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  1. Why? Sure Texas has some issues. And Alabama has a great team. But, what team have they played that could really put pressure on their defense? Texas does have receivers that can control space, they go zone, Texas wins that match up. We can also RPO far more efficiently then any team they have played this year. As good as LSU defense may be. Bama could load up knowing there was little to no threat of a vertical passing game. Which is pretty much what they did. There were plays were all 11 defenders were within 5 yards of the LOS. Flip it over and ask what does Alabama do that Texas hasn’t seen? Run power? I think that plays into Texas’ strength. And Tua biggest play is pretty much a simplified version of what most big 12 teams run. In fact the intangible is Sam. Healthy he presents Alabama their biggest problem. Because they must respect the Texas passing game, and have to play man. They go zone and Texas would move up and down the field on them. In a man to man scheme shifts the point of attack numbers to Texas on called QB run plays. All that said. If they played next week and you asked me to bet on who do I take? I would take Texas. And I very well may lose. But I think it would be a good game. And I wouldn’t be shocked if Texas won.
  2. Damn, one look at that stadium tells you all you really need to know about the priorities of those in power at Kansas. With all the money they have been given since being a Big12 member that place is a disgrace to the conference. There are 1A high schools in Georgia that play in better facilities.
  3. It did, but the ball had no zip on it. Sam obviously has a strong enough arm to normally rope that same throw accurate or not.
  4. That was the first throw that Sam’s arm showed some issues.
  5. Hamttx

    UCF

    Some of you really don’t understand how our Bowl system works. It has nothing to do with scheduling, or who did what to whom. It is about career criminals like Hoolihan (who fortunately just retired) who for years manipulated the different configurations of who the champ is long before we got to this ridiculous thing we call a playoff. By deciding who would play in THEIR bowl game. Houlihan, as well as his other puppet masters who’s long reach of power and money are the one’s who control the major bowls, AND forced the imaginary narrative of how WE MUST include the bowls to determine a championship. This was his baby the entire time. It worked because some cared so much about the bowls or were paid off under the table (like the Big 10 with their tie to the Rose) didn’t realize that the bowl system was an antiquated method of the mid 19th century. When a champion was selected via media outlets prior to the end of the season, and the bowl was a “reward” for a team who had a successful year. They were absolutely, never intended to determine anything. They just provided a rust belt team an opportunity to see some fucking sunshine in the middle of their depressing winter. And collect a huge paycheck for doing so. A paycheck that would go straight to the school from the networks. If we eliminated the middle man (the bowl group). And played the games on campus. That money goes straight to the schools. You want a championship? You shit can the bowl system, and simply follow the DII system. A system where the individual universities host the quarter, semi, and championship game. And eliminate the bowls altogether. And allow the money to go from television and advertising straight into the different universities coffers. And fucking stop arguing about scheduling, eye test, what if’s, and the so called experts at ESPN and play the fucking thing out on the field. Then we will know once and for all if UCF can play with Alabama, Texas or anyone else. And make millions for each school who participates. It just takes one conference to stand their ground and demand fair play, and hopefully another to side with them. And before anyone thinks you can incorporate the bowls read up on Hoolihan’s position on how he absolutely fought the very idea of playing any type of semi or quarter final games on campus for fear of being phased out. He wanted and got the conferences in lock step because those who run the damn things didn’t understand or were paid off for failing to see they too could negotiate with TV and advertising executives. And tell the bowls to fuck off.
  6. That is an actually pretty damn good response. Though I don’t think it should have anything to do with the Hall. The entire league was dirty for more than a decade. Sports writers who dog the guys who made the most of it during that time is disingenuous. And simply don’t like that they broke records they didn’t think they should have. But the ugly truth is many of those same records were actually set by players who were themselves using an assortment of different substances. Just no one gave a shit at the time.
  7. Neither will Melo apparently.
  8. Especially on the no calls on Dukes last two possessions. Both of which I fucking garafuckingtee he will get come March.
  9. Uh? I think the consensus is he already has one. If his record up to this point hasn’t gotten him fired. I’m not real sure what would?
  10. There is a reason that even with the success he has found in Pickens county. His name simply doesn’t come up in the next hot head coach conversations.
  11. Hell a Marine made mine? And thinking about it, he also made a bad ass power hitter out of a surplus O2 mask pump.
  12. Shit. Got the State right, missed high and wide on the team. How did they lose to the Bucks..
  13. The correct nomenclature is “grass mask”....
  14. How did this Saints team lose to the Jaguars?
  15. You’re right, that is an unpopular opinion.
  16. Funny how the SEC actually looks when you remove their marquee teams. Pretty much like every other conference.
  17. Just like he did at Georgia. And why they would start each year ranked in the top 10 only to be exposed. He has a good arm, and should be proud of making it to the NFL. But in truth nothing really special even when complimented with better then average skill players.
  18. Chill, just wait until it happens to Saban and Alabama and it somehow causes them to lose in some way. Rest assured that we will form a committee, brainstorm the issue at hand. And then get a fix implemented within a day or two. Of course from a completely impartial committee made up of very impartial former SEC coaches, President’s and generally good folks. Then those at ESPU will tell us how great the fix is on the following 6:00 Sportscenter. Followed by Desmond, Kirk, Reece and Pollock. Who will certify and help us “breakdown” the new rule on the next segment of Gameday. Brought to you by Home Depot and the SEC.
  19. aggy runs their mouths about everything but winning. And though many schools spin failure in that way, aggy does it far more frequently.
  20. Asking that question is somewhat similar to asking if would Mack return?
  21. Not exactly true, if you go back and look at some of the preseason “everyone’s a prognosticator threads”. There are a few of us that thought that winning 10 games, and getting a Big12 title shot AND winning it were very possible. And dare I say expected. It is true that our reasoning how that scenario would take place was way off. But with OU, OSU, Baylor, TCU all having significant losses at key positions. It was fair to say most games were a pick em. The games with Maryland and Tulsa didn’t frighten anyone (Oop’s), though the USC game was thought to be a loss (Oop’s again). Not to mention that a few of the close losses last year that so easily could have went our way (and in a way that has been this years team’s greatest achievement, winning close games). Add in that we had just came off a bowl victory with a solid defensive effort, and had our QB with an additional year under his belt going into the next campaign. Even though we were all in a disagreement over how Sam would play (there is that Oop’s again). So while the “how we would do it” was far from being on point. The fact that some of us thought it could be done was not.
  22. Hamttx

