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Skipper

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  1. As long as we play our schedule (including a good OOC game) a "good" Texas team is going to fluctuate between 8-4 and 10-2 and no doubt this board will melt down after every loss. This probably isn't even a 'good' Texas team but I don't know how long it's going to take people to adjust to the new realities of college football. It happened to Bama last year. It will absolutely happen to UGA (they won a couple of coin flips this year). It will happen to OSU although they have the benefit of a significantly weaker bottom half of the conference. But it's not a coincidence that the 3 undefeated teams played the weakest conference schedule of the top 10 teams.
  2. I thought the first 4th down call was questionable. But they clearly had a play call they really liked for that situation and it worked. If they ran up the middle or similar there and got stopped it would be Kirby's fanbase shitting all over him. 2nd 4th down call also pretty aggressive and it paid off. But the surprise onside was genius timing IMO. He went for the kill shot and it worked. There was zero chance we were winning that game once they recovered. And he had to feel good where they were at even we recovered at home up 11. That was just a great call.
  3. Exactly. It's parity we are living in. People flat out can't comprehend this is now essentially the NFL. Particularly in the SEC. Edit to add you have to give aggy and Indiana credit though as they made the plays needed to win at the end of the day. Those plays around the margins is what will separate playoff teams. The days of playing your C game and winning by 20 because you can out-athlete most teams are over.
  4. They are very solid on offense. I don't trust this teams psyche after last week and don't really trust our defense (particularly secondary) in any event. 100% a game we could lose if team isn't focused on winning and definitely have my concerns that they will be after that beat down.
  5. You said we've been a punch line for 2 decades completely ignoring we made the final 4 in back-to-back years. That's what I was referring too. It's a disappointing season this year. It happens. We probably should have seen it coming considering how much talent we lost. I'm not saying we would win hypothetical playoff matchups, but to answer your question, of those likely in the field as of today, we would be favored on a neutral field against G5, OU, Big 12 champ, ACC Champ and be within 8 or so everyone else. I obviously wouldn't trust this team against damn near anyone on the road which is where we would obviously play if by some miracle we snuck in. We got our ass kicked last night but people should listen to what Kirby said post-game. He said something to the effect that the margins are so thin you have to push your chips in and be aggressive. He did and they grabbed all the momentum and we had zero chance of recovering. We stop that 4th down and who knows what happens. But we didn't. It was a gutsy call and great play call. And then the surprise onside was a kill shot. At some point just have to tip your cap.
  6. OU has won back to back games with a very low win expectancy. They haven't magically become a world beater. I think 50/50 they lose one of those 2. Still don't think enough happens for us to sneak in because of the way we lost, but it's not zero percent chance either. But regardless, this team isn't good enough or consistent enough to make a big run this year. I just want to hopefully win the next 2, with Manning continuing to take positive steps, and hope we learned some lessons on the roster and make some staff changes.
  7. JFC. This is ridiculous. We've been in the GD semifinal back-to-back years. It's ok to be pissed off about last night and the season without going full retard.
  8. You don't even know where the fucking game is being played. That is the level of discourse we have on this board LOL.
  9. Arch is doing everything he can. 4 drops. Make a god damn play.
  10. Everyone of these refs can fucking kill themselves. What an absolute shit show after the last drive. Seriously. Absolutely unreal
  11. I mean they could have been called for at least 4 fucking holds so far. And we get that BS call on Hill. We're getting out competed and out schemed but if they can do that shit all night and not get called this is just how it's going to go.
  12. Fuck these refs. Absolute god damn bullshit on back to back plays. Absolute fucking joke.
  13. Defensive coaching staff is getting absolutely worked to start this game. 100% on that staff getting out schemed right now.
  14. Getting doubled up in yardage and a 1 point game getting the ball back. D/ST doing all they can to keep yall in games.
