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  1. 47 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

    can’t wait to see the Japanese ratings in game 4, or whenever Shohei starts, especially if the dodgers run out to 3-0 lead 

    It's going to be absolutely bananas. 

    The Jays have some great storylines on their side, too. Gibson finally making it to a WS. The Yesavage kid, who started the year in single-A ball, making the Game1 start. First WS for the club since Joe Fuckin' Carter. The only MLB team from Canada, energizing yet another entire country.

    This WS could be really, really fun. I'll have it on tonight.

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  2. 1 hour ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

    frustrating thing about arch is he’s not reckless, maybe that’s a fault but he just misses too many layups

    It's this. It's ALL this. Arch has missed easy, cakewalk chunk yardage in every single game. These are throws he's been making since he was 12. If he connects on even HALF of the obvious ones, we likely beat Florida, we maybe beat Ohio St., and we put some distance between us an UK. His stats move up into the "average P5 QB" range, and the narrative shifts completely to the OL. 

    The "The Film Guy" breakdown of the UK game highlighted some really, really terrible mechanics from Arch. Even the good throws were more a result of raw arm strength than execution. I don't know enough about football to really dig on potential causes, but Arch is doing absolutely nothing to help himself, and it's honestly baffling. 

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  3. 4 minutes ago, UpperWestside said:

    A 100 years ago.

    That's completely disingenuous debate :) ... you have to compare players to others of their era. It's also completely dismissive of the impact Ruth had on the game. The entire philosophy of the sport changed when he was done as a player. Ohtani is executing at a level never seen before, that is clearly true, but until we see a legion of guys suddenly playing both ways, his impact won't ever be as great as Babe Ruth.

    (Shoehei is fantastic. What he's doing is CLEARLY the most out-of-this-world thing since Ruth ... I'm not ready to annoint him yet, but I'm also enjoying the debate.)

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  4. 2 hours ago, Revolution512 said:

    When you get hit that often, your accuracy will suffer some. It shouldn’t suffer this much. He needs to keep playing.

    This is completely fair and I agree with it completely ... BUT ... Arch also missed wide-open throws without pressure and with his feet set against OhSt.

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  5. 18 minutes ago, UpperWestside said:

    That one guy, as great as he was, was not this guy.

    This guy, as good as he is, hasn't ever hit more home runs in a season than every other TEAM in his league, like the other guy did in 1920. As Shoehei is to playing both ways, Ruth was to the homer. 

  6. it's almost as if you can't stop the foibles of human behavior on the supply side. Has it EVER worked? (don't look too hard, the answer is no). But dammit, we're gonna try again, and the right will keep voting for it because it means they get to blow things up, victim-blame folks for being actual human beings, and then go home at night at huff the paint fumes, or get drunk off our gourds, or high as a kite on Oxy while we blame "them damn Mexicans" for everything that's wrong in the world. 

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  7. 6 hours ago, UpperWestside said:

    There has never, ever been a player even remotely like this guy.

    Point of order. There's been ONE guy like this guy, and that guy has historically been considered the best to ever play this game. 

  8. 2 minutes ago, Codaxx said:

    but this offense is not getting fixed (I mean enough to come close to a playoff team) with just improvement at the QB position. 

    I agree with this as well. I'm just saying that with "D1 starter a ANY P5 school" level of output, these challenges in our offense are far less 'the world is falling' and far more 'we might not be able to beat UGA and then tOSU b2b to win the natty, but we're in the conversation with just a few fixes like OL run blocking.' Everything feels worse because we can't even make the easy plays, and there's so little that Sark can do to scheme around the OL gaps without getting SOMETHING from his QB to help. 

  9. 10 minutes ago, Texasrocks said:

    The offense is broken - Arch is a mess, the o-line is a mess, Wingo has issues. That whole side of the ball needs to be overhauled. I doubt it happens, but after the season, Sark needs to fire Milwee and Flood and bring in an OC to call plays and coach QBs.

