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UncleSonny

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  1. 1 hour ago, mdmost said:

    No, it would take place in the 80s or 90s depending upon which decade the writer/director grew up in and romanticizes. 

    ABC did a new version of The Wonder Years with an African American family. It was still set in the 60s. 

    It just depends on who’s making it. Linklater was 33 when Dazed came out. He set it the year the graduated, 1976. George Lucas set American Graffiti the year he graduated high school too (1962), and it came out when he was 29 (1973). 

    So yeah, if a filmmaker in his early 30s was making their version, it would be set in the mid to late aughts and all the characters would be tweeting and bumping Black Eyed Peas songs. 

  2. 21 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    Hanging onto Gullette shouldn't even be an issue, but the new staff structure and expanded roles for folks is leaving the impression that some folks are overwhelmed and Texas is at risk of losing some players they really shouldn't and don't want to lose.

    This is regarding losing Glasscock?

  3. 21 hours ago, TonyTexas said:

    Rasika would be a shoe-in to win it all if Padma was still there

    Maybe, it seemed like she was also the most nit-picky when someone tried to do Indian food. That may have mainly been when a white person went for those flavors though. 

  4. 2 hours ago, NoName said:

    once again you are blinded by a single run from a single game

    Foreman went 9 for 117 in the 2015 OU game.

    81 of that came on one play. he was not touched until he was 10 yards down the field, a guy got 1 arm on him there. then another guy dove at his ankles and he shrugged that off and then he wasn't touched again until he was tackled. this was a bad OU defense. Heard attempted 11 passes, Texas completed 9 passes for 55 yards and rushed it 58 times. Texas won 24-17.

    Foreman didn't outrun anyone lol. he had an 81 yard run and was tackled from behind at the 10 yard line with 3 dudes around him that all would have tackled him

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    here's the 3 guys associated with that tackle (10, 13, 15)

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    that touch happened with 10 seconds in the 3rd Q. that was his last touch of the game as Texas salted away the win with Heard (21 carries) and Gray (22 carries)

    the rest of the game he had 8 carries for 36 yards, or 4 yards per carry.

    dude was an incredible player at Texas. not denying that at all, but that single run is stuck in your mind as some kind of wild play where he ran away from a bunch of little dudes is absolutely incorrect.

    JGray played behind that same shitty offensive line on the same stupid offense and his longest run that season was 26 yards. Putting your foot in the ground and exploding through a hole quickly is a skill and not all running backs have it.

    Foreman showed he had it early in his career. So far, Blue has flashed it as well

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  5. If I could save one from that list it would probably be Robertson. Maybe Cojoe next. I could see all of those guys being productive college players but losing them doesn’t change our roster outlook too significantly. 

    This roster is in a good place 

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  6. 7 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    The strength of their team is the bottomless depth on the DL and this is what they’re expending their resources on. 

    It’s crazy they still have bottomless depth at DL considering their portal losses. 

    Jimbo came to do two things, recruit defensive lineman and cash Aggie checks. And he ran out of Aggie checks. 

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  7. 6 minutes ago, ousux said:

    Maybe there were, I wasn't aware of them.

    Pro tip, if you don’t really know what you are talking about, try to avoid declarative statements like:

    39 minutes ago, ousux said:

    Blue never had an attitude problem, it was the media (and us to a degree) projecting that sort of thing onto him because he skipped his senior year.

     

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  8. 1 minute ago, ousux said:

    So everyone who doesn't see a path to starting and enters the portal has attitude issues? Apparently Blue's wasn't too bad since he was either talked into coming back and/or allowed to come back if he decided on his own.
     

    You said everything was based on him skipping his senior year. That isn’t true. 

    Nobody is saying he shouldn’t have been let back on the team, and it was clearly a good choice by all involved. That doesn’t mean there weren’t a ton of red flags that had him on a short leash. 

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  9. 14 minutes ago, ousux said:

    Blue never had an attitude problem, it was the media (and us to a degree) projecting that sort of thing onto him because he skipped his senior year. We sort of had the same concerns about Quinn as well if we dig deep in the memory banks..

    These days I'm not sure a 5* skipping their senior year would cause such speculation..but probably would anyway.

    He also announced (not sure if he officially entered) that he was going to the transfer portal after his 1st year 

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  10. 5 hours ago, aggie08 said:

    This movie is so good, I only roll my eyes a little bit during Anne Hathaway's "love is the 4th dimension" spiel.

    This. I really like a lot about it but that scene is so stupid it pretty much eliminates it from any “best of” lists for me. 

  11. 7 hours ago, ztejas said:

    I know he's a shtick. But that's his job. That's what ESPN pays him 8 figures to do.

    Kind of a "hate the game not the player" situation. 

    This is right. Anyone who burns any calories hating SAS (or Skip Bayles) are falling for the obvious three card monte game they are playing. 

    Find them entertaining or ignore them, but raging against them means you fell for it. 

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  12. 58 minutes ago, Lat22 said:

    I'm Team Q.  I hope he can keep it all together.

    Q is sort of weird. It feels like his personality and energy completely changes from scene to scene 

  13. 4 minutes ago, DixonHur said:

    How do you define, "never excellent" in HS? 

    I agree it never translated at Bama, but wasn't he a Top 20 prospect in Texas?

    Being ranked as a top 20 prospect by recruiting services and being an excellent hs football player aren’t always the same thing. 

    Saban/bama saw his potential and thought they could get him there. They didn’t 

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