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  1. 6 minutes ago, bschoolprof said:

    Agree on the dirt.  The fake brown shit is turrible. 

    Also, from a functional standpoint, I'd love to see us go all grass for baseball just like the big leagues.  Unlike football, I think defense in baseball on turf vs grass is very different.  From experience (i.e., taking my kids out on the field after the Sunday series closer), fielding grounders on the turf at the Disch vs real grass is a night and day difference.  I think it could put our fielders at a disadvantage when they go out on a grass field.  

    Wouldn’t it just set the same situation up in reverse?

  2. On 4/22/2018 at 12:53 PM, Machinator said:

    Sticking to my prediction of 8-4 for now. I didn't really expect the spring game to change my mind either way, and it didn't. Feel slightly more bullish about the front 7 and WRs than I did before, but OL depth and Tim Beck calling plays keep me from chugging Kool Aid.

    Gagree 

     

    On 4/19/2018 at 6:46 PM, PatSolitanojr said:

    I'll wait for a win over USC to get hyped, but if we lose to TCU for the 5th time in a row I'll jump off the west side of DKR.

    So you might be close to jumping?

  3. Beck is JAG. 

    Letaio has a higher physical ceiling than Brewer, but he’s never played a snap of live college football. There will be a learning curve as the article posted suggests. I’ll be pleased if he’s flashing like Brewer was before injury. 

    Brewe had a late season knee injury. He may be medically declared 100% by fall ball or something, but I wouldn’t count on him much if at all this year unless he’s a genetic freak of Spider-Man/Wolverine healing powers. 

    2019 is when this group has a chance to break out. 

  4. 1 hour ago, Sidney Sherman said:

    But BECK!

    lel, can't fucking wait to watch the offense this year, I hope all those Beck haters have to eat their words.

    It was never bad play calling, it was bad offensive line and QB play.

    Beck has been a failure at every stop as an OC just as he was a failure last year, and had his playcalling stripped from him. 

    Our OL May, May being the operative word progress from bad to below average. Our TE play will likely be about the same. QB’s? Meh. Not gonna excel behind this line. RB’s?  I’d like to see Young after a year or Ingram after some seasoning. Carter needs to find the handle and the exit from the dog house. 

    This will not be a good unit. Marginally better than last year?  Maybe. And we’re not going to have an all world punter bailing us out and putting out defense in good field position time after time. Our offense will struggle this year, Beck will Beck and abandon the run while costing us a game and we’ll have someone else calling plays by mid season. 

  5. 1 hour ago, Pig Bellmont said:

    I can’t remember the last time a TE made a significant contribution to a game. The MNC? Anything more recent?

    I believe Brewer caught a TE hide or throw back pass on a sprint out against USC to score the tying TD or 2 point conversion. 

  6. 1 hour ago, Majorcholas said:

    Just know the mouth breathers was intended at people in the stands screaming “this guy sucks” without being able to say anything about what makes him a bad coach (technique or scheme besides generalities like “he can’t call good plays”)

    Every coach has been fired. It’s not because they suck it just may not have been a good fit at the exact time. Not many coaches stay at one place very long either. 

    didnt mean to derail the thread. If we are gonna talk about why they suck let’s at least have a real discussion on why. My conclusion from the article was that warehime and beck do actually have a clue what’s going on. Feel free to disagree.

    Every coach at this level knows what’s going on. That’s not a star in their crown. It’s not enough to know what’s going on. You have to be able to not only cooly plan during the week, but react and adjust on the fly on saturday. That’s where the rubber meets the road.

    It’s good to be good at orchestrating practices and bringing in talent. But none of that matters when you ask Chris Warren to run OZ behind Tristan Nickelson.  Or go empty on third and forever with OT’s struggling to block air. Or call sprint out passes to the boundary targeting your 4th best WR on a crucial down. I can go on, and on, and on about this. 

    Yeah, every play looks better when you have a great OL and talent everywhere. What do you do when you don’t?  Keep calling stuff that can’t possobly work?  Because that’s exactly what happened. 

    Nobody is coming for Derek Warehime as and OL Coach, Mehringer for anything or Beck as an OC. All will get to enjoy some time as a position coach at a small school or do a bit of QC if let go from Texas. And it’s not because they’re “ bad fits”. 

  7. 12 minutes ago, Majorcholas said:

    Go have a beer bro.....

    Don’t try to pass off two coaches who were relieved of duty, one who keeps getting relieved of duty everywhere he goes, as good coaches who are victims of circumstance. Both were B level hires at best. I’m enjoying reading the information above, but to call posters who rightfully question the performance of those two coaches mouth breathers is ridiculous. Their boss demoted their asses in light of everything going on.

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  8. 9 minutes ago, Majorcholas said:

    Hahaha. Shag gonna surley.

    For those that don’t like football talk, then just realize that the te is more important to the offense clicking than we ever knew. And know that with our struggles there it severely limited other parts of the offense based on all the things our third/fourth te had to execute. (Think limiting plays and schemes to what a frosh qb, banged up line, and 3rd/4th te are all capable of executing and being comfortable with)

    It also might stop the mouth breathers from saying becks an idiot and warehime can’t coach. Did they both struggle last year? Sure, but they know football. There is so much going on in the background we don’t have a clue about.

