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hpslugga

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  1. Don't forget Jerrod Heard
  2. I'm guessing the winner of TX-OU gets the 6:30 next week?
  3. A few remarks: 1. Omg 2. Wtf 3. I think that’s the lowest grade they’ve earned in a win since I started doing this in 2005 4. There were at least two punts TCU had where the ball took a hard bounce their way, but I do not say that’s a fail on the fieldable punts metric because I contend those balls were not fieldable. The first one wasn’t even close and I still say the second one failed to meet that description. 5. In all seriousness I’m glad this one happened the week that it did. The team hasn’t won a lot of shit grade games like these in recent years, let alone a road game against a team (chickenshit though they are) that’s had their number for the past near decade. This was a game that we found out the offense could still churn 30 points out of their asses even with a sub-par game by Casey (all QB’s are bound to have these) and that Bijan could handle a 35-carry game that is seldom seen in this age. Hopefully Sark is treating this as a loss.
  4. "Carney also pointed out that Tucker takes a wide approach from his start point - a technique that was popular in the 1970s and 1980s but fell out of favor in the 1990s as kickers began to come at the ball from a narrower angle to increase accuracy. “Being wide allows you to get a lot of turn on the ball, you get a lot of hip and turn and rotation, which translates into power" Essentially it's a fusing of this principle along with what he also says about core strength. Some of the longest kickers in league history just flat out didn't have that. Did any coach ever look at Sebastian Janikowski, Nick Lowery or Morten Andersen and think "man if only my kickers had their core strength?" No fucking way. They looked at those guys and marveled only at their raw leg power. Justin has the leg power of a Janikowski but he also has the core control of Mike Vanderjagt, which is what makes him such a weapon...especially since he isn't the headcase those two guys were.
  5. Doesn’t mean I want her sitting next to me, does it?
  6. If you ordered tix from TicketCity, when would you normally expect to actually receive them?
  7. Yeah it’s not exactly a thriving place. I just didn’t think they’d ever do that.
  8. Probably because the rumor gets murdered by the reality that there’s nowhere to put a campus stadium. The only place that’s even remotely plausible is that area by Sikes Lake and Midwestern Parkway, but that would involve a crucial step known locally as “demolish the University President’s House.”
  9. And if the NCAA announced that starting with tomorrow’s games that they’re going back to the two-inch tees, the 23’5” goalposts, the scuffed balls and the consequence of a missed FG moving the ball to the defense’s 20 before they took over, all those records would disappear literally tomorrow…multiple times over.
  10. Yeah you already said that and you’re still not understanding the point: if he didn’t have that tee, there’s no way in hell he makes those 60+ yarders. Same goes for Steve Little, Tony Franklin, Ove Johansson, etc.
  11. He certainly would’ve… twice
  12. I don’t say Erxleben wasn’t a great kicker because of those inbuilt advantages. I say that he wasn’t a great kicker because he was exposed after those advantages were taken away when he got to the big leagues. Every great NFL kicker used those advantages when they played in college. Only the really great ones stayed great after they were taken away. That’s the precise and exact reason that when you look at the top 100 all time kickers in NFL history in terms of accuracy (minimum 100 attempts) there are no straight-on guys on that list. You have to scan down to spot 116 in order to find one (Mark Moseley). He was a great punter, no doubt. But if you asked me to create an All-Time UT roster with 3 field goal kickers on it, I’m not even considering a spot for him. He can be Dickson’s backup at punter, though.
  13. Again, you’re missing the point. Those FG’s were made because there were minimal consequences of missing. You miss a 67 yarder today, the other team gets the ball at midfield. With the way today’s offenses move the football, that’s just stupid…unless again it’s done at the end of a half like Gramática did. It also doesn’t help that today’s kickers cannot use a tee, cannot use a scuffed football, and kick at 18’6” wide goalposts with the consequences of missing such a kick being drastically worse than it was in 1977. In that previous sentence, I just gave you four reasons why no one tries that anymore and those reasons suffice on their own, let alone on conjunction with each other. You make it seem as if today’s kickers aren’t capable of making those.
  14. Well I mean nearly half of the SWC had guys that had hit from 65 or further. The tee was one of the reasons. The others were: 1. Goalposts were 5 feet wider than they are today (23’5” vs 18’6”). 2. Back then, if you missed, the opponent got the ball on their own 20. A missed field goal from 60+ was functionally no different than a punt that went through the end zone. 3. In the SWC, you could kick those scuffed up balls that would travel further when kicked. Either way, that kind of kick hasn’t been made in the Big 12 in 23 years. It takes a special talent to do it and you essentially have to be at the end of a half to even contemplate it.
  15. Dude go nuts with that. Seriously, spend them all.
  16. He could kick it long because he had the aid of a tee. That shit adds at least 15 yards to your distance. It’s no wonder he flamed out as a PK in the NFL. Those straight on kickers were never really worth a shit anyways, historically speaking. He’s the second greatest punter in UT history though, I have to give him that much. I’m actually surprised no one dropped Erx’ name after Tuck hit that last FG he just made. He will, and if not, those voters had to have established an understanding that no kickers will ever be inducted again. In this era of highly accurate soccer style kickers, it seems inconceivable that the guy who holds the record for career FG accuracy is the same guy that smashed the long-standing record for distance.
  17. I mean yeah there's that and also that Tech's TD was against the UT 2nd/3rd team D when it didn't matter. For all intents and purposes, the offense played a perfect game. If anyone wants to try to gin up some positives about the defensive performance, again a lot of the damage Tech did was when the game was well in hand and even then some of those were "almosts." For example, that 3.8- yards per carry? Tech hit 3.9. They also converted one more first down that would have been mathematically acceptable (38% when the max is 35%). One thing I've noticed is that the D always ends up doing two things in the game that somewhat forgives the low score. So for example in the Rice game, they only graded 10/20, but they forced 5 3-and-outs and pitched a shutout. I'll take it. In the Tech game, they only got 5/20 but got two turnovers and scored on D. Again I'll take it, especially when you're talking about a 35-point win and a defensive score sheet being ruined by garbage time stuff in the second half. When you have an offense this efficient at getting TD's, what you need out of the defense is for it to answer the bell just a handful of times and you come out with comfy wins. Can't wait to see what Thompson and this stable of RB's can do against a TCU team that just took SMU up its ass in the run game.
  18. And as you look through the very rich collection of long-standing rivalry games, the greatest among them actually tend to be day games. That’s not to say that they absolutely have to be, but this idea that night time somehow enhances it is like putting spinning rims on a toaster.
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