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  1. All I hope is that today taught Sark that offensive line has to become a major priority in recruiting now and going forward. The talent pool is shit right now and they need a quick fix. If they have to hit the portal this winter then fucking do it.

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  2. Louisiana, Rice & Tech we didn't need to do anything

    Arkansas we didn't need to do anything for a horribly different reason

    TCU we just let Bijan put the team on his back

    I'm excited for tomorrow because I think Sark has some wrinkles in the playbook he hasn't needed yet and what better time to use them than against OU.

  3. 16 hours ago, longhornmatt said:

    I’d take Ole Miss.   Miami is utter dog shit, which means Bama won its only real game so far by 2 points against a Florida team with questionable QB play.   Ole Miss has one of the best offenses in the country and will score on Bama.  I’d still expect Bama to win, but in a competitive track meet.

    I'm not saying Ole Miss won't cover and you're right about a track meet, but dinging Alabama for only beating Florida by two points on the road when Florida is MILES AND MILES better than the best teams Ole Miss has played while Ole Miss hasn't played a road game yet is just fucking wild.

  4. I hate this game every year. It's Gary Patterson's Superbowl and it will always be more important to them than us. I also have this feeling the last time we play them before we move to the SEC is the last time we're going to play them in the regular season because I don't see an upside in scheduling them anymore. We still might just that much better than them, but it's not a game I take lightly. I hate those fuckers.

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  5. 6 hours ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

    I can't remember feeling better after a season opener since I really can't remember when. If it wasn't a Terrapin Tom Special, or Mack would roll out some really lackluster openers in his good-but-not-great years -- we'd beat some team like Rice or a shitty UNT squad by a score similar to this one, or barely edge Arkansas State .

    No stupid penalties. While the run game wasn't punishing, it got where it needed to be. A disruptive play on special teams with that blocked XP. Solid on third down conversions. Not a clownshow. I'll take it.

     

     

    Because of the sad state our program has been in for the last decade plus this could honestly go down as our best non-conference performance since Ohio State 2005. If you look at our highest profile non-conference wins since Ohio State, the list is sad: '07 vs # 19 TCU, 2011 at UCLA, 2012 at Ole Miss, 2016 vs #10 Notre Dame, 2018 vs #21 USC.  That's it. It's so pathetic.

    Three of those teams ended up with losing records. Ole Miss ended up 7-6 (although the record books say 0-6 for Hugh Freeze being Hugh Freeze) and TCU was 8-5 in 2007. I know we're establishing a very low bar here, but it's not a crazy idea.

     

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  6. Re-watched the offense this morning (I understand offense conceptually more than I do defense) and feel about the same way I felt during the game.

    - Card was just so impressive. I thought there were new-starter jitters on the opening drive where he missed open options on his two incompletions, but on his first pass of the next series he looks left and had nobody option, moved to his right while keeping his eyes down field and when he had nobody open there dumped it to Bijan for a nine yard gain. Those are the kinds of things that stand out for a young quarterback. He's got a good arm and is mobile, but the ability to show actual quarterbacking skills was impressive.

    - Not talking talent, but skill set and what they bring to the table, did Sark have a player like Whittington at Alabama? He's going to be able to create mismatches with him all over the field. Whittington isn't going to beat anyone deep, but he's going to be a monster on short and intermediate routes and we know he has the pedigree to take the ball out of the backfield too. Total Swiss Army Knife type player.

    - Bijan is good at football. Lining him out wide is going to be so unfair to defenders which rules.

    - The deep passing game is a work in progress. We really need someone to step up in that regard.

    - The offensive line is a bad run blocking unit. I thought they held up in pass pro ok, most of the plays UL made were good schemes but there were a couple of breakdowns. Overall they were fine pass blocking, but goddamn they could not generate a push at all until the fourth quarter. UL's d-line just stood their ground all day and really didn't allow much. There were some glaring poor technique and effort, particularly when guys were asked to pull. It's really the thing that could hinder any kind of quick turnaround we might have this year.

    All in all I haven't been that unstressed during a game in forever. We completely controlled the game after UL went up 3-0 and the result was never in doubt. Overall performance to be proud of and if we're ready to play Saturday we'll kick woo pig pooeys ass.

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  7. I binged both seasons the last couple of weeks after hearing some good things about the finale (a TV writer vaguely talking about how good it was before the review embargo was up) and I really enjoyed it and the season finale was a stomach punch. I do have concerns about season 3 which I guess I'll spoiler because the finale was so recently?

