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Ignatius

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  1. 3 minutes ago, Dr. Beeper said:

    He wouldn’t excite anyone. Only Urban excites. Harsin would provide competent winning coaching. The only excitement is that Herman would be gone. 

    This is where I am. Only Meyer has the track record and name to possibly make some inroads on this disaster of a recruiting cycle. He’s the only name on this list anyone under 22 gives a fuck about, otherwise they’d be committed to them....

  2. Goddamn that fucking game. Tech outplayed us for more minutes than we outplayed them, but we still had a fucking golden opportunity to win that game.

    We weren’t the best team in the country in 1983 when Craig Curry (who should not have been back there in a million years) muffed that punt. Nebraska would have rolled us.

    We weren’t the best team in the country in 2001 when Chris Brown was running off tackle on 3rd and 15 for first downs or when Ced got hurt, or when Simms had 4 turnovers in 17 plays. Miami would have rolled us.

    That fucking game is the biggest gut punch in my years as a Longhorn fan, not just because of how quick the end came and not just because we had the chance to seal it the play before.

    It’s because we were the best team in college football in 2008 and we would have made Teebus cry like a bitch again after the national title game.

    Goddamn that fucking game...

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  3. On 11/23/2020 at 12:11 PM, SwanderedTalent said:

    I think in general that type of play can get flagged. Didn't Cleveland try something silly like that with Manziel in one of his first games, and it got flagged for something like unsportsmanlike conduct because of the chicanery aspect of it? I may not be remembering that right, it was (giggle) a long time ago that Manziel was taking NFL snaps.

    It wasn't a two-point conversion AND it failed, but I always liked the design of the play OU ran on fourth down against us in 1994, a sort of reverse action to James Allen out of the backfield. Stonie Clark made a great stop and he wasn't the only defender there, but they ran it from the four yard line and got down within inches of the goal-- it very nearly worked. 

    It was a great call, and though Stonie made the big stop Robert Reed was the one who saved that play by staying home, stringing Allen out and then turning him back inside once he committed. You can’t see RR on the replays but he’s the sole reason Allen juked and stuttered a couple of times before cutting toward the goal line; without him there he walks into the end zone.

    Dude was out on and island with a RB and did a great job. And of course, without Stonie dropping Allen in his tracks like the land thief sack of shit he was, that would have been for naught.

    I was in the 1st row of the end zone in the Cotton Bowl and the shit happened right in front of me, just three rows down and a n aisle over from where I watched Bubba Jacques scoop and score to win the game 3 years earlier. A lot of shit happened at that end in the 4th quarter between 1989 and 1994 (I had my first behind the goddamn support beam experiences in both 89 and 90)....

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  4. 6 hours ago, victory88 said:

    If he wins out, best case scenario is hoping he takes another job.  He knows he's fucked here.  If not this year, next year.  He talked a big game about winning championships at his opening press conference.  He's been borderline average against sub par opponents and he's been outclassed yearly by our rivals.  Herman is a narcissist, arrogant, stubborn, but he's not completely stupid.  He knows he's not going to get back in the good graces of the fans, BMD, and CDC.  He's already gotten his one "do-over" and it's just more of the same.  I fully expect him to take another job even if we make it to the big 12 championship.  Even if winning out buys him more time, he's still on thin ice and next year will be a rebuilding year.  If this year's average results are what he can do with a loaded Jr/Sr roster in a down year in the conference, he know he will fail when he has to actually coach up young players.  He's not the answer here.  The results the last 4 years prove that.  

    Dude have you ever worked with guys who got promoted way beyond their capabilities and are making major bank? Those motherfuckers will fight and claw with their last dying breath to hang on to that shit, especially once they clue in that that hot-ass piece of pussy would rather take half your fucking money and live in a fun place than keep teabagging you in Oxford, OHIO. He’s gonna be harder to get out of his office than Trump (yeah yeah, fuck you, CR, blah blah blah)....

  5. 14 minutes ago, Dr. Beeper said:

    I immediately thought you were talking about 1997’s Rout 66 but with all the losses of this decade I forgot about the 34-12 game, where we couldn’t stop the fucking Pistol formation, that The Weasel unleashed. Fuck me.

    I was at the ISU loss in ‘10 that Lobo references. It was the most lackluster pathetic effort to a bad team I’ve ever seen and if memory serves it was right after we were “back” after upsetting #6 Nebraska in Lincoln to pull to 4-2. My drive back to Dallas was not at all fun.

  6. On 11/22/2020 at 7:41 PM, Harrison Stafford said:

    This is such a foreign thought.........I think the Texans are improving.  Except for the running game.  Even the Oilers at their absolute worst ran the ball better than this Texans team.  We could use a RB like Sid Blanks or Hoyle Granger.  Even Charlie Tolar.

    Hmmmmmm.....

    Hoyle Granger is 76, Sid Blanks is 80, and Charlie Tolar is dead.

     

    You’re right - that group WOULD improve this team’s running game...