    I don't necessarily disagree, but holy shit look at the clip that @Newy25 posted ... the offense schemed people open ALL DAY, and Arch couldn't make any of the throws. A few were drop-backs with a clean (enough) pockets, a few were quick-single-read chip shots, and at least one was on a roll out (maybe an unplanned roll-out, but still). Every way you can put a QB in a position to succeed, Sark did for Arch. 

     

    The clip, in case you hate yourself enough to try and watch again.

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  10. 1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I'm not sure there's a list.  Look at the Sears Cup winners since he hit campus:

    Stanford

    Stanford

    Texas

    Texas

    Stanford

    Texas

    Texas

     

    Yeah, it was a tight race this year but I don't think I'd put Stanford or USC's AD in the conversation if we're talking the current state of college athletics.

    My only counter-point is that not all Universities have the size to legitimately compete for the Sears Cup. Success in the AD role there would look like outperforming schools of similar size, or resurrecting a sport that has been a long-time doormat, or winning a championship as a serious underdog, etc. 'Outperforming your peer group' is the real measure, I guess. I'm not deep enough into the world of college athletics to compile that list, but there's probably a few out there that have some skins on the wall through that lens, who don't have CDCs endowment or donor base to pull from, so I wanted to leave some room in the list.

    Still a short fuckin' list :).

  11. 21 hours ago, Zeus said:

    we are also lucky to have CDC that a genuine dude

    This is the gods honest truth. Look at the upward trajectory the entire Athletic Department is on since his arrival ... it's really incredible. There might be someone better at the AD job than him, but it's a short fuckin' list. 

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  12. 3 hours ago, Hank Chinaski said:

    I remember seeing Ricky Williams for the first over by the old social work building one day, just in passing. I remember thinking that I’d never seen anyone that looked anything like this guy ever in terms of his body proportions. Like, to the point where the pattern-recognition conventions my brain had invented to identify humans as human weren’t really working. I hadn’t felt so physically inadequate since the day I tried to pick up a teenaged lifeguard at Splashtown when I was 11. 

    Fucking same; during my freshman year, my schedule overlapped with Ricky's in a way that I'd pass him walking to class at least twice a week. His thighs were as big around as my waist, and his neck was close. He wasn't ALL that much taller than I was, but I swear he looked like the players we'd design in those early versions of Madden, with 99 speed and 99 BRK or whatever it was. 

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  13. 1 hour ago, Tex Long said:

    outstanding things I see in him now is his willingness to own his fuckups, and learn from them.

    The story about him building our culture, and realizing that he needed to be first through the door so he called a team meeting and laid bare his troubles with alcohol, and what he does on a daily basis to stay ahead of it, was inspiring as FUCK. I feel like I'd run through a wall for a coach who showed that level of humility and vulnerability (while still clearly demonstrating excellence on the field, and requiring same from me and my teammates). 

    The cynic in me feels like there's always another shoe waiting to drop, but I can't remember this level of excitement that I have for Texas Foootball since about 2004. I guess specifically, the 2001-2002 season where I felt like we were finally on to something repeatable, which 204-05-06 proved. 

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  14. 2 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Whatever.   None of that matters going forward.  There's a material chance that he's going to serve a third term, no matter what.  He can do it, for reasons.....wholly-owned SCOTUS out front shoulda told ya.

    Shitbird lawyer: "He hasn't served two consecutive terms yet, which is clearly the only thing that the Amendment, which is really dumb and a terrible deal which the states never should have approved, means, because reasons."

    Roberts: "Flawless argument, no notes, go forth, Dear Leader."

  15. 4 hours ago, Parliament said:

    It's worth reminding eveyone that AI right now is just really, really, really advanced auto-complete. It can only present answers based on situations that it's seen before, that it's been trained on. There's quite a bit of very advanced science that makes it LOOK like AI is thinking, but it's really not - it's just Deep Blue finally beating a chess grandmaster because it can logically search the entire possible set of outcomes of any chess move faster than a human can do it.

    AI gets dirty when pressed because that's what humans do. And generally, in case you haven't noticed, humans kinda suck.

     

    edit: my grammer is very much not good.

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