique in being thorough, but it is a difference compared to other staffs directly east in BCS and Baton Rouge. 

    It also helps to establish relationships with trainers, 7x7 crews, uncles, etc., given that this is college football at this point. 

     

    Good stuff, ctj, per usual.  Thanks for taking the time, yada yada, etc.

  10. 1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I struggle with films that are technically wrong, like "Whiplash".  It was "Rocky" set at UNT.  Too many errors and inconsistencies.

    The problem is, I only know what I know, so it's hard for me to judge certain films like "The Hurt Locker".

    What I consider to be truly GREAT films are often smaller productions with deeply developed characters who actually interact with each other ("Tender Mercies"), or perhaps experience such beyond-normal situations that it's possible to suspend disbelief ("Into The West").  I don't see many of those being made these days.  "Boyhood" would qualify.  "Phantom Thread" almost got there, but fell short, despite Daniel Day Lewis' typical A+ performance.

    It's why it's hard to quantify "great" films since 2000 in the vein of big 90s period pieces like Schindler's List or Saving Private Ryan or Shawshank, when so many are intentionally smaller in scope character pieces.  Movies I thought were tremendous but smaller in scope like The Florida Project, Wind River, Take Shelter, Frances Ha, Y Tu Mama Tambien.  Intense character study films have had a great post-2000s run. 

  11. 3 hours ago, Robin Masters said:

    Absolutely. And I'd love to hear, is it just me or are others noticing a decline in the number of what they consider "great" movies?
    Looking at just the best picture nominees my greatness count peaked in the 1990s. Decline began in the 2000's and really dropped the last 8 years. Going back further 80s were less than the 90s, 70s more than the 80's, 60s and 50s down but still more than the 2000s. I'm 47, so the peak for me happened in my late 20s to early 30s. Is it my age?

    If I'm channel surfing I'm gonna stop and watch Road House, Smokey and the Bandit, etc. every time. But they're not GREAT movies. (Point Break is though) Revenent to me, meh. It's sooo beautiful, incredible cinematography, shot with available light, but the story, meh. Same with Mad Max. Visually engaging, but overall ehhh.

    Wolf of Wall Street, meh. The first time Scorsese did this movie, Goodfellas, it made my great list. Even the 2nd time he did it, Casino, is close. But, now it's just formulaic as hell. Yeah I'm gonna stop surfing and watch it, titties and some great lines but not great level movie. And this is why I wonder if it's me getting old. If you're younger and haven't seen Goodfellas and Casino, then Wolf might be great.

     

    Counter points:

    1) 2007 was a superb year for "great" movies, with Zodiac not even getting a Best Picture nomination, and I consider three movies that year to be bonafide modern classics: Zodiac, No Country for Old Men, and There Will Be Blood.  I could write a think or three on the brilliance of No Country/Coen's/Cormac's vision of the "death of the West", as captured so achingly beautifully by Tommy Lee's closing monologue. Best Picture is subjective, just like everything else when it comes to taste. Remember, Paul Haggis has a Best Picture statue for fucking Crash.

    2) Children of Men is about as good of a modern sci-fi movie you can ask for, with some of the best technical cinematography this century.  It's a terrific film, strong on narrative, cinematography, acting, errthing. It's great.

    3) In the last five years, I'd feel comfortable calling these films "great": Arrival, La La Land, Moonlight, Inside Out, Spotlight, Boyhood

    4) Since 2000, great movies: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Mulholland Dr., City of God, The Lives of Others, Sideways, Lost In Translation, Spirited Away, Memento, 

    5) There are some sneaky-good films out there I'd hesitate to define as great but are damn good and signal a future for great filmmaking: Whiplash, Her, The Nice Guys, The Florida Project, Hell or High Water, Wind River

    tl;dr: movies are still pretty damn good

  12. 1 hour ago, RCRanger03 said:

    The first season was a trip, better than any of the netflix marvel shows

    One of the more inventive seasons of a modern show I've seen, along with Westworld S1, The Leftovers S3 and The Good Place S1.  Total mind trip and an earnest exploration of mental illness. 

  13. Really looking forward to this one.  The first season was an absolute feast for the eyes and had a strikingly original narrative structure.  Also had one of my favorite guest starring roles in recent memory and the best music sequence this side of The Americans.  It's unlike any show on TV right now. Here's the Season 2 trailer (major spoilers):

     

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