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Skipper

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  1. Well I've been to 27 and only a handful have been 2:30 kicks so that hits different. Last year waited too late for our Fletchers and stood in line too long around noon. This year did that at 10:30 and sole focus until leaving for game at that point was beer. But hey, clearly fair food is really important to you so will gladly stop engaging.
  2. The way yesterday went is exactly why I said it would be absolutely idiotic to play Mateer under the circumstances. Thankfully they have a head coach who is indeed that idiotic. If yesterday plays out exactly the same with Hawkins, they largely would have gotten a free pass from the national media, and while their own fans would still be pissed, they would be confident all could be salvaged once Mateer is back. Instead, Venables back squarely on the hot seat with his fan base and season could easily crater from here. Love it.
  3. You are in the stadium for 5 hours. I'm not missing the game to go back outside to fucking eat. Have you ever been to a Red River game? And you clearly missed the first part about Fletchers early. But yes, adjusting food routine for 2:30 kick next year.
  4. Getting in was night and day difference. Way easier than this year and significant improvements in that respect so props to them for that. Our seats were in the upper west side and that big concourse they added is really nice. A ton more room up there. Massive fail though to whomever did the bathroom redesign. A men's bathroom with 2 urinals and 2 stalls (one ADA) to serve several thousand people is the dumbest thing I've ever seen. Beer and Water sales were fine and plentiful where we were but food was nonexistent. Wife left 2 mins before half and took her until end of half use restroom and find someone selling CFA sandwiches. I'm assuming there is a better restroom somewhere to walk to so going to need to find that in future years. The 2:30 start makes it tricky as we typically get Fletchers around 10:30 or 11AM but then get hungry mid-game. Probably going to need to remember to grab some more food before heading into stadium next year.
  5. We have always had a decent amount of absolute shit 'fans' and this thread is Exhibit A. I'm 11-16-1 in that stadium. Can't fathom nitpicking a 17 point W against OU.
  6. Don't worry. All the idiots will say this wasn't a big game W for Sark if OU ends up losing 4.
  7. Fuck all the haters. Sark took us out of a decade + of absolute shit football. Some people are incapable of appreciating the good times.
  8. Oh for sure. You take a regulation W @ Jets all day every day, pretty, ugly, who cares.
  9. Hard for me to get back into Hockey season in October but good W!
  10. Well I read the part about missing a starting QB and that certainly wasn't Florida. If people want to bitch about Sark this season and in particular personnel evaluations in offseason that is completely fair game. But to go back and try to downplay last season's accomplishments? That shitty fan bullshit we see way too much of on this site.
  11. Thanks for proving my point. No credit for win. Another big game loss if we lose. This debate is Exhibit A why so many Texas fans suck. Imagine going through life rooting for a team only to downplay positives and maximize negatives. Good luck to your Sooners this weekend so you can win an internet argument that the team you allegedly root for has a shitty coach.
  12. This. If we lose any of those games, each would be cited as evidence by these idiots that Sark can't win a big game. Moving goal post depending on outcome of game. And this week will be no different.
  13. The winner of Aggy went to SEC Championship game in addition to first time playing in 14 years. We lose that game there is ZERO doubt it's in your list of "big game losses". Playoff games are inherently big games. GTFO with this bullshit.
  14. If you can't get hyped for Texas/OU that's a You problem. Best damn day of the year every year.
  15. The emotional swings of message boards depending on last game outcome, particularly if an unexpected result, is always so funny to watch. Many generally expected us to beat OSU easily week 1. Then many thought we were losing 8 games after UTEP. Then after SJSU we were set to dominate Florida and OU and likely not be tested until Georgia. And now we are back to a 4-5 win season. I'm not saying everyone but it's always a wild ride with a good chunk of the posters and I suspect that is the same for everyone's boards. No doubt many OU fans went from wanting to fire Venables to convinced SEC and National Titles are on the near term horizon based solely on a couple of decent (but hardly 'great') home wins against Michigan and Auburn. Here is where I'm at. I think we have a real and significant OL problem that isn't going to get solved this year. Ithink Manning is likely going to continue to have ups and downs but I feel good about the way he played and competed @ Florida. I think we have enough talent at other positions combined to be in any game on our schedule if we play to potential. I think our staff completely screwed up with our personnel evaluations this offseason, but I don't think they are idiots and expect they are scheming as much as they can to solve for glaring deficiencies (whether it works against a really good OU defense more talented than us across the board up front TBD). And I have absolutely no idea what will happen Saturday because it's Texas/OU and there is pretty much nothing that will every surprise me about this game because the right bounce and general momentum will swing games wildly either direction moreso than any other game on the schedule.
  16. JFC. This board is so dramatic after a loss.
  17. I think the RB room may be a bigger issue than WR but it's impossible to really evaluate either because the OL play is so awful. We could live with the growing pains at RT if the interior line was simply average.
  18. Cmon now. I think maybe 3 or 4 of the 12 draft picks last year were Herman recruits and none were "Herman developed". Give me a break.
  19. Jackson Arnold self sacks more than Quinn ever did. But yes, this is far from a 'get right' game for the OL. I expect it to be ugly.
  20. Stop making predictions or attempting any kind of analysis. You are terrible at it.
  21. This. Posting evidence that people have retarded takes on Twitter isn't much of hot sports opinion.
  22. We were talking about this on drive back from game. I don't get it. On offense (OL in particular) it's clearly a personnel clusterfuck that Sark and his staff completely mismanaged or misevaluated. But I don't get the defense as we've watched these same guys completely dominate. I'm trying to think back to the last game (even a game we won) where what was on paper an inferior unit completely outplayed us. Maybe OU in 2023 when Gabriel went off? Washington scored a lot of points in '23 but that was a really good offense and Penix played an elite game. Lagway played solid but our D flat out just got whipped at the LOS and we haven't seen that in forever.
  23. I think the team was arrogant enough to believe the records and their preseason hype and expected to show up and win. In some ways, the schedule really f'd us this year starting @ OSU and then having 3 games that were never going to be in doubt. I'm with Imma that I don't know where the leadership is on this team. I'm not surprised by the offensive performance (although the disaster of the OL clearly worse than I imagined) but was really disappointing to see our defense show up and give up that long TD drive first possession and then turn around and do it again after we cut it to 10-7. That's bullshit and not being as mentally prepared and ready to play as your opponent.
  24. To drive home the point for those claiming Arch should be benched based on the Florida game, Florida had 35 pressures (believe the 2nd most any P4 team has allowed this entire season) while only rushing 4 on 85% of snaps. Our RB's had 15 combined yards on 11 carries. You think there is a QB in the country that is going to excel against that? We went to max protect frequently and still couldn't protect. I think most will agree that Colt was the best passing QB we've had. Go back and look at his stat lines in the OU and Nebraska games his senior year that we barely won where our OL and running games similarly completely shit the bed in front of him. Hint. It wasn't pretty. I walked away from that game feeling much better about Manning's potential than I had at any other point this season and I think anyone that understands football or hadn't already decided that he is unsalvageable would think the same.
  25. JFC. You're right, we should throw out a non-athletic Caldwell in his first start at Texas with an absolute shit OL in one of the most unique environments in sports that he's never seen. That should be the actual game plan and not the emergency plan. Got it.
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