  15. That 4 week stretch away from home sucked (I think I saw longest stretch between home games in the country) but at least the well timed bye week helped us get healthy.
  16. Like one of the dad's (who's daughter was there and thankfully fine) told me after doing back of envelope math on revenue the Eastlands took in annually and bitching about their lack of preparation "you would think they could have at least afforded somefucking satellite phones"
  17. I think it should be one or the other. Either ATC and TSA get paid during a shutdown as essential employees or everything needs to just flat out close so there are real risks to a deadline so all the worthless politicians would never let it get this far. Because it's bullshit for all of these people we NEED to work to continue to show up without a paycheck. Saying this as someone currently on a flight to LGA. I thanked and chatted with TSA folks (minimal lines at DAL tonight) and they are hopeful and being told if bill signed soon they will get checks no later than Monday.
  18. That's the thing. There aren't any sure things out there. I don't love Kiffen at all and would be very nervous but who else would you feel good about? I've said it before, but there really isn't a single fanbase consistently happy with their coach. Very few fanbases of 'top' programs have adjusted to the new reality. I personally hope Sark sees it through and pushes to win a title before leaving. Job here doesn't seem finished yet. I think we made mistakes this offseason that can be corrected to make a run next year, but as we've discussed, the roster parity these days is real and that's only going one direction.
  19. I think what eventually happens if more Auto qualifiers are added is an intra-conference playoff that doesn't determine a "conference champion" but determines remaining playoff spots. For example, if SEC had 4 auto qualifiers, something like top 2 SEC teams qualify automatically and get a "bye' that weekend into the playoff and then the seed 3 plays seed 6 and seed 4 plays seed 5 on "conference championship day" to lock up the remaining 2 auto qualifier spots. Solves the issue of meaningless SEC championship games (from a playoff perspective) and adds an additional high $$ game to sell to the networks.
  20. This 100%. The Austin loss was a beatdown but we outplayed them in the Championship game and should have won but somehow most seem to have forgotten that. OT game with 2 missed FG's in regulation, a pick 6 that would have won it if Guilbeau doesn't celebrate and simply gets in the way and officiating so bad Sark (for the only time I can remember) had to say something about it at halftime. Yes, UGA made some plays in the 2nd half and OT to win but we outplayed them that game
  21. I agree with the first 2. Would be nervous with Kiffin. On one hand the results speak for themselves. But I also heard from people in coaching circles he has a rep as difficult to work for, checks out on details and kind of an organizational mess. But I've heard that and then he wins 10+ games every year with decently high staff turnover so maybe whatever he does is right and he would kill it. I just question if he could handle the Texas job + living in a city again (he desperately wanted miami for miami reasons purportedly but maybe he's grown out of that). Of course, I also can't necessarily think of a better #3 off the top of my head so maybe that order is right.
  22. Your lame schtick is beyond tiring. It's not "honest opinions" - It's constant negative gloom and doom bullshit before every game is played and then excusing away success when it happens. You hate everything about Sark and this football team. We get it. That's fine. Go find a team you actually like and support them so everyone else isn't subjected to your constant bitching.
  23. I mean yes, and GT absolutely did, but that was weeks ago. I'm not disagreeing with the new ranking. Miami would probably be favored by close 7 over GT on a neutral field. I'm saying they had to have heard the criticism last week as nothing that happened on the field could justify the flip flop. I mean we all know this but just further proof the committee can just kind of do what they want week to week without logic.
  24. Yeah, not many questioning that trade at this point after he started slow post trade. And given recent contracts looks like a great deal for the Stars.
  25. Miami jumping Georgia Tech while they beat an awful Syracuse team (and GT was on a bye) is hard to reconcile. They just heard criticism so bumped Miami up? Also, as predicted, they may end up backing themselves into a corner based on where they slotted Utah last week (had to keep BYU in front of them) but we'll see how it plays out. The non-ACC teams behind those 2 all have opportunities for resume wins where they could jump them.
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