    Oh. A football coach knows football?  Why did we ever fire Strong?  I mean, he was a coach. And he therefore knew football. There was so much going on in the background and yet we let him go. How do any coaches get fired?  Someone solve this riddle for me. 

    Warehime was demoted, and is lucky that programs were allowed an extra assistant. Beck, who has a history before UT, was demoted.  Seems like that guy who’s really privy to the behind the scenes machinations of the offense and program, and who has an impressive record of being a offensive mind found their work to be substandard. 

    But Im just a lay fan incapable of drawing such conclusions. I need someone who also doesn’t understand the deeper workings of the game  and who has trouble connecting the dots to tell me that I just can’t possibly understand the unknowable mysteries of being a football coach. 

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  9. 8 hours ago, po elvis said:

    Not a fan of the TE plays I remember from the spring game. I don't want passes to the TE that rely on YAC to make any yards. I want throws to the TE down the seam where it is open and if they make the catch they already have 10 yards and a chance for more.

    Hard to throw  up the seam when sprint out to the boundary passes are being called three quarters of the time. 

  10. 2 hours ago, Walden Ponderer said:

    I've always been curious about the phrase "whole slew". What's a "partial slew" look like? Is it the same thing as "a bunch"?

    I don’t know. It was another name for a ditch where I was from, but only used by older folks. Not even sure I spelled it right. 

  11. 35 minutes ago, Laga4 said:

    I don't see anyone saying they hope he fails.  

    I do see people pointing out reasons staying might have been a better option.

    Two different things.  

    There’s a whole slew of people who truly can’t differentiate between the two. 

  12. 20 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

    remind us again what you drive?

    Several flavors of Airbus, but I’m also type rated in a 737 and a few other things too. 

    If you want some fun you can look up a double derated takeoff where the engines produce just enough power to clear the far end of the runway by 35 feet. I’m not saying it’s wise, but it’s out there. As for Flex takeoffs, well, they’re here to stay as long as performance or environmental conditions allow. 

  13. 1 hour ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    I doubt that feature would age well. 

    Opponents already suggest that the longhorn symbol closely resembles the female reproductive tract. They’d have a field day with our players running out of one every game. 

     

    There’s timeless and then there’s gimmicky. A longhorn shaped entrance is just and inflatable mascot head on steroids in my eyes. 

  14. 1 hour ago, 927 E. 41st said:

    Since the NEZ and field turf additions the first couple of games of every season have seemed hotter and less breeze getting down into the stadium. Doubt this would be much worse, since Godzilliatron is a huge wind break/heater. Not going to make it any better though. 

    It's my feeing that the field turf holds the heat better than natural, and at least that could be fixed. Light breeze through the stands is gone forever.

    I’ve wondered why a reflective field turf cover that prevents heat retention hasn’t been invented. Something that could be rolled back just before a mid afternoon or early evening game to keep the temps down for the athletes. 

  15. 5 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    You think we should have a stadium without any kind of video board?  Not gonna happen. 

    I didn’t say that. I just forgot to mention it in the original post. Put it in lieu of some of the luxury box seating behind the uprights or break it into 4 places. I don’t care. 

    Maybe have 3 decks of luxury boxes above the field house set up in tiered fashion for the lowest ones for patio like space for the second row. 

    What was presented looks cheap and bad. You don’t go to first class stadiums and think “that doesn’t look right.” Clemson’s looks wrong. Vought Hemingway looks wrong. FSU’s looks wrong. This looks wrong. 

  16. This isn’t hard. Make the entire connected lower bowl the field house with offices, training rooms, clubs, classrooms , lounges etc. Glassish facade and a giant covered patio on top of that for those who need to party more than watch the game. Double stack of suites behind that and the matching upper deck from the East side. Probably about seat count neutral, keeps design continuity within reason, adds the premium suites that AD’s masturbate at night to and gives them the entire lower bowl to come up with something incredible for players and fans alike. 

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  17. 12 minutes ago, UT Lawnghorn said:

    I'm with you.  I think the staff will put him at Mac and probably sub him out quite a bit due to our insane secondary depht. I expect us to have a heavy S, be it Foster or Overshown playing in the box regularly, starting in 2019, which would limit Adeoye's usage. I think he'll always have his limitations against B12 offenses, but I see a route to him being a useful player. We'll definitely need the ILB who starts alongside him to not have any weakness though, can't protect 2 LBs. 

    On the bright side, he'll give us versatility when we face Playoff opponents who like to play heavy, like UGA. 

    That’s my other interest. We really have something with our current dime defense. I’m interested to see how that morphs with roster turnover or if they target it as our preferred defense during Orlando’s stay. And yes, we want a thumper in the middle if we spend some time up close and personnel with the more traditional offenses found in some other P5 conferences. 

  18. 12 minutes ago, UT Lawnghorn said:

    He would've been better off in the Big Ten, but I'm glad we got him. He has better instincts than Wheeler, and a Wheeler with better instincts is a very useful player. He will help with teams like Maryland, USC, and K-State, and I think in a year, he will have enough experience to reliably diagnose plays fast enough to make up for his speed limitations.  He'll never be an ideal fit, but he's a good player that could thrive in specific facets of the game if the DC can protect him most of the time.

    Yeah, I thought we might protect him, and I trust our defensive staff to build a defense until proven otherwise. I’m just curious how they intend to play him.  And I’m concerned about facing offenses in this league and having to protect players without the use of a sideline.  Again, we’ll see.  

       

     

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