    UCF

    Some naive people in here. The current state of college football is nothing but a construct of the bowl committee’s agenda/appurtenances to drain every fucking dollar out of the sport. They do not care about a championship, who gets left out or any other element of the sport. They care about money, and how to keep as much of it as possible without having to spend a dime of their own money for the very product they sell. And keeping the bowls the most relevant component of the game. Issues like expansion of the playoffs is out of the question because to do that would require that some quarter or semi final games would be played on the competing schools campuses. Something the bowl committee’s will absolutely never accept. Because they don’t get a cut of that. And then it wouldn’t be long before the schools realize they could actually start dictating terms to the very bowl committee’s that have yanked their chains (the universities involved) for over a century. Simply by creating their own committee and renting out the venues at a much lower cost. AND being able to negotiate their own TV arrangement leaving the bowls completely out of that negotiation. With Hoolihan now gone, who by most accounts was most powerful man, from the most powerful committee. We may possibly see some type of shift if his replacement lacks the power to consolidate all of the bowls ideology to follow the current model. Until then we get this mockery of a selection that serves the bowl committee’s agenda. Nothing more.
  23. Sherman had his time. And yeah, “they” want the points. Because whether anyone wants to admit it or not. The games are far more entertaining when both teams could possibly score and win a game. 40-35 is a far more fan friendly game then a 10-14 game.
  24. Well, I laughed at Herm thinking that was a a disaster waiting to happen. And though the jury is still out. Knocking off Michigan State was a bigger win then I ever thought he would get. So I guess I will hold off on Les until he is in place and see what happens. Kansas has been so bad, for so long. It just seems like the task is impossible and no one can win there.
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