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Beantown Express 2.0

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  1. RIP to one of the greats.  The below episode from All in the Family is what I think of when I remember Rob Reiner.  His movies were incredible also whether he wrote them, directed them or even acted in them. 

     

     

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    8 Track:  Kiss-Destroyer

    Cassette: Aerosmith- Toys in the Attic

    Record: Styx- Paradise Theater (as a kid I thought the laser etching on the record itself was bad ass)

    CD: Steely Dan- A Decade of Steely Dan

    Forgot to add download.  Don't remember but probably the thousand songs I donwloaded from Napster.

     

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  3. 1 hour ago, Red Five said:

    It's just staggering mismanagement. I think we all had doubts about what we were going to be putting on the field, but it was more like "Well, I guess Flood and Sark know something we don't." Nope, evidently not. 

    Same exact deal at RB. "Well I guess Christian Clark must be looking like a Bijan clone in practice, and Baxter must look 100% of how he looked two years ago". Nope. What the fuck were these guys watching?

    Guessing the same thing Abdul Carter was.  No time for doing their actual jobs.

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    10 hours ago, kevwun said:

    There's 1-2 or high school receivers who are as close to locks for stardom as you can get every year.  Henry is this years version.  If you are going to spend a ton on a wr recruit, he's the one.

    Isn't this why Ohio State develops WR's so well allegedly?  Jermiah Smith, Egbuka, Harrison (he was lower ranked but definitely had the genes from his dad), now Henry are the can't miss 1-2 prospects and they bring them in.  I am pretty sure Texas, or any school would have turned the same group of WR's into superstars since they already were superstars coming out of HS.

  5. Top 16 teams make the playoffs.   Top 8 get a home field game and then next rounds go to bowl games.  No auto bids. Of the SEC has 10 of the top 16 so be it.  Ranking the top 16 should be based on the AP/coaches poll plus a computer that takes into account strength of schedule (BCS style).  Basically the BCS but with 16 teams would be better than what we have now.  No committees, especially ones that have members who are currently working for teams or conferences that are part of the process.  

  6. 7 hours ago, BluTechsan said:


    Here you go Texas, your reason to keep scheduling good OOC

    Yes, BYU has a chance to play their way in but why should they have to? Why aren’t they already on the 10 line and ND on the cut line?
    The difference between ND(10-2) and BYU(11-1) that has the Catholics ahead of the Mormons seems to be - ND’s LOSSES!!

    Keep in mind, neither of these schedules is an SEC schedule so that argument isn’t a factor

    10-2
    @ MIAMI (L) - #12
    A&M (L) - #7
    Purdue
    @ Arkansas
    Boise
    NCSU
    USC - #16
    @ BC
    Navy
    @Pitt 
    Cuse
    @ Stanford

    11-1
    Portland St
    Stanford
    @ E Carolina
    @ Colorado
    WVU
    @ Arizona - #18
    Utah -  #15
    @ Iowa St
    @ TxTech (L) - #4
    TCU
    @Cincy
    UCF

    ….ok, I’m a realist, it’s the sticker on the helmet that

    I know its a big what if but, what is everyone's guess if Texas played either of these schedules this year?  I see 11-1 with the ND schedule (figure Miami or USC trips us up) and 12-0 or 11-1 with the BYU schedule (maybe Tech beats us at Tech).  How can you compare any teams in college football with such different schedules and conferences if you just look at wins and losses.

     

  7. 1 minute ago, Dahobbs said:

    Miami at 12 you say?

    Marco Rubio says CFP should be 'scrapped' if Miami doesn't make playoff

    I'm sure the threat of government taking over had no impact whatsoever on the discussions.  

    Should have had Abbott, Cruz, etc... make a deal with Trump to threaten UT's inclusion in the playoffs or the government takes over the whole deal including the profits. Just kidding, kind of and no CR.

  8. 1 minute ago, Steelers Roll Left said:

    The show didn’t discuss Texas at all.  Didn’t want to touch it

    I think McElory commented quickly about Texas how they barely beat some bad teams like KY and MSU.  Good thing GA didn't barely beat Florida or Alabama barely beat Auburn, OU barely beat LSU or Aggie barely beat South Carolina. I guarantee if you give the shit SEC teams like Florida, Auburn, LSU, South Carolina and even Arkansas a ACC or Big 12 schedule they are all like 8-4 at a minimum. 

  9. 2 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

    the senators from 36ish states will hold anti-trust hearings and scare the crap out of disney, the sec and the b1g

    8-5 duke or north texas or james fricking madison would be raped on national tv but the controlling parties will not dare risk running afoul of congress

    Not saying you aren't correct but it's a crock of shit.  Maybe the NFL should make sure there are teams always represented from certain states in the playoffs to not upsett congress.  