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  7. 3 minutes ago, ztejas said:

    If Deshaun plays like he did today no way in fuck is he going 0-6. The Texans might try to drop all 6 of those games, but he won't. So short of him getting injured or playing the worst football of his career I'd like to think we find at least a couple wins in that stretch. It's already pretty unlikely that we would be 3 and 7 right now. We've been in almost every game late.

    Yeah I agree; it’s crazy because this team is all fucked up right now, but win the Titans game and either one of the very winnable Vikings or Browns games and this team is at 5-5 with a very soft schedule coming up....

  8. Man we’ve got to keep beating teams we should beat just to keep Deshaun’s spirits up. Have the Titans again at home and Colts twice, plus Bengals at home without Burrow and at the Lions and Bears. 4-2 is definitely possible in that stretch, though obviously so is 0-6. Think it really matters for JJ too, he was making more plays today and it would be huge if we could get a 2nd rounder for him after this season as opposed to the 3rd that’s more likely.

    I would seriously consider trading Cooks (maybe another 3rd rounder?) and extending Fuller assuming he wants to come back. He and DW obviously are a great tandem when they’re both on the field, and Cooks’ cap hit the next two years is probably more than what you’d pay Fuller in the first two years of an extension. It’s a big risk given Fuller’s injury history, but then  that same risk exists if the decision is to let Fuller walk banking on the 2022 compensatory pick, which is only a third rounder if he plays enough snaps in 2021.

    DeShaun is fucking awesome; I would kill to see him leading an offense with a top-5 OL. If he had more time he would be carving fuckers up even with this receiving corps, because with a better line we’d have a better running game even with these dogshit runningbacks....

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  9. I’m sure in this many pages it’s been mentioned already, so FUIAP but....

    ”Tread” about a small town outsider who had a grudge against the longtime power base in his town and exacted his pound of flesh in dramatic fashion.

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    I thought the documentary maker did a great job of guiding down the path of “Oh, this is a solid dude who got fucked over” in the beginning, but then “Oh, this dude is batshit paranoid crazy” toward the end

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  10. On 11/10/2020 at 10:38 AM, DaggerHorns said:

    No, but I’ll explain why.

    We do this every fucking year only to lose to some slap dick team with less talent when it did matter (past tense) or when is does matter (present tense).

    Let me know when we win the Big 12 because at the rate we’re going right now, I don’t see it happening for at least another half decade.

    The man with the best avatar and best perspective wins this thread....

  11. On 11/16/2020 at 9:50 AM, gyroprotagonist said:

    how many games did Pinckney get suspended overall.  I remember when he and I think Adams crashed into a building on the drag.  csb and all that.

    From that day:

    Starting wide receivers Lovell Pinkney and Mike Adams were both suspended for the second time this season, while wide receiver Wayne McGarity, linebackers Jonathan Hickerson and Dwight Kirkpatrick, running back Darrell Wilson and defensive back Shunte Hall earned their first suspensions. The seven players will not play in ninth-rated Texas' Sunday night game against Rice. Mackovic will rule later on when the players will be reinstated.

    Thought Wane (lulz, AP got it wrong above) was still at RB that year but I guess not. I think Pinckney was suspended the first game at Pittsburgh for agent contact or some shit like that.

    Thought Adams was solo when he ‘fell asleep’ and drove into Electric Eye next to the Hole In Wall, but could be wrong...

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  12. That game against Rice was behind being ‘in the rain’, it was a fucking monsoon, especially in the 2nd half. There were times it was hard to see the other side of the field from where we were sitting.

    Rice had some talent back in those days, at least compared to previous Rice teams. ND Kanu and Izzo played in the NFL and Yoncy Edmonds was a pretty solid running back. Bert Emmanuel was their QB the year before. They played in College Station the next week and lost 7-0.

    But there’s no way in hell we should have lost that game. Pinckney and Adams (and I think 4-5 players) got suspended the day of the game and I remember there being stories of altercations between players on the bus ride to the stadium about whether it was bullshit that they were suspended. After being the hero against OU the week before, JB didn’t play a single down, on a night where we were dying for a mobile QB...

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  13. 1 hour ago, Macklemore said:

    There is no way they can bring back Romeo and have Easterby as GM. I can’t believe that’s true. They’ve hired Korn Ferry and Cal has been on the radio twice saying they have a search committee. They’ve got to know how that the response of the fans would be brutal. Rappoport likes to throw shit on the wall with maybe 40% of the time is accurate,

    Season ticket sales are only being propped up by energy companies who want to host their big ass tailgates for customers every weekend. Have to think if the product inside turns to shit a lot of the customers will stop showing for the tailgates, and the companies will start killing their tickets.

    Hiring Jack fucking reverend asshole dickhead Easterby as GM will guarantee nothing is going to change with this franchise. They might as well rehire O’Brien as coach if they’re going to do that...

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  14. 14 minutes ago, The Earl of Texas said:

    No point in having a great RB if your OL is garbage. Have A LOT of work to do to remedy that, likely need a great offensive mind as HC to bring in a good OL coach who can sign free agents who know the system and trust the new coaches, because we can’t build through the draft completely. Using our first pick in a RB when our OL is awful is probably not a great idea.

    Our roster has so many holes that, outside of QB, we should take the best player available at any position in each round...

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