     

    Spoiler

    While going to Mars is going to be cool as hell we're jumping ahead another 12 years from the end of season 2 and I feel like it's going to marginalize most of the characters they've spent the most time on in seasons 1 and 2. Ed's not really compelling without the element of being a pilot in his life and he'll be in his 70s by then. Molly won't be able to play much of a role at that point because there's no way she won't be mostly blind if not completely blind. I don't know how much story there will be to tell with Dani at that point either. The big overarching theme with the season 1 holdovers in season 2 was how do they adjust to life not being pilots anymore and they all ended up back in space. That won't be the case in 1995. Obviously the Soviets trying to turn Margo will be a big story. I could see a scenario where Ellen is President. I'd be fine if Karen went away. While I think Shantel VanSanten is smoking hot, the character sucked and never had anything interesting to do.  Gordo was also my favorite character because I think Michael Dorman is an amazing actor (watch Patriot on Amazon Prime if you haven't seen it).

    It would seem most of the heavy lifting for pilot stuff will be Aleida in Houston and Danny and Kelly as the pilots and I'm not sure how interesting that will be. I guess the guy whose name I never learned and Sally Ride will still maybe play a part, but I never found them all that compelling either. I'm really interested to see where the show goes, but I think the time jump may end up being a burden.

     

     

     

  8. 9 minutes ago, OU Sucks said:

    Yes it was.  Clearly, this salty corn fan tagging NCAA got the tweet removed and the NCAA imposed a 3 month ban for the social media handler who posted it.

     

    Snitch tagging the NCAA is legitimately the most bitch-ass move of all time 

  9. 48 minutes ago, kingkoopa6 said:

    No sun?... lol 

    Not that I care about the reason for it, but was there something more to this other than Lexi Sun transferring to Nebraska? Did she talk bad about the program too? Again, don't care, fuck John Cook and Nebraska, I was just curious if there was more to the story.

  10. 34 minutes ago, J.R. Juniors Junior Jr. said:

    Makes sense.  The D3 conference that includes where I went to undergrad skipped the spring season altogether. 

    There was no rhyme or reason to much of anything this spring. Some teams opted to play just in the Spring, some teams opted to play just in the Fall, some teams did both. Some teams didn't play at all. The last one is certainly one of the reasons why we got Jeff Choate to take an assistant job with us. He had Montana State rolling with positive momentum and they were going to go a full year without playing. That's tough on an FCS program.

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  11. 7 hours ago, J.R. Juniors Junior Jr. said:

    Not one but two teams that are 3-0 while one team is 9-2?  Seriously?  That's even weirder than the recent FBS season in terms of disparity of games played.

    The 9-2 team played four games in the fall. Games in the fall counted towards the overall record. A 7 to 3 game disparity in the spring is also a lot, but not as crazy as 11. The teams with 3 wins came from conferences where most of the teams opted out of the season.

  12. I will try to be succinct and not put too many numbers in here, but I'm bored all the time now so I did some research and I feel confident in saying the loss to Abilene Christian was the second worst loss in NCAA Tournament history only behind Virginia losing to UMBC and that's ONLY because that was a 1-16 game. UMBC played a hell of a lot better against Virginia than ACU did Texas.

    Since the field expanded to 64 in 1985 there have been 32 upsets by 14, 15 and 16 seeds. Of the 32 winners ACU had

    - The worst FG percentage (29.9)

    - The second fewest field goals (20)

    - Tied for the second fewest 3pt FG (3)

    - Tied for third word 3pt FG percentage (16.7)

    Of the three other teams as bad or worse from three, ACU had the lowest 2pt FG percentage by far. The only team with fewer made field goals was Stephen F Austin against WVU in 2016 and they hit seven threes and took 13 fewer shots.

    Furthermore, if you look at ACU's analytics profile their strengths were turnover pct (1st in the nation), effective FG pct defense (17th in the nation) and were a modest offensive rebounding team (74th in the country) which is actually pretty impressive considering they're legit one of the smallest teams in the country.

    Basically, ACU played exactly the way you'd expect them to play and any coaching staff worth a shit would've had their team ready to play and Shaka didn't. ACU played like shit in that game. Texas played slightly worse.

    TL;DR - Abilene Christian sucks and Shaka Smart sucks worse.

     

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