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Why wait? Again, some OC’s don’t adhere to the strictures of unwritten rules of the game. Running some gadget play early in big games is a staple for some coaches. Whether it’s play 1 or 3 doesn’t mean much to me. Bob Stoops’ Sooners typically ran some form of end around or other trick play in the first series against us pretty much every year to take advantage of our aggression. It usually worked too. Agree with much of the rest.
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Package was simply a way to describe what we were doing. Seeing a flea flicker early in the game where a defense is jacked to stop the run is a semi normal occurrence. Often in big games whether they be in a bowl or not. They’re going for it was brilliant. Shift around a bunch to convince us they’re just bluffing and then pull the trigger near the end of the play clock. Who does that? A smart as F coordinator. It might have even been an option. The bluff is on unless we get them to shift to this. Everybody plays to win. Some just don’t abide by the unwritten gentlemen’s agreements about the game. As for you last point…Texas is the perpetual rebuild. Lots of stars attached to recruits, but never seemingly the ability to stack meaningful contributors. At least not since before Mack packed it in as a recruiter 2/3s of the way through his tenure. Next year is the same. OL will be better. Probably QB and TE too. Definitive step back at RB, but that’s understandable. DT and CB are good. Special teams should be fine. WR? Edge? LB or S? Better be a portal hero or unusually ready frosh. Someone will probably develop too, but nobody has been flashing at those spots.
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Sigh. Yes. I know we don’t have “packages.” We just like to make improbable substitutions of ineffective players in numbers. Often placing one ineffective player behind or beside another. DTD and Bush were manning the middle quite a bit together. If it was Glenda behind Broughton then so what? The names are wrong but the point is not. DTD grading out best against the run isn’t saying much. I didn’t see anyone actually filling many holes outside of Jerrin Thompson. Clearly UDub’s offense is legit. That wasn’t a question. Our deployment of personnel against them and overall keep them in front of us strategy was. Our DT’s looked pretty average rushing straight against their OL. It’s something we find ourselves doing a lot instead of playing some line games and giving guys angles and opportunity. You can’t do either to exclusion of the other, and we spent a goodly portion of the night doing the former despite the entire back half of the season suggesting that it and our sit and let them cut us to death approach wasn’t our best path to success on defense. I can’t speak intelligently about the rosters of the 4 playoff teams. I can’t name more than a handful of players off of any one team other than TCU. So I can’t sit there and point out the inanities of each particular staff. But you’re kidding yourself if you don’t think that some of their coaching dogmas, personnel favorites or tendencies didn’t contribute to the offensive fireworks in addition to plain old execution and lack thereof. And some of it is full participation, no holds barred, do or die playoff football where crazy things can happen, and often do in spades once that can of worms is opened. Show me someone who thinks it’s not an issue in every program and that the playoff contenders are doing it all right and I’ll show you a coach too busy patting himself on the back to think critically about the game at a hand. Alabama had trouble running the ball this year and last, and Nick Saban kept a butt chinned moron as his OC. They’re in the middle of the greatest run of college football ever btw. I’m sure their fans can point to bad evaluations by even that staff. And legitimately so despite having more MNC’s in the last decade than we have conference titles dating back John Mackovic and beyond.
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Yeah ok. The larger point is that there will be people bitching about the team regardless of the success. UT fans aren’t unique no matter how much they like to tell each other so in a burnt orange circle jerk. And the fans complaining about their much more successful programs probably have legitimate gripes too.
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Yes. It’s both. We have one LB who is competent at tackle football. That’s still the case heading into the spring unless the portal delivers. We also don’t play great zone defense or challenge receivers much inside as a matter of practice. Part is personnel, part is philosophical. It’s pretty clear to me that PK needs someone to make him right in the secondary, and someone above him to keep him on the straight and narrow with regard to calling situationally appropriate defenses. I understand that UDub probably presented the best offensive personnel we saw outside of TCU and Bama, but I don’t understand our reluctance to challenge them more on defense. Playing more aggressive coverages and attacking in the front 7 yielded good defensive performances against both of those opponents, and had rewarded us well starting in Manhattan. Actually sacking Penix had been nigh impossible this season, but there are advantages to getting him off his spot and making him throw under duress.