  10. Just now, 956 Worldwide said:

    This thread is such great evidence that the playoff has not made being a college football fan even a little bit better and every potential fix makes it worse. Pressing reset and going back to the pre-BCS bowl tie-ins would be the fix. We need a Butlerian jihad against the CFP and ESPN talking heads who try to convince us that the sport is somehow lesser without a PO. 

    How bout we have a 12 or 16 team playoff where the best teams are in it.  No guarantees to conferences for slots, no G 5 shit.  Just the best teams.  I look at who will be in this year's playoffs and I think Texas (a flawed team in its own right) could beat half if not more of that field.  Miami (who is also shit) I would take over quite a few of the playoff teams.  

  11. Let's say Ole Miss let him coach in the playoffs even if he stated he was leaving for LSU.  The second Ole Miss loses the entire narrative would be that Kiffin wasn't really focused on the playoffs and was worrying about his new LSU job.  If I'm Ole Miss, I can't have that.  Time to cut bait and really the Ole Miss AD should be on TV right now saying, "we have fired Lane Kiffin and Joe the assistant coach is our new HC.  Hope he chokes to death on a Po Boy in Baton Rouge".  

  12. 2 hours ago, Red Five said:

    That C and LG combo though was noticeably better the second they made the change. I do wonder what some of those first half of the season games would have looked like if we had started out like this. It may have been enough to get a win at Florida, and then our season is completely different. 

    Yeah, Hutson and Robertson are average at best but that combo beats FL (still loses to Ohio State).  The fact that the coaching staff had a playoff level team and found a way to miss the playoffs without having major injuries to blame is malpractice.  Blame Sark, Flood, Akina, whomever but this team is good enough to not have 3 losses.  

  13. Just now, BurntEyes said:

    Coaching college football is supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great. Coaches are like a box of chocolates. You never know what your going to get. I know what I have to do now. I have to keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who know what coach the tide could bring.

    We lose to Arkansas today and the sun may not rise tomorrow.  

  14. I am no expert in recruiting, but it seems like we are starting to recruit a lot more 3-star level players and the other schools recruiting them are not the Top 10ish elite football schools but the Baylor's, Utah's, Oklahoma State's of the world.  Yeah, yeah, the coaches are better at evaluating players than the recruiting services and they will coach them up, but this is a recipe for failure that we have all seen before here. When the Bama's, Georgia's, Ohio State's of the world keep loading up on 5 stars and high 4 stars (and God forbid the Aggies start this with their momentum) and we have low 4 stars and high 3 stars everyone will be screaming why do our players look slower and weaker than those other teams when we play them. 

  15. 1 minute ago, Not a cat said:

    Is that statement a shot across the bow to CDC?  Look I ain't leaving quietly no matter what embarrassing shit you may have.

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    This is exactly what Sark is doing at that press conference.  He may not show up to the next two games because he is busy in FL recruiting. 

  16. 1 minute ago, Thatguy said:

     

    We are where we are because we believed we were or would be better at just a few positions and that turned out not to be the case. Everyone here knows what those positions are. When we improve at those positions we will return to playing high level football. It's not that hard. And yes, it's on the coach to make that happen but for us not to have any dropoff is silly. That's what I am saying. 

    I get what you are saying just not sure I agree with this.  If Sark is really an offensive genius it is quite shocking that he looked at the talent at OL, RB, TE and thought, yeah this is all we need.  That’s actually pretty scary if you think about it.   Sadly, we don’t need amazing players at those positions.  A few competent players at say center/left guard, RB and a TE and this team is in the playoffs and maybe even beats an Ohio State or Georgia even with all the talent they have.  That being said, someone also needs to fix the secondary as the blown coverages are not acceptable at the rate they have been happening.  Either the coaches can’t coach or the players are idiots or maybe a little of both but still unacceptable.

     

  17. 4 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

    Who are all these teams winning championships with shitty rosters? Where I am sitting it sure as shit looks like the teams winning are doing it with the most talented rosters. Unless you are Michigan and you cheat your way there. 

    Does Texas have a shitty roster?  If so, who’s in charge that should have made sure that didn’t happen?  I agree with you that talent wins championships.  This team should have been good enough to make the playoffs.  They shouldn’t have struggled all year with mediocre teams like Miss St and KY and losing to FL.  They shouldn’t be able to stay within 10-14 points of GA in Athens.  Worse teams than ours seemed able to hang with Georgia.  I am not arguing to fire Sark (not sure he is that great either) but things need to change if Connor Stroh is the guy you trot out at left guard in year 5 of your tenure.  I would also argue that Sark has had a relatively good year when it comes to injuries.  These players, for the most part, are who he and his staff wanted to play all year.  It’s not like the O line sucks because the top 3 starters blew their knees out in the offseason or earlier in the season.  

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