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As it is done on every message board for every other program. Think people aren’t bitching about Michigan today? OSU? Think Georgia fans aren’t chirping about having to survive a last second FG attempt and all the crap that went on last night? What about Bama fans watching Georgia play for a title while being in the midst of the greatest run in college football history?
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At this point one has won 30 games and a conference championship at his school and the other beat Texas and won his only bowl game. Traylor is the obvious choice today. Maybe not the right one, but the obvious one.
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I don’t see it. We need immediate help at Edge, LB, S and WR. Sorrel is an ok edge, Ford has played well prior to last night and we’re hoping Neyor makes it back from the ACL. All other option will either come from the portal or be frosh/underclassmen that we’re hoping do something. It’s the Texas way. And even if we address all of those we’re likely one deep at most of them. Someone will likely step up and surprise, and we’ll probably snag at least one answer in the portal, but that’s some pretty big position groups to have no obvious solutions. Yes, there are some talented athletes waiting on playing time, but none of them pushed to start and looked ready to rock like Brooks did this year for example. And that’s not touching on the headsets issues.
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We have no margin on our roster, and often between our headsets. Games rest on a handful of plays because we tend to not win the majority of the rest of them . Part of it is roster. But we gave up more than our fair share of 3rd and longs and 4th and mediums over the course of the year after winning the prior 2-3 downs. Situations where easy pick plays or dives up the middle against a spread defense don’t cut the mustard. PK did a great job at times this year. Something happened about KSU where our style of defense and a effectiveness went up a couple of notches. He still has a penchant for inane substitution practices, inappropriate situational defenses and trotting out ineffectual players en masse only to get abused for it. He shows promise, but lacks yin to his yang imoho. Someone to make him consistently right in the back end, and maybe someone above both of them to suggest that trotting DTD, Bush and Broughton in on 2nd and medium to short is not a winning strategy. The latter is a Sark function, and one he seems to need himself as Sark the OC makes some decisions that should have Sark the HC overriding.
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We still can’t get off the field on 3rd and 4th down, and do things like trot out Broughton, Bush and DTD as a package. Ford had an off night, likely because the Washington coaches involved themselves directly, and we had nothing at LB in addition to our ends being owned and our DB’s consistently giving up extra chain moving yardage on money downs. We played pretty darn good defense for about a quarter and a half. And then it was the usual shit that got us beat 4 other times this year combined with the offense doing much of the same. A competent opponent will do that to you, and ask you the questions you couldn’t answer during the season. We still didn’t have answers. Some of that is roster issues, some of that is stubbornness and some of that is poor evaluation in all three phases last night.
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What the fuck is wrong with you, Southwest Airlines?
Bobby_Batronic replied to Parliament's topic in Daily Texan
Everybody pays for bags. The ULCC’s make you do it a la carte and the nationals and legacies bake it into the cost of the ticket and then wink at you, and suggest it’s free. -
What the fuck is wrong with you, Southwest Airlines?
Bobby_Batronic replied to Parliament's topic in Daily Texan
I said airlines meltdown 1-3 times per year. I didn’t say that they all go Chernobyl as SWA is doing now, or, as you noted, Spirit did last year. It doesn’t take much time on a search engine to find a given airline canceling 100’s to thousands of flights for “insert x.” Speaking of the Spirit meltdown, do you know who canceled a lot more flights than they did at the same time? SWA. Proportionally it was less drastic, but they had quite the meltdown last summer as well. Spirit was a point to point operator like SWA, and went away from that to adopt more of an Allegiant styled model of one to two days turns with aircraft flying the same routes over and over to mitigate those concerns in the future. Give it until Spring, liberally mix in a bunch of “Wanna get away?” fares and the traveling public will largely not give a rip about this. -
What the fuck is wrong with you, Southwest Airlines?
Bobby_Batronic replied to Parliament's topic in Daily Texan
American pilots have their iPads and personal devices that have programs that overlay their scheduling software which is probably Apollo era old. And that’s not an exaggeration. Microsoft is giving them an entire system upgrade, but it’s a huge corporate entity with tons of corporate memory etc. Most airlines have the option for crewmembers to self notify for assignments. That’s usually beneficial when you don’t want scheduling calling at 3 am to notify you of a trip that evening. But most union contracts require actual voice notification for future assignments. There is usually a limited call back time too. Crewmembers can’t just ignore company communications normally speaking. It’s also not as easy as telling a flightcrew to jump on yonder jet and take it somewhere. Contractual rescheduling rules usually require a flow chart to understand. I don’t think this is a work action at all. Most airlines have embarrassingly outdated IT infrastructure maintained on a shoestring budget and manned by a skeleton crew. They all meltdown depending on the vagaries of weather hitting hubs and said infrastructure’s ability to handle things going pear shaped. Most do it 1-3 times a year. SWA is getting their turn in the publicity blender. I’m a sure another usual suspect will go through the ringer during the next winter or spring storm. It’s equally frustrating for flight crews. One can send emails, contact flight chiefs and spend hours on hold with an overloaded phone tree and still not have the company understand where they’re at etc. -
To an extent. It was also this season, the year of our Lord 2022, where we played a lot of inexplicably soft defense, inappropriate fronts and converses versus downs and distance and had substitution patterns that bordered on the inane. Somewhere around the KSU game someone largely put an end to that BS. If it was PK then kudos to him. I hope it continues, and will be watching to see if the issues above rear their head again in the future. Sark is getting some of that treatment too.
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I mentioned types after forgetting you said it had an FA which rules out the Metros, 1900’s and Jetstreams, but it was too late to edit. A turbulence encounter severed enough to cause a loss of pressurization would seem to meet the definition of an accident to me and it would be strange to press on unless there were truly no better options. They may have also been dealing with some MEL issue where part of the system was degraded before flight and it was made worse by the turbulence. Dropping down to 10-12k jives with pressurization issues. You’re limited to 30 mins above 10k cabin altitude, and that’s usually a terrain clearance tool. Did anyone from the company or the feds contact you afterward?
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Yeah, the pilots didn’t continue to fly the plane to the destination as though nothing happened while losing cabin pressure. What you probably heard was a door seal that had some gravel or something get caught in it. Likely after the turbulence encounter. It’s noisy as hell and invariably harmless. The headaches were likely from the intense rattling around, vomiting and general panic level induced by the incident and sound that wasn’t understood. I’ve had the cabin pressure controller decide this life was too much and dump the cabin climbing through 38,000 feet. The cabin limiters and emergency pressurization kept the cabin from climbing above 12,000 feet, but it went there near instantly. Life was exciting, but there were no oxygen depravation symptoms. I can only guess you were in a 1900, Metro, Brasília or Saab. Maybe a Jetstream or ATR. None of which are going to fly very high to begin with. I’m sure it was a very scary in incident though.
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No, Mike Leach, YOU'RE awesome! [Pirates Last Voyage]
Bobby_Batronic replied to Parliament's topic in Football
Held in a not very accessible small, college town 5 days before Christmas. It’s not really that surprising. -
this might be important. Is fusion important?
Bobby_Batronic replied to Willfully Horn's topic in Daily Texan
Get back to me when someone creates it in a Keurig sized attachment for my car. -
I’m not worried in the least about our ability to run the ball with Brooks, Blue and Robinson. I am worried about how they perform when the ball isn’t in their hands. Blitz pickup, check down duty and leading another back to the hole are things I’m not sure any of them are good at right now.
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